One of the most beautiful expressions that often precedes a sermon or a talk is "Christ is in our midsts" to which the gathered respond, "He is and shall always be". Does anyone know where this greeting originates from?
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Jesus said "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them.
I really can't figure this out.
People in ancient times, thought that the heart was really the brain in ancient times, it's just nobody ever bothered to switch the terminology around.
I don't understand what a soul or spirit is either. Because to me the soul or spirit is an antiqued way of explaining something that humanity couldn't figure out for eons, and that's the instructions that run around your body causing it to \"live\". This can be proved since the synapses of the brain have been reverse-engineered as neural networks inside of computers; and these neural networks (although limited by the number of transistors that can be made to work together, and the type of input and output they have) can be made to function just like a humans brain: they can read letters (OCR text reader), recognize faces (facial recognition), understand sentences and spit them back out again, after enough training.
So I don't understand where the soul/spirit falls into all of this, if a brain can be emulated in this manner. In my own neural network nothing seems to be missing, as everything can be emulated as a function of this.
Also I'd really like not to believe in God, but unfortunately I've seen too many weird unexplainable things in the Church. So I believe in God, but I don't necessarily trust or like Him, I'm not totally convinced that He is good. And I came to this conclusion thanks to things that He has allowed to happen to me. It hasn't been something so silly as \"oh I missed catching a football, so now I'm gonna hate God\" no, it's not that shallow at all. It's about coming up from being a sped student in school, figuring out that I had problems with my eyes, trying to fix those problems, succeeding, doing well in college, working in two consecutive jobs, being independent, living on my own, and then having all of this destroyed because God coded something into my DNA, which caused my jaw to grow larger, and my eyes to be thrown off yet again by me grinding my teeth at night with out me knowing what the heck even happened.
I ended up quiting my job, (because I couldn't even read anymore), going back, doing vision therapy for a year and half, getting another job, figuring out that I had TMJ and needed braces to fix my problem, losing that job because of my vision problems (as well as a-holes bulling me at work), and finally ending up back at my parents unemployed, and needing to wear braces for two years, and additionally the economy collapses (that's not God's fault, man's fault, lets be fair here).
WTF God?!?
Now I'm concerned that I won't have food, shelter, or even a damn job after my parents die (they're in their 60s), and I'm so old now that I don't think I could ever even recover my career, because I'd have to do all of the above again, to get myself righted again, so that I could be a fully functioning adult. Thanks God, thanks alot! I wish You never would have allowed me to even think for a minute that I was good enough to do anything.
And if I don't get your ancient screwy terminology in that Bible of Yours, that's probably because its been translated a zillion times into our crummy insufficient English language, and everything happened 2,000-some years ago, so if I have trouble relating to that, it really isn't my fault!!!!!
It's not like that. It's on and off and on and off.
It's basically like being interrupted at irregular intervals so that you can't concentrate or get anything done. One day I can read okay, and then another day I have a really difficult time reading and comprehending things. It also effects my ability to get a good nights sleep.
To understand how important this is in your ability to survive/succeed here is a short video:
http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/is-the-modern-office-dead/12807/