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    The Pencilled in God
    The Pencilled in God
    The Pencilled in God
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    The Pencilled in God

    By R N Stephenson

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    This is an observation of God, the creation, meaning and abstraction which has been used to control populations for the last 5 000 years. The ancient concept of God, while valid has been manipulated, changed and superseded by the desires of Kings. While not an authoritive look at ancient and modern history it does shortcut the whole philosophical and scientific debate. In a matter of an hour or two you will have a better impression of why things are the way they are, and by knowing you might even consider how you can make changes to shift the world away from its current course. WARNING: Those readers who do have strong faith based belief system, aspects of this book may be offense.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR N Stephenson
    Release dateFeb 17, 2015
    ISBN9781310262548
    The Pencilled in God
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    R N Stephenson

    R N is a writer who has tired of the perfectionist model of the world and in their own small way attempts to enlighten people with wonderful stories and not so wonderful insights into life. The Pencilled in God is all about who we have become as a people, while all other works are fictions designed to entertain and distract us away from all we have become. Entertainment is paramount, so please, be entertained.

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      The Pencilled in God - R N Stephenson

      Introduction

      How can a Christian not believe in God? This question is often thrown in my direction before people come to understand who I am and what I stand for. How this question can be, will become clear by the end of this short book. Why this is, is left unanswered, but I hope the question will find new air in which to function. There is a reason I stand alone on many important issues in life; I do not want to be the echo of another. Don’t be an echo, be a voice.

      There are thousands of books written about the rights and wrongs of faith based belief systems, the mythic and problematic understandings and their interactions with people. Science (an evidence based belief system) has its position, which isn’t in any way a stance against faith; it simply uses inquiry, investigation and experimentation to arrive at answers faith systems don’t seem to be interested in. The attempt here will be to establish a kind of thinking that does not require two or three sides yelling at each other for the grand prize of being right. This work does not take a definitive side in what people choose to accept as their understanding of life and reality. The biggest stance taken is in the imaginative, a position solely based on sitting and contemplating and wondering about the big questions. To be honest there is only one big question, it is the foundation of everything in our lives, whether we have faith or not. Though faith in itself is a rather complex position. Societies, groups and individuals will have their own understandings of what faith is, but what it is not is totally blind and to hold a position that suggests all faith is blind is disingenuous in the extreme.

      The views expressed are purely creative, the position taken is not based on research of each and every stand point on Earth. This journey doesn’t take into consideration every single group or race of people from time. It is a potted history of what could have happened for us to end up in the place we call now and its implications for the future. While knowledge bases were used and history examined, to give examples and direction, some areas were not investigated; not because of their lack of information but because of long standing contamination of the history by humanity. To understand Christianity and to an extent Islam, some of the least useful sources of information to be considered are holy texts, as these texts are a self-examination using the same filters that created the concepts, laws and understandings in the first place. Any faith system examined though its own texts will have this shortfall. There is also the atheist standpoint, while it is an observation that can be helpful, it is also one that carries considerable baggage. Sadly that baggage is usually the same that some faith systems are lumbered with. In essence we need to try, at best, to examine the whole idea of God as a distinct creation by people and groups to directly deal with what they do not know and at worst show that history has a way of distorting ideas and desires.

      In view of atheist stances it is wise to approach the subject of God from a position that is removed from what the atheist position may be as well. The journey about to be undertaken is a simple observation (very simplistic and direct) using contemporary thinking applied to what we view as primitive and limited civilizations and basic family structures. The creative view will construct an observation based on known historical knowledge and hopes to strip away some of the doctrinal explanations that have filled information voids through history. For example, the Neanderthal, while evidence of their way of life is small, compared to Romans, could have had a God belief system. We cannot be sure, as written records did not exist and Neanderthal art, while newly discovered offers no light on this subject. But, if using creative ability, the same ability that would have set the first humans in motion and development of more than what they were, we can assume that something could have existed. It may not have been called God, but maybe just a simple concept of other.

      In a non-scientific manner the reader will be taken on a tour of simple contemporary thought that deals with what we can fathom away from the complexities of mainstream filter systems for information. The reader will simply be asked to think openly on what has been handed down as fact about ancient history and the development of the faith system.

      The controversial element in all this is that God is real, but not the real of arguments for and against which people like to attach themselves. This God is where you have a question mark on a page and the answer is so far out of reach it defies your ability to reason its meaning and your ability to logically process any form of explanation. It is into this spot you pencil in God, and as you progress through this small booklet you will discover this God is not what you will find in the Webster’s dictionary:

      God: the perfect and all-powerful spirit or being that is worshipped especially by Christians, Jews, and Muslims as the one who created and rules the universe

      : a spirit or being that has great power, strength, knowledge, etc., and that can affect nature and the lives of people: one of various spirits or beings worshipped in some religions

      : a person and especially a man who is greatly loved or admired

      ‘A bad beginning makes a bad ending.’

      Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

      One – In view of the concept

      Concepts are possibilities; they are visions into what can be if the right questions are asked and the right answers are found. A concept in itself is not an answer to anything, but more the door opening to questions for further investigation. If you stand in the garden you can envision the concept of a garden shed; it isn’t real at this stage it is just a possibility that may or may not eventuate. When humans no longer have the ability to conceptualize, they no longer have the ability to learn new things, they become

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