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The Good News Colour Revolution

Imagine living in Asia Minor, the province of Galatia, in the region of Pisidia, about 100 miles north of the Mediterranean. You live a pleasant life with a bountiful flock of sheep as well as an orchard of apricot and fig trees in an agricultural valley with fertile soil, plenty of clear water flowing from the neighboring mountains, and a relatively mild climate. Your land lies about 26 stadia outside the town of Antioch, or Antiochia Caesareia, as you know it in the mid-first century. Town is a prosperous and lively place with a population of nearly 35,000, including the Roman garrison stationed there, while the outlying area includes another 65,000 or so. It is a vital city in the Roman Empire due to its location, though not as illustrious as Antioch of Syria, the empire’s third city behind Rome and Alexandria.

Every Sabbath day you are present in the local synagogue. Then, one Sabbath, after the triennial reading from the Law and Prophets, life as you know it is about change forever in a stunning way when a stranger stands up in the synagogue and begins telling you about the new world order. "And in the days of these kings [the first century, Roman Empire] the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed ... and it shall stand forever." [See Dan. 2:44]. This is what we call the Christian age leading up to the return of Christ. [Rev. 11:15-19].

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." 
 Linus Pauling
"He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind."
 John Adams
"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." 
 William Phelps
"Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."
 Sudie Black
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." 
 Walt Disney
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
 Smiley Blanton
"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." 
 Leo Burnett 
"The spark of curiosity ignites passion in great minds." 
 Anon 
"People die when curiosity goes." 
Graham Swift

 

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." 
 Albert Einstein 
"Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act." 
 Damien Echols
"It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts." 
 Sherlock Holmes

 

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." 
 Ellen Parr 
"There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." 
 Charles Proteus Steinmetz 
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
 Anatole France
"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
 Arnold Edinborough
"I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best." 
 Michael J. Fox
"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." 
 William Wirt 
"Socrates told us, 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge." 
 Roger Ebert
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity."
 Roy T. Bennett
"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
 Freya Stark
"Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity." 
 Chopra/Tanzi, Super Brain
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." 
 Albert Einstein
"People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle." 
 Leo Rosten
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." 
Voltaire

 

"A person without curiosity may as well be dead."
 Judy Blume
"Curiosity sets us apart from the average lump of dirt."
 Millo Of Accaus
"Curiosity is the ultimate power tool."
 Roy Underhill
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last." 
 Samuel Johnson 
"Curiosity is an eager desire to know, or learn about something."


 Dictionary
"Without curiosity, one does not think."


 Anon
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." 
 Samuel Johnson
"Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity. Never lose a holy curiosity." 
 Albert Einstein 
"Perhaps the greatest virtue of man is curiosity." 
 Anatole France 
"If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps man alive is curiosity!"
 Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Curiosity is the deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections."
 Baris Gencel
"Curiosity without action is like a boat without water."
 Anon
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." 
 Marie Curie

 

"Why am I so curious? I don’t know. But I’ll find out." 
 Anon 
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." 
 James Stephens
"Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained." 
 Philo of Alexandria
"When holy curiosity is driven by passion, and critical thinking by perseverance, wisdom and truth emerge." 
 Anon
"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."
 Bryant McGill
"Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
 Stephen Hawking
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


 Shakespeare's Hamlet

Book Excerpts

Finding The Elephant

“So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!”

The Blind Men And The Elephant, John Godfrey Saxe, 1881


I still remember the hot, cloudless day in August when I first stepped foot on campus even though now it is more than fifty years ago. I had turned down a full scholarship to Yale for a Master’s degree in finance. So here I was at a small bible college to get a degree in theology. While some viewed my choice of bible college over Yale as a great lapse in judgement, I felt quite the opposite. To me a choice between a degree in finance versus theology was the classic choice between mammon and God.

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Newly Updated: Artificial Intelligence Is The New Golden Calf

The artificial intelligence (AI) competition has heated up with the advent of China's DeepSeek chatbot, apparently displacing ChatGPT from it's comfortable app store perch. [DeepSeek Vs. ChatGPT]. However, there are dire warnings associated with the continued training and proliferation of AI. Even the Vatican's released document, Antiqua et nova, January 2025, warns AI could “... undermine the foundations of [human] society.” The contemporary concept of AI from God’s point of view is only more man-made ignorance, a 21st century brew, a high tech version of the Golden Calf, albeit with a large amount of intrinsic evilness. It appears the ultimate goal of AI is a form of immortality, blending man and machine in a soulless bizarro world. It results from the lack of enlightenment of the plan of God that promises eternal life, far beyond what any man or machine can create. It is life in the Spirit, available today. No need to wait.