Black & White

I've been in Melbourne this week on holidays and staying with my family. My brother has the PC game Black & White 2. I played it a bit and found it quite interesting. Basically, you play the part of a god who can interact with a primitive world with villages and villagers. The Artificial Intelligence engine is pretty cool and it's a fun game. While some would class it as heretical and pagan, I was 'spiritually enlightened' while playing it ;-)
I was at the Australian Gospel Music Festival over the Easter weekend and something Irish worship leader Robin Mark said triggered my thinking. He prayed that we would 'make God's name great on the earth.' (He was one of the best people I heard over the weekend, he's an amazing worhsip leader!)
So as I'm playing Black & White I was thinking, 'as a god in this game, what do I want these villagers to do?' I want them to recognise me and what I do for them, to think I'm pretty cool, and to worship me.
In one sense, God wants that from us. To recognise his existence and to worship him.

Engagement!

On Saturday the 18th of March 2006 I proposed to Laura LaRoche and she said YES :) So I guess that means that we're engaged! Planning on getting married on December 10 this year.

Holy Spirit

Been a while since an update...lots of excuses, so little time to explain them all!

I was at an intensive for my Bible College course last week for three days. It was an intensive on the Holy Spirit and it was quite interesting. Rather than the usual style I'm used to where you just get fed doctrines and beliefs, this course allowed us to think about things for ourselves. The facilitator put ideas and concepts to us and allowed us to explore them.

Here's something I've been thinking about...

It would take ages to develop the idea but I'll give it a quick explanation. The top diagram is our usual view and perception of God. God is triune, three in one, the trinity. Father, Son & Spirit. The bottom diagram is then the application or outworking of God in the World. The concept isn't perfect, but it's thought provoking: Father & Son operate at the top supernatural level, above the spirit world and above the human world. The Holy Spirit operates at all three levels, God's supernatural level, the spirit world-supranatural level and the human world, natural level. God's level operates independently, the Spirit level (Supranatural) operates independently and the human level (natural) operates independently but obviously God oversees it all and interacts with it all by his Spirit.

This raises questions like, what does the supranatural level contain and why/how do they interact with the natural level? The presumption would be that this level contains satan, demons, angels etc. But why do they interact at the natural level at times?

Is there redemption for the spirits in supranatural level?

Hmm, ok maybe I can't explain it at all! I guess it is late!