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THE WRONG QUESTION
Who would have believed this was possible in 1953?
Asking the wrong question will not produce a correct answer – unless, that is, we are willing to look at the question from a whole different perspective …then voilà’ – or, in plain English, “there you have it, the answer!”
In a moment, a wrong question to provide us an example, but first let’s back up a bit …my publisher and webmaster, Ryan Bruce, for several years, asked me with no little exasperation, “Can’t you come up with a different example?”
It is a proven fact that once the human mind believes in anything sufficiently that “anything” gets changed to conform to her/his belief. The example that Ryan was fussing about was my proclivity to use the story of Roger Bannister running a mile in under four minutes to prove the point.
Who would have thought this was possible in 1893?
I use it for the reason that it helps people in the mind-trap of skepticism escape it; there’s a big IF to that one, which is IF they want to take the first step to believing a simple premise; “NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO BELIEVES ENOUGH!”
The foregoing is an accurate translation from the original language of a quote that purportedly came through the mouth of Jesus.
Of course, as soon as I introduce the name of Jesus, the religious mind goes in one direction, the anti-religious mind takes it in an entirely different direction.
This piece, however, is about what Brad Cullen believes which I fully admit had its genesis in the religion called Christianity.
I have refused to be called a Christian for many years, for the simple reason that Christianity unwittingly promotes unbelief; another thing about which Ryan fusses at me is that I continually (habitually) use the excuse that, “the reason I refuse to be called a Christian is that the term means too many different things to too many different people to communicate anything to anyone.”
Who would have thought this possible in 1853?
What I’ve said, also repeatedly, about the Roger Bannister story is that if you can start there in understanding the power of believing ENOUGH (the operative word) you can grow in believing enough to get to believing what is possible for any individual.
If we go back to 1953 99% of the experts believed that what Bannister did in 1954 was humanly impossible. In 1953 almost all, if not all, people believed what the experts were saying. One year later, 1954, everyone was forced into believing it and the feat of running a mile in under four minutes has become commonplace.
Of course, I can tell you that Ryan is most likely fuming that it is taking me forever to get to the point – but that’s only because he, like the rest of you who already know where I’m going ALREADY believes enough!
Who would have thought this was possible in 5453 BCE?
So, what is the point? Ah yes, asking the wrong question doesn’t produce a correct answer UNLESS we are willing to look at it from a different perspective …and here, drum roll please – is the question: “Why can’t God do such and such?” Brad Cullen’s answer is God can, BUT the issue here is quite different: Because the question, as posed, simply locks us into our mindset, whatever it means. Brad Cullen insists that such a question is “closed loop” meaning that it will lead the questioner to conform to whatever preconceived belief and point of view he/she already has (period).
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