1-page rendition of the Gospel-of-God for Greek-thinking Gentiles:

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I note that Paul

• preludes with a clear connection to their present lives, and practices, and conceptual thinking.

• tells their past HiStorY (clear and to the point part of the big story of God and humans), 

• tells the NEW present day part of HiStorY, 

• links this to their own prophet insights, 

• gives them a present imperative, (here, & now)

• which involves changing their allegiance to this new King, and thus

• trusting this new King [who has been presently christened (but not yet appointed) by God on Earth] and learning to do his will.

Also I note that he addresses

• The Authority of the Author of everything.

• The oneness of humanity

• The way to view God that is preeminently as our Father, that has nearness, and hope of relationship implicit within it.

• The concept of "through-ness" or agency, vice regency (God ruling through this man)

• mercy or love shown in appointing a human (that we can see) as our ruler and judge, who will be fair, and impartial.

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PRELUDE:

Paul stood up in front of the city council and said, “I see that in every way you Athenians are very religious. For as I walked through your city and looked at the places where you worship, I found an altar on which is written, ‘To an Unknown God’. That which you worship, then, even though you do not know it, is what I now proclaim to you. Acts 17:22‭-‬23 GNBDK

"God, who made the world and everything in it, is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone.  From one human being he created all races on earth and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live. He did this so that they would look for him, and perhaps find him as they felt about for him. Yet God is actually not far from any one of us; as someone has said, ‘In him we live and move and exist.’ It is as some of your poets have said, ‘We too are his children.’ Since we are God's children, we should not suppose that his nature is anything like an image of gold or silver or stone, shaped by human art and skill. God has overlooked the times when people did not know him, but now he commands all of them everywhere to turn away from their evil ways. For he has fixed a day in which he will judge the whole world with justice by means of a man he has chosen. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising that man from death!”  Acts 17:24-‬31 GNBDK

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"I'm representing here and now to you:

the God, who made the world and everything 

with-in it, is the Lord and Boss of who 

is in this holy place, each hoof and wing,

as well as rock and tree, and gas and space

"the heavens and the earth", in short. So he

does not depend on us, the human race.

And can't be captured in a place that we

have made with our own hands. Nor does he need 

some thing we could supply by working for 

him, since it's he himself who gives and breathes

our lives and all things else to all, and more;

so from one human being he create-

-ed all the races on earth and made them 

to live throughout the whole earth. He has made

and fixed beforehand places, where & when

they'd get to live. He did this so that they 

would look for him, and so perhaps would find 

him as they felt about for him. They say

he's not that far from anyone. We find

that some have said, ‘In him we live and move 

and are - exist.’ It's as your poets said, 

‘We too are all his children.’ this would prove

that we should not suppose his nature dead,

or anything that's imaged here of gold

or silver, stone, or shaped by art and skill. 

So God has overlooked the times of old

when people did not know him or his will.

But now he has commanded all of us

that's everywhere, to turn away from sole-

-ly selfish ways. He's made a pretty fuss

& fixed a day in which he'll judge the whole 

world justly by means of a chosen man. 

He's given proof of this, a way to test, 

by raising him from death - as just he can!

- not just to more of this life, but the next” 

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Acts 17:16‭-‬31 (Greek and various English translations)

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waking next to you

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Oh God! I love this world you made for us!

I love the way that you have chosen too,

to give all of these pleasures, knowing lust 

could make each one our god, instead of you.

And then on top of that, you hung around,

to bless us with such blessings that we've got,

and see if we would deign to touch the ground

of being, and becoming, a true god.

To hope that you might be around to help,

as fathers, mothers often do, when love

is in their hearts towards their little whelp.

[Why, even with the beasts some instincts shove 

about the others (like for food, and sex)

in an attempt to mimic or display

these actions from your lower critters.] Next

you want that interaction, as they say,

with each one of your children, that a mum,

has when she's giving suck to her young bub,

it's intimate and pers'nal, and her young

without some milk, and loving touch and rub,

won't have much chance of ever growing well,

for human milk is best (in gen'ral) for

a human babe. [Some world-views can not tell

you that, while being true to their own core.]

Pure spir-it-u-al milk comes not from books,

but comes from you, yourself, and is for me

both food and drink that satisfies. The looks 

aren't so important. Thus this blind child sees.

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Walking through life, taking time to cogitate, meditate, & relate..

 

I did a Science degree... I'm still thinking about these "invisible" worlds Science has helped us discover... the world of the immense (where black holes are possible), and of the atom (mostly space, speed, and energy), and how they relate to this old "Middle World" we live most of our lives in, let alone the World Of Human Interactions, where friendship, perseverance, hate, and love are possible).

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OLD TO NEW WORLD VIEW

Despite that science tells us "This world is

not what it seems on outside, to the feel,

but layers of more insubstantial things",

I still believe that our ol' world is real.

Our scientific story tells us that

despite what we all see here (think we "know"),

there's layers of "community" which mat

together, and which interleave.. (quite so):《》

Inside, within each body, making up

the living ones, are individu'l "cells",

or living creatures that can be corrupt-

ed, or combined to make a host where dwells

the multicelled "community" we see

that's planted right before us "on" (or "in")

our ground of being. Even you and me.

And these can be disrupted or can win!

The ways that these communities would seize

things 'round about to aid their tiny parts,

to work together: shelter, feed, and ease

their life, to bring a thriving from their starts,

are called in this Our world "to feed", & "clothe

and shelter", self or else some other lives.

The old words from Our world that covered both

are these two: "love", & "peace"- which meant "life thrives".

But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or gasses, animals or plants;

(and irrespective of "life" tagged to its

existence as an entity, per chance..)

is made of smaller atoms, molecules,

or other things that kind of are like "seas".

But smaller yet (these aren't just  words of fools)

are forces "circling", "balancing" with ease.

Where either particles or waves "impart"

existence - to those higher levels too.

But here we haven't even made a start

on bigger things, like Galaxies and Moons,

the Universe, & categ'ries rehearsed,

like Supernova, Nebulae, and Giants,

Dwarves, and other stars that shoot and burst,

to cook up compounds, elements and ions

from which all of the rest can start to "be".

Invisible dimensions. In this way

we start to understand, and maybe "see"

within our "mind's eye" - as they used to say.

But still our story makes more sense, or less

of all dimensions we've encountered here,

since we were born - to order and to mess,

with this ol' world. - And this is where I cheer

myself as I move on, and others too.

The world we "started" in, that let us train,

so we could learn about these "worlds" that you

have just now been reminded of, remains!

The story that's apparent: God made this

whole world with more dimensions than you'd poke

at with a stick, does not seem so remiss

and starts to look less like it was a joke!

"The best is yet to come", as A.A. found

through living in this re-al world, in fact, 

there is a higher power hanging round

to see if we would reach out, where we lacked

for love and wisdom, to the source of both,

and let the Great Creator's fam-il-y

look after us and grow us, and our trōth,

towards more of a nature that is free

to love back, as we have ourselves been loved.

And that's why most religions in this world

admire, and think good-life was surely gloved

within the life, that we have mostly hurled

our insults at, and blamed him for our faults

and misdemeanours, laziness, and such.

It's him I would commend to you. Us dolts,

we killed the model human who loved much -

the second Adarm (and would kill his Eve,

that God brings from him while he's "not around").

In jealousy and ignorance, we'd weave

a net to catch them yet, like beasts been found

and named. So if you ask me to, I'll tell

the story of the glory of "GOD THERE",

who loves his kids, and wants them to do well,

take on creative love, and learn to share.

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《1》 physically enact this by interleaving the fingers from each hand with those of the other

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OLD TO NEW WORLD VIEW

Despite that science tells us "This world is

not what it seems on outside, to the feel,

with layers upon layers forming things",

I still believe that our ol' world is real.

Our scientific story tells us that

despite what we all see here (think we "know"),

there's layers of "community" which mat

together, and which interleave.. (quite so):《1》

Inside, within each body, making up

the living ones, are individu'l "cells",

or living creatures that can be corrupt-

ed, or combined to make a host where dwells

the multicelled "community" we see

that's planted right before us "on" (or "in")

our ground of being. Even you and me.

And these can be disrupted or can win!

The ways that these communities would seize

things 'round about to aid their tiny parts,

to work together: shelter, feed, and ease

their life, to bring a thriving from their starts,

are called in this Our world "to feed", & "clothe

and shelter", self or fam'ly, other lives.

The old words from Our world that covered both

are "love", & then there's "peace"- which meant "life thrives".

But smaller yet, each body that exists,

of rocks, or gasses, animals or plants;

(and irrespective of "life" tagged to its

existence as an entity, per chance..)

is made of smaller atoms, molecules,

or other things that kind of are like "seas".

But smaller yet (these aren't just words of fools)

are forces "circling", balancing with ease.

Where either particles or waves "impart"

existence to those higher levels too.

But here we haven't even made a start

on bigger things, like Galaxies and U-

ni-verse, or other categ'ries rehearsed,

like Supernova, Nebulae, and Giants,

Dwarves, and other stars that shoot and burst,

to cook up compounds, elements and ions

from which all of the rest can start to "be".

Invisible dimensions in this way

we start to understand, and maybe "see"

within our "mind's eye" - as they used to say.

But still our story makes more sense, or less

of all dimensions we've encountered here,

since we were born - to order and to mess,

with this ol' world. - And this is where I cheer

myself as I move on, and others too.

The world we "started" in, that let us learn

about dimensions and these worlds that you

have just now been reminded of, don't spearn!

The story that's apparent: God made this

whole world with more dimensions than you'd poke

at with a stick, does not seem so remiss

and starts to look less like it was a joke!

"The best is yet to come", as AA found

in fact, through living in this re-al world.

And there's a higher power hanging round

to see if we would reach out and be curled

within the love of biggest Dad, or Mum,

and let the Great Creator's fam-il-y

look after us and grow us, and then some..

towards more of a nature that is free

to love back, as we have ourselves been loved.

And that's why most religions in this world

admire, and think good-life was surely gloved

within the life, that we have mostly hurled

our insults at, and blamed him for our faults

and misdemeanours, laziness, and such.

It's him I would commend to you. Us dolts,

we killed the model human God loved much -

the second Adarm (and would kill his Eve,

that God brings from him while he's "not around").

In jealousy and ignorance, we'd weave

a net to catch them yet, like beasts been found

and named. So if you ask me to I'll tell

the story of the glory of God "THERE",

who loves his kids, and wants them to do well,

take on creative love, and learn to share.

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《1》 physically enact this by interleaving the fingers from each hand with those of the other

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WITH YOU, my lack, can bring me back...

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Oh God! You are the only one who could

have set this whole place up, then disappeared.

Although, I s'pose each mother has a good

go at the same job with her children near 

to term, when they might just about be born,

with eyes and ears, and other senses too,

but no chance yet to recognize her form

b'coz they are protected in a room

that's made within her very self, to save

them, in their undeveloped, immatu-

re, state (which  means they cannot yet behave

appropriately, as though they'd had the tour

of ev'rywhere, they have in fact been to

inside the belly of the Mum of them.

My daughter lived for months that way in leaux

of doing tours of India back when

we visited there, months before her birth,

we reckoned she would be "safe as a house"

for even though she lived within this Earth,

she needed to develop, not espouse

opinions as to whether Mums exist,

or boast about the places that she's been,

or spruke about the things that she had missed.

Another time, they might be by her seen.

And still her mother cares for, thinks of her.

(Though each is also helping others too,

to speak in language understood, preferred.)

I think her Mum has been a bit like you!

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Retrace old ways. Become a son...

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The only ways that forward go: retrace

each backward step, each knot that acts to bind.

And thus undo the tantrum that defaced

the patient work creative love would find

itself a-doing million years of days

(each day might be a thousand years or so)

but ev'ry tiny wing or seed displays

what work creative love can do and know.

Until it owns, as only love can do,

to set it free to be, or choose (as might

a baby god, if GOD would be such who

would make and take such chances, though they're slight.

Creative love which made this gum-tree, and,

the gum nut from which it could then expand;

the also wants to kneel and hold the hand

of tiny babies who don't understand.

And more than "wants to", does on ev'ry day

when any father, mother,  kneels to play,

and help a little one to stand, or say,

a sound that could connect, or mean, or pray.

By "pray", I mean the old word that means ask

for help from someone higher up the line,

to thus enable a more complex task,

or when some wisdom's needed at this time.

The source of all creative-love's at work

(who loves, as parents only try to do),

to teach us love, though we must not just shirk,

but discipline ourselves to this end too.

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