Several times I've asked the question if the Christians are wrong about the things that can be proven why should I trust them about things that can't be proven. In all fairness I've had to ask the same question of Amen. I have employed a large number of words in the service of pointing out what's amiss in the bible and the church. Yet, I never expressed my reservations about Amen because of the love and respect I hold for those who recommended him to me. In truth, the man is on his own. I cannot venerate him based on the recommendation of others.
What am I talking about. I am talking about Mr. Amen's faulty science. In an effort to establish the scientific evidence for the existance of God Amen asserts that God's mathematical design of the universe is evinced in every atom of matter. According to Amen's formula every atom has electrons that orbit the nucleus in layers and each layer has the same number of electrons distributed in an order thata can be discerned only by intelligent beings.
On the first level there are 2 electrons. On the second 8. On the third 18. The fourth 32.
An intelligent creature can discover the code by which God laft his/her stamp on creation.
2(1)square = 2
2(2)square = 8
2(3)square = 18
2(4)square = 32
This simply is not true. What makes it so ill is that this is not rocket science. This is grade school stuff they teach little kids in the 7th and 8th grade. So it doesn't take much gumption to look up the facts.
Now I asked myself if he is so wrong about such an easily researchable bit of information why should I believe he has the facts about things that are not so available? And why shoyuld i follow spiritual practices that Amen himseelf cautions could lead to demon posession and insanity if I don't perform them absolutely correctly? Especially when none of my teachers has ever experienced them and those people who have experienced them said it scared the h. e. double toothpick out of them.
I can't throw out the chicken with the grease. There is a lot of good stuff in Amen's books. The difference between the Metu Neter and the bible is that the M.N. belongs to my people not my slave master so it sets me free while the bible keeps me in bondage. It's not the factuality of the science that sets me free, but the affirmation and establishment of the spiritual truths that are already in my mind. For many these truths lay dormant and the M.N. awakens them.
Nobody ever suggested that the Metu Neter or the Pert Em Heru or the Book of Going Forth by Day are the inerrant, infallable and inspired word of God, It has always been attested that these works represent the writings of men. Yet great spiritual truth has been ascribed to them based soley on their antiquity. The underlying assumption being that these ancient people had a line to God which we don't have. So we have to find out what God said to them because he's not speaking to us.
This is utter hogwash. As many of us have said our minds are the only thing we have that we know is from the Creator without anyone having to tell us, We can glean truths from books written by men but the presence of truth in a book does not absolve us from our responsibility to use our brains to discern what is true and what is not true. Bad counsel is ninety percent good. It's that ten percent that will destroy us,
What am I talking about. I am talking about Mr. Amen's faulty science. In an effort to establish the scientific evidence for the existance of God Amen asserts that God's mathematical design of the universe is evinced in every atom of matter. According to Amen's formula every atom has electrons that orbit the nucleus in layers and each layer has the same number of electrons distributed in an order thata can be discerned only by intelligent beings.
On the first level there are 2 electrons. On the second 8. On the third 18. The fourth 32.
An intelligent creature can discover the code by which God laft his/her stamp on creation.
2(1)square = 2
2(2)square = 8
2(3)square = 18
2(4)square = 32
This simply is not true. What makes it so ill is that this is not rocket science. This is grade school stuff they teach little kids in the 7th and 8th grade. So it doesn't take much gumption to look up the facts.
Now I asked myself if he is so wrong about such an easily researchable bit of information why should I believe he has the facts about things that are not so available? And why shoyuld i follow spiritual practices that Amen himseelf cautions could lead to demon posession and insanity if I don't perform them absolutely correctly? Especially when none of my teachers has ever experienced them and those people who have experienced them said it scared the h. e. double toothpick out of them.
I can't throw out the chicken with the grease. There is a lot of good stuff in Amen's books. The difference between the Metu Neter and the bible is that the M.N. belongs to my people not my slave master so it sets me free while the bible keeps me in bondage. It's not the factuality of the science that sets me free, but the affirmation and establishment of the spiritual truths that are already in my mind. For many these truths lay dormant and the M.N. awakens them.
Nobody ever suggested that the Metu Neter or the Pert Em Heru or the Book of Going Forth by Day are the inerrant, infallable and inspired word of God, It has always been attested that these works represent the writings of men. Yet great spiritual truth has been ascribed to them based soley on their antiquity. The underlying assumption being that these ancient people had a line to God which we don't have. So we have to find out what God said to them because he's not speaking to us.
This is utter hogwash. As many of us have said our minds are the only thing we have that we know is from the Creator without anyone having to tell us, We can glean truths from books written by men but the presence of truth in a book does not absolve us from our responsibility to use our brains to discern what is true and what is not true. Bad counsel is ninety percent good. It's that ten percent that will destroy us,