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I really appreciate the discussion I’ve been reading.

In 1981 Sting of the band The Police recorded a song that, I think, succinctly summarizes the point of this article Dr. Malone has shared with us.

Spirits in the Material World

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

“There is no political solution

To our troubled evolution

Have no faith in constitution

There is no bloody revolution

[Chorus]

We are spirits in the material world

Are spirits in the material world

We are spirits in the material world

Are spirits in the material world

[Verse 2]

Our so-called leaders speak

With words they try to jail you

They subjugate the meek

But it's the rhetoric of failure

[Chorus]

We are spirits in the material world

Are spirits in the material world

We are spirits in the material world

Are spirits in the material world

[Verse 3]

Where does the answer lie?

Living from day to day

If it's something we can't buy

There must be another way”

And there is another way.

On the same album “Ghost in the Machng” Sting recoded another song “Invisible Sun”.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life

Looking at the barrel of an ArmaLite

I don't want to spend the rest of my days

Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say

I don't want to spend my time in hell

Looking at the walls of a prison cell

I don't ever want to play the part

Of a statistic on a government chart

There has to be an invisible sun

It gives its heat to everyone

There has to be an invisible sun

That gives us hope when the whole day's done

“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.”

2 Corinthians 4:18

The Invisible God, was made visible through his Visible Son, Jesus the Christ.

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:

16 for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Colossians Chapter 1

In 1 Corinthians chapter 13, The Bible states:

11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.

13 But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the fngreatest of these is love.

God is Love, and loves you.

To Overcome the World, put your Faith and Hope in Jesus - loving God and others.

If you don’t know if He’s real, just ask Him…He will let you know.

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