CONFESSION I - By Logic Then By Faith

Most likely to be published later this spring of 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover below merely a working version....

CONFESSION I - By Logic Then By Faith

      The last two decades of reading, contemplating, determining, and reflecting while writing poems, comments, essays, outlines, notes, as well reaffirming, relearning and dismissing while conversing, debating and of course repeating the aforementioned over and over again (resulting to this book hence Nos. 1-100), led me as part of a Specie uniquely yet finitely reasonable and logical per Human non-omnipresence, non-omniscience thus non-omnipotence (see No. 80), to studiously reexamine and fastidiously therefore precisely determine God uniquely yet infinitely reasonable and logical per Divine omnipresence, omniscience thus omnipotence (see Nos. 38-41). To momentarily note for reference later...

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

    the Maker of heaven and earth,

    and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:

Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,

    born of the virgin Mary,

    suffered under Pontius Pilate,

    was crucified, dead, and buried;

He descended into hell.

The third day He arose again from the dead;

He ascended into heaven,

    and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;

    from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost;

    the holy catholic church;

    the communion of saints;

    the forgiveness of sins;

    the resurrection of the body;

    and the life everlasting.

Amen.

      Critically necessary the former determination as the unavoidable prerequisite to this subsequent decision, not by reason then logic, but by reason (see Nos. 6-10) then faith or substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (He 11:1), therefore echoing the particular answer Thou art the Christ (Mk 8:29) to the persistent question Whom do men say that I am? (Mk 8:27), consequently was inwardly spurred to prayerfully concur, soon later forthrightly recite the earlier historical confession and longstanding Apostles’ Creed, privately before friends and pastor so by two or three witnesses shall every word be established (2 Co 13:1). 

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By logic then by faith, the twain swathed by the Same
Thus Child swaddled as Humanity modeled by God’s frame
Reason arises as humility circumcises presumption’s pride
Else feral arrogance, the instinctive thorn in Adam’s side

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

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