Good Is The Primary Principle

God is perfect, God is good. He alone can create and only creates like kind. Therefore, God can only create good and never evil as a first kind. There is a only a first good, never a first evil.

Think not of good versus evil in terms of primary principles. There is only good. Adam and Eve were created good, they did evil. The devil himself was created good and later became evil.

The fundamental and primary principle is always good. Evil is a deviation, a perversion, in philosophical terms, an “accident” of that first principle.

“There is then, no single primary and essential principle of evils; rather the first principle of all things is the one first good, in whose effects evil results accidently”. - Thomas Aquinas/Summa Contra Gentiles/Vol. 2/Chapter 41

We were created good. Our original nature is good. Evil for man is two things. A) A deviation from the creation. B) A choice.

“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day” (Genesis 1:31).

Bill Hitchcock

Is there time without motion?

Is there motion without matter?

Is motion and matter nothing other than the rate of change?

Is therefore time the rate of change?

Bill Hitchcock

Racism Debunked

If a Black man embracing a rebel flag (the Confederate battle flag) walked up to a bunch of Southern, White good ol’ boys, these Caucasians of Dixie would embrace that Black man as one of their own, because he would be.

Currently, there are a couple of videos going around of a Black man supporting gun rights and the 2^nd amendment that white folks are applauding and helping to go viral.

If racism, as it is defined here in America as 1) Whites hating Blacks and 2) a systemic and inherent problem within the country, if racism is such a problem, then why would white folks so willingly receive and endorse a Black man on such hotbed topics as shown above?

It’s simple. The left has everyone convinced that it is the messenger (Black man/skin color) that is hated by the White man. It isn’t. It isn’t the messenger, it is the message of the left that is so hated.

Don’t buy into the propaganda, hate and lies that is heating up racial tensions. It isn’t about race (messenger). It has everything to do with the agenda being pushed (the message) and the end game the left is trying to accomplish.

Bill Hitchcock 

To be, but what is that being? For what we are (to be), is how we act. 

Our being is our essence which produces our action and defines our character.

Character is our form. Being is our substance.

Being - essence - action - character - form - substance. 

A Brief Conversation

“And he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:17).

You mean God was before heaven and earth? Yes!

But what about the universe itself? Yes.

And the Big Bang Theo…..Yes!

God was before ALL things and by God ALL things are put together, in order and in place.

All thi….Yes!

So if God was before all things then what was before God?

You’re asking if God was before Himself?

Yes.

Didn’t you just answer your own question?

Look, God told Moses that His name was I AM. This means that He is, and always has been. There was no “before” God, that would be impossible because He is infinite. There is no beginning or end to infinity. God is omnipresent, there is no space/time boundary to Him. God is omnipotent, His power is boundless and perfected therefore just and good.

So God is before all things and by him all things consist?

Yes.

Bill Hitchcock

Is It Racism?

Is it racism? Prejudices?  Or is it the manifestation of resentment and envy? When one class of people receives a benefit from a government, school or business that another class does not get, resentment and envy will build in the class of have-nots, even if the benefit is compensatory to the haves. This resentment will eventually boil over into anger and rage if the have-nots are not given equal to or greater than benefit, or unless the benefit to the haves is stopped.

The have-nots move into action after they have reached their boiling point of discontent. This is the irrational stage. Verbal, vocal measures are pursued first followed by physical and violent measures next. Both verbal and physical measures are aggressive and are aimed at hurting the haves and those who made the benefit available to them.

This discontentment and acts of aggression from the have-nots over the haves is what many people call racism. It isn’t.

True racism is the belief that one’s race is superior. Prejudice is an unreasonable or unfavorable opinion of another group of people. Neither racism nor prejudice are rooted in resentment and envy.

Many social and political problems are a result of resentment and envy but are erroneously identified and treated as issues of racism.

Bill Hitchcock

True/False

The following is going to sound so silly simple, so bare bones basic.

“Only the false is opposed to the true” (Thomas Aquinas)

What do you know that is true? What opposes that truth?

Truth is of God. False is a reaction to the truth so therefore a reaction to God.

“Those things, then, are not the best by nature which are not from God, the Author of nature. Thus they are understood to be from the devil, from the corrupter of nature: for there is no other whose they can be, if they are not God's; because what are not God's must necessarily be His rival's.” (Tertullian)

Now you know false, its creator and motivation.

“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

Pursuing truth is pursuing God. It is our nature to seek the truth, but act is a choice of our will. The opposite holds true as well. The devil, who abides, “not in the truth” and who is “the corrupter of nature”, still can only affect our will.

It is our choice. It is always our choice.

Bill Hitchcock