Shayne
About Me
- Name
- Shayne McKinney
- Gender
- male
- Your Hobby
- Tae-Kwon-Do
- Favorite color
- Yellow
- Bio
Grew up in Van Buren, Arkansas. I got a job in sales and have been doing it for various companies since I was 18. Was married at 20, I have 2 awesome boys, Ransom and Xavior, and the most increadible wife Jennifer. I have recently gotten a dog named Freddy. He's a Husky/Malamute.
I enjoy creativly solving problems. I can usually come up with an unusual solution to just about any problem.
I enjoy eating mostly meat, in fact I don't eat any vegies at all.
My favorite hobbies, are Tae-kwon-do, Video Games, movies and hanging out with friends. I can play poker if you want me take your money.
Above all I am a Christian. Most Christians give the word a bad meaning these days. Christians don't have to be mindless stupid followers of any preacher on TBN who says that everyone who doesn't send me money is going to hell for their sins and they will burn for all eternity. Of course Christian doesn't mean lets just live as if we arn't Christians even though we are. These are the things I know to be true and what lead me to Christ.
- Everything that can exist in another way, place, or not exist has to have a cause for it existing in the way that it does.
- The universe could not exist or could exist different from the way it is now so the universe must have a cause.
- That cause has to be independent of the universe existing, or else it cannot be the cause.
- I feel like I as a human look at the world around me as if I myself am not a part of it. I look at gravity and understand it or seek to understand it rather than just acepting it. Why should something made by nature seek to understand nature as if it isn't apart of it?
- I lived my life seeking something to complete my life, money, stuff, knowledge looking for something would make me feel totally content. Everyone I knew other than myself also seeked contentment of some sort.
- Life is meaningless if it is an endless pursuit of something to complete yourself. Doomed to fail because undoutable on my death bed their would be that deal I didn't make, or that person I never talked to.
- If have part of our bodies that doesn't exist beyond three spacial dimensions yet rely's on our sensory organs that are limited to three spacial dimensions then how could we be aware of it. We could not detect it with touch or sight. That part of ourselves could be our spirit seeking completion. That spirit could interact with others, and have many outside forces interact with it. It is how I feel when I am praying and communicating with God through my spirit.
- Bible: God made man in his image.
- For him to create the universe in three dimensions he must exist beyond those bounderies.
- If he exists outside of three dimesions and we are in his image then it is not illogical that we also exist outside three dimensions.
- Gods created us to be with him, but man chose a different path, a path of independence. The temptation from the Garden was "if you eat this you will be like God." Another words you will not need him. Man has since then been born choosing things other than God. This is our constant search for contentment. Through concious decisions to submit and accept him some of us repair that relationship.
- God still took care of man even when they chose other things. He gave them guidence and put them in a position where they could seek what they wanted, a life independent of him. That is the people we read in Genesis. Those people lived and were occasionally stopped when doing self distructive behavior.
- God finally gave man the Law to give them basic guidlines to prevent self distructive behavior and allow them to re-establish a relationship with God. This law included many things for health reasons to keep the people well such as washing hands before meals, what types of mold will kill you, what deseases should be quarantened, what food is safe to eat, and so forth. God wanted his people to live and have what they seeked independence, but with accknowledgement of him at least.
- God allowed man that place for many years and when man had been unable to live safely with Gods step by step guidlines he came to restore his people to the relationship they lost when they chose the fruit. He lived exactly as God had told man, showed himself to be the fullfillment of Gods laws and prophecy and was sacrificed by people who still wanted to live life on their own.
- Jesus, accepted the punishment of the sin state of the world on himself. By acceptting his sacrifice we are forgiven for choosing independence rather than God and we find real completion with God.
- Jesus death wasn't about gambling, and sex, it was about our relationship with God being restored. The state of sin is the state of not living with God, and we are all born that way now. Loving and living with God in our lives will give us a desire to do good things and not harmful things.
- Love as the world see's it is giving a part of oneself to something. Example: many americans love their cars. You know it is a worlds version of love by finding the feeling one has when thing is removed. If it leaves an empty feeling then you had a world version of love for that person or thing. Yes, depression that comes from a brake up with a girlfriend is a sign of worldly love.
- Love as a Christian should have will be 100% for God 0% for everything else, that is in an ideal scenario, obviously we rarely live in an ideal scenario. God then gives us Love for everything through him. In the worldly form of love their is only so much we can love, we have limited time through the day and our lives and we can only attatch ourselves to so many things. With God he has ulimited time and presence to love everyone. By loving God 100% we love the things God loves the same way which is everyone, unconditionaly. Unfortunatly we usually only devote ourselves slightly to God so we only have slight love for those around us and we rarely show any signs of Gods love. This is all reflected in 1 John when John says: God is love and goes on to explain this source of love that comes from God.
This turned out longer than I expected I guess I should stop while It is still short enough to read. This is just a very brief overview of what makes me who I am.
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