An Apology Proclamation

APOLOGY PROCLAMATION

Whereas: According to Hebrew Scripture, Abraham was chosen to become the patriarch of a great nation with The Lord, the creator of all things, as their God where the descendants of Abraham (the Hebrews) would inherit that covenant.

Whereas: Ishmael, the first born son of Abraham, was disinherited and excluded from the covenant proclaimed to make those descendants the “Children of God.”

Whereas: Inheritance of the covenant was passed instead through Abraham’s second son Isaac and then subsequently to God’s own son Jesus who proclaimed those who believed in him to be the Kingdom of God.

Whereas: Ishmael, excluded from the covenant passed through Isaac, set up a shrine at a place called Mecca subsequently adopted as the Holy Place upon which the Prophet Mohammed built the Muslim faith that mirrored but remained insulated from the beliefs proclaimed by the Hebrews as well as those who believe Jesus.

Whereas: The covenant descendants, known as the Children of Israel who proclaimed the title of “chosen children of God”, did in fact by ostracizing all others create resentment and hatred that, as documented by Hebrew Scripture, has existed throughout their history and is in evidence to this day especially by followers of the beliefs proclaimed by the Muslim faith.

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Wherefore: In the interest of attempting to bring resolution of the stated long standing resentment and hatred, be it known that those who re-transmit this proclamation to friends and associates ascribe to an open apology for the treatment of Ishmael and all subsequently ostracized by and subjected to classification as not being “children of God”, by those who claimed inheritance of the covenant the Lord made with Abraham.

Theology a Priori

For the purpose of this writing, the term theology is defined as “a science that treats of fact and phenomena of religion, and relations between God and man”. The term a-priori, defined as “derived through the process of reasoning”, is involved since the senses with which humans have been endowed are limited in range and sensitivity. However, the ability to reason provides the means whereby knowledge gained through sensed experience can be expanded a priori to reveal important additional understanding.
Consider the situation where theologians acknowledge that all things existing in this universe are the product of a creator while scientists acknowledge that all things existing in this universe are made of a finite variety of atoms that are in turn an assembly of electrons, protons, neutrons, and the energy that provides the force that binds those components to give the atoms into which assembled and all things into which those atoms are assembled, their behavioral characteristics as well as their ability to behave and to exist. Therefore, a priori leads to the incontrovertible conclusion that all matter and energy (whether gravity, electrical, magnetic, chemical, atomic, nuclear, light, heat or life) involved in creating and sustaining the universe and all things therein, is provided by and or through those components that are fundamental to atoms and that the conclusion thusly derived applies without reservation except it should be noted that the Holy Spirit is expressly excluded.
Continuing a priori leads to the logical conclusion that the wisdom involved in the conception and the development of those components that are fundamental to the production or to the behavior and the sustenance of all things, is expressed within those atoms and their subsequent assemblies and that understanding the knowledge inherent therein, whether by theologians or scientists, requires belief in that conclusion.
Gravitational attraction, a manifestation of the fundamental atomic binding force, is recognized through sensory perception to exist and to exert forces that produces the physical binding together of matter, even though the force and the energy involved has no component discernable directly by the senses with which we are endowed. Extensive experimental effort has established that in every instance, the divine in nature gravitational force acts from the center of each and every assembly of matter from the simplest atom to the assembly known as the universe. From there, a priori produces the conclusion that the divine in nature gravitational attraction force or gravity that binds all things including the universe together, is supplied ceaselessly out of the center of the universe.
Again, a priori establishes the incontrovertible conclusion that there is a point at the center of the universe that is the source of all wisdom and all energy including that involved in establishing and sustaining life. There is another a priori of significance imbedded within the described processes. It is that while the intent may have been as preparation for the subsequent creation of man, those processes are intrinsic to and incapable of excision by either theology or the physical sciences.