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    What If: Does Experience Dictate Truth?
    What If: Does Experience Dictate Truth?
    What If: Does Experience Dictate Truth?
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    What If: Does Experience Dictate Truth?

    By Naomi Ziedins

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    We all like to be right. We all have a mental filter. What If challenges where opinions, convictions, and decisions are made and how we allow our experiences to dictate truth. Does majority rule? Are your opinions based on half-truths or lies?

    What If is written to grip the mind of the thinker, challenge the mind of the confident, and unmask experience.

    “Ignorance is a field where death roams free, where death of hope, life, success, and abundance is the only constant.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWord Alive Press
    Release dateNov 6, 2015
    ISBN9781486612314
    What If: Does Experience Dictate Truth?

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      What If - Naomi Ziedins

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      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      The biggest thank you to my overwhelmingly wonderful Heavenly Father, who made me human and allowed me to be human as I did my best to honour Him in this humanness. Thank you for giving me this brain!

      Huge thank you to my gorgeous husband, who lets me think out loud and encourages me relentlessly. Sorry, ladies, I married Superman!

      My parental unit, thank you! Mom, you consistently demonstrated Christ-like behaviour, taught me how to think for myself, and gave me the tools I needed to be who God created me to be. Dad, you always believed your little girl could do anything… well, except rugby! You taught me how to be strong and independent.

      To my brothers, Aaron and Matt, who set the stage, giving me multiple opportunities for me to think abnormally!

      Finally to my aunts, uncles, cousins, and in-laws, who have shown unconditional support for as long as I can remember.

      CHAPTER 1: WHAT IF WE ARE WRONG?

      Daddy! nine-year-old Mac cried with intensity, commanding all eyes to turn to him.

      He and his dad were finally at the amusement park he’d been dreaming about for the last three weeks. His daddy, the CEO of one of the largest board sport companies in the Americas, had at last taken a day off to spend together, just the two of them.

      Yeah, buddy? his dad lovingly replied, smiling down at his son’s contorted face.

      We forgot about lunch! The statement was punctuated by Mac’s grumbling stomach.

      In all the excitement, altitude changes, people-watching, and waiting in line, lunch had completely slipped their minds.

      Huh. So you’re right. His dad nodded, scanning the nearby food vendors.

      Mac did the same. His foot, having a mind of its own, would not stop bouncing. Mac knew full well that today his daddy would spare no expense. Today he could have whatever he set his mind to.

      Suddenly, his dad walked four paces to the right, bent down, and picked up a rock about the size of a fastball. Rubbing the rock on his shirt, seemingly to clean it, he confidently walked back and outstretched his enormous hand with the buffed rock balanced in the palm. Here, buddy, suck on this. I don’t want to stop for food.

      Mac just stood there, manoeuvring his astonished gaze between his dad and the dimpled, inedible rock.

      Dad! he shouted at a decibel comparable to the whine of a fax machine. I haven’t eaten since we had breakfast at six! It’s now three-thirty in the afternoon!

      * * *

      While reading this story, we all assumed a much different ending. Perhaps we joined in Mac’s anticipation. Maybe we were in his dad’s thoughts, contemplating what we would choose to make this day special. Either way, the end of the story is perfectly absurd.

      Would you, if your child asks you for bread, give him a stone instead? Or if he asks for meat, would you hand him a snake?1

      If you know how to give good things to your children, how much more does God, your creator, know and long to give good things to you? Sound ridiculous? What if it’s true? What if?

      Our first human instinct is to filter this information through our experiences to weigh its potential for being true. What if your filter is broken? The large majority of people see God as an entity somewhere up in the sky or out in the universe. Most tend to treat God as though He is waiting for us to make a mistake, and when we do He will strike us down with lightning. What is a mistake anyway? This conclusion we also base on our own internal filter. Again, what if your filter is broken? What if?

      The very concept of the story about Mac is illustrated to highlight God’s true nature. Many of us see God as a mirror image of our biological fathers. Childhood is when most people’s filters are moulded, creating a dramatically high potential for us to reach inaccurate conclusions. Additionally, no biological father is perfect. Would this fact not exacerbate the potential of filtering information poorly, resulting in the large majority being wrong about how they see God? What if?

      The majority rules, does it not? If more people don’t believe in God than

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