{"id":827,"date":"2016-12-16T01:16:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T06:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2016-12-16T01:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T06:16:49","slug":"can-you-hear-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraglen.com\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Can You Hear Me Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-841 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Francis-Scharffer-WS_EgyptJudeoChristian_1013-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;an impersonal beginning explains neither the form of the universe nor the personality of man&#8230;But the Judeo-Christian tradition begins with the opposite answer. And it is upon this that our whole Western culture has been built.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-852\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/phone-telegraphtelegraph-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-851\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Phone-Old-phone-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The universe had a personal beginning &#8211; a personal beginning on the high order of the Trinity. That is, before &#8221; in the beginning &#8221; the personal was already there. Love and thought and communication existed prior to the creation of the heavens and the earth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-856\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pokemon-660x330-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-861\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SETI-Antenna-Array-New-Mexico-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-869\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/seti-turksat-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Modern man is deeply plagued by the question &#8220;Where do love and communication come from?&#8221; Many artists who pour themselves out in their paintings, who paint bleak messages on canvas, many singers, many poets and dramatists are expressing the blackness of the fact that while everything hangs upon love and communication, they don&#8217;t know where these come from and they don&#8217;t know what they mean.<br \/>\nThe biblical answer is quite otherwise:\u00a0Something was there before creation. God was there; love and communication were there; and therefore, prior even to Genesis 1:1, love and communication are intrinsic to what always has been.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8230;an impersonal beginning explains neither the form of the universe nor the personality of man&#8230;But the Judeo-Christian tradition begins with the opposite answer. 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