God Is a Verb!: Selah

By Lynn Keller

The purpose of life is not to fix broken paradigms. It is to create a new, vital ones.

God is not a Noun. Aquarius is not the Brotherhood of Man

God is a Verb
The Age of Aquarius: Humankind - Humans Being Kind

The Original Sin was clearly not a sin. God wanted humans to declare their free will choice to Reflect back to God with acts of kindness to others. Noah missed his neighbors after a century of jeering and begged God not to destroy people again. Once you start with a positive, kind perspective on God and our purpose, there is an entirely fascinating outlook on history, our present and our future. What if there is one question? Is it nice?
SELAH! Stop and Think

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781663208316

Lynn Keller

Lynn Keller, a graduate of Cornell University, was Vice-President of a transformative project based on the Tree of Life as an organizing system for three decades. She retired in 2011 to pursue her dedication to the Book of Genesis and both Trees. The two trees form a continual cycle between humans and God. She believes we are entering the Age of Aquarius. Rather than the Brotherhood of Man, it is Humankind: Humans Being Kind.

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GOD

IS A

Verb!

Selah

LYNN KELLER

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GOD IS A VERB!

SELAH

Copyright © 2020 Lynn Keller.

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Scripture taken from the JPS Tanakh 1917 version of the Bible.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-0830-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-0831-6 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 11/30/2020

CONTENTS

Orientation

The Problematic Model

God Is A Verb

Selah in the Title

His Name

In The Beginning

Rationale

AHA!!

WHY? and HOW?

Choosing The Tree of Knowledge

Two Trees in the Garden of Eden

First Covenant: Adam and Eve

The Second Covenant: Noah

The Third Covenant: Abraham

The Fourth Covenant: The Covenant with The Jews

Two Trees: The Double Helix

Repetition & Ratification

The First Two Commandments

Patterns

Time

Vaulting

Religions and Philosophies

Indiginous Systems

Diagraming Any Belief System

The First Religious Controversy in America

Selah! Souls

Selah! Egos

Selah!

The Linwood Experience

Going Forth into the Age of Aquarius

Citations

ORIENTATION

This book began in my first class at Cornell University. We were asked whether the purpose of religion was to believe in Jesus or be nice to others. I was the sole student, who chose the Golden Rule. Probably, the results would be different these many years later. It was shocking to me since not everyone was even a Christian. Even then, there should have been a debate. Did others think this was a right or wrong question? Was this about getting a good grade rather than getting an education?

Later in the lecture, our instructor said that at Cornell, we would learn HOW to think, rather than WHAT to think.

That class not only set the tone for me at Cornell, but also for the rest of my life, particularly about God and religion and philosophy.

Bucky Fuller said it best for me. Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. In these decades I have found it particularly bizarre to have been told what I think or believe. OFTEN, As a rule it is about what they believe, not what I believe or think or care.

This book is my journey since that day and continuing with values and concepts always at core. I always pay attention to the patterns, so perhaps my journey will support yours. I consider the two trees to be an organizing system, not a belief system.

When I was four I could not remember which came first, six or seven because they both began with an s. I was telling my father that I should only be expected to count one past my birthday. My father said Ross is only two and he can count to ten. I am 32 and I can count past one hundred. Just then I looked over his shoulder and saw the clock! AHA! I had a cheat sheet. Numbers had a place and an order. Tens went in a line and twelves went in a circle. Numbers had relationships and patterns.

Later that day, I surprised my Mother to no end. I was doing well with math, so she asked What is six times eight? Almost instantly, I responded Forty-eight. My life changed just that fast.

My friend, now deceased, identified himself as a Compassionate Atheist. He lived this Way of Return without ever getting waylaid in beliefs. Would you discuss your faith with him?

My first class was called Orientation. That is the foundation for this small book.

THE PROBLEMATIC MODEL

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In order to change an existing paradigm You do not struggle

to try and change the problematic model. You create a new

model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence,

is the higher service To which we are all being called.

Buckminster Fuller

God as a NOUN is the problematic model. God who…. is the problem. The new model is God is a Verb. The paradigm will shift.

Our soul is a verb in the image of God

GOD IS A VERB SELAH takes Bucky’s advice very seriously.

It made sense to add the word SELAH. Selah is found 71 times in Psalms. It means Stop and Think. It is an imperative in this book! Do not just slide over a thought! Particularly if you have just heard it for the first time.

This book takes on the challenge of the existing concepts since God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. All the people on this Planet Earth have been in this paradigm for 5778 years. The paradigm that God is a Verb directly challenges the interpretation of the entire story of Adam and Eve. We accept what happened. It is the total lack of comprehension we change radically. This is a paradigm shift that will require considering our context and our entire history.

Every story has to be rethought. Does Aquarian Age thinking begin with clarity about God? GOD IS A VERB discusses how to think about God, not what to believe