The Thinking Mind and Three Ideas reflecting Reality

Man has a thinking mind. Thinking minds require input to process into output. If there is no input there will be no output. No input, the thinking mind thinks about nothing or itself which is meaningless. The thinking mind cannot create input but can receive input. It receives input from external to itself. But this input can be fuzzy, faulty, half truths or reality. Man is a lazy thinker. Often the thinker does not screen or filter properly. Man likes to jump to conclusions, to take the easiest route, to get easy wins, quick fixes because thinking is hard work, the hardest work of all. But God helps the thinker. He has revealed reality to the thinking man. Man sought and thought about reality. Man got some of the way but always came up very short. Ancient man developed creation myths and destiny stories. But all were incorrect therefore man was unsatisfied. They did not reflect reality. But God wanted the thinking mind to know reality so revealed reality to him. The thinking mind could not conceive the idea that reality, the universe, the visible and invisible, was formed from nothing. Nothing is the complete absence of anything. How can something come from nothing? That was answered by the revelation of a second idea about reality that there is an all-powerful, infinitely wise, infinitely good, infinitely just and infinitely merciful God. A third idea revealed our intended destiny in reality, to join God in Heaven. The source of this ultimately unique knowledge in the history of man was not the thinking mind’s work but God’s work in revelation. It was the Jewish thinking mind that this knowledge was first revealed, and then passed on to Christians and Muslims.