World View determinators!

As I do many nights, I wake up in the early morning hours "pondering" ideas, and questions, and philosophies.   Sometimes they just run, like a herd of cattle, through my mind and I have to just sit down and try to write one or two or three things down so I can bring some focus and precision to my thinking.

Here are three thoughts for the day:
1.  Do any animals feel a sense of Love?   What is the sense they feel when we are loving them?   Doves and Wolves mate forever?   Is that because of love?

2.  On a higher and more important plain . . . Would God have preferred Judas to be a righteous man?   Or . . . Was Judas created/ordained/predestined/designed for the express purpose/intention of being a betrayer?

3.  What would have happened if Adam had just fallen on his knees and confessed what he'd done and said he was sorry?

The thought/question about animals and love has no real spiritual or eternal significance for our earthly lives.   Thoughts 2 and 3, and what we "believe", are not . . . of course . . . answerable.   They are only ponderable.   And I've seen in my life that most people say to questions like those that they don't "need" to be considered exactly because they "aren't" answerable (at least in this lifetime).   But I've also seen that people do have a mind set/belief/doctrine about even the unanswerable questions whether they admit so or not.   Though Thoughts 2 and 3 can't be answered, we all would have to say that there is something about God's Nature that we believe that would tell us what the answer would be.   If we can't say absolutely/unequivacably what we believe the answer would be then we don't have a set of beliefs ourselves.  We would not have a foundation of the Nature of God.   And those foundations that we have are what determine our world view. 

And the world view I have is the filter through which I process and receive ALL information about ALL subjects.    My world view is the lens that I see life through.    So somethings I see in life as true, or absolute or right or wrong . . . .may in fact be the complete opposite to someone else who has a different world view.

I've recently finished reading a very thought provoking book, The Black Swan, which was not written as a spiritual book in any sense.   But as a Spiritual Man, I can see that so much of what the writer said about "improbable" events does have a spiritual application for me.   And one of the most interesting ideas he presented was to imagine a certain news story being told about a bombing or shelling of Gaza by the Israeli Army.    The story could be told with no editorial opinion whatsoever, and yet . . .  when read by a Palestinian and a Jew, the story would be interpreted in two completely different veins of thought.    It would be interpreted in 2 completely different ways, because each of the readers brings to the reading a certain World View.   

These thoughts and questions above are relevant to my life today and for the future.    The older I get the more questions I have come to see should have been considered as a young man.  But instead of forming my foundations in life based on my own beliefs, I (and most others) have gone through life forming my World View based on the opinion/teaching/credentials of others.    Jesus told his followers to go and "make disciples of all men".   He DID NOT tell them all the same direction to take or the same means to the end.