In order for one to lead, one has to be loved by those who follow. To have followers, one has to live among them, not necessarily for life but long enough to be loved. That usually does not take a long time when the love is consistently magnanimous, because the power of that love will spread fast and far and wide by word of mouth.
Magnanimous love is what man is capable of, but it is a big step below unconditional love which no man can give for unconditional love demands a non-judgmental mind and man is incapable of withholding prejudicial judgment of every kind. The One Who was man in nature and God in spirit was the only One Who loved unconditionally without any bias. His love was so powerful that two millennia later, He is still at the very core of humanity.
The way the Son of God loved was simple because He knew the absolute Truth, and He lived among those who followed Him. When one knows the absolute Truth, the facts speak for themselves and there is no need to judge. Even if the facts are all negative, causing the grand scale of justice to tilt toward Hell, the Son of God was there on the cross asking His Father to forgive all those who did not know what they were doing [1], [2] but who freely and willingly humble themselves before God to ask for forgiveness. [3]
This blogger blames it on jet lag for not remembering exactly what he wrote on this very topic and not knowing any sinner who did not know what he was doing before he sinned, while he was making plans to sin, when he was sinning and after he had sinned, but he can still identify the ugly creature of Satan who gave the world ISIL [4], [5] by his order to invade Iraq and kill Saddam Hussein. If the creature had not known what he did was wrong while he was in power, he ought to know now with certainty that his evil deed is continuing to delight Satan even though Satan is already done with him and has moved on to those currently in power who are willing to do its work.
If that weak and pitiful creature who apparently was unable to refuse Satan's request to awaken true evil in the Mideast peace thinks that he was a world leader, then his personal truth as he sees it could not be further from the absolute Truth. He was definitely not a world leader for he never lived among the peoples of the world, and the fact that he fears traveling outside his country and probably spends most of his time in his own state and within the boundaries of his own property, he is a prisoner in his own make-belief world and therefore cannot ever hope to be a leader. No prisoner who is confined involuntarily, or voluntarily out of mortal fear and for self-preservation, within a small defined area relative to the world at large, and who is without the capacity to love magnanimously has any leadership quality. What propelled the arrogant and bellicose Iraq invader to power was the influence of Evil which will not stop until the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil.
To be a true leader, one must emulate the One Who came to save man from himself, by listening to His words and contemplating His actions, all of which point to man's two most difficult challenges and ironically his most innate tendencies which are to love and to find love in return.
[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+23%3A33-43&version=KJV
[2] Intellectual dishonesty and rationalizations do not count toward ignorance of one's sinful intentions and acts.
[3] Heaven cannot be forced upon one who is so blinded by his pride that he would refuse to acknowledge the love of God Who has been waiting for him to exercise his Free Will to love God in return.
[4] "'ISIL's interest in horrific ways to inflict harm is completely consistent with ISIL's record of complete disregard for human rights and international norms and values," said one U.S. official." See http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-terror-tactics-20151122-story.html
[5] Referring to ISIL, Robin Wright, a Mideast scholar said, "'in 2015, the threat has never been so stark, the group so wealthy, the technology so sophisticated, or the battlefield so global, even as the front lines are so amorphous.'" See http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-terror-tactics-20151122-story.html
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Hugs At Place de la République
A Muslim man blind-folded himself and offered to hug anyone who wanted one near Place de la République on November 16, 2015, [1]. [2]. [3] after the shootings at Le Bataclan and attacks elsewhere in Paris three days earlier on November 13. [4] His small gesture probably had no effect on any future terrorist act the extreme Muslim terrorists might already be planning but it was a beginning of a hope that perhaps would change the minds of some who might be considering radicalization to rethink their intention, seeing that hate divides and wounds humanity but love unites and heals it.
The world needs a lot more close interpersonal relationships based on love and much less impersonal killings based on self-righteousness, greed, power and revenge. [5] The one who believed that his invasion of Iraq was sanctioned by God ought to examine his relationship with Satan as a pawn of Satan. [6] Terrorists that kill are pure evil, but the one who enabled their existence and their subsequent rise to power was no less evil than the sadistic killers.
This blogger does not know if any of Satan's pawns will receive redemption but thinks that their ego are so overwhelmed by pride that they are forever blinded by it, so much so that even on the Day of Final Judgment, they would not be able to be humble long enough to ask God for forgiveness. With their final refusal to abandon their pride, they would have chosen freely their eternity, Hell.
[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-attacks-video-shows-blindfolded-muslim-man-offering-hugs-empathy-1529479
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-hugs-paris-video_564d12a5e4b08c74b73453a4
[3] Seeing images of hugs after hugs, tears began to well up in this blogger's eyes.
[4] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/14/paris-attacks-bataclan-concert-hall
[5] The Russian bombing of ISIL oil refineries and trucks was, in this blogger's opinion, the right thing to do. This is not considered "an eye for an eye" but a collateral attack on ISIL's economic structure for ISIL's killing of innocent passengers on an airplane with a bomb.
[6] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa
The world needs a lot more close interpersonal relationships based on love and much less impersonal killings based on self-righteousness, greed, power and revenge. [5] The one who believed that his invasion of Iraq was sanctioned by God ought to examine his relationship with Satan as a pawn of Satan. [6] Terrorists that kill are pure evil, but the one who enabled their existence and their subsequent rise to power was no less evil than the sadistic killers.
This blogger does not know if any of Satan's pawns will receive redemption but thinks that their ego are so overwhelmed by pride that they are forever blinded by it, so much so that even on the Day of Final Judgment, they would not be able to be humble long enough to ask God for forgiveness. With their final refusal to abandon their pride, they would have chosen freely their eternity, Hell.
[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-attacks-video-shows-blindfolded-muslim-man-offering-hugs-empathy-1529479
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-hugs-paris-video_564d12a5e4b08c74b73453a4
[3] Seeing images of hugs after hugs, tears began to well up in this blogger's eyes.
[4] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/14/paris-attacks-bataclan-concert-hall
[5] The Russian bombing of ISIL oil refineries and trucks was, in this blogger's opinion, the right thing to do. This is not considered "an eye for an eye" but a collateral attack on ISIL's economic structure for ISIL's killing of innocent passengers on an airplane with a bomb.
[6] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa
Saturday, November 14, 2015
The Self-Righteous Uses No Mirror
Not all, but there are many in power today who see themselves as guardians of peace around the world. Their idea to secure world peace is through the exercise of military might to displace leaders in their own countries they find to be repugnant. Their approach is diametrically opposed to that of Christ Who triumphed over Evil through sacrificial love for those who deserve none: they act collectively as judge, jury and executioner, just as Satan judges all sinners to be undeserving and wants to send them all to Hell. [1] These self-righteous and supposedly "peaceful minded" people justify their actions by looking at themselves, not in front of a mirror because a mirror reflects both what is beautiful and what is ugly, but through denials and rationalizations of their ugly truths.
People can live in denial all they want as long as they are in the flesh, but once the flesh is gone, the mechanisms that fuel the denials in the mind no longer work, then what passes through it is the Truth, reaching all the way back and all the way forward, beginning and ending with God. It is the Truth that torments for eternity and there is no escape from It.
God does not expect man to stand before a mirror and see only beauty and perfection, but to also see all of his defects and ugliness reflected back in the hope that he has sufficient humility to ask God for help in transforming himself to be like Christ. Despite the countless times man necessarily falls short because of Sin, he sees at the end of his journey the living Christ on the cross, Whose suffering and death have redeemed him. Then it would be up to man, the sinner, to show his love for God and his desire to be with God to activate God's unconditional love that has been waiting for him all along. [2]
[1] Satan is never the executioner. Satan never has to kill because Satan uses man's sinful nature to have man kill one another. By doing so, Satan has steadily been able to transform earth into Hell.
[2] God created man and waits for man to return to his Creator. It is not for any man on earth to judge, let alone kill another because he thinks he is better. Let it be clear, no man is in the absolute sense better than any other man. If man sees each other as enemies, then man has fallen into Satan's continuous loop of conquer and revenge that thrives in a state of distrust and disdain, leaving many in distress and despair.
People can live in denial all they want as long as they are in the flesh, but once the flesh is gone, the mechanisms that fuel the denials in the mind no longer work, then what passes through it is the Truth, reaching all the way back and all the way forward, beginning and ending with God. It is the Truth that torments for eternity and there is no escape from It.
God does not expect man to stand before a mirror and see only beauty and perfection, but to also see all of his defects and ugliness reflected back in the hope that he has sufficient humility to ask God for help in transforming himself to be like Christ. Despite the countless times man necessarily falls short because of Sin, he sees at the end of his journey the living Christ on the cross, Whose suffering and death have redeemed him. Then it would be up to man, the sinner, to show his love for God and his desire to be with God to activate God's unconditional love that has been waiting for him all along. [2]
[1] Satan is never the executioner. Satan never has to kill because Satan uses man's sinful nature to have man kill one another. By doing so, Satan has steadily been able to transform earth into Hell.
[2] God created man and waits for man to return to his Creator. It is not for any man on earth to judge, let alone kill another because he thinks he is better. Let it be clear, no man is in the absolute sense better than any other man. If man sees each other as enemies, then man has fallen into Satan's continuous loop of conquer and revenge that thrives in a state of distrust and disdain, leaving many in distress and despair.
Friday, November 13, 2015
Work Of The Devil In Paris - Friday, November 13, 2015
"More than 150 people have been killed in a series of coordinated terror attacks in the heart of Paris which have paralysed the French capital." [1] Such and all other terrorist killings could most certainly be counted as the work of the Devil. "The main shooting broke out at a popular music hall, Le Bataclan, where the American band Eagles of Death Metal was among those playing." [2] All of the band members of Eagles of Death Metal escaped unharmed [3], including the band leader, Jesse Hughes, who "uses many different nicknames, including 'J. Devil' (or simply 'The Devil')". [4]
Wherever the readers of this blog are or travel to, pray sincerely, pray often, pray for all, love deeply, love always and love all and may they and their loves ones be blessed by God.
Hughes revealed that his band mate Josh Homme gave him "The Devil" nickname when he was thirteen. "I used to get picked on a lot by Karl Doyle" says Hughes, "And when I would get picked on severely, or if it really made a point to me, I would get vengeance, but I would get vengeance in the way that I could, which was mostly clever and all consuming. Joshua once witnessed me in the moment I was about to enact vengeance upon someone, and he just said, 'You're the fucking devil dude,' and it stuck." [5]Perhaps the terrorists who killed were also intended to exact vengeance for what they perceived to be unjust, however wrong their perception. But vengeance is not the way to peace. Jesus said, "But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheeks also." [6] However, those who had been killed by terrorists could not ask to be killed again. Therefore, it is up to those who are able to do something to stop future killings to find a way to peace, not by fighting back and killing in revenge but by loving in return. As difficult as this is to do, this has to be done, for the alternative is continual killing, generation after generation. The unending conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis is an example.
Wherever the readers of this blog are or travel to, pray sincerely, pray often, pray for all, love deeply, love always and love all and may they and their loves ones be blessed by God.
[5] Ibid.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Vatican In Deep Trouble
This blogger has consistently criticized the Catholic church, namely, its hypocrisy, and is continually troubled by the unsaintliness of certain "political saints" as compared to God's saints. As it turned out, the criticisms were not unfounded. Recent events that have unfolded for the world to see have given them credence.
An article entitled Sainthood price-tag leaks stir Vatican fury in the Financial Times dated November 6, 2015, summarized succinctly what troubles this blogger: [1]
On sainthood (quoted) [2]:
On hypocrisy (quoted) [3] :
The arrest was seemingly a "pre-emptive strike" by the Vatican against the accused (quoted) [6]:
[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/125327f0-8485-11e5-8095-ed1a37d1e096.html#axzz3qw6yqP00, accessed November 8, 2015. Alternatively, search for the FT article here: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=sainthoot%20price%20tag%20leaks%20stir%20vatican%20fury
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] http://www.npr.org/2015/11/03/454192872/vatican-arrests-2-in-leaked-documents-investigation
[6] Ibid.
[7] http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-pope-pledges-to-continue-reforms-in-face-of-leaks-2015-11
[8] Ibid.
[9] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7:3-5
An article entitled Sainthood price-tag leaks stir Vatican fury in the Financial Times dated November 6, 2015, summarized succinctly what troubles this blogger: [1]
On sainthood (quoted) [2]:
The overall cost to the Vatican involved in creating a new saint can be as high as €500,000 — and in one case hit €750,000 — because of the lengthy historical due-diligence involved in analysing a candidate’s suitability, including whether he or she has performed any miracles.When so much money is involved in crowning a sinner with an artificial halo, it is reasonable to conclude that there are less than holy factions and forces with less than wholesome intentions that are corrupting the Church, compelling it to make saints out of undeserving sinners. This blogger has long doubted the "miracles" attributed to JP2's intercessions were genuine. Another dubious saint in this blogger's opinion is Pio whose was made a saint in 2002 by JP2. Wherever their souls are, this blogger wonders if their earthly halos emit light or are they just rings of darkness that craves the Light of Christ endlessly.
On hypocrisy (quoted) [3] :
Overall, the Vatican’s real estate portfolio was estimated to be worth €2.7bn, and, in many cases, housing was rented out to friends and acquaintances at prices well below market value.
One former Vatican official was accused of using funds destined for a Vatican-run children’s hospital in Rome to pay for a €23,000 helicopter ride to southern Italy and the refurbishment of his own flat.
Even the pope himself commented (quoted) [4]:
“A believer cannot speak of poverty and the homeless but have the lifestyle of a pharaoh,” he said.It is ironic that the pope made the comment above since rather than forgiving and praising those who leaked private Vatican information, he had them arrested. See the November 3, 2015, article by NPR entitled 2 Vatican Officials In Probe Of Leaked Documents. [5]
The arrest was seemingly a "pre-emptive strike" by the Vatican against the accused (quoted) [6]:
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Vatican has arrested two of its employees. One is a monsignor, a high-level priest. The other is a public relations specialist. They're both suspected of leaking confidential information to the media. And they were taken into custody just before the publication of two books that promised to reveal scandal within the Holy See. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli is covering this story from Rome. Hi, Sylvia.
SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE: Hi, Steve.
INSKEEP: What did these two allegedly leak?
POGGIOLI: Well, we don't know. There's no official charge yet. But the presumption is that this is a preemptive strike on the part of the Vatican before the release of these two books that have been getting a lot of attention in the media here.Last, but not least, a Business Insider article written by Associated Press published within the last 24 hours entitled Pope pledges to continue reform in face of leaks reported that "Pope Francis told followers in St. Peter's Square on Sunday [November 8, 2015] that the theft of documents describing financial malfeasance inside the Holy See was a 'crime' but pledged to continue reforms of its administration." [7] The report concluded with the following paragraph, stating (quoted) [8]:
Last week the Vatican described the books as "fruit of a grave betrayal of the trust given by the pope, and, as far as the authors go, of an operation to take advantage of a gravely illicit act of handing over confidential documentation." It added that the publication did not help "in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions."What is wrong with this picture, describing the books as a betrayal of the pope's trust in the authors but not acknowledging the Vatican's betrayal of the people's trust in the Catholic church that everything ought to be clear, truthful and holy? The question had already been answered by Christ Himself: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" [9]
[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/125327f0-8485-11e5-8095-ed1a37d1e096.html#axzz3qw6yqP00, accessed November 8, 2015. Alternatively, search for the FT article here: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=sainthoot%20price%20tag%20leaks%20stir%20vatican%20fury
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] http://www.npr.org/2015/11/03/454192872/vatican-arrests-2-in-leaked-documents-investigation
[6] Ibid.
[7] http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-pope-pledges-to-continue-reforms-in-face-of-leaks-2015-11
[8] Ibid.
[9] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7:3-5
Thursday, November 5, 2015
2015 Synod Of The Bishops On The [Broken] Family And [The Broken Church] (Revised 11-8-2015)
Fundamental to the family unit is love, not self-love that advances selfish interests but love for each other that is, in essence, love for God.
The Synod of Bishops on the family in 2015 had concluded [1] but not without controversy. One of them is the ability of divorced Catholics who had remarried outside of the church being able to receive Holy Communion. "Many hold that it would break with Catholic teaching about the absolute indissolubility of sacramental marriage and the need to receive sacramental Communion while in a state of grace." [2] Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan is of that camp. [3] The opposing view was argued by "the German-speaking small group at the Synod of the Family." [4]
This blogger is not concerned so much whether divorced couples and other sinners receiving Holy Communion have love in their hearts for one another within their family units and beyond and for God, and are in a state of grace before God. Only God knows if they are or not because God sees not only them but also others whose lives they have affected, positively and negatively. What concerns this blogger is the bigger issue, the beginnings of a split between the traditionalists and the progressives within the church. Without unity on basic Catholic doctrine, the Catholic church could not survive in its current form.
A pope having part of his worldwide team disagreeing with him and going in a separate direction no longer has the authority to speak for the whole Catholic church. St. Malachy prophesized that Peter the Roman would be the last pope [5]. Cardinal Bergolio, who after becoming pope, named himself Francesco after San Francesco d'Assisi [6], who was known as Francesco di Pietro di Bernadone [7], a Roman. Thus, the pope sitting at the head of the Catholic church today is Peter the Roman. His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI who represents the traditionalists, and this pope who represents the progressives, both occupying the Vatican grounds simultaneously, is symbolic of a two-headed church. Perhaps the lightning that struck the Vatican's dome on the day Pope Benedict XVI resigned was a sign foretelling that the Vatican would be split apart. [8]
Once the Catholic church announces officially its irreconcilable differences, the papacy would be over, and St. Malachy's prophecy would be fulfilled. The priests in the Vatican would likely be fighting, perhaps even killing, one another for the valuable church assets. Should the scenario unfold, this pope would literally have to step over dead bodies upon leaving the Vatican, making pope Pius X's 1909 nightmare vision come true [9], thus ending the family of 266 popes [10] beginning with the first, Saint Peter, the Apostle. [11]
[1] http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/october/documents/papa-francesco_20151024_sinodo-conclusione-lavori.html
[2] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/bishop-robert-barron-to-academics-debate-ross-douthat-dont-dodge-him-31777/
[3] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/polish-archbishop-unless-we-recognize-sin-christs-incarnation-is-meaningless-39549/
[4] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/read-todays-report-from-the-german-small-group-at-the-synod-93120/
[5] http://www.bibleprobe.com/last10popes.htm
[6] http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/cardinals-elect-pope-francis-argentinean-jesuit-jorge-mario-bergoglio
[7] http://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Francis-of-Assisi
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4qdo0e8ECE
[9] http://www.bibleprobe.com/last10popes.htm
[10] http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/how-many-popes-have-there-been/
[11] It would be rather poetic, in a twisted sort of way, for the papacy to begin with Saint Peter, the Apostle, who was crucified under the Roman emperor, Nero and end with Peter the Roman who crucified the Church, in a metaphoric sense.
The Synod of Bishops on the family in 2015 had concluded [1] but not without controversy. One of them is the ability of divorced Catholics who had remarried outside of the church being able to receive Holy Communion. "Many hold that it would break with Catholic teaching about the absolute indissolubility of sacramental marriage and the need to receive sacramental Communion while in a state of grace." [2] Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan is of that camp. [3] The opposing view was argued by "the German-speaking small group at the Synod of the Family." [4]
This blogger is not concerned so much whether divorced couples and other sinners receiving Holy Communion have love in their hearts for one another within their family units and beyond and for God, and are in a state of grace before God. Only God knows if they are or not because God sees not only them but also others whose lives they have affected, positively and negatively. What concerns this blogger is the bigger issue, the beginnings of a split between the traditionalists and the progressives within the church. Without unity on basic Catholic doctrine, the Catholic church could not survive in its current form.
A pope having part of his worldwide team disagreeing with him and going in a separate direction no longer has the authority to speak for the whole Catholic church. St. Malachy prophesized that Peter the Roman would be the last pope [5]. Cardinal Bergolio, who after becoming pope, named himself Francesco after San Francesco d'Assisi [6], who was known as Francesco di Pietro di Bernadone [7], a Roman. Thus, the pope sitting at the head of the Catholic church today is Peter the Roman. His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI who represents the traditionalists, and this pope who represents the progressives, both occupying the Vatican grounds simultaneously, is symbolic of a two-headed church. Perhaps the lightning that struck the Vatican's dome on the day Pope Benedict XVI resigned was a sign foretelling that the Vatican would be split apart. [8]
Once the Catholic church announces officially its irreconcilable differences, the papacy would be over, and St. Malachy's prophecy would be fulfilled. The priests in the Vatican would likely be fighting, perhaps even killing, one another for the valuable church assets. Should the scenario unfold, this pope would literally have to step over dead bodies upon leaving the Vatican, making pope Pius X's 1909 nightmare vision come true [9], thus ending the family of 266 popes [10] beginning with the first, Saint Peter, the Apostle. [11]
[1] http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/october/documents/papa-francesco_20151024_sinodo-conclusione-lavori.html
[2] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/bishop-robert-barron-to-academics-debate-ross-douthat-dont-dodge-him-31777/
[3] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/polish-archbishop-unless-we-recognize-sin-christs-incarnation-is-meaningless-39549/
[4] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/read-todays-report-from-the-german-small-group-at-the-synod-93120/
[5] http://www.bibleprobe.com/last10popes.htm
[6] http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/cardinals-elect-pope-francis-argentinean-jesuit-jorge-mario-bergoglio
[7] http://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Francis-of-Assisi
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4qdo0e8ECE
[9] http://www.bibleprobe.com/last10popes.htm
[10] http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/how-many-popes-have-there-been/
[11] It would be rather poetic, in a twisted sort of way, for the papacy to begin with Saint Peter, the Apostle, who was crucified under the Roman emperor, Nero and end with Peter the Roman who crucified the Church, in a metaphoric sense.
The Demise Of Reality And The Rise Of Virtual Reality
The pre-electronic world saw its imperceptible end when man started to supplant reality with virtual reality and in its wake, God Who is very much part of reality, has vanished into virtual oblivion from which nothing resuscitates. Gone also are the romanticized remnants of the Garden of Eden where every plant, every fruit and every other living organism on land and in the sea each contributed in some positive way to the eternal youth of Adam and Eve until their perfect lives and their perfect surrounds were ended by their pride and envy. Their offsprings, the people of the world, have since corrupted the God-given nurturing earth even more, and are doing so at a pace faster than ever before.
In this rapidly-advancing electronic world, the integrity of the oceans and seas is disintegrating, with the nutrients that are in them to heal and feed poisoned by the seepage of all kinds of toxic substances from disposed consumer electronic gadgets and vehicles, ranging from large scale use of batteries and LED lighting to faster and thinner computers, larger smart phones, larger, thinner smart televisions with lousy acoustics, smarter and faster drones and inventions yet to be conceived, all finding their way into the food chain, a health risk that cannot be quantified, and conveniently ignored in the world of virtual reality. As if death does not come soon enough for the sinful mortal in a pristine world, man by his insatiable desires has hastened his own mortality by being obliviously sinful, captivated by and consuming with impunity the unceasing production of toxic inventions that fill the world with contaminants while being in full denial of the increasing concentration of their existence.
A sanitized world replete with denials of all kinds is today's world of virtual reality.
Going back some 2,000 years when Jesus recruited Peter and Andrew to be His first disciples by the Sea of Galilee [1], Jesus was not taking them them back to paradise that was Eden. On the contrary, He was planning to show them Evil and His triumph over Evil, the realities of His death and resurrection, the very real God and the Son of God and the shortest way to Heaven, which is via sacrificial love.
The Enemy knows this and obfuscates the road to Heaven by its temptations. It has done so by fraud (it planted the seeds of pride an envy in Adam and Eve by means of a lie [2]), by heightening the desires of the flesh, by expanding the appetite for wealth and power (man using his intellect against others), and it is now doing so by using man's given intellect against himself in a virtual world, a place consumed and dominated by toxic electronic devices where God is absent, where the Son of God never existed to be betrayed, scourged, taunted and crucified and where the binary-uncodable redemption of Sin is not even a concept. In this world of electronic unreality, the only path is to Hell.
As the world of virtual reality grows, the world of reality shrinks. Within virtual reality, the Truth is hidden and Satan is sanitized, God is denied entry [4] and what is True and Holy does not fit in.
[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204:18
[2] The lie was that Adam and Eve could be like God when they ate the forbidden Apple, in this blogger's opinion, was the Apple was a test of Adam and Eve's love for their Creator, to not disobey, on the one hand, and on the other, to see if Adam and Eve would exercise their Free Will granted to them to sin against God, wanting to be like and out-do God. They failed on both counts based on a lie the Serpent told.
[3] The Passion of Christ was not virtual nor is the redemption of Sin. To insist that a virtual representation of the Passion of Christ is sufficient food for the soul, then it is equally proper to insist that a virtual representation of a mother's breast milk is sufficient food for an new born baby.
In this rapidly-advancing electronic world, the integrity of the oceans and seas is disintegrating, with the nutrients that are in them to heal and feed poisoned by the seepage of all kinds of toxic substances from disposed consumer electronic gadgets and vehicles, ranging from large scale use of batteries and LED lighting to faster and thinner computers, larger smart phones, larger, thinner smart televisions with lousy acoustics, smarter and faster drones and inventions yet to be conceived, all finding their way into the food chain, a health risk that cannot be quantified, and conveniently ignored in the world of virtual reality. As if death does not come soon enough for the sinful mortal in a pristine world, man by his insatiable desires has hastened his own mortality by being obliviously sinful, captivated by and consuming with impunity the unceasing production of toxic inventions that fill the world with contaminants while being in full denial of the increasing concentration of their existence.
A sanitized world replete with denials of all kinds is today's world of virtual reality.
Going back some 2,000 years when Jesus recruited Peter and Andrew to be His first disciples by the Sea of Galilee [1], Jesus was not taking them them back to paradise that was Eden. On the contrary, He was planning to show them Evil and His triumph over Evil, the realities of His death and resurrection, the very real God and the Son of God and the shortest way to Heaven, which is via sacrificial love.
The Enemy knows this and obfuscates the road to Heaven by its temptations. It has done so by fraud (it planted the seeds of pride an envy in Adam and Eve by means of a lie [2]), by heightening the desires of the flesh, by expanding the appetite for wealth and power (man using his intellect against others), and it is now doing so by using man's given intellect against himself in a virtual world, a place consumed and dominated by toxic electronic devices where God is absent, where the Son of God never existed to be betrayed, scourged, taunted and crucified and where the binary-uncodable redemption of Sin is not even a concept. In this world of electronic unreality, the only path is to Hell.
As the world of virtual reality grows, the world of reality shrinks. Within virtual reality, the Truth is hidden and Satan is sanitized, God is denied entry [4] and what is True and Holy does not fit in.
[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204:18
[2] The lie was that Adam and Eve could be like God when they ate the forbidden Apple, in this blogger's opinion, was the Apple was a test of Adam and Eve's love for their Creator, to not disobey, on the one hand, and on the other, to see if Adam and Eve would exercise their Free Will granted to them to sin against God, wanting to be like and out-do God. They failed on both counts based on a lie the Serpent told.
[3] The Passion of Christ was not virtual nor is the redemption of Sin. To insist that a virtual representation of the Passion of Christ is sufficient food for the soul, then it is equally proper to insist that a virtual representation of a mother's breast milk is sufficient food for an new born baby.
Monday, November 2, 2015
In Uncertain Times
In everyone's life there are times when one does not know what to expect because what may come next is in the hands of God, or of somebody else beyond one's control, or of those in power acting under the influence of Satan causing pain, grief and strife for many, and still many others who suffer emotional pain over the loss of family, friends and loved ones, brought upon by the wave of destruction that began with the invasion of Iraq and aggravated by other subsequent and on-going Satanic actions that are not merely confined to the Mideast. Whatever the variables are that lead to uncertainty, two things are certain: inner peace is disturbed and the only way to repair it is to invite the Son of God into one's life. The invitation cannot be perfunctory. It has to be rooted in sincere faith that is saturated with pure and undiluted love for Jesus Who will grant His Peace to anyone who asks and who believes and enjoys His very real and immediate presence by being consumed with unending love extending to every fiber in one's body and occupying every moment in one's mind. In other words, to experience peace from the Prince of Peace, one's entire body and mind have to be actively engaged by holding on to one's most precious Guest with full faith and love one has for Him.
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