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The Things To Which We Are Prone
Does it make any sense to spend a significant part of your life chasing after things that will do you no good?
Oh, sure a lot of money is nice to have around. It gives you a little piece of mind; it lets you buy stuff you want; it enables you to get past the day-to-day grind of living paycheck to paycheck. But it also implants in you a desire to make even more money, which contributes to the festering of that which will do you no good. People all over the world, throughout mankind's history have been preoccupied with setting goals with their greatest of expectations in mind. Seeking, achieving and maintaining those great expectations has been the central theme to most individual's very lives. Setting and achieving goals is an essential part of the maturing process a person needs to grow into a responsible and productive individual. But at what point does that process become over and beyond the realm of reasonable? When is it enough? And who are the Jones and why do need to keep up with them? There is an innate desire within each person to revere a 'higher power.' Since birth each and every one of us is installed with the need to worship something greater than ourselves. We are also implanted with the gift of freewill. And over the centuries we have come up with millions of assorted gods, when there is only one true God. The fact that there exists only one true God has been proven to us time and time again. But being the imperfect beings that we are, as a race, we tended not to accept the simple truth of this one God. Instead we needed to create other gods that fit more snuggly with our particular circumstances to satisfy our traditions, fantasies, and delusions of granduer. Since the time of Babylon, we have run the gamut of godlike characters, seeking ever more precisely to come up with the god of our choice who will fit in with our wants and desires. We have created doctrines very similar to those originating in Babylon. Over time we have fine-tuned these doctrines so that we are lacking nothing that will stand in the way of our preferred way to worship. We have picked and chosen who it is we'll worship and just exactly how we'll perform that worship. And we succeeded in perfecting our choices, making them idealistic to our whims.
And we have done all of this in plain view of the one true God. How do you think He feels about this? We, as the human race, have been prone to think of ourselves
in terms of evolution. The scientific community would have us believe that human beings ultimately come from a puddle of goo. This same community would have us believe that over billions and billions of years human life started from something that had no life and then, one day-Viola! Living cells began from a lifeless puddle of goo! Never mind the fact that the required chemical reactions and rate of chance for this to become a reality span far beyond any acceptable terms now speculated upon by that same scientific community. And yet, here we are in a point of time that requires most educational facilities to teach this theory as fact. Keep in mind that this is the same community that once was so certain that the world was flat. Stunning contrasts are flaunted in our faces on a daily basis. Contrasts that smack the reasonable thinking individual in such a way as to make us believe that pigs do fly. And yet, there is simply no way to prove that such a thing can actually happen. Nonetheless, there we are believing it because that is what is expected of us. Is that what is expected of us? Have the free-thinking, philosophical icons convinced us so thoroughly of such things? As parents, we tend to pawn our belief systems off on our children. If you were raised to believe that there is a God, then chances are your children will come to believe that too. If you were raised to believe that there is no God, then your children will most likely come to believe that as well. If you were raised to believe that you should develop your own beliefs, then that is probably what you will instill in your children. Depending on where you live, you will more likely than not be raised to respect your government and to believe that a sense of national pride should guide your loyalties. Respecting the government and abiding by the rules of law in any land is only the right thing to do. Even Jehovah's Witnesses follow this course of life. But should your loyalties be placed with a form of government that abuses its power from regime to regime? Or should your loyalties be placed with a scientific or philosophical standard? Would it be prudent to put your trust in a form of government that has proven itself to be everything but that which it espouses to be? We are prone to accept the bad with the good, but at what cost? At what point does the bad outweigh the good to the degree that we should rethink our priorities? Books are a source of education. Millions of books. Textbooks, inspirational books, self-help books, How-To books, history books, science books, opinion books, fact books, audiobooks of every sort flood grocery store checkout lines, department stores and libraries worldwide. Some are recommended and some are required. Some are placed at the top of so-called best seller lists because of someone's opinion of them. Books come in all sorts of categories such as fiction and non-fiction; true-to-life and fantasy; romance and action. Any imaginable topic are what books are made of. If you are looking to find out about something, you can find it in some book somewhere. We are prone to seek enlightenment from sources outside of ourselves. And books provide for us the way to do so. Generational trends are created from books and humanity's triumphs and tragedies are recorded for us in books. You can learn a trade or find a hobby from books. Some books are deemed classics and some are called pulp. Some books set standards in technological or scientific arenas. And some just fade away, never to be referenced again. Out of all the vast variety of the history of books, there is only one that has stood the test of time. And despite the efforts of some humans over the span of time to get rid of this one book, it has endured. It is the Bible. But the Bible is subject to interpretation, you might hear. Is it? And who's interpretation is the one that counts? As a parent, would you give your children a set of rules to follow and then allow your children to interpret those rules to you? But there are so many different translations of the Bible. Which one is the truest? All Biblical doctrines are the same in all translations. A few words and phrases have been translated differently, but the basic doctrines themselves remain the same throughout in all. Yes, yes you say, but who's interpretation is the true one? Well, let us look to the Bible for the answer. Genesis 40:8-"At this they said to him: 'We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter with us.' So Joseph said to them: 'Do not interpretations belong to God?' Relate it to me please." 2Peter 1:20, 21-"For you know this first, that no prophesy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophesy was at no time brought by man's will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit." And finally . . . 2Timothy 3:16, 17-"All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work." But what proves that the Bible is tried and tested beyond criticism? Fulfilled prophesy. Just like the theory of evolution is proved or disproved by the fossil record. What has transpired regarding both? Do you see the news headlines and pay attention to where we are in the stream of time? Do you see any humanoids that appear to be half ape and half man? The things to which we are prone define us as a race. Discernment is what we as individuals use in enabling our so-called self-determination. Is this a wise course or is it just wishful thinking?
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