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Text Box: substitute for or to replace God. There is an infinite difference between the operations of God and the operations of government. God gives from His essence which is infinite and can never be depleted. He gives of His own free will. Government is able to give only what it takes from its citizens, which it takes by coercion, force, and intimidation, and then redistributes what it has taken in accordance with ever changing criteria - usually that criteria which will maintain in power those already in power. And what its citizens have is finite The new American government administration, executive and legislative, has focused on removing individual responsibility for success or failure and replacing it with a government sponsored guarantee of success. This guarantee is impossible to meet and this effort is doomed to fail for the reasons above stated. In the process of making the attempt it may, and probably will, change the entire fabric and structure of America. The fabric and structure which will result is that of the beehive - where the queen bee is served by the rest of the hive, where the American elite are served by the American masses. Masses of Americans have already voted for change with their souls - change from meeting God’s spiritual requirements to meeting no spiritual requirements. Such individuals will not like that eternity which they earn as a result. The change from an America where the individual is responsible for that individual’s worldly success, to one where society or the government is responsible, will result in the individual earning nothing, and nothing is what the individual will have. + Paul, S.S.B.

Text Box: Spiritually reality, spiritual truth, is, each individual is responsible for their own spiritual welfare and has been given access to all of the spiritual tools they need. The opportunity for spiritual success (i.e.: “getting to heaven”) has therefore been available to every individual since Adam and Eve, and since the coming of the Saviour that opportunity has expanded so that there is no excuse for failure - failure being caused for each individual by that individual. It is not easy, requires constant effort as does anything worth acquiring, but it is attainable. Likewise, in America each individual has the opportunity to be as successful as that individual desires commensurate with the abilities of that individual and the persistence with which that individual pursues that which that individual desires, limited only by that individual’s abilities and the rights of others. Each person in America traditionally therefore has considered as being responsible for their own welfare - success or failure- and has been given access to all of the tools they need so-to-be. Every individual American has not always been allowed to exercise this right, nor had access to all the required tools. But official sanction of such oppression has been eliminated for more than forty years, and for several generations the responsibility for each individual’s success or failure has rested with that individual. Spiritually, success or failure rests with the individual, with the individual having access to group support - E.G.: The Communion of Saints, prayers of others, etc. Likewise regarding non-spiritual matters, including access to varying forms of group support. Acknowledgment of that individual

Text Box: responsibility by the individual, whether in matters spiritual or otherwise, has not only lead to great successes, but is one of the main reasons for success. When an individual attempts to abandon their own responsibility for their own spiritual success or failure, and to make others so responsible, not only will God not honor that attempt, but that individual also is virtually guaranteed to spiritually fail. The individual will fail because group responsibility means standards are established by the group, the less able of the group will demand standards be lowered and that demand will be met, those who desire less demanding standards will require less stringent standards to which the group must acquiesce to maintain group integrity, with the final, lowest, standard being that the individual have breathed and had an heart beat sometime in the recent past - none of which will meet reality which is the standards set by the One Who decides whether or not an individual is spiritually successful, God. Exactly the same process and procedures apply to non-spiritual matters, commonly termed worldly success. Where individual responsibility is replaced with group responsibility, not just the system, but everything, disintegrates, and there is failure. There is failure because, while God is the perfect facilitator, perfect source of spiritual strength and fortitude, perfect coordinator, a society or a government is not. God is perfect and unchanging, as are the standards which He has established. But a society or a government is not perfect, nor is it unchanging, nor are the standards which it establishes. Therefore, a society or a government is not able to

Text Box: There is an infinite difference between the operations of God and the operations of government. God gives from His essence which is infinite and can never be depleted. He gives of His own free will. Government is able to give only what it takes from its citizens, which it takes by coercion, force, and intimidation, and then redistributes what it has taken in accordance with ever changing criteria - usually that criteria which will maintain in power those already in power.

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