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Text Box: god MODIFIED IS NOT GOD Remember the Gospel event where Jesus and some of the Apostles are in a boat, Jesus is sleeping, a storm arises, the Apostles fear drowning and awake Jesus? In the Western Rite Divine Liturgy for that day, three of the prayers contain prayers: In the Introit we pray: Adore God, all you His angels (Ps. 96) In the Gradual we pray: The Gentiles shall fear Thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth Thy glory. (Ps. 101) And in the Secret we pray: Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that this sacrifice offered to Thee, may purge us of all evil and fortify our weak nature. After Our Saviour had quieted the storm, the disciples asked amongst themselves, “What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?” We can answer that question. He is a manner of man never seen before or since. He is the God-Man, fully and totally human and fully and totally God. If anyone who calls himself a Christian does not believe this, then that person is a liar, for that person is not a Christian. It is a prerequisite for being a Christian, that a person believe fully and completely that Jesus Christ is totally God and totally man. God is not just some sort of super human. He is not someone who knows all the secrets of how to control nature and physics; whose secret knowledge we seek to obtain. He created nature and established physics. He created and established them from nothing. He created and established the nature and physics of the spiritual world and of the physical world. Before He created them there was nothing except Him. Those who do not believe this do not believe in the true God. They believe God is something which He is not. Such people can pray with us, for we are leading in the prayer to the true God; but we can not pray with them, for they

Text Box: are praying to something which is not God. Those who seek to manipulate God do not adore Him, for they do not treat or approach Him in the only manner proper. They do not acknowledge that God is not there for their use. They do not acknowledge that they exist solely for God’s use. It is because of God’s will that they are allowed happiness, but eternal happiness is reserved only for those who do God’s will and make their own will conform to God’s will. Those who deny the real presence of God - Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist, deny themselves the prime means of achieving conformity to God’s will, for they deny themselves the main source of God’s essence, of Grace. And it is Grace which enables us to overcome evil and which fortifies our weak nature which is inclined to sin. God does not set standards which are impossible for us to meet. He has given us the means to attain those standards, but we can obtain those means only from Him. Those who acknowledge as God, something which is not God, such as a god who is just a super human, do not seek to meet and attain the standards set by the true God, for they seek to meet and attain the standards set by something which does not exist; a god which does not exist. If they do attempt to meet and attain any standards, they actually attempt to meet and attain standards which they have set themselves, for they are following a god which exists only in their imagination. Those who acknowledge as God, something which is not God, such as a Jesus Christ Who is just a very holy man but not God; those people deny themselves access to the means of meeting and attaining the standards set by the true God for they seek those means from something which does not exist. And something which does not exist can not provide that which is requested. It is very important that we accept God

Text Box: as He is, and not attempt to make God over into something which we desire. If we follow a god which we have designed, for whom we have given attributes and qualities which are not actually and truly Divinely revealed, then we have built a wall between us and God. It is only in accepting God as He has revealed Himself to us, with no attempt to modify what has been revealed by God, that we will know what He wants, and be able to use the means of attaining what He wants. Ref: Rom. 13:8-10; Mat. 8:23-27 +

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