Text Box: disciplines. Where determinations have been made regarding these explorations they were made in true Ecumenical Councils of the entire Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, the last such Council having been held before the year 1000 A.D. But there has never been need to determine the basic truths and commandments given by God for these have been stated by God in plain language.

When individuals attempted to justify their sinful desires they found little or no acceptance within the society which followed their religion. But when those with similar sinful desires joined together to justify their sinful desires they established a subculture within their society, and that subculture had the ability to influence others with similar sinful desires, encouraging the new recruits by teaching that which the main society knew to be sin, was not sin.

They were even taught to ignore the natural law by ignoring their natural instincts as to what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil, what is holy and what is sin. This was an easy task because many sins are fun and pleasurable to commit, even though their natural consequences may be severe or at least difficult to bear. And one of the main consequences of the most popular sin could be aborted if abortion were no longer a sin.

There was no inducement to check on the truthfulness or veracity of anything which the person leading a congregation said if what was being taught conflicted with traditional teachings or with natural law or natural instincts, because what was being taught actually sanctioned or approved access to the sinful desires in which much of the congregation desired to participate. And the teachings removed any permanent adverse consequences for such activities. But the teachings were false, not true, not the truth.

Each individual therefore has the responsibility to ascertain whether or not the dogma, sinfulness, and permissibility being taught by their Text Box: religious leaders conform with that which is plainly stated in Sacred Scripture. This once was a simple task to accomplish - but now there are more invalid interpretive renditions of the Old and the New Testament, than there are valid ones. One must therefore carefully chose an uncorrupted publication in the earliest original languages possible and learn those languages, or chose a valid translation into the language which one reads - which usually means choosing the earliest translation possible before there was rebellion against the True Church by people who speak that language. In the English language this is the Douay - Rheims translation.

It is very important to remember: You can go to hell any way you want but you can only go to heaven God’s way.

Historical Applications With A Somewhat Economic Perspective

By the time of Christ the Jewish religion was so corrupted by a hierarchy wherein most members of that hierarchy sought only to acquire and maintain individual and collective wealth and power, that the ordinary member of that religion perceived nothing immoral with gaining wealth by what ever means were available, and without regard to the injury inflicted upon others. There remained some memory of the original commandments from God, especially amongst a minority of the general population, but those who truly comprehended and followed the law of God were very few.

As Christianity became prevalent and even predominant the effects of the Black Plague included a reduction in the number of clergy and functional religious institutions of learning for clergy. A not very well educated religious or clerical population resulted made it easy for error to be accepted, especially in the face of strong secular self interests of kings, rulers, and religious reformers who became drunk with power and corrupt. Thus the French Huguenots and Scottish Presbyterians were able to deny dogma which interfered with their desires to sin, Henry VIII was able to give the Text Box: appearance of moral legality to his pursuit of sexual adventures and murder, Luther was able to establish a life of sexual adventure and monetary gain under the guise of condemning the very same activities by the True Church, and thus were established churches which named themselves Christian but which were not Christian because they denied Dogma - which is truth stated by God - and denied the intrinsic sinfulness of that which God had declared to be sin. Thus English, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, American, merchants, and merchants of other nationalities, could engage in the slave trade and because they accumulated wealth; and the accumulation of wealth - by any means - was considered a virtue under these so called religions. The slave traders were actually considered virtuous because they accumulated wealth.

Killing of children and the yet to be born was considered as barbaric even amongst those who practiced the activity. Under Christianity such deeds were universally acknowledged as damnable sin. Yet in their desire to get rid of undesired people, the Anglican Church, the Church of England, declared abortion to be acceptable and therefore not a sin. Those who were similarly inclined to get rid of undesired people, even though they were not of the Anglican Communion, accepted this false teaching and false dogma. Those who deemed accumulation of wealth to be a paramount virtue perceived the abortion business as a means of accumulating their desired virtue. And those who were spiritually and mentally warped and perverted in that they enjoyed torturing and murdering found acceptance of their perversions in their performance of abortions.

Other nations, such as the French, simply officially discarded any notion of sin and any concept of religion. One of the main foundations of the French Revolution was discarding any semblance of religion and any concept of sin, resulting in anti-Christian laws and regulations many of which continue to be practiced by the government to this very day.
Text Box: If someone knowingly writes a check and does not have enough money to cover the check that person goes to jail. Since that