Text Box: succumbing to the desire to eat something tasty and then the person sinking their teeth into some tasty food. And as with tasty food, which the body craves in varying degrees, sometimes desiring a pastry, then chocolate milk, and a day later some beef, and later pasta, and perhaps Chinese food; so too does the dogma which is based in emotion vary with what ever emotional needs one has from time to time.

But Christianity based in the intellect ascertains unchanging truths, and is therefore real.

The emotions have a valid part in conversion and in Faith, for they sustain us, assist us in being desirous of fulfilling The Way, and are an integral part of our very nature. But emotions should never be in control; they should only assist the intellect, and the intellect should be in control.

Ref:   Acts. 9:1-22; Mat. 19:27-29


 ++ Lee, S.S.B.

God, please help me love You
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But if a person seeks God’s help in everything, in every aspect of his life, and also does or attempts to do every Godly thing which he should, then he is able to better weather the storms which come his way.  He does not fear them to the same extent and with the same intensity as those who do not so do.

Imagine the fatalistic despair of those who believe nature is God, or that the sum total of all life or life forces is God. Such persons must spend their lives seeking the keys to control of nature, or of seeking the keys to utilization of as much of the energy of the life forces as is possible. And they never succeed, for their premise is in error. In observing their failure they are forced in truth to acknowledge their failure, and they have no hope of anything what-so-ever.

It is true that one must rely on one’s self, but it is also true that one’s self is incapable of fulfilling all of one’s needs.

Proper self reliance brings one to the door of reliance on God in all things while continuing to do one’s part, and one’s part is to do all that one can do.  When one does all that he can do in any given situation, and trustingly calls on God for help and relies on God for that help, that person will receive a result which is in accordance with God’s will. Perhaps that result will not be apparent until after the person is dead, and perhaps he has already received the result, for God existing in the Eternal Now can easily assist us in the running of time before we actually seek His assistance in this running of time.

You are already on the Voyage of Life.  If you have found someone with whom to rid the River of Life, thank the Great Navigator, and ask Him to help you put into the Port of Heaven.

Ref: Rom. 13:8-10; Mat. 8:23-27

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Text Box: But it is not available to those denominations which call themselves churches, but which are not, because they severed themselves from The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, notably from the Roman Church, and in severance they rejected the true Sacraments. They have substituted soda crackers and grape juice for the true Body and Blood of Christ.

And instead of the cleansing Sacrament of Confession and Absolution received from the Priests who are in Apostolic Succession, using the soap and water which God provided in the Sacrament, they go through motions they have invented but which spread the dirt around without beginning to cleanse.

They have rejected the life giving and life sustaining banquet prepared by God, in favor of something which does not even taste good, and which has neither nourishment nor life for it was prepared by the Cook from Hell who only serves poison.

It is very easy to discern those false churches. Each of them decide what their dogma is, and their dogma changes with the desires of the people. Their favorite sins become approved activities in their ever changing dogma - dogma which they change as needed so that their favorite sins are declared to be approved conduct, even though God has declared them to be sinful and disapproved conduct.

By way of example:

God has condemned homosexual and lesbian relationships and sexual activities. These pretend churches in their beginnings often also condemned these things; but many of them now accept these things and even “ordain” homosexuals and lesbians - even homosexuals and lesbians who openly engage in homosexual and lesbian sexual relationships.

God condemned contraceptives and abortion. These pretend churches in their beginnings often also condemned these things; but many of them now Text Box: When the obituary picture is a police mug shot cropped to remove the height graph, well . . .