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Text Box: Christianity which are not part of the True Church, basically recommend, present, or require the following of their own rule books for living. The individual rule books are the foundations of each respective religion, each written by humans and claiming some form of foundation in divine inspiration. Animism, which is the basic foundation of the religious concepts of the American Plains Indians and of the Japanese, Polytheism, Shamanism, and Pantheism which the West collectively terms Paganism, and similar religions, present various views and opinions regarding the reality of the world in which we live with a correlated view and opinion regarding any life after life in this world. Scientologists and religions similar to Scientology basically believe we all are immortal spiritual beings, gods if you will, but that most of us have forgotten we are gods and should seek to regain that lost knowledge. Pick your religion and you will find something along these lines as its basic premise, foundation, focus, or what ever. Until you examine the True Church, true Christianity. The initial and continuing focus of true Christianity is NOT a book, a rule book, dogma, doctrine, a way of life, a philosophy, how to get to heaven, how to please God, or anything along those lines or along the lines of anything propounded by any other “thing” called a religion. The initial and continuing focus of true Christianity is the knowledge, the imitation, and the love, of a particular Person, Jesus Christ, God. Most religions require one first become familiar with their primary book, or rule book. Islam requires at least a minimal familiarity with the Koran, after which one is expected to emulate and imitate Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, to attain a purpose. Judaism requires you follow the rules, to attain a purpose. Animism and similar religions basically inform you as to what to expect when you die, occasionally with a marginal ability to

Text Box: effect the outcome. But true Christianity's basic “requirement”, and “requirement” is a very inadequate word in this instance, is to know, love - with the hope and desire that love will change to Charity -, and imitate Jesus Christ, God (not to mention, to worship Him as well, but one will do that either voluntarily or involuntarily, eventually, in heaven or hell). It is very true that God intervened in humanity rather often when Divine intervention is contemplated - His actual creation aside. Noah (Noe), Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Judah, Joseph, David, and many others experienced and were the conduits of Divine intervention. But Jesus Christ is, quite simply and at essence, the Word Incarnate - direct, Personal, “hands on” as it were, Divine intervention. And the proof of the viability and reliability of this active, Personal intervention, is not just in the impossible occurrences such as the raising from the dead of the son of the widow of Naim, but also the Resurrection from the dead of the Incarnate, of the Person Jesus Christ in His human nature and the concurrent Glorification of His humanity. A Glorification of which a glimpse was given ar the Transfiguration. Once the basic requirements of being a true Christian are met, of knowing, loving, and imitating Jesus Christ, God, the Divine Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, are initiated in that person, impelling that person to the reception of the Sacraments, Baptism being the first for it opens the ability to reception of the other Sacraments - as appropriate. Of course, implicit in the knowing, loving, and imitating of Jesus Christ, God, is the embracing of His Divinity, His Passion, Death, and Resurrection for the redemption of humankind, but not even remotely is there a requirement for any great theological knowledge. Only the barest, without even the requirement one be able to read.

Text Box: A Moslem can, at best, hope to be a servant of Allah, who is a distant and demanding master. A Jew must be a faithful observer of the rule and ritual book to attain a comfortable life in this world and something nebulous in the next. The other religions and the false Christian religions focus on manipulating “whatevers” to get “goodies”. But True Christianity desires establishing a personal friendship with God now and for all eternity. And with the Incarnation there is the permanent establishment of God as integral in and to humankind. Ref: Gal. 5:25-26; 6:1-10; Luke 7:11-16 +

Text Box: because all his powers remained in the order in which they had been created by God, with the flesh subject to the intellect. A disorder in the intellect was required to liberate the flesh from the intellect, and that disorder was achieved in Adam’s succumbing to the intellectual temptation to be God’s equal in knowing good and evil. That temptation, while prompted by the Devil through Eve and also by Eve, was actualized as a temptation by Adam’s internal intellectual processes. Adam therefore was an accomplice in his own initial temptation which lead to his original sin. (As an aside: one should note it is impossible that Christ would ever be such an accomplice, all His temptations being external in source, and that source not being of the flesh but of Satan - the only possible source of attempted temptation or seduction of Christ.) One might say, “That’s nice,” and wonder of its significance. The significance is the operation of pride and the reality that each of us is an accomplice in every temptation we experience whether it be a temptation to sin or a temptation to transgress. To keep matters simple, remember a sin can be one of commission or of omission - where we do what we should not or fail to do what we should where

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