Text Box: to attain the pinnacle of what could be desired, or to reject that attainment.

We each have been invited to the wedding and the wedding feast of eternal salvation by virtue of our very existence. God even provides the wedding garments for each of us to wear. We are able to decline the invitation for all of us are invited but not forced, or even attempt to attend wearing something inappropriate. We are even able to initially decline the invitation, and later accept it, until such time as our access to the wedding and wedding feast is fixed in place by our death. But even accepting the invitation does not assure one of remaining at the feast, for we must be rid of even the slightest semblance of discord with God, and be clothed in harmony and concert with God from our outermost to out innermost.

Tonight, before you go to sleep, tell God, “Good night Lord. I love you. Thank you,” and rest easy.

Ref: Eph. 4:23-28, Mat. 22:2-14

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Text Box: standards for human thought and conduct may be readily ignored - especially in situations where there may be coercion, fraud, or attainment of a desired goal or effect without excessive violence, force, maiming, or death. That god is not much of a god - really nothing more than an initiator of creation who set some loose standards and walked away. “He ain’t real.”

Moslems believe in a severe taskmaster god who is more like a slave owner with humankind being the slaves of that god. That god is said to be merciful to those who seek mercy from him concurrent with repentance, and grants great rewards to those who obey his instructions - but that obedience must be slavish - the obedience a slave gives, with fear being a prime motivator. The rewards that god gives are very materialistic and sensual - sexually sensual - and include a heaven where those who go to heaven receive sloe eyed, swelling breasted virgins who after sexual intercourse become virgins again, and small boys. He commands his followers enslave or kill all who do not convert to his religion, or his followers’ “brand” of his religion, such non-conformist people being called infidels. Their god further commands his followers lie to infidels, especially where his followers may profit from lying or harm may come to infidels through the lying, and instructs his followers they have no obligation to fulfill their contractual obligations with infidels if his followers can profit from not fulfilling the contract, or if it suits their purpose, or if it will cause harm to the infidel. “He ain’t real either.”

It seems obvious that Protestants are able to readily worship the Moslem god, but Moslems are not able to worship the Protestant god.

We true Christians, however, are not able to worship either of their gods, nor are we able to worship with them or they with us, for the God we worship is God and the god or gods they worship are not - their god is a god of their own invention and therefore does not exist - “He ain’t real either.”

God, the true God, is absolute. What He Text Box: has decreed in our past, in the history of mankind, holds true in the present time of mankind, for God is outside of time and does not change. God is absolute, ultimate, not to be swayed, unable to be deceived or manipulated. He is not a slave holder and no human is His slave, though a wise human will seek to be His servant, to live and to exist under His rule. He is both the source and the example of every noble quality and characteristic, being so and being such in perfection. Thus both His justice and His mercy, as well as every other noble quality and characteristic, are one, being categorized by humans as aspects for better and easier comprehension and appreciation. He has explained to us, and we accept, that there is but one God, but that God is three Persons, each Person being divine, each of the same substance, each with all the qualities and aspects of personhood, yet being but one God.

We are able to communicate with God, to talk with and to Him, and to hear Him or, more accurately, to receive communication from God. It is difficult to comprehend talking with the Blessed Trinity, or having a relationship with the Blessed Trinity, but it is a simple matter to comprehend talking with or having a relationship with one or more  or each of the Persons of the Blessed Trinity.

Saint Dismas, the Good Thief, at a glance from the Divine Person Jesus Christ God, instantly accepted the relationship offered to him by Our Lord In acknowledging the Divinity of Christ, the justice of his own crucifixion, and the injustice of Christ’s crucifixion, and in begging forgiveness from this Divine Person Jesus, Saint Dismas attained eternal salvation in the last moments of his life.

It was in recognizing that particular Divine PERSON, in establishing a positive relationship with that PERSON, that Saint Dismas was able as it were to harmonize with God, person to PERSON. 

Thus, even though those of other religions may be monotheists, we can Text Box: The child knelt by the bed and in closing prayer said: "Dear God, please send clothes for all those poor ladies on grandpa's Text Box: THE DIVINE PERSON - THE HUMAN PERSON

Obviously those who believe in one god have no real religious commonality with those who believe in more than one or many gods. But while those who believe in many gods are able to readily acknowledge the “reality” of the many gods of another religion, and even argue as to whose gods are more powerful, it is not true that those who believe in one god, monotheist, are able to readily acknowledge the reality of the one god in which other monotheist believe.

Protestants believe in a god who allows them - humans - to establish dogma, morality, the application of the Ten Commandments and the Two Great Commandments; a god who can be manipulated, coerced, and whose