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Text Box: reasonable manner. The clergy and especially the bishops, the administrators of the various jurisdictions of the True Church, must remember, practice, and live the reality that the Church is not theirs. The Church is Christ’s flock. It belongs to Him. The administrators, what ever rank of clergy they be, are merely administrators of that portion of Christ’s flock which has been entrusted to them. All clergy will answer to God for their stewardship. They will be held accountable to God for their conduct as assistants to the Shepherd. They best not allow the wolf to enter the flock, nor to cause harm to the flock. They must guard against the wolf’s entry into the flock, or even approaching its periphery. If the wolf gains entry to the flock, they must attack the wolf, remove it from the flock, do their best to heal the wounded sheep, and assist the flock in re-acquisition of peaceful worship of God. Remember, the reason each person was created is the same, to glorify God. The goal for every person, whether clergy or laity, is to be eternally united with God. To fulfill the reason, and to attain the goal, each individual must do their best to operate divinely (to think and act in accordance with Faith), to attain eternal salvation, and to assist others in so doing. That is what those who belong to Christ’s fold do. If these things a person does not do, that person does not belong to Christ’s fold. Ref: 1 Peter 2:21-25; John 10:11-16 +

Text Box: FAITH IS LOGICAL Failure to believe in God, in one, supreme, not created, eternal, never changing, self-existing, good, entity, which created everything else, and which has other characteristics and attributes too numerous to readily enumerate, is illogical, as is failure to have Faith in God - Faith in its simplest being acting and living in accordance with the standards established by God. These are very sweeping statements, but they are accurate and they are true. The least intelligent individual knows there is something unknown which is greater. This is an imperfect acknowledgment of God expressing a very imperfect knowledge of God.. It often leads to belief in multiple gods, some of which are believed to have power restricted to specific locations or situations, which again is an imperfect acknowledgment of God expressing a very imperfect knowledge of God. Without the application of logic it is a simple matter to believe in two opposing forces - often virtually equal in power - one of good and one of evil, with gods on each side and often with one leader god on each side. The devil promotes this concept for it makes him appear to be equal to the real God in the eyes of mankind. Since each member of mankind is made in the image and likeness of the real God, it gives the devil the sense he has defeated God in some manner. The logic processes of Aristotle and Plato lead to a more perfect assessment of the necessity of their being a God; and of some of the necessary qualities of God: being basically one, supreme, not created, eternal, never changing, self-existing, good, entity, which created everything else; which therefore resulted in a more perfect knowledge of God. This same tool, logic, requires the acknowledgment by each individual that the individual did not create his or her self, and that the accidental or random creation of the universe, or of

Text Box: even just one human with the complexities of the human body and its chemistry, is a statistical impossibility. Granted, belief in and Faith in God as God is, in The Blessed Trinity, requires direct revelation by God. Humankind has received that revelation from God. But for an individual of any level of intelligence to claim to not believe in God, to be an atheist, or to claim to not know whether or not there is a God, to be an agnostic, is impossible. Many people claim to be an atheist or an agnostic but they are not. They may wish there were not a God, but they know God is. Why do these individuals claim to be an atheist or an agnostic? There probably are a multitude of reasons. A speculation as to the most common reason is: these individuals do not desire there to be a God for if there is a God these individuals know there is a corresponding responsibility for every creature to act and live in accordance with the standards established by God. These individuals may find some of those standards to be admirable, and may very strongly desire others abide by those standards in matters concerning themselves - the ones claiming to be an atheist or an agnostic - but these individuals do not desire to be bound by those standards themselves. These individuals may also fear the consequences of their own failure to comply with those standards, or some of those standards. It can not be truthfully said that each person claiming to be an atheist or an agnostic is ignorant, stupid, or foolish, for many of them are quite intelligent, and many are quite successful. It does appear that most of those claiming to be an atheist or an agnostic are depressed - suffer from some form of mental depression (though it must be remembered this is not the only cause of depression). That is understandable for one who lives and professes that which is contrary to what they know within their spirit, their soul, to be true, engages in a form of self torment which does not encourage peace of mind,

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