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God’s LawBy now it should be obvious to all mankind that if proper scientific investigations say one thing, and a person’s interpretation of the Holy Scriptures disagrees with these investigations, then it is probably that person’s interpretation of the scriptures that is incorrect. In order for that person to have his beliefs in total truth as revealed by God, he must change his beliefs and align them with what science teaches. That is, he must let his beliefs grow. Not to do so would be to discard a brick in the wall of truth built by our Lord through His prophets and scientists (who in a substantial sense are also prophets) separating one from all evil. Not to believe in truth would be to cut down a tree (possibly even the tree of life) in the garden of one’s soul and believe in lies. One also knows that God created this world in such a way that one cannot sense His existence in any way. The only “proof” that one has of God’s existence is scientific logic. Which has proven beyond reasonable doubt that there is a personal, loving God who created the laws of nature by which the universe, the earth, life and man all evolved. Further, it has been shown that the Creator is the man Jesus Christ, the logos and Word incarnate. Therefore, the teaching of God’s existence and the divinity of Jesus Christ are no longer just theological subjects. Now science also proclaims that there is a God and that Jesus Christ is God. It is doubtful that an individual can deny the incarnation of God in the person of Jesus Christ and still claim to be a rational, intelligent thinking being. One may liken the incarnation of Jesus Christ to that of a human being divesting himself of his physical body and taking on the body of a worm in order to teach other worms the truths of human existence. For that is the only way any worm will ever learn of such truths. So too is it with God and man. The only way mankind could ever learn of the truths of God, is if God divested Himself of His divinity, became a human being, and then taught one truth to all mankind. Finally, history has shown that our Lord founded one Holy Mother Church, and promised an eternal life of happiness to all who would do the will of God, by obeying His law of love and following the one truth He taught. One knows that God has only one truth, for if God had more than one teaching, then such would only succeed in confusing His children. It is the law of love, and his God seeking soul, that lifts man above the other animals. Without the law, man is worse than an animal. He is a barbarian seeking destruction of everything that he comes in contact with, including himself. The law of God is the only thing that one has protecting himself from evil. If an individual does away with the law, even if it is little by little, then he will have nothing with which to defend himself should the evil one attack him. Frequently, it is just such practices — such as doing away with the law little by little — that Satan uses in order to get his victims. God our Father proved that the law was even more important than His own eternally begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Our Lord placed the law above Himself by subjecting Himself to the law. Thus, all those who break the law have exalted themselves above God. For if God, who created the law and who alone has the authority to break it, chose not to break it, then it is obvious that those who do not obey God’s law must think of themselves as above the law and therefore above God. However, they are not above anything! They are wicked individuals who have imprisoned their minds with hate, fear, prejudice, bigotry, sloth, and many other evils. They are nothing but slaves to their sin. They cannot be free because only by obeying God’s law of love can one obtain freedom. Only by obeying God’s law of love can one lift himself above the animals. When Moses gave his last discourse to the children of Israel he prophesied to them of the many blessings they would receive for obeying the law of love, and the many hardships that they would endure in if they disobeyed the law of love. He also said that this prophesy was meant not only for the Israelites, but also for all mankind.
What have the children of God done with this glorious earth freely given to them by our Lord? To answer this question one need only look at all his surroundings and he will see. They have traveled the earth from north to south and from east to west. They have explored it from the bottoms of its oceans to the tops of its mountains, and they have studied it from its central core to the height of its atmosphere. They have learned to swim with the fish of the sea, to fly with the birds of the air, to creep with the insects of the rain forests, and to live with the beasts of all lands. Surpassing them all, they have mapped the ocean floors, under the Arctic Cap and through the Great Barrier Reef. They have flown to the moon, to the planets, to the edges of the solar system and beyond. They have brought back rock samples of their own satellite and vivid, revealing pictures of the surrounding planets and their satellites. The children of God have multiplied their knowledge and extracted from this planet a luxurious way of living. They have built upon their land and expanded their resources. They have pried open the treasures of this world and learned of its many mysteries: of the atom, of the solar system and the universe, of the cell and life itself, even the mysteries of a baby’s birth and of man’s origin. The children of God have beautified their world with their music, their tapestries, their sculptures, their paintings, their photographs, their movies and plays and all their other artistic talents. The children of God have learned to compete in cooperative athletic adventures and other games. They have shared medical and scientific knowledge and achievements. But above all this, they have learned to work with their neighbor to make this world a better place in which to live. In the hour of need, the children of God have reached out to help their neighbor to survive. Even in the most impossible of circumstances they have not abandoned their neighbor (e.g., the return of the three astronauts of the ill-fated Apollo 13 from the far reaches of outer space in April 1970). In short, the children of God have learned that everyone on earth is a member of one great, extended family, living and growing together. The children of God have learned that everyone, regardless of race, religion, political beliefs, sex, lifestyle, ethnicity, philosophy, education or abilities, is equal and that everyone deserves equal treatment by their peers. Truly the children of God are ready for their next great adventure. The children of God are ready to live among the stars. But in his progress man has devastated the world he has mastered with his garbage, his wickedness, and his transgressions of the law! Man has exploited the land of its natural resources, its vegetation, its wild life, its coal, its oil and its ore. He has taken from the earth and put back nothing. He has filled the lakes and the streams with his wastes and his toxic chemicals, and filled the air with smog and poisonous gases. His world has become exploited, polluted, over populated and filled with corruption. Man has shown utter disregard not only for the other living organisms that share his spaceship, his “island in the sky,” but also for his fellow human being. He has spilled his brother’s blood upon every new adventure he has undertaken. He has destroyed whole nations with his wars, his insurrections and his hostilities. He has built other nations only to see them fall in corruption, mismanagement, nepotism and political double talk. Man has taken housing from the refugee, clothing from the naked, food from the starving and water from the thirsty. He has imprisoned the innocent and neglected the helpless. Man came finding unspoiled societies, and left them filled with his envy, his lust and his greed, his prejudice, his bigotry and his cunning, his deceptions, his untruthfulness and his hypocrisy, his false beliefs, his false judgments and his false gods. As for all those who have come to help him, man has brutally and unmercifully murdered. Man has ravaged his world wherever he has set his foot, and upon whatever he has placed his mark. This is such a pity, because there is still so much more to learn, so much more to do. Man is just beginning to know the wonders of this world, the marvels that science is unlocking to all who care to look. There is found the beauty of God in every nook and cranny of nature, of the whole universe. All creation proclaims the glory of its Creator. Comparing the beauty of God found in this life to the yet unseen and unknown beauty of heaven that awaits the children of God in the life to come, fascinates the mind beyond imagination. To paraphrase Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968): It takes wisdom to see things as they are and ask why, but a far greater wisdom is to see things as they could be and strive to obtain those goals. Were it not for the evilness of man this world could be used for a school, where man could learn to help himself, instead of the desolated battlefield he has turned it into. As the prophet Baruch, secretary and disciple to the prophet Jeremias, has so wisely admonished mankind so many centuries ago:
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