What is Missing from Our Lives?
September 3, 2017
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September 3, 2017
Jenny said (September 4, 2017):
Even though I was raised Catholic (though not devoutly so), I still am Christian. I changed to a traditional "Biblical church", I don't go to a Catholic church anymore, they never were very 'friendly' when I was growing up, we didn't know anyone except our relatives. The priest was nice though, but we didn't get to know him. He was quite a character, I almost lost it one Christmas when they flicked on the main lights and these white little Christmas trees with magenta lights (magenta?!?) were perched on the front of the divider. I was waiting for a disco ball to drop down.
My mom was whacked by nuns, the "Sisters of Charity" oh the irony in that name, huh? Even though she said that it gave her a good sense of discipline for herself, she said she'd never send us to a Catholic school (thank God!). Of course by that time the nuns were replaced by 'teachers' who got paid. One time my mom came home with a black eye and her mother was mad as Hell about it. She went to see the priest on duty and he told her that the nuns were a bunch of 'frustrated old maids'.
If you believe what Malachi Martin wrote about the Vatican, the one Pope admitted that the 'smoke of satan' was present in the Church of Rome. He was powerless to do anything about it. There's even a conspiracy that said he (Pope Paul IV) was actually replaced by a double who had plastic surgery to make him look almost identical...though they couldn't be perfect (see http://www.tldm.org/News10/MalachiMartinBelievedInBayside.htm) Seeing all the sick things that the higher ups are doing, I can believe it.
The Bible I read refers to the "Harlot that sits upon the many waters" as the Roman Catholic Church. This isn't the Catholic version of the bible, believe me! I have one, given to me by my mother, the box it comes in had a very morose-looking guy on the cover, I'm guessing it's one of the popes. All you can do sometimes is to pray every day for those who are lost on the path to God. Pray for your enemies and the corrupt officials in high or low places and those who have been blinded by the things of this world.
If we do not have God in our lives, we have nothing. God bless you for publishing the truth!
Tony B said (September 3, 2017):
The answer to those two questions is much simpler and the reason is one and the same for both:
Humans have been given free will and God will not interfere with it.
Still, that's not the end of it. If we use our free will to do as God asks the rewards will be above our present understanding but if we misuse it to disobey His rules, we will pay His price and the cost will be truly awful in the real meaning of that word.
BTW, those of us who retain a conscience DO feel God's concern, one way or another. Yet it is possible to destroy human conscience with satanic lies.
Larry C said (September 3, 2017):
Henry, in your article where is the love for God and gratitude for all He has given us...?
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?†“The most important one,†answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.†Mark 12:28-31 NIV
G said (September 3, 2017):
Big thanks, Henry. Just the balm my soul needed on this Sunday morning. I am going to make that list and see where my connections with the Creator are weak and need tending. Churches and religion will not forever separate the people from true spirituality and The Giver Of All Things. Today's article is a gift to humanity, a key offered to unlock the door to what's been stolen from us by those who corrupt what's beautiful and good. This is the time of The Great Reclaiming.
Art said (September 3, 2017):
Right on-- we are the TJBG (Truth, Justice,Beauty & Goodness) people.
These qualities are of the higher mind, as are great art, & music by the likes of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Beethoven et al.
These are traces of God, in the creation. God Himself can only be known by rising above ego, not by refining our minds.
This can be accomplished by surrendering unconditionally to God. Prayer & particularly meditation, would be the means.
Mike said (September 3, 2017):
As for the permission of "bad things" happening, it all depends on perspective- God's or ours. We humans may see the perverse and adverse, but we see them all from our own viewpoint and not that of God. To quota the late pastor John Gerstner, these thing happen "for the good of the good" - that is - for the benefit of those who are the "called of God according to His purpose". We may not see it now but God will reveal it in the future, and it will make sense on that day.
Yes evil exists, but it will not be this way forever, as there is a day coming in that the Lord will destroy all His enemies.
Henry Makow received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982. He welcomes your comments at
David S said (September 4, 2017):
Ask yourself or anyone where you/they came from? Most will answer a state or city Like Boston or New Hampshire, but the real (scientific/mathematical) answer is: I came from my parents. AND where did they come from? Answer: their parents and if you keep asking that question you'll come up with infinity....i.e their parents and their parents and their parents. Then ask yourself where did my parents come from or in other words what did they eat?,..... they ate animals and/or plants.....and the plants came from the soil, and the soil comes from the atoms, and the atoms from the atomic particles, and the particles from energy and energy comes from infinity in it's endless expansion...a beginningless beginning and and endless end. ( energy coming from the bifurcations everywhere. So WE have come from infinity, live in infinity and will return to infinity....same thing with God as a religious belief...we are God (god) we are living as god and will return to god.. And the poets call it LOVE....and ALL the many other names given to the creator/s/creation.
With that said, I live in the moment, every moment being infinity, and enjoy all that comes to me and all that I give.