We are often uncertain how others will perceive our actions, even perhaps uncertain how comfortable we are with our own actions ...yet, there is also a greater sense that looms within most people, of wondering how to reconcile our actions with the thoughts we image our Supreme Being is having in reference to those actions.

It is problematic to only consider what others may think ...

It is also problematic to only care about what we ourselves think ...

Or to not care at all ...

One episode of telling a lie ...does not make one untrustworthy, nor does it make one a 'world class' liar.

Though, to attempt to cover a lie often requires many more lies ...and perhaps soon one could qualify, and be given the opportunity to participate in international competition.  But, that requires either a large number of people to be duped, or a significant number of loyal and dedicated ...and mostly organized and experienced liars.

Similarly, one episode of being drunk ...does not make one a drunkard.  But, patterns do begin to grow, especially if the result does not seem too consequential ...and often a much opposite result is experienced, of it feeling rather good.  So, if the episode is followed by a repeated or recurring event, it may grow to the extent where it could be viewed as a problem.

Yet, before something is viewed as anything at all ...it is often already a different sort of problem, in the way we view something to be. 

There are religions that create much uncertainty ...for lack of being able to address some very important questions. The foremost question is how we painstakingly suffer to reconcile our failures in view of our accountability to a Supreme Being who likely would be unsatisfied with us.

Some people deny and rationalize ...not so much concerning themselves with a Supreme Being, but more supremely interested in if they can convince most everyone else that they are in tune with the truth. Or that which is of a higher calling ....presumably themselves.


Others feel they must suffer and pay dear consequences. And certainly there are things that do require consequences ...at least in an orderly law-abiding type of society. If you kill someone ...then any rational society would expect a dire consequence for that.


But, some religions carry beliefs that bring with it something not of the type of an unforgivable killing. The worst of people who thrive on killing seem to follow a distorted religious view which offers them some sort of reconciliation or forgiveness for much less of a sin, by making amends through committing a much greater sin ...not only killing individuals, but also the hopes of the people, while requiring more killing and often inclusive of themselves. How much more freeing is it to believe in Jesus and the message He gave us!!


If you can accept that right now ...then I don't need to go on.


Those of you who know me ...may know I will go on, and you may not always feel compelled to go on with me. But, there must be a reason why you are still reading. Is it perhaps that you think this is serious, and are as concerned about it as I am??


The killing of hope may be within the confusion of a religion, but just because a religion is confusing, does not mean the religion poses the problem. The problem may reside in each of us.


Yes, as that old saying goes, "We are the problem!"


I'm not saying we are the problem ...I am saying we may be the problem.


Also, not saying that people are problems ...the problem is often how we have come to perceive things, and how we go about looking for solutions to the problems. And often we are trained to think the way we do.


I may be easier seemingly to say that someone else is the problem, but that only usually prolongs the problem by dismissing it, instead of committing to take a more sincere look at the problem.


Yes, we ...or the way we look at things often inclines us to fall prey to being hope killers ourselves.


We often attempt to do simple good things ...like make New Year's resolutions, in view of doing something good, and usually improvements in our lives. Yet, when we make a goal that we seem to think we can succeed with for an entire year, and we falter once or twice ...we seem to abandon the goal or resolution, as if it wasn't a good enough goal to strive again, or we are not a good enough person to think we could do anything good or meaningful.


There is something that really makes a huge significant difference in a young person's life ...and that something exists as a thing the majority of youth fail to achieve. And sadly, they often look at it as all or nothing.  It concerns virginity.


Either a young girl is a virgin, or she's not. And equally, if not more so ...a young man is involved.


If she feels, "Well, I'll never again be a virgin!" then the future goals and how one perceives themselves has been for the most part decided upon.


But, my point is, it shouldn't be.


That attitude also drives abortion, which magnifies the problem from promiscuity to killing an innocent life.


And the conversation does not get resolved in the church or the political arena.


Politically, those who are against abortion ...also often appear to be against providing funding for those who choose not to kill, and therefore choose to keep their child. Yet, it should not be so readily a routine, to be involved in such promiscuous behavior that lacks commitment and provision from the very ones who are involved. And why is it that so many adopt children from other countries, while we are readily providing abortions here? Is it economics once again winning the battle over morality?

Foremost, and irregardless of how it came all about ...if a life has begun, at whatever stage of development, do not abort that life. Eternal life for all of us began at conception, and we should be eternally grateful for it ...our own & every other.

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Perhaps I should first read: (God promised the nations of the world that they would live in peace with Jesus as their ruler (Daniel 7:11–14). And He promised creation that the curse would be lifted (Romans 8:18–23), animals and the earth would be restored to peace and prosperity (Isaiah 11:6–9; 32:13–15), and people would be freed from disease (Ezekiel 34:16). These, too, will be fulfilled during the 1,000-year reign.)
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(Jesus' sovereignty will extend beyond human political systems and into all of creation. The curse will be lifted (Romans 8:18-23). Animals will live in peace again (Isaiah 11:6-9, 35:9, 65:25). Fields will be productive and freed from the curse of weeds (Isaiah 32:13-15). And the mortals who survived the Tribulation and populate the 1000-year reign will be freed from disease (Isaiah 33:24, 35:5-6, 61:1-2;Ezekiel 34:16).)                                                        

It seems to express and measure our contemplation towards a deeper reasoning ...as we can never fully know God, yet what He reveals to us may be of personal beauty, if not for assertive authority.  I see reason in God creating the angels first ...showing love without restraint, and the downfall part of that. Then the more humble humans are created, given the understanding that there is reason for restraint, and that the reason is that the path without restraint has already been paved by evil ...or those opposing God continually.

Out of the garden, it becomes much of the doing continually what is evil in the sight of God. And from having God fight for them, to the questioning of God's ways ...so they falter, then have to fight their own battles after it becomes much worse than ever would have become if under God's guidance.  And we have those who do what is right in their own eyes ...all the way through the Book of Judges.

Comparatively speaking, we set ourselves up to our own supreme type existence ...not as angels, nor as like God, but more readily without God.  Until the present time, where those who kill for a false teaching, have visions of the true God ...or Jesus, and may have to choose between what they have seen from others, now befalling them, but for a true prize. Yet, also amongst all this, we have a great divide with those who feel they are rich beyond measure without God ...where at the eventual end time, will lose it all.

We perhaps then are seen as to return to a life similar in many ways to the Garden of Eden, and though without disease and living near a thousand years ...the memory still serves to a not too distant time when there was much more than mere subsistence.  It would be a much appreciative and improved existence for some, but others would miss what they once had ...and find it difficult to be thankful for other's gain in view of their loss of things they once had.

It appears that these memories are the ones that may influence a rebellion to gain back a realization of those coveted days, in spite of the contentment of a grateful group who happily like the modest yet sufficient provision.  Why wouldn't everyone long for Jesus to rule and reign?  Well, it must be a longing beyond just theory ...as in actuality, when He does reign, many will complain as those who did when they followed Moses out of Egypt.  Or look back as Lot's wife did ...perhaps having been a pillar in the community.  Heaven may have many characteristic traits to the Garden of Eden, and the thousand year reign of Jesus ...so if not content with the peace, many may want a piece of the pie (figuratively, whether imagined as your favorite pie, or forbidden fruit pie). 

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