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  9/8/2021 Romans 15:1,7 (NIV) "We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves… Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God." Paul is clever here. “We (I) who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak (you)… “ This passage in Paul’s letter to those who believe in Jesus Christ is directed to the problem of getting the Church to work with a collection of misfits who all have a selfish nature. It is written to the new believers in first century Rome but applies to believers in all cultures throughout the rest of time. Paul of course includes himself in the seventh chapter of this letter. Our selfish natures tend to interpret scriptures to suit ourselves. The Holy Spirit who inspired the letters of Paul will of course work with each believer to sort it all out, but we must face the fact that the ‘I’ becomes the ‘you’ in the verse above as others read it for themselves. (Yes, I am...

  9/4/2021 Genesis 3:22 [NIV] And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” We are infected with the knowledge of Good and Evil. To deny this is to condemn ourselves to destructive ignorance: we will never be able to discern between good and evil and our lives will be filled with the illusion we are good while we embrace death and destruction. It is the doorway we entered when we drew our first breath. The only way out is to go forward with that knowledge and to seek Good above all else, until we die. Death will be the revelation of who we truly are: one who loves Good above all else, or one who loves Self. Self is the will to be our own god; to love ourselves above all else and seek to do what is best for Me. All else serves My perceived best interests, whether it be philosophy, religion, or a false goodness that is in fact, Evil...