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"Dress for the job you want... not for the job you have." In whatever work you do.... whatever job or profession.... always dress well, and look good. If the messenger looks fat, and unkempt, and unattractive... the "message" will never "sell". And... if you expect to be promoted in your business... learn to speak well, and to write well... using correct grammer and syntax. |
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As I, John N. Todd III, contemplate the end of my life in this world, the following truth has come into my thoughts: If God wants me to recover from these various ailments that now overwhelm me... I will recover... on God's schedule (as I have, in the past). If God does not want me to recover.... then there is nothing that I, or anyone else, can do to prolong my existence. I say that God has His plan, and His intention -- for me. And... God has the power. Psalm 127: 1 (Moffatt) "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keeps the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain." |
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Copied from an email, forwarded to me by my Cousin Sherrard: "To the world you might be one person.... but to one person you just might be the world" |
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I learned the following basic truth, when I was spending a few days in a motel in Hollywood, Florida.... in 1950. Another guest in the motel (a guest whom I had never previously known) was expounding on the subject of "loves-lost".... and the "pain" of separation from devoted friends and "sweethearts". He quoted the following: "Truly there is pathos in doing even the smallest thing, for the last time." That beautiful quotation, of unknown origin, has stayed with me.... for a lifetime. |
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Copy of a paragraph from Man's "free will"... or God's WILL (link) I cannot imagine that God's human-creations (God's children) are casually "dumped" into the cauldron of this world, this life.... and that we are then cast-adrift, to fend for ourselves.... ignorant, unguided and unloved.... and that we are abandoned to the "forces of nature".... and to our own animal instincts, human schemes, religious combat, and primal jungle-thoughts.... and that we are then expected, somehow, to "make a decision", and "choose God", and join the "right" church.... based on our worldly "free-will". (See link A SIGN for the FRONT DOOR of every CHURCH.) |
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(JNT) -- "Establishment clause" Yes, the government should not attempt to "establish" a religion.... and there should be a "separation of church and state". There should also be a worldwide "establishment clause" for churches, "religions", and doctrines. That is, a church-of-humans should not attempt to "establish" a church for other humans. There should be "separation of church and church". |
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(From JNT) The beliefs of humans cannot change or circumvent God.... but God can circumvent and change the beliefs of humans. A "religion" of humans (a man-made doctrine) can claim for itself whatever it chooses.... but the "claims" of that religion do not necessarily portray or reveal God's "truth". Similarly, a good "salesman" can claim marvelous and magical effects for his "snake-oil".... but the salesman's claims do not generate a true "medicinal" effect. |
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INITIAL THOUGHTS RETIREMENT PLANNING Planning for your "retirement" should begin when you're born. Obviously, for the first several years of your life, the responsibility for planning your later "retirement" is in the hands of your parents. It is the obligation of your parents, in preparing you for retirement (many years down-the-road) to make sure that you are disciplined, studious, and well-educated.... and that you have good health habits (eating correctly, and exercising properly, and avoiding harmful substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and "drugs"). It is the duty of all parents to instruct their children in the value of money, and in the importance of saving and investing a portion of their income, however meager the "income" may be. It is mandatory, also, that the parents instruct their children in the futility of senseless gambling. Furthermore, the parents must emphasize, early in your life, the crippling effect of the "charge-card mentality", of spending more money than you earn. The parents' responsibility for preparing you for retirement lessens when you finish high-school.... and the obligation of your parents to train you for retirement abruptly terminates.... when you have finished your professional training. Your personal responsibilty for the financial planning for your own retirement begins during the years when you are 18 to 22 years-old. Beyond that age, especially after you have completed training for your profession, the total responsibility for financial success, leading to later retirement, rests fully on your own shoulders. Specifically, it is not the duty of anyone else to save and invest for your retirement. No one should rely on an employer, your union, the government, an inheritance (link), marrying a rich spouse, winning a lottery.... or any other uncertain accumulation of money, for your personal retirement. It is true that the "fringe benefits" of some jobs may include a retirement pension-plan, that puts aside a portion of your income.... matched, in varying degrees by your employer.... into a long-term investment fund for your benefit, many years down-the-road. It is also obviously true that "the government" takes a part of your annual income for "Social Security" benefits, that begin for you at age 65. BUT.... the basic fact remains. The operative consideration is the "uncertain" nature of benefits that someone else may be accumulating for you. No one cares about you as much as you should care about yourself. Just remember some of the recent failures that have befallen certain retirement plans. Consider the likes of "ENRON".... and its total collapse. What happened to the accumulated lifelong benefits of Enron's employees? GONE. Do you remember Worldcom.... and its financial collapse, and its "disappearance", along with its pension plans for employees? What about the bankrupt airlines.... and their pension plans? And Delphi? And many other corporate giants, now in jeopardy. Many of the now-destitute organizations will depend upon the federal government's "Pension Benefit Guaranty Administration" (PBGA) for propping-up the failed pension plans of bankrupt corporations. Some have said that the PBGA will be able to pay only "20-cents" on the dollar of promised benefits. And on-and-on. More will be added here, as time and energy allow. |
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Attributed to Charles Kingsley (PJT located this quote in an old collection of her favorite themes.) "Thank God every morning, when you get up, that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content.... and a hundred virtues which the idle never know." 2/2/06 (Author's email to his wife, PJT.) Dear Wifey (PJT), Thanks for the quotation.... that you re-discovered, today. I posted the quotation in "Todd's Truth", page IV, today.... for you and I have felt exactly the same way as Mr. Kingsley, for our 49 years together. Thank you, PJT, For being "The Indefatigable, My Phyllee". A JNT-PJT addendum would be: Thank God that you feel good; and that you're on your feet; and that you live in the United States (and in Alabama); and that you've been given so many opportunities and blessings. A second addendum, which all of us in our family have heard over-and-over is: WORK PAYS. (The more WORK; the more PAY.) I'll share this email, and the quotation, with a few listeners. "King" JNT3 2/6/06 Add the following
quotations, from Voltaire, to the remarks above: "Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing." "All people are good, except those who are idle." "One must give one's self all the occupation one can, to make life supportable, in this world. The further I advance in age, the more I find work necessary. It becomes, in the long run, the greatest of pleasures, and takes the place of the illusions of life." "If you do not want
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It's past my bedtime.... but stay another 3 or 4 minutes.... anyway. |
(Arz):
Typical
human prayer, to Almighty God:
"O Lord, MY will be done."
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Heard on TV... "It's hard to be ambitious, when you're content." |
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JNT: Concerning God, and "religion": It's a lot easier to describe and state what you DON'T believe... than it is to explain what you CLAIM to believe. See link Faith, belief, and believers. |
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Ascribed to Ronald Reagan in a campaign speech for Barry Goldwater: "Our unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of benefits from the government" See link: What would Santa Claus and Robin Hood do about welfare. |
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Can "the rich" ever
convince the "un-rich" to adopt the attributes
that made "the rich" rich? |
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God's "School-of-Life" It is important to remember that not all Godspeople (link) are in the same "grade", in God's "School-of-Life".... the "school" that prepares each of us for our present "ministry".... and for our ultimate "mission". Each of us is led-along in this life.... and given instruction in our current "grade" of school.... according to the "subjects" that our Master Teacher has assigned to each of us, individually (link). We are evaluated by the Teacher.... on an on-going basis.... and then "promoted", in this life, to a different and "higher" level of purpose.... on a time-schedule established by our Teacher-God. Hebrews 5: 12 (NRSV) For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food; 13 for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature.... for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil. 1 Corinthians 3: 1 (NRSV) And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh.... and behaving according to human inclinations? 4 For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely human? 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. Isaiah 30: 20 (NRSV) Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21 And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." Isaiah 50: 4 (NRSV) The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning He wakens -- wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. 5 The Lord GOD has opened my ear; and I was not rebellious. I did not turn backward. Matthew 11: 1 (NRSV) Now when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and proclaim His message in their cities. Job 36: 22 See, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like Him? (In the NRSV, there are no references to "school" or "schooling".... in either the Old Testament, or the New Testament. In the Old Testament and in the New Testament, there are 291 verses referring to "teach", "teacher", and "teaching".) |
The
Doctor's Prescription
Dr. Todd's "prescription" for reducing medical "malpractice"
suits
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Before
long, all practicing physicians will find it
necessary to present a "disclaimer" to every
patient... saying something like the following:
Dear patient,
It has become
necessary to inform you, and warn you, that every
medication ever produced is potentially
harmful to you. You should understand that all
medications have differing effects in
different patients. Each of us humans is
different from all other human-beings. We all have
different combinations of "genes".... and, hence, there is
potentially a great variety of different
chemicals ("enzymes") in the various digestive
and metabolic systems of each of us....
chemicals that alter the absorption,
and break-down, and excretion, and systemic effects.... of
all medications.
In other words.... among all animals,
including "human-animals", there is a great
individual variation in responses.... some
"good"; some "bad".... to any-and-all medications.
Therefore, there is a potential risk to you, the patient, in
taking any recommended medication.
For example, it has long been known that certain
medications, in some individuals, may severely damage
the kidneys, unpredictably. Or, the function of the
liver may become impaired, for reasons that no
one can foresee. In a few
individuals, the bone marrow may be irreversibly
suppressed by certain medications. Various
manifestations of "allergy" and hypersensitivity may
develop in some patients.... following the use of a specific
drug.
In addition, there is the problem of "drug-interactions", in
which the function of one medication (which an individual
may already be taking) interferes with the
anticipated effect of other medications. Furthermore, in an
individual's metabolism of some medications, other
pharmacologically active by-products may be generated
(usually by the liver).... and these active
"by-products" may induce unexpected medicinal
effects, in some people.
Additionally.... one must always consider the risk of
habituation to any of a number of
different classifcations of medications.... "pain pills",
sleeping pills, tranquilizers, anti-depressants, and others.
Habituation is unpredictable.... but is
clearly a risk to almost everyone.... so, nowadays,
every patient who agrees to take any of these
"habit-forming" medications must personally
acknowledge awareness of this danger, and must
use extreme caution. Your doctor has no way to
prevent habituation in an individual
patient.... especially if the patient abuses the use
of a risky medication.
It must be understood by all patients that the effect of
any and every medicine is to
block or alter a normal physiological
process in our human (animal) bodies. This "blocking" effect
may be more profound in some individuals than in
others, and may generate unexpected consequences, and/or
symptoms. There is no fool-proof way to determine....
before taking a certain medication.... how you or I
will "respond" to that medication. As indicated above, there
is a wide array of potential
allergies, adverse side-effects, and individual
responses and "reactions" to every medication.
There is no universally "safe"
medication. Therefore, the effect of a
specific medication, on you personally, is
simply not predictable.... until the medication is
"tried" -- in your own body's innate
individual metabolic "system". Yes, even aspirin
(Bufferin, etc.) has a variety of potential
"side-effects".... some very serious, in some patients. And,
the same for Tylenol.... and for all the "anti-inflammatory"
drugs, and "arthritis pills". And remember, also, the
huge variety of appetite suppressants ("diet
pills").... many of which are not only harmful, but also
habituating.
Should aspirin and Tylenol be taken off the market, because
of potential harmful effects, in a few
people? No! But.... all of us
human-animals, as patients, must weigh the potential
benefit of any medication, versus the risk of
an unforeseeable adverse side-effect, in our own
body.
As your physician, I desire very much to prescribe
only those medications which I believe will be beneficial to
you. However, since harmful "side-effects" may occur with
any-and-all medications, the time has now arrived that
all physicians must warn all
patients, in advance, about potentially
injurious results following the ingestion or
injection of any medication. With this
advanced warning, the responsibility for
taking a suggested medication falls-back upon the
decision and agreement of the
patient himself/herself.
Therefore, when I suggest certain medications for you, I
will leave it up to you to decide whether or
not you choose to take those medications. I
will supply you with information that is available to me
concerning a certain medication. You must
then consult other sources of information and advice;
and then, you must decide whether or not
you are willing to take a prescription
that I have suggested.
I will ask that you sign a "release", indicating that
I have warned you about potentially harmful
effects of any medicine that I have suggested
or recommended to you. I will not give you a
prescription for any medication until
you acknowledge, in writing, your awareness of the
unpredictability of the effect of any
medication, in your own particular
body. With your acknowlegement of the
potential adverse side-effects of any-and-all
medications.... you are accepting the
responsibility for taking the medication....
and, therefore, you are not setting the stage to
"blame" your doctor.... or the drug
manufacturer.... for an outcome that
no one can foresee.
In this way, I will hope to protect myself
from "legal" liability, and from the rampant "medical
malpractice" suits that some lawyers have caused to
become so widespread, and so
threatening to honorable and talented
doctors.... those physicians who really care about
the proper treatment and well-being of their patients.
Always remember (repeating from above).... there is
no medication that is
"safe" in all patients. And.... there
is no way to foretell whether an
individual's metabolic system will.... or will
not.... "tolerate" a certain medicine. A doctor, and
his patients, must always be aware of the "risk/benefit"
ratio in considering any particular
drug for treatment of any specific ailment. If the
"benefit" far outweighs the potential
"risk".... then it would become logical and proper for a
patient to agree to take a certain medication. Contrariwise,
obviously, if the risks are great.... then the
patient should logically consider all other
options.
In today's medico-legal climate, it is
now you, the patient, who
must make the ultimate decision about whether
or not to take a medication that has been recommended
or prescribed for you. The responsibility
belongs to you. Doctors do not ever "dictate" to their
patients.... doctors suggest and recommend therapy, which
the patient may accept, or refuse.
Signed..... Your Doctor.
Additional
"prescriptions" and suggestions....
for doctors and patients to consider:
(1.) For those patients who are
unwilling to sign a
"statement-of-personal-responsibility" for obtaining and
ingesting a certain medication, the patients should be
informed, cordially, that it may be possible for them to
locate another physician who will prescribe
medications for them.... without a signed
release. That is, another doctor may be
willing to assume the responsibility, and blame, and
"malpractice" suits.... for whatever
unpredictable injurious results may
develop after his patients have taken a medication
prescribed by him.
This necessity of requiring patients to sign a
"release" may seem harsh to the non-medical "public"
.... but it is not as drastic as imposing-upon a
competent and dedicated doctor a lengthy
malpractice suit, blaming him for an
absolutely unforeseeable adverse effect
of a certain medication.... in a specific patient.
Patients should be reminded, by their doctors, that
"over-the-counter" (OTC) medications.... those drugs which
can be bought at any drugstore, without a prescription....
have just as many potential risks as most "prescription"
drugs. But, in a "medico-legal" sense, the
implications are very different. If a patient voluntarily
"prescribes" a medication for himself, and purchases that
medicine at the corner drugstore.... then that patient has
assumed the personal responsibility for any adverse
side-effects of that medication. Similarly, when a patient
understands that all medications
have potential risks, and when the patient agrees to accept
responsibility for taking a medicine.... even a medication
prescribed by his doctor.... then no one except the patient
can be "held responsible" for an adverse effect. That is,
the patient and his lawyer then have no one to
sue for an adverse medicinal result.... and
therefore the patient's doctor is not repeatedly
threatened with "malpractice", every time a patient
is harmed by a medication.
IF a patient says that he will not take
responsibility for injury from a medication that is
recommended by his doctor.... that is almost like telling
the doctor that "If I get a bad effect from your
prescription, it's your fault.... not the
fault of my body's chemicals.... and therefore I will sue
you." (The doctor should tell that patient to find a doctor
who will not require the patient to accept
responsibility for "negative" effects of a
medicine.)
(2.) We now see countless advertisements on
television, from various pharmaceutical
organizations, and drug-manufacturers.... urging
patients to ask their physicians for a prescription for
such-and-such a medication. Invariably, a long list of
potential adverse side-effects is mentioned in the
advertisement (such as an "erection" that lasts longer than
four hours). Then, without fail, the advertisement
requires that the listener "check with your
doctor". In other words, the ad says that if you
develop any complication as a result of taking
the advertised medication, "Blame your doctor.
Sue him. Don't call us; call
him.... and remember, we who marketed the
medication warned you in advance....
therefore, we are blameless."
So, now, doctors must protect
themselves, and must warn patients in advance,
before prescribing any-and-every medication.... and the
patient must acknowledge each warning.... in
advance.... in writing.
Unfortunately, there are many attorneys, in today's
litigious world, who make a handsome living.... just
waiting to sue a blameless doctor whose patient has
developed an unpredictable adverse effect (a so-called
"mal-occurrence") after taking a prescribed medication. And,
similarly, there are many hapless patients, who hope they
can "catch" a doctor, or a drug manufacturer, in this
malpractice trap.... so that
patient-and-lawyer can reap an extravagant-but-unmerited
"settlement".
(3.) Re-statement of a main point.... If a patient allows
his personal physician to prescribe a medication for him,
that patient must acknowledge (in writing) his understanding
that no doctor can foresee how an individual's inborn
metabolic system will respond to that medication.
(4.) Some potentially very beneficial medications are
(necessarily) held off the pharmaceutical market, because of
a rare adverse side-effect.... in a few
patients. Since "medical science" currently has no way to
detect, in advance, which patients will get an
"atypical" effect from a certain medication.... these
potentially very helpful medications are never released for
widespread use.
More to
follow.... including a suggested "release" for patients to
sign.
The
Doctor Brock Rule:
"Never screw your hired-hands (your employees).
If you do, you'll end-up working for
them."
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About "surgery"... One of my doctor-friends reported to me that his personal physician had told him, "There is no medical condition known to man that cannot be made worse by surgery." I agree. That statement reminds me of what an orthopedist once told me, "Operations are to sell.... not to buy." I agree with that, too. |
Either there is a
"god".... or there is not.
Your "belief" and mine, and the "beliefs" of various
religions.... do not matter at all. Our thoughts and
imaginations and hopes do not generate a "god".
Human concoctions and the "doctrines" of churches do not
create a "god". Preachers, priests, rabbis, and imams cannot
mold and manufacture a "god" of their own design and
liking.
Acts 17: 29 (NRSV) Since we are God's
offspring, we ought not to think that
The Deity is like gold, or silver, or
stone.... an image formed by the
art and imagination
of
mortals.
A PJT
thought: In the United States, the "have-nots" have more
than the "haves", in many other countries.
(JNT:
Why else would so many people from so many countries attempt
to "steal" their way into the U.S.)
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Carl Rove, on "Meet the Press": Concerning the COST of changing the way Social Security is currently collected, and paid out: "There is one cost that hasn't changed.... and that is the COST of doing NOTHING." |
Carl
Rove, on "Meet the Press"
quoting the oft-quoted truth:
"Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make
prideful."
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"Anti-Semitism".... so-called.... I have noted that whenever someone (like a politician, or a television performer) makes a "negative" comment about Jews, or about Israel.... the routine response from Jews is, "Well, that's simply anti-Semitism". Recently, I have begun to wonder-about this typical glib "catch-all" response from Jews. I am beginning to think that perhaps the true reason for Jews' labelling remarks as "anti-Semitism", may indeed be a reflection of Jewish "anti-Christianism".... or anti-Islamism.... or, perhaps "anti-Americanism".... or even "anti-anything-not-Jewish-or-Israeli". It disturbs me that some inhabitants of the United States.... those who receive all of the marvelous benefits of "Americanism", and citizenship in the United States.... should have a divided allegiance, based upon ancient "religious" beliefs.... or upon current foreign nationalistic motives. (See link I am not Jewish, but I am an Israelite.) |
A JNT
thought; a hope; a prayer...
Lord,
may I please turn this problem over to you....
this heartache, this loss, this disappointment.
Lord, help seems to be so far away.
Please allow me to see you, and to hear you....
As I face this challenge....
Along with you.
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Someone has wisely said, "BELIEFS cannot change TRUTH.... but TRUTH can change BELIEFS." I want to add: "Your personal beliefs do not generate TRUTH." |
"The cost of
government is total spending. The 'deficit' is an
uninteresting and unimportant number.
Grover
Norquist, on C-SPAN: stating the obvious
The 'deficit' is the difference between how much the
government takes in.... and how much the government
spends."
JNT: Our legislators say, "We have a deficit. We must raise
taxes."
They almost never say, "We have a deficit. We must
cut spending."
C-SPAN
guest (Levy) on Book TV....
(This
is not a quotation.... but simply a thought that I derived
from what the speaker said.)
There
are many people, now walking around on this earth.... who
are "dead" (mentally "dead", and non-productive).
Comparably, there are many individuals, now literally dead
and in the grave-yard.... who are still "alive", because of
what they did, or produced, or wrote, or taught.... when
they walked the earth.
What do
you say, about this point?
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A JNT thought: The United States is no longer a "melting pot". A better metaphor would be that we are now a "pot of vegetable soup".... a "soup" in which groups of "aliens" from various countries are "floating". Each group has maintained the culture and the religion and the habits of its native country. Each group "flavors" the soup.... positively, or negatively. Some of the metaphoric "vegetables" contaminate the "soup"... and threaten to ruin the entire kettle. |
"In
judging who has won a race,
You first must know the starting place."
(See link
Granddaddy's
Wisdom)
A
remark about JNT (the author of this website), when he was
in high-school:
"He's a
pretty-good guy, if you ever get to know him. The trouble
is, that no one ever gets to know
him."
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From a poem I read when I was in Medical School: "No truer words, save God's, were ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken." |
Paragraphs from Are
you ashamed of your religion?
(link)
When we, you and
I, arrive at a "spiritual conclusion" that satisfies each of
us, at a certain point in our lives....
shouldn't we then become PROUD of our
"faith".... and not be embarrassed or
ashamed to admit our beliefs. If you
and I genuinely believe what each of us claims
to "believe".... we will not choose to hide or
mask our "religion".
Neither will we opt to attempt to force our
understanding upon others.
I believe that all of us should "allow" God to
guide each of His
people
(link) to spiritual understanding and "faith".... on a
"schedule" specified by God
Himself.
JNT....
Who
knows where "the road" will lead us? Who knows where
God's
stepping
stones
(link)
will
take us?
What do you say ?
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3/9/04 A paragraph from A foremost principle of God (link). The qualities of
"justification" and "righteousness", imputed
by God to certain individuals of
God's choice, are not "credited" to
God's accepted individuals because of
anything those individuals do or
say or claim or decide or
recite or pledge.... but because of
God's intention, God's
creative plan, God's "choice".... a
"decision" made by God,
at a time and place that we humans cannot know.....
and for reasons established by God....
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Paragraphs from
The
Faith OF Jesus
(link)
I
conclude that the "beliefs"
OF Jesus, the "spiritual"
truths that were revealed to
Jesus, by God --
and "implanted" in Jesus; and taught
and exemplified by Jesus --
comprise "The FAITH OF
JESUS"........ and that this
"faith" OF
Jesus is encapsulated in what Jesus
Himself often referred to as "The Gospel
of God".
I believe that
the Gospel
of God
(link)
-- the "Gospel of the Kingdom of God" that Jesus
mentioned so frequently -- IS the
message (the "good news") that God
intended to portray and
exhibit and explain -- when GOD
ALLOWED HIMSELF to be revealed,
"incarnate" -- in
Jesus.