THINK! That is the preface for this article. Take that plunge into the unforeseen… independent thought and study, but be prepared to take the necessary actions! Faith requires action, TODAY, not good intentions for tomorrow.
People have allowed incorrect media, music, and the confused separation of politics and religion to shape our beliefs into a stir pot of melted mass individualism. Yet that individualism is a mass-mentality at its base, thereby growing a herded culture of open-mindedness and wide-acceptance of very twisted and perverted beliefs where adherence to those principles that our country was founded upon are now perceived as religious imprisonment, rather than the freedom that allowed us to form a separate nation.
Think for yourself! Start your pursuit for Truth & Peace in the right place, lose the false hopes of salvation and research some truth for yourself. Determine your own path, the right path, based upon your own study of the Bible, at least the validity of using biblical principles in your life; your own research of the undisputed most documented account of historical truths, and define your own beliefs. Think… and take back control of your own eternal future.
The Foundation
Are you perfectly happy and content with everything in your life right now? If you are, then please begin writing your own article… or book! It’s guaranteed to be a Best Seller! However, if you are among the rest of us who are still striving, I believe that you will enjoy, gain some awareness, knowledge, inspiration, and practical lessons from the dynamics of this article. Understand from the onset, the subjects studied and presented herein are not intended to be exhaustive all-inclusive research studies, but only enough to start you thinking, questioning, and studying on your own with enough information to start making informed intelligent decisions.
To achieve this, we must begin to break through that societal mindset of mass acceptance and confusion, and begin focusing your thoughts towards free-thinking, and open your mind to the possibility of a single unified absolute Truth that you can make the basis of your decision-making.
Would you pour orange juice into a glass and expect to taste milk when you drink it? Of course not! Would you pour water into the gas tank of your vehicle and expect it to run? Again, of course not. Then why do we think for even an instant that we can pour filth, misery, violence, sex, and evil into our minds or that of our children and expect anything pure and good to come out? It’s absurd. We, too, are vessels. What is put in is the only thing that can come out.
What we seek in our society most often is not the truth, but justification. You seek to justify your lifestyle, your actions, and your thoughts. You don’t want to hear anything that might contradict your life, but only those things that support it. Most of us, including you, usually become very offended, angry, and sometimes very vocal if we hear, see or read anything that speaks against or even questions our life or actions. Everything in our society has become prioritized for convenience, including our beliefs. It all has to feel good and comfortable and give us that “warm fuzzy” that we are wanting. Somehow we have the false belief that we possess all wisdom and knowledge about right or wrong based on our life experiences and teachings, that we have somehow ascertained the whole truth, therefore anything that challenges that thought pattern upsets us. Now, granted, there are some folks who know and admit that their current lifestyles are not right. They do become angry at these challenging principles, but their anger is more at themselves because they realize that they are not living right and simply are not willing to change, so they just don’t want to hear the truth because it hurts. Knowing the truth and Living the truth are two very different things.
Start THINKING on your own… study and research the validity of the Bible, or at least biblical principles. Discover for yourself, for Truth, not for justification. Become one of the elite who still use their mind for what it was intended.