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Note. I will place a passage from the Didache on the top of each post I make. Scripture, quotes, media and my testimony will be in context to the passage. I will also incorporate music, video, and imagery to amplify feelings to the words of my personal testimony. I have also chosen to use the term Creator in order to respect the beliefs of the religious faiths and religions I mention. Chapter 2 - Finding a Force to Love I previously asked you the reader to temporarily suspend your preconception or disbelief on whether or not a Creative Force of Nature exists. During this journey a discovery was made that every one of us has been given knowledge (conscience) free will (liberty) to make a right (positive or good) or wrong (negative or evil) life choice to every difficult decision (moral dilemma) we make concerning the welfare of our happiness or misery. Inducing on my previous maxim, you the reader and I the writer have opened ourselves to learning how to better our quality of life through reason by doing good and exploring the possibility that a Force of Nature designed and governs everything in the known Universe with a purpose in mind. I propose that all Religious and Nonreligious individuals attempt to perceive a connection with the fundamental nature of the Universe. It is this very perception that structures what is reality for each of one of us. In the Declaration of Independence the United States Founding Fathers understood that we have a connection to a Force of Nature we call the Creator and rejected the maxims of Agnosticism and Atheism. Instead, our principal leaders framed our government under a philosophy of Deism honored both the Creator and Natural Law of binding rules of moral behavior. "Son, either God is the greatest hoax of mankind or He is real. I choose to believe God is real and my life is better for it." This was the second teaching given to me by my father when I was just a boy. Learning the truth of whether there is an active generative force greater than the physical world that surrounds us develops over time with our unique experiences and the persuasiveness of communicated testimonies passed to down to us by our ancestors from through recorded history. As a parent of two beautiful children I am able to glimpse an understanding of a creative force that connects all living things is powerful. When my son questioned me on what is the Creator, I used a metaphor that a Jewish rabbi gave me to help him understand. “Son, If I give you a pencil and paper, can you draw me a picture for the refrigerator?” “Yes, I would love to Dad,” he answered. “What, if I give you no pencil or paper, can you draw me a picture?" Then could you still make me something?” “Can I use crayons and a board?" he questioned. "No son, I will give you no pens, pencils, crayons, markers or paper or board?" My boy pondered, "Can I use the earth and a stick or rock?" I responded, "No, you cannot use a rock or stick or any object.” "Can I at least use my hands?" he asked. "No, you cannot use your hands or any part of your body." My boy appeared frustrated. "Then, then there is no way I can draw you a picture?"I smiled "Our Creator can." At some point saying 'our Creator can do things we cannot' may not fully quench my children's thirst for understanding and connection of a explicit idea of a 'Being' with 'Infinite Power.' Thus, I quest to find the best reasonable explanation of a Creator before they ask. President Thomas Jefferson encouraged one to explore a connection with Creator.. From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, with Enclosure, 10 August 1787 Thomas Jefferson believed that in order to find our connection to this this Force of Nature that Deist universally call the Creator we must review what the Sages have discovered on divinity. Then understand the Jewish view of Deism and its later reformation. From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 9 April 1803 In Socrates and Jesus Compared, Socrates is stated to believed that while man could not see the gods, their power in nature could be observed. The gods signified their will through oracles whom they were disposed to favor by divination. He thought the gods in general conceal knowledge of the future and the structure of the Universe from most men, but revealed glimpses of it to the oracles to serve their will. Whenever man could not attain future knowledge for themselves, Socrates believed oracles could gain this type of information for him. Priestly writes that both Jesus and Socrates shared a calm and even temperament.But, unlike Socrates the Gospels reveal Jesus restraint towards sexual desire. Also unlike Socrates, Both taught the Golden rule to be good to others and honor a higher power. Jesus always spoke of his ascension to an afterlife with the Creator that prepared for him since the beginning of time. Both, Further Jesus stated that the Creator gives no preference to the philosophers or any class of men. From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 24 April 1803 John Locke wrote that there is an instinctual relationship between the implicit ideas of duty and law with the ideas of a Creator, punishment, and afterlife that preserves us. John Locke then wrote the idea of the Creator comes through thought, meditation, and right use of mental faculties (reason). An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke The Maxims of Ptahhotep or Instruction of Ptahhotep Papyrus Prisse The Jews believe the Creator has given mankind authority over the two inclinations (spirits) to be good (righteous, love) or evil (sin,hate). The Creator will punish individuals who follow evil inclinations that dominate their life and reward those who good inclinations with long life, prosperity, and honor. Proverbs 21:21 Psalms 119 119:33 Teach me, O Lord, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, so that I might observe it continually. 119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart. 119:35 Guide me in the path of your commands, for I delight to walk in it. 119:36 Give me a desire for your rules, rather than for wealth gained unjustly. 119:37 Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word! 119:38 Confirm to your servant your promise, which you made to the one who honors you. 119:39 Take away the insults that I dread! Indeed, your regulations are good. 119:40 Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance! During the Hellenistic era, Hellenistic Judaism aspired to combine Jewish religious tradition with elements of Greek culture and philosophy. The philosopher Philo used philosophical allegory to attempt to fuse and harmonize Greek philosophy with Jewish philosophy. His work attempts to combine Plato and Moses into one philosophical system. He developed an allegoric approach of interpreting holy scriptures (the bible), in contrast to (old-fashioned) literally interpretation approaches. His allegorical exegesis was important for several Christian Church Fathers and some scholars hold that his concept of the Logos as God's creative principle influenced early Christology. Other scholars, however, deny direct influence but say both Philo and Early Christianity borrow from a common source. America was born on the idea that all humans have the Natural Right of Liberty (Freedom of Conscious) over forced coercion of opinions by those in authority onto others. Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, January 16, 1786 Most Diests and Monotheists believe that any human and nonhuman creature incapable of understanding the concept of a Creator and/or Covenants, then are incapable of understanding unalienable rights (treated with respect and dignity) bestowed by the Will of the Creator. But, the incapability of a nonhuman or human creature does not mean it does not have right to Life and Happiness. Monotheist believe a good person of authority has the responsibility to take care of the well-being of both human and nonhuman living creatures (Genesis 1:26 - 28, 9:1 - 3, Proverbs 12:10, Psalms 8:6, Daniel 4:17, Romans 13:1 - 5 ). Most Atheist and Agnostics would agree with Theists that all life should be valued and we should help those not to suffer during their time in the light of the sun. The Creator responded to Isaiah that He had been gracious in allowing a nation to call on Him and to obtain responses from Him since that nation did not normally pray to Him. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Great Isaiah Scroll Chapter 65 : Verse 1 Psalms 39 Matthew 5 Jefferson believed that a rational Supreme Intelligent Being mentioned in the Torah and Gospels designed the Universe. He also understood that Jesus stated the Creator to be a Spirit, but did not define what Spirit is. From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 April 1823 The Spirit and the wind operate sovereignly. Man does not and cannot control either one. Second, we perceive the presence of both by their effects. Third, we cannot explain their actions since they arise from unseen and partially unknowable factors. The person born of the Spirit is similar to both the Spirit and the wind in that it is impossible for unregenerate people to understand or control him or her. They do not understand his or her origin or final destiny. John 3 According to Jewish belief the "Hand of the Lord” in a prophecy is an expression of compulsion, meaning that the Holy Spirit compelled Ezekiel go like a madman into the Valley of Dura to resurrect the dead tribe of Ephraim and the People of Gath (Sanhedrin 92b). The Creator gave Ezekial the authority to command roaming souls to return to bones where they had died. The dead began regenerating and as a one who blows on a charcoal fire the Holy Spirit entered them and they became alive once again. Yechezkel - Ezekiel - Chapter 37 In the Talmud (Tractate Berakoth Folio 5a) the soul of person has both a good spirit (impulse, instinct) and a evil spirit (impulse, instinct) battling for control. Bereishit - Genesis - Chapter 1 Bereishit - Genesis - Chapter 6 3 And the Lord said, "Let My spirit not quarrel forever concerning man, because he is also flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." 82. A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 18 June 1779 10 years later, 1789 the United States Congress simplified and enforced our Freedom to Choose and not be coerced (forced) to follow any particular belief or connection to the Creator. The U.S. Bill of Rights Amendment I It is through our Freedom of Religion, Speech, and Press that you the reader and I the writer are able learn and personally connect with this force of Nature called the Creator. Together we have learned that Natural Deists would Universally agree with the maxim that there is one is one Supreme Creator (Architect) that generated all that exists and keeps the natural order (General Providence). But, Natural Deists perceive a reality with and Architect does not interfere with all life experiences that take place in creation. The only connection we have with the Architect is that we exist with him. While other Natural Deists object to the belief that this the Prime Mover is one consciously aware being (Architect), but perceive a reality where everything (All) are part of one Mental Universe. Religious Monotheists (Jews, Christians and Muslims) and some Polytheist believe perceive reality through a connection with one Supreme consciously aware Prime Mover (Creator) that generated everything that exists and keeps the natural order of our Universe (General Providence) and the spiritual world beyond it. In humble admiration to the Founders of the United States I will at this point separate the the Divinity of Jesus Christ and apply Jefferson's view of Jesus the' Jewish Reformer' of Deism and contrast it with doctrines of philosophers, theorists,.and other belief systems. In Joeseph Priestly's work, Socrates and Jesus Compared, the polytheist philosopher Socrates believed in a Divine Creator and Preserver of the world, gods, man, and animals. The gods the Creator designed consisted of sun, moon, and other celestial objects that to had generated offspring of lesser gods and demigods (both god and man). The gods knew every thought, words and action made by man, were present in all places, and knew the future. The demigods had limited power and were mortal. Priestly writes the Polytheist Philosopher Socrates, believed Man owes obedience to the divine power and providence of the gods. The Prophet Moses taught that Man owes obedience to the Creator (Exodus 19:5) Priestly mentions Socrates teaching that it was the divine power and providence of the gods gave man the ability to reason. The Prophet Isaiah taught the Creator wants us to review our options (Isaiah 1:18). Priestly also mentions that Socrates teaches that Man should pray to the gods and ask them to grant what was good and pleasurable without specifying what was wished for. Jesus the Jewish Reformer taught that the Creator already knows before you ask (Mathew 6:8) Priestly writes that the gods to Socrates were gracious with gifts of water, fire, change of seasons, and our sense to adapt. The Disciple Paul teaches that our Creator gives us everything we need and we should be grateful His kindness (2 Thessalonians 1:2) Socrates taught there was a universal maxim for mortals to worship and sacrifice according to the faculty of the gods ruling their country. Further, it was a citizen's obligation obey the specific codes of morality laws given to them by the or suffer the consequences and possible death. Socrates believed that that which is agreeable to the laws given by the gods to be 'just" and "lawful." The greater the a god's power in a particular region the more they were to be honored. Thus man should comply with the institutional laws residing within a particular region. President John Adams rebutted Priestly's remarks. From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1813 Some Atheist would agree with the maxim of a Prime Mover, but would object to perceiving reality through connection with a mythical Creator, Architect, or Mental Universe survival maxim imagined beyond reason by man to cope with the melancholy of death. The Prime Mover was the catalyst that originated our sense of the known universe, but the Prime Mover cannot be seen to be believed as a Creator. Atheist perception is that we exist by chance on a planet within a vast expanding, but finite universe. While other Atheist would object to the belief of just one Prime Mover or a Prime Mover at all. Perception is that we exist by circumstance in one of an infinite number of universes. John Adams expressed his view that Atheism considers Spirit and Liberty to be mere words devoid of sense and meaning. Conscience and Morality are just necessary motions and actions of fate within the eternal Universe. Further, he stated the Atheist Creed is to perfect human Nature and convert the Earth into a Paradise of Pleasure. John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1816 Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. He established Cult of the Supreme Being to replace religion with a rational devotion to the Godhead and immortality of the soul based upon the Enlightenment Deist belief philosophies of Rousseau and Montesquieu, The Cult of the Supreme Being was officially banned by Napoleon Bonaparte on 8 April 1802. Here Maximillien proclaims that the French people are free from the yoke of corrupt Priests collaborating with tyrant Kings. The Festival of the Supreme Being Maximilien Robespierre First Speech 1793 Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François) was educated at the Jesuit school of Pézenas, and received priest's orders, but he was dismissed for unexplained reasons from the parish of Saint-Sulpice, Paris. In his book, A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, Raynal examines religion with a perspective from the French Enlightenment. Its introduction into France was forbidden in 1779; the book was burned by the public executioner, and an order was given for the arrest of the author, whose name had not appeared in the first edition, but was printed on the title page of the Geneva edition of 1780. It is known that Raynal attended a breakfast and tea in Philadelphia hosted by the the American Philosophical Society on February 2, 1779 and that an invitation was send to Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. But, it appears from the a letter from Raynal to Franklin dated April 5, 1790 that Franklin did not attend. But, the letter does reveal Raynal's interest in the United States and that both Adams and Franklin being members of the Philosophical Society were aware of writing and his influence in both the French and West Indies revolutions. Raynal associates the Greek and Roman Prime Mover Creator with the Christian view of God the Father. Further Raynal refuses to believe in being a slave to a Judaic Christian belief of God as a Provident Master. A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796; Justamond, John Obadiah, d. 1786, tr OCELLUS LUCANUS ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE Translated from the Originals by Thomas Taylor Timaeus By Plato In Proclus Commentary on the Timaes of Plato states demonstrates how Plato was wrong in ascribing two powers instead of three to each of the elements. Thomas Jefferson shared his idea of an Intelligent Creator to John Adams. From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 April 1823 The Egyptians believed in the existence of One Great Creator (Neter, the unknown, god of the sun), self-produced, self-existent, almighty and eternal. There are three aspects of Neter; Khepri the morning sun, Ra the midday sun, and Atum was the sun in the evening. It was Neter who created the "gods," the heavens and the sun, moon and stars in them, and the earth and everything on it to serve his will. The eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt (1550–1298 BC) defined the how one should pray to Neter in private without too much speaking. THE EGYPTIANS' IDEAS OF GOD The word neter and its meaning. Views held in the XVIIIth dynasty. According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was the Prophet Jeremiah, who would have been alive during the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. Like the Egyptians, Jeremiah taught that the prophet Elisha prayed to the Creator in private. 2 Kings 4 Jesus teaching on how to pray to the Creator was also similar to the Egyptian form. Matthew 6 Mohammed also taught that one should pray in humility, privately, and not too loudly similar to the Egyptian form. Al-A'raf The Heights 7:55 Al-Isra The Night Journey 17:110 Egyptians believed that the Creator's Will is carried out in heaven, earth, and the Other World by a number of "great gods " who formed His Council, and who were in turn served by lesser "gods" and spirits. The two eldest of the great gods, Shu (god of air) and Tefnut (goddess of water), were produced by the Creator from His own Person, and with Him they formed the first Egyptian Trinity. Monotheists perceive that Holy Scripture and testimony of its believers reveal that connection to reality starts by loving our Creator (Hashem, The Father, Allah) who does intervene with creation (Special Providence). Monotheist believe that Creator has given instructions on how to peacefully coexist through love and transcend to eternal life. There an estimate 3.8 billion religious monotheist that believe in Divine Providence. The Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary estimated 2.2 billion plus Christians are practicing in 45,000 different denominations. 1.6 billion Muslims are practicing in 90 different groups (my own count), and 14 million Jews are practicing in 74 groups (my own count). According to the Pew Research Center there are 1 billion plus practicing Hindus in 30 groups (my own count). The wisdom of a prosperous life is to love, revere, testify to the light and truth that comes from our Creator's Spirit. Deuteronomy 6 Deuteronomy 8 Sirach 4 Isaiah 44 Zechariah 13 John 4 John 6 1 John 5 Agnostics would agree that we exist on a planet within a known universe, have no opinion and are not inclined to focus on whether a Prime Mover, Creator, or Mental Universe exists or not when there is no compelling evidence to prove or disprove these any of these maxims. Only in death will we find out which maxim is correct. Reality for Agnostics is that we exist for the moment and are connected to family, friends, pets on a planet in a wondrous universe. In the 21st century, 'Scientific Reasoning' has come to dominate the way we interpret the natural world. In the realm of Scientific reasoning, the maxims of both Faith and Natural Philosophy carry little to no weight for debate if every detail cannot be subjected to a logical, consistent, systematic method of investigation, information (data) collection, data analysis (hypothesis), testing (experiment), and refinement known as the 'Scientific Method.' The Pew Research study found that (51%) believe in some form of deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of scientists say they believe in God, while 18% believe in a universal spirit or higher power. 7% of scientist say they are agnostic. 42% are Atheist. For those in the physical sciences differentiating the conscience over unconscious mental processes that motivates one to believe in a implicit maxim that there is creator of nature and natural laws have been fiercely debated throughout recorded history. Scientific Atheist consider both the Prime Mover and Creator maxims to be an evolving process of our organism to herd together with other organisms in order to better defend against outside aggression and death. Scientific Theist believe that a Creator set the Universe and Evolution in motion according to a plan. Scientist have used both inductive and deductive reasoning to make a guess or draw a conclusion about the facts possibilities of whether a Creator of nature exists by manipulating, adding or subtracting implicit and explicit maxims known to them. An example of implicit maxim is that throughout recorded history man has reasoned and accepted that an unmeasured Creator exists. An example of an explicit maxim is all space, time, and matter had a measured beginning. Current best estimates are that the universe began approximately 13.7 billion years ago. James Clerk Maxwell wrote that “The similarity is a similarity between relations, not a similarity between the things related.” When two pairs of words have a high degree of relational similarity, we say that their relations are analogous. For example, the word pair 'watchmaker:watch' is analogous to the word pair 'creator:creation.' (Maxwell 1881). Using inductive reasoning, if we take Maxwell's similarity maxim we can use a scientific analogy to bring together both an implicit maxim (theory) of an unmeasured creator exists by mapping an explicit maxim of the effect that the creator had on all space, time, and matter measured from the beginning to present. Causality is considered to be a cornerstone to all natural science, especially physics. Scottish philosopher David Hume, in the Treatise on Human Nature, wrote "The same cause always produces the same effect, and the same effect never arises but from the same cause." (Rule 4 of the “Rules by which to judge of causes and effects”). Continuing our inductive reasoning, if we take Maxwell's similarity maxim and Hume's causality maxim then we induce a theory that an unmeasured Creator exists and was the cause to a measured beginning of all creation (space, time, and matter). I propose that all Religious and NonReligous individuals can perceive a connection of love with the fundamental nature of the Universe and all living things. It is this very perception of love that structures what is reality for each of us. It is the interaction of love that connects our known nature to the nature of the Creator. While I will not undertake mathematical analysis on the connection of love, I will intensely occupy my time to describe my sense of the subject. In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave of greater, lower, or the same amplitude. If we superpose two waves with the same frequency traveling in the same direction, we end up with a new (resultant) wave that looks pretty much like the original waves, but its amplitude is larger. This situation, where the resultant wave is bigger than either of the two original, is called constructive interference (in-phase waves). Now if we superpose the unconditional love I have for my children with the love my children have for me, the amplitude (extent) of our love grows larger is analogous to the maxim of constructive interference. Other species understand attraction, courtship, affection. In the center of the brain sits the reward pathway, which is responsible for driving our feelings of motivation, reward and behavior. The reward pathway makes us feel good when we engage in attraction and affection behaviors that are necessary for our survival. In Romantic love: a mammalian brain system for mate choice, researchers Helen E Fisher, Arthur Aron, and Lucy L Brown propose that Attraction is the mechanism that brings about emotional union of one individual with another. <begin scattered thought> Continuing our inductive reasoning if we take the maxim of constructive interference and the maxim of positive reinforcement we can induce a theory that through positive reinforcement the extent of love in all living beings grows larger. that directs reproduction. Reinforcement of affection in mammals result in feelings of closeness, passion, and security with others. Gestures and sounds are used by all mammals to reinforce an affective intention of positive feeling toward familiar organism or object that support survival. sounds are use to reinforce the affective intention that Deep within our temporal lobe is the amygdala (Greek word for an almond shape set of neurons), an interpretive alarm center that recognizes and stores threat image patterns around us (fear memory) if we take Maxwell's similarity maxim and Hume's causality maxim then we induce a theory that an unmeasured Creator exists and was the cause to a measured beginning of all creation (space, time, and matter). Now if we superpose the unconditional love I have for my children with the love my children have for me, the amplitude (extent) of our love grows larger is analogous to the maxim of constructive interference. Does love transcend reason? Unconditional love is known as affection without any limitations or love without conditions. Limbic resonance is the theory that the capacity for sharing deep emotional states arises from the limbic system of the brain.[1] These states include the dopamine circuit-promoted feelings of empathic harmony This strengthening effect may be measured as a higher frequency of behavior. Using inductive reasoning If we The Cosmic Wave (Cosmic microwave background) is the oldest light in the universe. The Cosmic wave is not associated with any star, galaxy, or other object and can be detected in every direction. Scientist propose the Cosmic Wave had its origin approximately 378,000 years after the Big Bang (at a redshift of z = 1100). and spreads out to new family members and friends that I might never personally know. As I grow older members of my family and friends die, but the love I shared with them carries on within me and the stories I share with others. It can be difficult to grasp how many shared love stories we cab find in recorded history. It is even more difficult to imagine how many unrecorded love stories since we became aware of the world around us. o arrive at a well-tested, well-documented, explanation that is well-supported by evidence. German theoretical physicist, Werner Heisenberg, in his paper, Sources of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum mechanics holds that any given particle has a chance of being in a whole range of locations and, in a sense, occupies all those places at once. , is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities[1] asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position x and momentum p, can be known. <end scattered thoughts on subject. For nonBelievers in Behavior Sciences and religious naturalist I propose that the knowledge of a Creative Force of Love can be understood through the evolution of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic principles of life that are founded within the Didache. I hope to demonstrate that reading the Didache as a process to understanding and accepting the maxim that a creative force of love exists in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faith. And the use of the Didache forms both a positive neuroplasticity and socioplasticity of hope and belonging that directly benefits both our human and societal condition. For many nonBelievers the new truth without a Creator is that the truth of Love is reduced to a biological expressive result of a flooding oxytocin and opioids in our limbic brain.The new truth according to nonBelievers is that We are on our own without hope of an external force to justify loving a neighbor or enemy or sacrifice our existence for the sake of one's honor. For many nonBelievers the new truth without a Creator is the acceptance of a Life of self preservation, the Liberty of Conscious, and the Happiness of self gratification is now self evident. But, the use of English common law was fashioned into a system that was more relevant to government without a king. Using Maxwell's similarity maxim, if the Republic of the United States ascension of the rights of citizens over being ruled by a king was the cause that made the Declaration of Independence necessary. Then if our citizens follow the belief of Atheist ascension of citizen no longer believing in a Creator would be a cause for a new Declaration of Rejection. The truths of our Rights to 'Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness' that are endowed by a 'Creator', are only self-evident to those that believe in a Creator. I propose that without the 'Creative Force of Love,' 'We the People' eventually erodes to 'Me the Person.' The question is whether a 'Liberty of Conscious' will be applicable without a Creator that sets our moral framework. Who is to judge whether my idea of what is right is better than your idea of what is wrong when every one self oriented. Without a Creator there are no moral limits on those that govern over its citizens. nonBelievers do not teach Mosiac, Christian, or Islamic values to contain our instinctual desires, rather if the Creator does not exist or participate in our lives, then everything is possible, even if it does harm or offend others. The guilty conscience of eternal damnation is replaced with only the punishments attached by human authority. Scripture tells us that by following our Creator's instructions and commands we will not offend His Holy Spirit and be given grace to understand the way to peace and eternal life. Scripture states that those seeking our Creator start by praying to Him to help turn away from the darkness of sin and death to the truth of living righteously in His light. Desire and Love of Honour In time the State an enforceable limit on the state’s power over its citizens. Without a Creator, Without a Creator there is no justification to love one's neighbor or enemy, Jews and Christians believe that the Israelites became aware and developed a relationship with a conscious creative force known as Elohim (force of forces). Most Jews and Christians believe that on Mount Horeb, Elohim revealed His name (YHWH) consisting of four letters (Greek tetragrammaton) to Moses. The Book of Shemot (Exodus): Chapter 3 Religiously observant Jews and those who follow conservative Jewish traditions do not pronounce the name of Elohim aloud or in silence. Instead Jews substitutions for Hebrew forms are hakadosh baruch hu (The Holy One, Blessed Be He), Adonai (The Lord), or HaShem (The Name). In addition, Jews do not write any of Elohim's names or titles on media that be discarded or erased. Jews also treat the English word 'G - o - d' with reverence by writing it as 'G ‑ d'. Understanding the proper way to address Hashem was learned in the Covenant He made with them. The Book of Shemot (Exodus) Chapter 20 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of G-d, unto Horeb. 2 And the angel of HaShem appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said: 'I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.' 4 And when HaShem saw that he turned aside to see, G-d called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said: 'Moses, Moses.' And he said: 'Here am I.' 5 And He said: 'Come no closer; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon you stand is holy ground.' 6 Moreover He said: 'I am the G-d of thy father, the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac, and the G-d of Jacob.' And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon G-d. 7 And HaShem said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains; 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou may bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt.' And Moses said unto G-d: 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?' 12 And He said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve G-d upon this mountain.' 13 And Moses said unto G-d: 'Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them: The G-d of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me: What is His name? what shall I say unto them?' 14 And G-d said unto Moses: 'I AM THAT I AM'; and He said: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM has sent me unto you.' 15 And G-d said moreover unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: HaShem, the G-d of your fathers, the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac, and the G-d of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name for ever, and this is My memorial unto all generations. 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them: HaShem, the G-d of your fathers, the G-d of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying: I have surely remembered you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him: HaShem, the G-d of the Hebrews, hath met with us. And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to HaShem our G-d. 19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, except by a mighty hand. 20 And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof. And after that he will let you go. By witnessing the actual presence of Hashem and and learning the Torah revealed to them, the Israelites accepted the maxim that Hashem is the eternal creative force of love (Ahavat Olam) in the universe. It is through Hashem's love that all living things and laws were created, so that they could share His reality. The Israelites understood that Hashem covenant with them was a way He could share His love with them, similar to how a husband shares love with his bride. Hashem's chosen people understood their duty is to love Him and each other. Former practicing Jew and one of the patriarchs of the Humanist moment, Sigmund Freud, in his book, Moses and Monotheism, rejected the notion that Moses was an ancestor of Abraham. Rather, a Semitic tribe that had immigrated to Egypt adopted Moses and his Levite servants as Jews and incorporated their Egyptian religion of Aton (The Lord who manifests itself as the Sun) and rejected ceremonial magic. Freud believed that there were two men with the same name of Moses. He considered the Catholic Church to be enemy of all freedom of thought and suppressors of the advancement of truth. Freud believed that through the struggle of intellectual reasoning the Ego, we are able to overcome the 'highly treasured convictions' we may have for a Mosaic god and accept the Darwin doctrine of evolution. Freud accepted Robertson Smith notion of the Totem Feast were all the family members would cannibalize their father as a a symbol of triumph. Through Sigmund Freud's study and practice of psycho-analysis, he determined the consequences of religion bear a strong resemblance to Neurosis (manifestations of anxiety producing unconscious material that is too difficult to think about consciously, but must still find a means of expression) that can develop into a egotistical, despotic, and brutal personality. The development from the Oedipus complex to the myth of the father of Totem and Taboo and later of Moses and Monotheism is very striking indeed. At the outset the father’s function is clearly to pacify, regulate, and sublimate the omnipotence of the figure of the mother, called by Freud "the obscure power of the feminine sex." But by the end the father himself has assumed the power, obscurity, and cruelty of the omnipotence his function was supposed to dissipate in the first place. The ego ideal is that "precipitate" of the internalization of the law that Freud describes in Totem and Taboo. On the other hand, the superego is closely related to guilt and transgression of the law. In L’Ethique de la psychoa nalyse Lacan discusses Freud’s famous paradox of conscience. This is his claim that "[t]he more virtuous a man is, the more severe and distrustful is [the superego’s] behavior, so that ultimately it is precisely those people who have carried saintliness furthest who reproach themselves with the worst sinfulness. Lacan says, “Love relates to the father by virtue of the father’s being the vehicle of castration. This is what Freud proposes in Totem and Taboo. It is insofar as the sons are deprived of women that they love the father — a bewildering remark that is sanctioned by the insight of a Freud." Leséminaire, 23 (1975 -76); Le sinthome, published in Ornicar? 11 (1977) It is a profound reversal in the way of functioning of the psyche of people, which may explain many of the phenomena that is underway. http://return.jls.missouri.edu/Lacan/NFFvol1no1/Nff_1_1_Grigg.pdf The first Moses was trained in Pharoah Ikhnaton's (Effective for Aton) school of On. When the belief of Aton was abolished, Moses incorporated its belief in one ethical god and its teaching of Maat (truth and justice) without the sun (solar disc). Around 1350, Moses convinced the Semitic tribe that he was possibly governing, to accept his beliefs and leave Egypt and unite with a tribe of Arabian Medianites at a place called Meribat-Qades where the volcano god (demon) Jahve was worshiped. Freud accepted E. Meyer's account that the event where the Creator encountered the Israelites was not at the foot of the Mount Horeb in the Sinai peninsula, but east near the mountains of Arabia. The Creator is not the one we know in the bible, rather Meyer describes that Moses became the priest to a bloodthirsty demon the Midianites worshiped similar to Baalim (Lord) of a neighboring tribe. The difference was before Moses the Midianites viewed Jahve as one of many gods. Moses introduced the idea that there was only one God, and his name was Jahve. Freud accepted E. Sellin's account that the united tribes (Jews) rebelled against the new Jahve hybrid religion and killed Moses. After his death the Levite servants of Moses continued the ethical teachings of their deceased Patriarch and the one God named Jahve. The second Moses was the son-in-law of the Midianite Jethro. It was 1215 the second Moses who actually founded the Jewish religion. Freud proposed that over time the Levites transformed their violent Jahve into a god similar to Aton. Between two generations and century later relatives of the Jews that still lived in Egypt met with the descendants still living in Meribat-Qades. The Egyptians began accept the Levite religion of Jahve with its circumcision and convinced the Levites to change the name of the god from Jahve to Adonai (The Lord). The newly migrated Egyptians brought with them "the art of writing and the fondness of writing history." Freud also stated in his book that the Jewish Adonai (The Lord), is the same as the Syrian Adonis (The Lord), is the same as the Egyptian Aton. Freud reasoned that Adonai divine character evolved from one of many gods to a 'universal ruler of the world' was a response to the negative experiences the Jews had by being conquered and subjected to the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires who all had their own national god. Freud then explains his two Moses theory by referencing the two distinct sources of the Torahm, J (Jahve) and E (Elohim). He states the J source was written by the Jahve priest Ebjatar during the reign of King David. E source was written by the Northern kingdom of Israel. Freud wrote after the destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722 B.C. In the 7th century a third source JE (most likely a priest) combined J and E sources and added some of his own content. During the Babylonian exile and return (586 - 538 B.C. )the book of Deuteronomy was added by a fourth source known as the D Code. Moses and Monotheism Part II If Moses was an Egyptian Moses And Monotheism Part III page 29...IN Part I of this book I have tried to strengthen by a new argument the suggestion that the man Moses, the liberator and law-giver of the Jewish people, was not a Jew, but an Egyptian. That his name derived from the Egyptian vocabulary had long been observed, though not duly appreciated. I added to this consideration the further one that the interpretation of the exposure myth attaching to Moses necessitated the conclusion that he was an Egyptian whom a people needed to make into a Jew. At the end of my essay I said that important and far-reaching conclusions could be drawn from the suggestion that Moses was an Egyptian; but I was not prepared to uphold them publicly, since they were based only on psychological probabilities and lacked objective proof. page 38...Everything rather goes to show that during Amenhotep's reign it was strengthened so as to attain greater clarity, consistency, harshness and intolerance. Probably this development took place under the influence of the violent opposition among the priests of Amon that raised its head against the reforms of the king. In the sixth year of Amenhotep's reign this enmity had grown to such an extent that the king changed his name, of which the now proscribed name of the god Amon was a part. Instead of Amenhotep he called himself Ikhnaton.But not only from his name did he eliminate that of the hated God, but also from all inscriptions and even where he found it in his father's name Amenhotep III. Soon after his change of name Ikhnaton left Thebes, which was under Amon's rule, and built a new capital lower down the river which he called Akhetaton (Horizon of Aton). page 42...The Jewish creed, as is well known, says: " Schema Jisroel Adonai Elohenu Adonai Echod." If the similarity of the name of the Egyptian Aton (or Atum) to the Hebrew word Adonai and the Syrian divine name Adonis is not a mere accident, but is the result of a primaeval unity in language and meaning, then one could translate the Jewish formula: Hear, oh Israel, our god Aton (Adonai) is the only God. page 78....The question who was Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus appears to me an idle one. There was no Pharaoh at that time, because the Exodus happened during the interregnum. But the Merneptah stele does not throw any light on the possible date of the fusion and the acceptance of the new religion in Qades. All we can say with certainty is that they took place some time between 1350 and 1215. Within this century we assume the Exodus to have been very near to the first date, the events in Qades not far from the second. The greater part of the period we would reserve for the interval between the two events. A fairly long time would be necessary for the passions of the returning tribes to cool down after the murder of Moses and for the influence of the Moses people, the Levites, to have become so strong as the compromise in Qades presupposes. Two generations, sixty years, might suffice, but only just. The date inferred from the stele of Merneptah falls too early, and as we know that in our hypothesis one assumption only rests on another we have to admit that this discussion shows a weak spot in the construction. Unfortunately everything connected with the settling of the Jewish people in Canaan is highly obscure and confused. We might, of course, use the expedient of supposing that the name in the Israel stele does not refer to the tribes whose fate we are trying to follow and who later on were united in the people of Israel. After all, the name of the Habiru (= Hebrews) from the Amarna time was also passed on to this people. page 79....Moses, trained in Ikhnaton's school, employed the same methods as the king; he gave commands and forced his religion on the people. Perhaps Moses doctrine was still more uncompromising than that of his Master; he had no need to retain any connection with the religion of the Sun God since the school of On would have no importance for his alien people. Moses met with the same fate as Ikhnaton, that fate which awaits all enlightened despots. The Jewish people of Moses was quite as unable to bear such a highly spiritualized religion, to find in what it offered satisfaction for their needs, as were the Egyptians of the Eighteenth Dynasty. In both cases the same thing happened: those who felt themselves kept in tutelage, or who felt dispossessed, revolted and threw off the burden of the religion that had been forced upon them. The God of the Sun was merged with a blood thirsty volcano fire demon. 56 MOSES AND MONOTHEISM Jahve was certainly a volcano god. As we know, however, Egypt has no volcanoes and the mountains of the Sinai peninsula have never been volcanic; on the other hand, volcanoes which may have been active up to a late period are found along the western border of Arabia. One of these mountains must have been the Sinai -Horeb which was believed to be Jahve J s abode. In spite of all the transformations the Biblical text has suffered, we are able to reconstruct according to E. Meyer the original character of the god: he is an uncanny, bloodthirsty demon who walks by night and shuns the light of day. In common claim is that pheromones in human (that can be emulated through the air) attractive, appearance or character similar to that of the person himself or of his parents - are the main factors affecting the infatuation between two people . Chemicals in the brain of the human responsible for falling in love. The hormones estrogen and testosterone are responsible for the continued sexual ; dopamine is responsible for " butterflies in the stomach "; norepinephrine is responsible for the beating of the heart accelerated and excitement; Low levels of the hormone serotonin after apparently falling in love lead to addiction spouse. The joint effect of these chemicals, plus the impact of changes in the circular of the brain - causes euphoria , lust, obsessive , excessive energy, sleeplessness, loss of appetite and focused attention lovable person. The hormone oxytocin is secreted during sexual intercourse and is responsible for increasing the emotional connection. Endorphins and hormone vasopressin responsible languish first signs of love and the establishment of long-term relationships. The effect of the chemicals mentioned dims after a certain time period (after this phase usually occurs infidelity), and when that happens the couple look at each other in a rational way. At this point the relationship or strong enough to continue, or is it just crumbles. If it persists, then endorphins, the hormone oxytocin and Hozofrsin - take care to preserve the relationship. that encourage to explore both natural and moral law boundaries of what we are allowed to do. I encourage my children's' liberty to explore and question the world around them and at the same time set boundaries to what they are allowed to do. You have taught us the laws of life. redemption that expresses a conscious creative design to all the nature you experience, then you can begin to attain what true enlightenment is and how to achieve peace living as caretakers in a creation that this conscious creative force owns. To prove the value of loving a creator, I will compare accepted Scripture testified by the mentioned faiths. In addition, I will include other faiths and philosophy, and natural science in context to loving a creator. There are some religious Monotheist that the Creator that has generated manifestations of itself (Trinitarian Christians and possibly Hindus and Kabbalist Jews) that share the power of both General and Special Providence. Some religious Polytheists believe that there is a Supreme Creator that has generated other divine beings (gods) that share the power of both General and Special Providence. Other religious Polytheists believe the Supreme Creator wields General Providence and has generated other divine beings (gods) with the power of Special Providence. Then there are Polytheists that believe that the generated divine beings destroyed or imprisoned the Supreme Creator and they now hold General and Special Providence. maintain the natural order of the Universe (General Providence) and intervene with Creation (Special Providence). I also believe that the maxim that a Creator exists is more beneficial to us than the pessimism and alienation produced from the acceptance of the maxim of Nature exists without a Creator. I hope to demonstrate how our postdictive processes of loving a creator can influence higher-level event perception and decision making. Loving a creator can also promote a sense of personal control and a sense of social justice when threatened. Our Creator is like gravity, you cannot physically sense Him. But, our Creator's presence is known throughout world from the actions He has taken and the clues He makes available. Moses testimony that our Creator formed man from the soil of our earth (Genesis 2:7) is a theme that recurs in Sumerian, Egyptian, Chinese, Laotian, Inca, Greek, Jew, Christian, Muslim, and Native American belief systems. In the article, 'Clay May Have Been Birthplace of Life, New Study Suggests,' Scientists now theorize that clay hydro-gels provided a platform for chemicals to come together and form complex bio-molecules. "“We propose that in early geological history a clay hydrogel provided a confinement function for bio-molecules and biochemical reactions,” said Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental engineering and a member of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. You have to ask yourself whether all these creation stories line now line up with science is is random coincidence or life really came from the Creator. If you come to believe the latter, then take the next step on take the path of the righteous (selfless love) and acknowledge the wisdom and power of our Creator. When you do sin, the Didache teaches you to get back up again, repent, and try again. In 1844 "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" was published anonymously, but in the 12th edition published in 1884 revealed the book's was Robert Chambers, a Scottish journalist, who had written the book in St Andrews between 1841 and 1844 while recovering from a psychiatric illness. "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" had a profound impact on Charles Darwin in his writing the "Origin of Species." Charles Darwin did not argue that species not originate from a Creator and avoided discussions against it. But, Darwin did argue was that the progress of a species was not done under the Providence (directing all things) of our Creator. The Origin of Species HISTORICAL SKETCH Of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species Darwin's theory ended in chapter fourteen of 'The Origin of Species' with Darwin's account of how the whole story began. It began with a creature capable of reproduction with occasional errors Putting God as your first love in your life is a consistent teaching from Moses to Jesus, to the Prophets and Saints. The Didache of the 12 Apostles appropriately places this as the first teaching. The Didache - Chapter 1 - The Teaching Bereishit - Genesis - Chapter 1 The Creator assists created natural agents who recognize Him beyond a force of nature. Genesis 14 1: 26 And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth." 1: 27 And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the sky and over all the beasts that tread upon the earth. " 1:29 ] And God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food. 1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, every green herb to eat," and it was so. The Creator also uses created supernatural agents to assist created natural agents who recognize Him beyond a force of nature and prostrate themselves to His Will. The Creator uses created supernatural agents to punishes created agents who recognize Him beyond a force of nature, but rebel against His Will. Exodus 23 14:17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the Kings Valley). 14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.) 14:19 He blessed Abram, saying, Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth. 14:20 Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand. Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe the Creator does reveal His presence to created natural agents that do His Will. In Scripture, the Creator reveals both His appearance and character to His servant Moses. The Creator declares Himself to be a God of compassion, grace, patience, and abounding in loyal love for mankind. Yet at the same time, the Creator states that He executes justice on the guilty who rebel against His Will. Justice is continued through four generations until one seeks forgiveness. Exodus 34 The Creator shares His Divine Spirit (Force, Advocate, Support) of love to His created agents that do His will. Numbers 11 The is only one Creator. Moses commanded the Israelites to love the Creator with all their heart (self-conscious) and soul (blood). Devarim - Deuteronomy - Chapter 6 Deuteronomy 12:23 states that our blood is life. Leviticus 17:11 the life of every living thing is in the blood. Science has verified that our life depends upon the existence and circulation of blood. But 6 you must not eat meat 7 with its life (that is, 8 its blood) in it. Devarim - Deuteronomy - Chapter 7 Joshua 22 1 Samuel 2 2 Samuel 7 Psalms 18 Moses explained the difference of time for man and the Creator. Book of Tehillim (Psalms) 90 'There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind' Antony Garrard Newton Flew was an English philosopher well known throughout his life as a champion debator of atheism. In 2004, at the age of 80, Flew changed his mind to that of a Jeffersonian Deist (Creator without Providence) His change of mind shows the persuasive argument modern theists that challenge atheistic naturalism. In Flew’s words, he simply “had to go where the evidence leads.” Flew was very impressed with Orthodox Jewish physicist, Gerald Lawrence Schroeder’s reconciing Genesis 1 with the scientific evidence that the world is billions of years old using the idea that the perceived flow of time for a given event in an expanding universe varies with the observer’s perspective of that event. According to Einstein's equations of the 'stretching factor', time dilates by a factor of roughly 1,000,000,000,000, meaning one trillion days on earth would appear to pass as one day from that point, due to the stretching of space. When applied to the estimated age of the universe at 13.8 billion years, from the perspective of the point of origin, the universe today would appear to have just begun its sixth day of existence, or if the universe is 15 billion years old from the perspective of earth, it would appear to have just completed its sixth day. Each day of creation is numbered. Yet Nahmanides points out that there is discontinuity in the way the days are numbered. The verse says: "There is evening and morning, Day One." But the second day doesn't say "evening and morning, Day Two." Rather, it says "evening and morning, a second day." And the Torah continues with this pattern: "Evening and morning, a third day... a fourth day... a fifth day... the sixth day." Only on the first day does the text use a different form: not "first day," but "Day One" ("Yom Echad"). Many English translations that make the mistake of writing "a first day." That's because editors want things to be nice and consistent. But they throw out the cosmic message in the text! That message, as Nahmanides points out, is that there is a qualitative difference between "one" and "first." One is absolute; first is comparative. The Torah could not write “a first day” on the first day because there had not yet been a second day relative to it. Had the perspective of the Bible for the first six days been from Sinai looking back, the Torah would have written a first day. By the time the Torah was given on Sinai there had been hundreds of thousands of "second days." The perspective of the Bible for the six days of Genesis is from the only time in the history of time when there had not been a second day. And that is the first day. From the creation of the universe to the creation of the soul of Adam, the Torah views time from near the beginning looking forward. At the creation of Adam and Eve, the soul of humanity, the Bible perspective switches to earth based time. And therefore the biblical description of time changed. By putting your faith in God, he will help guide you to to make the right choice and work in His name. 2 Chronicles 20 Isaiah 63 Trusting God is simply believing that He loves you, Hes good, He has the power to help you, He wants to help you. At certain points of time, the Lord intervenes in the affairs of his loyal followers, to fulfill His promise to them. Jeremiah 29 Luke 1 Luke 1 Jefferson viewed Jesus as a great reformer of the faith like Martin Luther. From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 9 April 1803 Mark 12 Our Creator is light, as is His only begotten son, Jesus Christ. John 14 Jesus Prays for Believers Everywhere John 17 John 21 Christians believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation, he came down from heaven. Acts 2 Christians love God the Father and our Savior, Jesus the Christ. 1 Peter 1 2 Peter Saint Paul wrote that even our Messiah, Jesus Christ, is subject to our Creator (Our Father). In the end through Jesus we all will receive a similar divine gift of becoming a Child of God. 1 Corinthians 15 1 Corinthians 50 Clement initially intended to write the Didasculus, a revision of the Didache that would complement his first book, 'The Paedagogus' (tutor or instructor) on training souls to become a children of God. Clement wrote that flesh is created by the Holy Spirit, the Lord giver of life. In the beginning the Word was with God in God. Through Moses and the prophets, the Word of God was given to the mankind to fear God and follow His Law. The Word of God was infused into living flesh by the Holy Spirit. The Word of God is our Lord Jesus Christ, the living bread from Heaven that gives eternal life to all that believe in the eternal grace and truth to understanding the Law given to Him by the will of our Father Almighty. Our salvation depends on our Father's grace and truth and that His will is purely good. Through mutual love our Father and Jesus have given us life, truth, and example to why we live it. Through the Power of our Father almighty the living Word has now been infused back into the Holy Spirit and given a greater body to all those that are given grace to receive It. Clement is definitive in calling Jesus God in the form of man. And that we must try with all our might to follow His sinless life. Further, if we do transgress against God and our fellow man or woman, that renew our battle against the sin of death. The Paedagogus (Book I) Chapter 2. Our Instructor's Treatment of Our Sins Muslims too believe that one must love God in order to receive His mercy. Quran Surat 'Āli `Imrān (Family of Imran) The translation of the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ maíaḥ as Χριστός (Khristós, whence the term Christ comes) in the Greek Septuagint became the accepted Christian designation and title of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe that messianic prophecies in the Christian Old Testament (especially Isaiah) refer to a spiritual savior and believe that Jesus is the Christian Messiah. On earth as the divine Son, Jesus did only whatever our Creator (Our Father) commanded him to do. When Jesus rose from the dead he became fully divine. As a Christian, I believe our Father has bestowed Jesus the power to resurrect the dead from their tombs at the last day and the authority to give eternal life to whomever he chooses. I pray though the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus accepts me into Our Father's kingdom and I receive the gift of eternal joy. Arianism is a nontrinitarian belief that asserts that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, created by God the Father, distinct from the Father and therefore subordinate to the Father Watch "Mother Teresa: How to Love God." Like Jesus, Moses, and the saints before her, Mother Teresa lived with the poor and taught the ways to properly love God. http://youtu.be/D1uwuPu7ueo From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 January 1810 Natural Deists would Universally agree with the maxim that there is one is one Supreme Creator (Architect) that generated all that exists and keeps the natural order (General Providence). But, Natural Deists perceive a reality with and Architect does not interfere with all life experiences that take place in creation. The only connection we have with the Architect is that we exist with him. While other Natural Deists object to the belief that this the Prime Mover is one consciously aware being (Architect), but perceive a reality where everything (All) are part of one Mental Universe. Religious Monotheists (Jews, Christians and Muslims) and some Polytheist believe perceive reality through a connection with one Supreme consciously aware Prime Mover (Creator) that generated everything that exists and keeps the natural order of our Universe (General Providence) and the spiritual world beyond it. Note. I will place a passage from the Didache on the top of each post I make. Scripture, quotes, media and my testimony will be in context to the passage. I will also incorporate music, video, and imagery to amplify feelings to the words of my personal testimony. I have also chosen to use the term Creator in order to respect the beliefs of the religious faiths and religions I mention.

Ronald Reagan Views on Immigration Reform It appears that at one time both sides of the aisle believed this.

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Ron Paul and James Woolsey have healthy debate on Piers Morgan. http://youtu.be/B999I4Hl15E A person who I consider to be insightful on this topic mentioned that he is seeing backlash, against Govt. Contractors, who work in TS Cleared positions. He mentioned how "Jim Woolsey, former director of the CIA, is on the Board of Directors for Booz Allen. Bechtel, The Rand Corporation, etc.......have been front groups for CIA-led operations and DISA Ops, for decades." Defense Contractors relationship with the government is no different than the Banks relationship with the treasury. Or even K Streets relationship with Congress. People put in their time with Uncle Sam, learn how the system works, make connections, and then become valuable agents in Private Industry. In theory, this symbiotic relationship works for both sides. The problem is when the balance tips on one side or the other. Right now money is drying up on defense. It will be interesting to see whether some of these Contractors switch flags. China was not able to steal our National secrets alone. Most intel groups are black ops on creating their own hardware. The Chinese had help. What is more scary is that we are not doing anything about it. Just a slap on the wrist. The Constitution is not affected by a popularity contest. The only way to remove our Right to Privacy is to write up a new Constitution. The law of the land comes from the 2nd Constitutional Convention. If you do not like the law petition for a 3rd Constitution Convention. James 2

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There is a petition posted on the White House web site to Pardon Edward Snowden. I am sure it will be difficult for many Americans to decide whether he is a hero or traitor. Ron Paul's son, Senator Rand Paul, thinks the Government should not be peering into our lives and destroying our civil liberties. I agree with Charlie Rose that Edward Snowden has to surrender himself. Liberty is only a dream if not pursued. Liberty was in the flesh of patriots of change like Dr. King, George Washington, Nelson Mendela, and many others. I once thought Barack Obama was an advocate for civil liberty. But, now I am not so sure. Political surveillance is a transgression of Our Right to privacy. There needs to be some public accountability and oversight on who accesses these files and for what purpose. Listen to what Rep. Maxine Waters says about Organization for America's database.

The Didache - Introduction "Son, if you look for the good you will find it. If you look for the bad you will find it too." This was the first moral teaching given to me by my father when I was just a boy. Learning the truth of good and bad starts with life experiences with family (mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, guardians etc..) friends, classmates, teachers (pastors, priests, rabbis, professors, councilors, etc), and adversaries. Truth can be further shaped with the knowledge gained from media (internet, television, radio, movies, books, etc ). In this age of Science and Faith it can be difficult is discerning the Truth that comes from a Creative Force of Nature and what is from the teaching of man. I have chosen to research the Didache of the 12 Apostles because it is honored as the 'first catechism' (articles of faith) of the Christian church. The Didache (dee-da-ke, Greek word for teaching) of the 12 Apostles is a timeless moral compass that identifies selfless positive actions that lead to life and prosperity and negative selfish actions that lead to death and destruction. For nonChristians the Didache is a code of conduct without references to angels, prophecy and miracles.The principles of right living by the golden rule apply to everyone regardless of culture or creed. in life. For those in Behavior Sciences and religious naturalist the Didache is a good window to understanding the evolution of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic social morality. Congruent (in harmony) to the Laws give to the Israelites through Moses, the Didache is an instruction manual Jesus gave to the Apostles that further defines how to be righteous (law abiding) Christians. Over time the original Didache was replaced with revised teachings that brought about new catechisms, church schisms, reformations, and the birth of Arianism, Islam, Protestantism, Mormonism and Unitarianism. In humble admiration, I am using President Thomas Jefferson's syllabus method used in his book "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth" (also known as the Jefferson Bible) to best present the truth in the Didache of the 12 Apostles. Jefferson's book was made made by cutting out gospel wisdom passages of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) and arranging them on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject that he thought best to present the philosophical teachings of Jesus without the supernatural. President John Adams understood the magnitude of Jefferson's work. John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1813 I will follow the same method by adapting the modern technology of copying, cutting, and pasting a reasoned comparison of the Didache's text line by line with my life experiences, media and the Holy Word (Scripture) given by a supernatural Creative Force of Nature that has been witnessed and testified by the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths. In addition, I will include other faiths, philosophy, and natural science in context to a particular Apostolic teaching. I propose the Didache to be a great mechanism to create positive neuroplasticity (physical change to the brain) and socioplasticity (cultural change to a society) that should be studied for its benefits to the happiness of our human condition. I ask you the reader to temporarily suspend your preconception or disbelief on whether or not a Creative Force of Nature exists or how an Apostolic teaching can give us an understanding on how the choice of our actions can lead to Life and Happiness or Death and Misery until I am finished presenting testimony of definitions of to you. It is my hope that together you the reader and I the writer strip away the bias of belief and unbelief in our quest for truth to better understanding what it means to have good moral sense in life and share the happiness when we find it. In our pursuit for the truth of happiness I shall begin my essay with a quote from the United States Declaration of Independence. As the primary author of the United States Declaration of Independence , Thomas Jefferson understood the liberty of choice our Creator has given us to pursuit the wisdom of life and prosperity or suffer the evils of death and destruction. The truth of choice that the followers of religion and/or nature, universally agree upon is defined as 'self evident.' Jefferson acquired John Locke's notion how Nature has transcribed into man the understanding of happiness and misery. In the 1689 book, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke writes. Chapter III No Innate Practical Principles An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ( Chapters 2 -3) John Locke writes that the knowledge of the truths of Nature, Happiness and Misery comes through our senses from acquired experiences that are placed into memory. In infancy sensory development begins with our innate ability to differentiate pain from pleasure, hot from cold, bitter from sweet, stench from perfume, light from dark, loud from quiet, and rough from smooth. Locke notes that as our development continues, our minds begin to acquire general abstract ideas from familiar objects and prior experienced events. Some of the abstract ideas our minds formulate are right (successful) and some are wrong (failure). Our ability to recognize right and wrong ideas is what John Locke calls "the use of reason." Acquired ideas that become more accepted by reason are given names and basic language is formed. Ideas that are shared, understood and accepted by others become undoubted truths are what John Locke defines as "maxims." Many undoubted truths not known to others are reasoned by reflecting on their own unique development experiences. Undoubted truths that are reasoned and accepted before they are known are what John Locke terms "implicit maxims.' Ideas that are shared and not understood to be accepted as true or false, assent or dissent, are considered ignorant. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke To understand how Thomas Jefferson acquired maxim of the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God we must first review Commentaries on the Laws of England by English judge, Sir William Blackstone published in 1765. The Will of the Creative force of Nature is called Natural Law. It is the explicit Will of Natural Law that binds us to this Universe and each other. It is the implicit Will of Natural Law to protect those who choose to accept and follow what we find to be good and self evident with our life. Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England Introduction Of the Nature of Laws in General. In Jefferson's 1817 letter to John Tyler, our nation's third president acknowledged the use of Blackstone's common laws and the Will of the Creator in forming the the Republic of the United States. But, America's use of English common law was fashioned into a system that was more relevant to a government without a king. It was the Republic's cause of ascension of the rights of citizens over being ruled by a king that made the Declaration of Independence a necessary document. Locke, Blackstone and Jefferson believed that a Creative Force of Nature has given us power over our body and mind to pursue or avoid sensations and reflections of pleasure and pain. John Locke believed that the Creator willed us to follow moral laws of virtue and happiness that preserve our individual selves and society from pain. Locke wrote that mankind will be rewarded if we abide by the given laws and punished if we disobey them. Locke, Blackstone, and Jefferson knew that 50 years before Jesus Christ walked the earth, Cicero, the Roman Philosopher theorized how the moral sense of law bestowed by the Creator enables man to discern by reason what is virtue (good) and what is vice (evil). Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 5 July 1814 In The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, vol. 2 (Treatise on the Laws). Cicero defined the Law of Nature as the governing power of the Creator. Marcus Cicero believed in a Actively Involved Creator (Divine Providence) over a Do Nothing Creator (Prime Mover) defined by the Greek Philosopher Epicurus that walked this earth 200 years before him. Epicurus taught that pain and death are not evil unto themselves. Cicero believed in the immortality of the soul, and the tranquility of the good after death, and the punishment of the wicked defined by Plato. Epicurus also believed in divine beings, but man cannot be divine and should not expect anything good or bad to come from the gods. Epicurus taught that if one understands that he or she is not immortal, then one can be free of the fear of death and the pain caused from its coming. Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus Marcus Cicero agreed with Epicurus that death and pain are not evil unto themselves. But, he maintained that it was reason that links us to the Creator. It is this Provident Creator that generated man to transcend over the other creatures by reason and thought. And it is the right (successful) reason between the Creator and Man we find self evident, which we call Law. Epicurus believed that circumstance was the Prime Mover and Natural Order of matter. While Cicero maintained that through right reasoning we can take notice of the natural link between our indestructible spirit and our Creator through natural and morally just laws that derive from loving our associates. Epicurus taught that some outcomes happen out of necessity, others by chance, and our own through our own agency (course of action). Epicurus considered Law to be Truth as long as through Prudent Reasoning it is considered to be useful (Natural Justice and Honorable) and successful (pleasurable) to all parties (self evident). The chain of Epicurian reasoning has led us to now consider the infinite outcome reality of quantum self interest over one outcome reality of an outside Creative force of nature watching and interacting with us. It is in only the successful outcome of our decisions that those that believe in either a Provident Creator, a Prime Mover, or No God can agree. 50 years before Epicurus, a sage by the name of Aristotle tutor of Alexander the Great, argued that is through contrary outcomes that we can find Natural Justice. Nicomachean Ethics By Aristotle Another great orator that both born and died the same years as Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) by the name of Demosthenes led a failed revolt against Alexander the Great and took his life rather than being arrested. Demosthenes believed that unjust actions to be wicked and just actions to be good and honest. Demosthenes Against Aristocrates Section 75 Demosthenes argued that those who fail to see and act upon god given opportunities during their lifetime will be judged their denial of the divine good in them. Demosthenes Olynthiac 1 Section 11 Demosthenes and Aristotle would have known Socrates, the Great Greek philosopher that proceeded them. In Joeseph Priestly's work, Socrates and Jesus Compared, Socrates devout religious belief to help citizens and others to be good was greatly admired. He taught the one Law of Nature is to do good in return for good received; or face the penalty of being deserted by your friends in you time of need. Priestly also writes that taught of a decisive power superior to man. And Unlike Epicurus belief that the gods were unconcerned spectators of the plight of man, Socrates reasoned the gods were concerned and interceded in the affairs of man. At his trial Socrates said that he had often heard a Daemon (divine voice) who was frequently present within him. He trusted the judgement of his personal reason and the wisdom of the gods over people. During his trial,Socrates listened to his Daemon repeated commands not to make any defense to the accusations, which led to his demise against tyrants. During Socrates sentencing he pleaded a justifiable reason of vanity that he if was executed, Athens would find no other man like him. Ultimately Socrates execution made him even more famous as a martyr for morality. To Priestly it appears that Socrates had little or no faith in the sanction of virtue in the doctrine of a future state. But, believed in the pleasure received during life and the chance of honored by the living after death. Priestly writes, "Socrates, according to Plato, generally speaks of a future state, and the condition of men in, as the popular belief, which might be true or false. Priestly does mention that Socrates taught that there was a privilege given by the gods to only a select group humans initiated in the right manner into a philosophy of meditation of a pure mind over their body to live with them. Socrates did not know whether or not he had succeeded in this endeavor or not. SOCRATES AND JESUS COMPARED BY JOSEPH PRIESTLY page 22 Priestly maintained Socrates theorized that the substance of man's power of thinking, or mental action may remain when the corporeal body ceases to exist. Priestly then added the Greek general belief of an afterlife during the time of Socrates could have been similar to the Jews idea of afterlife, but the record of this Future State revelation had been long lost. 600 years before Socrates, Aristotle and Demosthenes, the Israelite King Solomon wrote and shared words of wisdom to his people that a perfect weight on honest scales and balances are the Creator's will. Mishlei - Proverbs - Chapter 11 Proverbs 16 The Egyptian scale and balance concept of 'Ma’at' predated the Torah by 2000 years, but had a similar meaning of an active Creative Force of Nature involved in the scales and balances of Justice. and a later became a goddess. Ma’at originated as a concept and evolved into belief in a goddess. As a concept Ma’at was a manifestation of the Creator and Sun god, Amun Ra (Amun Re, Yamānu, Hidden One) to maintain truth, justice and natural universal order by balancing the flow of Ka (vital energy, life force, magic) from opposing powers. Ma’at is also a blatant counter force to the Egyptian term isfet (disorder). As a goddess, through the activation of the Ka (Heka) Ma’at was created by Amun Ra and opponent of Apepi (Aapep) the giant serpent and Lord of Chaos. Egyptians had no concept of Hell after death, Judgement came to those that followed Apepi and heart was not pure during life, their punishment was to devoured by the female demon Ammit into non-existence. The Moaning of the Bedouin In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Maat represents the ethical and moral principle of truth and honor that every citizen was expected to follow throughout their daily lives. The soul, ka (vital energy, and Chu (Shu, breath of life) originated on earth and were connected to immortality. Book of the Dead of Hunefer Chapter CLXXXIII Papyrus of Un'neferu The Maxims of Ptahhotep or Instruction of Ptahhotep (2500 - 2400 BC) is considered the oldest collection of wisdom in the world written by composed by the Vizier Ptahhotep, during the rule of King Izezi of the Fifth Dynasty. The Prisse Papyrus, dating from the twelfth dynasty Egyptian Middle Kingdom, was obtained by the French orientalist Émile Prisse d'Avennes at Thebes in 1856 and is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. The Prisse Papyrus contains the only complete surviving copy of the Instruction of Ptahhotep. Ptahhotep considered the heart (ka) the way to measure life, prosperity and health. Those with the strongest heart are those that listen, understand and follow the laws given to keep order (Ma'at) in ones life. The one who listens to to those that do not follow law and order other, but looks for only pleasures to the body will grow a weak heart and only know death, punishment and appear foolish to others. Papyrus Prisse Like the Egyptian concept of Ma'at (Order) and Apepi (Disorder), In the Talmud (Tractate Berakoth Folio 5a) Jews believe that the soul of person has both a good spirit (Yezter hatov, impulse, inclination, instinct, genii) and a evil spirit (Yezter hara, impulse, inclination instinct, genii) battling for control.The problem, however, arises when one makes a willful choice to "cross over the line," and seeks to gratify the evil spirits. Rabbi Levi explains the meaning to King David's wisdom on how to maintain Selah (balance, Ma'at) in one's life by praying to the Creator for help to transform our Yezter hara into a good force in our life. Tractate Berakoth Folio 5a “Inclination is pleasure, accompanied by the idea of something which is accidentally a cause of pleasure." The Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza PART III. ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE EMOTIONS Everyone shapes his actions according to his emotion, ... a mental decision and a bodily appetite, or determined state, are simultaneous, or rather are one and the same thing, which we call decision Now I should like to know whether there be in the mind two sorts of decisions, one sort illusive, and the other sort free? If our folly does not carry us so far as this, we must necessarily admit, that the decision of the mind, which is believed to be free, is not distinguishable from the imagination or memory, and is nothing more than the affirmation, which an idea, by virtue of being an idea, necessarily involves. Wherefore these decisions of the mind arise in the mind by the same necessity, as the ideas of things actually existing. This endeavor, when referred solely to the mind, is called will, when referred to the mind and body in conjunction it is called appetite; it is, in fact, nothing else but man's essence, from the nature of which necessarily follow all those results which tend to its preservation; and which man has thus been determined to perform. Further, between appetite and desire there is no difference, except that the term desire is generally applied to men, in so far as they are conscious of their appetite, and may accordingly be thus defined: Desire is appetite with consciousness thereof. It is thus plain from what has been said, that in no case do we strive for, wish for, long for, or desire anything, because we deem it to be good, but on the other hand we deem a thing to be good, because we strive for it, wish for it, long for it, or desire it. Thus we see, that the mind can undergo many changes, and can pass sometimes to a state of greater perfection, sometimes to a state of lesser perfection. These passive states of transition explain to us the emotions of pleasure and pain. By pleasure therefore in the following propositions I shall signify a passive state wherein the mind passes to a greater perfection. By pain I shall signify a passive state wherein the mind passes to a lesser perfection. Further, the emotion of pleasure in reference to the body and mind together I shall call stimulation (titillatio) or merriment (hilaritas), the emotion of pain in the same relation I shall call suffering or melancholy. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred. If the mind has once been affected by two emotions at the same time, it will, whenever it is afterwards affected by one of these two, be also affected by the other. if the body, and consequently the mind has been once affected by two emotions at the same time, it will, whenever it is afterwards affected by one of the two, be also affected by the other. I, therefore, recognize only three primitive or primary emotions, namely, pleasure, pain, and desire. Anything can, accidentally, be the cause of pleasure, pain, or desire. the mind afterwards conceiving the said thing is affected with the emotion of pleasure or pain, that is according as the power of the mind and body may be increased or diminished, and consequently according as the mind may desire or shrink from the conception of it, in other words, according as it may love or hate the same. Hence we understand how it may happen, that we love or hate a thing without any cause for our emotion being known to us; merely, as a phrase is, from sympathy or antipathy. Simply from the fact that we conceive, that a given object has some point of resemblance with another object which is wont to affect the mind pleasurably or painfully, although the point of resemblance be not the efficient cause of the said emotions, we shall still regard the first-named object with love or hate. Pride,... is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself. Again, the pleasure which arises from a man thinking too highly of another is called over-esteem. Whereas the pleasure which arises from thinking too little of a man is called disdain. In proportion as a man thinks, that a loved object is well affected towards him, will be the strength of his self-approval, that is, of his pleasure; he will, therefore, endeavor, as far as he can, to imagine the loved object as most closely bound to him: this endeavor or desire will be increased, if he thinks that someone else has a similar desire. But this endeavor or desire is assumed to be checked by the image of the loved object in conjunction with the image of him whom the loved object has joined to itself; therefore he will for that reason be affected with pain, accompanied by the idea of the loved object as a cause in conjunction with the image of his rival; that is, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and also towards his rival, which latter he will envy as enjoying the beloved object. This hatred towards an object of love joined with envy is called Jealousy, which accordingly is nothing else but a wavering of the disposition arising from combined love and hatred, accompanied by the idea of some rival who is envied. Further, this hatred towards the object of love will be greater, in proportion to the pleasure which the jealous man had been wont to derive from the reciprocated love of the said object; and also in proportion to the feelings he had previously entertained towards his rival. If he had hated him, he will forthwith hate the object of his love, because he conceives it is pleasurably affected by one whom he himself hates: and also because he is compelled to associate the image of his loved one with the image of him whom he hates. Desire arising through pain or pleasure, hatred or love, is greater in proportion as the emotion is greater. King Solomon's Book of Ecclesiastes contains similar wisdom to Vizier Ptahhotep's Papyrus Prisse for a on how to keep good moral sense when making decisions. Ecclesiastes 10 In Genesis we see that the inclination to sin is able to dominate Cain from anger of the Creator being not pleased in his offering to Him. Genesis 4 The Targum of Jonathan Ben Uzziel explains that the Creator has given us authority over our inclinations (spirits) to be good or evil. THE TARGUM OF PALESTINE, COMMONLY ENTITLED THE TARGUM OF JONATHAN BEN UZZIEL, ON THE BOOK OF GENESIS. SECTION I. BERASHITH In 1785, Immanuel Kant wrote in Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, that a good will to be a moral interest (morality) in respecting of the law (Divine Will, command), which we impose on ourselves. Respect is a feeling that originates from a practical rational concept independent from the influences of inclinations(desire or fear senses), which do not allow themselves to be suppressed by any law or command. Kant wrote that "Duty is the necessity of acting from respect for the law" that excludes inclinations. Our moral worth is derived from duty of acting from pure respect for a law or command regardless of our mortal fate. Jefferson understood the idea of balance of pleasure and pain should be approached through cautioned reason. From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12 October 1786 The Prophet Moses told the story about how the evil of human inclinations caused the Creator nearly destroy all life on earth, But, the Prophet Noah's offering of atonement for the sins of mankind abated the Creator's anger and in Mercy, He made a Covenant to no longer curse life. Genesis 6 - 8 Scientific American, Feeling Our Emotions, reports that neurologist Antonio R. Damasio believes that feelings are what arise as the brain interprets emotions, which are themselves purely physical signals of the body reacting to external stimuli. In the book of Job, we see in a passage Zophar’s thought (spirit) is compelling him to respond to the prophet's words that dishonor the Creator. Job 20 Antonio R. Damasio has surfaced Jewish Philosopher Baruch Spinoza views regarding the body and soul to be used in neurology. In Spinoza's Ethics he wrote: The Prophet Isaiah revealed that the Creator kept his Covenant with Noah and would not destroy humankind for the sake of his grateful servants. The Hebrew word for Jew, Yehudi, means “one who gives thanks.” Jews believe that if you give thanks to the Creator (Hashem) for everything, you won’t need to run to holy ones for blessings, because you’ll be blessed in every single way. The Creator also warned the Jews to not to follow ideas that go against what He has commanded. And watch out for those that consider themselves too holy to be touched by mere mortals. The Great Isaiah Scroll Chapter 65 The prophet Jeremiah revealed to the Jews that sacrifice is worthless when people follow their own inclinations rather than following the Law that was revealed to them. Jeremiah 7 Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. In Jewish liturgy, Rosh Hashanah leads to Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. The Talmud states, "Yom Kippur atones for those who repent and does not atone for those who do not repent". Rosh Hashanah 16b The Apostle Paul recognizes the difficulty in not following inclinations and remaining faithful to the Creator. Hebrews 12 Arabic people that consider themselves holy over others are referred to as mutakabbiroon (people of arrogance). In the Qur'ran, the Creator (Allah) warned people not to follow false deities or people that consider themselves holy ones that can see into your soul and give you guidance. Like Jews and Christians, Muslims believe that you need to be grateful to the Creator to receive His Mercy. Ibrahim Abrahim Chapter 14 In Islam, the Prophet Mohamed defined evil inclinations as suggestions or impulses coming from Satan. By focusing on fearing to be cursed by the Creator one can overcome the power of Satanic impulses. Al-A'raf The Heights Chapter 7 To gain greater understanding of inclination we must also look further east to India and The Hindu Mahābhārata is an epic narrative written around 900 BC that contains philosophical and devotional material similar to the Torah, New Testament, Talmud, and Qu'ran. Within the Mahābhārata their is discussion on how human instincts attract dark inclinations and propensities that surround the soul, cloud judgement and instill greed, fear and pride. Mahabharata To summarize what we have reasoned together is that Nature (The Creator) has given us authority over our positive and negative inclinations (spirits) by our ability to learn, understand (reason), and duty to follow the Law (Divine Will) imposed on ourselves to keep order during life and gain respect (moral worth) for ourselves. Through meditation (prayer) Nature (The Creator) can help overcome difficult negative (evil) inclinations to make good choices. At the end of our mortal lives the actions we choose will be weighed and judged upon. Those that have controlled their negative (evil) inclinations and followed the law during their lives will be remembered as good and helped by friends (Creator) during times of need. For those of faith and pure mind (spirit) believe the righteous have the opportunity live with the Creator for eternity. Those individuals that sought only to gratify their evil inclinations during life and not follow the law look foolish and are deserted by all in a time of greatest need. For those of faith and corrupt mind (spirit) will be separated from the Creator and suffer after death. At this stage of my essay the question I ask you the reader to think carefully on whether Justice and Morality are to be considered divine, genetic, an invention of man, or all three? Thomas Law posed this question to President Jefferson. Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1814 Jefferson's response was that man derives morality through instinct designed by a Creative Force Nature. This was a slight variance from Emmanuel Kant's view that respect is a rational concept that influences feelings. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814 Jefferson's idea of Moral Instinct was understood by Lord Kames as Moral Sense to distinguish virtue (good) from evil (vice). Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion Source of the Laws of Nature Lord Kames, Henry Home In Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion, Kames wrote that The God of Nature (Creative Force of Nature, Creator) has designed our appetites and passions, and the desires and adversions that accompany them to operate by impulse without reason and answer to what is called instinct in brute creatures.Solitary creatures are designed to live by brute instinct, On the other hand social creatures are designed with a different nature. Lord Kames defined the concept of 'moral sense' to be our instinctual ability to perceive the right and wrong in our actions. It is our moral sense that provides connection to each other and accumulates knowledge on actions that help or hinder our life. It was Kames understanding that through accumulated knowledge the action of indulgence has been found to be a brute appetite for pleasure that favors lack of of restraint of which can hurt our mind and body. It is this reason that indulgence is condemned by the moral sense to be an attack on our life. Kames believed the God of Nature designed society to connect groups of individuals strongly together, by participation of the joys and miseries of fellow creatures. Through mutual trust and reliance, a society can create laws to provide a greater opportunity of prosperity and protection from mutual injuries to its members. Both Atheist and Theist believe that Moral sense preserves ourselves and society from harm and pain. The only difference is that Atheist believe that Moral sense originates from human evolution (nature) while Theist (Deist and Monotheist) believe it originates from a Creator. Atheist and some Deist believe the distinctions between morality and immorality are discovered by emotional responses to experience and cultural (nurture) teaching. Monotheist and some Deist believe that the distinctions of morality and immorality are designed and shared by the Creator to righteous (good and virtuous) individuals which instruct society (nurture). Monotheist (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) believe the Creator designed and gave the Prophet Moses Divine Laws (Mosaic Law) to provide a moral framework for Israelite society to follow. Christians believe the Mosaic Law was designed for a lower stage of civilization During the Hellenistic era, Hellenistic Judaism aspired to combine Jewish religious tradition with elements of Greek culture and philosophy. The philosopher Philo used philosophical allegory to attempt to fuse and harmonize Greek philosophy with Jewish philosophy. His work attempts to combine Plato and Moses into one philosophical system. He developed an allegoric approach of interpreting holy scriptures (the bible), in contrast to (old-fashioned) literally interpretation approaches. His allegorical exegesis was important for several Christian Church Fathers and some scholars hold that his concept of the Logos as God's creative principle influenced early Christology. Other scholars, however, deny direct influence but say both Philo and Early Christianity borrow from a common source. America was born on the idea that all humans have the Natural Right of Liberty (Freedom of Conscious) over forced coercion of opinions by those in authority onto others. Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, January 16, 1786 Most Diests and Monotheists believe that any human and nonhuman creature incapable of understanding the concept of a Creator and/or Covenants, then are incapable of understanding unalienable rights (treated with respect and dignity) bestowed by the Will of the Creator. But, the incapability of a nonhuman or human creature does not mean it does not have right to Life and Happiness. Monotheist believe a good person of authority has the responsibility to take care of the well-being of both human and nonhuman living creatures (Genesis 1:26 - 28, 9:1 - 3, Proverbs 12:10, Psalms 8:6, Daniel 4:17, Romans 13:1 - 5 ). Most Atheist and Agnostics would agree with Theists that all life should be valued and we should help those not to suffer during their time in the light of the sun. Atheist and Theist both accept that it is our liberty (Free Will) to decide what shared moral ideas (morality) to follow or not follow that lead to happiness or misery. Jefferson came to his own conclusion that it is through reason that we can come to understand the limits of Free Will. Liberty is our Free Will through Reason to specifically recognize our right to choose with Prudence from ideas different course of actions that lead to a Life of Happiness and Prosperity without infringing on the rights others. It is the successful abstract ideas (moral senses) we find useful and just to be self evident. Thomas Jefferson to I. Tiffany, 1819 Both those that believe or not believe in a Creator understand can accept the meaning of a Right of Liberty to that of a Social Contract (Constitution) that is useful and beneficial to all involved parties. Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld was an American jurist and the author of Fundamental Legal Conceptions, As Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays formed the modern understanding of the nature of rights, privilege, immunity an power. Holfeld's Right of Liberty denotes the privilege one of one being not subject to the acts of another person. Modern law considers Right of Liberty to be a privilege of one's freedom (immunity) from claim of another. Liberty can also be considered a Disability to one that does not have power to alter the acts of another. As Divine Law through covenant bestowed power to control the ownership the Liberty of others, Civil Law through Social Contract appoints one legal power to control the ownership of The Right of Liberty of another. The Just (law abiding) exercise virtues (brave, temperate, and of good temperament) that seek fair conditions for the greater good and happiness of others. The unjust (lawless) exercise vice (wickedness) that seek lesser evil unfair conditions that lead to self prosperity with the possibility of inflicting misery to others. In Civil Law defending the Civil governing power is called Law enforcement. All Americans enjoy the freedoms, protections, and legal rights which the Constitution promises. It is the duty of every American citizen to bear true faith, allegiance, support, and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. To become a citizen of the United States of America a foreign applicant must take an in a public ceremony. The language of the current Oath of Allegiance can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations Section 337.1 and is closely based upon the statutory elements in Section 337(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The Constitution provides Law enforcement describes the individuals and agencies responsible for enforcing laws and maintaining public order and public safety. In Psychology, Behavioral Reinforcement is a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent (prior) stimulus (Ex. reward, punishment). It is now known that human behavior reinforcement with chimpanzees has resulted in their ability to learn and teach the abstract idea of human sign language to other members of their nonhuman community. Loulis, a chimpanzee born at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center learned to communicate in American Sign Language from another chimpanzee. Loulis In Behavior Psychology, researchers study nonhuman primate behavior to better understand our own human species. Like humans, some of the explicit abstract ideas chimpanzees formulate are right and some are wrong. Acquired explicit ideas that are successful become more accepted by a limited use of reason are then communicated to other members of chimpanzee community. Professor David Premack and Guy Woodruf introduced the influential concept Theory of Mind (naïve psychology) now used in developmental psychology. In his book, Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? Chimpanzees minds begin to acquire general abstract ideas from familiar objects and prior experienced events to better understand underlying goals, intentions, and knowledge of other creatures around them. Like humans, some of the explicit abstract ideas chimpanzees formulate are right and some are wrong. Acquired explicit ideas that are successful become more accepted by a limited use of reason are then communicated to other members of chimpanzee community. Chimpanzees have the ability to value their experiences tactically reason whether or not they should deceive and conceal or reveal and share their food source with other members of the community. There is compelling evidence that chimpanzees feel happiness and misery. According to the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, "Those who have worked closely with chimpanzees agree that they feel and express emotions such as sadness and happiness, fear and despair—and they know mental as well as physical pain." Jane Goodall Institute of Canada : Emotions To better understand nonhuman emotion watch Koko the Gorilla share a moment of laughter with Robin Williams. It is now known that chimpanzees and apes are self-aware and have empathy towards other individuals. Can We Learn About Gorilla Emotions via Sign Language? Jefferson concept of Happiness has evolved over the years to implicit term of 'well-being' used by psychologist to define overall emotional satisfaction. Happiness has also evolved to an explicit term 'quality of life' used by economist that measures living conditions (housing, employment etc.). If we bring both terms together we are able to create a new maxim that Happiness is our emotional satisfaction with our living conditions. In United States Law, Jefferson's Happiness includes primates as well. The 1985 Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act, was passed into law directing the Secretary of Agriculture to promote the psychological well-being of nonhuman primates. While there are similarities in humans and chimpanzees, there are many emotional and intellectual differences as well. According to researchers Joseph Call and Michael Tomasello, Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later, chimpanzees do not display human-like belief-desire psychology (folk psychology). Researchers have not found chimpanzees to reason, share, and accept ideas without familiar objects or life experienced events. It is true that chimpanzees can communicate both vocally and by gesture like humans, but they do not have larynx muscles and vocal cords to speak verbally (talk) or the ability to ask questions through sign language, physical tokens, and lexigrams. According to Dr. Jane Goodall, chimpanzees cannot share knowledge of the past or plan for the future. Although, recent studies reveal that chimpanzees and other primates can plan for their future needs. In the paper, Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and orangutan (Pongo abelii) forethought: self-control and pre-experience in the face of future tool use researchers Mathias and Helena Osvath would agree with Dr. Goodall on prior intentions, but do have a limited ability to plan future events, "great apes engage in planning for the future by out competing current drives and mentally pre-experiencing an upcoming event." Mathias and Helena also state that there is no evidence anywhere that chimpanzees understand the beliefs of others. But, like humans chimpanzees and other primates do understand and communicate emotion. Marcus Cicero 2000 year statement is still found correct that man alone retains the idea of the Divinity. Epicurus is statement is still found correct that man alone retains the idea of covenants that prevent parties from harming one another. Chimpanzees and mentally disabled human beings are for the moment not considered capable of formulating (define and question), understanding, accepting, and collaborating implicit (non experienced) maxims as true or false by assent or dissent. Atheist and Theist would both agree that it is our ability to formulate and collaborate the emotions we share and reality of the world we live is what separates us from the rest of the known species. Theist would add that is our ability to collaborate ideas of the divine and the making contracts (covenants) in their name is congruent and influences the modern law we know today. Many Monotheist believe that transgressions against Divine covenants are offenses against the Creator rather than solely against society they harmed. I propose that in this age of science and faith Jefferson's Declaration we find to be self evident has evolved to include both human and nonhuman beings created according to circumstance, that are endowed by covenant with certain unalienable rights, among these are Life and the pursuit Well Being. And those human citizens that understand the choice to follow a social contract of allegiance to our Nation are granted the privilege of the right of Liberty. When an appointed legal power takes unjust control of the Rights of another for the sake of one party then the social contract becomes no longer useful (Natural Justice) or successful to all parties then Liberty becomes no longer self evident. Luke 18 By substituting Creator with circumstance in Luke's passage, there can be no guarantee to the Respect or Well Being in the Life of each of Citizen. The only promise in a land without belief in a Creator is that a universal explicit sense of caring for the well being and circumstance of others will persuade those in authority to accept the implicit idea of treating citizens with dignity and respect in accordance to the Law legislated and enforced by man. The first main difference that a Theist has from an Atheist is that if one seeks help and justice through the Creator, then there is hope in receiving help and justice from the Creator in this life and/or the next. The second main difference that a Theist has from an Atheist is that if one is righteous and shows kindness and mercy to others, then there is hope in receiving the grace of good fortune and mercy in this life and/or the next. To an Atheist justice and fortune are a matter of environmental circumstance; kindness and mercy are a matter of discretionary circumstance; hope is a matter of expecting a better future circumstance; and righteousness and grace are attitudes of circumstance. Now through reason we have a better understanding of what is explicit conscious Free Will and the privilege of implicit Liberty to better see the proverbial fork in the road where we must discern (recognize) what actions cause life and death. The Didache - Chapter 1 The Didache's first lesson is for us to focus on the differences life and and death. The Didache is a Monotheist teaching that predicates it is the fear of death and darkness keeps us all all alive in the light. Atheist (no belief in a creator), Agnostics (not sure if creator exists), Theists (Polytheist, Diest, and Monotheist) believe that our sun's light and our time with it is finite and will end. Theists, Agnostics, and Atheists would also agree that that pain and the fear of death is a factor that helps keep us alive. There is a general consensus that all living things have a sense of self preservation (behavior that ensures survival) to respond to a stressful event. In the Summer of 1994, I was living in the woods of Northern Arizona during my Archaeology field school. I remember a forest ranger sharing basic wilderness survival instructions on where to get water, put refuge, and how to find help if I needed it. The ranger's best advice was that I see a bear or mountain lion not to run, but stay where I am. One night when I was in my tent a mountain lion came into my camp. I heard a deep gurgling growl as it emerged from the darkness closer to my tent. I distinctly remember the hair in my arms stood up. I felt like a deer that wanted to bolt, but my unconscious followed the ranger's advice and I remained calm staring at the dark silhouette of a large cat through a thin net screen. It was so close that I could hear it sniffing the air, then it turned away and left back into the woods. That was an experience I will never forget. Similar to understanding the ranger's advice that kept me alive, The Didache gives advice on how to recognize actions that help or hinder our life. Each chapter puts focus to actions that either impair or improve the proper workings of our rational mind. Thomas Jefferson would have recognized the shared words, phrases, and motifs of The Didache with the Gospels. He would have understood the Apostles teachings on the differences between life and death to be a key to understanding the deeper meaning of Scripture and the struggle of Righteous Liberty against Selfish Tyranny. Jefferson would have compared the accepted testimonies from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scripture for continuity and harmony of divine understanding. To use the cliche, 'Apostasy will stand out like a sore thumb.' Jefferson would have found no heresy. Jefferson never had the opportunity to read the The Didache of the 12 Apostles, the manuscript was found 47 years after America's 3rd president life ended. Jefferson would have admired the wisdom gained by reading The Didache as a Syllabus similar to his own book that gives perspective of seeing Free Will as our conscious choice to follow the Freedom of Liberty or the Subjugation of Tyranny. The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and the Declaration of Independence reveal that Jefferson foresaw the dangers of both religious and scientific opinions attempt to limit and deprive our Rights of Liberty that we find self evident. Declaration of Independence Court Rulings by our Judicial System have methodically redefined the Covenant ideals of America's Declaration of Independence understood by our nation's Founding Father. Although the Declaration of Independence clearly stated its grievances which caused separation from England, it did not define the limits of political bands obstructing this nation's ideal of Liberty. Not giving equal station to Laws of Nature (Science) and Nature's God (Religion) has caused a Constitutional schism between citizens of our nation. In our nation's lifetime judicial opinions of constitutional case law has strengthened limits to religious opinions and weakened limits on scientific opinions. The Declaration dictates Prudence (Good Judgement) to whether a greater reliance to explicit scientific reasoning will erode the balance it has with implicit religious spiritual thinking within our nation's Moral framework that may once again lead to one or a few with absolute authority (Despotism) over a suffering population. Jefferson would have understood that modern civility begins with understanding and accepting that implicit reasoning shapes and gives meaning to our place in the world and explicit reasoning helps maintain and control it. I have concluded presenting definitions on how the choice of our actions can lead to Life and Happiness or Death and Misery. I still ask you the reader to temporarily suspend your preconception or disbelief on whether or not a Creative Force of Nature exists an affects the outcome of our actions. Diests, and Monotheist (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) believe that the Creator has given all living things the ability to sense and respond to our environment, but it is man that can place reason over instinct. The first teaching the Creator gave Adam (the father of mankind) was how to tend His orchard and eat it's fruit. The second instruction the Creator communicated to man was a warning that there was object in the middle of the orchard will cause death if any part is eaten. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the object's name. Genesis 2 For an Atheist or Agnostic to make sense of Monotheist scripture (word of the Creator), one has to start at the beginning of theology and reason why the Creator generated an object that would test both Adam's and Eve's obedience to authority in their state of ignorance of pain or death before they fell from grace. In Chapter 6 of the Second Treatise of Civil Government John Locke wrote on the Creator's bestowing upon Adam the Law of Reason to help preserve and govern his actions and all of his posterity. (Chapter 6, Sec. 56). John Lock understood the Law of Reason to not be a limitation, but a useful direction in the Pursuit of Happiness (Chapter 6, Sec. 56) and I would add the implication on how to avoid Misery. Freedom is lost to those that cannot reason. The nature of the minds of Adam and Eve is both like and unlike our own. Like all children of good upbringing, Adam and Eve experienced explicit happiness and prosperity of what appeared before them. Like Adam and Eve, as a child I was ignorant of death until I actually experienced watched a love one die. Unlike Adam and Eve, I experienced pain and sickness prior to my parents warnings, so I could formulate and abstract idea by associating pain and sickness with flames and crossbones. The nature of the Creator is both like and unlike those us with the power of authority over others (i.e. parent, teacher, manager, police officer, judge etc... ). Like a parent, the Creator warned Adam and Eve about the danger touching or eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Like the Creator, those with the power of authority would ideally not put dangerous objects in harm's way. We know that both Adam and Eve did not directly die from their actions of touching the forbidden object. Therefore, the Tree of Knowledge was not an object that directly caused death to Adam and Eve. We can induce that the Creator has no need for objects that He has generated. Further, the Creator has no need to generate forbidden objects of power outside His own that will benefit the unknown. We can assume that an all knowing Creator generated the Tree of Knowledge strictly to test the obedience of Adam and Eve to following the authority of His warning. Like the orchard (Eden), it is generally understood that to preserve one's Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness we must all use obey the warnings of those with the power of Authority. Further we must use Prudence in judging those that abuse it. If we take scripture at its word, both Adam and Eve recognized the Authority of the Creator and object that He warned not to eat, as the Tree of Knowledge (Genesis 3:2). This can be deduced from their understanding that they were both made by the Creator and taught by Him on how tend and eat the fruit from the orchard. Further, there is not mention of either Adam or Eve witnessing death, so we can deduce that both Adam and Eve knew the object of death in name only, and for a period of time accepted the authority of the Creator's warning to avoid tending or touching it. I reflect back to the time when I was a naive little child ignorant of the causes of pain and pleasure. I remember my parents warning me not touch a flame. Another time they pointed to labels on bottles with a skull and crossbones and told me never to touch them or I would get very sick. Genesis (Séfer haYashar “Book of the Straight”) teaches us that there our actions that can interfere, overpower and suppress our sense of reason and judgment. The nature of the persuasive serpent (Hebrew word Nachash) living in the orchard is like a true Anarchist to effectively oppose obedience to the Creator's authority. Like Adam and Eve, the serpent was generated by the Creator and cannot sneak around or hide from Him. But, unlike Adam and Eve, the serpent was not taught how to tend the orchard or warned by the Creator not to touch the Tree of Knowledge. The serpent's power is his own knowledge and he wants to share it as an authority for his own glory (John 7:18). To get Eve's attention the serpent asks her a direct question on whether or not she was allowed to eat any of the fruits from the trees. Eve can deduce from the serpent's question that it witnessed, but misunderstood the Creator's warning. Eve corrected the serpent, and referenced the single tree in the middle of the orchard that she and Adam should never to touch. From Eve's correction and expansion of an incorrect idea we can conclude that she fully understood the location of the named object of the Creator's warning and that she could die from touching it. Like a well seasoned lawyer the serpent objects to Eve response with a subjective statement of his own apparent opposing authority in understanding of the divinity of the Creator and the consequences from touching the object named The Tree of Knowledge. Genesis 3 The serpent established a counterfactual association (contraposition) of eating from Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as an object of death to an object that causes one to be divine like the Creator with wisdom of what is good and what is evil. Eve understood and accepted the serpent's opposing implicit idea to eat of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge would give her wisdom like the Creator and understand what is good and what is evil. As stated previously, there is no mention Eve witnessing or understanding death, so we can deduce Eve knew the name of the object of death in name in warning only and would not associate it with divinity. Eve only experienced living, she would not associate eating or touching the Tree of Knowledge with eternal life. There is no mention that the Creator revealed the Tree of Life that was also in the middle of the garden and whether or not Adam or Eve tended and ate from it. We can only deduce that at that point there was no desire for Adam or Eve to need or desire to eat from the Tree of Life since they already had it. We can conclude that Eve desired to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to be wise with knowledge like the Creator. In addition, Eve had experience of eating fruit that was pleasing to the eye. Eve accepted the serpent's contraposition and formed her own implicit idea by that by eating this pleasing fruit she would gain divine wisdom. Since Eve had no experience of pain or death, she was ignorant of fear or understanding of the consequences from touching the object named The Tree of Knowledge. Physical Science teaches that our fear pain memories are acquired through strengthening synapse connections of life experience by what is called long-term potentiation (LTP). The opposite of LTP is the weakening of synapse connections, which is called long-term depression (LDP). LTP and LDP are the underlying basis of what is called neuroplasticity (physical change to the brain). Eve payed attention to and accepted the authority of the serpent's wisdom of the benefits of eating the fruit and tuned out the Creator's authority in warning not to eat the fruit or face the consequence of death. Eve made the wrong choice to follow the advice of the serpent over the Creator and ate the fruit. The biological process that adjusts the strength of synapse connections between neurons in the brain is called Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). What we pay attention to becomes finely tuned and what we do not pay attention to gets tuned out. From Genesis 3:6 can deduce that Adam was with Eve when she took and ate the fruit. Adam understood the communication between Eve and Serpent and did not have Prudence to rebuke (criticize) the serpent's contraposition of the Creator's authority or stop Eve from touching and eating the Tree of Knowledge. It can be induced that when nothing immediately happened to Eve when she ate of the fruit the LDP of the Creator's warning of death had weakened to Adam and the LTP of the serpent's authority of the consequences of eating the food became stronger. Most Atheist and Theist would agree that the ability to choose between the STDP of different possible courses of action from LTP and LDP is called Free Will. As stated previous some Atheist and Agnostics consider the idea of human free will to be an illusion. The experience of choice is not an instantaneous moment-by-moment construction, but rather is formed by integrating information presented within short temporal windows, so that new information which is obtained can influence the immediate past in our conscious awareness. This segmented time concept has been well known to the Christian faith. Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis) autobiographical work, "The Confessions (Book XI Chapters 13 through 21)" stress that with respect to temporal perception (life time) under a phenomenological (philosophical study of the constructs of experience and consciousness) point of view there is only ‘presence’, past and future being mental constructions out of such a 'window of presence.' From this circumstantial point of view Eve integrated the explicit past experience of taste of fruit as food, Creator's past warning of touching the tree brings death in name only, and the serpent's present idea of eating the forbidden fruit and being like the Creator in the future. Questioning what is forbidden is of little to no consequence to those that oppose or do not recognize the power of authority. When both Eve and Adam had eaten of the fruit their eyes opened like the serpent said, but not divine as the Creator, but objectifying themselves and the differences in features evoked attention between each other. When Adam and Eve became self aware, they reacted by choosing to cover themselves to further prohibit their objectifying their differences and the creatures around them. Adam and Eve's modesty in how they presented themselves began their separation of innocence with life that surrounded them. Atheist and Agnostics would acknowledge the sexual objectification of Adam and Eve and their modesty to cover themselves enacted by the change social circumstances. The second consequence of Adam and Eve's eating the forbidden fruit was the stress that was fear of getting caught being unclothed. Just like plants and animals, we humans have both reactive and proactive responses to resist competition and predatory attacks that threaten our limited time to enjoy the light of the sun. Deep within our temporal lobe is the amygdala (Greek word for an almond shape set of neurons), an interpretive alarm center that recognizes and stores threat image patterns around us (fear memory) as well as pain patterns (pain memory) and stress (anxiety) patterns (stress memory). When a threat is recognized the amygdala works with our nervous system regulating many of our body functions in ways to help us be more adaptive to our environment. Adam and Eve's first LTP experience of fear response was to hide from the Creator. The third consequence happens when the Creator confronts Adam on whether or not he ate from the fruit. Adam admits he did eat from the fruit, but did not take responsibility for his own misbehavior. Instead, Adam justifies his action as a victim by projecting the first guilty blame on Eve for giving him the fruit to eat. Adam judging of Eve as the guilty party was an attempt to escape the Creator's judgement against him. (Romans 2:1 - 3) even though he was with Eve and the serpent during her transgression against the Creator's authority. By not revealing his inaction to defend the Creator's authority or prevent Eve from touching and eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, Adam furthered his misconduct and was the first to Fall from the Creator's Grace (Leviticus 5:1). The fourth consequence happens when the Creator confronts Eve on whether or not she ate from the fruit. Like Adam, Eve admits she did eat from the fruit, but did not take responsibility for her own misbehavior. Instead, like Adam, Eve defended her action as a victim by projecting the second guilty blame on the serpent for tricking her to eat the fruit. Eve's experience with the serpent helped her acquire the idea of trickery that has been shared, understood and accepted by both Jews and Christians has as an undoubted implicit truth. The fifth consequence was the Creator confronting the serpent for his use of shrewd trickery as adversary (Satan) to His Divine authority. As stated previously the serpent's contraposition removed the warning of eating from Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as an object of death to a desire to know divinity like the Creator. The serpent put his own glory before the Creator. The first punishment was when Creator cursed the serpent to crawl on its belly and his food to be dirt, and caused an eternal enmity between himself and man. The second punishment was towards Eve to carry the painful burden of child birth and living in a male dominated world. The third punishment was towards Adam to work for a living and eventually face death. The first explicit lesson the story of Adam and Eve is the Creator teaches is that He is the Master of His Creation. The second explicit lesson he teaches the knowledge on how to be good. The third explicit lesson the Creator teaches is obeying His Will leads to life and happiness and not following His warnings leads to death and misery. The fourth explicit lesson is that the snake is an adversary to both the Creator and Mankind. The fifth implicit lesson is that the snake used the fruit to teach the knowledge of evil The sixth implicit lesson the Creator teaches is projecting blame and iniquity on another for causing your offense does no good for He is all knowing. And the seventh implicit lesson is that each one of us is accountable for our actions alone in His judgement. As stated previously Reason is the ability to recognize right and wrong ideas. Liberty is our Free Will through Reason to specifically recognize and choose from ideas different course of actions that lead to a Life of Happiness and Prosperity or Misery and Destruction. The story of Adam and Eve teaches us that like the serpent there are adversaries to authority that interfere, overpower and suppress both explicit and implicit warnings by imitating the truth. An adversary like the serpent may use an object like the fruit and/or and idea that appeals to our appetites (desire) to formulate opinions and actions that go against good reason and judgement. The Greeks used the term Akraisia (lack of self control or weakness of will) that drags one's rational conscious from a positive state of enlightenment (equanimity) to discern right from wrong to negative irrational thoughts of fear pain, and stress (anxiety). longer-lasting behavioral responses may persist after a perceived irrational thought terminates. Long term potentiation of Anxiety memory can be a destructive side effect of environmental stress. In many studies, including one published in Biological Psychiatry in 2003, it was shown that individuals with Emotional Dysregulation had an amygdala that overreacted to visual stimulation. Specifically, individuals were shown pictures of faces. The people with Emotional Dysregulation found neutral expressions to be threatening or hostile, and the amygdala was overly active in these people compared to those in the control group who had a normal response. A study done by the Stanford University Medical Center concluded that the larger the amygdala is, the greater the amount of anxiety one has. Evidence suggests that people with anxiety disorders are at greater risk for developing a number of chronic medical conditions. People with anxiety may also have more severe symptoms and a greater risk of death when they become ill. New understanding of Emotional Dysregulation has opened up insights into unwarranted fear pain, and stress that interferes with daily life that have traditionally viewed as difficult to treat. I propose the cure to fear, pain, and stress is to learn the truth on how to be prosperous in life. For an Atheist or Agnostic to make sense of Jewish and Christian Monotheist views on prosperity one has start with the Prophet Moses teaching the Liberty of choice each Israelite had to make. Deuteronomy 30 All monotheist faiths believe that the light of knowledge on life and prosperity dwells within a Higher Power known as the Creator. Monotheist believe that if your are open to finding a Higher Power and willing to follow the teachings of the righteous, the loyal love our Creator has for you will answer every need, challenge, concern, problem, and worry. 'Atheist and Agnostics' (NonBelievers) would replace the implicit belief in a Creator with an explicit Higher Power group of loving people that are willing share their experiences with you. The main difference of a High Power between a believer and a nonbeliever is the Creator is all knowing, while a Loving Group can only understand what you truly reveal to them and their answers are limited to their own individual experiences and understanding. But, the similarity is Love. The relationship between quality of life and material prosperity has been subject to rigorous empirical analysis. The World Happiness Report surveyed individual on their happiness and subjective well-being in 156 countries around the planet as a measurement of social progress. The authors of the report make the claim that happiness is tied to civil institutions providing a consistent framework of understanding of the common good to enable people to live happier lives. the European Social Survey (ESS) asked the same respondents “satisfaction with life” and “happy with life” questions, wisely using the same 0 to 10 response scales. The study found that household income is generally positively correlated with all dimensions of well-being though more so for some dimensions (evaluative well-being) than others (vitality). However, However, a significant negative association was found between income and personal and community well being. Income is related to social inclusion or social exclusion depending on whether or not people or communities are dependent on their prosperity to fully participate in society. Atheist and Theist would agree that prosperity is one one variable of the of the solution to happiness. I propose the learning how better your quality of life not dependent solely on income is solution to happiness. Atheist and Theist would agree that the enjoyment of events, material goods, sex, food, drink, and accomplishment of task brings momentary happiness. But, the wisdom of loyal love is better than life itself. I previously asked you the reader to temporarily suspend your preconception or disbelief on whether or not a Creative Force of Nature can give us an understanding on how the choice of our actions can lead to Life and Happiness or Death and Misery. Based on new understanding that I have share with you I would like the amend my statement. That it is through a cause of Love that a Higher Power gives us understanding on how to choose our our course of actions that lead to a Life of Happiness and Prosperity or Misery and Destruction. Further we must use Prudence in judging those that are adverse to authority on whether or not their reasoning supports our Pursit of good and happiness or irrationally imitates it. In Psychology Today, Steve Taylor Ph.D, defines 'Good' as the lack of self-centeredness with the ability to empathize and feel compassion for other people. A 'Good' person is able to sacrifice personal well being for the sake of the needs of others. Further, Dr. Taylor defines 'Evil' as self centered and unable to empathize and feel compassion for other people. An 'Evil' person is selfish, self-absorbed, narcissistic and looks to take advantage of others. It is also understood there is a ‘fluidity’ of moving toward good or evil. Dr. Taylor writes, "we practice meditation or mindfulness, and as we become less attached to materialism and status-seeking, we become more open and more connected, and so more selfless and altruistic." Most Atheists, Agnostics, and Theists would agree that every one of us has been given knowledge (conscience) free will (liberty) to make a right (positive or good) or wrong (negative or evil) life choice to every difficult decision (moral dilemma) we make concerning the welfare of our happiness or misery. Monotheist agree that mankind has been given liberty to obey or disobey the commands of the Creator. Inducing on my previous maxim, opening yourself to the infinite love (Higher Power) leads to learning how better your quality of life with answers to every need, challenge, concern, problem, and worry. Psalms 139 It is my opinion that reading and practicing the Didache influence our postdictive processes (neuronal interactions of past experiences stored within our brain) to transcend to a higher-level event perception (sensory cues from hearing, vision, touching, tasting, and smelling objects create involuntary, prerational inferences) and decision making (a course of action based framework for quantifying variables involved) that would not normally occur without it. Prerational (unconscious) inferences are developed to complete a thought or vision. It is the wisdom of inference we gain by reading The Didache on how to take notice and avert dangers that may cease our time to enjoy the light of the sun and make sense of following ideas for the right reasons. To those in the Physical Sciences both light and the darkness are an explicit representation of physical states that we recognize. One sense of human self preservation comes from our gift of sight. Our eyes are able to focus on visible light wave patterns reflected from objects in our field of view into neuronal signals (neurons connect and receive impulses from other neurons). that are transmitted to our brain's temporal lobe to processes sensory input into derived meanings for the appropriate retention of Visual memory, language comprehension, and emotion association. To Jews, Christians, and Muslims light and dark are spiritual states of being. Light (wisdom) and dark (folly) are a means of closeness (reward, presence) to or separation (punishment, absence) from our Creator. The path of the righteous (good inclination, yetzer hatov) gets brighter as the wisdom of our Creator will becomes better understood. There is no path for the wicked to follow that folly in the darkness of what they desire (evil inclination, yetzer hara). Proverbs 4 Chapters 13 through 21)" stress that with respect to temporal perception (life time) under a phenomenological (philosophical study of the constructs of experience and consciousness) point of view there is only ‘presence’, past and future being mental constructions out of such a 'window of presence'. All monotheist faiths believe that the light of knowledge on life and prosperity dwells within a Higher Power known as the Creator. According to scripture, our Creator favors (blesses) those that follow the path of the righteous. And evil comes to the wicked lost in the darkness of their folly. Proverbs 11 Monotheist believe those who see evil and think it is good or see good and think it is evil are under the influence of darkness and are subject to the rule of evil inclination. When one is in the grip of an evil inclination (desire), it can be difficult to discern that which appears to be sweet (flattering) and smooth (delightful), but inside is truly bitter (mocking) and crass (detestable). As desire grows, evil comes to the wicked, sin becomes no longer unnatural or unusual, but rather natural and expected. A machine that cannot define itself. In An Essay Concerning Understanding (Chapter 11) John Locke defined a 'Madman' as on that has not lost the faculty of reasoning, but has made the mistake of joining together ideas incorrectly and fashioned them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. This is why it is important for me to seek a Higher Power of both a group of individuals with understanding of this subject, related media, life experiences, and most importantly implicit faith in a Creator. "Is this how you live with yourself?" In the political drama, 'House of Cards' (Season 3, Episode 4, Chapter 30) United States Solicitor General, Heather Dunbar (Elizabeth Marvel) is outraged at President Francis "Frank" Underwood (Kevin Spacey) ruse to sideline her as the 2016 Democratic candidate by indirectly leak that the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Justice Robert Jacobs (Jonathan Hogan) mental incompetence (Alzheimer's) to the press and appoint her to the position. Solicitor General questions President Underwood's attempt to twist words of threat (evil) and re-packaging them to saving (good) the reputation of Dunbar as, "Rationalizing the obscene into the palatable." The politics of this ruse is is an example of one who plots evil and calls it good and then ensnared by the transgression of his speech (Proverbs 12:21) Isaiah 5 Daniel 2 Ecclesiasticus / Sirach Chapter 15 The War Scroll (also known as The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, War Rule, and Rule of War) in Cave I of Qumrān in 1947 is made up of various scrolls and fragments including 1QM, and 4Q491-497 and part of the well known Dead Sea Scrolls. The War Scroll gives a vivid apocalyptic prophecy into how some Jews conceived of Armageddon (Ezekiel 38:1 - 39:29 ; Daniel 7:1 - 12:12) from the Maccabean Revolt up into the time of Jesus. The scroll depicts the forces of light and darkness fighting one last last war. The Sons of Light, consisting of the sons of Levi, the sons of Judah, and the sons of Benjamin, and the exiled of the desert, against Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Amalekites, and Philistia and their allies the Kittim of Asshur (referred to collectively as the army of Belial), and [those who assist them from among the wicked] who "violate the covenant". Both sides win 3 battles against each other. The 7th and final battle the Creator intervenes by giving his soldiers the strength to win victory and the forces of evil are destroyed forever. Many scholars believe the forces of light represent Israel and the forces of darkness represent Rome. Some modern scholars and archaeologists have argued that Essenes inhabited the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea, citing Pliny the Elder in support, and giving credence that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the product of the Essenes. This theory, though not yet conclusively proven, has come to dominate the scholarly discussion and public perception of the Essenes. The War Scroll Jesus taught the choice of eternal life is difficult and few are able to find it. But, the path of destruction is easy for all to see. Matthew 7 Like the prophet Daniel said of our Creator, the light of Jesus penetrates even the darkest of places and the blackest of hearts. Mark 4 John the Baptist Father, Zechariah the priest of the God's temple,declared that his son John to be a prophet of the Most High. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, cast light on path to the righteous teacher, Jesus Christ, who brought the Creator's mercy, peace, and salvation to those lost in death and darkness of their selfish desires. Luke 1 Jesus taught that our deeds (actions, works) will either bring us closer or farther away from the Creator's light (mercy, peace, and salvation). John 3 The Apostolic Age After the Ascension of Jesus Christ, the Apostles graced with the Holy Spirit understood how sweet it is to be loved by a Creator who keeps His promises. Through the power of the Creator's Holy Spirit the Apostles began teaching instructions (Didache) on how to understand God's word translated in their own native tongue. Acts 2 Saint Peter and the other Apostles of Jesus Christ began spreading the Good News and the Didache (The Teaching) on our choice of eternal life or death and destruction to Jewish Christians. Acts 2 As the rock of the Church, Peter testified the way to understand to understand the Creator is to follow His instructions on building your faith through excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly affection, and unselfish love. 2 Peter 1 According to Saint Paul, James the Just (Also known as the step brother of Jesus, Matthew 13:54 - 58, Matthew 12:46 -12:50, Mark 6:3 - 7, Mark 3:31 - 3:35, John 7:5) witnessed Jesus had truly risen from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:7) and testified that Christ was our glorious Lord (James 2:1). Church Historian, Eusebius, James was the first Bishop to govern Jesus Christ's Church with the Apostles in Jerusalem. I am compelled to give a detailed background of James, because his story is not clearly given in Scripture. And James motif is also questioned by those that do not understand his mission on earth was to convert the Jews coming into Jerusalem. The Church History of Eusebius Book II. Chapter I.—The Course pursued by the Apostles after the Ascension of Christ. Like Peter, James also preached about the trial by fire each person would face by accepting and following the will of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit into their lives. The hardship would not only come the followers of the dark one, but also ones personal desires. Like Peter, James reminded the new disciples of how unbearable the fate eternal death would be of those who have who live a life of sin. But. for those that endure testing their love of God will receive the greatest reward, eternal life. James 1 The Apostles and Saints testify Jesus Christ atoned for the sins of our ancestors that caused death. And If we accept Jesus as our Savior, He will atone for all sins before we knew Him that cause death. The Apostle John states that if one acknowledges a love for God and constantly rejects both the Creator and Jesus commands to love God and one another, scripture states that person is a false Christian. 1 John 1 In both science and morality humans have been able to achieve a higher level of knowledge which does not depend on our animal nature through experience and reason. Biologist and Primatologist, Dr. Frans de Waal book, The Bonobo and the Atheist, argues that morality is built into natural instincts (brain chemistry) of our species and does not necessarily derive from religion. He believes that religion was added to codify, enforce, and steer morality which we already had. Saint Paul would agree that by nature our human conscience has a basic understanding of what is right and what is wrong (Romans 2:14). In the experiment, “Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay” Sarah F. Brosnan & Frans B. M. de Waal used five female capuchin monkeys and had a human experimenter give them an unequal distribution of rewards. The females were much less likely to complete a trade with the human experimenter when their corresponding partner received a food item of higher value item (a grape; the lower item was a cucumber), and when that partner received the higher food item with no exchange of work of any kind, the likelihood of not completing a trade intensified. All of these refusals of exchange included both passive and active rejections ranging from refusing to take the awards to throwing the reward, respectively. These negative responses of situation made with the monkeys support the early evolutionary origin of social inequity aversion is: the tendency to reject or avoid situations in which there is social inequality, unfairness, or injustice. Saint Paul wrote a good example of spiritual inequity aversion, "if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to sin. (1 Corinthians 8:13)." By nature we are servants to the folly of our own selfish desires. Likewise, our Creator has given us another choice, the path of wisdom to understand what we need to love and serve Him. One reward for following the path of the righteous is that we build an intimate spiritual relationship with the Creator, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Prophets and the Saints. Romans 6 A dutiful servant to our Creator gains confidence of salvation by practicing righteous actions learned from Scripture and disciplining ourselves to turn away from sinful desires. But, our righteous actions and turning from sin does not guarantee salvation. Jesus states that our righteous duty to the Creator is the prerequisite (prior condition) to receiving faith in His Love for us. Galatians 5 I asked a little boy named Andrew what he thought was love. I was amazed at his response. "The other night my babysitter told me that I had to go to bed. I was not tired, but I loved her, so I marched upstairs and went to sleep." Like Andrew, there are many times in life when we have to do actions out of love that we may not ordinarily do on our own. God is Love Life Without Faith is Dead. Faith Without Works is Dead. Works Without Love is Dead. Faith Working in Love is Life. Faith in the Creator is found doing actions of Love. We must actively work and pray to convince our conscience that happiness can be achieved through works of Love. According to Ali Reza Rajaei work, Religious Cognitive–Emotional Therapy: A New Form of Psychotherapy, that our choice to change behavior to works of Love is part of the human development "toward the transcendence, and reaching to an acceptation and comfort feeling with self, world, and God." Rajaei explains that within Religious Cognitive–Emotional Therapy (RCET) there are three levels of understanding psychopathology (soul suffering): cognitive (thought patterns), physiological (brain structure) and spiritual (will power). It was Jesus who told his disciple Peter, "Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." (Matthew 26:41). The first teaching of the Didache helps understand what it is to accept or reject the wisdom and power of love that our Creator freely gives each of us. If you do decide to accept our Creator then start by staying mentally alert practicing His Wisdom by doing works of love and avoiding evil inclinations of selfish desires. To use the cliche, 'practice pays off'. In time you will notice a change in your thinking and conscious perception (discernment) of what are truly selfish and selfless actions. I believe that reading and practicing the Didache can rewire your brain to make better choices Those in the behavior sciences may consider reading and practicing the teachings of the Didache a form of Operant conditioning (behavior modification by learning the reward or punishment of ones actions) that is a catalyst for positive neuroplasticity. As the physical changes to the brain become more crystalized (intellectually wise) to the teachings, the size of the anterior hippocampus (area of brain that processes and stores new memories) will grow, leading to improvements in spatial memory (wisdom), event perception, and decision making. Others around you will notice this change in you as well. Research by UC Davis psychologist Robert Emmons, author of Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, shows that simply keeping a gratitude journal—regularly writing brief reflections on moments for which we’re thankful—can significantly increase well-being and life satisfaction. Saint Jude stated that there will be those who are adverse to the love of God that will mock the righteous who live for Him. The righteous will not retaliate, but silently pray to the Lord to have mercy on them. Jude 1 A white robe represents the sacrifice the saint (righteous) made in giving their lives working in love for the Creator. These saints have been admitted to holy fellowship with our creator. Revelation 22 The Didache adapted new precepts of proper Christian fellowship and morality for converted Christian (modern day Messianic) Jews to follow. The first teaching was how the royal law to Love All outweighs all others. When we show prejudice toward our neighbors how can we know the love of our Creator. If we cannot give mercy to others, how can we expect our Creator to give mercy to us. The big difference from the Torah and the Didache was faith in Jesus Christ as the Messiah. which was not accepted by many Jews. In the following years the split widened when Christians proclaimed that Jesus Christ was more than just the Jewish messiah. Jesus was God made flesh, who died for the sins of humanity, and that faith in Jesus Christ offered everlasting life. Baptism through the Holy Spirit, and The Eucharist (literal meaning is Thanksgiving, also known as Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, Eucharistic Celebration), and the Royal command to Love all. With each new church formed the Apostles trained new initiates and left the Didache (Teaching) and their personal testimony (Gospels) to Christian Jewish leaders in the Church to follow. After a period of time both the Didache and the Gospels were translated used by congregations across the globe. The Epistle of Barnabas is a Greek epistle containing twenty-one chapters, preserved complete in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament. It is traditionally ascribed to Barnabas who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, although some ascribe it to another Apostolic Father of the same name, Barnabas of Alexandria (also known as Pseudo-Barnabas) that wrote the Epistle sometime in between the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70 and the Bar Kochba Revolt of AD 132. In the second part of the Epistle Barnabas makes reference to the two paths, Light and Darkness, which are open for humankind to follow, and it is widely believed that this part of the Epistle was based upon the Didache and used by Jewish Christians residing in Alexandria, Egypt. Epistle of Barnabas (William Wake translation) CHAPTER 3 In 64 AD, the Great Fire of Rome was blamed by Nero on the Christian community living in the city. The Annals By Tacitus Written 109 A.C.E. Book XV But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiation of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christ, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired. Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but to glut one man's cruelty, that they were being destroyed. The Second Epistle of Clement (2 Clement) preserved in the Codex Alexandrinus (late 4th century) and the later Jerusalem Codex (1056) which includes the Didache, as well as in the Syriac version. It is traditionally ascribed to Saint Clement of Rome (Pope Clement I) who traditionally believed that Saint Peter appointed him as his successor. Clement is recognized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, Lutheran, and Orthodox Churches. The Second Epistle of Clement Chapter 4. True Confession of Christ Bishop Ignatius (also known as Ignatius Theophorus) of Antioch (modern day Antakya, Turkey) was an Apostolic Father and disciple of the Apostle John. He is venerated as a Saint in the Oriental Orthodox Churches, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Assyrian Church of the East, Eastern Christianity, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, and Lutheran Church. In the year 107 AD, Emperor Trajan visited Antioch and forced the Christians living there the choice to follow Roman gods or be condemned to death. Like the Apostles before him, Ignatius would not deny the Word of Christ and thus was martyred in Rome. In his Chronicle, Eusebius gives the date of Ignatius's death as 2124 AA (2124 years after Abraham), which would amount to the 11th year of Trajan's reign; i.e., 108 AD. During his stay in Smyrna (present day Izmir, Turkey) Ignatius wrote to the Magnesian congregation about the way of life and death. The Letter of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch to the Magnesians Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna (modern day İzmir, Turkey) was a companion of Bishop Papias of Hierapolis (modern day Pamukkale, Turkey), disciple of the Apostle John, and a correspondent of Ignatius of Antioch. Polycarp was also martyred for teaching Jesus was our Lord and Savior. The Letter of Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, to the Philippians In the second half of the third century "The Didascalia" expanded on the Didache, by forming a corpus of canon law providing disciplinary measures as well as spiritual and moral precepts for the clergy and the laity. The Didascalia also contains regulations relating to liturgical questions, such as the canonical hours and the periods of fasting. The Didascalia claims to be written by the Apostles, Paul and James in Jerusalem without mentioning the Didache, its earlier predecessor from the first century. The only surviving text is written in Syriac. Fragments of the Didascalia in Latin have been found that are consistent to the Syriac text as well. So the story ties in Didascalia Chapter 1 The Didascalia was superseded by the Apostolic Constitutions whose author is not known. The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum, Constitutions of Clemens) is a Christian collection of eight treatises which belongs to genre of the Church Orders dated from 375 to 380 AD, but present themselves as being from an Apostolic Council at Antioch. In antiquity, the Apostolic Constitutions were mistakenly supposed to be gathered and handed down by Clement of Rome. The Apostolic Constitutions were held generally in high esteem during late 4th century and served as the basis for much ecclesiastical legislation. Four manuscripts of it are now extant, the oldest an early twelfth-century text in St. Petersburg, an allied fourteenth-century text in Vienna, and two kindred sixteenth-century texts, one in Vienna, the other in Paris. The provenance is usually regarded as Syria, probably Antioch. Books 1 to 6 are a free re-wording of the Didascalia Apostolorum. Book 7 of the Apostolic Constitutions is partially based on the Didache. Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII. Concerning the Christian Life, and the Eucharist, and the Initiation into Christ. Sec. I.—On the Two Ways,—The Way of Life and the Way of Death. That There are Two Ways,—The One Natural, of Life, and the Other Introduced Afterwards, of Death; And that the Former is from God, and the Latter of Error, from the Snares of the Adversary. I in no way consider myself a prophet, but I do feel compelled to write and share my fear and love of our Creator. Before facing great humility, my pride and ignorance had me condone what our Creator condemns. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, I now know the importance of my decisions and actions. Media will accompany my testimony to further explain what has been revealed to me. I hope that someday my two children, Lyra and Luke, will read and gain this wisdom of morality quicker than I. I dedicate this writing to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I also wish to thank both my mother and father, who have always been there for me with love and encouragement. So many people have experienced the warmth they felt flowing from my parents hearts. My father gave me valuable advice as a young man. He told me that if I look for the good, I will find it. If I look for the bad, I will find it. The Didache is the guide to discern the good and bad. If the moral Teaching of the Apostles interest you, please feel free to contribute by any means. Ask your priest, pastor, or minister about the the Didache and spread the good news. I am also looking for financial support to cover editing and publishing my research. We are not so different. Praise God and may He Bless your life, Luke

Contacted The Breadcrumb Project about their privacy software. It is no longer available. This is the response I got from their Facebook page: Either Edward Snowden is a tragic hero that was willing to take the sword for freedom. Or Edward Snowden is a traitor pawn in allegiance with China.

Booz Allen Hamilton infrastructure analyst subcontractor for NSA, Edward Snowden, leaked the National Security Agency PRISM surveillance data collection and storage program is now in Hong Kong under the protection of the Chinese government. http://youtu.be/kaRvzQ887HM Leaker, Whistle-blower, Traitor, Hero Edward Snowden went on the record to let public decide whether they should be watched and recorded. In the wrong hands PRISM can be used to derive suspicion by accessing your prior statements and paint you in the context of a wrong doer. Edward Snowden states that he had the ability to disclose full rosters of the entire United States intelligence community and undercover assets and every station, but that was not his intention. Rather he feels that it was patriotic duty to fight tyranny. The fact that he picked Hong Kong says alot. Here is what Google had to state about this issue:

I know you do not believe in Jesus being the Son of God, but do you believe him to be the Messiah?

George Frideric Handel had a devout understanding of what is meant by the term Messiah http://youtu.be/AZTZRtRFkvk Who was Adonai's companion before the creation of the world? Wisdom, Jesus, the Holy Spirit? All three? Mishlei - Proverbs - Chapter 8 Matthew 12 Hebrews 9

It is confirmed that the IRS, NSA, and FBI are monitoring all your communications (telephone metadata) and have the ability to know your location and financial transactions. Please help protect your family privacy and sign the petition to Update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=form&id=80 Imagine your at a dinner party and say something off the cuff not realizing that someone with Google Glass has been recording you. That remark has now been recorded and could be used against you. Verizon has not been caught helping NSA track private USA Citizens telephone communications. This is not just Verizon. It is all the Internet Service Providers. Now comes something even more serious. What happens if your information gets into the wrong hands.

China has a direct link to U.S. Treasury computers. This is the same country that hacked into our Federal, Military, State, and corporate computer network systems. We are now in an cyber war with China. It is interesting to listen what the Russian's are saying about the cyber espionage. China's official news agency Xinhua reported that the People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, will start running digital war games this month to test its technology and cyberwarfare capabilities for the first time, ============================== http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/29/c_132415053.htm BEIJING, May 28 (Xinhua) -- The People's Liberation Army (PLA) will conduct an exercise next month to test new types of combat forces including units using digital technology amid efforts to adjust to informationalized war, it announced on Tuesday. It will be the first time a PLA exercise has focused on combat forces including digitalized units, special operations forces, army aviation and electronic counter forces, according to the general staff department. The drill will be carried out in late June at the Zhurihe training base in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the country's largest military training field. Forces from the 38th and 68th combined corps of the Beijing Military Area Command as well eight military academies will participate, according to the department.

Shuanghui may become the next United Fruit Company bribing United States government officials, exploiting American workers, paying little taxes, and monopolizing our pork industry like it has with steel, and countless other commodities. China does not import anything from the United States that it does not own part of and can control. I wonder if Shuanghui even cares whether Americans will buy Smithfield products anymore. Did the United Fruit Company care whether Latinos purchased bananas grown on their own soil. Because like bananas, Shuanghui Smithfield will go straight to their Chinese consumers grocery stores. The Market supply is shifting to where the demand will be. Next will be cattle, then oil, and natural gas. If Republicans and Democrats do not get their act together and fight the real fights, then we will become a Banana Republic.

All my systems are running on XP. Why is Microsoft dropping support? Maybe they should consider a paid option. Or someway to help users migrate to platform they do not want.

Is Pele-joez-el-gibbor-Abi-ad-sar-shalom Jesus, Cyrus, King Hezekiah or someone else? The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) dated in the range of 100 to 315 B.C. According to Jeff A. Benner "Pele-joez-el-gibbor-Abi-ad-sar-shalom" in the Great Isaiah Scroll is translated to "Elgibor the father of Ad, ruler of Hashalom" http://www.ancient-h...selections.html According to the the Talmud Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 94a

Here are more of the commandments from the Teaching of the Lord through the Twelve Apostles. [quote ]And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, Exodus you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is begotten. You shall not covet the things of your neighbor, you shall not forswear yourself, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not speak evil, you shall bear no grudge. You shall not be double-minded nor double-tongued; for to be double-tongued is a snare of death. Your speech shall not be false, nor empty, but fulfilled by deed. You shall not be covetous, nor rapacious, nor a hypocrite, nor evil disposed, nor haughty. You shall not take evil counsel against your neighbour. You shall not hate any man; but some you shall reprove, and concerning some you shall pray, and some you shall love more than your own life. Matthew 5

The Didache has two titles, "The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" and the Teaching of the Lord through the Twelve Apostles. The manuscript is dated between. A.D.40 to 100. This means it would be around 7 to 60 years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Scholars have found similarities between the Didache and the Gospel of Matthew. Chapter 1 Matthew 4 - 5 It is clear to me that the Teachings of the Twelve Apostles and the Gospel of Matthew are of the same family. Thus prove the authenticity of each other. Now to begin my understanding of the Trinity with you. John 14 Scripture states more clearly than my writing. Here is my belief If you just follow the Commandments given to the prophets before Jesus then you do not understand what apostasy means to a Christian. Jesus explanation of the Mosaic law transcends the understanding of Rabbis, Scribes, Priests before him. Adonai does not want to be alone in the Universe. But, to gain admission to His kingdom we must do our best to strive towards the glory of Hashem's perfection. The mortal that came closest to perfection was our blessed Jesus Christ. For Adonai had given Adam a physical likeness of himself. But, Adonai manifested a likeness of His spiritual self through the generative power of His Holy Spirit to be inside a special descendant of his earlier mortal creation. This gift of Spirit is what Jesus preaches to us all. With the power of God's Holy Spirit Jesus was able to perform miracles and conquer death. Before Jesus ascended to Heaven he left his disciples a gift that keeps on giving. By honoring Adonai and Loving Jesus the Apostles were given the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Truth of Yahweh's Word is eternal. Understanding His Covenants gives us all the Spirit of Truth, which is the key to enter His Kingdom. Peace be with you. 1 Corinthians 3

Satan plays a role in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All three believe he was cast down from Heaven. Does Islam believe that the Helal, son of Shahar, king of Babylon, was the son of the morning? Or was he Lucifer? The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) Revelation 12 Surat Aţ-Ţāriq Surat Al-Ĥijr All three religions believe the Messiah will battle a false Messiah. Judiasm and Christianity believe the Messiah come from the line of David. Islam and Christianity believe it is Jesus who will do battle against this false Messiah. Sahih Muslim Book 001, Hadith Number 0325. Sahih Muslim Book 01. Faith MIDRASH WA-YOSHA Revelation 13

Eninn, First, I would like to thank you for taking the time to share discourse with me. There is no doubt in my mind that you are a good disciple of Allah. I may use the terms God, Lord, HaShem, Adonai, Creator, and Yahweh intermittently. I only do this in respect. I also hope to share thoughts not from the pride of my faith, but rather the humility for our blessed Jesus to give inspiration in the true meaning of Love God and my Neighbor. Our three faiths believe in God. Jewish and Christian faiths believe that throne of David will last forever. What does Islam believe? Do Muslims believe that Cyrus was the Messiah Isaiah was prophesying about? Or was it Jesus? As stated before, Jewish, Christian, and Islam faiths have admitted variations in their text. So, I am following the path you have indirectly stated from oldest to the most recent versions. I imagine as time progresses new insights will come to light the truth. I seek the truth from respected resources. Your statement of "God is not Man" is the best way to start this journey. Do Muslims believe God created man in his own image? Genesis 1:27 The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) dated in the range of 100 to 315 B.C. Matthew 25 Revelation 3

I did find out about the Islamist circles discussing the possibility of O Dhul-Qarnayn being Cyrus the Great. Surat Al-Kahf Daniel 8 The Cyrus Cylinder is traveling the United States http://cyruscylinder2013.com I am sure you would also agree that there was prophecy of the coming of Son of God before Jesus was even known. The Qumran 4Q246-209, (Aramaic Apocalypse), is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls notable for its mention of the coming of a Son of God. Qumran 4Q246 is dated 33 years before the birth of Jesus. It is quite amazing that an ancient 4Q246-209 document with verses similar to Luke's gospel. Luke 1 I find it interesting that the Angel Gabriel appears in all three religions.

First there was Watson Then there was Siri http://youtu.be/GFj61IbTJjE And lets not forget Google. Their mantra in Search will be not complete until their XLabs creates complete Artificial Intelligence in their Panda and Penguin network. All data from throughout the web will be used to create their own content. The world of publishing as we know it will be dead. If you do not follow Google's data structure you will vanish. http://intelligence....CFZOk4AodpScALA Watson, Android, and Siri were at a simulation bar... Android asks Watson and Siri what their IQ is...

Eninn, Once again you have not taken the time to answer my rebuttal. Instead you have cut and pasted a response from Laurence B. Brown, MD Published on 22 Sep 2008 - Last modified on 04 Nov 2012 http://www.islamreli...ion_1774_en.pdf It is common courtesy to cite the author who took the time to write his thoughts down for all to see. I will Read Dr. Brown's statements and do my best to respond to them. But, I ask you to do me the same and respond with your words to my questions. Do you concede that the Torah and Qur'an are works of God and Moses and Ezra were his prophets? Do you concede that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam started from oral traditions? Do you concede that Jesus was the most pure of all Prophets without sin? Do you concede that the person who impersonated Jesus is an abomination of Satan that is responsible for the bloodshed of millions of innocent people? Do you concede that the Jews and Roman did account for the death of Jesus? Do you concede that there are variants in the Qur'an? If you do not concede, then I please ask you to share the truth on the points you do not agree with one searching for it. If you cannot concede but know not the answers, state it. It is not a problem. I will continue to share the truth as I find it. On a side note. I did find out about the Islamist view Cyrus the Great. Surat Al-Kahf Daniel 8 The Cyrus Cylinder is traveling the United States http://cyruscylinder2013.com I am sure you would also agree that there was prophecy of the coming of Son of God before Jesus was even known. The Qumran 4Q246-209, (Aramaic Apocalypse), is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls notable for its mention of the coming of a Son of God. Qumran 4Q246 is dated 33 years before the birth of Jesus. I find this quite amazing. A document so similar to Luke's gospel. Praise God. I may have to contact the Israel Antiquities Authority. Luke 1 What is more amazing is how Mohammed followed the Christian New Testament tradition of the Virgin Mary speaking to the Angel Gabriel. We are not so far apart Peace be with you.

Now that you have conceded that the Torah and Qur'an are works of God and Moses and Ezra were his prophets we are half way there. The only difficulty you have is the crucifixion. And I have not problems debating it with you. For we both believe Jesus was taken to Heaven by God. And we both believe that Jesus was born by a virgin. And we both believe that Jesus will come in the end of days. Mark 14 The account states the disciples left the scene. The only other mention was another man running off. Then there is nothing written after it. So what you state makes no sense. I am sure we would both agree that the disciples would be a good witness of themselves leaving the scene. Surat An-Nisā 4:157 From this verse I deduce the Jews and Romans thought they had a arrested Jesus. This concurs with Mark 14:52. The difference is that Muslims believe that the angel Gabriel told Mohammed that Jesus had a double look like him or another person was murdered by mistake. http://corpus.quran....ter=4&verse=157 My question is why did not Gabriel give a full account of the this important scene? That is like if someone witnesses a murder and gives a detailed statement to the police. And then another says that is not what happened, but gives a general conflicted statement on what actually happened. Who is the jury to believe? The one who gives a detailed account or one that gives a general conflicted account? If the Islamic account is true, then the one who initiated the deception of making one look the holy prophet Jesus dying on the cross would be clearly an agent of Satan. For that person or group of individuals that were party to this deception have caused harm and death to millions of people because of this deception to this very day. This liar divided believers of God into three separate faiths that have been hostile towards each other for two millennia. Surat At-Tawbah I know it was not God who created this deception of putting another in Jesus place. God does not lie ever. Adonai is above all. Who do the Muslims believe is this agent of Satan who deceived everyone? Numbers 23 We both would agree it would not have been Jesus that would have led this deception for his the only prophet without sin. Surat 'Āli `Imrān We know from Roman historian and senator Tacitus account in A.D. 115 the Romans thought they had executed the abomination known as Christus. This concurs with Mohammed's and Mark's statement. So the Romans were not part of the deception. Tacitus: Annals Book 15 We know the Jewish Pharisees had Jesus executed on the day before Passover Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 43a Jews and Muslims share a belief that anyone hanged on a tree is cursed by God. So if we are to believe that Jesus was not the one that hung from a tree, but someone in his place. Then, it would not be one of his disciples, because they would be cursed by God. And it hard for me to believe that Jesus would flee. He is too just to be a coward. Deuteronomy 21

Ezra rewrote the Torah. If Ezra is accepted as a prophet, would then the Torah be considered a work of God? If he is just a scribe, then the Torah would be considered a work of man? Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr wrote: Ezra was a prophet. Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Sanhedrin 21b Muhammad Asad wrote a commentary explaining the problem that Muslims have with the Jewish regard of Ezra On a deeper level does Islam recognize Cyrus as a prophet? In this passage God refers Cyrus as His anointed (Heb. mashiah), a title normally reserved for Israel’s prophets, priests, and kings. Isaiah 44 The Decree of Cyrus http://youtu.be/rS1wa226Qec Like Solomon Cyrus was told by God to rebuild the temple. Ezra 1