viewed as antiquated
and oppressive.
Social pressure
no longer exists for
people to go to
church and in
many parts of
the western world
there is social
pressure not to go.
(It is the philosophy of love
thatChrist preached and practised
that attracts a thinking generation.)
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Remember
follows your mind.Thinking leads you.Do not give intoemotions.Be one withyour emotions.Let not youremotions rule you.
Down through the
Old Testament saintsand New Testamentbelievers havefound comfortand encouragementin the psalms of David.The yearningsof his heart, thatpepper the pagesof his psalms,often reflectthe same painand pressurethat causes menand women todayto cry out to theLord in theirsilent distress.
They would not
heroic virtue,and they wouldnot have attainedheroic virtuewithout warfare.The problem withmilitary language,however, is thatwe too often gointo battle unprepared.We aren’t really surewho we are fightingagainst or how toengage in the battle.
‘Thus says the Lord
boast in this,that heunderstandsand knows me’.(Jeremiah 9: 23-24of the Old Testament)
The children of a family
The parent image keepsthem together.When there is a strongand beautiful parent imagethere is a harmoniousonenessof the children.The children love to tellanecdotes that bring outhowbeautiful, caring,humorousandenergetictheirparentswere intheir ideal lifeof love.God is our parent.In God are we unitedas one humanity.
Some view God
force that canbe found ineverything.For them,God is not apersonal being,but more likea providentialpower, that is notinterestedin rules ordetails butonly in thebig picture of things.