There is no room for compromise. Jeopardizing the very essence of sanity is not a fear, nor does it feel like it's threatening anyone's purpose for existence ...as past sanity is now considered rather insane. This happens without anyone really knowing it.

People always seem to want more ...to be able to add to discovery.

To experience anew ...

To connect ...

To touch a deeper inner self ...

To improve, or make better ...

 
And we are thankful for that.  If not for improvement, where would we be now.  We'd be lost and trapped within the web of ancient scholars and their philosophies.   

But now, we have the World Wide Web ...and we can proudly join others who are caught up in the internet.  No longer do we have to believe those old myths, stories, or ancient theories.

We no longer have to believe the Bible ...is that what is being said??

To destroy the truth of the Bible would have been difficult.

Something had to precede it.

It would have to be something exciting and new.

The claim would have to be new revelation.

It was called, the theory of evolution.

And soon enough (evolution claims to have a lot of time), it would be accepted as fact.

Once it is taught as fact, there is no real need to talk much about the Bible ...as the lack of compatibility between the two would cast doubt.  And the doubt would more likely emerge from what they were not taught.

If you want to appear intellectual among those who help you make the grade ...you must repeat what you have been taught.

It appears to be an intellectual camaraderie of disconnect.

To me, it seems like a coming together or brotherhood of hopelessness, lost vision, and a host of negative reactions to past accepted truths.

The truths of the Bible have filled our past ...but, presently many people feel it doesn't work for them.

For so many people, the Bible seems too problematic  ...and they don't seem to want to suffer listening to us believers.

Each of us suffer ...

So, what is it that each of us suffer from??

And how long does the suffering last??

If we ignore it, does it cease to exist??

Maybe not ...but almost!?!

We know what others say ...but, they are just not willing to accept something different from what they were taught.  So, that is them ...but, with us a new reality exists.

At first, perhaps the change was not even questioned ...and the change within us was taking place without us even knowing it.

I know that when I went to college, I found the study of continental drift very exciting.  I studied the maps of the ocean floor coinciding with the outlines of the continents ...and saw how wonderfully the mountains, earthquake and volcanic zones, and undersea trenches all fit so curiously together.

Suddenly, one day I caught myself.  I knew from my studies that I couldn't believe in both the Bible and evolution.  Some people try to make them compatible ...but, the two do not agree.  

I believe in God ...but, if not for the Bible, my beliefs would be subject to the whims of imagination and emotion.  And to link together everyone's imaginations, and still achieve a sense of acceptance from others ...well, that would be ever-changing.

So, what do we believe ...and why??

Often we want change because we feel what has worked for others does not work for us.  We didn't deliberately decide upon this ...as often our circumstances carried us down a stream, and we tire of fighting the current.  We just let it take us wherever it may.

One other way it comes about ...is not through tired or hopeless circumstances. Instead, we may view it as an advanced learning accomplishment.  We know something others don't know ...and we can not only share it, but can show that we know more than other people.  We sort of pride ourselves with what we know ...and we have many intellectual authorities to back us up.

But, we fail to realize what our intellect can never reason, or even imagine.

When this life is over ...it really just begins.

Come to Jesus ...

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBgL223dRFU)

Tracing all my memories
Counting my regrets
Why didn't I just do this all before?

Living out the bitterness
Worries, lies, and frets
Fighting with the ones that I adore

I'm not lying
Now I'm dying
And I'm here all by myself

When life is nearly over
I think what I've not done
The chances I've passed by
Forever will be gone

I start crying
I wasn't trying
I was just hiding from myself

Now I look into the mirror
My reflection I can't bear
It isn't just my wrinkles
Or my loss of hair

Crying to pieces
I need you, Jesus
I've been hiding my miserable self

I've looked at God as someone else
Not accepting His own Son
Angry that it was near over
When really it's just begun

I'm still crying
Please forgive me
Thank you, Jesus
For what You've done

A man dies. 
He sees a light.
He hears a voice.
The voice tells him, "Hurry, it is your last chance to enter Heaven!"

As he hurries in the direction of the voice, glancing to the side he sees a past troublesome acquaintance.  It is clear the man he sees is injured.

This injured man had caused nothing but injury and pain for everyone else.  And it seemed this man always found the most joy in life when it was clear that others were suffering.  It now appears that he finally was getting what was coming to him.

This injured person reaches out, pleading to be helped. That other voice interrupts, "Hurry, you're almost out of time!"

The man tries to locate the voice, glances back to the injured person, then calls out to the voice, "But, this person needs help ...surely you'd want me to help this person first."

The voice is even louder, "Others have been asked to give up even mother and father, brothers and sisters ...for me.  This man has never brought you comfort, nor would he give you aid if you were in his place.  He is not worthy to enter Heaven.  I command you to either hurry, or you will forever be within the company of that miserable man."

The man still cannot locate the voice.  He glances at the injured man, then calls out to the voice, "Yet, I also recall Jesus telling the story of the Good Samaritan."

The voice angrily shouts, "The door is closing ...you lose.  We don't need people like you."

The man then reaches for the hand of the injured man.  At this moment, a new Light appears, and a quiet voice reassures, "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto Me."