Life’s Most Important Decision

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Life’s Most Important Decision

 During a person’s life there are many fundamental decisions one must make. But is there one decision that is clearly the most important decision of all, which often effects all other decisions? One can investigate many of the critical decisions in one’s life; the choice of friends and acquaintances, the career or occupation one chooses, the selection of a spouse, the location where one lives. These are all crucial decisions for anyone. Each one of these decisions will significantly affect one’s life.

As important to one’s life each of these decisions is to one’s happiness, there is still one decision that is more important and substantive than any of these. It is a decision that will affect all other decisions. It is the paramount, central decision in life. This decision is, “Does one accept the existence of a personal God or not?” The answer that each individual submits for this question will influence all other decisions.

If this decision is so critical to one’s life, then why do so few people spend the time and effort to thoroughly review the issue of God’s existence? God as defined as the omnipotent, eternal, holy, loving being who is creator of all existing things, including humans, either exists or he does not exist? The answer one accepts will be fundamental to who the person is and how he/she lives life. Wandering in a state of uncertainty or lack commitment will provide one with only a groping and unsteady ambivalence in life.

Answer the question, “Does God exists or not?”  If God exists, then one’s life begins its search for the ultimate meaning. If one answers, God does not exist, then the search for an ultimate meaning in life will be fruitless, futile, and doomed to frustration.

One needs to come to terms with this question, “does God exist or not?’ One’s life is at stake; the most important decision one will make.

 

It Cannot Be Killed

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IT Cannot Be Killed

Throughout history, empires have risen and fallen. The Pharaohs’ Egypt, Alexander’s Greek empire, Rome’s empire of conquest, Napoleon’s short lived empire, Hitler’s diabolical Reich, and Stalin’s satanic empire all died , but only after they degenerated into evil that killed freedom and debased human dignity. All political societies carry within them the seeds of descent; a place where failure is waiting, biding its time until it is time to ripe and create change, for better or worse.

Not only do political societies fail or are killed off, so also do philosophies and religions germinate, gain a degree of acceptance, and eventually die. Some continue to exist in new forms at low levels of acceptance, given a nodding assent until people realize it is just a rehash of old, rejected isms of hundreds or thousands of years ago.  Paganism, Arianism, and other isms seem to experience a rebirth only to be dashed upon the stones of reality, though enticing a few, but never again gaining wide acceptance.

Like the human body, anything that is perishable will perish. Occasionally, it might take many centuries to kill an ism, while other organisms may disintegrate in a few years or decades. Yet perish they will.

However, despite frequent and recurring opposition throughout the ages, there is one organization that will not die, because it is not perishable. It has God as it creator, from whom it obtains its permanence and direction. This is the Catholic Church. Despite political and cultural opposition, it has remained unconquered by all types of political and philosophical challenges. It has even survived repeated challenges from slackers within its own ranks. Senior level clergy, theologians, philosophers, and even the laity have tried to kill the church by changing it into their own image. They have all failed and will continue to fail because it is God’s church not theirs. He formed it and will continue to form it according to His will, not theirs.

The Catholic Church can be wounded from without and, mostly, from within, but it cannot be killed. God will not allow it.