Book Of Life: Contemporary Introduction 101 Poem by Terence George Craddock

Questions were asked.
Often not even real questions.
Answers not really required, sought or desired?
So why ask the questions?
Why even bother to answer?
What is the source motivation?
What are the meaning implications?
By what authority are answers given?

I do not speak
with any authority
from God;
but I could
answer your questions
most answers are easy.

First most of the horrific crimes committed,
against targeted religious groups, cultures,
peoples throughout history; were committed
planned executed done by those loving evil,
obtaining rewards wealth power possessions,
stolen from usually innocent persecuted victims.

Those loving such evil, torturing people
without mercy do not serve God,
do not believe in God,
had nothing to do with God
or God's will.

No religion is perfect.
Why? Because people are not perfect.
All religions contain people imperfect.
A few within all religions will commit
cruel hate crimes with not love but hate.
Religions fail because people are imperfect.

False religion claims to kill torture persecute in God's name.
False religion claims to commit all hate crimes in God's name.
False religion claims abuses power wealth people in God's name.
On judgement day false religion will claim they did this in God's name.
God will declare I never knew them. God is angry they abused his name.
True believers feed the poor heal the sick give peace love in God's name.

God commanded "thou shalt love the Lord thy God

with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first
commandment. And the second is like, namely this,

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is
none other commandment greater than these."

God has spoken, no one kills tortures murders in God's name.
The commandment is "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
Who is thy neighbour? Every man woman child on earth.
God loves every man woman child on earth regardless
of race, religion, culture, age, sex, sins; God has declared this.
God loves the sinner, all sinners; but God does not love the sin.

False religion claims to kill torture persecute in God's name.
False religion claims to commit all hate crimes in God's name.
False religion claims abuses power wealth people in God's name.
God commands "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
Hate crimes are the opposite to love your neighbour as thyself.
Therefore be not deceieved hate comes from humans not God.

Do you think the 50 million killed throughout history
by the Roman Catholic church and inquisition was serving God?
Do you think Hitler and Nazi Germany believed in God
or their own politically created national socialist religion?
Those who arrived in America during operation paperclip,
were often fanatics who never changed their core beliefs,
with the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands.
Needed to work on Saturn 5 rockets and space program.

Get angry! Rewrite history? Or answer the questions?
No nation, no people, no race, no civilization in history
was perfect, without error, with cruelty, without injustice.
But be honest did God create this mess or imperfect humans?
So go make your free will choices but do not blame God.
All of us choose right or wrong some lie state wrong is right.
Beneath the lies the window dressing we know what we do.
Go live your life, but can you put errors blame, where they belong?

People choose what to believe in.
People choose what not to believe in.
Some atheist's could never believe in God
some atheist's could never believe in Christ

yet some have Christ written in their heart
do Christ's will regardless, feeding the poor,
lives dedicated to love. So when people
say they did works for God and he said

he never knew them, do you think they worked
for the Spanish Inquisition or lifetime devoted
their entire lives to love to serving those in need?

What of the murderer and the warmonger?
King David was a warmonger yet God choose him,
at the time of his choosing he was not a warmonger
the defense of Israel required a Great King a warrior,
blood on his hands David could not build the temple.
King David was a murderer he ordered the murder
of Uriah. Why? King David committed adultery
with Bathsheba the wife of Uriah, to hide his adultery,

in an attempt to cover up their sin of adultery,
King David plotted ordered a murder sinned and lost
his salvation eternal life was no longer abiding in him.
For 9 months King David had no salvation no eternal life.
King David was unsaved unrepentant in sin without hope.
King David did repent truly repented received back salvation.

Truly repented is defined by the heart. God judges the heart.
People make their own rules, their own excuses, God judges.
An atheist can easily spot Christian hypocrisy so can God.

Moses murdered an Egyptian yet God choose him.
Saul guarded the clothes of those who stoned Steven to death,
is recorded as being involved in the deaths of over 300 men
women children, yet God Christ choose him to serve as Paul;
who then devoted his life to Christ and died for Christ.
The Apostle Paul wrote 13 books in the New Testament.
Saul intensely persecuted the church of God tried to destroy it.
God can forgive murders warmongers God can forgive anyone.

Cynics claim people cannot change hearts cannot change.
People are skeptical life teaches bad experiences betrayal.
Saul was clearly not motivated by self interest in become Paul.

Choosing hardship punishment imprisonment death,
is not rational, but it does prove incredible faith conviction,
belief, it proves cynics wrong, some deny self interest.

To serve what and why, motivated by what and why, you decide.

Are we all forgiven is that what Christ meant?
King David committed adultery and ordered
the death in battle of that woman's husband,
yet David like Moses and Paul were forgiven.
One of the two thieves who was crucified
with Christ was forgiven. Was it the one
who mocked, or the one who cried out
in tormented repentance, who entered

paradise? Does evil have its reward,
does true repentance? We all decide
how to live our lives. So decide.

King David was unsaved unrepentant in sin without hope.
King David did repent truly repented received back salvation.
Christ said all who truly repent claim his blood are saved.

We are all judged in the end
if we live long enough we start
to judge ourselves in reflections
society judges us people judge us
but why the Christian judgement
and what does it mean obtain?

Put simply judgement
is like a criminal trial,
for an alleged criminal;
all human societies have trials
for people breaking laws,
which a society claims
are needed to protect
the rights of individuals.

Judgement decides if God
is a just and merciful God
before angels and humanity.
Angels and human individuals
exercised free choice and
are eventually life judged.

What is a name written in the book of life?

In a trial of an alleged
criminal in human societies,
a person can be found
innocent or pardoned
even from a serious crime.

That person found
innocent or pardoned
is free to leave,
will not be executed,
imprisoned or punished.

The blood of Jesus Christ
is claimed by Christianity
to be a God given pardon,
a get out of jail free card.
It is an individual choice
to believe, to play the card.

The wages of sin are death
in life we all sin we all die.
In Christianity there is
a resurrection a judgement;
on Judgement Day the dead
are raised from death in sin;
those with their name written
in the book of life receive a pardon.

Live the rest of eternity in perfection,
no disease no sickness no injuries,
no pain only happiness in immortality.

A last perplexing question?
If Christianity is not real
why is it hated so much?
People believe in the tooth fairy,
the Easter bunny,
Father Christmas
but this is allowed
not normally hated?

Christianity is hated,
it must be deleted
from government,
courts, by scholars;
by those that hate
what they do not believe in?

Why? If it is deleted
and not real, then why expect
protection or salvation?
Why blame God not
believed in for all things
that go drastically wrong?

These disasters called an act of God
are acts of God or acts of humanity?
Who causes climate change global
warming who makes atomic bombs?