MYSTERY OF FAITH Are the atheists on the right track? I doubt it. I bulldoze through with blind faith. Doubt is allowed. I embrace doubt. I am anointed. Demons will suck your brain out like vampires, the illuminati. Don't consort with them. So why do you need faith, well if everything clicks into place in life you don't really need it. If you had setbacks along the way you need all the help you can. In spirit you can lie at the foot of the cross. But faith won't make things click into place. In fact they get worse. That's why you need faith. One who was, in the depths of despair, scarred, and keeps the faith is the best. Because that one is keeping it real. But if one didn't keep the faith and comes to the faith at the eleventh hour? Even better. A life when everything clicks into place is not real. Those perfect lives or homes are a sort of mock-up. We're not meant for that. Christ always pre-existed as the Word. The Word, the Logos, became flesh. He lives an unusual life, knowing what was coming, the gospels before they would be written, there is a recursiveness there. He is the gospel. Christ told Peter that Peter would deny Christ three times and when put to the test, that happened. So why couldn't Peter resist that, did he not have free will? Mysterious. St Peter was the rock, in the gospel, on which the church would be built. Later, Vatican was built on his grave. Jesus knows all things. Ancient Romans hammered nails through people, things that should never be done. Kicking a man when he's down. This is not right. They were forgiven. They had luxury, but their empire was built on slaves. The Lamb of God laid down his life then took it back up. He continues to live in Heaven, scarred, and is the Eucharist on Earth. You can consume it or just look at it. How so? It is a mystery. He loves us which is hard to imagine. His church emerges with the cross as its symbol. Romans burnt the followers on grills, or threw them to lions. St Bartholomew skinned alive. Pax Tecum Bartholomaee. All eternally glorified in heaven. The martyrs help us to believe. The mother church grew stronger. She will continue forever beyond even time. So the humans did the worst thing which ever happened. They assaulted, lashed out, flailed, crowned with thorns, impaled God. But this was meant to be. There are many people with a low opinion of God. The apostles wanted the resurrected Christ to stay forever. God wants to do his work through us. He doesn't want you getting laid, He wants you getting killed. Think Joan of Arc. Virginity is sacred. A lot of this stuff is counter intuitive. We are not meant for this world. He abided here for a while but he was not of this world. Christ is king of the universe, that's why the passage of time is measured from the Nativity. Mother church survives two thousand years because God wills it. /iolfree