What is the Plan of Salvation?

 When a Pharisee came to Jesus by night, he wanted to know what he was missing. He wanted to know what his Jewish religion was no longer teaching: The way to heaven.

Jesus told the crowd later that "I (Jesus) Am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No One comes to the Father except by me.

As we return to the Pharisee, Nicodemus, we see in John, third chapter, that he was told by Jesus, "Ye must be born again."

Later in the conversation, Jesus clarified this point.

He said that this being born again was by the water and by the Spirit.

In the book of Genesis it says (Not in the King James Version) "By the water ye keep the commandment, by the Spirit you are justified and by the Blood ye are sanctified.

                                       WHAT IS THE PROPER MODE OF BAPTISM?

The formula, Calling by name, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen, must be done by a duly Authorized Priesthood member in a valid sect of the Restoration, in water, under the water with every body part and hair of the head fully immersed.

                                        IS ALL DONE?

No. Having been thus authoritively baptized, you must now endure to the end, holding to Jesus. Jesus must be in your heart. You must allow him in and daily surrender to the Spirit of God. This discipline becomes easier with practice.

                                          WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO DIE UNBAPTIZED? IS DEATH THE END?

Those who died without a knowledge of the Gospel, may, if they choose, have, in the Physical Kingdom of God, someone stand in for them and be baptized on their behalf, or by proxy.

            HOW OLD MUST YOU BE FOR BAPTISM?

You begin to be accountable for your sins at eight. For those who are severely mentally disabled the age may be greater or never come at all, in which case baptism would be worse than useless.

I updated my blog and other news.

 I corrrected several errors of thinking and fact and updated some areas of this blog. I live in an apartment now and have a male friend staying with me. I am going to try from now on to keep up with this spiritual blog. My diaries and Star Wars Writings and the Scriptures and other good books are on http://maraandlukeforever.boards.net   God bless.

Drew Story. please give feedback. Thank you. God bless.

Many years ago, but really no time at all had passed for him, for he could visit all times and all places on this earth, Drew Yankovic had been reconfirmed by an angel in a motel room in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri after receiving from God a copy of the Sealed Book of Mormon. Shortly thereafter, back in 1324 in Burma, he met his soon to be wife and traveling companion, Catherine, the eldest daughter of a man whom had given him food and lodging many years earlier in his previous home in France. Jesus himself appeared to them and married them, and they spent their honeymoon in Paris, then part of it in Venice. Soon, they had gone to 1943, to some prominent WWII battles, to help and minister to many, and there, in a tent, three angels ordained him to the office of elder. Shortly afterward, after traveling to the Battle of Okinawa, he raised a dead US soldier to life and showed him how he could join the RLDS church, pointing him to the local RLDS Chaplain. He knew this was the will of God. This was all a long, long time ago, years ago, and now Drew and Catherine sat, ageless and still very much in love, on top of a tall, tall skyscraper watching the sunrise, on a new day in 2037. They were way outside of the borders of Zion, but now Drew and Catherine were assigned to seek people who had not yet taken the Mark of the Beast and bring them to Zion. After a few hours they descended together, invisibly, onto a very busy city street. Their 12 year old son Nick and 8 year old daughter Sylvia were playing in a nearby park, invisible to everyone around them. They were both baptized and confirmed Members of the Restructured Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Catherine was 8 months pregnant with their newest daughter. Nick and Sylvia were both smart and knowledgeable, wise and intelligent. Nick had limited ability to travel where he wanted in time, and wherever on earth he chose, but Sylvia had to stay with her parents, because she had not yet reached the age of 11, when she would be old enough to share some of Nick’s abilities. But by the time she did reach 11, Nick would have greater abilities and greater responsibilities at age 15 than Sylvia would at 11, but she would eventually catch up to him when they got older. Safe in the park, the two children played, as their parents went into the subway, paying the fare with their special cards that would circumvent the need for the Mark of the Beast, that God had given them and Nick for this purpose. As always, Drew wore his backpack, with many things he needed in it, and dragged behind him his large suitcase, which held his time machine. These things never became a burden, either to him or to Catherine who carried in addition to these a huge purse with many things she needed in it. She did not wear make-up or perfume, but she did have many things in her purse she needed for her travels. Once onboard the subway (they were now visible to all), they found a young man who looked to be in his early 20’s who did not have the Mark. They assumed (they could talk to each other by reading each other’s thoughts and could see when someone had or had not the Mark even though the Mark was usually invisible to the naked eye) that he had slipped onboard the subway without paying, and that he was good at doing so. Catherine struck up a conversation with him, not letting on that they were Christians, as there were many spies about, and introduced him to her husband and indicated that he should get off at the next subway stop with them. So he did. They surfaced and walked through some alleys together, talking freely and openly about their faith and testifying to him about the truth of the Fullness of the Gospel and the Restructured Church, now called Jesus Christ. He was hungry to know more. So they broke the bread of life to him, reading to him out of many Latter Day scriptures. By this time, he desired baptism, so they took him to an abandoned swimming pool prayed that God would fill it with water, and it was instantly filled, with all the scum and trash instantly removed from it, the cracks and holes repaired. Drew baptized him in the shallow end, then a holy man on this errand came from afar and together he and Drew confirmed him a member of Jesus Christ. Then they started on their long journey to Zion. When they left the swimming pool, it returned to its abandoned, trashy, scummy crack and hole-ridden state as before. On a long forgotten freeway, a remnant of the days before the nuclear attacks and invasion of many years ago, they found a car that was mostly intact and prayed that God would spiff it up and put it in good working order. With Drew behind the wheel, who had prayed for keys to appear in his backpack that would start the car, and they had, they were off on the first leg of their journey to Zion. (Their kids and the young man were in the back seat.)

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A roadblock. Typical of a statist system. Hours ago they had gotten onto a freeway that was actually being used, and had had to take a detour due to a huge fissure caused by those huge earthquakes of years past, which all cars going that way had to take, onto a highway, or a road, and here was a typical roadblock. Normally the family would disappear and abandon the car but the young man, Andrew, was their charge, so Drew and Catherine prayed, and they mysteriously let their car pass with a wave of the gruff-looking guard’s hand, and they were through.
“What in the world? They have scanners! They instantly know when someone doesn’t have the Mark! How on earth did we get through?! That’s impossible!” Andrew exclaimed.
“Prayer is a mighty weapon.” Drew said simply.
“Wow. Just….wow.” Andrew said.

Many hours later they had been compelled to go off-road because there was no direct route to Zion and they came to a raging river, that was wide and bridgeless, all the bridges having gone out long ago. Drew prayed that the car could hover right over the river, and it did.
Drew and Catherine took pictures of them going over the river with their digital cameras. “This is quite lovely,” Catherine said.
“It’s even lovelier with you by my side,” said Drew, and he took her hand. She blushed.
“I got three Yahtzees in a row!” Nick exclaimed. He was playing a hand-held Yahtzee game he had acquired a few years ago, oblivious to what was going on around him. “I just beat my old high score, and the game isn’t over yet!”
“That’s terrific, son. I’m proud of you,” Drew said encouragingly. Sylvia was asleep.
Once over the river, they went through some large woods, then bramble bushes, then right through a large field. This all took about two hours. The child was still asleep, but the older brother was now raptly paying attention to his surroundings, having put the game up a long time ago, saying things like “cool” and “neato”. Once they had passed a bear who had been minding his own business, and had not even so much as glanced their way. Andrew had been a bit unnerved by that. Soon they crossed a highway, or a road, then crossed another. The third road they came to, they turned left onto, for Drew knew that it was going in the direction he needed to go. Drew followed this highway for four hours and eventually got onto another abandoned freeway. The freeway seemed very eerie to Andrew. They had to drive around derelict husks and shells of cars some with skeletons still in their clothes. Andrew hoped night wouldn’t fall as they were on this road, but alas, it did. Andrew squirmed in his seat as he saw pock marks from a war-ravaged freeway and dead skeletons everywhere in cars and out of them. But no one else in the car was bothered. Nick was taking a film with his camcorder. Sylvia was awake now, coloring a picture. Andrew was amazed at how she stayed within the lines. They hovered over a bombed out overpass, and later hovered over a crumbled overpass that blocked their passage, once over the freeway, now on top of it. Nick was still filming. Later they got off at a derelict exit and parked their car in a modern ghost-town, and all slept until morning.

Morning came, and with it a dust storm, a big one, with nuclear rain that made Andrew very glad they hadn’t left their car. They waited it out, Sylvia coloring again and Nick taking panoramic shots of the dust and rain with his camcorder. After the dust settled and the rain stopped, they ate a hearty breakfast Drew had packed, each fresh hot part of it wrapped up in miraculous pouches that kept them that hot and that fresh. Everyone ate well, then they got back onto the freeway. Somehow, 5 hours later the derelict freeway connected to a busy and congested freeway that was one-way., with the other freeway going in the other direction five miles distant from it. Fortunately, the one Drew wanted was the one they were on. A band of motorcyclists wended their ways through all the congestion. Some cars they harassed with machine guns and knives, stealing many possessions which they kept in their motorcycle’s saddlebags. Drew and Catherine, Andrew and the kids all prayed for protection. The marauding motorcycle gangs left them alone. Traffic was slow, often jamming for hours. No problem for Sylvia and Nick, who kept busy, either with coloring, snapping pictures, taking video, playing the ‘alphabet game’ with the others in the car, or sharing the Yahtzee game, or playing BINGO, or countless other things they found to do. As for Andrew, boredom set in. He rested his head on his left hand, absentmindedly staring out the window at nothing in particular. Drew and Catherine were talking to each other in their minds. Night fell, and people started getting out of their cars making trouble. Again the group prayed for protection. The rabble rousers and troublemakers left them alone. Traffic was at a dead stand-still, so they locked their doors, prayed for protection, and slept. They had eaten again earlier in the day, a good supper, which Catherine had packed.
When morning came, horns were honking all over the place. Traffic had started to move again, so Drew started the car, and moved with it. Six hours later (they all skipped breakfast) they got off at an exit and ate a hearty meal at a high-end sit down restaurant, using one of their special cards to pay for the meal. Then they all stayed at a hotel, again using one of those cards. They were all so exhausted, they all slept ‘til the next morning. There was a free continental breakfast for hotel guests, so they ate that, and then found that someone had stolen their car. “What do we do now?” Asked Andrew.
“We pray…,” said Catherine.
“…And wait,” finished Drew.
So they all prayed long and mightily for a way to get to their next destination from here, only, silently, and in their hearts, for if spies caught them praying, they could all lose their heads. So they prayed as they meandered their way through the crowds.
Three hours later they were sitting on a park bench when a big SUV pulled up driven by a man who Drew and Catherine instantly saw did not have the Mark. “Hey, you guys, get in!” He said. They all did.
The man introduced himself as Big Al, and said he was in prayer and an angel appeared to him and told him to go pick up a family and a young man and take them all to Zion, “and told me and showed me right where you would all be. Sure enough, I go there to that place and there you all are.”
On the nine-hour circuitous route to Zion, some off-road, they found out Big Al was not a Restorationist, but after they explained the gospel to him in its fullness, he desired baptism, so they parked at a lake. A holy man on this errand came to baptize him, and he and Drew confirmed him a member of Jesus Christ.
Then they were on their way to the borders of Zion. They arrived at the beautiful city at exactly midnight. They drove to and parked at the Temple in Independence. They all went in. Jesus had not come suddenly to his Temple yet, but he had appeared to some in it in non-glory appearances, including to Drew and Catherine. He did not this time, but now all six of them were freely able to worship and praise God! They lodged in the City, being treated almost like royalty. Andrew got a nice hair-cut, shave, manicure and pedicure. Big Al saw a good chiropractor and masseuse who helped his back tremendously, and then was administered to for other health problems, receiving instant healing. They all ate well, and slept gorgeously. They tarried in Zion for many, many days, then Al and Andrew parted company with the time travelers, who went immediately to Spain during the Dark Ages., during the height of the Spanish Inquisition.

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Five hours later, Nick was deep in the Ocean, off the coast of Spain, invisibly using his camcorder to capture footage of underwater cities of good Nephilim fae.
Meanwhile, Sylvia was playing visibly among some Catholic village children, while Catherine and Drew were in the vicinity, talking with a young Cathar named Prescott, tearing down his gnostic beliefs and teaching him the Higher ways of God, inviting him to join a society of hidden Holy Men who are frequently visited by John the Beloved and the Three Nephites from America, and they explained what and where America was, beyond the Azores, to him, and explained many other things to him beyond his current level of understanding. “And if you don’t join that hidden society of Free Men, you will be inquisited in two week’s time, you and your wife and your children,” Drew stated emphatically.
“This is the salvation of both you and your family. You can all eventually join this society,” Catherine added.
“Is it the Freemasons?” Prescott asked nervously. I’ll never join them, sorry. They claim to have occult knowledge like that. Are you revealing Masonic secrets to me?”
“No, no, a thousand times NO,” Drew emphasized. “The Masons are satanic, with the power of satan as their ally. THIS society of Truly Free Men worketh the power of God. You needn’t worry about being inducted into any dark covenants with us. We know none. The Masons and Jesuits, rose Croix, Templars, etc., seek to overthrow all free governments. We seek the opposite.”
“Hm..can I be given three days to think about it and discuss it with my wife?”
“Sure, you do have that much time left at least,” Catherine assured.
“Ok, thanks.” Prescott said. “See you in three days.”
“We’ll meet you right here,” Drew said.
With that, they departed.
“Do you think they’ll make the right decision, he and his wife?” Catherine wondered out loud.
“Let’s hope so, and pray they do,” Drew said calmly. “Well, now we have three days to explore this place. Let’s get our kids”
Soon they picked up Sylvia from the nearby village, and took an invisible swim in the coastal Ocean to retrieve Nick. Then they all flew invisibly to Barcelona for a three-day tour. During that tour of beautiful Barcelona, by night, invisibly, and supernaturally bright candlelight, Catherine, Drew, Sylvia and Nick made a search of the biggest library in Barcelona and learned much, each learning according to their specialized bents. Then they all got on their laptops. Catherine went on FaithBook, Drew to TruthTube, and Nick and Sylvia both browsed Heavenlypedia, listening to their music with headphones. Sylvia was presently listening to Jesus Loves Me, This I Know, while at the same time Nick was listening to Love Like This by Lauren Daigle. After a few more hours, they snuffed and collected their special candles, put their laptops away, exited the huge library, and lodged at a lovely inn in the heart of Barcelona. They all got a very good night’s sleep and were refreshed in the morning.
They continued those activities all three days, touring and dining in Barcelona by day and reading in the spacious library by night, and then they hurriedly flew back to where they had come from, again invisibly, and met Prescott, who brought his wife and children with him to the meeting.
“The answer is yes,” Prescott said happily. “We will join your society.”
“Then come with us,” said Catherine. Their children, Sylvia and Nick, were with them.
They went through forest and over field and plain, and crossed footbridges over raging streams, and went by horse and pony-back the rest of the way to where three Holy men stood waiting by a pool of pure water to baptize and confirm them, except for the children who were below 8, whom they would raise, feely teaching them the tenets of the Sealed Book of Mormon and of the Holy Church until they could be baptized, into Jesus Christ, then they were quickly inducted into their Holy Society and changed physically as the rest of them were already. Then Prescott and his family, with their uninducted little ones looking on in amazement, parted ways with Drew and Catherine, Nick and Sylvia. The children of Drew and the children of Prescott had gotten along very well. One of those children Sylvia had met, a fellow girl, in the village, and they had played games together. She was nine, now inducted into the Holy Society. She told Sylvia, “thank you for your friendship” and they hugged good-bye. “I will never forget you,” Sylvia said. “Or your brothers and sisters. They are all dear to me.”
With that, they all parted ways, and all wandered the countryside, taking it all in, Nick visible, as they all were, while invisibly holding his camcorder, loving the captured views of the country. They lodged at the house of a widow, whom they befriended, and she was an elderly widow, who quietly kept her faith at home, neither a Cathar, a Bogomil or a Latin Rite Catholic. Knowing she would die in peace and eventually progress to the third level of Celestial Glory someday, they treated her with kindness and the utmost respect. And for all the additional days they spent in Spain they returned to lodge at her house. She would cook the most sumptuous meals and didn’t charge a penny for food or lodging. She was very given to hospitality. But soon, they parted ways with the kindhearted woman and traveled by horse and pony through France, lodging at castles, inns and people’s houses, sometimes paying a fair sum, sometimes for free, to Switzerland. They climbed a mountain to its summit and had a picnic there, the four of them. Drew and Catherine held hands. Then, suddenly, Catherine’s water broke and she painlessly gave birth to her second daughter, naming her Alice. Catherine let, Sylvia, then Nick, hold Alice for a while, then placed her in the arms of her proud father. They spent four years living as peasants in a small Swiss village and raising Alice to the age where she could comprehend time travel and being able to fly and become invisible. Drew worked as a miller, making fine flour and selling it to the villagers, and the family lived off the profits. Holy Men of the Order of Melchizedek would come to collect his tithes and offerings, and he would give 10 additional percent to the local peasant church. None in his family took their Communion, but they became respected visitors of the little congregation of villagers worshiping their God in the best way they knew how, worshipping God and praising Him without any interference from the Catholics. One year later, God put a little time machine, wired to only go where her parents were going, either her mother or her father, inside Drew’s backpack, and Drew gave it to Alice for her fifth birthday. Two holy men presented Alice with a little satchel to carry it in. Though Alice was still not baptized or confirmed, having not yet reached age eight, she had been born with some of her parent’s abilities, as had Nick and young Sylvia. She had practiced flying invisibly and incorporeally all over Switzerland with her mother for most of the last year. Now that she was five, and could read at a college level, play five instruments and do calc and trig, and had read the Bible, Book of Mormon, sealed Book of Mormon, and all eight volumes of RLDS Church History and much of Plato, Aristotle, Zeno and a lot of the apocrypha and Psuedepigrapha and Gospel of Thomas, understanding it all, she was ready to be trained on using her time machine. But they had to start small, jumping ahead and behind in time for minutes, then hours, then a few days, then a few weeks ,until she got the hang of it. Finally, Drew gave his mill away to a worthy apprentice (who knew his secrets but did not share his special abilities) and the five of them went to the 1990’s, specifically AD 1997, to a comfortable Midwest town in the United States of America. Drew converted all the money he had earned selling flour to US Dollars by putting the mill money in his backpack and asking God to convert it to the proper currency. All told, it was a substantial sum. They bought a nice house and still had hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars left over, which he kept in his backpack, giving his wife lots and lots of spending money weekly, and doling out 20.00 every two weeks to his 17 year old son and 13 year old daughter, who both lived purity culture. They joined the local RLDS Restoration Branch in town, putting their names on the rolls, presenting, except for Alice, valid certificates of baptism and Confirmation and letters of recommendation from elders who gave their credentials in the letters. It was unquestioned. Adjusting to modern life was rather easy. All the hardships of life in the Dark Ages were virtually gone. Drew got a job as a carpenter, and Catherine became a skilled Realtor. Nick got a job at the local Taco Bell. He grew quite fond of Chalupas. He and the family also ate quite frequently at McDonald’s and Wendy’s, and occasionally a Chiese Buffet in town. Alice, Nick and Sylvia continued to experiment and grow in their abilities. Nick became partial to regularly visiting to Old West and Civil War periods. Sylvia, because she wasn’t yet 15, needed her parent’s permission to visit Nauvoo in its heyday and witness the construction and Dedication of the Kirtland Temple in Ohio. These things, when she was granted permission to view them over and over, strengthened her faith. Once, Nick got shot badly at the battle of Antietam Creek, and came home bloody, wounded in the right leg. Lovingly admonishing him to, except when needed otherwise, always stay invisible and incorporeal in the heat of battle, Drew lovingly extracted the bullet, then administered to him, and his leg instantly healed and the wound closed, as if new. Then he told Nick to take a bath and wash the blood off. Drew had once made the same mistake at Flanders Field, and again at Guadalcanal, and Jesus Christ himself had healed him completely at those times, after Drew had both times tended to his wounds as best he could. Although immortal, he found he still had to be careful. He knew now that until Alice was of age, he and Catherine needed to protect her and watch over her, and command the angels to do the same, and pray also for God’s protection for that precious child. Practicing natural family planning, Drew and Catherine were not going to have another child until Alice was at least 10.
One time, the family was at the kitchen table watching TruthTube videos on Drew’s laptop, when Drew got a phone-call from the son of a friend who was dying of cancer. Telling his family to stay in the house, Drew became invisible, flew through the roof, and took to the skies, flying to the hospital and landing behind a dumpster and becoming visible, as he had done so many times, in so many cities and towns, or behind a hay-bale, or tool shack, phone-booth, or anything that would hide his ability to become invisible from the general public. Then he rushed into the hospital, asking the receptionist at the front desk where Fred Mallorey was staying, and in what room. She said he was in ICU and very few were allowed in there, only family and ministers. Drew told her he was an ordained minister, and showed his Elder’s card. She pressed her intercom and told them in that ICU unit the situation and to let him in. She asked him his name. “Drew Yankovic”. He said.
“Yes, his name is Drew…..Ok, I’ll send him up.”
Soon, he had ascended the elevator shaft incorporeally to his floor and walked out of the elevator when it opened, to his unit, then to his room. He knew the elevator car would be empty. He got there just in time. Fred was fading fast. He administered to him, asking anyone who didn’t believe he could be 100% cured of his stage 4 cancer to please leave the room. One nurse left in a huff, but the doctors, tecnicians, and the rest of the nurses, and his son Mike stayed. He could tell from their countenances they believed, though one was an atheist. He relished this opportunity to show this young man the reality of God. After the administration, Fred was completely awake, lucid and in charge of his faculties. Drew knew his cancer was gone, his insides, wherever the cancer had affected, were healed up and restored, and that the cancer would never return. He commanded the nurses to bring Fred some real food from the cafeteria and that Drew would pay double for the food. One hurried to obey, while the doctors, nurses and technicians checked him out and ran multiple tests for hours, finally releasing him after taking out all his IV’s, prescribing no medications, having him get dressed in street clothes, and giving him his walking papers, recommending that he come back in three weeks for more tests, which he agreed to do.
The atheistic doctor talked to Drew at length and Drew led him to faith in the Restoration. He was baptized and confirmed three weeks later, with one of the male technicians and two of the nurses.

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When Nick was 19, Sylvia was 15 and Alice was 7, Sylvia was ready to take independent trips in time and place of her own election. Alice had taken to studying and studying the RLDS and LDS Doctrine and Covenants save for Doctrine and Covenants 132, which she had read once but it gave her the same kind of headache that RLDS DC 156 had, then going back in time with her parent’s permission to see the events of the DC and Church History actually happening, even the Revelations themselves being given. This strengthened Alice’s faith tremendously. She wasn’t allowed to go see the Book of Mormon history yet, or Bible, which Drew had done a little of, and had also beheld some Roman and Greek History. Catherine regularly visited ancient Carthage, Minoa and Atlantis, and had even witnessed Theseus slaying the Minotaur. Catherine and Drew had recently watched Joan of Arc fighting the English and then watched William Wallace and later The Bruce win Independence, then had travelled through nearly every phase of the American Revolution and went even further into the future and watched Martin Luther King, Jr. give his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, then went back and seen Martin Luther nail his 95 Theses to the Church Door in Wittenberg, then watched together as he said “Here I Stand, I can do none else, God help me”.

When Alice turned 8 (Nick and Sylvia were now 20 and 16), she was a little confused as to why she couldn’t be baptized at the restoration branch she attended, but must be baptized by her father. Her father explained that there was something more Alice needed to know, that the others at that Branch did not know, that the Sealed book of Mormon she had read since she could first read made their situation rather special and different from other Restorationists. Nick and Sylvia knew already. With that Alice acquiesced and Drew baptized, and a holy man on this errand and Drew confirmed. Once confirmed, and dry. After Baptism Alice had anew attitude when it came to the Scriptures. She devoured them. They made her hungry.
By now, Nick was courting a beautiful woman named Carmen. She had dark, straight long hair and was tall and pure and chaste, and he had met her at a local Church Reunion. She only lived 15 minutes away from them by walking, and he had a driver’s license, and a yellow car. A year later he proposed to her. He was 21, Sylvia was 17 and Alice 9.
During their engagement he kept promising Carmen that when they were married he would take her off to faraway places and they would help people in need, and there would be danger and excitement, and that he had abilities he couldn’t reveal to her until they were married. This all intrigued Carmen, for she knew he was honest, and had integrity, so he wouldn’t lie to her or promise something he couldn’t deliver. He promised to make her life more interesting than she could possibly imagine. Drew married them, then two holy men appeared to Carmen and Nick 5 days after their honeymoon began, took them to the future to a Zion Temple and their marriage was sealed there so that they could have progeny in heaven, then they returned to 1997 AD, and for all five of these days Nick had been showing her his laptop, camcorder footage, digital camera shots, time machine (though not yet letting her use it) and letting her read his diaries and other writings and spiritual experiences. He was quite a philosopher, theologian, scholar, scientist, mathematician and historian. She was frankly astonied by all this. It was better than she had hoped or imagined!
The two holy men inducted her into the same ways as Drew and the family, then she too was changed like them. They gave Carmen a backpack and suitcase with time machine, taught her how to use it, gave her a purse, and then ten days later, they were ready to go out on their REAL honeymoon to Atlantis, then to Nauvoo in its heyday, then 30 days after that, they were ready to start out on their own adventures, completely independent from Drew and Catherine. Now Catherine and Drew just had the two girls to raise.

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True and False Grace

This is a good video on True and False Grace.

Sikh beliefs compared to Truth.

This is what the Sikh religion believes about God. From their holy book, the Siri Guru Granth Sahib:

 To emphasize the uniqueness of God, Guru Nanak Dev Ji (the founder of the Sikh faith) states at the very outset that, “There is but one and only one God, and His existence is eternal. He alone is the creator of all there is. He is not afraid of anybody or anything, nor does He have enmity towards anybody. He never dies. His form is timeless and He is self-existent: He is unborn and free from incarnations. One can realize Him only through the grace of (a spiritual guide), the Guru.”


Yes, all the Gods are unique, each one, but God is not a modalistic Oneness, although He is One.  His existence is eternal.  He alone is the creator of all that was created, although some of His children took part in the creation of some things.  He is indeed not afraid of anyone or anything, but the very idea that even one soul could be lost (though he knows they can't all be saved because of Free agency, Free will and Freedom of Choice) caused him to fear so much that he sweat blood, and he partook of the bitter cup the Father had for him, and died.  He shrank that he might not partake, because he suffered the pains of perdition and also hell for every soul that he knew by foreknowledge (not predestination, we all have our own choices to make and even Paul corrected himself about this issue, saying that a vessel of dishonor could become a vessel of honor, and the future is not set in stone either) would someday come unto him or be saved in some kingdom.  He has enmity toward the devil and his followers.  His form is timeless except when he grows up on worlds, and He is self-existent.  He (Fathers and Sons) are born and reborn and incarnates in flesh and blood to die and shed that blood for the sins of others, the eternal blood of the Spirit, that sanctifies and cleanses from all sin, impurity and guilt, so He can give his followers a white stone with a new name, known only to them.  Anyone can come unto Him, and get to know Him, without the aid of a guru or even a priesthood man.

A Treatise On How To Discern or Know All Truth

A Treatise On How To Know All Reality











(In 21 Parts)











By Brent S.











“Deception is deceptive”- Douglas Hatten.











Stray from this system long and you will quickly find yourself in errors and heresies.















“I never hear of a man damned for believing too much, but they are damned for their unbelief” –Joseph Smith, Jr., 1844.











“But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets”- Paul, Acts 24:14







“…and in the New Testament and True Books of the Pseudepigrapha and Deuterocanonical works, and in fine all true Holy Books inspired by God, and all true principles, in short all light and truth, whatever the source” –Brent S.











“Here I stand. I can do none else. God help me.” –Martin Luther.





Introduction: There are at least 21 Ways to know what is true, and what is false. I propose these after long years of deliberation and thought since the germ of these things was planted in me by an insufficient article I read called “How To Escape Deception” by Douglas Hatten on the Hope of Zion yuku boards. But the principles this article taught did not keep me from deception. I have been deceived by many things since, and am prone to delusion. I went through a process akin to Rene Descartes in his “Meditations On First Philosophy”, only I started with the basis of a knowledge and testimony that the Scriptures are true, therefore God is real and history and humanity is real rather than doubting everything as Descartes did. For I doubted everything not expressly confirmed by the Scriptures I knew, insofar as I had discovered yet at that time at least.







I filled nearly an entire notebook with these processes and deliberations, making many mistakes as well as discoveries in the acquisition of truth. One thing I later learned is that although you can receive the Divine Witness of the Holy Spirit for all things, you can receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. (Book of Mormon, Ether 5:7 1908, RCE; 12:6 LDS)











The 21 Ways To Discern Reality:















Way # 1) The best Way, and the most Sure, is the Divine Witness of the Holy Ghost, or knowledge from any personal experience of any kind, in agreement with the Scriptures and Ways 2, 4,5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 below, and the first one given in DIARY XVI, above.













By the power of the Holy Ghost you may know the truth of all things (Moroni 10:5). But, as stated earlier, and I must emphasize, one cannot receive this Witness until his/her faith has been tested in this thing. As far as personal experience goes, if it contradicts the Scriptures inspired by God that experience must be thrown out and Scriptures must take precedence.







The reason I say the witness of the Holy Spirit has to be in agreement with those other Ways is because Satan can give you a false feeling that masquerades as the Holy Spirit and imitates Him enough to fool those who do not know the difference.



















Way #2) By the testimony of others, or law of two or three witnesses,















“In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. (II Corinthians 13:1)















This does not have to be two or three people necessarily testifying to the same thing, but can















be two or three records or sources, or objects, etc.















A caution here. You can easily find a conspiracy of liars, or a group of people who will testify















to a lie they believe in. To paraphrase Douglas Hattten, it is harder to find three Hindis and a















Buddhist who will testify to the truth of Christianity than it would be to find three Hindis and two















Buddhists who will testify to the truth of their own religions.















The testimony of others covers a wide-range of sciences, humanities, arts, technological















advancements, mathematical knowledge, etc., as well as a vast knowledge base of common















Scriptural, philosophical and Theological acumen, as well as knowledge gained from true















testimonies of the Afterlife from Near Death Experiences, and all this shared knowledge of















both the physical and spiritual and mental worlds can all be generally assumed to be true















with some exceptions. Not all established “fact” is actually reality but this must be reasoned















out and tested out and studied and have a general consensus reached on it by the common















pool of humanity, and other things must be revealed to us by God, and will, in time, reach a















point when everyone believes the truth about everything, but men being as full of opinions















as they are, this is still a long way off yet. But for personal knowledge of concepts that may















or may not be true, I refer you to all the other Ways.































Way #3) By the Scriptures that are inspired by God.































Scripture means “something written”































“And whoso treasureth up my Words shall not be















deceived"















- Matthew 24:39 (Inspired Version Only (Joseph Smith Translation)) Joseph Smith 1:37,















Pearl of Great Price, LDS)































“All Scripture inspired of God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice”















-Thomas Aquinas quoting his copy of I Timothy 3:16 in Summa Theologica: God, Part One















The Nature And Domain of Sacred Doctrine Article 1 Contrary after Objection 2, which agrees















with I Timothy 3:16 in the Inspired Version (Joseph Smith Translation)































In order to escape deception one must stay grounded in the Scriptures, and nothing















one allows him/herself to believe may contradict them, for where Scriptures and tradition















contradict, the Scriptures have primacy always, in all cases. One must eat, breathe and















drink them, know them, meditate on them, contemplate them, and it would also be helpful















to read them out loud, for faith cometh by hearing the Word of God. In order to get the















most benefit from the Word, pray that the Holy Spirit will be your Teacher before reading,















pray that He will help you to lay down the things that you think you know and allow Him















to teach you the things you ought to know. Also pray for Wisdom, Understanding,















knowledge and discernment.































Way #4) By giving credence to the testimony of our fathers.















“Remember the former things of old”-Isaiah 46:9































This includes the Scriptures, the antient historians, the Church Fathers















(primarily Ante-Nicene) and so much more (Josephus, Philo of Alexandria,















Tacitus, Herodotus, Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History, Howard Pyle’s Arthurian compilations, etc.)















If it doesn’t contradict Ways 2 or 3 or 6 or 7, or 8-10, then it can be included.















































Way # 5) By the magisterium, or teaching authority of the True Church from the















Beginning of the World ‘til now. This includes the Book of Enoch, II Enoch (Secrets),















the Torah, the Elder’s Journal, the Rules and Resolutions for RLDS, some True















traditions of Roman Catholics such as the perpetual virginity of Mary, and many















other things, the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and some other writings of the Post Nicene















Fathers, the JCRB, Remnant and Jubyite Conference Resolutions, and more.































Way#6) By the Multitude of Counsellors, or the Multitude of Council.































“Blessed is the man who walketh not after the counsel of the ungodly”-Psalms 1:1































“For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.”















-Proverbs 24:6































This can include:















*The magisterium, which is not infallible.















*The Scriptures, which are not infallible.































“The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets” –I Corinthians 14:32































“For behold, they have taken away from the Gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain















and most precious.” –I Nephi 3:168 (RCE, 1908); 13:26( LDS)































“Wherefore let me intreat you to read it with favour and attention, and to pardon us, wherein















we may seem to come short of some words, which we have labored to interpret.”















-From Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus, or Wisdom of Jesus, or Wisdom of Sirach), Introduction.































“And now if there be fault, it be the mistake of men; wherefore condemn not the things of God,















that ye may be found spotless at the judgment seat of Christ.”















– Book of Mormon, Title Page 1:8 (RCE)































*The leadership of the Church, which is not infallible.































These are checks and balances, and we must listen to the Voice of the Spirit, the Good Shepherd.































The Scriptures, what is written, is the plumb line. It, what is written in the in the Scriptures inspired















of God must be relied upon. (RLDS Doctrine and Covenants 16:1C;LDS Doctrine and Covenants















18:3)































The leadership of the Church interprets the law and brings the Church into order.































Also Godly parents, friends ,teachers, Priesthood, Nuns, Monks, books, spouses, and Prophets















and Leaders and other Authorities ought to be hearkened unto if indeed their counsel is Godly,















for God can and does use some or all of these as prophets to speak into our lives. These all















listed above, inasmuch as they don’t contradict Ways 2, 3, 4, or Ways 7-10, must be acceded















to to ensure that we do not become heretics, who choose for ourselves what to believe.















Way # 7) By Special Conferences And Councils:















As both Roman Catholic, Orthodox Catholic, Nestorian Catholic, Koptic Catholic, Mormons















and RLDS well know (though their interpretation of things may vary widely), sometimes one















cannot know whether a thing is true or not alone. Sometimes that must be done corporately.















It can be done in a way akin to the Scientific Method also, such as in the School of the Prophets.















Also, that is one of the reasons God is restructuring His Church, so that corporately we can















as a body of people have a consensus as to whether words put forth as the Word of the Lord















are actually from the Lord. All things pertaining to Zion shall be judged. There will be a School















of the Prophets (actually it already began, with the Jubyites) which will minister and lead to the















Endowment of the Holy Spirit, where we can use methods to test knowledge, and theory and















principle ,and doctrine, etc., pertaining to truth and the Kingdom. As the years of















the Millennium roll forth, it must go on and on and on.































Way # 8) By the Law of Non-contradiction































Nothing one allows him/herself to believe can truly contradict anything else that he or















she knows to be true, not supposes to be true, but knows to be true by Ways 1-6, and















also by Ways 9-12.































Way #9) By the Law of Paradoxes, or Seeming Contradictions, that are not really















contradictions at all, but only seem to be so, such as Zeno’s’ infinite division of















distance Paradox, which is solved by the fact that infinite integers all add up to a















finite number. (True in at least two ways, by filling up a box, and adding up















all integers from - infinity-+infinity, of which the sum is -1/12.)































Way # 10) By reason and logic, and common sense, and Intuition.































Reason and logic can take you to the existence of God, and even to the distinction















of the soul from the body, (Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy) but it cannot















take you to Altruism or self-denial for the sake of a Savior, nor to the Cross of Calvary,















which is why it is weak. Common Sense, if one has it, is wiser than Reason and Logic Alone.















Intuition is yet wiser. Yet only a direct revelation from God or the preaching of the Word,















or a belief in another’s testimony can bring a man to the Jesus of the Bible .































Way #11) By nature.































After a revelation of God it is impossible for a believer not to see God in the vast















wonders of nature. Nature reveals God in multitudinous ways, and will reveal















many scientific truths, and mathematical, and metaphysical and astronomical















ones as well, but it, again, is weak, for it does not have the power to bring the















unbeliever even to God on its own.































Way #12) By evidence, or proof.































The weakest of all, for all the proof in the world will not convince an unbeliever















to trust in Christ as his Savior, only the Preaching of the Word of God can do so, or















as stated before, testimony or revelation, for the power is in the Word, not in the evidence.































RLDS Doctrine And Covenants 5:2C;LDS Doctrine And Covenants 5:7 Behold, if they















will not believe my words, they would not believe you, my servant Joseph, if it were















possible that you should show them all these things which I have committed unto you.































Wherefore, Ways 10, 11 and 12 will do nothing for the unbeliever.































Way #13) By going to the source. I thought there was some truth in the















teachings of Hermes Trismegistus but I found that when I went to the source















(the Corpus Trismegistus) I thought I found that it was contradictory to the truth, for it described a false vision (Although it was lofty, I know from experience that it is very possible to have a very realistic and vivid false vision)















that told him nature was evil and darkness and all wet things had the nature of darkness

and only God was good. God said in His Word that all things he had created were very good. But then I went to the Corpus Hermeticum and found the Corpus Trismegistus to be a counterfeit of that, as the Crystal plates of Thoth were a counterfeit of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes. I believe men added to Hermes Teachings with those counterfeits such as the teaching about opening your chakras and third eye, which is evil and opens you to the Kundalini spirit (As Youtube videos of people writhing and contorting show). This was never a teaching of Hermes.











Sometimes you don’t know something is wrong (or even right unless you go right to the source.



There is much water in heaven as many people who have recorded true Near Death



Experiences and as even the Bible itself will tell you. And water is life, and the nature



of life is not evil, and it is apparent that water is very wet indeed. Also, God is composed of



matter and spirit as are all things in existence, and they added to Hermes' teachings that all matter was evil which is



why the Gnostics and all who came from them from the Manichaeans to the Cathari called



matter evil, and Tatian erroneously taught that God was distinguished from





matter. Augustine may have taught that Hermes’ teachings were compatible with















Christianity, and he was right. He searched as I did.































Way #14) By Faith.































Faith cometh by hearing the Word of God-Joseph Smith, Jr.































God requires faith of all who desire to come unto him and of all who do















come unto him. This has been the basic requirement since before the















beginning of time. Augustine and Isaiah both said, If you believe not,















neither shall you understand. Hebrews says that "Without faith it is















impossible to please him [God]." Belief and faith come before one can















understand the things of God. The things of God can no man understand















save he has the Holy Spirit of God in him, just as the things of man cannot















be understood but by the spirit of man. Granted, that is a paraphrase,















but it is basically what the Bible says.































Way 15) By revelation.































Revelation is the Rock upon which Christ's Church is built, which is also















known as Jesus Christ. He reveals (or uncovers) ALL things to the faithful,















both things past, things present and things to come, which is what Truth is,















for God is Truth and Christ is the Spirit of Truth. Revelation is the uncovering















or revealment of ALL THINGS.















However, satan can give revelation too, and does, of false things mixed with true















things, because it is his job to deceive, as he is the deceiver.















Wherefore, all revelation given MUST be tested by the other WAYS, (Scriptures,















evidence, etc. ). II Timothy 3:16 And all scripture given by inspiration of















God, is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction















in righteousness;















That is the true test of all revelation.































Way #16) By trying the spirits















There are 3 Grand Keys to trying the spirits.















LDS Doctrine and Covenants 129:1-9















1 There are two kinds of beings in heaven, namely: Angels,















who are resurrected personages, having bodies of flesh and















bones—















2 For instance, Jesus said: Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not















flesh and bones, as ye see me have.















3 Secondly: the spirits of just men made perfect, they who are not















resurrected, but inherit the same glory.















4 When a messenger comes saying he has a message from God,















offer him your hand and request him to shake hands with you.















5 If he be an angel he will do so, and you will feel his hand.















6 If he be the spirit of a just man made perfect he will come in his















glory; for that is the only way he can appear—















7 Ask him to shake hands with you, but he will not move,















because it is contrary to the order of heaven for a just man to















deceive; but he will still deliver his message.















8 If it be the devil as an angel of light, when you ask him to shake















hands he will offer you his hand, and you will not feel anything;















you may therefore detect him.















9 These are three grand keys whereby you may know whether any















administration is from God.































Also, according to Joseph Smith, Jr, in one of his sermons, no angel of















God has wings (at least, I add importantly, as as it appertains to the















visitations to this earth.)















No angel of God, as Smith has also said, in a pamphlet he wrote has sandy















hair.































Although demons can say "Jesus is come in the flesh" (and they certainly















can say that) and a false Scripture can give a falsified account of















Jesus coming in the flesh (such as the Urantia Book, or Edgar Caycee's false















prophecies), confession is not, is not just merely saying or giving an account















of Jesus in the flesh, but will any demon, fallen angel, devil or unclean spirit















confess that Jesus is their Crucified Lord? I think not. Jehovah's Witnesses















believe that He was impaled on a torture stake, and think they can prove this















(and if they tell you to do research on Google their side of the story will be the















top result but if you dig deeper on the results page, you will find the truth, that















he was Crucified on the Glorious Cross!), and they endeavor to prove it to















others. Some believe He never existed. Some believe he existed but was not















crucified, while yet other believe he existed, was just a prophet, and was taken















from the cross to heaven and replaced by someone made to look like him,















who did die. Some believe it was murder. Some believe suicide, or some















Deicide. But will any unclean spirit, devil, demon or fallen angel confess















that not only was he Crucified (the REASON He came in the flesh), but that he















is Lord of All? I don't believe so. And they certainly wouldn't say he doesn't















need to come in the flesh again as a baby and be literally born again on this earth















or that His Atonement is both eternal and necessary for the expiation and















redemption of all men, even if they do stoop so low as to admit he was crucified















and lie and say he is their Lord. And even if they say these things, you can always















know what they say is false by the 3 Grand keys mentioned above, or by sandy















hair and wings or gold dust, silver dust or angel feathers(those too are never of God-Smith) alone. Also, in a Church service (if it be of God) the ones in charge of it can















discern whether a good or bad spirit is manifested in the service or whether















a spiritual gift is exercised properly. However with this, a caution. In some















good churches, spiritual gifts and operations are suppressed. Even a good















Spirit-filled ministry like Jimmy Swaggart Ministries cautions wrongly against















being open to the ministry of angels while at the same time encouraging















the exercising of spiritual gifts, and discouraging, again, wrongly,















any continuing revelation, as many, many good and well meaning discernment















ministries also do, even though Jimmy Swaggart himself received a personal















Revelation, his first of the power of the Cross, in 1997. Jan Markell















of Olive Tree Views has decried the true visions and prophecies of the true















prophet Rick Joyner, and there are many such incidents because the time















has not yet come when "they shall all see eye to eye". Be careful to whom















you go to for spiritual advice. Don't ask a man or woman about a topic he or















she would talk bad about or decry if you already know that topic to be the truth.















This is trusting in the arm of flesh. Do not even trust what I say more than you















trust God, but test everything I say by the Spirit of God and the Scriptures, and















if that proves me right, than by the other Ways I believe God has shown me.















If you know a righteous spirit has manifested himself to you, whatever he















says you can believe without testing it by the other Ways. But be cautious.















The enemy can think of new ways to deceive you. He is clever, but God is















wiser, infinitely and eternally more wise than the Devil or all his armies















combined. And any time you feel you are deceived, you can go to God in earnest















prayer for His Guidance and direction and to pull you out of any















deception of Lucifer, or satan, who definitely are one and the same being.















And satan and his angels can appear as angels of light, and his ministers can















appear as ministers of righteousness and preach a sermon that appears to















come from heaven, but personally and below board (or sometimes even right















out in the open, but the Saints of God are blind to it because they admire















them for all the good they have said or done in the past, and even















continue to do) live like the devil. The marks of a false prophet are outward symbols and pomp. The mark of a true servant of God is inward holiness. A servant of Satan can feed the hungry, clothe the naked and















yet preach a false Gospel that deceives millions, while fleecing the flock.















Beware of the prosperity gospel, and beware of Pope Francis, and any leader















or former president or pope that supports the false religion of Islam or says















that Muslims and Christians serve and worship the same god. They do not.































Way #17)By prayer, contemplation (, or pondering truth out loud), true (not Transcendental) meditation, pondering (in your heart) considering, and















thought (the lowest).































All thought is prayer. Christianity is not brainless, or thoughtless. Truth must be contemplated out loud, meditated upon in the heart and weighed carefully in the mind and heart.































Way #18) By the results, or fruits.































Ye shall know them by their fruits- Matthew 7:25 IV(JST)































Not by the perceived fruits, and this is important, for perception is not















always reality. When you are alone by yourself you can make the best















decisions because when you are alone you know yourself the best and















your mind can be free from distractions. In this way and mode, you















must properly judge the fruitage of people, movements or other matters,















books, or Scriptures.































A good way to test truth or movements or a person or book is by taking an















unbiased look at their results.































Way #19) By fulfilled prophecy.































This, for example, proves the Messiahship of Jesus Christ, as well as















the fact that we are now living in the latter times.















Time vindicates the prophet, however, a caution with this:































Deuteronomy 13:1-3















1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,















2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;















3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.































Way #20) By simple Trust.































Faith is at its root trust in the object of your faith.















If you sit in a chair, you have trust that that chair will not collapse from under you. If send a letter in the mail, or if you plant a seed, you have faith that the seed will grow, or the letter will get to its destination. As one musician has said in a song of faith, "I found reality in simple trust." (Echo, My Faith Still Holds)































Way #21) By asking good, learned questions (the Socratic Method)















I wouldn't recommend this for beginners. To open an intelligent dialogue with a man or woman and to be able to arrive at the truth of a matter thereby takes experience, sometimes years of it. But Inquiry, both of God and of men, I would recommend to all. As stated earlier, be careful at whose hand you inquire of, because you must always seek counsel about the right things from the right people. This does not mean a trustworthy person that you inquire of cannot correct you if you are in error about something. You must let him or her do so. This is related to seeking an abundance of Godly counsel, (Way #6)































James 1:5-7















5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not.















6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.















7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.































Verses 6-7 are related to Ether 5:7 RLDS;12:6 LDS, mentioned at the beginning of this little work.











APPENDIX:



More ways that I come up with from time to time.



1)It should make sense, or it may not be true.

2) Don't make easy assumptions, such as 'The Book of Mormon is the Book of the Devil' or 'the earth is flat' or 'there couldn't have been Gravity or space or NASA has not been to the moon or traveled in space ever and there is no ISS so this can't be true' or 'all aliens come form hell so there is no life outside of this planet and no friendly aliens ever visit us' and there are probably hundreds of thousands of other wrong assumptions people start their research out with.

3)In research, you usually find what you want to find, so be careful when what you want to find is not the truth.

4) A good journalist is not just after facts, but digs for the truth.

5) Much truth is suppressed by industry, religions, government and intelligentsia.



I have much more to say on this subject, and there will be a major sequel to this little book, a much thicker book covering much more ground and many more topics. Happy digging!































Completed 3-28-2019 @2:10 AM CST































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Updated Twice 8-23-2019 6:53 PM and 7:21 PM CST







Updated again 11/06-2021 @3:24 PM CDT, and at 3:26 PM CDT, same day.









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How to use this system: This system can't tell you anything, it takes a lifetime of work on your own part and is a test for all truth. With everything you learn or think you know, run it through each of the twenty-one parts of the test.







This may take considerable time and prayer and thought and meditation, and pondering, and















contemplation, and effort, and deep study, and not all twenty-one parts may be necessary for















every fact and theory, and principle and philosophy or doctrine (teaching).















However anything that is truth should not fail any of the 21 tests, though















some truth can seem counter-intuitive and paradoxical, but a paradox is the















opposite of a contradiction, for all paradoxes have either already been or















will be resolved.































Also learn to think cubically, for the truth has many sides. Updated and















republished by































Brent L Sohlden on 4/19/2019 at 4:44:40 AM CST--(/end document)






































From the book, Bubbles of The Foam, I learned that Fortune is a she. That's about all I got out of it.























Next, reading Thinking As A Science by Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) Released by Project Gutenberg May 31, 2018 Ebook #57243) (c)1916 by E.P. Dutton & company.















Real thinking, Independent Thinking, hard thinking.







"...Most people, When confronted with a problem, immediately acquire an inordinate desire to "read up" on it. When they get stuck mentally, the first thing such people do is to run to a book."-Ibid (At 5:21:42 AM CDT Star Wars: The Complete Canon Timeline (2020) posted by YouTuber Star Wars Explained is on)







In other words, instead of thinking, we turn to a book.















I say, there can be times when this is perfect! Ok, but constant reliance on books to do all your thinking for you is not ok for a true thinker. But the True books you HAVE READ, or have read from, MUST ground all your thinking!!! (At 5:31 AM CDT I turned Pluto TV to Star Trek: The Next Generation) If your thinker works properly, you will be grounded enough in the proper Books or books to keep your Independent Thinking in alignment with God's way of thinking, with the need to consult books from time to time still existing, but shouldn't be too heavily relied upon.







"But when I use the word thinking, I mean thinking with a purpose, with an end in view, thinking to solve a problem."-Ibid.



Love is sacrifice.