


. A Priest sounds the alarm on a shofar






Story one:

"I'm sorry, Mr. Smith, but your wife has an advanced cancer that is inoperable."

"How long does she have, Doctor? A month? A year? Will she suffer much? Should she be told?"

"There is no way of knowing just how long she has. It may be a few weeks, it may be years, but death is inevitable. Yes, it will most likely be painful. And yes, she should be told."

"My wife is very emotional, she won't take the news well. Will you tell her? She would hold it against me for the rest of her life if I told her."

"I could tell her, but I believe it would be insensitive for us to inform her in this way. I think you should be the one to tell her."

"What did the Doctor say, Dear? Am I going to die?"

"The doctor said you would be fine. You might experience a little pain, but not to worry about it."

"Will I need an operation?"

"No, the doctor said that wouldn't be necessary."

Story two:

"Mommy, my kitty died. I miss my kitty so much. What am I going to do without my kitty?"

"I know you miss your kitten, Honey, but don't worry, your kitten is in cat heaven. She's happy now playing with all the other kittens in heaven."

"But I miss my kitty, Mommy. Why can't I have her back?"

"We will get you another kitty to play with, Hon. And some day, if you are a good little girl, you will get to play with your kitty again when you get to heaven."

Fantasies are what we tell when we either do not know the truth, or are unable, or are unwilling to let the truth be known.

Fantasies are usually entertaining and serve no useful purpose. When we hear a fantasy, we know it is not true. When you and I encounter a fantasy, we enjoy it, then let it go.

In the stories above, the fantasies did no harm in themselves because nothing has been changed by the telling of them. The truth has been covered up, but the ones being told the fantasy are comforted.

"My doctor told me that my kind of cancer doesn't need an operation and that I will be ok in spite of it. He said I won't die or experience any pain."

"Oh, good. I have a cancer similar to yours, and my doctor told me I had to have an operation or I would die. But I trust your doctor's advice more, so I won't get the operation."

"My Mommy told me that there is a kitty heaven and that cats have a lot of fun up there, more fun than they do down here. And she said some day I will get to play with her again when I get to heaven."

"Oh, goody. My friend has some kitties that her father said he was going to drown. I thought that was awful, but if they are happier there, and if we'll get to see them again, maybe I can drown my kitties as well so they will be happy."

The stories are spreading, and getting more bazaar. They are also getting more dangerous.

Although one cancer victim can not be cured, another, who very well might be cured, takes the information she wants to hear and puts herself at risk.

The child, as children will believe anything, has taken a story of comfort and is well on the way to creating a mind set.

A Fantasy you say? For sure it is. And who would do what those in the story above have done?

My father, who was much overweight, did not like to eat vegetables. He liked meat. But every doctor he investigated told of the danger of meats.

Except one.

Guess who my father listened to.

My mother had cancer. She did not want to have an operation. She heard of a doctor in Mexico who advocated nothing but grape juice. My mother made many trips to Mexico to see this doctor, and followed his grape juice diet religiously - until she died of cancer.

Consider school shootings, the Two Towers, the Suicide Bombers, mothers who kill their children because they want to save them from this corrupt world. All these stem from a mind set where they took a fantasy and turned it into a reality.

On the other extreme, Edison, Einstein, the Wright Brothers and Disney took a Fantasy, a dream, and turned it into a reality.

A Fantasy, as long as it remains in the realm of Fantasy is of little danger. As long as nobody believes they can fall off a cliff and survive, as does the coyote in the roadrunner cartoons; or they can shoot someone, and that person will again reappear in the next western they watch - a Fantasy is harmless.

But our two Fantasies are well on the way to becoming more than mere fantasies; they are growing into Fables.

Fables are Fantasies that are taken seriously. Fables can be instrumental in explaining the unexplainable. Fables are unbelievable stories, that somehow are truly believed by many.

Fables have a moral attached to them. Fables teach at the same time they entertain. Fables are designed to make us think. On my website, the "Checkerboard" could well be classified as a group of Fables.

Jesus used Fables in the form of Parables (or allegories). Though His stories illustrated a Truth, and were based on factual situations, they were not necessarily true events in themselves.

In the case of the parables of Jesus, they not only illuminated Truth to the initiated, but hid Truth from the stubborn.

The Bible, in many ways and in many places warns us against Fables and "old wives tales." While fables can illustrate a Truth, they can also very easily make a Lie look appealing and honorable.

Consider Satan's story to Adam and Eve. A large part of what Satan said was the truth; but the little bit that wasn't the truth ("Ye shall not surely die") was their, and our downfall.

Fables can magnify the Truth, they can hide the Truth, or they can unveil the Truth. It depends on what we want to hear.

We have God trying to tell us the Truth; we have Satan telling us the lies we want to hear - and we stand in the middle spinning like a whirling dervish trying to decide what will suit us best.

Satan will win, because he is telling us what we want to hear, and he has magnificent specimens of manhood helping to spread his lies. (Consider the Beast of Revelation.)

God, to spread His truth, conceals His Truth by utilizing a Nazarene, and Galilean fishermen, and tax collectors, blind ex-Pharisees, and prostitutes, and demon possessed men (Legion). He uses the lowest of the low to bring His Message from on High.

"My husband is a publisher of a world-wide magazine and he said he is going to start publishing articles proving what your doctor said about cancer is correct. He said he is having a hard time finding information to back up what we believe, but he is good at finding things that don't exist. Pretty soon the whole world will know what we believe. Wouldn't it be wonderful if nobody had to have operations or take medicine again?"

"My father is an important business man. He has lots of money and a whole bunch of people working for him. He also owns the big new church in the middle of town and he says he is going to get them to start preaching about pet heaven. I'll bet after a while the whole town will know what we already know. Won't that be great?"

"Un huh. And maybe someday we'll be famous because we started this religion."

Traditions in the making.

Traditionalism is the making of a religion out of a tradition.

Now, who would do that? Who would take a tradition, that was based on a fable, that started out as a fantasy, and turn it into a religion?

Have you ever heard of the "Traditions of the Elders"? Did you happened to run across the term "Humanism," or "Evolution," or "Est," or "Buddhism," or a myriad of other beliefs that started out as a corrupted germ of an idea and matured into a huge mangled mustard tree?

It's easy to stand back and criticize others for their ridiculous beliefs. In fact, it is even fun at times, and it bolsters our opinion about ourselves and our own beliefs - as long as the ones we are talking to happen to hold our own corrupted beliefs.

"But we're not like them. Our beliefs come from the very Word of God!"

No, our beliefs come from a multitude of people's interpretation of the very Word of God.

Is the Word of God True and correct?


Is our interpretation of the Word of God correct?

Not by a long shot.

As evidence of this, I offer thousands of cults, denominations and religions who base their Doctrines (teachings) on the very same Book.

And not one of them is right.

One may be correct in one area, and be way off base in others. And another might be correct in another area, and out in left field for all the rest.

It's part of the Parable system of the Bible. God hides bits and pieces of Truth throughout His Church, then allows them to conceal it with Fantasies and Fables.

It's rather like treasuring a shiny, gold plated plastic ring, while disregarding the tarnished old solid gold nugget.

God's purpose is a straight line that does not vary. But He has displayed it to us like an Easter egg hunt, with a bunch of painted rocks thrown in for our pleasure.

The question, at this point (if you have read this far) may well be: "Who made you ruler over God's knowledge? And even if I agree with any part of what you say, which I'm not saying I do, why should I believe you any more than I do all the others commentators I read? You're just an upstart nobody with no credentials and a lousy history. There's no reason in the world I should believe you."

I agree. I'm just one selected to tell you of your cancer

And that is why you should read what I have to say, take it with a grain of salt, and present it to the Holy Spirit for editing.





















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