PURPOSE

The purpose of this document is to illustrate - as clearly as God allows us to - the one single answer that responds to those, and many more similar, "Why's".


INTRODUCTION

If we pick up and dust off the copy of the Holy Scriptures that we have in the already proverbial coffee table for decoration and we turn to the First Book of Samuel - right there, clear as day - we may find the answer as to the "Why?" of just about every calamity that afflicts mankind.

As you may know, or at least we hope so, the Holy Scriptures are a collection of Divinely inspired writings to instruct us on how to live in this world in as near as perfect bliss as it is possible and to warn us about the consequences we will face when we do not.

The portion which instruct us on how to live could be condensed, without losing anything, in probably twenty pages. The rest of the Holy Scriptures are just to demonstrate to us what happens when we do not follow the "Factory Manual of Instructions". Those examples run well over one thousand pages. Why such lopsided proportions?

The "Factory", God, knows that man without Him is basically stupid - more so than any animal of creation; thus He hoped that with over one thousand pages of examples of what happens to man without God, man would be moved to be in communion with God. Unfortunately, satan invented the proverbial coffee table and the Holy Scriptures did not get past being a decoration accent.


DETAILS

Most of the following text is straight out of the Holy Scriptures (1). When you finish reviewing the texts, you may have discerned the answers to all the "Why's?", but if not, we shall make the appropriate comments to assist those who need help to see it.


FIRST PART

First Book Of Samuel, Chapter 2

While Samuel was still a child and in training in the House of the Lord in Silo and Heli and his sons were the chief Priests...


First Book Of Samuel, Chapter 4



First Lesson - A Summary

Instead of serving and honoring God, Heli and his sons (the chief Priests) allowed themselves to be honored over God and enjoyed the first fruits of the people of Israel. Thus, even with the Ark of the Covenant present in the battle area, they lost the battle and were slain. It was not "magic" - it was Divine Action.

The Ark of the Covenant was not a talisman nor an amulet to be used at the pleasure of man, and neither is the Holy Eucharist nor the Sacraments.

For the Sacraments "to work" one must be striving to be in the Grace of God and truly attempting to fulfill His Will; otherwise the abusers, (2) who try to "use God and His Sacraments" through the mechanical fulfillment of rituals, (3) will increase their debt to God and their future misery will be multiplied.


SECOND PART

Sometime after the death of Joshua [Judges 2] Israel apostatized and the period of "Judges" started. These were the men who God assigned to help his people out of the state they came into being after the apostasy. They served as the conscience of Israel helping them to judge/choose what was right in the Eyes of God as well as communicating to them what God Willed.

In a way, we see the original purpose (4) of the Successors of Peter precisely as that. The first amongst equals - having the last word on matters of faith and morals. After all - in any system, someone has to make the final decision regarding his/her area of responsibility.


First Book Of Samuel, Chapter 8

After thirteen or fourteen judges, when Samuel was serving in that capacity the following took place:







Second Lesson - A Summary

Israel did not want a man in tune with God to guide them, they wanted someone to Lord over them. Let us now remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ regarding the pseudo sado-masochistic human tendency to lord over others and wanting to be lorded over.


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CONCLUSION

We have, in the political arena and in the organized religion arena exactly what we wanted and, thus, deserved, just as His chosen people received what they wanted and deserved: Someone - an earthly king - to lord over them even though God explained the serious consequences of their request through Samuel.

In the political arena there are many, many examples of God allowing upon us what we wanted even though it would lead to disaster - Hitler being a shining example, but certainly not the only one.

In the case of Christianity, it became even worse. After a short while, the descendants of the first Christian "Judge" [Peter] (4) shed - on their own accord - their role of "Judge", appointed themselves as Rulers and Kings (5) of the temporal rulers of the world and the rest is history, and a very sad one at that (6). The Imperial Church was born and true Evangelization died.

This "action-reaction" cycle, of course, applies to everything we do. When we insist in "our way", then we better be ready to endure the consequences.

We hope and pray that this new document will assist the reader in better understanding what we mean when we state that: Pain is the megaphone that God uses for the deaf to hear. (7)


EPILOGUE

Let us pray with contrite hearts and humble spirits. Then He will hear our prayers and come to our assistance without fail. Otherwise, He will do just as He explained in the First Chapter of the Book of Isaiah (8) - that is, He Will continue to turn a deaf ear to the millions upon millions of prayers offered with unclean and arrogant spirits.

There is no mystery (8) why the world is in the state it is in spite of the millions upon millions of Masses and rosaries offered - He is simply NOT paying attention just as He has warned us over and over again.









En Español:  ¿Por qué yo, Señor? ¿Por qué lo permites? ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?

Originally Published on February 2006. European Union

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