PLAYING GOD IN EDEN & SRI LANKA

Often people 15 minute payday loan lenders ask – if God is there, why should there be such trouble? God works in His kingdom. His kingdom is a righteous government that comes into the heart of those who accept Him . The land area of Sri Lanka is 25000 square miles. The actual heart area of Sri Lanka is the 19 million souls who live here. What kind of nation Sri Lanka will become, depends on, what kind of rule goes on in the hearts of the majority of the people. You may not believe this. Yet history is replete with examples of how the righteous rule in the hearts of a majority, completely transformed the political & moral climate of a nation .

•  This is how the Christian message transformed the brutal Roman Empire. One Telemachus stood up in the Roman Coliseum, where the rich & the famous watched the bloody sport of man pitched against lions. He shouted, “Away with this in Christ’s name”. He was speared to death by the alert Roman guards. But that was the last time that the arena housed the blood sport.

•  The founding fathers of America were godly men who founded cities without liquor, gambling or other vice and that’s why God blessed that nation. Today, without God and despising their godly heritage, USA has flooded the world with moral pollution.

•  18 th Century England was ready for a blood bath in the likes of the French revolution. One Anglican clergyman, John Wesley, after a personal experience, preached a message of Christian righteousness & forgiveness across the nation. The affluent and the poor were influenced. Wesley organised societies to correct the gross injustices of poor wages, slavery, child labour, drunkenness & lack of education among the working classes. His message on Christ made the dancing & carousing British gentlemen & ladies to espouse the cause of the poor. A blood bath

akin to the French revolution was averted. Later, the influence of

      Wesley’s Methodism, abolished slavery and brought excellent  

      modern education, to colonies like Ceylon.

The thesis I am formulating is this. What rules your heart & mine will ultimately rule the nation . A nation cannot be taken to ruin by corrupt politicians alone. If the way we live agree with the way they rule, then we are accomplices to a national tragedy. They may play God in one way. We do the same in another way. The Option is to allow Christ to rule your heart. This you will do only when you are convinced of your inadequacy. When I first prayed and asked Christ to come into my heart, my argumentative & combative nature changed. Christ is only a prayer away from you.

 

PLAYING GOD IN EDEN & SRI LANKA             
This I hope would be the first of a series, presenting why I believe what I believe, in the backdrop of our common desire to see our nation a better place for our children to live . Most who receive these letters would have had the choice of living abroad, but chose to live in Sri Lanka. The Biblical record begins with the tragedy of man desiring to play God. In this narrative which is sited in the Garden of Eden (granting that many of you think this is a myth – please read on), a character called satan , the serpent, is presented as the arch-enemy of God and man. Since the human genome in all races have 99.9% in common, the Biblical story that sme cash credit loan the human race descended from one created family, (rather than from many apes everywhere evolving to be humans), may be more scientific. Evil is real and some of you may not believe evil is a person as I do. I will quote two examples from the ward.

1974 – Ward 59 .

I was first introduced to paranormal power when I was a fourth year medical student, when the Professor of Psychiatry demonstrated a case of a girl who fell down violently on hearing drum beats prior to the SLBC newscast. She would wake up only after a long time.   His opinion was that it was a suggestive hypnosis. His explanation did not satisfy me because she had a peculiar history.

1980 – Ward 41

Later, when I was working with the Professor of Medicine, we came across a youth, who was acting peculiarly after seeing Exorcist 2, a film with exorcism etc. The day after the film , the father found the son’s door locked. He broke in to find his son on the bed armed with a piece of timber battling an unseen foe. Having been first admitted to MH Mulleriyawa ,   he was transferred to ward 41 of GHC, because of dystonic reactions to phenothiazines . The psychiatrist was certain that it was not a psychiatric condition and the neurologist asserted that there was no organic brain damage. The boy did not improve with our treatment, was removed against medical advice to be taken for exorcism in the village. We later heard that the boy died. I quoted these examples to arrest your attention to the fact of evil personified. However, I would like to take you to the point at which the Bible introduces the nature of evil in human society .

MEET MR. EVIL

Genesis 3:5 – “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Observe the problem with us. We not only fall a prey to taste evil, it is in each one of us to play God. This is the temptation that took first man and still drives people crazy. When a person achieves the highest in his chosen field, he will then desire to conquer others in any field. Politics provides an un -umpired arena and unbridled opportunities for this. It becomes necessary to receive the adulation of your subordinates and the annihilation of your competitors. It is not only academic excellence that drives us, but also the emotion that there is none like me. Our own thinking becomes the moral yardstick of all we do.

Let’s analyse the Great temptation brought by satan to Christ, as a moral exercise, even if you think it a myth. Christ was tempted in three steps:

•  Make bread out of rock – this was a temptation to satiate physical desire. As innocent as the suggestion was, had he succumbed to the innocent physical desire, the next one would not have been innocent. Don’t we know that Monica & Clinton may have begun with an innocent gesture! So, do not step into a position that will compromise you soon.

•  Jump from the pinnacle & prove yourself – proving one’s greatness is the basis of mush research and other good works. Play God in diverse ways. Use the authority of your position for others to feel your power, cringe & fall at your mercy. Display your greatness in the house you build or the car you drive.

•  Worship 1000 personal loan with 600 credit score me, I’ll give you all as far as your eyes can see – This is the temptation before the entrepreneur. Sky is the limit. As far as the eye can see. Parental ambition for their children, drives both parties to the brink. Parents have to earn ruining their health & humanness. One thinks, they have to be educated abroad, in the best university. Why? Because someone else is doing this. Children too make demands on the parents because someone else has.

We seem to be arming ourselves with weapons -viz. Jealousy, avarice, lust, revenge, competition that pierce us. Lk11:21   “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe”. This is how Christ described the human predicament. Strongman is satan . Satan guards the human kind as his own possession (own house). He uses a particular weapon for each individual or nation . If you do not believe this, consider how each nation is kept enslaved in some form of destruction. There is no nation on earth that has not been ravaged in one form or another.

Youth violence & family break-up is ruining post- Christian USA. Child prostitution and AIDS is a tragedy in Buddhist Thailand. Pol Pot and his demon cohorts of progression ruined Kampuchea. The tragedy was that Pol Pot, after his French education, set out to develop Kampuchea. The BJP is slowly but surely destroying the secular fabric of India, inviting disaster in that vastly diverse nation. Suicide is killing more than the war in Sri Lanka. 90% of child abuse in Sri Lanka is by relatives. Family break up because of Middle-east jobs, is an unassessed factor in Sri Lanka’s youth immorality. Fathers drink even when children do not have food or clothing. We have the world’s highest alcohol Quotient.

Alcohol Quotient = Alcohol Consumption „ 100

GDP „ Population

Organised religion has ill served man. In every country where a religion is flouted as its national religion, that religion has failed to morally & spiritually stabilise the society. Such religious affiliation has only fostered hypocrisy & extremism. Such a religion and its clergy become one of the factors that broker power. Politicians use and abuse the religion when it suits them. The rich use the religion to grab favours for further riches. God creates all men equal and expressly states that He cares for the poor. While we lambaste politicians for their affluence and policies that make them rich, we too have contributed to the tragedy that will again empower the likes of the JVP. Even ‘legitimate’ means of getting rich, invariably impoverishes another. Wealth is shifted from the powerless to the already rich, through professional knowledge. Have we no moral obligation?

Jesus Christ dramatically captured the impotency of organised religion in His famous parable of the Good Samaritan . A man was waylaid by robbers and left on the road. A priest & an assistant priest passed by and got to the other side of the road when they saw the fallen man. It was a Samaritan from a despised ethnic group that helped the injured man. Let doctors and lawyers also rob common people of their measly livelihood.

Babel was a place where a few got the serfs to build a monstrous structure for their fame. What is your personal Babel? The Egyptian pyramids, the great wall of China or Taj Mahal were monuments that made the king famous because of the sweat & blood of common people. Are we guilty of abusing the sweat & blood of common people?

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