Our Spiritual Dilemma

Our Spiritual Dilemma exposes some of our self-inflicted preoccupation, collectively throughout our history, with our avalanche of knowledge and the influence this has on our spiritual identity and our human inclinations and personality. It explores the relationship between suffering and salvation and between knowledge and power; and the necessity of suffering and love. It presents a contemplative comparison of some of our events, decisions and behaviour, throughout history, with the contact by God into our lives. Most of us have continually rejected eternal spiritual revelations, choosing to seek the power, which we assume the continual accumulation of knowledge will give. Many aspiring experts and philosophers have, for thousands of years, suggested a smorgasbord of reasons for our existence, discontent and bad behaviour. In the age of the Enlightenment we even redefined God, prefering natural revelation to miraculous revelation. Some of us, however, feel that faith is beyond reason, thus placing it in tension with research. But most of us do not consider that we may be metaphysically flawed due to our choosing to reject God. Our sin, being basically a lack of goodness and love resulting from our desire for complete independence, is totally unacceptable to God, which is why all of our sins had to be atoned for. Jesus Christ has paid this price. All we have to do is accept this offer by God of His love mercy and forgiveness. Spiritual self-confidence is difficult in today's world due to increasing economic and political forces, rapidly changing technology and our obsessive desire for affluence. Many conflicting concepts have been proposed to solve our problems. Accepting many beliefs about our identity, rather than seeking the one truth about our origins and our relation to the spiritual, or supernatural realm, have only increased our confusion. The stark difference between the way of life of those attempting to follow the difficult teaching of Christ and the majority of us who eagerly follow the easy way of a world influenced by evil is exposed to those who wish to see it. Our dilemma, of choosing one or the other, is shown to have been with us for thousands of years. The conflict between our hidden, and corporate, spiritual identity and our known, and individual, human personality can only be solved by realising that we are incomplete if we do not identify, by our own freewill, with the teachings and example of Jesus Christ, our only role model. As our freewill is not unlimited, we need a gift of wisdom from God to understand the truth - to discern good from evil, the desireable from the undesireable, in the battle for the truth. The truth in the scriptural texts teach and witness to our soul and conscience that God's judgment and mercy are in perfect balance. Instead of seeking some new philosophical solution, or a supposed revelation, by yet another aspiring 'New Age' spiritual guide, or else arguing over the same multiple problems for yet more centuries, we should reflect on the clear trend in all of our earlier mistakes throughout our long and syncretic history. Who it is written for. Where possible it is written subjectively from the point of view of the numerous people who either do not know about or do not believe in Jesus Christ and are seeking to understand the world and their place in it by reading New Age, and other deceptive publications. Our Spiritual Dilemma attempts to thereby reveal to them that there are, and have always been, many confusions, deceptions and distractions in the world, which only lead away from the truth about their spiritual situation; and that the Biblical texts are interesting, involved, complicated, challenging but very believeable and relative to our greedy world.