Dear topher,
re: ‘However, I am getting into an area where FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY help greatly to understand. ‘
Military veterans know all there is to know about ‘faith’.
Amidst all my morning medications (numbers more than fingers to count), ‘hope’ is to see my adoptive granddaughter - the target of my ‘charity’, graduate high school with letters in cross-country, basketball, and track and field.
Happy Hallowe’en.
My reply is longer as a tool to help people spiritually. I would be happy if they convert to Christianity or change their life to be purer and less sinful.
If you had not read it, the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess. It is the biography and TRUE STORY of Gladys Aylward. It is the story of a woman (non-Catholic, Christian)) who decided she would be a missionary in China (Great Faith). Just buy a one way ticket. Make no plans. Do not learn Chinese. Do not arrange to meet anyone.
This was before World War II but after World War I that she eventually arrived in China.
It is the TRUE story of Glays Aylward.
The book is much better than the movie Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which has a lot of Hollywood fantasies added to it.
One important thing she was able to accomplish was to end the barbaric practice of FOOT BINDING.
I am putting information in this thread for the hope of CONVERSION of SINNERS and CONVERSION to Christianity (we are all one big family, as Jesus said, there will be infighting in this family
I knew a former DELTA FORCES commander. He was able to get great FAITH by at least one incident the HARD WAY.
He lost 30 men because the wind shifted. This was in California.
He had great FAITH and I believe he attends a large BAPTIST church in a large US Metro Area.
Finally, there may be a way to be translated as RADIATION/RADIACTIVE POISONING.
In the Ukrainian Language, Chernobyl means WORMWOOD.
Where does WORMWOOD appear in the Bible? Book of Revelation.
It is about a STAR falling into the sea (bright light, as in Hydrogen bomb (FUSION) or Atomic bomb (Fission))
In those terms, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two Christian centers in Japan.
In one of them Maximilian Kolbe built a church. He built it such that it was shielded by the PLUTONIUM BOMB explosion.
In the Catholic Church, He is known as Saint Maximilian Kolbe.
Hiroshima has the story of some Jesuits who is considered to have survived the Atomic Bombing. After 1/2 of them were in the area 1 mile from ground zero.
None of them died of cancer. They lived until the 1970's and at that time were examined by a number of scientists.