The Choice - Suicide or Survival by Carol Wolman

THE CHOICE- SUICIDE OR SURVIVAL  by Carol Wolman

Deuteronomy 30¹⁹ This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

This passage from Deuteronomy, written by Moses in 1600 BC, speaks directly to us today. Heaven and earth are witnessing against us. There is a big hole in the ozone layer. The planet is heating up. We are running out of fresh water, many species are becoming extinct, storms, floods and fires are more frequent. These threats to the biosphere are directly the result of our greed, carelessness and stupidity. They are curses resulting from bad choices by humanity.

John Kerry offers us a plan to address global warming and threats to the biosphere.  While in the Senate, he consistently voted to protect the environment.  He will restructure the tax system so that the wealthy and corporations make sacrifices to stop pollution, while individuals are rewarded for using clean energy in their autos and homes.  He also will curb the nuclear arms race.

Bush evidently subscribes to the "burn it up" rapture cult, which conveniently allows the rich to plunder and pollute without regard to consequences.  He is revving up the nuclear arms race.  His way will lead to the end of life on earth.

God gives us a choice, and tells us to choose life for ourselves AND OUR CHILDREN. The mandate to look out for future generations as well as for ourselves is clearly stated in this passage and many others. If we ignore it, we are choosing death, and will be cursed.

Like the people of Nineveh in Jonah's day, we are given a chance to repent.

Jonah 3: 8 Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. ⁹ Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish." ¹⁰ When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction He had threatened.

We are threatened with annihilation from nuclear war, eco-catastrophe, famine and disease. There are prophets of doom among us who interpret the Bible as condemning the biosphere to destruction.  They support Bush, because they believe that he will provoke a nuclear holocaust, and that will mean the return of Jesus.  This is heresy, a total misinterpretation of scripture.

God wants us to choose life.  Bush is leading us toward mass suicide.  John Kerry will lead us to survival. 

In the name of the Creator of life,  Carol Wolman

 

We have a choice on how to interpret the Bible.

Mark 2:27 Then Jesus said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

The same applies to the Bible. It is made for us, not the other way around. My understanding of Thessalonians and Revelation is that they refer to spiritual events, not physical ones. Meeting Jesus in the clouds refers to a change of consciousness which will take place world wide, when people, especially in the US, "get it" that if we accept Jesus' way of love, we can stop wars, reverse global warming, clean up pollution, and all get along. The new Jerusalem will replace the Israeli government, which is the synagogue of Satan, and make it truly the city of peace. This can't happen if there is a nuclear war in the Holy Land.