I realize the message in this post could be organized better in a way to make reading it easier, but if I tried to improve it, it would never be ‘good enough’ and would never get published.

Back to speaking of meanings, there are different ways to perceive the meanings of English words like love, hate, and forgiveness. Much confusion would be avoided if people, when using such words, clarified their perception of them. That’s why when studying the bible, especially the King James version, it’s important to examine the particular usages of the original Hebrew and Greek meanings in the context of where they’re being used.

The way I’m using the words love and hate in this post are not like how they’re used in the King James bible. If I did do that, it would only be more confusing and maybe require the size of a book to explain. Instead, I’m trying to stick to the most basic understanding of these terms in contemporary society.

Love exists when you feel the same feelings as the object of your affection does; joy with joy, sadness with sadness, laughter with laughter, contentment with contentment, etc. Hate exists when you feel the opposite feelings the object of your affection does and/or your feelings are not affected [i.e., alienated, unsympathetic, uncaring, apathetic, insensitive, unconcerned, thoughtless, heartless, callous, unfriendly, indifferent, pitiless, stony, hard-hearted, unkind, unfeeling, etc.] by what that certain other individual feels.

It is not possible to love someone (other than self) while disliking him or her. Not liking someone is a symptom of pride and judging, because it is comparing another person to yourself and thinking of yourself as being the better person. Pride makes us judgmental.

Humility is thinking of yourself less. When self is effaced, there is nothing left to compare yourself to others. Not liking yourself is a symptom of pride and judging, because it is comparing others to yourself and thinking of yourself as not being as good as them. If you are humble, you are not judgmental.

It’s impossible to hate yourself. Even if you’re depressed and want to commit suicide, you still love yourself. You can intensely dislike yourself while loving yourself, but you can’t love someone else and dislike him or her. To understand this, the meaning of love must be seen in its simplest form. Love is being connected. It is a connection with an affection. Hate maybe can also be this, but not towards self because self is a single entity and hate requires more than one person for it to exist [a hater and a hate-e].

If a person you love is upset and depressed, you are also upset and depressed. That means you can be upset and depressed within your own being, while also loving yourself. If it were possible to hate yourself, you’d either never be able to feel good (or bad) or you’d feel happy when you’re sad (or sad when you’re happy); neither is possible for one being.

If you don’t like yourself, you can’t love others. If you love others, you like yourself. It’s also equally possible to hate others and love yourself — regardless of whether you like or dislike yourself.

It’s impossible to disconnect yourself from what you feel. Maybe you might not be always consciously aware of what you’re feeling, but you don’t need to be in order to be affected by things and/or people. It’s possible to love someone without realizing it and it’s equally possible to hate someone without realizing it, but usually we know what’s going on within us.

In order to not love yourself, you’d have to be able to never feel any emotion. Even if you were as humble as Jesus or Moses (i.e., totally self-effaced; removed from awareness of self), you’d still experience emotions. Only physically dead people don’t feel emotions. Spiritually dead people are disconnected from the feelings of those who they don’t love. That is why they will either have opposite feelings towards someone they don’t love or no feelings towards him or her.

Christians can sometimes behave in an unloving manner, but when they do and then become aware of it, they repent unlike how a worldly person does. Forgetting (or not knowing in your heart) that we’re all born in sin (including self) and we all need a savior, will make it hard for us to forgive a person who has wronged us. Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting an offense done to self or automatically pardoning the one who trespassed against us. All it means is desiring the same for that person as what we (Christians) want from God.

What unrepentant people want from God is for God to serve them. What Christians want from God are to be reconciled to Him in order to give Him what He wants from our (Christians’) life (even if it means physically surrendering life itself and willfully accepting death if that would bring Him glory).

Christians might not always behave like they love others, but deep down inside their heart they really cannot continue to deceive themselves. That’s what happens when God’s spirit abides within. If that wasn’t so, God wouldn’t have said in Philippians 1:6, “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. — Proverbs 4:23

What you plant and grow in your mind determines your destiny. — Proverbs 4:23

Luke 18:10-14,

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

More and more people in today’s society don’t believe there is such a thing as sin. That’s logical considering that those people also probably don’t believe God exists, at least a God that would dare to say there is right versus wrong. It’s easy to see murder can’t be right. Things like obsessive/compulsive behavior and chronic depression are also readily accepted as wrong, but are not viewed as criminal. Who would have ever imagined that law abiding citizens would be forced to pay a certain portion of thieves disability? Most probably don’t even know that kleptomaniacs are entitled to disability. We’re also forced to financially support those who are incarcerated in human zoos rather than do the logical thing of making them pay society back all that they stole (and they should also pay interest on the value of what they helped themselves to just like those who make purchases using credit cards!). People who attempt self-murder (i.e., suicide) also get “disability” benefits.

In God’s eyes, most things the mental health profession labels as a mental illnesses are sin. Homosexuality was once labeled in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as being a mental illness. It was later revised for society to refer to it as being an “alternate lifestyle.” If it took the same route as autism, homosexuality would be said to be a disease of growing epidemic proportions. God would say it’s a sin of growing epidemic proportions. Today, humanity calls people who agree with God homophobic.  It’s popular because the DSM has been granted higher authority over the bible. The government is subtly acquiring higher authority over God in areas of marriage and the church when they license marriage and churches incorporate. Now it’s the government who defines marriage rather than our Creator.¹

I call people who think of Aspergers as being a “condition” that belongs in the DSM Aspiephobic. If I seem angry, that emotion is not towards people; it’s towards Satan for once again taking deception another notch further.

On the flip side, The American Psychiatric Association made no mention of Aspergers until the year 1994, which is when it was added to their DSM IV. Now they say the Aspergers Syndrome label is vague and confusing. They propose to eliminate the use of the term and instead refer to Aspies as being High Functioning Autistics. I do not want to say any more about autism other than what Dr. Catherine Lord said in an article published in the New York Times on November 2, 2009 by Claudia Wallis entitled, “A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis” states,

The proposed elimination of autism subtypes comes at the very moment when research suggests that the disorder may have scores of varieties. Investigators have already identified more than a dozen gene patterns associated with autism, but Dr. Lord, of Michigan, said the genetic markers “don’t seem to map at all into what people currently call Asperger’s or P.D.D.”

Sinful behavior is increasingly reaping financial rewards and less punishment in this world, while those who struggle to stay as far away from sinning end up punished for good behavior. The body of the mental health profession has an undetected cancer growing within its fellowship that’s making it chronically ill. A section of it is much like a mutating virus. If that wasn’t so, they wouldn’t keep revising their definitions, continually get confused, and disagree with some others in this world with their assessments of human behavior. They’d have success with “curing” diseases like schizophrenia.

I’m progressively perceiving schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder (previously known as split personality or alter ego) as extreme expressions of not being able to take every thought captive; the self-generated thoughts captivate the individual enslaved to this world’s ultimate cruel master. One such example is displayed in Jani Schofield‘s life (it’s admitted in that article she battles demons).² Jani (nickname for “January”) is a sweet and lovable child to those who meet her (for example, this is what an associate producer from Oprah’s Show said. However, when she spoke the name January, Jani flipped out over it).

Because she (Jani) portrays a child-like innocence, it’s hard (if not impossible) for unsaved people to consider that within that adorable exterior is a heart in need of salvation.

Man, by nature, perceives humanity in an opposite manner than God does. That’s what God means by saying, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” in Isaiah 55:8. There are videos for those who missed Oprah’s episode covering Jani Schofield.

The Psychiatric Association would say the brain is the cause of the undesirable behavior. Drugs are experimented with to see which ones do the best job at “managing” the unwanted behavior. Periodically one is discovered that seems to do a fairly good job at doing so. They admit that they can’t cure it, but they will never admit that the cause is spiritual. They cannot ever consider a deeper root (i.e., the heart). It could destroy their profession, reputation, and income. More importantly, it would cause the devil to lose a huge foothold he now has over humanity. God goes one step further than these humanistic experts by telling us that the heart (figure of speech—not the physical heart) determines how the brain will react (and how the individual’s physical human body will react).

Pride repeatedly proves to obstruct truth. For example, when George W. Kling (an expert on carbon cycling) tried to convince volcanologists that they were wrong about their theory behind what caused the death of 37 people nearby Lake Monoun on August 15th, 1984, the volcanists refused to give credence to the results reported by Kling’s personal investigation into the matter.³ Even when the greater disaster of Lake Nyos occurred on August 21, 1986 (suffocating 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby villages!), there were volcanists still unwilling to accept Kling’s claim on what caused it. It wasn’t until a few years later that the rest of the vocanologists finally surrendered to the truth that those deaths were not caused by volcanic activity; that they were caused by CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) poisoning.

The ultimate disease that exists in mankind is pride. Pride is rebellion against God’s will. That’s why the mental health experts pay little (if any) attention to pride and would distort its definition when they do. Any and all behavior that’s not in harmony with God’s will is sick and evil. Those are strong words, especially these days. The only cure for this condition is salvation. All of mankind is born with a carnal nature that lusts against God’s Spirit. The best book (apart from God’s word written in the Holy Bible) there seems to be for explaining what mankind’s body, soul, and spirit is, is by Oswald Chambers. It’s titled Biblical Psychology. Reading that book made up my mind what I want this Christmas! → The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers. Oswald Chambers is the author of one of the best daily devotionals (if not the best) in existence → My Utmost for His Highest. Sample his work for yourself, but be forewarned about reading his book Biblical Psychology — It is NOT a quick read; it makes you think hard if you dare to read it in its entirety.

¹The devil is busy flip-flopping as much as he can. Couples who refuse to bow down to the gods of human government for their recognition of marriage are labeled by most Christians as living in sin. Satan is the master of confusion and marriage is one area he must mess with. One of the best articles I’ve read lately about the topic of marriage is by Michael Pearl, written in June 2009, called Holy Matrimony. He offers some wonderful advice on how Christians should handle their stand on maintaining what a traditional family is.

²Jani’s imagination is obviously so powerful that it will not allow her to behave sanely. She cannot have a sound mind because the children and animals in her imagination will not allow her to know God. God is her only hope for her brain to express its thoughts without them enslaving her to the nightmare she is trapped in. Jani’s mind isn’t the problem; it’s the symptom. Jani’s heart needs to receive Christ, because He is the truth and the light she needs to set her free.

³When I first watched a documentary about this catastrophe and they mentioned blisters on the skin of some victims, it immediately made no sense to me that it could have been from heat burns. It also made no sense to me that those deaths could have been caused by a volcano. Since I don’t specialize an interest in Earth Science, the invisible factor (CO2—Carbon Dioxide) didn’t occur to me ( an out-of-sight, out-of-mind case). Regardless of my lack to consider frost bite from concentrated amounts of CO2, I still could not automatically accept the theory of heat burns. I’ve developed a habit of taking statements and considering their opposite first; then (if there isn’t enough information to ground the matter) I will flip-flop (swing back and forth) until there is. That’s usually how information stays in my mind until further notice.