Who Am I? The Gospel Truth About Mankind
By W.B. Stiles
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I was lying down under the late-night sky not too long ago when I realized if science is correct, the light from the stars I saw traveled many years to get to me. It made me feel minuscule in the immense size of the universe. As I was trying to comprehend this, I saw the lights from a flying jetliner overhead, and I wondered how complicated each person’s lives were on board and if they considered how precious and unique their lives are. There is so much being done in society today to cheapen the human life experience. The result is men and women do not live life to the fullest.
Life is an adventure and a challenge. When you think you have it figured out, something comes along for which you did not prepare. Life experiences, when exposed in the light of truth, are a great teacher. Because of this, we should go through our life without apprehension and fear. The challenge of living is for those who seek purpose and participate in the vitality of living, and they find it is profound to be alive. Your presence is not to be endured with dread and fear. Truth is the key that reveals the way. The fear of a dark room is gone when there is light. The reality of the illumination shows what is hidden by the darkness. Likewise, there are undeniable, universal truths about the walk in life that exposes the dark side in the struggle of living. Knowledge of the truth gives us the freedom to make life choices that benefit us and those around us.
In many ways, we are the center of the universe on earth. Many things in our world that have happened in the past and even the present events will affect the universe as we know it. Every day we are part of this; no man or woman is an island standing alone. Since the beginning of my human inquiry, I have asked three central questions; who am I? What am I doing here? And how do I live with these people around me? The answers to these questions play a role in justifying our existence. Some part of all men and women reaches out to be fulfilled and find meaning in life.
There is an invisible hand in our lives, one of optimism and hope. This force seeks the best for us. If we could hear and understand this entity like tuning in a radio channel, we would know there are ways to answer life questions. Therefore, we must become a child again and listen with our heart and an open mind. Let him who has an ear HEAR.
W.B. Stiles
I enjoy life and people and Grandchildren. My daughters have blessed me and my wife Betty has loved me for over forty years. What more could a man ask but return that blessing to you in my writings. New series "The Gathering" Book One Of The Project Genesis Series and Project Genesis: The Gathering of Superheroes - The special edition of the novel published in 2018 can be found on my website thegatheringnovel.com. It has new material and another chapter. There is an eBook published by Smashwords also. W.B. Stiles
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Who Am I? The Gospel Truth About Mankind - W.B. Stiles
Who Am I?
The Gospel Truth About Mankind
W.B. Stiles
Copyright 2012 by W.B. Stiles Smashwords Edition
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. For permissions contact:
W. B. Stiles at wbstiles.com
First Published: July 15, 2012
Revised December 14, 2020
ISBN: 9781476064888
CONTENT
TITLE
Foreword
Chapter 1: In Beginning
Chapter 2: What Happened?
Chapter 3: The Missing Link
Chapter 4: Out Of The Pit
Chapter 5: To Be Or Not To Be
Chapter 6: The Adversary
Chapter 7: Who Is HE?
Chapter 8: What Now?
Chapter 9: The Most Important Thing
FOREWORD
I was lying down under the late-night sky not too long ago when I realized if science is correct, the light from the stars I saw traveled many years to get to me. It made me feel minuscule in the immense size of the universe. As I was trying to comprehend this, I saw the lights from a flying jetliner overhead, and I wondered how complicated each person's lives were on board and if they considered how precious and unique their lives are. There is so much being done in society today to cheapen the human life experience. The result is men and women do not live life to the fullest.
Life is an adventure and a challenge. When you think you have it figured out, something comes along for which you did not prepare. Life experiences, when exposed in the light of truth, are a great teacher. Because of this, we should go through our life without apprehension and fear. The challenge of living is for those who seek purpose and participate in the vitality of living, and they find it is profound to be alive. Your presence is not to be endured with dread and fear. Truth is the key that reveals the way. The fear of a dark room is gone when there is light. The reality of the illumination shows what is hidden by the darkness. Likewise, there are undeniable, universal truths about the walk in life that exposes the dark side in the struggle of living. Knowledge of the truth gives us the freedom to make life choices that benefit us and those around us.
In many ways, we are the center of the universe on earth. Many things in our world that have happened in the past and even the present events will affect the universe as we know it. Every day we are part of this; no man or woman is an island standing alone. Since the beginning of my human inquiry, I have asked three central questions; who am I? What am I doing here? And how do I live with these people around me? The answers to these questions play a role in justifying our existence. Some part of all men and women reaches out to be fulfilled and find meaning in life.
There is an invisible hand in our lives, one of optimism and hope. This force seeks the best for us. If we could hear and understand this entity like tuning in a radio channel, we would know there are ways to answer life questions. Therefore, we must become a child again and listen with our heart and an open mind. Let him who has an ear HEAR.
Chapter 1: In Beginning
Who am I? What am I doing here? What is the purpose of life? Why are we born, and what is the truth about death? We live for about 60 or 70 years, then what? Questions, questions, life is full of questions. You may have answers to these and other important questions or are searching for reasons for life. Even so, I ask you to consider some thoughts and illustrations that may help you in your search for knowledge and truth.
Is that all there is?
is the question asked by Peggy Lee in a song some years back. It expresses the apathetic, carefree, unconcerned attitude of many people who have stopped looking for answers. They have lost the enthusiasm of childhood. Their world is narrow; it has no depth or meaning. They look in the wrong places for answers, and because of frustration, they give up and lose their joy. They find it difficult to realize that if we can ask a question, there is a real possibility that there is an answer. There is an answer to what, why, when, how, and how much we understand about the world and us. Life is not a meaningless time of existence that happens by chance. There is found great worth and purpose in being. Everyone has the right to have their life make sense and have meaning
My desire is not to answer all your personal questions about life, but I want the reader to seek the truth himself. Through several illustrations and revelations shared in this context, I would like the reader to recognize your thirst for the truth in your life. It is my hope through this search in questions of being that you may develop your appetite for the truth and knowledge and become the best you can be.
To begin with the question Who am I?
, we must consider man’s beginning. Did we start in some swamp or ocean as a one-cell animal, or was the first man created by God? We must settle in our mind and heart an accurate description of man coming into being. Is the evolution theory correct? Some in science support an atheistic view of the past. In the book Chance and Necessity, Jacques Monod, the French molecular biologist, insist that man’s existence is due to the chance collision between tiny particles of nucleic acid and proteins in the pre-bionic soup
on prehistoric earth. Monod holds that man is alone (as far as a superior being is concerned) in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which man emerged only by chance. His duty and destiny are nowhere spelled out.
Men of science must admit there is no concrete proof that man is an evolutionary creature. There is no definite missing link
across the species of animals to humankind’s development today. In fact, there is more proof that any evolution of a species stays within that animal group and cannot jump to another branch of the animal kingdom. So why is it that the evolutionary theories of man are believed by so many in the world? Why is it accepted as truth? There is a belief that man is self-sufficient. The answers to man’s problems are inherent to humankind. So, man must look within himself for the answers to life questions. This humanistic view accepts the theories of learned men because they have PhD. or B.A. or M.D. behind their name. These men are qualified and, therefore, able to tell us our human origins.
These men and women of science refuse to consider the possibility of a living, loving creator God because they can’t see him. They can only see the dead fossils of animals, and the earth and the stars, and things of matter and energy, and all things great and small, and they assumed it all just happened by chance. They blind themselves to the architectural beauty of the universe, and they don’t see the