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Who Am I? Part 5

Who Am I? Part 5, Examining growing Modern Science, its discoveries and their meaning and conclusions. What does the science prove? What do we learn about who we are?

This is part 5 of a series on Who Am I?

DNA, The Structure of Life

The Attempt to Prove Evolution

After Stanley Millers experiment in 1952, demonstrating the ability to create simple chemical compounds of glycine and alanine, other scientists began to find ways to make other simple biological molecules from scratch. This led the scientific community to believe the mystery of life’s origin was very close. (1) 

But shortly thereafter, with breakthroughs into the discovery of the operations of Genetics, through the late 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s and beyond; and the isolation and mapping of the DNA, the more that scientists discovered and learned about how these biological systems operate and are configured; the more detailed the structure of cells and their functions were discovered to be. Cells where the foundational building blocks of living things.

Michael Marshall points out that the early achievements towards an explanation of “how life came to be”… proved grossly inadequate:

“Suddenly, Oparin and Haldane’s ideas looked naively simple, while Miller’s experiment, which only produced a few of the amino acids used to build proteins, looked amateurish. Far from taking us most of the way to creating life, his seminal study was clearly just the first step on a long road…” (2)

Theory in the Face of Facts

In our search of finding the truth, of who we are? We are going to look logically and critically at the theory of Evolution to see if it is a good fit with what science has proven. In this overview we are going to look at the words and work of Modern Scientists, and their advancing theories to see how they fit together with the actual science they have uncovered about life. Theory is what we use when we don’t have the facts. It is our best educated guess at what the facts we do have add up too. It is logic, applied to the facts; and where it appears the facts are leading us. So where is the science that has been proven… leading us?

The Anatomy of Cells

These advances in Modern Science they have discovered and proven over the last 100 years, as facts, reveal how living things are constructed. The earliest life they have found in the fossil record are Microbes (Microscopic one celled life) which have proven to be very complex and of sophisticated design. If you rise to the next level of life, above one celled microbes, to multi-celled organisms; it was discovered that within every living cell is a mini bio-world of technology; a self-functioning lifeform with a brain or command center, with very logically designed intricate connecting systems to support its various working parts. Each system is built and functioning independently of each other; as well as in correlation together. This was a shock and a revelation to science as to how life works. Each cell containing micro bio-machines with certain predictable characteristics, performing specific processes required to build and support itself as a self-functioning life form; and with the blueprints (DNA) to multiply and design and grow; turning itself into and providing a body for a plant or animal species of our world in all its particulars.

In the diagram of a human cell below you can see its many different parts; each part complicated, detailed and fulfilling a critical function. I won’t go into detail about how it all works at this time, but the discovery of the functions and capabilities which a basic cell contains, represented something far beyond what anyone was expecting. Life was not simple at all, and that became a huge dilemma for those who wanted to believe life constructed itself without an intelligent designer.

The Human Cell

The Human Cell, HealthoolHuman Cell – Parts, Diagrams, Functions, Types and Atlas – (2021 – Updated)

Michael Marshall, who has laid out the foundational theories and development of Evolution in his article, The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, draws this observation.

“Living cells, it turned out, were not just bags of chemicals: they were intricate little machines. Suddenly, making one from scratch began to look like a much bigger challenge than scientists had anticipated.” (3)

In a nut shell: the cell contains biological components, that carry out specific intelligent functions to build and support life.

The Construction Process of Life

Within its brain (the cell’s nucleus where most of our DNA is stored), one of its operations is to consume energy needed for life in the form of sugars and material elements; and with these materials it obtains, it also creates a complete copy of itself from which it will divide. At this division, (in scientific terms) the original parent cell ceases to exist and divides into two new daughter cells at separation. These two new daughter cells continue this process of creation and division to go on to multiply. All of these cells, somehow as independent life forms, also have the sense of belonging to something greater than themselves and are constructed in concert and order, to become the independent building blocks of a lifeform (organism); and become its self-regulating organs, networks, frame and outer shell, appendages and functioning parts; all constructed of billions of these individual and independent intelligent cells. Without these logical and highly advanced internal capabilities of the cell, and containing within its organs the blueprint (code) and manufacturing systems to know how to build and construct each part of a life form, there would be no life; even the earliest life.

But this is just one issue. In the natural world a cell is not capable of self-function, outside a host. The origin and operations of a cell do not start outside of an existing organism, they come into existence because some life form already exists that produces them.

“Organisms cannot simply emerge from inanimate material (“abiogenesis”), cells always come from pre-existing cells.” (4)      _ Science Daily

It takes life_ to get life, as far as we have been able to trace life’s existence. We don’t find stages of cells constructing themselves with partial parts of simpler anatomy, they are what they are, and they need the parts they have, even in the earliest stages of this earth’s existence so life is able to exist. This belief of partial organic life forms is required to support a belief that life somehow constructed itself from inanimate existing space-matter; because it is logical life must have an origin, and needed to be constructed somehow. But in actual existence we don’t find this in the natural world. We only find organized whole creatures or microbial cells fully formed even in the fossil record.

With this knowledge and understanding, it became more and more clear, that earlier theories about how life evolved contained misconceptions and inaccurate assumptions about how life might work. This brought a halt to Evolutions foundational premise, that life came together gradually over billions of years evolving into simple cells and from cells to the first life forms. Now it became clear, even in the earliest life, DNA and Genes within the cell were there and involved in the earliest life forms.

But beyond that, was the realization that just to explain the existence of the cell itself, was now a significant problem.

Explaining and demonstrating how all of this complex engineering could exist, just to have a viable functioning cell, was now the obligation of Modern Science. All of these new requirements were a part of the problem in finding a solution as to how life came to be. That answer now had to take into account the explanation of how all of these processes were created and came about, layer upon layer in the right sequence, involving millions if not billions of coordinated working individual parts inside one basic cell. This task was staggering to contemplate.

To break the problem down into bit sized pieces they have focused on the central building blocks of a cell, the DNA and how it functions to start the building of the other cell systems as a possible starting point.  DNA is assisted by RNA, and the RNA absorbs and breaks down sugars, providing it to the DNA, so the DNA can make proteins that are the building materials of constructing the structure of living things. But it seems, even starting here is a problem, because both DNA and RNA are required to support each other and you can’t have the one without the other.

“DNA makes RNA protein, all in this lipid-encapsulated bag of chemicals,” says John Sutherland. “You look at that and it’s just ‘wow, that’s too complicated’. How are we going to find organic chemistry that will make all that in one go?” (5)

You are seeing a crack here in the scientific claim to Evolution. This is a problem Modern Science has not been able to overcome; and they are still seeking this answer and have been for 60 years.  How to solve this problem has divided the field of science into different camps looking for a way to come up with a solution to, “how did life get started”? As you continue to dig deeper, many more cracks manifest themselves.

Modern Science, Trying to Make Since of the Science

Still today, even in the light of this knowledge, (that life began already complex, even at its earliest stages, and they can’t find a way to explain how a single cell is able to exist or function without all its parts; or without a pre-existent host such as a plant or animal to create it, demonstrating that sterile evolution does not have the answers to explain the existence or creation of life), Stanley Miller’s experiment continues to be cited by the scientific community as proof that life came from a pool of chemicals ignited to life.

Other supporting theories have grown out of this, including the volcanic vent theory: where it is speculated life may have first ignited at the bottom of the sea where hydrothermal vents expel extreme-heated mineral enriched water into the ocean.(6) Within and around these vents microbial life thrives very successfully; even in the absence of sunlight. Another theory is that life began in volcanic pools on land where a similar condition is also present, (7)  which has also revealed microbial life living in super-heated water in extreme conditions. Yet again, finding an environment that can sustain a life form, is not proof of how the life form itself came into existence. These are two different issues entirely.

The modern scientific community is committed to finding the answer to these questions on the emergence of life.  As the science has grown, the theories have multiplied and expanded far beyond Darwin’s first suggestions, or what Miller’s experiment suggested when it first was conducted. Yet in spite of ongoing experiments over the last 70 years to demonstrate the science to back up the theory, the secret to life still remains elusive.

Michael Marshall points out: “Over the last century, a few scientists have tried to figure out how the first life might have sprung up. They have even tried to recreate this Genesis moment in their labs: to create brand-new life from scratch. So far nobody has managed it, but we have come a long way.” (8)

Why has no one managed it? Possibly because they are looking for the answer in the wrong place. All of the building blocks of life certainly exist here on this planet; as do natural laws, which exist in our atmosphere and on the surface of the earth. A combination of naturally occurring substances and natural laws of electricity produced Stanley Miller successful experiment in producing certain basic amino acids in a laboratory; EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE LATER PROVEND TO NOT BE OF THE STURCTURE AND TYPE THAT WE FIND IN EXISTING LIFE.  But these natural occurring phenomenon on earth do not produce living cells, or solve the problem of explaining or making abiogenesis a reality. Yet Evolution requires abiogenesis as a part of its theory to construct the first life.

In a similar comparison, nature does not produce cell phones or automobiles. It is one thing to find the material matter of which living things are made, or even the earthly materials of which our modern inventions consist. It is another to have the intelligence to take of these materials and turn them into useful or living things. We would not expect to find cell phones or automobiles produced by evolution, we would say they are too complex and require intelligent life to be involved to construct them. That is a major missing ingredient in the idea of evolution; no superior intelligence is behind this theory, merely accidental natural occurring phenomenon. A self-existent universe.

But what is the difference between a cell phone and the human body when it comes to complexity? Which requires the most knowledge and complex science to construct? We can build one, we cannot build the other, we lack both the knowledge and the complexity still to construct life. Modern Science would never suggest that a cell phone or automobile could invent itself, yet they insist complex biological creatures did. Why the contradiction? More on this later.

The DNA

DNA or Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid is a molecule within a living cell which holds the genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms (living things, plant or animal), and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids in the nucleus (brain of the cell) to enable its function and activities. Alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), nucleic acids are one of the four major types of macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life.(9) 

In other words, the capacity to be alive, even for simple one cell lifeforms, requires complex design to be possible.

We previously discussed the challenges that came with the detailed discovery of Genetics and DNA; and the leap scientific theory must take to fill the gap, between the idea that lighting struck a primordial swamp and igniting some kind of life, to the arrival of the complex building blocks of Genetics and DNA within the living cell that construct all forms of life. This process of life, going from dead matter to living is a leap too far, in the scientific facts of cellular progression we currently have. As this story has unfolded in the last few decades, the scientific community realized: life was not a slow process that evolved over billions of years, as first suspected. In fact, as the search to explain life on this planet continues for Modern Science, there are far more questions than answers.

Papineau and Dodd suggest “it looks likely that microbial creatures started swarming Earth almost as soon as it formed. Even without consensus on how and where life got going, everyone pretty much now agrees on a basic when: early. And quickly.” (10)

This was a huge admission from those who seek to find facts to support Evolutions claims, needing to concede this point, life began much earlier than the Fathers of Evolution claimed and could not even exist without complexity right from the start.

In Tim Newman’s 2018 article, What is DNA and how does it work; he shares:

“Virtually every cell in your body contains DNA or the genetic code that makes you, you. DNA carries the instructions for the development, growth, reproduction, and functioning of all life.” (11)

The cell of a living entity contains sophisticated Genes with Chromosomes, designed to be transferred from the progenitors or parents to the offspring in plants or animals for life to exist; all neatly ordered and rolled up in a complex DNA structure, within the cell. This is at the foundation for any biological organisms to form and be possible.

Tim Newman further explains, “Amazingly, if all of the DNA in the human body was unraveled, it would reach to the sun and back more than 300 times.” (12) 

That is how complex and long these DNA codes are. It begins to make sense why the mystery of life has become so complicated to explain, figuring out how this process could have been guided by accidental forces becomes, well… impossible… really!

In just one component of the system, DNA’s function of making proteins from sugars in a complex strand needed to fuel the human system; Michael Marshall points out:

“But the process of using DNA to make proteins proved to be staggeringly intricate. That was a big problem for anyone trying to explain the origin of life, because it is hard to imagine how something so complex could ever have got started.” (13)

Inescapable Conclusions

For the Atheist in the context of Modern Science, the goal is to provide an explanation how the life we see before us was accomplished… by unguided, unaided, means.

Science, past and present, has done an incredible job of discovering the truth about existing life and how it functions.  Modern Science understands better than ever before what life is… just not how it could have come about by self-constructing. Every experiment and discovery have failed to provide the scientific facts to prove it.

After years of experimentation, and attempting to recreating life in a lab, or demonstrate a successful process on how living cellular components could come together in nature; so far the facts of science have proven this as a scientific impossibility.

They still have to offer Evolution as a theory, because they do not have the science or facts to overcome the obstacles. And since the theory is unproveable, their belief in Evolution has become a Religion (a belief system).  Evolution, is the religion of Modern Science. Faith and belief are the only actual explanation for holding this theory as truth, in the absence of scientific fact.

In the end, they are no different than a Theist, who accepts certain beliefs on faith alone in the absence of provable demonstrable facts.

Belief Systems

The Modern Atheist claims their main reason for abandoning and even criticizing and refuting a belief in God, is because Modern Science proves life came about through natural occurring processes we find on earth, and that this is evidence no God exists. In recent times they have come up with their own explanation and term to describe a religious believer as a follower of Vitalism. Vitalism, they say, is an antiquated concept and belief, and should have been abandon a century ago in the light of scientific reality.(14)

Yet as you dig down into the theory of Evolution and its many related theories of a self-existent universe, you begin to find it has many unsolved issues and problems in attempting to reconcile itself with the true proven facts of science. 

Now we find because of a lack of a provable scientific method, Modern Science believers and followers, themselves, must resort to leaps of faith _ to maintain their beliefs in their explanation of the origin of life, in their challenge to hold those beliefs together.

Whether it be Evolution or Theology, the origins of “Who we are” must rest itself on a foundation of reason, and logical conclusion, weighing the evidence we personally find credible. The answer to the question of: who we are? in either field of study, stripped of all its outward dressing of officialdom; and boiled down to is foundation premise; and citing the evidence we have available to us (when it comes down to it), rests on the substance of personal belief.

To be continued . . .

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Sources:

1. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

2. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

3. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

4. Science Daily March 25, 2021 A divided cell is a doubled cell: Division and growth of synthetic vesicles — ScienceDaily

5. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

6. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

7. NASA Science; How did life begin and evolve on Earth, and has it evolved elsewhere in the Solar System? https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/big-questions/how-did-life-begin-and-evolve-earth-and-has-it-evolved-elsewhere-solar-system

8. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

9. Wikipedia DNA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA

10. A new finding raises an old question: Where and when did life begin? By Kat McGowan September 8, 2017 https://www.popsci.com/where-and-when-did-life-begin/

11. What is DNA and how does it work? Written by Tim Newman on January 11, 2018 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319818

12. What is DNA and how does it work? Written by Tim Newman on January 11, 2018 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319818

13. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

14. The Secret of How Life began on the Earth, Article by Michael Marshall, 31 October 2016 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began

Who Am I? Part 2

Who Am I? Part 2, In finding out “who we are” we need to find out what sources can be trusted to find that answer. We must learn how to come into contact with Truth. The Truth brings trust, and finding Truth requires certain mental abilities and perspectives be developed.

This is part 2 of a series on Who Am I?

Learning to Trust

Finding Trust

To find truth it is also necessary to discover trustworthy sources. It is very difficult to trust, especially once you feel trust has been broken. But trust can be gained one piece at a time, one idea at a time; seeing the reason and beauty behind things that can be regarded and counted on to remain consistent or constant… and worthy of your trust.

Gaining trust and finding truth go hand in hand. It requires being introduced to new ideas, new concepts, learning things you have never heard of before. To find truth, you have to learn, and you have to become aware.

New truth can take a period of adjustment. It can be a new twist on something you had already believed, but adding additional insight that requires an adjustment; or it can be something completely foreign to you; and it takes time to fit it in to your belief system and find out how it links up.

Sometimes an idea is so big and complex you are not sure what to do with it. At times like these you can run into a barrier, and it can be difficult to get past it. Sometimes, things catch you completely off guard. Some truths are very hard to understand. It either bothers you and you want to reject it outright; or it sounds like maybe it is true, but you can’t accept or deal with it at face value. I have experienced this many times, and still do. Some truths take time to be considered, looked at from every angle; pondered on… to work out all the details, before they can be wrested. If you find yourself learning a thing, and thinking it sounds like it might be true, but it also has some difficult or even disturbing elements to it, that is ok. Just let it alone for a while, and come back to it later.

Often, over time, things have a way of working themselves out in your mind. But sometimes you find there is something wrong, or there are true and false ideas mixed up together, and you sort them out. Going through this process helps you to find truths are interconnected, and begin to verify and validate each other, even though at first some of them seem to be in conflict.

This allows you to build trust that there is a truth out there to be found, and that you are actually finding it along the way.

Finding Answers

When I was 21 years old, I had one of these moments where I had serious questions and doubts about myself and my life’s direction, down to the core of everything I believed. There did not seem to be any satisfactory answers to several of my questions. I could not find the answers, hope, or a way forward, and was not sure what I should do.

Earlier, when I was 19, I had been told by a man I greatly admired that I should always be thinking a new thought, I should never reach a point that I just became satisfied… and stopped learning. That I should always be seeking out new knowledge and information to improve and expand myself and challenge myself.

I took that advice to heart because it seemed reasonable to me. Because of that advice, I have always had a book at my bedside to study. I always take some time before the day is over to read, and open my mind to some new ideas someone is sharing. I now own and have read many books, listened to many lectures, listen to many voices and still do. Learning is a process that can become contagious, and valuable, and now I find there are many books at my bedside at the same time, there is so much I want to know and learn. The internet, today, is also a most valuable resource I did not have in my earlier life; and another place we can search out truth.

This has been the most valuable advice; and one of the most rewarding exercises I have ever experienced.  It has been a blessing to me over my lifetime with figuring out what this life is all about, and getting the answers to my questions. I often chose books about things I was troubled over and needed more insight; or more information to come to clarity, or a solution in finding an answer I just didn’t have.

I love to study history, and how events earlier in time came to be; and what motivated those people to do what they did. These people changed the world in their times, and to a large extent this has affected all of us in the future.

So, what was the outcome of that 21 year-old, with those critical questions of my youth? Over time I was able to get every question answered, because of this study I was encouraged to do. Some of my answers came in a short time, some after several years; one, in particular, did not come for about 34 years.  It continued to elude me. Finally, I began to understand the reason behind it. Some time I will share it with you.

Also, through this study, many new questions were raised and answered for me.

Running Away From, or Avoiding the Truth

The worse thing to do, is nothing with your mind; to not do anything valuable to develop or inform it. To allow troubling ideas or concerns to just sit and do nothing about them; but be disturbed and injured by them.

Some attempt to silence the pain or unanswered troubling questions in their lives with harmful substance use and abuse; thinking you can run away or hide from them; or nullify their effects. Some indulge in drug use merely for recreational purposes and to have fun; but the outcome is the same… because this becomes a problem you now have to deal with.

This causes the inner conflicts and unanswered questions to become lodged in your mind and life.  You can’t work them out, and you can’t be at peace, which brings on suicidal thoughts and despair. I have known this kind of pain and emptiness too, but I have also found there is always a way out.

Trust is something that is real! Trust and faith, can lead us to the search for answers and truth. It can untie the knots in our minds, and provide solutions to troubling questions– which can melt away the pain; and can heal old wounds.

Trust and belief can lead to purpose and meaning in your life. The truth “can” set you free!

The Trick of Life

One critical thing I learned I want to share with you.

I came to learn (several years after that confusing and lonely time in my life), the reason I was not able to receive the truth then… and find my answers, was because I was missing critical information– and necessary life experience I lacked. My mind was not yet prepared for the answers I was seeking.  

Only by gaining that life experience (that as a young 21 year-old I did not possess), was I able to step outside that youthful mindset, and realize larger questions and answers were now available to me to unravel the mystery I felt inside. 

Had I allowed the sadness and misery to overtake me, and ended it all, I would never have existed to find these answers, and this truth!

I could now see far beyond that earlier, limited view! And realized because of my inadequate experience at this early age in my life, I had mental barriers beyond which I could not see, which would not be a problem in the future– but were very real to me at the time; and almost insurmountable.

The fact is, this is a process (we come to understand), will follow us throughout life. As we continue to learn and advance, the scales continue to fall from our eyes, giving new insight–as we search to remove barriers that remain with us. We should be constantly learning, and constantly progressing and overcoming, that which seems insurmountable in or lives.

This is “The Trick of Life”: “we think we see, because we can see”.

But that is not the truth! Maybe at the time it seems it is; but that is not the end of existence or the only vision we are capable of.  

If we don’t stop there, but we climb to greater heights (gaining knowledge and experience) we can look back at where we were, and realize we were in a valley with hills and mountain walls all around us restricting our view, which we could not see beyond at the time; but because we keep learning and climbing, we can now see beyond those hills and mountains to a greater vision of the world with much more landscape that has come into view.

We realize there is so much more to the world than we could see at the time. Because we have left that limited vantage point, and kept moving forward, we came to learn life is far more than what we had known it to be. And with this greater knowledge and experience comes greater sight, and expanded vision. 

So, the truth is, “who we are” is what we can see now… but it is also what we will come to see and know in the future, if we keep moving.

That is why two people with different experience looking at the same set of problems have different insight.  One is still in the valley; the other has climbed over the walls to understand there is more than what is currently in view.

The lesson is, that if you keep climbing, and don’t give up… only then do we find the truth… and keep on finding it.

Gaining Perspective and Wisdom

The longer we live, and the more we travel and experience in this journey of life, the more we can see, and the more we will know: to provide insight and wisdom going forward. With this valuable perspective and acquired knowledge we can look to and draw from, it gives us strength to endure in those dark times that come into all our lives.

Guidance Through Faith, and Positive Action

One of the most powerful truths I learned, is if we ask for help from above (God), and keep doing all that comes into our hearts and minds, there is always a way forward. We just need to keep going, and working at ourselves (to become better people) and solving the challenges we face.

And like a train moving down the track about to come to the end of the line where there is no more track… we just keep laying out new track before us… taking us somewhere; (not exactly sure where that is yet), but the future is a brighter place if we are holding to the truth we have, and keep moving… we will find the way forward.

Knowing What Life is, the Difficulties Become Manageable

Life never becomes perfect, or pain free, or free of challenge; that is the nature of this life for everyone.

But the lights did begin to come on, and purpose and meaning did come into my life to beat back the darkness and keep it at bay. Never gone, but under control!

I can make you this promise; those who will seek… will find. But liberation is not found in lies. It is the truth that sets us free.

The Truth is Born of Our Expedient Need

In examining the question of “who we are”? I believed: “truth” must hold the answer to all we face in life, good and bad.

I believed: it can’t be the truth, if it can’t satisfy our needs or help us. If it can’t bring meaning to our struggle, and answers to life’s tough questions.

I have since found those beliefs to be justified. The truth can satisfy and begin to comfort and complete us, and answer the questions of this life! The issue that is difficult: is this is a slow process, because we need to grow into these truths by our searching and becoming more educated and aware; and we will all grow and learn at different rates, because we are different; and have different abilities and strengths.

Usually, our greatest growth comes through our own suffering and struggle; causing us to rise above.

We will learn precept upon percept, a little here, and a little there; adding more and more, a piece at a time… until we complete the picture of truth.

“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.”  -Isaiah 28:9&10 Holy Bible, (KJV)

Finding out “who we are”, is the journey to the truth of life itself.

To be continued . . .