Bobbi
11-26-2008, 11:44 PM
The "Oh Shit!" Syndrome
Many of us have had that scenario, in one form or another, most especially in our searches into the meaning of life in all its aspects. Although I was raised in a very structured religious environment, a divorce eventually led to my mother leaving the church. I was only 7 years old and didn't have a solid understanding of the bible at that time. However, I became an avid reader of anything I could get my hands on that had to do with science fiction. I didn't actually start to read the bible with any understanding until I was 15 years old, when my mother went back to the church. By that time, Star Trek had become my favorite TV show, among others of that genre "back in my day". HaHaHa Almost immediately upon reading the bible in study groups, it hit me! The bible, to me, was a very good science fiction novel. It had space ships, people beaming up and down, food replicators, artificial insemination and could make a barren woman fertile, weapons that could destroy cities from the sky, manipulate water, and on and on and on. It spoke of incredible technological abilities that I had read in so many, many novels. I had already developed big issues with religion (including the occult which my mother had dabbled in over the years) because of the blatant hyprocrisy I found everywhere and in almost everyone I met - regardless of their affiliations.
At 19 I threw the baby out with the bath water and refused to have anything further to do with churches, religion, spirituality, whatever title fit. I forbid any religious material in my home or around my children, other than the exposure to their grandmother. One day my five year old daughter asked me this question after visiting with my mother. "If God created man, who created God?" My response was "That's a very good question. I don't have the answer, but this is what I believe. We are here on earth as a science project, a laboratory experiment. We are being monitored and tested, just like a lab rat - tested to see what abilities are inherent in all creatures. I don't know who started it all but I believe there is a higher power, I don't know what he is, I don't know his name, I don't know where he came from, I don't know why he's doing this, but until I do, I'm not going to drop to my knees and 'worship' him. Let's just wait and see what happens."
I have, however, based my entire life on one scripture from the Bible that I felt was the most important to me and would, in the end, allow my heart to be read for the person that I am, should the Bible, in fact, hold truths I was unwilling to examine further. It held value in it's simplicity and would impact me throughout my life. Matthew 25:40 (New American Standard Bible says "And the King will answer and say to them, "Truly I say to you to the extent that you did it to one of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'" Therefore, everyone - and I do mean everyone! - is to be treated as a decent sentient intelligent lifeform - UNTIL they prove otherwise.
Decades passed and a few tribulations and a lot more tests later, I met my husband, Norval, who opened up the floodgates. NOW I knew the "Why". OOOOHHHH SHIT!!!! I had always believed in aliens since I was a child. I had studied the Bible intensively as a teenager. I just never put the two of them together. WHAT AN EYE OPENER!!!! Now the Bible made sense in that it was telling me things I had never thought of, in that it was a "message" and not just a story. I'm still catching my breath, but what I can tell you is that a new peace and serenity has settled within me since that time. I no longer worry about what tomorrow may bring. I know, in every fiber of my being, that I have a job to do and when the time comes, I will gladly oblige. So, in the meantime, I have once again begun studying the Bible after a lapse of 34 years with an entirely new viewpoint!
Do you have an "Oh Shit" story? Tell us about yours.
Many of us have had that scenario, in one form or another, most especially in our searches into the meaning of life in all its aspects. Although I was raised in a very structured religious environment, a divorce eventually led to my mother leaving the church. I was only 7 years old and didn't have a solid understanding of the bible at that time. However, I became an avid reader of anything I could get my hands on that had to do with science fiction. I didn't actually start to read the bible with any understanding until I was 15 years old, when my mother went back to the church. By that time, Star Trek had become my favorite TV show, among others of that genre "back in my day". HaHaHa Almost immediately upon reading the bible in study groups, it hit me! The bible, to me, was a very good science fiction novel. It had space ships, people beaming up and down, food replicators, artificial insemination and could make a barren woman fertile, weapons that could destroy cities from the sky, manipulate water, and on and on and on. It spoke of incredible technological abilities that I had read in so many, many novels. I had already developed big issues with religion (including the occult which my mother had dabbled in over the years) because of the blatant hyprocrisy I found everywhere and in almost everyone I met - regardless of their affiliations.
At 19 I threw the baby out with the bath water and refused to have anything further to do with churches, religion, spirituality, whatever title fit. I forbid any religious material in my home or around my children, other than the exposure to their grandmother. One day my five year old daughter asked me this question after visiting with my mother. "If God created man, who created God?" My response was "That's a very good question. I don't have the answer, but this is what I believe. We are here on earth as a science project, a laboratory experiment. We are being monitored and tested, just like a lab rat - tested to see what abilities are inherent in all creatures. I don't know who started it all but I believe there is a higher power, I don't know what he is, I don't know his name, I don't know where he came from, I don't know why he's doing this, but until I do, I'm not going to drop to my knees and 'worship' him. Let's just wait and see what happens."
I have, however, based my entire life on one scripture from the Bible that I felt was the most important to me and would, in the end, allow my heart to be read for the person that I am, should the Bible, in fact, hold truths I was unwilling to examine further. It held value in it's simplicity and would impact me throughout my life. Matthew 25:40 (New American Standard Bible says "And the King will answer and say to them, "Truly I say to you to the extent that you did it to one of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'" Therefore, everyone - and I do mean everyone! - is to be treated as a decent sentient intelligent lifeform - UNTIL they prove otherwise.
Decades passed and a few tribulations and a lot more tests later, I met my husband, Norval, who opened up the floodgates. NOW I knew the "Why". OOOOHHHH SHIT!!!! I had always believed in aliens since I was a child. I had studied the Bible intensively as a teenager. I just never put the two of them together. WHAT AN EYE OPENER!!!! Now the Bible made sense in that it was telling me things I had never thought of, in that it was a "message" and not just a story. I'm still catching my breath, but what I can tell you is that a new peace and serenity has settled within me since that time. I no longer worry about what tomorrow may bring. I know, in every fiber of my being, that I have a job to do and when the time comes, I will gladly oblige. So, in the meantime, I have once again begun studying the Bible after a lapse of 34 years with an entirely new viewpoint!
Do you have an "Oh Shit" story? Tell us about yours.