It was a drenching storm inside of me, but I am very strong. The blood tempest that sweeps into its vortex all desire to know, to absorb, to abide, to possess, to kill, to love? That is a given, is it not? And when you love another, you do not strive to hurt. Never. The trivial operations of the heart are burnt away in quietude. Burnt away in humility that I could feel this, know this, and contain it within my prudent soul. Suppose we allow that rewards and penalties are indeed morally necessary; at most, this could support a demand not for immortality but for a temporary survival. Nothing has been said in the premises to explain why these necessary rewards and penalties have to be eternal. They become bound to your soul, not only by blood, but by association and as love as well. Just like a passive vampire draining the blood from someone indirectly in the Castle, these transfusions make use of the idea of the life’s blood. The blood is life and so it is stated in the Christian Bible. Christianity, like many World religions before it, celebrates the blood as a life force. Christ shed His blood that men may drink of it and have eternal life. “Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood, shall have eternal life; and I will raise one up on the last day,” reports John 6.53. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Indeed, to the secular moralist, to whom no revelation has been vouchsafe, it might seem that to provide eternal penalties for temporal offenses would be to make the Universe infinitely worse. However, because knowledge of these truths of the pages in the book of revelations is necessary for human’s salvation, God has supernaturally made them known. Revelation may be defined as the communication of some truth by God to a rational creature through means which are beyond the ordinary course of nature. When revelation is conceived as the divine disclosure of religious truths, faith is necessarily understood as the obedient believing of these truths. Thus faith was defined by the First Vatican Council as a supernatural virtue whereby with the inspiration and help of God’s grace, we believe that what he has revealed is true, not because its intrinsic truth is seen with the natural light of reason, but because of the authority of God who reveals it. The divinely imparted truths are written down in the Bible and thereby made available to all humankind. Indeed, throughout considerable periods of Christian thought the Scriptures have been called the Word of God and have been virtually identified with revelation. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

The Bible is accordingly thought of as being ultimately of divine authorship; it has been written by human being, Angels, or Nephilim, but in the writing of it, their minds were directed by the Holy Spirit. Thus, the First Vatican Council reported the Scriptures that because they were written as a result of the prompting of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author. The Bible is written by God through thirty secretaries. Natural theology comprises all those truths about God, and about the created Universe in it relation to God, that can be arrived at by human reasoning without benefit of divine revelation, and it proves the existence of God. Revealed theology, on the other hand, comprises those truths about God, and about the created Universe in its relation to God, that are not accessible to right reasoning as such and that can be known to humans only because God has chosen to reveal them. (For instance, it is held that while the existence of a supreme being is tenet of natural theology, the further fact, states in the Trinitarian doctrine, that this being is three Persons in one belongs to revealed theology.) These various truths constitute the material with which the theologian works, his primary task being to bring them together into a systematic body of doctrine. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

Early literature reflects man’s belief that blood was more than a metaphor or synecdotal description of life; it was life itself…in both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, “the blood is life,” reports Deuteronomy 12.16. And the motif is repeated again and again, both as objective statement and psychological truth. However, it is important to note that the Old Testament also cautions, in multiple passages, against the drinking of blood in an obsessive way, which would be seen as evil. All lives have blood, with years of life in it, lives which are procured for one by God. Man has assurance of some kind that he will acquire some higher life. He dreads the consequences—the burden of a soul. Sources of evil are supposed to be repelled by crucifixes, rosaries, the Eucharistic hose, and holy water. And this is why they are displayed in church, as it is known as the house of the Lord, and these symbols are meant to creation reactions in a demon or devil, which makes them unable to prevail against the forces of good. The devil, alien to all conventional familial, social, and sexual patterns, has a terrible strength which threatens a supernatural disruption of what we call morality. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6

There is almost a Universal desire for immortality or the existence of human potentialities that cannot be realized in a mere three score years and ten. Immortality advocates some idea of a God who may be relied on to arrange for the ultimate fulfillment of (some of?) the desires and (some more of?) the potentialities that he has arranged for us to the. (the qualification “some of” has, presumably, to be put in to allow for the existence of ambivalent and evil desires; the “some more of” is needed is we are to have an argument that even appears to hold.) The best in the human spirit always triumphs over an evil which is typically, if only symbolically, depicted as sexual. Sexuality is seen unthinkable in normal relations between the sexes (genders). This negative view of sexuality is doubtless due in part to the Christian context. Sexuality is seen as evil when it is based on sensuality and pleasure alone. Any pleasure, or any emotions when it is out of control is seen as evil. Evil is out of control is society; it absorbs power and exercises it but does not adhere to any laws of control himself in his pursuit of a “World Class City” and a palace made of diamonds, while people can barely afford rent and food or to pay the people who educate your children. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

Indeed, his plan is to make everyone buy into his propaganda that a $700 million sports complex, paid for my public money, with an $8 million statue that looks like an oversized gummy bear is more important than you being allowed to vote on the project and the general welfare of the community and allow his evil to spread throughout the population like a plague. However, such unrestrained emotions and carelessness are not without their price for guilt is everywhere and it is deep. The Bible is a source of inspiration, as a medium of revelation; such theologies arise within the community of faith (whether Jewish or Christian) that lives on the basis of what it believes to be an experience of divine revelation. It embodies in its life and literature the memory of momentous events in which God has opened a new and better life to mankind. The form of apologetic appropriate to this view is one that defends the right to the believer, as a rational being, given the distinctively religious experience out of which one’s faith has arisen, to trust that experience and to proceed to live upon the basis of it. “And this is what God promised us—eternal life” reports 1 John 2:25. For let me tell you, he is known everywhere that men have been. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6