This initial blog outlines my concerns that people are so preoccupied with the economic, health, and social chaos created by authoritarian governments around the world, limiting our freedoms of speech, thought, choice, action, and worship, that they are unaware how these events are predicted in and related to Bible end time prophecy. While I also cringe at the ongoing onslaught on our freedoms and the sometimes purposeful actions of governments, organized medicine, big pharma, and the industrial/military elite to profit at the expense of human lives, particularly those of infants and children, being aware of the ongoing battle between between good and evil and truth and error, that began before our world existed, helps me place some emotional distance between me and the ongoing evil around me. But it wasn’t always so.
Raised in a nominal Christian home, I attended various Protestant churches and sometimes Roman Catholic mass with childhood friends. When I was in the seventh grade, I was introduced by a State of California authorized textbook to evolution theory through the alleged evolution of the horse from primitive eohippus to current modern horses and the thought life was not created–it just happened. As a child who’d relied on my parents to always speak truth, I assumed a State sponsored textbook could be relied upon to speak truth. My father was insistent that truth was good and untruth was anathema. Believing science must be based on verifiable fact I looked at atheism, and concluded it was not possible to prove God does not exist. I considered Christianity and concluded I could not verify God existed. And I finally decided to be a “scientific” agnostic: maybe there is a God and maybe there isn’t.
I carried this belief through my years in medical school and later training as a psychiatrist and into my adult life. I was in my late thirties with a lovely wife and four children living on a small urban “farm” with horses and milk goats, when familial and marital discord inspired my wife to exclaim, “We need God in our lives.” This precipitated our methodical search to find Christian fellowship and worship in a Bible based church.
This is a highly abridged account of how I came to be where I am that is spelled out in great detail in my autobiography, “They Called Me Jiminy Cricket-A Psychiatrist’s Search for Truth,” published by Bookstand Publishing in 2019 when I was still working part time as a psychiatrist at age 84. I have since retired from active practice.