To become a chosen person is not everyone’s cup of tea. In Catholicism, it is a calling to Sainthood but mostly people of vowed celibacy as nuns or priests. This leaves the secular world, for both practicing and nonpracticing Catholics without ever a chance of achieving that status after death. Therefore, I use the term “chosen ones,” which is usually only acceptable in Judeo-Christian religions. For everyone else, it is the aim to become the hero or heroine, who are protagonists that must experience severe antagonists and antagonisms during life. Yes, each one of us has a story that is unique.

From a biblical perspective, we learned that the Israelites are the chosen people. Even today, if leadership from a different nation, other than the state  of Israel, will receive rewards if continually aiding them in some way. These ten words, ten statements, ten commandments allowed the Israelites to see the world from the Creator’s perspective. These commandments provided Israel with a foundation to build upon as God’s chosen people.[1] Those most in congruent with Judeo-Christian religious practices know and understand this, while those that have distanced themselves from those belief and practice secular humanism or certain non-deist or deist-based faiths will deny and argue with it often. It promotes schism between church and state.

With the rise of intellectualism, biblical and religious scripts become falsehood, thus categorized as works of fiction, which is not based on scientific evidence. The emergence and development of secularism occurred because it was intellectually superior to Christianity and so convinced more people of its truth.[2] The chosen ones currently are gurus or scientists with more of metaphysical derived often from ancient archeology. New age saviors are the thing now written in an abstract about the super gurus for celebrities and the wealthy, which makes one think there is greed involved.[3] It is the “golden calf” of today and seems interesting. Psychics and astrology are pseudoscience, which means their beliefs are not real by scientific evidence.

Everyone on earth now can be the chosen ones, but of course within the context of modern knowledge and discoveries. Those who have been hailed and worshiped as the saviors of mankind are manifestations of the Great impersonal Law, and being such, were free from passion and prejudice, and having no opinions, and no special letter of doctrine to preach and defend, they never sought to convert and to proselytize.[4] There are now, more than before, ways to eternal salvation depending on your beliefs or the life your living. I believe if people, even though they may not practice a religious belief, who often live and practice by “the golden rule” have way to heaven, whatever that mean to them. They are quiet ones with good hearts, who only love.

Thus, placing too much emphasis on the freeness of salvation or rejecting the necessity of human responsibility as a proper expression of genuine faith is to do violence to the picture of salvation as presented in Revelation.[5] Buddhist monks are the quietest order in reaching salvation, but they do not believe in deity but by attaining a state of bliss or enlightenment. It takes practice to be humble, who along with the weak will inherit the earth as written in the bible.

Therefore, do we call the bible a work of fiction or nonfiction? It depends on who you are, and fiction novels as interpreted in diverse ways. But good nonfiction explains more of the truth depending on the research and connections to educated people within the story. The pen is mightier than the sword, which today would be the keyboard is mightier than the sword. Those with the most prominent voices and great orators are not necessarily the most correct.

I know in my continuing research of assorted topics, that truth reveals itself increasingly for me each time I write with knowledge than with my emotions.

[1] Scott, Ryan. Sinai Experiment : Ten Words for God’s Chosen People, The Foundry Publishing, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3379450

[2] Smith, Graeme. A Short History of Secularism, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=677067

[3] Wilson, Sophie. “THE SUPER GURUS TO THE STARS: YOU’RE A CELEBRITY IN NEED OF A LIFE OVERHAUL — WHO DO YOU TURN TO? ONE OF LONDON’S TOP GURUS, THAT’S WHO. FROM LIZ HURLEY’S HEALER TO KATE MOSS’S YOGI, SOPHIE WILSON MEETS THE NEW AGE SAVIOURS SOME OF OUR BEST-KNOWN VIPS HAVE ON SPEED DIAL.” Belfast Telegraph, Oct 08, 2016, pp. 20. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/super-gurus-stars/docview/1831967499/se-2.

[4] Allen, James. The Way of Peace, Floating Press, The, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=390894

[5] Kim, Sung J. Salvation as Victory: A Study on Divine Grace and Human Responsibility in Salvation in the Book of Revelation through the Lens of the Conquering Motif, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, United States — Kentucky, 2023. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/salvation-as-victory-study-on-divine-grace-human/docview/2903798879/se-2

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