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One of the most important things in life is: education. No doubt about that. What exactly is education? My idea of education is that education is supposed to give you wings. Education should deepen your natural curiosity and widen your horizons. Education should make life more satisfying and interesting. Education is an adventure and a pursuit. You are discovering the mysteries of life and God. Educated person is not gossiping, not thinking about mediocre topics and not talking about hate but rather, educated person has a deep appreciations for all human beings, because education only gives novelty to your soul.

But…. And here comes a big BUT. My idea of education is very idealistic and reality is not so romantic. Our educational system is wrong. Maybe there are some parts of the world where educational system is beneficial to young people, but in my experience (I live in Croatia) educational system is wrong by its default. Everything bad that I know, all the bad habits, bad thoughts, perversions, wickedness… All that I have learned in school. The school taught me how to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, smoke weed, how to be a bad boy in order to be liked, because, if you are a nerd, you are not really interesting to anyone and other kids are bullying you. Teachers and school system is protecting these kids and you as a normal kid, you become a victim of the system. Even in the elementary school, as soon as sexual hormones starts to awaken in our bodies, we have already learned that promiscuous behavior is ok. Some people in elementary school had more sexual partners than me, my father and my grandfather in our entire lives.

Educational system in Croatia is corrupted. Many people have bought their diplomas and they have some of the best jobs in this country. Really educated people are suppressed and they cannot get their shinning spot. But that is another story. I don’t want to talk about that right now.

Bigger problem is that you don’t learn anything in these schools. Young people are leaving the college when they are 25 and they don’t possess any working skills and they don’t know nothing to work. They are not ready to get married. When you are 25 and you realize that you don’t know how to work, that you are broke and that you are not a capable person to take care of yourself and your family… that is a very depressing state.

But even bigger problem than that, is a rise of modern psychology. These people, these modern psychologist, they don’t know nothing about human psyche and human spirit. They don’t acknowledge the God, the Creator of humans and all the rules that He gave us, but rather, these psychologists are inventing their own rules. They have jobs, a very well paid jobs. Their contributions to society is so little and their salaries are so big that they need to somehow make sense of that salary, so they are doing researches. They are writing articles, they are inventing their own philosophy just to give an idea that they are doing something. When in fact, their contribution is really small. One of their new idea is the fact that 70% of children have ADHD. And that makes me really angry. In last few weeks I have witnessed few children and people that I know that are sent to do these tests because their teachers, priests, authorities think that they have an ADHD.

One little boy that is part of my family, this year he will go to the first grade of elementary school. He is really interested in cars and mechanics and he likes to work with his hands. When he plays with his toys, he is later always putting them back to their place without having to tell him anything. Also when he is playing with his LEGOs, he quickly makes connections in his head how to do something and what goes where. Other day I took him to the forest and he figured out how to make a small bridge so that we can cross the stream. In the forest…

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Bible is a huge book. Sometimes when we read it, we don’t actually understand what we are reading. The first time that I read the Bible, I didn’t understand anything. I thought that I kind of understand it, but now when I look back, I see that I missed the whole point of the Bible. First time reading the Bible is just to get an initial idea and picture, just to build some foundation on which later you can grow in your understanding. At least that was the case for me. For you it may be a different experience. You may read it and be enlighten by it immediately. Also, I read the Bible for the first time in my early 20s. That is maybe the reason why I couldn’t process some of those complex ideas. Now I am in my late 20s… I am probably still too young to understand all the beauties in that book. But I know more now than I knew few years ago.

Here I want to make a short summary of the Bible. I want to bring up immediately the whole point of the Bible. Maybe it will be helpful to you, because I know that I have struggled with understanding some parts of it.

God created Earth, plants, animals and humans. People were living in the garden of Eden. Everything was so peaceful and so blissful. First man and woman didn’t know anything about evil, chaos, feeling disturbed, feeling stressful. If Adam and Eve had a Google, they would never search for articles such ”how to find your inner peace” and ”how to deal with stress”. In fact, they probably didn’t even know what word ‘peace’ means, because they have never felt any disturbance. In the garden of Eden there were plenty of trees. There have been two trees that stand out from the rest of the trees. The tree of Life, and the tree of knowing the good and evil. God forbid Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowing the good and evil. He told them that if they eat from that tree, they will certainly die. People were created to live an eternal life. We are not created to get sick, to grow old and to die. Our bodies are dying, but if we are eating from the tree of Life, we cannot grow old, because the fruit from that tree is rejuvenating us and giving us an eternal life. The other tree, tree of knowing good and evil… The name itself is telling us that evil exists. Of course, Adam and Eve didn’t know nothing about the evil. They were created to live in God’s grace. But evil exists.

We humans are very powerful beings in comparison to the other animals. There are also as well a beings that are very powerful in comparison to us, humans. They are called angels. They have spiritual powers. We people are created in the image of God. Angels are also created in the image of God, but to the higher degree. Later in the Bible, we will see that a group of angels rebelled against God. They turned evil. Why? Why some angels turned evil? Because they had a choice. God is something so complex. He created angels and humans to be like Him, in His image. One characteristic of God is freedom. In the same way, humans and angels have freedom as well. We can do whatever we want. We have been given a freedom from God and to have a freedom from God, that means that we can rebel against God. We can think, feel and do things that are not according to God’s rules. Why God gave us freedom? Because, what is the point of life if you don’t have a choice? Angels had a choice and we humans had a choice as well. Angels rebelled against God. That was evil. What exactly is evil? It is destruction. Angels wanted to destroy all the beauties of God. So evil exists, but Adam and Eve don’t know anything about it. They are living the peaceful life in nature with no worries. They are multiplying themselves and they are enjoying all the beauties that God created. But God didn’t want them to be without choice as well, so he put a tree of knowing the good and evil to tempt them, to give them the choice. God created them and give them the life that was the best for them, but He also gave them the choice to rebel, because once again, what is the point of life if you don’t have freedom and choice? God warned people to not eat from the tree of knowing the good and evil, because the day they will eat from that tree, they will die. And I doubt that people would ever eat from that tree if it wasn’t for Satan. People were naive and they didn’t know anything about Satan, an evil being. Satan came to Eve and told her to eat from that tree. At first, Eve was scared, she didn’t want to eat from that tree because she knew that God forbid them to eat, but Satan was very convincing and innocent in his manipulation that young and naive Eve ate. She was probably not aware of the consequences. Adam followed her steps as well.

And here we are today, we are living in the world full of violence, wars, suffering, illness, death. The God said clearly, the day you eat from the tree of knowing the good and evil, you will die. And that is exactly what happened. From the peacefulness of Eden, we came to this chaos of world. We have met the evil. Now we know the good and evil. Many people today are asking where is God, why he is allowing all this suffering? Well, he is allowing because we are free. He created us to live in peaceful environment, but we rebelled against Him and now we feel the consequences.

After Adam and Eve ate from that tree, God kicked them out of garden of Eden to forbid them to eat from the tree of Life, so that they can’t have an eternal life. We have met death and illness. Humans heart became wicked and evil because they choose Satan instead of God, but still, there have always been some pure just people. For those people God didn’t give up on humanity but rather, He is fighting for them.

We may say, if God is so powerful, then why He just don’t destroy Satan right now? Well, He could, but why He is not doing that, there is probably some reason. But who we are to question God’s decisions? What we know about Him and Universe? Exactly, we don’t know nothing.

After the fall of Adam and Eve, sin entered in the humanity. We all are sinners. Some of us are good people who are committing minor sins, and some of us are evil wicked people that want to destroy this world, to destroy people and to destroy all the beauties that God created. Sin is not something to be taken lightly. God forgives us our sins but we need to pay for them. There is only one way that sins can be paid of, and that is with the blood. Only by spilling the blood, sins can be paid of. This is why in the Old Testament we can see that people need to sacrifice animals in order to pay for their sins. To erase sins, we must pay with life, with soul. And by reading the Bible we can see that God is clearly saying that life of soul lies in the blood. He forbids people to eat and drink blood of animals because in the blood lies the soul of that living thing. By sacrificing the animal, our sins are symbolically transferred to that animal, and after spilling the blood of that animal, our sins are erased. That animal becomes the carrier of our sins and that animal is paying by its life to erase those sins. A chain of sin needs to end up on someone. To not pay with our own life, God created this system where animals can pay for our sins.

Of course, this may be…

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1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

6And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

9And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, 15and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

20And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

INTERPRETATION:

Here we have the description of how Earth was created. The Biblical concept is different from modern scientifical idea. Here we can read that whole Earth was created in just six days. Modern science is claiming that Earth was created by itself in the long process of billions and billions of years. Scientists are claiming that each kind of plant or animal (they include humans to be animal as well) are created by slow evolution, from very simple cells and organism, through billions of years more complex organisms were created. Bible is claiming that everything was created in one day. Plants, trees and vegetation were created in one day. All fish and living creatures from water plus all the birds and the creatures that can fly were created in one day. And all the other animals, livestock, creeping things, beasts and humans were created in one day.

So, we have two contradictory theories about the creation of our Earth. One is ‘evolution’ and the other is ‘creationism’. There are several scientists that are accepting the ‘creationism’, so you can research it more deeply and see their points. One day I have a plan to research those studies as well to deepen my understanding, then I can also write about that. For now, I can give you only two reasons why I believe in ‘creationism.’ Firstly, I have learned to trust the Bible. I have accepted it that it is a word from God. Secondly, this life is way too complex to be created by accident. Everywhere we can see that this life has a Creator.

Evolutionists are believing that everything was created by the accident. From small quarks were created protons, electrons, then they created atoms and atoms then created molecules and molecules created first cells and those cells started creating simple organisms and later from those simple organisms, more complex organisms have emerged. Evolutionists also believe that we are upgraded version of monkeys. In fact, they believe that we are monkeys, just an evolved one. But in the Bible we can clearly read that God created us in His image and He created us to have dominion over all the other animals. And if you look around, that is true. We humans are by far the most intelligent species on this Earth. We are dominating this world. We have built New York   City, not the monkeys. My point is, we are not the one of the animals, but rather, we are the rulers over the animals. If ‘evolution’ is truth, then why today monkeys are not becoming humans? Why lizards are not becoming crocodiles? Evolutionists also believe that wolfs in the order to survive, they became good too people so that people can feed them, in other words, they don’t believe in dogs, they just believe in wolfs that have become dogs in order to survive. Tell me, why other animals are not doing that? Why rhinoceros don’t become good to people in order to survive? Why rhinoceroses don’t become man’s best friend? In my conclusions, theory of evolution is just funny one. I cannot take it serious. Life and Earth is so complex. Human organism as whole, kidneys, blood, liver, lungs, heart, eyes, brain, neurons, everything works so harmoniously and perfectly. And you tell me that this life is an accident? We have thoughts, feelings, morals, fears… If we were created by accident, then life wouldn’t have any purpose.

Does this means that Bible is against science?

No. On the contray, reading the Bible, studying the Bible, trying to understand it, it requires a lots of thought process. Bible is a huge book and in order to understand it, you really have to use your brain a lot. This is why I believe that dedicated study of Bible will help you to develop and sharpen your cognitive abilities. It will not make you less intelligent, but rather, it will teach you how to think and how to research. It will teach you how to communicate and how to form your opinions.

To say that reading the Bible is going to make you less intelligent, is a superficial statement. Do you know what will make you less intelligent? To read a short article which says: “Scientists proved that Earth is ____ billions years old.” and to accept that article without doing any research. That will make you less intelligent.

Bible is beautiful book and it is “alive” book. In other words, everytime that you read the Bible, something new you will discover.

But lets talk about creation and these few lines that we have read here.

We are reading that God created whole Earth in six days. People say that this is not possible. My answer is, if God wanted, He could created whole Earth in just one day. In the matter of fact, He could created whole Earth in just one second. But then why did He created it in six days and then He stopped creating? I don’t know why, but one of my ideas is because of symbolism. Here we can also read that God created Sun, Moon and all the other stars so that we can orient ourselves regarding the signs and seasons, days and years. By looking at the stars, we have learned a lot about our planet. He have developed calendars which are helping us to organize ourselves in time and space. We have figured out by movement of our planet and stars around us, how day and night and how seasons are changing. In the same way, it is possible that God created planet in six days because it represents one week. Then on the seventh day, we are resting from all the work that we have done the following week. And that is one week. And it is very important to divide a life to years, and years to months, months to weeks and weeks to days. We can see that God also cares about this. He gave us Sun, Moon and stars for signs and seasons, days and years.

Purpose of Sun and Moon is not just for our calendars so that we can measure “time”, but purpose of those celestial bodies is of course, light. But here we can read something that can be very confusing. On the first day God created light and then on the fourth day He created Sun. What does that mean? It means that there is some other form of light that we are not aware of it. As we will progress into our reading of Bible, later we will see that Jesus when he transformed himself in front of His disciples, He transformed into a light. Also in the end of Bible, in the book of Revelation, when Earth will be renewed and cleared from sins, there will also be this light. It will not be Sun, but some other light. What is exactly this light, we don’t know, but we can conclude that is some kind of God’s attribute. Light is maybe a form of God. We know that when you read about people who had near death experience or they were in coma, very often they describe that they have saw some light and that light was very warm and comforting. They didn’t wanted to leave that light. So, we don’t know much about this light except that it is a light from God Himself, that is better than Sun and also, it probably will not give you a skin cancer. If Sun contains vitamin D, then light from God contains all the vitamins and minerals in abundance. Jokes aside, here is also one very interesting thing that we can observe. On the fourth day God created Sun, but on the third day God created vegetation, plants and fruits. We know that vegetation is the primary source of life on this planet. It is a food for humans and all the other animals, it produces glucose and it gives us oxygen. Without vegetation, we would be dead in the matter of seconds. But what does vegetation needs in order to sustain itself? It needs Sun. If there was no Sun, all the vegetation would dry off immediately. But here in the Bible, we can read that God first created vegetation, then on the next day He created Sun. What does that mean? That means that light of God is enough for life. This light is something so powerful, so healing, so comforting, so fulfilling… That we cannot even imagine it.

From these line about creation, we can also see that God gave humans and all the other animals to eat plants and fruits. We can maybe conclude that God didn’t created animals to eat other animals, and He didn’t created man to eat meat, but later, after the fall of man, maybe animals became aggressive as well and they started eating other animals. Later we can see that God also allowed man to eat meat. It seems that in the beginning, animals were not eating other animals, and it seems that man had a complete dominion over animals. He was not afraid of them. Animals were obeying man. Of course, this is just a speculation, but it is a good argument against vegan people who are claiming that they don’t believe in God because this life is so cruel. Animals are eating animals in order to survive. A life of one creature is death of other creature. It is cruel in a way and many people lose their faith in God. From the childhood they have this image that God is merciful, full of love, and later as they develop their own opinions and experiences of the world, they become unbelievers because they cannot accept that man is killing animals for food and animals are eating other animals. But problem is that people are not reading Bible and they are not interested in theology. From the Bible we can clearly see that God created humans and animals to eat plants and fruits. Later, because of sin, because of human betrayal, rebellion against God, animals started eating other animals and humans started eating meat as well. But why did animals turned bad? Why did human sin reflected upon the animals? Because man had a dominion over animals. If you defeat the king, the whole kingdom will feel the consequences. All what I am trying to say is that God didn’t created cruel world where one species are food for other species. God created a pure sinless world. All the cruelty is just a by-product of our sin and our rebellion.

We are also reading that…

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Entrepreneurship and innovation are two most important skills that one man needs. If you have entrepreneurial spirit and you are innovating person, then life is never boring. Life is constant adventure. Life is constant new-defying reality. When we are lacking entrepreneurial spirit and ability to innovate, we fall into the repetitive routines and life becomes dull. Some people spent few decades in routines. They live the same day everyday for years. That person loses the spark in their eyes, in their appearance and personality. But when man is taking charge and making some progress, then he has fire in himself and women recognize that.

Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to…

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To simplify things, there are only two reasons why people suffer from mental health issue. Of course, there are many more but we will now use very simple perspective on the brain and mental health. Person either has too much or too little art in their life.

If we divide brain on logical and artistic parts, we can see that brain is in its full form both, logical and artistic. If we rely too much on the logic. We are doing mathematics, computer programming, or we are watching news or reading newspapers… We will suffer from cynicism. We will find fault in everything. Instead of laughing at the shortcomings of the human nature, we become very critical of human nature. When we find ourselves in this state of mind, it means that we are lacking art. We are lacking colors, vivid images, music, jokes, friendships, laughter. When we include art in our life, our life gets new colors. Logic is only black and white with the possibility of the gray.

We have also mentioned that person can have too much of art in his life. If you are living just based on your emotions, you will make poor life choices. Without common sense, your life will be a disaster, a horror movie. If you lack logic and common sense, you can also suffer from mental health.

But today we are going to talk exactly about art. Artistic expression. We have all at least felt few times in our lives what it feels like to be creative. We get into flow and everything is just working. It feels liberating. It is freedom, a freedom of expression. Something just feels right in our brain and bodies when we get creative. My question is: why we don’t get creative more often?

Producing art is great for our brain. It activates numerous neurons in our brain. It discharges…

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In the times of Christmas and holidays, we are forced to spend our money. It is all behind the facade of caring for our loved ones. That is very great. A gift or act of kindness is something that we should practice, for sure. Buying gifts and presents for Christmas, it is good thing. Problem is something else. I have met many people who are spending on Christmas more than they can afford themselves to spend. People are stressful when Christmas comes. Shopping crisis is real. People are driving like crazy to go from one shopping mall to another. Why I am saying this? Because this Christmas I have personally witnessed 6 car accidents. If I haven’t been extra careful, I was almost involved in one as well. People are acting crazy. They go around and they are spending their whole salaries to buy Christmas gifts. Once again, to buy gift is one thing, but to spend your whole salary is another thing. Who are you trying ti impress? Little children? Do you know what children want? They want attention and time that you spend with them. Whenever you buy something for children, in the matter of few days, that thing will becoming boring to them. They will throw it away. Especially these days when children have everything. They have too much of everything. This is why I am saying that children need attention and they need YOU to invest your time and energy in them. Before when there was a big poverty and children were lacking the material needs, then a Christmas gift was something special. These days is usually not that much special. 90% of Christmas gifts that you buy is usually wasted money. Greater gift is to give yourself, to spend time with your family and friends, to laugh, to listen to them, to talk with them. But these days people usually have a list of everybody that they need to visit and they go and they spend cca 1 hour at one place, just so that they can check it off from the list, and they immediately go to other place.

In Croatia, since we are Catholic country, so when some child has baptism, confirmation or some other sacrament, it is usually a tradition that a godfather spends big amounts of money on child. And yes, both of my godfathers did spend much money on me. They bought me a golden chain, a mobile phone, expensive toys, bicycle…. and where are my godfathers today? I don’t know. If they see me on the street, they wouldn’t even recognize me. In the other words, they have stopped whole communication with me. In fact, there was never communication between us, just a family obligation. And now…

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