In Search of PreDestiny

About the Book

Let me save you some time, and perhaps money, to say what this book is about. It is about Sovereignty. Pick a virtue, any virtue: Love, Faith, Mercy? Unless it is True-Love, True-Faith, True-Mercy, it´s not a virtue. Truth on the other hand is unqualifiable. Often, at her noblest and best, Truth is harsh, cruel, ugly. The Power to Will a thing into being is an Absolute Power. Only one Being can possess it. It cannot be shared. Not with Satan nor us. There is no Will save God´s. We invent "Satan" to spare God the humiliation of our wrath. So this is the test of our Love of God, to bow humbly (if not mutely) before the things we do not understand, the things that abhor and offend us, and confess, "This too, is God." There are religious believers who cannot accept the Truth before their eyes, because to do so would suggest the possibility that there is no god. And, there are scientists who cannot accept the Truth before their eyes because to do so suggests the possibility of a Divine Sovereign, and all candidates for that position are anathema to them. This book offers a radical solution to both camps: to lay their separate disciplines humbly, before the All Sovereign Feet of the Goddess of Truth. There is good reason to lose faith, when betrayed by it. But an abandonment to Truth, at all costs, can make it possible to re-examine, and reaffirm that same faith in a whole new light. Though written from a Christian perspective, Truth is Sovereign over every faith.

About the Author

Born to missionary parents, the youngest of three sons, I grew up in Egypt, until Rommel got within cannon distance of Cairo, and fired one round to announce his coming. My first plane ride was in a C-47. Liftoff at 4 am from a blacked-out Cairo airport, we rose into the dawn on 4 April, '42, en route to Khartoum. From there next day we flew to El Ginehna, an oasis on the Sudan/Chad border, virtually in the centre of the Sahara, and a major air base for the allies. After the best night's sleep of my life, ever, I awoke next morning-- a teen-ager. Junior High thru High School was gathered from Monmouth IL to Philadelphia PA, by way of Mulberry IN. Graduated from Muskingum College in Ohio, with a double major in English Lit. and Theatre Arts, (made possible by summer sessions at Temple in Phila), I entered and (finally) graduated from Pgh-Xenia Theological Seminary. Married in 1955, Betty and I were blessed with 4 sons, who have since further blessed us with 15 grandchildren, of assorted sex and size. In 1968, to feed our four, I began a double career, entering the computer field as a programmer. Twenty years later I could not find a job in either profession, and my wife and I divorced. For the next ten years my unstructured life left me groping for answers, until I found an RV camp in Mexico called "El Paraiso". On the night of 3 June, '97, I had an epiphany so stunning, it made me grateful for every wrong turn in my life, which led me to it.