October 2004

Humankind is in crisis!

We need a wilderness survival mentality on this planet where life-threatening enemies lurk around every corner. A few leading
causes for human death include heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia/influenza, diabetes,
chronic liver disease, accidents, suicide and...
HIV/AIDS!

Protection from these dreaded predators, remedies after being attacked,
will not be possible in the near future unless these dangerous challenges are approached from a realistic perspective. Is there anything people can do to avoid having a heart attack, come up with a cure for cancer, keep ourselves safe on highways or escape from premature death? Even though we are all susceptible to countless ways to die, it might be wise for researchers to focus attention on one disease in particular if we are to buy needed time to avoid an international catastrophe.

If priorities are not categorized sensibly, millions of children will be consumed by poverty in the near future, societies in many nations will disintegrate and life on Earth will be meaningless unless the looming health crisis is averted. The chief of the United Nations AIDS agency believes that the HIV virus has become a real threat to world peace. During a speech in Oslo, Norway, UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot admitted...

"It's as big a threat as terrorism."

AIDS is the number one reason for death in Africa, the hot spot of at least
70 percent of the world's 40 million HIV-infected people, but the fastest growing epidemic is in Eastern Europe. Neither the United Nations or
the European Union are addressing the problem adequately in 2004.

Closer home in Nashville, Tennessee, an AIDS Research Center is being jointly operated by Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College. Being one out of 20 CFARS nationwide, the four divisions under combined direction will be focusing on clinical investigation to bring laboratory results to patients; getting immunology lab facilities for researchers; developing viral and genetics lab services for researchers; and channeling resources into other promising projects. Without a major breakthrough, their combined good-intentioned efforts will be in vain.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic seems to have reached a plateau in most areas
of the United States but not in the Southeast, and researchers are unable
to explain why. Current theories include a lack of access to medical care, genetic problems, behavioral problems, infrastructure problems -- and it
could be all of the above.

These and other problems that cause sorrow
and death for humankind might have a source
in the "spiritual" rather than the "physical"
realm in spite of what most scholars believe.
Do we need to transform existing systems
that are making fruitless research possible?
Who was the first person to experience HIV?
Who was the second person?
Was there a connection between the two?
If so, how was the disease transmitted?

There are too many unanswered questions about this horrible disease! Common sense tells us that just as some seeds can be scattered by water, wind, birds or other creatures, some diseases can be scattered from person-to-person in a variety of ways. Just as some seeds require water and sunshine to grow, some diseases require nourishment to be sustained. Just
as some seeds can be destroyed before maturity, some diseases can be eradicated if researchers are able to understand the formation and function sufficiently to perform necessary corrections.

In the case of HIV/AIDS, rather than blaming the origin of this devastating virus on a "monkey" -- or some other innocent scapegoat -- why not keep an open mind until all facts have been gathered? There is more fiction than truth swirling around about the "what, where, when and how" of this issue.

Until this problem is solved, we should be doing everything in our power to eliminate further transmissions between susceptible people. Finding a "cure" will not happen unless we first understand the origin.

In her letter to the London Daily Telegraph, a former student nurse at the Fever Hospital in Johannesburg, Africa, responded to suggestions that AIDS began as a result of people eating chimpanzees. She could remember many patients from all over Africa who were unable to explain how they might have contracted their illnesses. She even remembers the first time she saw
a patient come in with "odd sores." Many tests were done -- saliva, tears, blood, etc. -- but the problem could not be identified before the man died. His tragedy was followed by many more similar cases -- all from Central Africa -- and so medical practitioners started asking questions about
"lifestyles" in an effort to track the source of the problem --
including getting information on the diets of patients.

Interestingly, they learned about "endearing grey monkeys with green sheen on their coats" who were adopted as pets and even venerated by people who believed that the green sheen had mystic powers. While other chimps and monkeys were hunted and eaten, it seems that men were copulating with these green sheen pets, apparently contracting some sort of virus as a result. This is the erroneous reason why HIV/AIDS was first known as the "green monkey disease" where the nurse was working at the time. Humans were probably having sexual relations with these animals long before the virus was detected in the 1950's in Central Africa.

Questions: (1) What event brought the virus into existence?
(2) Was the virus introduced into those communities from the outside world? (3) Was it a perverted sex act that caused this curse to materialize?
(4) Do all little grey monkeys of that particular breed carry the virus?
(5) What is the distribution of HIV-like viruses in wild primate populations? (6) Do monkeys other than vervets also have HIV-like viruses in the wild? (7) What is the genetic interrelation of primate HIV-like viruses?
(8) How easily can different HIV-like viruses be transferred between species by various routes?

In the book of 1 Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 18, we read: "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body."

Maybe homosexual men should be blamed instead of monkeys for the formation of HIV/AIDS? Obviously, acts of sinful "fornication" might
have been the source for what has become known as a deadly virus.

When a person "sinneth against his own body," we need to wonder what actually happens because of "fornication." Having a sexual relationship with a monkey certainly qualifies as fornication from the biblical perspective -- and when a virus comes into existence and is then transmitted most often between men who have sex with monkeys or with other men, we can certainly assume that the curse of "death" is strong evidence for...

"sin against the body."

Monkeys were probably the faultless victims of evil being perpetrated upon them by sexual degenerates!

Once evil in the form of a virus -- or something else -- has been turned loose within our fleshly environments, another verse from the Bible might explain what to expect. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or
any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
Exodus 20:4-6

Genetically, is it possible that heredity
("iniquity of the fathers") will pass down
through three or four generations?

If this interpretation is correct, how many biological weaknesses or diseases should be blamed on our ancestors? Regardless of the source of our illnesses, whether it be sinful fathers or other reasons, the rest of the above scripture suggests that God will be merciful if we love Him and obey Him.

So, if we have enough faith to believe it,
the best treatment to assure wilderness survival
should began with stopping rebellion against God!

The first step to restoration of health might begin with repentence -- and a serious change of lifestyle designed to conform to natural universal laws!