Five monkeys were placed in a cage as part of an experiment. In the middle of the cage was a ladder with bananas on the top rung. Every time a monkey tried to climb the ladder to get to the bananas the experimenter sprayed all of the monkeys with icy water. Eventually, each time a monkey started to climb the ladder, the other ones pulled him off and beat him up so they could avoid the icy spray. Soon, no monkey dared go up the ladder.
The experimenter then substituted one of the monkeys in the cage with a new monkey. The first thing the new monkey did was try to climb the ladder to reach the bananas. After several beatings, the new monkey learned the social norm. He never knew why the other monkeys wouldn’t let him go for the bananas because he had never been sprayed with ice water, but he quickly learned that this behavior would not be tolerated by the other monkeys.
One by one, each of the monkeys in the cage was substituted for a new monkey until none of the original group remained. Every time a new monkey went up the ladder, the rest of the group pulled him off, even those who had never been sprayed with the icy water.
By the end of the experiment, the five monkeys in the cage had learned to follow the rule (don’t go for the bananas), without any of them knowing the reason why. If we could have asked the monkeys for their rationale behind not letting their cage mates climb the ladder, their answer would probably be: “I don’t know, that’s just how it’s always been done.”
Think twice before following a tradition, religion or negative ethnic profiling. It would make more sense if you get your own understanding to it!
Have an isolated and informed perspective on all decisions that govern and determine the way you live your life.
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I became very ill while being a typical wife, mom, and congregant and the church’s teachings about health and healing FAILED and they are pretty much all teaching the same nonsense. After 11 doctors in 18 months I was worse, much worse, so I canceled all three remaining medical tests and all the follow-up appointments and I slid down the wall of my kitchen and cried. It was a cry of surrender.
Human ideas had failed so I began chasing God down for answers. It took six months of prayer but HE SHOWED UP and took me on a journey teaching me the many things WE DO to undermine our own health. I took my “reasonable” insights back to the church folks thinking they’d be happy to know that God didn’t want Coke machines at the church, the junk food needed to not be offered there, and the prayers needed to be geared more towards the Holy Spirit guiding the person to the healing path that was right for them and that they should include methods of natural wellness instead of being all about the pharmaceuticals. THEY ALMOST DESTROYED ME, and they did damage my parental relationship and my marriage. It’s not easy being the one called in to a group with new insights. I finally left organized religion and pretty much stay to myself here in the Ozarks now, other than my online efforts.
This story about the monkeys perfectly describes what has become CHURCH and I now see it as a dangerous entity that keeps truth from it’s midst even if that means they are choosing to retain error. THIS IS NOT WHAT CHURCH IS SUPPOSED TO BE AND NOT WHAT JESUS ORDAINED!
I continued on with God, being led by the Holy Spirit, and along the way HE INSISTED that I write a book. I was able to reverse several of the diseases those doctors the church folks worship said were “incurable” including my Hashimoto’s Autoimmune Disease. I was even able to ditch the 90 mg’s of Rx thyroid medication they said I’d be on for life. I reversed the Advanced Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease they said would have my neck fused by 1993. Fibromyalgia flares are a thing of the past and so is the 11 years of crippling sciatica after a broken back in 1994. It took 29 years to bring it to it’s current status…One reader wrote…
Yes, the knowledge and spiritual connection I got on my journey has saved several lives now, prevented many from needing a trip to the ER, produced a few documented MIRACLES… you can see some of them here: https://gettingwellgodsway.com/category/client-healing-testimonials/
This “power” is because I GOT IN ALIGNMENT WITH GOD AND HIS WAYS, and rejected man’s failed ideas. THIS is what an empowered CHRISTian looks like, not the well-intended circus going on at these meetings being rendered a “church” by mere designation but failing in their role to the culture AND misrepresenting the entire biblical message, not just about Jesus.
One day I was studying the Bible and using Zondervan’s Dictionary of Bible Themes and ran across the heading “False Religion” so I decided to look into it. Sure enough, if you go read the article below you’ll see that THE MODERN VERSION OF ChRxtianity NOW MEETS THE SCRIPTURAL CRITERIA FOR A FALSE RELIGION. You should also know that if you attend, suppport, encourage this type of falsehood, you will be judged by God for being a “partner in their evil work” so you better be careful what you’re a part of…VERY CAREFUL!
- 2 John 10-11 New Living Translation 10 If anyone comes to your meeting and does not teach the truth about Christ, don’t invite that person into your home or give any kind of encouragement. 11 Anyone who encourages such people becomes a partner in their evil work.
Here’s a post below about the book and the experiences readers have had with it:
Getting Well God’s Way was the first version of the book and now it’s taking a new direction. You can read about this powerful book that’s confronting the culture and changing lives at this link below:
You should be supporting TRUTH TELLERS, not pastors who are doing nothing but cleaning pacifiers or serving milk when they should’ve had you on MEAT by now! Lack of maturity. Lack of progress. Promoting wrong ideas that have taken the entire culture into a medical mafia state…
Will the TRUE CHURCH PLEASE RISE!
Blessings on your journey and I hope you’ll take some time to look around on this site and see what else you might find to stimulate spiritual growth,
Kathy
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