Christianity and Me, IV

After I was discharged from US Army in May of 1950, I just missed the year that President Truman added to all military personnel. In September, I began to study physics at Gettysburg College, Since Gettysburg College is a Lutheran school, I had to take a course on the life of Jesus Christ the first year. Later, I learned that Martin Luther was a teacher of ‘faith alone.’ This teaching is opposed to catholic teaching of ‘faith and good works.’ So, the Lutherans who built Gettysburg College separated themselves partly from the teaching of Martin Luther and were teaching the unity of ‘faith and reason.’ Then, in 1952, I had to shift my education to ‘night school’ so I could earn and pay for classes at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia.

In 1954, I became married to Evelyn and moved to Baltimore where I began work at Martin Marietta (Lockheed Martin today) on the Cold War. In 1955, I started to continue my night school’ at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, I would study electrical engineering. Soon, Hopkins would test an advanced mathematical method of doing electrical engineering in my class. This method uses complex numbers. By 1960, the space program was beginning. With the advanced mathematical method I learned and without my 1994 degree from Hopkins, my work responsibilities on the space program increased. One new responsibility was managing and teaching out-dated electrical engineers. So beware if you do not keep up to the state-of- art in your field of work.

My experience with this advanced mathematical method convinced me that part of man’s nature is to increase knowledge continually. So, in whatever field you choose to work, continue to perfect your mind. Later, my research will show that all human minds develop in similar ways. For instance, the minds of a philosopher and an auto mechanic develop in similar ways. For this reason, I conclude that the ‘life’ created by God is a complex functional relation. Even God functions in this life. I thus reject today’s economic systems. In my mind, the function of a librarian is as important to God as the function of a company CEO.

From 1971-1994, I worked at the US Department of Justice to solve the US crime problem. In the late 1980s I concluded that crime has a knowable cause. At that time, I concluded that all crime in coming from the human mind. This does not mean that criminal brains must be doctored by some pharmaceutical drug. I reject the biological assertion that our brains guide our lives. In the 1990, I begin my research on Jesus Christ. This research confirmed my conclusions about the cause of crime. But, this research also revealed to me for the first time that Christ is God, that Christ functions in our world as a teacher of new ideas and new goals, and that Jesus was Christ.