Dan suffers, by consent, from a distorted definition of manliness as well as a failed definition of ‘human.’ His only source is his allowed rule of an ego-centered carnal appetite, which daily 24/7, proves that glands have no brains. Even then, brains can think, reason, and choose, no better than their Criteria. Add: Human man-made criteria goes no higher than human eye-brows – if that. What is needed is to recognize superior, Transcendent Criteria, – that rises higher than man himself. It is God-made and is only to be found in The Holy Bible. The Creator, who made us in His own image, knows us better than we know ourselves. Consider: The missing element in every human ‘solution’ isan accurate definition of the creature. Human knowledge is a fraction of the whole universe.The balance is a vast void of human ignorance. Humanreason cannot fully function in such a void; thus, theintellect can rise no higher than the criteria by which itperceives and measures values. Human is earth’s Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is bynature and nature’s God a creature of Choice – and ofCriteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitivecharacteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the naturalfoundation of his environments, institutions, and re- spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien- ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of theuniverse. Q: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You take care of him?” Hebrews 2:6 A: “I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have laid before me.” Psalm 119:30 “Let Your hand become my help, for I have chosen Your precepts.”Psalm 119:173 Dan Banaduce: Get smart…for a change. You don’t need a Mommy. “Got Criteria?” See Psalm 119:1-176 semper fidelis Jim Baxter Sgt. USMC wwii & Korean War

Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly developed, and sensitive perception of variety. Thus aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enacting internal mental and external physical selectivity.Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence. Human is earth’s Choicemaker. His title describes his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall that his other features are but vehicles of experience intent on the development of perceptive awareness and the following acts of decision and choice. Note that the products of man cannot define him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-making process and include the cognition of self, the utility of experience, the development of value-measuring systems and language, and the acculturation of civilization. The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the creative process, is a choice-making process. His articles, constructs, and commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol- atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth’s own highest expression of the creative process. Human is earth’s Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the forces of cause and effect to an elected level of quality and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and bestows earth’s title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and plural brow. It remained, therefore, to the initiative of a personal and living Creator to traverse the human horizon and fill the vast void of human ignorance with an intelligent and definitive faith. Man is thus afforded the prime tool of the intellect – a Transcendent Standard by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate results, and make enlightened and visionary choices.Only the unique and superior God-man Person can deservedly displace the ego-person from his predicament and free the individual to measure values and choose in a more excellent way. That sublime Person was indicated in the words of the prophet Amos,”…said the Lord, Behold,I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel.” Y’shua Mashiyach Jesus said, “If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto myself.” As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality and submit to the delusions of humanism,determinism, and collectivism, just so long will they be subject and reacting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect justice, find themselves weighed in the balances of their own choosing. “We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching that we can choose either to accept or reject the God who gave it to us, and it would seem to follow that the Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be equally free in our relationships with other men. Spiritual liberty logically demands conditions of outer and social freedom for its completion.” Edmund A. Opitz “Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibil- ity of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Thomas Jefferson THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER Q: “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?” Psalm 8:4 A: “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants maylive.” Deuteronomy 30:19 kjv semper fidelis jfb

God will have to “break” Bonaduce in order for him to come to Christ. But Scripture says that even if you grind a fool into powder his foolishness will not depart from him!