First Commandment Revisited : The Human Imperative - Softcover

Dam-Uyen Dinh Tran

9780967425900: First Commandment Revisited : The Human Imperative

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ISBN 10: 0967425905 ISBN 13: 9780967425900

Publisher: TransInFormation, 2000

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With a mind-opening piece of art at the beginning of each chapter, readers won't be able to stop thinking the moment they decide to go for it.

"First Commandment Revisited: The Human Imperative" is the only book that dares to challenge humankinds intricate past and forces the question: Are human values derived from truth, or are they merely the results of persistent practice?

This book reveals innovative solutions to the worlds escalating evil, and underscores peoples inherent ability to resolve human conflicts. This book also demystifies God, disarms the devil, empowers humankind and removes war from the battle for peace.

Dam-Uyen Tran skillfully demonstrates that our perception of ourselves governs who we become, and our expectation of God defines who God is all within our minds. Tran suggests that what we pledge to uphold may not be for one another and what we profess may not be entirely about God.

The author walks readers passed the obstructions of the profane world to show them vividly, and tangibly, the image of God. Hell, heaven, and earth become rhythms rather than places full of fear, envy, and contempt.

Tran also shows how we can exterminate the devil and his evil underwriting, so that humankind can foster true relationships with the Almighty beyond eulogy, pretenses, and corruption.

Moreover, Tran explains how we can stop killing and maiming ourselves, and eliminate the necessity for wars, despite humans historical propensity for violence.

Trans humanity-altering work is a culmination of a life long of questioning human practices and how people adhere to claimed beliefs. More specifically, Tran explores how this integrated system of beliefs and practices govern humankinds treatment of one another, while they compete to survive.

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About the Author

Born in a war torn country that has never known freedom, poverty deprived a young boy of his rightful childhood and desolation torched away any dream of a future for him.

At 13 years old he resentfully became a boat kid, forged from circumstances of poverty that gripped his family of eight. Of course, millions of others were stricken, too, but he was fashioned by lifes harshness into a survival mode. This oldest sons main concerns were himself, his parents, and his five younger siblings two generations crying for help seemingly onto deaf ears.

This boat kid was safeguarded by Gods protective wings on his trek across the sea and his journey into adulthood. He doesnt seek greatness, but yearns for a day when generations can live prosperously together; and not merely survive.

Twenty years after bidding so long to his parents, brothers, and sisters for a remote chance abroad, he discovers yet a higher freedom. Now, he longs to share his discovery with people who have walked in similar shoes and those who have always been carried; those who are in desperation and those in abundance; those in solitude and those in love; and anyone in any walk of life.

To that end, he postponed his career, and wrote the one book that will change the world. So that when we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we not only remember a dream but celebrate a reality.

From the Back Cover

The end of the world is not here yet.

Humankind will have to live with themselves for a while longer. But how much longer, how much more pain? How many more promises will we make to one another and to ourselves? We might have to continue ignoring human conditions and mask pains with hope. It's the hope that we are closer now to the finish.

We can barely hold back the judgments anymore, not of God--but of humankind against themselves.

To prolong our co-existence, we'll form more alliances, draft more treaties, and renew more foreign policies. But how long can the human race elude destruction?

How do we prevent the final world war? Can we stop killing and injuring our own kind? How do we eliminate domestic violence?

If the Devil is the unstoppable terrorist, can we destroy him?

If love conquers all, are we really victorious?

Who has answers?

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Dedication

I dedicate this book and all desirable results it brings to my forgiving wife and patient children.

I count on "FIRST COMMANDMENT REVISITED: The Human Imperative" and other books like it to change the world we live in--especially for our children and future generations.

Preface

The goal of this book is to change the world.

The Motivation

It is quite clear today that evolutionary scholars, theologians, and common people alike have yet to offer practical answers to the apparent escalating evil around the world.

This book shows that people can adopt ways of life that will reflect true human capacities. It unveils subtle hypocrisies undermining people's established values, beliefs, and purpose, genuinely offering practical answers everyone can realistically apply. To achieve new understanding, we must be willing to read messages without imposing our successes and failures onto them. To arrive at new solutions, we must open ourselves to possibilities, to which our finite experience may not relate.

From our experience, some people equate so-called facts with truths. As vast information in the world conditions us to be selective, "Is it a fact?" has become the mechanism we use to make our selections. Casually, we dismiss everything else as fiction or opinions, and neglect to ask ourselves some important questions:

Can such facts merely weather the test of time, or can they survive the consistency test? Are such facts supported by so-called evidence, or are they self-evident? Do they obscure realities, or do they illuminate to the truth?

"Is it a fact?" satisfies our credibility requirement, but falls short of answering another important question: Is credibility a measure of agreeability, popularity, or instancy? Are we more concerned with whether it agrees with what we want to hear, inducts us into a larger crowd, or promise us some "quick fix"?

Why is credibility not a measure of adherence to the truth?

The Beginning

When our world first came into existence some untold millenniums ago, life began from the void and the void was overtaken. Because human history does not recall witnessing the incredible formation, we were not there in all probability.

Realistically, it could have been billions of ages ago; we cannot tell for sure. Eventually, a voice cried out in the vast kingdom that would become populated with humankind. There were animals and, soon, we noticed other living and non-living life forms around us. The place was no longer quiet.

It was gradually evident that the world would tend toward disorder, corruption, and inevitable destruction, if a governor were not promptly put in place. No need for an election yet though, as the Maker was still eager to tend to the details.

You know, the yolk of Life is carried and delivered by the bearer, or woman, as we have seen consistently. We may insist that God is more than both man and woman, but certainly not only man. While the use of human pronouns cannot change the nature of Almighty God, we need to be consistent so we can prevail.

In the spirit of correctness and consistency, we will no longer refer to God as Father, Him, His, or Himself. Instead, we begin a new allegiance to Parents, Them, Their, or Themselves, respectively. While this usage can be cumbersome, we must not over-simplify God for our convenience. I am not suggesting a new tradition of polytheism, but I insist we recognize that God is irrefutably multifaceted and altogether complete. As we err, we must err on the plural side.

Maintaining order or establishing the rule of law became an important universal investment. God's terms hence followed and were called commandments. All of God's creations did fear "Them," thus over untold months and years that followed, "Their" creations obediently observe the rules of law. Consequently, it became revered as keeper of harmony and guarantor of lasting order. As life became increasingly permanent, it also appeared that those terms were becoming the lasting governor for humankind.

Obedience to the governor evolved into life itself for people. Observing obedience became their occupation and, ironically, persecution. Nonetheless, there was a rhythm to life and ensuing death, where the human mechanics found a way to hold back the judgment on the human race thus far.

Time gradually proved that obedience alone raised questions and instilled doubts as to whether there was a real penalty. With so many questions and so little knowledge, where could people even begin? Questions were boiling within our individual selves as well as among each other, in our effort to survive. Subsequently, people began to wonder, "Why are we here?"

Individuals from Judeo-Christian traditions might argue that people haven't been obedient since the first humans committed the "original sin." That was when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. We still talk about education even though we might not be educated. Obedience, then, is something we must work on and talk about, even though we're not completely obedient.

Before answers could be secured, more looming questions threatened the earlier established order. "Who are you anyway?" for example, and the basic question, "Who am I?"

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