Yet, those of us who know the story, also know it was a game taken too far. There are limits ...and sometimes crossing them has painful consequences.

The boy was crying for help ...but wolves also often travel in packs, so it all depends what the boy's family and friends were packing.

I would think that evolutionists would not find the concept of 'thinning out the herd' as a foreign idea. And with that idea of 'survival of the fittest', it would not seem to matter whether the 'thinning' would come to the wolf pack, or the boy who may not be 'heard'.

Would that accepted concept also apply to the mentally ill, or physically handicapped ...as not as 'fit' to survive?  God forbid!!

But, that's me talking.  I care about the weak ...and they often have more to offer than those who wield a show of force and power. The majority of evolutionists probably don't believe in God ...so there is very little that is forbidden, having no standard to forbid anything. 

Survival is the only consideration, right?

And with the likes of real-life characters as Attila the Hun, Caligula, King Herod, Nero ...or this past century's Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ...and even today's Kim Jong-un, with his psychotic rationale behind the brutal public executions ...to them it was not just survival.

For a Haitian child eating a dirt cookie ...they fear the pain won't go away, or that they may not live another day.  Other nations may also care less if you eat dirt, but may prefer you eat bullets.  For them it is beyond pre-eminence or dominance, to violence beyond any natural fear.


The natural fear of wolves works in a different sort of way.  I've actually heard that the wolves can tell if a cow or some other animal within a herd is sick ...and will go after that animal. Violent rulers often go after the strong ...the people who can help society benefit, including caring for the sick.  They prefer to have many weak-minded men than a few good men.  And by weak-minded, I mean, not independent enough to stand for what is right ....or more accurately, weak in principle.

If you believe in God, and Creation ...not evolution, then you tend to believe in the standards clearly written in the Bible.

But, you also need to understand the basic reasons behind why the Old Testament and the New Testament have different ways at times.  

It would take me a long time to list all of the differences ...even longer to understand them myself, and longer still to explain it to you.  

But, you probably have already come across certain ones that have concerned you. 

You can start there.

And you can pray that the Holy Spirit explain it to you.

Two things that come to mind immediately, are things that may buffer our understanding of what the Holy Spirit would be telling us.

• Our own pride ...mixing in our feelings as we look for answers to suffice what we'd like life to be.
• Insincerity ...not wanting to really find an answer to something we perhaps feel we aren't going to agree with.   

Yes, it is very troublesome to confuse our ideas with God's way for His Word to be revealed to us.

And the best way I know how to get it straight, is to want to trust in the Bible and look to understand it.

Being around others and talking about the Bible helps too ...if the others aren't skeptical and more convincing than you.

I don't know what others care about, are concerned about, or disillusioned about ...unless we talk. I don't have all the answers, but I like to help.  And I like it when other help me understand.  I feel the Holy Spirit helps me discern when I'm being helped and when there is just shared confusion. 

John 10:10-30 ...

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 

I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. 

There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? 

Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? 

And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 

I and my Father are one."

If we just reverse our thinking, we won't fear the wolf ...and things will f-l-o-w much better.

We are not alone.