Domenic Marbaniang

Published in REVIVE, Nov 2018 “You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matt.6:24) Life is a  bundle of choices. We are confronted daily with choices between good and evil, truth and falsehood, faith and unbelief, the broad way and the narrow way. The choices we make today determine the kind of future we will experience. Among life’s many choices of the day, the one that every believer faces on a more deceptive scale is the choice between serving God or serving mammon. Sadly, many believers do not realize that while they think they are serving God, most of their services are actually being consumed by God’s arch-enemy, mammon. The word “mammon” refers to the idolization of money and wealth to supplant the place of God. While it may be true that “money answers everything” (Eccl.10:19), in the sense that most of our basic requirements can be bought with money, it is false to assume that money is everything. In fact, the Bible tells us that...

We may define volitional memory as the memory of a will or decisive encoding to do an action. Let's suppose: 1. At time x, Oscar has the goal A and decides to reach it by act B 2. At time y, Oscar decides to change the plan and reach A by act C OR, At time y, Oscar decides to change the plan and reach D by act C 3. However, at time z, Oscar only remembers #1 and goes about reaching goal A by act B. Only later does he realize that there was a memory error. This may happen when at time z, Oscar may have another engagement that perhaps eats up the memory space of the most recent time y, and the brain is forced to retrieve elements of time x in order to facilitate action. This is just an hypothesis, though this form of memory loss is a reality. Similarly, 1. At time x, Oscar knows a set of decision things A. 2. At time y, Oscar knows a set of decision things B in addition to set A. 3. At ti me z, Oscar only remembers A. Any ideas?