The War Within

If you’re questioning the meaning of your life, find out why God is the one and only answer. Dr. Cocchini is available for interviews.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Dr. Michael Cocchini, MD MBA is partnering with Georgetown University and New Degree Press on the completion of his first book, The War Within.

Michael traveled the world and studied various religions and philosophies extensively trying to “find himself” and uncover the meaning in his life. His discovery was that serving God is all the meaning anyone could ever need and that the Bible has all of the answers. However, as a scientist and medical practitioner, how could he reconcile science and logic with the idea of a Creator God? It turns out, it’s a lot easier than you think.

In his debut book, Michael provides some of the most thorough and convincing anti-atheist arguments you can find. Through the lens of his unusual life experiences, he came to understand that Salvation is the ultimate goal in life and that leading others to find that Salvation is crucial. He was dismayed to find that, as a physician, he was expected to watch patients die and move on. Instead, he chose to follow another path in life - the path the Lord has for him. This is the path the Lord has for you, also, because serving the Lord will give your life the meaning you lack and it has the added benefit of everlasting salvation.

On your deathbed, you will ask yourself, “Was my life good enough?” The answer will be no. You can not be good enough to earn salvation. Fortunately, you don’t have to earn your own salvation. God is there, just waiting to give it to you.

Excerpt:
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. Everything you think of as your identity and your life - your reason, logic, personality, will, emotion, mind, forethought, and consciousness - is your soul. Your soul is you.
You have a body to interface with the physical world and you have a spirit to interface with the spiritual world. There is a war for your soul between your flesh and your spirit and this life is the battlefield. This is The War Within. The one that wins is the one you feed.
I only wish I knew this sooner.
Watching a patient die never got easy for me. As a young doctor and a Christian, I began to ask myself if I really believed what the Bible taught. Where was the line between being a believer and a scientist? Did I just accept these things because my parents told me they were true? Was I in a cult? A brainwashed rat in a maze? Or did I really believe that these people before me, a Hindu, a Muslim, an atheist and a prostitute were really going to hell as I watched their panicked eyes dilate into desolation?
We were so focused on keeping the physical body alive, that we never stopped to ask what happened to their eternal souls after they were gone.
- Is there really a God?
- If so, which one?
- And what exactly does He want from me?
Everywhere I looked for answers I came up short. I traveled the world, explored cultures, talked to everyone and considered every religion and worldview. I worked every job opportunity that came my way, got every degree and certificate imaginable, and chased down every adventure I could squeeze in. But meaning and purpose never came.
At best, science could only answer how we got here, not why we were put here. Most Christians were confusing emotional responses with spiritual experiences. And while philosophers were genuinely asking “why?” they had designated the mind, not the spirit, as the predominant organ of understanding.
Over the next 7 years, across 33 countries on 5 continents, I read every science, philosophy, and holy book I could get my hands on. Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Jordan Peterson, the Quran, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Book of Mormon, and the lost gnostic gospels of Mary, Thomas, Judas and Peter were just a few of the materials I looked to in order to find meaning.
I studied the histories and gave up everything I thought I knew. I embraced cognitive dissonance, experienced New Age consciousness through psychedelics, aimlessly tried to find validation in sex and drugs and suffered through what seemed like endless existential crises.
I began to read the Bible in desperation, feeling that I was losing control of my life. I began to see the power in The Good Book. Ekhart Tolle said that New Age consciousness is a 3rd party perspective of the egoic self. It's not the conceptualization of the matrix, from inside of the matrix. It's the experience of the exodus from the matrix itself. Well, the Bible defeated that entire religion in less than a single verse.
"Only the spirit knows one's own mind." (1 Corinthians 2:11). Tolle just changed "spirit" to "consciousness" and "mind" to "egoic self." He was 2000 years too late. Everyone was. It was there in the Bible the whole time. I just didn't understand it.
As my journey came to an end, something amazing began to happen. I surrendered. It sounds admirable now, but looking back at that time I was just exhausted. I was desperate and defeated, nearly on the verge of suicide. I thought I had given up, but what really happened was that I had finally humbled myself before God. I was tired of fighting Him. He had clearly already won. My hip was broken and it was time to hobble home and start living the life.
I accepted that my brain was in no way adequate to understand the mind of God and that it was probably just powerful enough to marvel at the wonder of His majesty. The mind was more an organ of knowledge and worship than it ever was an organ of wisdom and understanding (that is the spirit). My education and intelligence was indeed a gift, but it was not going to save me. God had just given me a better vantage point of His painting, an angle from which to admire it a little more than most.
I began to study in the spirit, not just with my mind. I realized that my previous worldview had been formed in a language that didn't have words for the concepts needed to join the real conversation of the meaning of life. I felt like I was finally studying for real, for the first time in my life. The Bible was finally beginning to make a lot of sense and the more I learned, the less I knew.
As confidence in my own intellectual knowledge began to decay, my understanding of spiritual wisdom started to blossom. I stopped trying to beat the Bible to death with my brain and as if it was a living and conscious Word, it finally started unlocking its meaning to me. It was my own pride that had been my downfall. Humility had been the decryption key all along. The simplicity of the Gospel is an affront to the arrogance of man.
Follow some of Michael’s adventures around the globe and share with him the emotional turmoil he experiences during some of those adventures. Empathize with him as he tries to assist a fellow train passenger dying on the floor of the station, unable to do anything to help. Be resolute with him as he solidly eviscerates arguments denying God as our Creator. Laugh with (or at) him as irreverently and hilariously puts his full, flawed human self on display. Most importantly, rejoice with him at the discovery that the Almighty is Supreme.

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www.TheWarWithin.me
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