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| Katrina Chalmers (seated), who self-published a new book under the name K.D. Poston, signs copies during a book signing at Faith Temple Ministries Church of God in Christ. Her sister, Linda Seymour, provided assistance. (Photo by Wiley Henry) |
What
Katrina Chalmers was able to glean from her extensive research into God the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit should elicit a welcoming response from the
inquisitive soul yearning for knowledge and truth.
Chalmers
does not claim to be a preacher. An exegetist? Perhaps. Most assuredly she’s a
student of the gospel who understands, for example, 2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV): “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Her
research into the origins of God, His wonders untold in the earth and in the
heavens, angels, Lucifer, and Christendom were derived from various sources
including [but not limited to] the Bible.
The
noteworthy material that Chalmers was able to unearth since 2013, when she
first started researching, should not muddle the layman’s thoughts about God,
nor be misconstrued as undecipherable highbrow mumbo jumbo.
Instead,
it was Chalmers’ intent all alone to take her painstaking research and publish the
material in its simplest form in a book aptly entitled “Could It Be…? The
Answers to Questions of all Ages” Volume 1. In its complete form, the book is a
must-read, scholarly compilation that evokes thought and piques one’s curiosity.
“My
goal [in writing the book] was to simplify it so the whole world could
understand,” said Chalmers, who self-published the book this year under the
name K. D. Poston to attract a wider audience in addition to the male variety
that may frown upon a female author with command of the English language and
her research material.
“This
was an assignment from God,” said Chalmers, which was fitting that Faith Temple
Ministries Church of God in Christ, a family church she once attended in the
Whitehaven community, would host a book signing on Sept. 10.
“I
grew up in the church,” she said. “I was indoctrinated in Christianity…and
truly see it as a blessing. Having the knowledge of God and the experience
helped me to avoid the many pitfalls.”
The
pitfalls were likely avoided – most of them, she might admit – because the
matriarch of the family no doubt impressed upon Chalmers and her six siblings to
rightly divide the word of truth and not to be ashamed.
“Since I’m rooted in Christianity, I wanted to
show the book didn’t contradict the Bible,” she said. To avoid contradiction,
she fact-checked her notes and research material with the Bible and then
fact-checked everything again.
Chalmers
drew inspiration from a body of work called “The Sophia (Wisdom) of Jesus,”
which “reveals the great mystery of God and the Godhead!” she writes in the
book.
After
discovering this jewel of rare historic information, her immediate response was
“Wow!” With her Bible in hand, she said, “As Scripture was coming to me, I
would read it again and again until it all made sense.”
She
just wants it all to make sense to her readers – page after page, topic after
topic, chapter after chapter, such as “Who is God?”; “God in Three
Personalities”; “A Trinity Within 5 Trinity”; “Creation of Mankind”; and other
chapters the author deems noteworthy.
“He
revealed to me that knowledge will only come when we seek it and have the
capability to do something with it,” she writes. “Knowledge is power.”
This
book assignment is complete with Chalmers’ approval. “I considered this my
personal assignment and my individual purpose,” she said.
Now
Chalmers – or rather K. D. Poston, the name she has chosen to use henceforth in
upcoming Christian literature – is on the move. A first-time published author,
she has in the can outlines for at least five more books.
“My
next book will be volume two,” she said.
