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The
most significant of the presently ignored passages in the Christian Bible deal with who and what we are and with how
the universe functions.
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The Fundamentalist Christians have
turned Jesus into a Biblically prohibited, golden idol and placed Him on a peddle
far above themselves. Rather than acknowledging the teachings of
Jesus as the pathway to "heaven," they have declared that Jesus,
himself is that pathway. Rather than acknowledging that "heaven,"
could be ( and very likely is) a state of being, they have emphatically declared that
heaven is a physical place somewhere above the clouds. These beliefs are a holdover from the days
when people believed that the Earth was flat like a three layered cake with heaven above the clouds
and hell beneath the Earth's surface. They staunchly refuse to even
consider any possibility about who and what humans are that is not part of
ancient Christian theology. In
direct contradiction to numerous passages in the Christian Bible°
and in direct defiance of present day scientific finding, they have also
declared that humans are their physical bodies.° The overwhelming evidence
points strongly to these conclusions:
"Heaven" is a state of being and not a physical place.
Humans are eternal
non-physical beings and, as such, were not created at conception or at any other
time in the physical, human life cycle.
Each being experiences
multiple Earth lives in human bodies.
Each human being is an
integral part of Creation and the Creator called
"God."
God is NOT an
out-there-somewhere being separate from humans and separate from nature. The beliefs that humans
are separate from God and from nature are false beliefs. The evidence
also points to the
conclusion that humans are an integral part of both God and nature.
The goal of the human experience appears to be to bring God to Earth and
to experience our divine nature while living in a physical body.
Our Earthly physical bodies are an integral part of nature and, as such, the
body's biological nature, including its sexual nature, must be acknowledged.
Humans are co-creators
with God.
Free will is really
free. Humans are NOT required to be or do anything for
God.
Humans are NOT here on Earth
to be tested to see which ones are good enough to get into heaven.
Earth-life is NOT a temporary way station on the way to heaven.
Humans are NOT inherently
evil, but rather are inherently good.
Prayer is NOT begging an
out-there anthropomorphic God (a super human sitting on a cloud in the
sky) for favors, but rather is a statement of love, respect,
humility, and gratitude for Source.`
The energy source that humans call
"God" does not appear to either need or desire being worshiped.
Humans are spirits in bodies and not bodies that each have a spirit. In
addition to the latest scientific evidence, numerous
passages in the Christian Bible can be seen as supporting the validity of the
above statements. Readers are reminded that the conclusion drawn
regarding the nature, the significance and the meanings of this, or any
other sacred text, are a function of the
reader's interpretation. Like everything else in life, the Christian
Bible is, for each of us, what we declare it to be. The Fundamentalist Christians leaders have declared humans to be
worthless, groveling, incompetent morons who must prostrate themselves in the mud
where they belong, then pray to Jesus and beg God for
favors.
The passages listed below, tell us a very different story.
John
14:12
John
14:12
...
"Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."
 This Quote from Jesus is commonly paraphrased
as: "Anything I can do, you can do and more."
Psalms
82:6 "I
have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High."
This
same message can also be
found in John 14:2, --
Isaiah 41:23 -- and John
10:30-35 + 10:38.
Isaiah 41:23 "Shew [show] the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that
ye
[are] gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and
behold [it] together."
John 10:30-35 + 10:38 John10:30-35
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30) "
I and my father are one accord. 31) Then the Jews again took up
stones to stone him. 32) Jesus said, I have shown you many good works from
my Father; for which one of them do you stone me? 33) The Jews said
to him, It is not because of the good works we stone you but because you
blaspheme; for while you are only a man, you make yourself God. 34)
Jesus said to them, Is it not so written in your law you are gods?
35) If he called them gods because the word of God was with them (and the
scripture cannot be broken) 38) ...the Father [is] in me, and
I in him.
Matthew
25:40
"Verily
I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done [it] unto me"
This
passage reaffirms the intimate connection between man and God.
John 10:17
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Here's still another Biblical indication that life is not the
physical body, itself. Who or what is it that is laying down
"my life?"
Matthew 17:20 “... If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove;
and nothing shall be impossible unto you."
John 1:1 “In
the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was
God."
Here's
the Biblical version of The
Universal Law of Thought°
Romans
14:14
“I
know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of
itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is]
unclean.”
This
passage reinforces the scriptural message of John 1:1 regarding the
Universal Law of Though -- and that the world is what we perceive it to be.
Romans
14:20
“.
. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with
offence”
This
passage also reinforces the scriptural message of John 1:1 regarding the
Universal Law of Though and one's perception of physical
reality..
Proverbs
23:7 "For as he thinketh in his heart, so
[is] he. . ." This
passage, too, reinforces the scriptural message of John 1:1. Proverbs 23 (the entire chapter) is recommended reading because it offers a warning
about who's company you should keep. Humans tend to think and act
like those with whom they associate.
(Reference: Birds
of a Feather... °)
2John
1:2
For
the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
And
here, too, the
Bible also tells us where to find the truth. And where does one find the
truth? See the next Biblical quote.
Romans
14:5
"
. . . Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."
Does
this sound like God is telling us to use logic, reasoning, factual evidence,
and convincing arguments, or is God telling us to use threats,
intimidation,
arson, violence,
murder
and government laws and force our ways onto others?
John
8:32
“Know
the truth and the truth will set you free.”
To
assist you in having a clearer understanding of what this passage means, you are
invited to read a description of the
opposite of the truth.°
Also note
a very similar message in 2John 1:2 and in
2John 1:4.
Matthew
7:15-16
"Beware
of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
Here
are a few more details about how to Recognize
a False Profit.°
Ecclesiastes 3:19
.Ecclesiastes 3:19.
...
"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one
dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity."
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Bible passage exposes still another fundamental Christian lie
of omission.°
Here, the Bible, itself, exposes, as a fraud, the fairytale about man
being separate form nature. The evidence indicates that humans
have both and animal nature and a human nature -- that our human nature
give us an advantage over other biological life forms, but it in no way lessons
our animal nature. Readers are directed to the quote from Chief Seattle.°
Luke
17:21 “Behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
What is the kingdom of God? Those who
dominate right-wing Christianity
have been telling the public that God's kingdom is in heaven and that heaven is
a physical place that used to be above the clouds. 1** It's that place where all the born again Christians (and only
born again Christians) will go to be with
Jesus after "The Rapture." °
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1** Unfortunately for them, our fairytale
peddling friends seem to have lost heaven. As you know,
the Earth used to be flat like a three-layered cake with heaven a place above the clouds and hell a
burning inferno beneath the ground. Heaven used to be located
above the clouds, but in recent years ( since the advent of rocket science) God
has apparently moved heaven, and now none of them seem to know exactly where it
is. Perhaps if they found God's
Cosmic Trash Bin for Human Beings,°
heaven might be in the
same vicinity.
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So,
where is heaven? Is it an out-there-somewhere place as the Fundamentalist
Christian leaders are telling their sheep, or is it within each and everyone of
us as indicated in the Christian Bible?
How
does one deal with this type of inconsistency? 1) be
mindless and just continue riding along on the fairytale wagon. 2)
Consider the Bible to be wrong? 3) Ignore the problem and focus on something that really matters like who won the
yesterday's ballgame. or 4) Accept what the evidence
indicates -- that those leading right-wing Christianity have been and
still are intentionally deceiving and misleading their followers.
Ecclesiastes
11:5, RSV
Ecclesiastes
11:5, RSV
...
"As
you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of the woman with
child, so you do not
know the work of God who makes everything.”
1
Corinthians 2:14
But
the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know [them],
because they are spiritually discerned.
Ecclesiastes
3:11
Ecclesiastes 3:11
...
"He
hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in
their heart, so that no
man can find out the work that God maketh
from the beginning to the end."
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The Bible again
states that humans do not know how God works.
Matthew
6:6
"...
when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy
Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
This
passage tell us that we can connect directly to God. It instructs people
to pray in private.
Ecclesiastes
11:5, RSV
"As
you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of the woman with
child, so you do not know the work of God who makes
everything.”
Also note the
same message in 1 Corinthians 2:14
and in Ecclesiastes 3:11 (The
scientific evidence and philosophers
throughout history tell
us that God is the ultimate
mystery of human life.
According to Fundamental Christianity, Jesus is in
Heaven with God. According to Luke
17:21 of the Christian Bible,
"the kingdom of God is within you." According to 2 John 1:2 and John 8:32 of the Christian Bible,
the truth is also within you. According to John 13:12 and similar passages, Anything
Jesus did, you can do also. According to
several Biblical passages, such as John 10:30-38, you,
like Jesus, are a god in physical form. According to
Matthew 6:6, one connects to God by
praying in private. According to Romans 14:4
and Romans 14:20, both Beauty and ugliness are
a matter of personal belief and perception. One could easily interpret the Christian Bible to mean that in
order to find Jesus and/or the truth and/or beauty, and/or heaven and/or God, we have to look
inside of our selves. No one versed in human anatomy has ever found
either a biological Jesus, a truth organ, a God box, or a place called heaven in
any human body. Either the Bible is wrong or the above
passages indicate that humans are spiritual beings and not physical
bodies. This, too, leads us back to the same fundamental
conclusion: Life
is not what we've been led
to believe it is by those who claim to know!°
Perhaps it's time for a fresh look into the Christian
Bible. Perhaps all those things we are so absolutely certain about,
have a new face -- a face we haven't yet seen. Perhaps, this time, we
should bring our minds into the process. Perhaps it's time for a
reality check. Symbolically speaking, present day Christianity can be likened to
a pot of stew. When one adds spices to the pot, the spices add a new
flavor to the existing stew. The new spices are not a condemnation
of the original stew. They do not cause the original stew go
away, and the new spices do not declare the stew without the spices to be
wrong. The resultant combination of stew and new spices create a
distinct flavor that was absent from the stew prior to adding the
spices. And depending upon which spice one adds, the resulting
flavors can be quite different.
respect
and gratitude for source ...
You
might also note that according to the Christian Bible, Jesus never asked God for
anything. In the space of love, respect and gratitude, He merely
stated His intention and said thank you. His
actions, along with the Biblical scriptures such as those quoted above, support
the validity that humans are far more than worthless hunks of clay that must beg
an angry, fickle, violent, vindictive God for favors. These
scripture also indicate that the Christian Bible is in harmony with the Three
Universal Laws: Law
of Thought°
Law
of Allowing°
Law
of Intentional Creation°
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