"When
two or more are gathered in my name, I am there
also."
Matthew
6:5-6
(Paraphrased)
When
you pray, go into your closet and pray privately, and God will reward you
openly.
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.”
John8:32
“Know the truth and the
truth will set you free.”
Genesis
11:6
"And
the Lord said, 'Behold the people are one, and
they have all one language; and this is only the
beginning of what they will do: and now nothing will
be restrained from them which they have determined
to do."
Genesis
2:7
"And
the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
Job
33:4
"The
Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me
life."
John 3:13
"And no one hath ascended into
heaven, but he that [has not first] descended out of heaven, [even] the Son of
man, who is [now] in heaven.
Ecclesiastes 11:5
"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.”
Big
D
Stoney, what do Genesis
2:7, Job
33:4, Job
33:4 and Ecclesiastes 11:5
tell you about your
relationship to your physical body?
T.L.C.
That there is a difference between what a human
being is and his/her physical body -- that I am NOT my physical
body.
(Reference: Physical
Versus Spirit)
Big
D
Now please read the Genesis
11:6 passage several times and then say it out
loud in your own words.
(i.e. We
are all one people. By working together we can accomplish absolutely
anything.) Then add the
words of Jesus from John
14:12 " Anything I
[God/Jesus] can do, you can do and more." and from Luke
17:21 “Behold,
the kingdom of God is within you."
Next, add the messages in John
10:34, 35
and Isaiah
41:23 to
the mix:
"I,
and all other human beings, are Gods in a physical form."
And then throw in Genesis
1:26-27 "God
created man in his own image." And
top it off with Ecclesiastes
3:19 "Man and Nature
are intimately interconnected." And
there you are holding that delightful and
powerful mix while
enfolded in the arms of none other than God, himself.
Matthew
18:20
"When
two or more are gathered in my name, I am there
also."
Sit quietly for a few minutes and think about your intimate relationship to
God, to Sacred Mother Earth, and to your fellow travelers on space ship
Earth. Look into a mirror
and say.
"I am a God in a physical form.
I know this is true because the Bible tells me so."
Say it again. Say it with feeling. Say it as if you
meant it.
Stay with this idea for at least three minutes. Resist the
temptation to discount who and what the Christian Bible tells you you
are. When you are finished, ask yourself: Who am
I? What Am I? If I cooperate with others, what can
we accomplish? Now, please take the Biblical scriptures and
re-state them in your own words.
T.L.C.
Restating the
Biblical scriptures in my own words, I say:
I am a
God in a physical form.
I am a
spirit being and not a physical body.
I can
personally contact The Creator of All That Is at
any time.
I can
find both God and Jesus within myself.
I can do
anything Jesus did and more.
God,
nature, and I are intimately inter-connected.
I can
recognize the liars and the thieves by what they
produce.
The truth
brings freedom. Secrecy and lies
(including lies of omission) bring slavery.
All
humans are all one people. We are all
God's Children.
We are all Gods is physical form. We are
all one.
Being separate from God is an illusion.
By
working together, God, my fellow humans, and
I can accomplish absolutely anything.
As a
God-Being in physical form, I can be, do,
have, express,
and
experience anything I choose.
I do so by consciously
and intentionally giving directions to the universal energy
that we call Creator/God. I give those
directions by my thoughts,
beliefs, attitudes, words, and actions.
I know
this is true because the Bible tells me so.
Big D Thank you, Stoney, I
couldn't have said it better, myself. Now
I have three important questions for you.
T.L.C.
Then please ask.
Big D
Does any of what you've just paraphrased directly out
of the Christian Bible sound, look, or make you feel
as if you are:
separate-from-God,
separate-from-nature,
or a groveling-in-the-mud, inherently-evil
sinner who's destiny is to burn in hell forever unless
you are obedient to an
angry, intolerant,
violent, vengeful, easily-displeased,
mass-murdering, super-human-being
sitting on a throne somewhere above the clouds that
surround planet Earth?
T.L.C.
Definitely not.
Big D Did anything you just
said indicate that you must belong to a church to find
God?
T.L.C.
No.
Big D
Did anything you just said indicate that you are
inherently evil?
T.L.C.
No.
Big D
As a reporter who writes human interest stories you've
talked rather intimately with several hundred of people from
all walks of life. Is that true?
T.L.C.
Yes. I've conducted
over 2,000 interviews.
Big D
Then, you must know that the inherently evil story
just doesn't match common human behavior.
T.L.C.
You are correct.
It
doesn't.
Big D
Of course, there are ignorant, mentally-dysfunctional
and/or desperate people who do evil things, but what
about the average person?
T.L.C.
They are kind, loving, and
generous.
Big D
How many times have you heard about people risking
their lives to save the life of a stranger?
How many times have you heard people say something
like, "I want to make the world a better place."
"How can I help?" "I want to make a contribution
to society."?
T.L.C.
Too many times to even count.
Big D
Then why do most fundamentalist Christians perceive
themselves as church-dependent, groveling-in-the-mud,
inherently-evil sinners who are separate from God,
separate from nature and separate from each other?
T.L.C.
Because they have been sold a
bill of goods by those who have a vested interest in
keeping them in the role of
servants and cash cows.
Big D
And the sheep, with mindless obedience, have accepted
the non-Bible-supported illusions that the
fundamentalist Christian leaders peddle as if it were
the "Absolute, Gospel Truth."
T.L.C.
So you're telling me that those
who refuse to think for themselves are not living
according to the Christian Bible, but are instead,
being deceived and misled lead by false profits?
Big D
Yes! By the wolves in sheep's clothing.
And please remember, I'm not telling you this.
The evidence is!
T.L.C.
Anything else?
Big D
Yes, Have you ever seen or heard and evidence anywhere
that indicates that the Creator/God (The Source of the
universe) wants, needs, or desires to be
worshipped?
T.L.C.
No.
.
