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Title: Which Guy in the sky is going to save us ???
Post by: Pila on 16, Oct 2011, 22:31 :EDT
Most religious people look for a Messiah (Savior) who will come and confirm the validity of their religious beliefs, and set up a New World Order where mankind will live in peace. The Jews expect a Messiah who will confirm them as the Chosen People — the Christians expect Jesus return as King of Kings — Islam expects a Muslim Messiah who will kill all the Christians and Jews who fail to convert to the worship of Allah. What do all these Messianic visions have in common, Mainly most ignore the paradigm ( model) set forth in the parable of the prodigal son – i.e. that the son (you) must of his (your) own accord { free will} return to the Kingdom from which he (you) originally emerged.
And what this means is that:
(1) This world serves an important purpose in the spiritual evolution of the lost prodigal son (person);
(2) That a true Messiah will come and has taught those who have the ears to hear, how to make the return journey back to the Kingdom on God in the spiritual realm.
From the perspective that the True Messiah Yeshua = Jesus the Christ; who has been rejected by most all of the religions and authorities of this world, is the Word and reason to be able to soul understand that your environment is everything –
i.e., quoting from parable of the Sower, The Perfect Seed { The Word of God}: What the parable of the sower dispels is the notion of most Messianic and Christian faith-based believers that it does not matter how we live, once we have received the Word of God in the form of the Gospel message.
This illustration can be compared to a man who desires to plant a vineyard, and having procured the finest seedlings ever developed, attempts to plant these seedlings in a desert. Regardless of the fact that we have the most perfect seedlings ever known to man, when we live our lives in the manner of a spiritually barren wasteland, the vineyard that we envision can never manifest and become a reality. In our quest to demonstrate this fact we must ask what the Bible states:
In the parable of the sower (Mt 13:1-58; Mk 4:1-20; Lk 8:4-56), Jesus taught that the Word could only be fruitful when it was planted in the proper environment. The Word that fell upon the ground at the side of The Way, could not become fruitful because Satan takes away what was sown. And if we pose the question about where was the seed sown?
The scriptures states “…the word that was sown in their hearts” (Mark 4:15 KJV) — thus we can see that Satan has the power to alienate us from our own true inner spiritual reality, if we do not have true Faith and Believe beyond all else.
Not only is the environment of the body-vessel of the utmost importance, but the first objectives of the disciples in the Book of Acts was to set up the proper environment in the Communities where the seekers would dwell.
With respect to this necessary environment in our own time, the opening of the American Spirituality segment now reads:
By Divine Design, the Laws moved upon the hearts and minds of men in the creation of the United States which has brought about and manifest what is often portrayed as Exceptional-ism in the world today. The Spiritual Foundation and Roots of the Nation was brought forth by our Constitutional Framers — ** a group of souls that are perhaps best portrayed as The American Gnostic s.
Our Nation was conceived in Spirit, and born from the wisdom and efforts of truly advanced spiritual souls who entered the world in the 18th century to create a foundational environment that would permit mankind to aspire to his highest potential in all things — and especially in the development and manifestation of his latent spirituality. Thus, this core group of our Constitutional Framers who I portray as American Gnostic s, were drawn from the upper echelons of all religious paths — and especially Christianity which “… they considered true, original Christianity to be the same as this original natural religion” which they embraced — and they were for the most part called Deists, because of their enlightened understanding of the Laws.
The Encyclopedia defines Deism as: “Deism holds that God does not intervene with the functioning of the natural world in any way, allowing it to run according to the laws of nature that he configured when he created all things… Prior to the 17th century the terms ['Deism' and 'Deist'] were used interchangeably with the terms ‘theism’ and ‘theist,’ respectively…. Both [theists and Deists] asserted belief in one supreme God, the Creator… and agreed that God is personal and distinct from the world.
But the theist taught that God remained actively interested in and operative in the world which he had made, whereas the Deist maintained that God endowed the world at creation with self-sustaining and self-acting powers and then abandoned it to the operation of these powers acting as second causes.”
When rightfully understood, what the founding American Gnostic s (Deists) understood that the theists did not, is the reality that the Laws of God that were brought into existence and being at Creation, supported and sustained all realities of this world — that these Laws were never suspended in order to provide one group of men an advantage or special dispensation over other groups of men.
What this means is that the Laws of God are predictable, rational, logical, and are totally uniform in their application in the lives of all of mankind. Moreover, because these Laws in their higher purpose respond to man’s thoughts, desires and actions, they exist in the manner of a Living Bio-Feedback machine that brought about the higher spiritual goals with which God endued all of Creation with in the beginning.
What this means is that no one is exempt from the Laws and the Will of God — no one has an unfair advantage over their brothers and sisters — that all of mankind has a common destiny that is controlled, orchestrated and brought about by the Laws – Yet there is a higher purpose for all things that man can envision in his unenlightened state of mind.