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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: The Lost Secret The Lost Secret By Gnostic http://RumorMillNews.com 5-26-7 It took me a very long time to break away from conventional religious ideas that created the notion that God was something exterior to us, something impersonal. Like others, I believed in the idea that God was a being of form that appeared like us but separated from us. I believed that God gave us laws, and demanded obedience through worship. It was often quoted that God sits upon his throne, so of course all images were of God sitting like Kings and Queens do today. That we were mere peasants that were to come before this throne to worship and give of our goods before the kingdom. It was difficult to view God in any other way. It was supposed that God looked like a man with white hair and a white beard. It was suggested that God had eyes and ears and two arms. What were we to think other than the fact that God was a higher species of Human? Well of course this is what is implied, because weren't we told he created male and female after his own image and likeness? And yet somehow we were supposed to view God as a spirit. Thus our only conclusion must be, Spirit has form? So our ideology of God was of a being that looked like us but demanded worship and obedience while he sat upon his throne. So the next logical step to take is that God somehow using features that appeared as we do, was able to view away from his throne and see all that was going on. In a sense God became Santa Clause. Here we have a bearded being that somehow is aware of all other beings upon this planet, and is somehow able to connect with anyone at anytime as he sees fit. Yet we realize that a being with form that has only two eyes obviously is limited as to his perception as we are. Even if he had perfect eyesight his perception would still be limited. Now most never take these things to their ultimate conclusion. We like to fancy it up a little and make cute off the cuff comments, stating that God knows everything, and he is everywhere. Yet in the back of our mind that ugly little voice keeps asking stupid questions like, how is that possible? How can one being be aware of everything when that one being is obviously limited by the same form we are? We might like to think we have great abilities, but the fact is form limits everything. So our prayers are dominated by the thinking process that we might want to believe God is this or that, but we cannot convince our inner heart that God would even pay attention to us at any given time. Simply how does anyone know what is in everyone's heart at all times? When you pray, how do you know that this God is actually paying attention to you out of six billion people that are on this planet? Why are you even significant enough for this God to concern himself with you? You see we have a problem with dynamics here. We as little children might want to believe that a Red Suited, white bearded man could pass gifts unto all children of the planet in one night, but the truth is age always reveals the lie. Deep down the secret is aborted when we begin to ascertain certain absolutes that simply could not be otherwise. But what if we changed the dynamics a tad, what if there were six billion Santa's or six billion Santa helpers, or for sake of this argument, what if there were six billion gods or God Helpers? Now all of a sudden God becomes more personal, because if there was a God for each of us, then we would all have access and no one would have to be concerned whether God was paying attention or not. In the Bible a Phrase that has caught many people's attention leaps from the covers of this book because it is so unique from all the rest of the Bible that it begs to issue forth a response as to why! It was stated that the Kingdom of God is within YOU! What is so interesting about this saying is that it is revealing that a KINGDOM is within the individual. And not just any Kingdom, but a Kingdom of God. What is a Kingdom of God? And how is it that an entire Kingdom could be within an individual? When you think of Kingdom, you think of laws, rituals, rites, political community or a monarchical form of Government, and a King and/or a Queen. But most of all when you think of a Kingdom you think of its citizens. So it is a pretty powerful statement to make to reveal a Kingdom is within an individual, and no less a Kingdom of God. Usually the term is used to denote numbers. So if we use the term animal Kingdom. Are we not specifying that the Kingdom is of many animals? We could use the term plant kingdom, and we would understand we were referring to many types of plants. And we already realize when we use the term human kingdom; we are speaking of six billion humans at present. So why do we feel that the Kingdom of God or a God Kingdom is referring to anything other than multiple gods? We each are a human being. This specifies that each of us is a singular attachment to the whole. However we are part of the human kingdom. If there was only one of us, there would be no kingdom. Yet how would it make sense to say that the Kingdom of Humans is within us? How is it that there could possibly be six billion humans within each of us? This does not make sense does it? Yet each of us are part of the human kingdom, so we are individually human. The difference is the human kingdom is not within but without. Why? Because in this kingdom we exist as FORM! We understand that mass cannot occupy the same space. So therefore everything that is in form we come in contact with is outside of us. Form therefore represents a separation between one another. This is why I began this article in the way I did. Because if God or the SOURCE or that which I call the Father/Mother Energy were form, then they would be separated from us as we individually are from one another. And this is how most conceive and view God! The Kingdom of God could not be within, it would always have to be without. Yet what if our creation was not flesh and blood which equals density and form and creates separation, what if we were created as spirit? Many have often used the effect of teaching about how a single drop of an ocean is still the ocean. There are innumerable drops in an ocean. Yet the ocean has within itself all drops. In a sense this helps us to better understand spirit by using our understanding of water and how it coalesces with itself. Spirit is everywhere as energy or water. A drop of spirit is still the same as all spirit. Understanding this helps us to better grasp the phrase the Kingdom of God is within. So the kingdom of God cannot be form, which creates separation and evolves only through outer awareness, it must indeed be internal which creates Internal Awareness. The Kingdom of God must be Spirit energy that we all possess within via our real creation. The creation of humanoid was a false creation because it created separation. This is why the Gods of the Bible version are fake because they are separate beings that cannot be within individually. They are outer Gods of illusion. They created us to appear also as separate to them to give the illusion that God is without, not within. We would have no special connection to these beings if this be so. So therefore we are made to worship and obey something that is external. If God was internal there would never be a need to worship him because, its energy would be part of you and that would mean you were worshiping you. Only something that is external living in illusion would ever demand worship and obedience. This is why those words that the Kingdom of God is within you are the most powerful words in all of the Bible. Just comprehending this one aspect one would never need anything else. The Kingdom of God reveals we are already part of the energy that makes up that Kingdom. We are individually part of the whole as the drop of water in an ocean. The drop of water would no more be influenced to worship the rest of the ocean any more than we should be influenced to worship the Kingdom of God. For we are the Kingdom of God that is why it is within us. The closest thing we have in this form world is children and their parents. We know to love our children and the children want to love good parents. But we do not worship our parents, nor do good parents demand obedience and worship from their children. For we recognize we are ONE FAMILY and we are all equal. Although we have differing responsibilities that does not mean one is better than the other is! We love our children no matter what. We provide for them and guide them. But we realize our children will one day be like us in different forms of course. We are all children of perfect energy of love. We are the offspring of this glory that will someday be revealed within us. But the offspring is not the FORM we carry, but the energy within. This is how the Kingdom of the Source Power is within us. END PART 2 More to come! ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Gnostic Papers Press Release http://www.thegnosticpapers.org/gnostic_papers_press_release.html http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=104748 Comment Mary Sparrowdancer Sure - I might as well jump in with both feet...I'll catch hell, but people will eventually come to understand that Christianity is the invention of Paul, a Jewish man who was the *only* apostle who never met, saw, followed, or studied the teachings of Jesus. Christianity is based upon Paul's teachings, NOT those of Jesus. Paul teaches us to be submissive and "obey rulers" because they are "ministers of god." Jesus, on the other hand, has been a complete rebel and liberator since day one, clearly breaking laws that common sense deems to be stupid. I think the writer above almost has it right. But he's wrong. The "kingdom of god" IS within us, because it is within our DNA, which was given to us in the beginning by the "gods" who put it into us. The big problem is, we no longer have any understanding of what the word "god" meant 2000 years ago. It was a very common word, because people were seeing them (gods) everywhere - as common as UFO sightings are now, which are rattling the jealous Jewish overlord (who has a fondness for cattle), Jehovah. If you have a chance to read "Antiquities," followed by "Kyrie Eleison," which are the last two chapters I sent to you from my new book, it's all in there. We need to get rid of Judaism, AND Christianity, as they are the invented tools of control and spiritual death. Comment Alton Raines God does not demand worship, he desires it. And why do people have such difficulty with humbling themselves before an Almighty, Eternal Creator? God has established true personal will in man, and allowed him to make his choices. There is no compulsion to loving or worshiping the Almighty, merely the message that he desires us to enter into his "rest," part of which involves worship. Unfortunately, people tend to fight and struggle against the Creator who is offering the greatest and most enduring love of all, thinking somehow they will lose something of themselves by giving the just deserved praise and worship to the Supreme Being. How foolish man is! And this is the essence of the problem with man, willful pride, which through disobedience to perfect wisdom led to his fall, and brought death; and from this the Creator has been seeking to redeem man, to lift him out of the mire of his self-imposed cycle of sin and death, to raise him to glorious heights. The Holy God of All demonstrated this in the person of His only begotten Son, Jesus, whose name in Hebrew is Yehsua (meaning 'God Our Salvation With Us') who is the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah and King of Kings, to whom God bestowed all blessings, and honor and glory and gave him a name above all names; and even directed all to cast their worship to Him, for he is worthy. He was raised from the dead immortal, for He alone lived a life pleasing to God, in perfect holiness and faith, and offered himself as a blood atoning sacrifice, even a ransom, to free mankind from slavery to sin and death. This was his mission, sent by God, out of love for mankind. It is error to believe that human beings by birth are One with the divine. It simply is not so, and the tortured, violent, wretched state of our world demonstrates this more than abundantly. No, man is not in synch or harmony with either nature or the Creator. But a simple path to that harmony has been given through true and abiding faith in Christ. And this will, one day, result in a perfect world, filled with righteousness, when God's plan is come to fruition. Through love, and demonstrating that ultimate love in sending His Only Begotten Son, God is reconciling the world to Himself. We live in the time of the battle between light and darkness, between good and evil. But God is merciful, as the Psalmist wrote, "He remembers that we are but dust." He knows our weak and fallen state, and more perfectly through Christ, who lived as a man and suffered every temptation and indignity, yet without sin. Jesus did not teach us to rebel against authority, on the contrary, he told us to be obedient, to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. Paul is often misunderstood regarding his statement about obedience to rulers and law. One need only look at the number of times Paul himself disobeyed the rule of law (escaping from prison, for example) or his many acts of civil disobedience. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that there are times when the law of God is superior to the law of the land. Paul is perpetually misunderstood because most people have little or no comprehension of the Scriptures at all. They do not understand that the Gospels, for the most part, are a record of Christ's first appearance and judgment of the age that then was, and chiefly upon the people to whom God had first given the divine oracles. This is why there is a perceived disparity between the teachings of Jesus and of Paul, for Jesus' teachings as recorded in the Gospels is primarily directed to the Jews, who were judged for having allowed themselves to become corrupted. As Matthew 13 shows, Jesus spoke to them in Parables in order to hide the mystery of the Kingdom from their eyes, and he says this plainly to the disciples. But Paul is not writing or speaking to them, rather, to Gentiles who were to become the immediate recipients of the oracles, of the Kingdom and of God's work on earth, through the Christ. Hence, the words of Paul are often quite unique to the words of Christ, but nevertheless were directed by the Lord Jesus Christ to and through Paul to all gentiles who would become partakers of the faith and glorious inheritance God the Father had established in Him, and for all who received him, becoming with Abraham "join heirs" in the great Promise of a new and lasting Covenant of love, mercy, understanding and hope, for the groundwork of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth. This is the orthodox perspective and is manifest in the Scriptures for all to see, hear and by faith, receive.
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#1. To: Zoroaster (#0)
I believe that God is slightly overweight and in his late 50's. He's got a greying beard and he floats above a cloud, like a blimp. He is very close to the Sun but he never gets skin cancer because his skin is self-healing.
#3. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#1)
I believe that God is slightly overweight and in his late 50's. He's got a greying beard and he floats above a cloud, like a blimp. He is very close to the Sun but he never gets skin cancer because his skin is self-healing Are you referring to the Big Jew in the sky?
I once had three six-year-olds in my back seat, and one blurts, "God lives in the sun." None of the others seemed to think this remark unusual.
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