So I listened to a guy the other night that most Christians wouldn't, a motivational speaker who wasn't professing to be a Christian. As some know I'm not very tolerant of New Age. I have respect for many religions, even those with other gods, but New Age isn't one of them. That is all I'm gonna say on that or I'll get off point, and the point of saying this guy had a New Age twang to him. He used quotes from many religions and many people that some of which I questioned, yet in that reminded me that we often hear the loud noise without listening to the bars and notes to the music.
Most religions have some sort of dogma attached and while dogma isn't always a bad thing it can be. Like anything it can be used, abused, and at times blinding and dividing which can lead to division and hate. It is so easy to be led by the heart or by the mind, yet neither is correct in many cases. Hearts can be broken and minds deceived as things are presented to us daily. Anything as fragile as the heart or mind cannot be trusted. For hearts can become foolish, broken, and prideful and minds can be too critical, logic twisted, and broken as well. Thus we have a spirit inside this body, one that when connected to God can be followed, but only when true connection occurs.
Children have no knowledge of scriptures or history yet they are connected many times. As we grow older though the connection fades and it is up to our parents and elders to try and keep that connection in tact. Mostly that is done through dogma of their religion. As long as that dogma works for the good it is great, but only as long as it works for the good and not the bad. It is when it disconnects one that it no longer is healthy that dogma and religion is to be feared. When love, forgiveness, peace, kindness, patience, and reverence and connection for all things, creatures, and people both great and small are lost that it can become a poison. It is when we follow doctrine written and created by man that we do falter, but also we can shine from it as well. It depends upon two things, the teacher and the student. How one conveys and how one hears and observes.
I set and write things that I observe and usually I have no idea what I'd like to write about, let alone actually want to write about or when I'd like to write it. Poorly written though, I write it down. I try and stick to that which I know or am learning more than not and it is written from what I view from a Christian perspective. I study the Bible yet know little when compared to many, but I feel a connection to God and to Jesus. Point is, I can only write about my own faults as to my own beliefs and so I may state an opinion to other faiths and beliefs, but it is not an objective viewpoint. We all all like that truthfully, like it or not, fair or unfair... that is the truth. Whatever beliefs that the writer writes from expresses either intentionally or unintentionally their own perspective, and sometimes that perspective isn't from the Creator. What works for me may not work for you and that may not work for someone else. Me personally I don't like me and so I work on making me better. I do this by not focusing on what is right but rather what is wrong. Someone else may need to like or love themselves in order to correct themselves and become closer to the Creator. It doesn't make either of us right or wrong anymore than it doesn't mean that if something changes that we can't change how we do this... only that we do become better connected with God.
When we read whatever manual for living closer to our Creator we must learn to discern history from present and fact from fiction, be that error or intentional. Then I think we must ask ourselves what was left out and what was added. An old saying was "You don't throw out the baby with the bath water." Most religions have some common ground in which the footings are laid. These days many religions sound more like Christianity than Christianity does, and that is sad. Books these days are written a lot of times by those who cannot do or even teach, that should sound off bells and whistles. We are walking across a battlefield asking the dead how to survive. Does that sound smart to you? I will include Judaism, Islamic, and other beliefs in that too. If a word or phrase don't fit what our narrow minds have, just the word alone, we close the door. The same goes for those who have no faith in a Higher Power.
I'd like to expand on some things I find unbelievable based on that last sentence. When the name Jesus is spoken or written, Christians faces light up, even if it is being used for evil to be done. Just as long as they say Amen. Muslims faces light up and say He was a good teacher and prophet, then curl back off when the name Son Of God is said. Judaism's toes curl up and tempers boil as they say He was a blasphemer and devil. Atheist and Agnostics turn off immediately. Zionist and New Age see an opportunity. About the same thing with God and different names, even though Christians know the Bible says He has many names. Mention the term God and some Jewish sects will spell it G-D. What is that? Islamic people don't seem to care how His name is pronounced. The word God is a title and not a name. Christianity has a lot of prophets and knows there will be plenty of false prophets in the last days. Nowhere have I yet found that there will be NO prophets in the last days. Prophets usually see into the future or carry a message that is usually not well received at the time it is told. These days we call them evil and witches, so nothing has changed, save for chronological date change. Now days John the Baptist would probably still be beheaded as would Daniel, declared mentally unstable first. Rather than a road book and history lesson of a few tribes it has become a beating tool and controlling tool, a dividing staff. An instrument of hate. Thankfully though not for everyone.
I really feel that some people are commissioned to write about things that are positive and happy, happy thoughts, while some are to write of truth of the times, and others write to make you stop and think. None of these are any more important than the others. So the guy I listened to I didn't 100% agree with, but I'm close to his perspective. I liked him enough to post a video here and listen to him the full two hours, then parts again.
Most religions have some sort of dogma attached and while dogma isn't always a bad thing it can be. Like anything it can be used, abused, and at times blinding and dividing which can lead to division and hate. It is so easy to be led by the heart or by the mind, yet neither is correct in many cases. Hearts can be broken and minds deceived as things are presented to us daily. Anything as fragile as the heart or mind cannot be trusted. For hearts can become foolish, broken, and prideful and minds can be too critical, logic twisted, and broken as well. Thus we have a spirit inside this body, one that when connected to God can be followed, but only when true connection occurs.
Children have no knowledge of scriptures or history yet they are connected many times. As we grow older though the connection fades and it is up to our parents and elders to try and keep that connection in tact. Mostly that is done through dogma of their religion. As long as that dogma works for the good it is great, but only as long as it works for the good and not the bad. It is when it disconnects one that it no longer is healthy that dogma and religion is to be feared. When love, forgiveness, peace, kindness, patience, and reverence and connection for all things, creatures, and people both great and small are lost that it can become a poison. It is when we follow doctrine written and created by man that we do falter, but also we can shine from it as well. It depends upon two things, the teacher and the student. How one conveys and how one hears and observes.
I set and write things that I observe and usually I have no idea what I'd like to write about, let alone actually want to write about or when I'd like to write it. Poorly written though, I write it down. I try and stick to that which I know or am learning more than not and it is written from what I view from a Christian perspective. I study the Bible yet know little when compared to many, but I feel a connection to God and to Jesus. Point is, I can only write about my own faults as to my own beliefs and so I may state an opinion to other faiths and beliefs, but it is not an objective viewpoint. We all all like that truthfully, like it or not, fair or unfair... that is the truth. Whatever beliefs that the writer writes from expresses either intentionally or unintentionally their own perspective, and sometimes that perspective isn't from the Creator. What works for me may not work for you and that may not work for someone else. Me personally I don't like me and so I work on making me better. I do this by not focusing on what is right but rather what is wrong. Someone else may need to like or love themselves in order to correct themselves and become closer to the Creator. It doesn't make either of us right or wrong anymore than it doesn't mean that if something changes that we can't change how we do this... only that we do become better connected with God.
When we read whatever manual for living closer to our Creator we must learn to discern history from present and fact from fiction, be that error or intentional. Then I think we must ask ourselves what was left out and what was added. An old saying was "You don't throw out the baby with the bath water." Most religions have some common ground in which the footings are laid. These days many religions sound more like Christianity than Christianity does, and that is sad. Books these days are written a lot of times by those who cannot do or even teach, that should sound off bells and whistles. We are walking across a battlefield asking the dead how to survive. Does that sound smart to you? I will include Judaism, Islamic, and other beliefs in that too. If a word or phrase don't fit what our narrow minds have, just the word alone, we close the door. The same goes for those who have no faith in a Higher Power.
I'd like to expand on some things I find unbelievable based on that last sentence. When the name Jesus is spoken or written, Christians faces light up, even if it is being used for evil to be done. Just as long as they say Amen. Muslims faces light up and say He was a good teacher and prophet, then curl back off when the name Son Of God is said. Judaism's toes curl up and tempers boil as they say He was a blasphemer and devil. Atheist and Agnostics turn off immediately. Zionist and New Age see an opportunity. About the same thing with God and different names, even though Christians know the Bible says He has many names. Mention the term God and some Jewish sects will spell it G-D. What is that? Islamic people don't seem to care how His name is pronounced. The word God is a title and not a name. Christianity has a lot of prophets and knows there will be plenty of false prophets in the last days. Nowhere have I yet found that there will be NO prophets in the last days. Prophets usually see into the future or carry a message that is usually not well received at the time it is told. These days we call them evil and witches, so nothing has changed, save for chronological date change. Now days John the Baptist would probably still be beheaded as would Daniel, declared mentally unstable first. Rather than a road book and history lesson of a few tribes it has become a beating tool and controlling tool, a dividing staff. An instrument of hate. Thankfully though not for everyone.
I really feel that some people are commissioned to write about things that are positive and happy, happy thoughts, while some are to write of truth of the times, and others write to make you stop and think. None of these are any more important than the others. So the guy I listened to I didn't 100% agree with, but I'm close to his perspective. I liked him enough to post a video here and listen to him the full two hours, then parts again.
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