I have a few questions for you to answer, and I believe you cannot
or will not choose to answer them:
1. Why is it acceptable to follow any founded religion that has
been the cause of so much bloodshed throughout the history of mankind?
(religious people tend to give a response like atheists have killed
many, but what they also forget is that many Christians & Catholics
& atheists fought for these so called dictators. (Christians
and Catholics voted and fought for HITLER.)
I never said it was acceptable to follow a religion that violates
the principles of God or the teachings I gave during my ministry.
The Ten Commandments state clearly that “thou shallt not kill,”
and it specifies no conditions under which it becomes acceptable to
kill. Therefore, there is absolutely no justification for killing
a human being in the name of God. There never has been any justification
for this, and there will be, as I explained in more detail in my discourse
on the war with
Iraq.
If you honestly read the scriptures, you will see that I was in constant
opposition to the dominant organized religion of my time, namely the
Jewish religion. I challenged many aspects of that religion, but what
I truly challenged was the approach to religion taken by the Jewish
authorities.
As I explain in an important
discourse, the true purpose of religion is to set people free.
However, God has given people free will, and free will is an absolute
law in the material universe. Therefore, it is quite possible that
people can misuse their free will and therefore pervert the original
purpose that God has for giving them a religion. When that happens,
the religion that God gave as a tool for setting people free can now
be perverted into becoming a tool for controlling people.
As I explain elsewhere,
throughout recorded history there has been a small elite of people
on this planet who are seeking to set themselves up to control, or
even to own, the general population. This power elite will use absolutely
any means available in order to attain and maintain this control.
Religion is no exception, and there are many examples of how organized
religion has been used by a power elite in order to control the general
population. This was truly what I challenged in the Jewish religion,
and that is why the power elite of the time did what they have always
done to those who speak out against their misuse of power—they
eliminated me.
The fact that something can be misused by people does not mean that
it does not have a higher potential. Organized religion does not have
to become a means for control. There are examples of how organized
religion has done much good, in terms of filling people's spiritual
and material needs. If you look at my discourse on the different levels
of spiritual
attainment, you will see that some souls have a need for the kind
stable environment that organized religion offers. You will also see
that those souls who rebel against God or are angry at God can often
use organized religion to create their own image of God and then use
it as a justification for taking out their anger against God upon
other people.
You are reading these words on the Internet, and I am sure you are
aware that the Internet has become a vehicle for the spread of pornography,
even child pornography, and a recruiting ground for many terrorist
organizations. Does this mean that the Internet is wrong or that it
should be abolished? No, because the Internet has also become an incredible
tool, whereby positive and constructive people can communicate new
ideas and expose the fallacies of many of the old belief systems,
including many organized religions that are misusing the mandate they
were originally given from God.
The simple fact is that human beings can misuse anything. The challenge
facing you is whether you will allow other people's misuse of religion
to cause you to reject all religion, or even reject all faith in God,
as many people have done. Many atheists use the errors of organized
religion as a reason to reject all religion or even to reject God.
The problem with that approach is that these people limit themselves,
and they stop or abort their spiritual progress.
I am very well aware of the many fallacies and atrocities committed
by organized religion. I have no need or desire to find any excuse
for them whatsoever, because there is no excuse for this in the eyes
of God. Yet I am also aware that the misuse of power by organized
religion is orchestrated by the forces who are seeking to turn people
away from their belief in God.
What I am saying here is that the devil can win in two ways. When
I challenged the Jewish authorities 2,000 years ago, I accused them
of being the blind leaders, and I told people not to become the blind
followers. If you blindly follow an organized religion that is out
of touch with the reality of God, then the devil has won. Today, many
people are beginning to see through many of the claims made by orthodox
religion. Yet if you go to the other extreme and use the fallacies
of some organized religions or some religious people as an excuse
for rejecting all religion, then the devil has also won, and he has
you exactly where he wants you.
You see, the devil has one goal only, namely to prevent you from attaining
union with your Christ self and therefore becoming the living Christ
as I was. If you blindly follow an organized religion, you will not
dare to put on your Christhood because you will believe the lie that
it is blasphemy to do so. So the devil wins. Yet if you see the fallacies
of organized religion and thereby reject God or reject the possibility
that you could rise above the consciousness behind organized religion,
then the devil has also won.
There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the ends thereof are
the ways of death. What this quote is truly saying is that there is
one way that leads to multiple ends. The one way is to think that
you need something outside yourself in order to reach God. That is
the fallacy behind the mindset of many organized religions, and that
is precisely the fallacy that I came to expose 2,000 years ago. I
said that the kingdom of God is within you, meaning that the key to
union with God is inside yourself. You do not need an organized religion
to attain that union. Because people do not understand this, they
think the only possible path to God is an outer path. So they blindly
follow an organized religion or they go to the opposite extreme and
reject all religion. Whether you go to one extreme or the other, you
have missed the true path, the inner path to God.
2. Why would a loving, perfect GOD be a jealous GOD?
As explained in another
discourse, the consciousness of humankind has, over thousands
of years, systematically been raised. The purpose of this growth process
is to bring people to a higher understanding of God and their relationship
to God. During Old Testament times, humankind was in a much lower
state of consciousness than is the case today. I know that seems hard
to believe when you read the headlines in the newspapers, but it is
nevertheless true. During Old Testament times, people could not embrace
a correct image of God. They tended to approach God with fear, and
therefore they projected an image upon God as being angry and judgmental,
even vengeful.
The first commandment is to have no other gods before God, and the
true meaning is that in order to attain Christ consciousness, you
cannot let anything in this world or any aspect of the lower state
of consciousness, the carnal mind, come between you and your inner
union with God. That is why I told people to be willing to lose their
lives for my sake, meaning for the sake of attaining the Christ consciousness.
This is also expressed in the saying to choose this day whom you will
serve and in my statement that you cannot serve God and mammon.
The true meaning is that you cannot attain inner union with God as
long as you maintain any attachments to the things of this world.
This simply is not possible, and it has nothing to do with God being
jealous or angry. It is a fact that you become that upon which you
put your attention. If you put your attention on the material world,
you begin to think that you are a mortal human being. The only way
to rise above that state of consciousness is to put your attention
on your Christ self, until you realize that you are an immortal spiritual
being who is only temporarily abiding in a mortal human body. You
can then attain the clear sense of identity that you are a spiritual
being, and this allows you to be in this world without being
of this world. If you try to do both, you will inevitably
be polarized toward the lower state of consciousness, and you will
be trapped in a state of mind which is dominated by relativity and
duality. There is no middle way. You either see yourself as a spiritual
being or as a human being. You can draw a shape that is square or
one that is round, but you cannot draw a shape that is round and square
at the same time.
Because of the fear-based approach to God that people had in Old Testament
times, the original command given to Moses was misinterpreted, and
after many translations it was turned into the expression that God
is a jealous God. In reality, God has no human feelings, neither jealousy
nor anger. God simply is who God is, and God truly is a God of unconditional
love.
The statement that God created humans in his image and likeness is
true only in terms of how human beings were before the fall. After
people fell into the lower state of consciousness, they started projecting
their own dualistic, relative state of consciousness upon God, thereby
ascribing human imperfections to God. They now created a false God
in the image and likeness of fallen man.
3. Why would a loving perfect GOD condemn people to death
for working on the SABBATH? (So a person cannot work to feed his
or her starving children, but when Jesus came people are no longer
bound to these commandments. But GOD before Jesus did such a spiteful
thing.)
I realize that Exodus contains
the statement that he who violates the sabbath shall surely be put
to death [Exodus 31:15]. Yet I as I have explained elsewhere,
the Bible is not the infallible word of God. As explained above, those
who are willing to misuse religion in order to attain control over
the people have in many subtle or obvious ways changed religious scriptures
to allow them to gain this control.
The command about the sabbath was given to help people attain spiritual
growth by setting aside one day a week, when they would forget about
the things of this world and put all their attention on God and upon
spiritual growth. Once again, the human consciousness can misuse anything,
and the sabbath has been misinterpreted in many ways. During Old Testament
times, people were in a lower state of consciousness and therefore
they needed a set of very clear rules for outer behavior. They were
given the command not to perform any work, meaning any outer activities,
on the sabbath.
Over the centuries, this became misinterpreted by the Jewish authorities
and was turned into an absolute outer law. They set themselves up
as a human authority with the power to reinforce the laws of God.
They thought they had the right to punish people in God's stead. This
was never what God intended. As part of my challenge to the fear-based,
outer approach to religion, I demonstrated the fallacy of the quote
that you will be instantly put to death by performing work on the
sabbath. Obviously, God did not kill me for healing a man on the sabbath.
The real key here is my statement that the sabbath was made for man
and not man for the sabbath. Once again, this means that a religious
teaching is given as a tool for your soul’s liberation. When
people use the carnal state of mind and their quest for power and
control to turn a religious teaching into an outer doctrine and an
outer rule, then they have misused the teaching. This is what I sought
to demonstrate, but unfortunately many Christians do not understand
my intention. Instead, they have turned many of my own statements
into the exact same type of outer rules and doctrines that I denounced
so forcefully in the Jewish religion. Many well-meaning Christians
have actually become as the lawyers that I denounced by saying that
they had taken away the key of knowledge. Woe unto those, Christians
on non-Christians, who take away the true inner meaning of a religious
teaching.
So you are not correct that God did a spiteful
thing before my coming. God never killed anyone for performing work
on the sabbath, nor did he ever say that he would. The true intention
behind the sabbath is that you need to put aside a certain amount
of time and attention for God and your spiritual growth. Once again,
you cannot serve two masters, so if all of your attention is placed
upon the things of this world, you cannot build or maintain your spiritual
identity.
It really does not matter whether you do do this one day a week or
whether you do it for a few minutes or hours every day. In fact the
true way to keep the Sabbath is to always put God first and all material
things second. This does not mean that you neglect the material things;
it simply means that you reach for the Christ mind and allow all of
your thoughts feelings and actions to flow from the love and the truth
of that Christ mind instead of from the relativity and duality of
the carnal mind.
4. What LOVING
GOD would condemn people for being of a different faith? (there
is around 33 million different faiths in India alone)
No loving God has ever
condemned anyone for this. Only the false image, the man-made image,
the idol, the golden calf of an angry and judgmental God seems to
condemn people for being of a different religion. As I explained elsewhere,
there are many true religions on this planet. God, or rather the Ascended
Host, have given a number of true and valid religions. The goal of
giving a true religion is to give people a vehicle for attaining the
higher state of consciousness that I call the Christ consciousness.
This allows them to enter the kingdom of Heaven, which is an inner
kingdom, meaning that it is a state of consciousness.
Imagine that humankind suddenly became aware of a giant asteroid headed
for Earth and realized it would destroy the entire planet. People
build a giant spaceship that can hold every human being on Earth.
At the appointed time, everyone travels to the spaceship and enters
it. People use any means of transportation available to them to reach
the spaceship. After everyone is safely aboard the ship, it blasts
off. As people are moving away from the Earth, they see the asteroid
hit this planet and blow it to pieces. At that moment, does it matter
whether you used a bicycle, a car, a plane or any other means of transportation
to reach the spaceship? No, all that matters is that you got to the
space ship and that you are now on board.
The purpose of religion is to bring you into the kingdom of Heaven.
Once you are here, it truly does not matter which outer vehicle you
used to get here. It is only people who are trapped in the relativity
and duality of the carnal mind who become attached to a particular
outer vehicle. It is only people who are trapped in the lowest aspects
of the carnal mind, and therefore have an insatiable desire for power,
who have the mindset that there is only one true religion and that
they need to force all others to join that religion. This however
is no fault of God, but the result of the fact that people have chosen
to misuse the free will that is their unique gift from God. Do not
fault the giver of the gift for the misuse of the gift by the recipient.
5. What perfect GOD would create an imperfect creation?
A perfect God who wanted
to create a universe that is inhabited by living beings who serve
as co-creators. A God who has no desire to create robots that can
only blindly follow our rules. You can read more about this in the
following discourse.
In reality, God did not create an imperfect world. God created a universe
that is based on a set of timeless principles, and those principles
ensure that the universe is sustainable and will evolve in a harmonious
and balanced manner. The laws of nature, the laws of God, are set
up to ensure balanced growth.
When God gave beings free will, he inevitably gave them the ability
to violate the principles upon which the universe is based. When people
did so, they created a localized imbalance on this planet. Because
God respects his Law of Free Will, he allows people to do this on
a temporary basis because he knows that eventually the imbalance will
be corrected by the laws of nature. People can violate the laws of
God only for so long. They will eventually create such a great imbalance
that it is no longer sustainable, and therefore their civilization
will self-destruct and balance will be restored.
It is the misuse of God’s law that has created the state of
imbalance that you currently see manifest as human suffering on this
planet. However, that state of imbalance was not created by God. It
was created by human beings who misused their free will to go against
the laws that God has set up for their protection and survival. Do
not fault the giver of the gift for the misuse of the gift by the
recipient.
6. If we are to suffer pain and death by the all-forgiving
GOD through Adam and Eve eating an apple? Why is SATAN allowed to
bring evil to the world? (We get death..for the sin of eating an
apple, yet Satan is still around to work his evil.) Some people
give the answer we chose free choice or something like that..well
it was GOD’S free choice to allow evil to exist in the first
place, it was God’s free choice to allow his creation to know
temptation....why would god do this)
You are not suffering the
consequences of the sin committed by Adam and Eve. As explained elsewhere,
Adam and Eve are simply symbols for what has happened to every soul
on Earth. The forbidden fruit was a state of consciousness, namely
what I call the carnal mind. It is dominated by the relative concepts,
the dualistic concepts, of good and evil. Souls chose to partake of
that state of consciousness before they were ready to do so, and therefore
they lost their connection to the spiritual realm and became trapped
in the lower state of consciousness.
When people are trapped in this lower state of consciousness, they
will knowingly or unknowingly violate the laws of God, and therefore
a great imbalance has been created on this planet. It is this imbalance
that has allowed Satan an inroad on this planet and into the consciousness
of human beings. God did not allow this. Human beings allowed it by
creating the imbalanced conditions and the imbalanced state of consciousness
which caused the vibration of the entire planet to be lowered.
When the Earth was created by Elohim, everything expressed the perfection
of the laws of God. As a result, the entire planet vibrated at such
a high level that there was no opening for any dark forces to enter
the energy field of this planet. When humankind began to misuse their
free will, they generated mental and emotional energy of a lower vibration.
Over many generations, this lowered the vibration of the energy field
of the entire planet, and as a result dark forces could now enter
what had previously been an impenetrable fortress of spiritual energy.
As explained elsewhere,
God did not allow evil to exist. Evil is the result of a choice. God
did give his creation free will. But God never wanted souls to misuse
their free will to go against the basic laws that sustain the universe.
God chose to give his sons and daughters free will because it is the
only way by which they can consciously grow to a higher state of consciousness
and thereby become co-creators with him. You cannot give a being free
will without giving it the option to violate the laws of the universe.
Beings who violate those laws will eventually self-destruct, and obviously
this is not what God wants. God wants his co-creators to express their
free will within the context of the laws that sustain the universe.
By showing that they would be faithful over a few things, God would
later make them rulers over many things, so that they could create
their own universes and their own laws.
Temptation is an inevitable part of free will. Yet God gave his sons
and daughters all the tools possible to help them use their free will
wisely. I can tell you that the vast majority of God's co-creators
did not fall into temptation. Planet Earth is simply temporarily the
abode of a large number of souls who did fall for the temptation to
misuse their free will.
7. What perfect loving God would allow children to suffer
in pain/disease? Why would God allow this?? (After all children
have no knowledge of God until they are indoctrinated into a faith.)
God has not created any
of the suffering of children or adults. God created a perfect planet,
and he sent a number of souls here with the command to take dominion
over the Earth. What is not expressed in the Bible is that in order
to take dominion over the Earth, you must first take dominion over
your own mind.
It is through the mind that people act as co-creators. Because people
chose not to take dominion over the mind, they fell into the relative,
dualistic state of consciousness that I call the carnal mind. Over
a very long period of time, we are talking millions of years, people
have gradually created the current conditions on this planet. It is
these conditions that are responsible for all of the suffering you
see on Earth.
God did not create these conditions. Human beings created the conditions.
God cannot uncreate these conditions without violating the Law of
Free Will. Human beings must uncreate those conditions by rising out
of the carnal mind and putting on the mind of Christ.
In reality, most children are born with a knowledge of God. They are
also born with the need to bear what they have created in past
lives, and it is those karmic conditions that cause their suffering
in this life. However, those conditions are the consequences of choices
they made, not choices made by God.
I realize this can sound harsh, but the brutal reality of life on
this planet is that God did not create suffering. Therefore, the current
conditions will not improve until people wake up, take responsibility
for their self-created misery and decide to use their free will to
change things for the better. Religion is meant to give people the
tools to do this. Yet as you correctly point out, many religions have
been perverted and serve only to keep people in an ignorant and passive
state of mind. However, that is not the creation of God, but the creation
of a few people who misuse religion to gain power over the rest of
the population.
8. What God would
allow people of the same faith to fight against each other in the
name of GOD??
Again, God simply respects
his Law of Free Will. In doing so, he allows people to descend into
a lower state of consciousness, and God does not limit how far people
can go, although the laws of God make sure that if people go beyond
a certain threshold, they will self-destruct.
God never created any religious conflicts. All religious conflicts
spring from the duality, the relativity and the sense of separation
from God that are the characteristics of the carnal mind. When you
see yourself as separated from God, you fail to see that your fellow
human beings are sons and daughters of God, just as you are a son
or daughter. This then allows you to feel that you are separated from
or in opposition to your brothers and sisters. When you rise to the
single-eyed vision of the Christ mind, you see the fallacy of this
mindset. You realize the underlying unity of all life, as expressed
in my saying that “inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least
of these my little ones, you have done it unto me.”
9. What GOD would allow people to be murdered through another
man’s GOD or FAITH? (September 11 many Muslims also died in
that terror caused by the following of religion.)
Again, it is only the complete
misunderstanding and the total misuse of religion that causes people
to feel justified in killing someone else in the name of God. As I
have already said in my comments on the 911
incident, the Muslims who committed those acts did not go to Heaven,
and they were not rewarded by Allah for their deeds. Neither will
the false teachers who misled these people into committing the terrorist
attacks go to Heaven. They will surely face the consequences of their
deeds, and they will discover that their view of Allah is completely
out of touch with the reality of the one true God.
10. If people started following the beliefs of Hitler they
would be frowned upon? (Hitler murdered millions through his belief
that he was doing GOD’s work in the termination of JEWS. CHRISTIANITY
& ISLAM has been the cause of MORE WARS & MURDER yet it
is acceptable to follow it? Why don’t these murderous religions
have to answer for the evils they committed in the spreading of
their faiths? After all we have to answer for Adam and Eve’s
sin?)
I agree. Those who use
religion to justify the killing of other human beings are always out
of touch with the reality of God. The very relativity and duality
of the carnal mind makes it possible for people to create illusions
that seemingly justify the most atrocious acts. You will see that
Hitler and many of those who supported him believed they were fully
justified in committing the atrocities of the concentration camps.
Yet in reality Hitler did not believe he was doing God’s work,
because he did not worship God but the devil. Hitler knew very well
that he was not working for God but for the “man downstairs.”
When you look at such events in retrospect, it is easy to see that
they were wrong. Yet while people are in the situation, they often
become overwhelmed by the negative energies that envelop certain situations.
This in combination with the relativity of their carnal minds make
it impossible, or very difficult, for people to see that what they
are doing is wrong and cannot be justified in the eyes of God. I can
assure you that in the not-too-distant future, most people will be
able to see through the fallacy of organized religions who believe
you can kill in the name of God. If you want to be fair, you should
recognize that even today there are many people who can see the fallacy
of this.
It is true that both Islam and Christianity have been used as a justification
for killing other human beings. This is never excusable. Likewise,
the religions themselves will also answer for these deeds, and this
is indeed why you see the exposure of the widespread sex scandals
in the Catholic Church. This exposure is partly due to the past misdeeds
of the Catholic Church, such as the Crusades and the Inquisition.
This karmic return mandates that all ungodly acts committed by the
Catholic Church will be systematically exposed.
Nevertheless, you should be fair and recognize that not all Christians
or Muslims believe their religions can justify the killing of others.
In fact, only a small minority have ever believed that killing in
the name of God is justified. I think an honest look at the situation
will show you that Christianity has now progressed to a state in which
the vast majority of all Christians would violently opposes a papal
decree to kill Muslims.
This should show you that humankind is progressing, and as people
grow to a higher state of consciousness, organized religion will also
be transformed. As a result of this transformation, organized religion
will be less inclined to misuse its authority. It will no longer be
able to do so and hide behind a wall of silence or a claim to infallibility.
What is truly happening here is that the power elite, who is seeking
to misuse religion, is losing its ability to do so because people
are becoming awakened to the need to see beyond the outer religion.
People realize they must be loyal to the timeless principles of God
instead of the temporary man-made doctrines.
As explained above, you are not responsible for the sins of Adam and
Eve. You are responsible for the sins committed by your soul through
its many incarnations on this planet. As explained elsewhere,
reincarnation is a reality, and you have had many lifetimes in which
to use and misuse your free will. The conditions you face in this
life are simply the results of your soul’s choices made in previous
lifetimes. To change those conditions, rise above the carnal mind,
put on the mind of Christ and all of your sins will be forgiven.
11. Religious people tend to justify that if you do not
believe, you are an atheist, as if atheists have no morals and as
if they follow an organized faith? (They forget atheists are individuals
and choose not to believe in something that does not exist. They
forget atheists have morals, in fact many don’t wish to follow
a faith because they can see the dictatorship and its violent past.
They also forget that many dictators such as HITLER were indoctrinated
Catholic..SADDAM Muslim Islamic faith, they also forget an INDIVIDUAL
ruler STALIN who was mad for power did not murder in the name of
ATHEISTS, unlike millions of RELIGIOUS FOLK WHO MURDER IN THE NAME
OF GOD.
You say that atheists are
individuals, and you are quite right. Yet Hitler and Stalin were also
individuals. Therefore, please do not blame all Christians for the
misdeeds of a few fanatics. That would be committing the same mistake
that you so clearly see in the Christians who accuse atheists for
not having morals.
I have to say that if you were willing to take an objective look at
facts, you would see that there are not millions of religious people
who murder in the name of God. Truly, most religious people would
never dream of killing anyone. I can assure you that there is only
a relatively limited number of souls who are willing to kill in the
name of God. These souls have reincarnated again and again, and they
are responsible for most of the atrocities committed by organized
religion. Yet the vast majority of the souls on this planet on not
willing to kill another human being for any cause, except possibly
self-defense.
I agree that many atheists are highly moral people, and the reason
is that deep within their hearts they have a soul memory of the timeless
principles of God (written in their inward parts), and they have a
loyalty to those principles. I agree that many atheists clearly see
the fallacy of organized religion. Yet as explained above, it is not
constructive to use the fallacies of organized religion to reject
all religion or to reject God.
I disagree with the statement that atheists choose not to
believe in something that does not exist. It is true that the image
of God portrayed by many organized religions does not exist. It is
a man-made image, an idol. Yet there is a true God who does exist.
And if atheists use the fallacies of organized religion to reject
the true God, then they are truly hurting their own spiritual growth
in the process. This of course is their choice, nevertheless please
do not expect me to agree with the belief that God does not exist.
I know that God exists. I have proven the reality of God, and every
human being can do the same by reaching for the Christ consciousness.
12. Would you believe that followers of a founded religion
endorse its murderous past just by following the faith??
It almost sounds like you
do not believe in forgiveness. It sounds like you have become so angry
at the mistakes made by orthodox religion that you want all followers
of organized religion to burn forever in hell. I understand your anger
over the atrocities committed by organized religion. Yet the entire
purpose for my ministry was to show people that it is possible to
rise above the mistakes of the past and make things right with God.
Unfortunately, many orthodox Christians have misunderstood my true
purpose, and they believe that my sacrifice on the cross paid the
price for their sins, past present and future. As explained elsewhere,
this is a fallacy. Nevertheless, it is true that it is possible for
human beings to rise above the mistakes of the past and be completely
redeemed and forgiven by the unconditional love and grace of God.
It is true that organized religions, including Christianity, have
been used as an excuse for committing many atrocities. Yet you must
admit that the Catholic Church never killed anyone. It was individuals
within the Catholic Church who committed those acts. So you see that
all acts ever committed on this planet were committed by individuals.
The result is that individuals are responsible for all suffering,
and the good news is that this gives them the ability to rise above
their own past. Likewise, they can help a particular organization
rise above its past. As I said earlier, the Catholic Church is currently
reaping the karmic return of some of the past misdeeds committed by
Catholics. Yet individual Catholics could, by sincerely striving for
the Christ consciousness, help the Church rise above its past. Obviously,
this would require very deep reforms in the Church itself. Nevertheless,
it is indeed possible that this could happen.
If members of a particular church allow themselves to be trapped in
the fear-based, close-minded state of consciousness that caused the
atrocities committed in the past, then it is true that those members
are endorsing the past by upholding the status quo of the organization.
So it is true that some Catholics, for example, are endorsing the
past deeds of the Catholic Church by allowing themselves to be trapped
in a fear-based approach to religion. Yet there are also many Catholics
who have transcended that mindset and who are working in constructive
ways to reform the Church and to carry on the good works performed
by the Church. I would like to see such people do much more than they
are currently doing to bring reform. Nevertheless, if you rise above
the mindset of the past, you can become an instrument for bringing
about positive change within the organization.
There might eventually come a point of no return, and if a church
does not change, it might indeed collapse under its own weight. As
explained elsewhere,
the Catholic Church needs to go through many reforms before it becomes
an organization that can survive into the next millennium. And as
Mother Mary
has explained, it is indeed possible that the Catholic Church, and
many other organized religions, could collapse under their own weight.
However, I still hold the hope that orthodox Christianity can be transformed,
and I would like to encourage those who are working for such reforms
not to become stuck in the mistakes of the past. It is far more important
to produce positive change in the present rather than becoming stuck
in the errors of the past
13. Why is there no other evidence leading to the existence
of Jesus??? Why have no other texts apart from the Bible from any
religious or political or educated person of Jesus’ time never
stated any existence of JESUS??
There is indeed such evidence,
as an objective examination of the historical record will prove. Nevertheless,
I have no desire to give an undeniable proof of my historical existence.
I came as a spiritual teacher, and that means my role is to present
people with a test. The test is that people must choose this day,
every day, whom they will serve, and they must choose whether they
are willing to believe without having an undeniable proof. If there
was undeniable proof, there would be no test and no choice. That would
be a violation of people's free will.
Lastly, I would just like to say I believe in GOD but not
the MAN-made god Christians follow or any other founded religious
MAN MADE GOD...my GOD exist that is all, you don't have to pray
to it..you don't have to be part of an evil man-made faith to understand
it is there. Thank you for your time.
I too know the real God,
who is so far beyond the man-made images of God, the idols, that most
religious people cannot fathom it. You say you believe in this God,
but do you know this God? If not, I suggest you follow the path I
have outlined on this website and reach for the Christ consciousness,
so that you can actually attain true knowledge of God's existence
and of God’s nature. You will then see that you were not created
to worship God but to be a co-creator with God and help bring God's
kingdom to Earth, thereby ending all human suffering.
So why don't you strive to create a better future for everyone on
this planet instead of allowing yourself to be trapped in a state
of mind that is focused on the past and is focused on blaming organized
religion rather than on bringing forth the true inner religion that
I outline on every page of this website. In other words, stop blaming
organized religion and help me spread the knowledge of the true inner
religion that transcends all outer divisions created by human beings.
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