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Not blinders
The first step is seeing ourselves for what we really are.
Then we have to see what it is that is stopping us from realising our potential.
We are being prevented from the divine union that is our birthright.
There is an agency who is actively engaged with preventing the entry of each and every soul
into the light.
The scriptures talk about the "dividing wall of hostility"
This is what we must find out about, accept and then proceed to smash it down
posted by
Soterios
on June 20, 2007 at 11:18 PM
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The 'I' of ego is required
Unfortunatley it is not the negative ego which has to be overcome.
What everyone falsely believes is the negative ego, is actually spirits which keep the human spirit from acending into the light. This is essentially what keeps man in his fallen state.
The path of freedom and emergence into the heavenly realms is not so much a path of enlightenment, but more realistically a path of un-'darken'ment.
Mankind needs to wake up to the reality of how his spiritual enemies keep him away from his divine potential. Understanding salvation, is understanding the process of how God works to liberate the spirit from the bounds of darkness which are wrapped around it. Few Christians are preapred to accept that they can have any evil spirits within them, but truth indicated that Christ and all the apostles went through this inner cleansing.
The scripture hints at and alludes to something which cuases the spirits of man to be seperated from God in heaven. That thing is called many different names.
One of those names is the veil of separation or the dividing wall of hostility. The tearing of the temple curtain from top to bottom is actually a metaphor for the 'way' to God which Christ came to show. The eradication of this layer requires the acceptance of the truth of evil spirits and how they come to take up residence in the body.
If you want to really challenge what you are preapred to believe and give yourself a shock in the right direction, read the book i keep recommending to people. Alot of your deep questions will be answered by this information. If you cannot accept it then perhaps it is too strong medicine for you.
posted by
Soterios
on June 17, 2007 at 8:45 AM
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Soterios -
If you are saying that sanctification is a removal of the blinders that keep us from realizing our true, holy nature, then I'm with you. I believe we are all born holy but soon forget this when ego arises. The struggle then becomes to overcome the ego so that we can reunite with our holiness.
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sannhet
on June 12, 2007 at 8:18 AM
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An inconvenient truth
Hi Sannhet,
I am not trying to invent things by what I am saying, only making people wake up and see what has been there all along.
The fuzzy wuzzy truths are what christians love to hear, but when you mention the higher truths, the real 'meat', they are unwilling to accept them or are frightened by them.
The very thing I am trying to say probably would have got me burnt at the stake 500 years ago, but it comes directly out of scripture.
God is the father and creator of logic and reasoning. He designed us that so we would need to fully use our faculties in coming into the truth.
Christ was an ordinary man, with divine power. He realised he was different to others.
He realised that the fulfilment of his calling depended upon him achieving or attainment a spiritually acended state. It took him a period of struggle and suffering before his emergence (spiritually) into the heavenly realms.
There are other people in history who have attained this same state. Not only were there Old testament prophets, teachers and seers, but there were also Muslim prohets and holy men who had also went through this same tribulation. In the Muslim faith, this struggle is the essence of Jihad. A spiritual holy war...the battle of men's spirits vs the spirits of darkness seeking to keep men in spiritual bondage. The reason why Christianity is more powerful than the Muslim
Sanctification is a spiritual battle which ensues when the inner man (the spirit) attains the knowledge of who he is, what is incarnated purpose is and then what it's going to take to enter the light. Entering the light, is entering heaven.
posted by
Soterios
on June 12, 2007 at 5:15 AM
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Soterios -
Interesting take.
posted by
sannhet
on June 11, 2007 at 12:28 PM
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