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posted by
roadscross
on April 11, 2007 at 9:46 PM
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Perhaps you ought to read these two books
Shakuntala Modi - Remarkable Healings
Secrets of spiritual warfare (War on the saints) - Jesse Penn Lewis
They will open your eyes to the actual reality going on & around you at night. At the same time it is good to challenge the parameters of what you believe. How do we develop spiritually if we fail to test knowledge from different sources?
We are at war with the arch deceiver, but we fail to recognise his tactics. The carnal christian is so busy watching out for temptation in the physical sphere, that they fail to recognise that the true onslaught is going on under cover of darkness through the use of satanic "wiles" in the spiritual life. The spiritual life, is the life of the spirit, which comes to the fore when the body is asleep at night. When you are sleeping, your spirit is under attack. Unfortunately biblical knowledge does not cover this area. Only experiential knowledge. Most people beleive they have consious control over how they dream and why. Unfortunately this is just not true. The dream life is fobbed-off as being irellevant, but it is the part of our tri-partate nature that we most need an awareness of. It is this spirit man, which is the very core of us. Our astral body if you like. Often in dreams, people are experiencing flying upwards, only to drop downwards again towards earth. Have you ever had one of these dreams? Have you ever asked yourself...why upwards and not downwards?
What is the spirit trying to do...where is it trying to get to. Why does it not stay up?
Not all the answers to the spiritual questions we have are in the bible. Many are in the books which have selectively been removed from the bible. Why is there a distinct lack of saving power in the church today. Where are the supernatural miracles and mass healings which were performed by the saints in biblical times. The truth is that...according to St Paul and others...salvation is the goal of our faith. It does not accompany the start of our faith journey, but is rather a product of it. We are fallen creatures, but what does it mean to be fallen. Where did we fall from and how do we get back there. The secret is in the salvation teachings or soteriology which have largely been lost. This is the core of what Jesus came to teach. How we can become ascended souls, instead of fallen ones. How do we get back home, while still in the flesh. How we can be liberated into the glorious freedom of the heavenly realms, as the prophets, healers and seers of old were.
We are all called to be holy...but what does being holy actually mean. How did the word originate? Achieving holiness, requires submitting to a process. This process results in sanctification. The saints are those people who have undergone sanctification. The process involves acute suffering and an understanding of what it is that we are going to shed in the process and what is going to happen when we are justified (made right). This is God's will...that we should be sanctified. We are all called to return to the kingdom of heaven.
No one is sanctified becasue the salvation teachings have been so badly corrupted, distorted and eliminated. There are sincere christians out there who seriously believe that there is no darkness in them, becasue being a christian protects them. How do they know this? The truths though are there for those with eyes to see.
Most people seem afraid to question their origins of their beliefs and so are refuse to believe in the potential of future lives, even though there is biblical evidence for this. I can show you many articles on the subject but I sincerely doubt that you would read them and consider them.
Are you willing to discover and test the truth for yourself, or are you happy sitting with what you know hoping that it is truth. There is something missing from scripture that we can all benefit from. We are given minds to use and enquire with, so why is it that we refuse to read the very things that might give us a different angle on what we already know.
Just remember that in times of old, unconventional thinkers were mocked, tortured and beaten for what they believed and then were proved to be true. Jesus was one of those people.
Columbus was another and there are thousands more. Stay within your comfort zone if you want to, you are your own person and have every right to do so.
posted by
Soterios
on April 11, 2007 at 10:29 AM
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Soterios
I was with you all the way to the bruises and broken bones. After that, I found not much that followed what I see in the scriptures. It was though, well written and very interesting.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 11, 2007 at 6:44 AM
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