In order to prepare for the body that Jesus would occupy, we learn that Mary, the woman who would bear the Christ child, came as a result of the intervention of Angels and the Holy Spirit with her mother who was barren and long past the age to bear children. Then, we are told that Jesus came into being as result of the intervention of Angels and the Holy Spirit with Mary, a virgin. In my mind, that is twice removed from the “seed of man”, or “seed of evolution”. Why? I suppose to make Christ's DNA as close a match to Adam and Eve's as possible.
What did Jesus teach or reveal of the Heavenly Father? Well, for one thing, as you think a thing you have done it. How about God is a Spirit and desires to be worshiped in the Spirit, right after telling everyone, “to render unto Caesar's that which is Caesar's”. We know that every time the word “love” is used, it means to “understand”. We know that Jesus was not God, but the Son of God. Arguments that say Jesus was with God from before the beginning of creation are correct, but that does not make Him God anymore than I am my mother or father, even though I was with each of them from the moment they were born into this world. We know that Jesus HATED the money changers at the Temple and whenever the term love was used to apply to money, it became Alms giving (giving to those who had not earned it), reported by His disciples “to cover a multitude of sins”. Jesus thought, in fact, giving Alms was more important or equal to giving Tithes. We know that Jesus brought an end to “The Law” (which cannot save) and forever banned the use of blood sacrifice to atone for sins. We know that all are sinful from the example given of the Adulterous who was to be stoned. We also know that our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit and that it resides in all of creation.
By this own words, Jesus HATED the Priests and Pharisees of His day. And, by statement while standing on Temple grounds, placed the Holy Spirit, not within the Temple, but in every person that lived. Just what is this Holy Spirit. Well, we know that it always existed because of the many references to it prior to Jesus arriving. In my mind, it is the “truth” to which He testified to and the only thing that makes any sense of His ministry; that the Holy Spirit is the voice of God; be it a gentle nudge, an intuition or a feeling about something, it is the armor of God, the Holy Spirit, spoken of in the Scriptures. We also know that while Jesus laid in the grave, He preached to those in the Spirit Prison (which He called Paradise) the way to salvation “who were unto the days of Noah”. Any one reading this think that Jesus required His new converts to take Baptism? Or join one of those yet to be created denominations that call Jesus God?
Now for some truth. This all begins to shake out that Jesus came to set mankind FREE into the Holy Spirit and direct communion with the Father, the Creator of the Universe. No more Priests. No more Pharisees to interpret “The Law”. No more “Law” to determine whether a man is to be saved or not, just the ever presence of the Holy Spirit guiding each one who will allow it to do so. The Apostle Paul is blamed with bringing back the Temple or Church. Yet, he did no such thing. The word he used so often that was interpreted as Church was actually Ecclesia with which he constantly reminded the various City/State congregations that were part of a greater whole, with Christ at its head. The word that justifies a house of worship or group of like minded worshipers is Kuriakon. No where is that word used in the Bible by anyone.
Reinforcing this is the admonishment that all sins can be forgiven except to “blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, for it is said he hath an unclean spirit.” Another graphic wording, with a double meaning to me is, “It had been better for them to have not known the way, after having known it, once again the dog eats its own vomit and the hog that was washed once again wallows in the mire.” Since we already know that the Holy Ghost or Spirit is the “will of God” in one's life, to blaspheme against it is to thoroughly convince oneself, through doctrine or dogma, that the Spirit is telling you one thing when it plainly is not. Those able to do this, and there are MILLIONS who do on a daily basis, regardless of how Saintly or knowledgeable they present themselves, all have “unclean spirits” and by their own actions or inactions cannot be saved. The follow up to that clearly defines those who follow the Holy Spirit in their lives are human beings (as Adam and Eve were) and those who do not are referred to as dogs eating their own vomit and hogs rolling around in their own defecation, animals.
The “faith” that present-day Christians cling to and echo throughout their worship services is just another red herring. It means nothing because we are told in the Scriptures, “faith without works is dead.” That's pretty plain isn't it? Works is always the outward sign that God is in them. Didn't Jesus tell His disciples that the people would know who they are from by their works? And, in Revelations, at the Last Judgment, all are judged, both great and small, out of the Lamb's Book of Life, “...according to their works.” Not by their faith, their denomination, who they were in life, or what God they worshiped, if they worshiped God at all. No, they are judged “by their works”.
Remember the day that Jesus told His disciples that if they had faith the size of a mustard seed, they could tell a mountain to move and it would move? He didn't say they had to have faith in Him, did He? No, just that they had faith. Another time we are told that many will perform miracles in His name but when they stand before Him at Judgment, He will tell them to leave because He did not know them. How does that happen? Clearly, there is a process that determines whether the miracles they did was at the will of God or their own will. And, what process is that? The process of relying upon the Holy Spirit for direction and fulfilling the direction it gives. Beyond faith, beyond denomination, beyond The Law, beyond any religion, beyond all considerations which can be devised by man, those who follow the will of the Holy Spirit in their lives are the “Children of God” and will be saved in that hour. They will have proven they worshiped God in the Spirit by making that worship manifest itself through the flesh by their actions.
The Christianity I see today is COUNTERFEIT compared to the teachings of both Jesus and His disciples, becoming the very evil it swore to protect us from in 325 AD. What else can explain our Nation's attitude with those in the Middle East? One counterfeit Christian faith supporting a counterfeit Islamic faith and attacking or threatening people who represent the TRUE Islamic faith. That is about as Demonic as you can get, don't you think?
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