Continuing this conversation with IGIT...
>>Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:50 PM ET
To: Frederick Smart (who wrote)
From: IN_GOD_I_TRUST
Frederick,
Do you believe this scripture, ""God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16,NIV)"?
If you do, how do you reconcile this statement you made also, "I chose to see Islam as a fundamental part of our ONE Lord God in Heaven's perfect divine providence"? Can the message of Islam get you to heaven, as you see it? Or do you see it as a part of God's plan, to show us what not to believe, and to show us shades of evil?
God Bless,
IGIT>>
IGIT:
First off, our ONE Lord God in Heaven creates everything!!
And there's a perfect divine order which is part of his perfect divine providence that's behind everything. I shared a section of Emanuel Swedenborg's writings on the subject of Mohammend and how this religion did bring a monotheistic belief in ONE God back to vast sections of the world which were enslaved in various forms of idolatry.
And that the image of Mohammed himself may be worshipped in conjunction with this is no different from Catholics worshipping and paying tribute to the image Mother Mary, etc.
The central simple point all gets back to ONE - ie. there is ONE God and no other. What could be simpler?
I know God as being Jesus Christ himself. And this sonship of God is "the effect" which we are all part of in this never-ending process "of becoming" which is "the cause" that is spiritual in nature and all spiritual causes which are good and true and forgiving and loving and full of true wisdom and understanding can only proceed forth from ONE End/Source which is our ONE Lord God in Heaven who I know as our Lord Jesus Christ. But others may know this "ONE God and no other" from the teachings of Mohammed, or Buddha or Bahaulla.
Keep things in perspective for it's the same ONE source of Energy, Light and Love!! And if you don't keep this in perspective you will simply be part of propagating more and more of the insane divisive spiritual energies from hell itself that seek to claim, blame and shame any and all evidence at competing claims for Gods, etc.
God was made manifest in the form of our Lord Jesus Christ who radiated the truth and everlasting light, energy and Love of our ONE Father who's spirit - ie. blood - expressed itself freely and unconditionally through "the effect" or manifest form which is "the body of Christ."
With Jesus Christ there is NO separation between Father, Holy Spirit and Son. The three are ONE.
And we are all invited to allow this "body and blood of Christ" to take over the spirit, form and function of our lives here on this earth. For when the body and blood of Christ come together as ONE it becomes the manifestation of the light, energy and Love of God which can express itself through us as conduits as long as we refrain from claiming any rights to this energy or over this energy.
Mohammeds message of there being ONE God and no other will bring a vast, vast number of individual souls to the threshold of receiving and sharing freely and unconditionally these simple spiritual truths which are universal. For every individual is blessed with a divine soul and through volitional choice we all can elect to understand and receive reality as being connected and threaded and ONE or being disconnected and NOT ONE.
If we chose to see everything as ONE then we will be more apt to conjoin with these simple spiritual truths which will allow the Lord our God to work his miracle of transformation to a New Birth and a New Life in our lives here on this earth.
But if we continue to chose to see everything as NOT ONE then we will be more apt to conjoin with believing these confusing lies and falsities which divide, separate, slice, dice, restrict the flow of our Lord's energy, light and Love into ourselves and throughout this world.
The second path is the way of this world - ie. worshipping these competing Gods and competing ideas and competing divisions and labels and definitions which can only lead to more anger, hatred, division, bloodshed and ultimate destruction.
The second path is the way of mankind's religious spirit which worships the competing Gods of this world. This has nothing to do with the love and mercy and forgiveness of our ONE Lord God in Heaven who I know as Jesus Christ Lord.
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