Dan,
You believe that the acceptance of Christ will give you life everlasting, do you not? And yet you believe in death. Isn't this a paradox?
You believe that Jesus was in heaven, was put into the body of a man, came to Earth, then returned to Heaven. Jesus was the same in the beginning, and in the end. Did he die, or do you simply frame what you believe he was from your Adamic perspective of the body? If Jesus gives you eternal life, how can you believe in the separation from the physical body as signifying death? Adam created Death for himself by his belief in the body, as opposed to the spirit. In this way, he put the body over life. He worshipped the body as a false God. He did not realize that the body is but a vessel containing the spirit within us, which is our true selves. Such is the nature of the difference between two major schools of thought. One believes in the body, and death, and that Jesus was killed for us, the other sees a living God, does not see their own death, and sees that what was killed was not Jesus, but only a body. How can you receive eternal life if you continue to believe that you are your body, and that you can be killed in an instant? If you remove that belief, you will see that you always had eternal life, but chose to believe in the body and death over it, and Jesus was the vessel of God that reminded you. Might it also be that a belief in Heaven as a delayed reward to come after much suffering is all that separates us from creating Hell, and seeing Heaven on Earth, as God promised?
Leave behind the church of Aaron, and the church of Levi. These are the churches that believed in death. Jesus is of the order of Melchizadek, the order of life. This concept of life was his main message. To believe in his message is to believe in life, not death. LIFE is the New Testament.
One example of the dead Christ versus the living Christ. In a Catholic communion service, they used to give the wafers and wine with the admonition,"Body of Christ, Blood of Christ", or something quite similar. Isn't this a demonstration of the fact that the body is immaterial? But, in a way, isn't it also backwards? Why should the body of Christ be consumed in the fire of man, when the body of man is to be consumed in the fire of Christ? Might it be symbolic that man is indeed Christ, and needs to burn away and consume his belief in his own body, in an internal fire of Christos, or Christ? Isn't this the nature of letting "This little light of mine" burn as brightly as it can?
"There is no intellectually middle ground my friend. You either deny Jesus,the Christ the Lamb, or you don't."
Christ, as taught in the Bible, was the very essence of "the middle ground". He sought to see through the eyes of others, to 'walk in their shoes', so that he might see them as a brother, and another son of God. You see no middle ground. What is someone called who is not of the middle ground, isn't he called an extremist? You wish to divide us all into the blessed, and the unblessed, the righteous and the wrong, where your Jesus would only see those as different stages toward the same truth, or looking upon the same thing from different directions. Jesus preached exactly the middle ground, because it is the only place one can stand in true judgement. Are you sure there is no standing upon the middle ground?
Alan reminded me that we often get most upset with others when we see in them something we hate in ourselves, be it an aspect of ourselves, or an experience. Is it possible that you are doing the same? I don't need to know, tell me if you like. But it may be that you do.
Peace,
Darrin |
