How I Came To Write My Books and Why I Am Not A Prophet

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In my teens, I realized I was burdened by unreconciled anger over the abuses I suffered during my 5 years in Catholic school, being the only nonreligious, “heretic” child in my class.  I kept having thoughts of killing priests and I knew that if I did not try to heal myself I might end up putting those thoughts into action, so I decided to try to understand my abusers by reading the Bible.  It was a slow start, over a period of years, reading the New Testament here and there, and its many revelations about goodness and loving others was comforting, as it proved, as far as the Bible was concerned, that what those Catholics did to me was not at all true to the Message of their beloved Jesus.  I also began reading books about Edgar Cayce, popularly known as “The Sleeping Prophet,” who, in fact, never claimed to be a prophet but rather a clairvoyant or clear seer.  In my mid-thirties, I began to study the entire Bible, filling several notebooks with summaries of scripture.  It was around that time that I began volunteering as an aide to the activities director at a nearby home for the elderly, where I played the piano and conducted sing-a-longs and held Bible study classes.

One day, an eighty-year-old Catholic woman named Alma spoke to me after our Bible study session and began crying, telling me she had seen her priest, who told her that her husband, who had died ten years earlier, was in Hell because he was not a Christian.  She was heartbroken and told me that her husband was a wonderful man and that I would have loved him if I had known him.  I told her that, well, of course he was a wonderful man and surely I would have loved him, and that her priest should be ashamed of himself for lying to her and being so cruel.  I immediately took her aside and opened the Bible to show her what Jesus revealed in His Parable of the Good Samaritan.  I reminded her that Samaritans were considered heretics and going to Hell and that Jewish priests were considered Chosen by God and going to Heaven.  I explained that in the Parable of the Good Samaritan it was the heretic Samaritan and not the Jewish priest that stopped to help the injured man, and that Jesus instructs us to be like the heretic, not the priest, a revelation indicating that The Way of God has ultimately nothing to do with one’s worldly religion or lack of, but is entirely about one’s character personifying The Way of unselfish goodness.  She had stopped crying.  I saw a wave of relief come over her face and we hugged and I headed for home.  That was Thursday, June 9, 1994, just days before the infamous murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

I thought about Alma all the way home and reflected upon my own experiences with the cruelty of holier-than-thou Christianity.  The moment I walked into my home, something extraordinary happened.  I have never said this before publicly, as I have feared losing friends and being judged a nutjob.  I have come to a point where I don’t fear this anymore, because what happened did happen and it is THE REASON why I began writing my first book.  Prior to this moment, I never had any intention or desire to be a writer.  After walking into my home—and I hadn’t even shut the front door yet—I heard a voice, a voice like no other, a voice that was not audible, coming from an outside source, but coming from within.  It was not a loud voice, but a strong, deep commanding voice, booming with a resonance that seemed to vibrate throughout every part of my body.  I do not remember the exact words I heard and never did write them down, but the message was clear.  The voice instructed me to write a book showing the spiritual message of the Book of Revelation.  I sat down and, within minutes, began writing, and five years later I self-published Revelation Earth, based upon Edgar Cayce’s 24 clairvoyant discourses about the Book of Revelation’s spiritual meaning.  I explain all 404 verses of the Book of Revelation individually, presenting both the standard or general interpretation of each verse alongside the spiritual interpretation.  This book is no longer available and I have been slowly reworking it with the intent to, one day, publish it once again.

I do not and never will claim that God spoke to me that day, as to do so is to claim I am a prophet.  I am not a prophet, but I do believe we humans simply do not know the full potential and wonder of our minds.  I believe my mind, troubled by experiences with cruel religion, was speaking to me, providing an open door to finding greater healing for myself and to help others.  I did not question the command from the voice, but followed it.

I am well aware that by telling this story I may lose readers and even friends that may think I am a nutjob.  So be it.  I am no longer afraid to reveal this truth, because it happened and it is the reason why I began writing books presenting the spiritual message of the Bible.  The Bible Message is not about religions that teach selfish, separatist, fearful, superstitious, holier-than-thou, idolatrous, mystery-filled, hellfire-and-damnation dogma.  Let my work be a testament unto itself.  If my work is good and worthy and true then it is because the Bible’s spiritual message is good and worthy and true.

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Defining Extremist Christians, Muslims and Jews and How They Are No Different Than Racists

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The Bible and Qu’ran offer perfectly beautiful messages that instruct followers to rise above human selfishness and personify Selfless Love, treating others as they would want to be treated.  The greatest sickness within Christianity, Islam and Judaism is literalism.  Scripture reveals that the literal word or literal interpretation of scripture also known as the letter of the law is dead and kills the spirit or spiritual message also known as the spirit of the law (Romans 7:6; Second Corinthians 3:6; Qu’ran 3:50, 61:06).  The reason why these religions teach that only their religion is truer to God and holier over the others is because of their exclusive literal interpretations of scripture.  It is precisely this self-exaltation or what I like to call “holier-than-thou-ism” that is used to justify their blaming, hating, persecuting, brutalizing and even killing people not of their religion.

What is central belief of extremist religion?  It is the self-exalted, separatist belief that only conforming members of the religion are “holy” or “saved” or “of God” or “doing God’s will” and everyone else on Earth is not and shall suffer for eternity.  Religious extremists dehumanize those not in their exclusive group by labeling them with such terms as “unsaved,” “infidels,” “secularists” and “heretics.” 

What is the difference between racism and extremist or holier-than-thou religion?  Substantively, nothing.  The heart of racism is self-exaltation, where only people of a certain race are better or superior to all other races.  In America, racists are socially ostracized, because racism is unacceptable.  Why is it unacceptable to teach that Whites are superior to Blacks yet it is completely acceptable to teach that Christians are superior to non-Christians, which is what Glenn Beck and a whole host of Christian preachers propagate?  Why is it acceptable to teach that followers of “traditional religion” are superior to “secularists,” which is what Bill O’Reilly teaches?  Why is it acceptable to teach that only true Jews are the Chosen Ones of God and everyone else shall not be chosen, which is what separatist Jews teach?  Why is it acceptable to teach that only conforming Muslims shall enjoy Paradise and everyone else shall suffer the wrath of God, which is what holier-than-thou Muslims teach?

Every religious group in America that teaches that only its group is “holy” and superior and that everyone else is “unholy” and a lesser human being should be defined “extremist” and socially ostracized and rejected, just like racists.  The United States government needs to set an example for the world and put its foot down and identify these religious groups and, furthermore, take away their tax-exempt status.

Let us not forget that the vast majority of extremist or holier-than-thou Christians, Muslims and Jews are nonviolent.  Make no mistake—it is precisely from this cesspool of self-exalted religion that violent extremists rise up.

Scripture reveals that God is an invisible Spirit that is Love and All-Good (John 4:24; Colossians 1:15; First John 4:16; Mark 10:18), and that God is the Source or Selfless Giver of the Spirit (Revelation 22:1), and that the governance of God’s righteous justice is as you sow, so shall you reap (Galatians 6:7-8).  In other words, God is the Spirit of Selfless Love that lives and grows within all that live and grow in the Spirit, regardless of one’s worldly religion or lack of (Matthew 7:21, 12:31-33; Luke 10:30-37; John 5:29; Romans 2:25-26).

There is no excuse for Christians, Jews or Muslims to self-exalt, because their scripture repeatedly instructs them to exalt only God (Exodus 15:2; Psalms 34:3) and reveals that self-exalters are rebellious and wicked (Psalms 66:7; Psalms 140:8).  The Qu’ran repeatedly instructs Muslims to honor Jesus’ Gospel (Qu’ran 3:44-59; 5:46; 42:12-13; 57:27; 61:6) and Jesus comes right out and tells us that all that self-exalt shall be abased (Matthew 23:12).  Furthermore, Jesus makes it clear that the entirety of scripture boils down to loving the Spirit of Selfless Love and applying it (Matthew 22:36-40).

Self-exalted Christians, Muslims and Jews cannot shut up about their love for God, but they are greatest deniers of God in the most fundamental way, because they usurp the Judgment Throne of God, that is, they kick God off His Judgment Throne and sit their holier-than-thou butts down and proceed to judge this one to Heaven and that one to Hell.  Do not be deceived, these people may speak of God till their tongues fall out of their heads, but they could not be further from God by their greater love for separatist, fearful, self-exalted religion.

I have just presented many revelations from the Bible and Qu’ran.  If you would like to know the exact scripture to which I am referring, you will find it by going to this videoblog on my site on MySpace, where I not only provide the text to what you have just heard, but also the scriptural references.

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Part 2 - The Vile Lie That The Jews Killed Jesus DISPROVED

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Thank you for coming to Part 2 of this video examining the Christian lie that the Jews killed Jesus, a vicious lie that exists to this day.

Did Jesus have to be crucified?  No.  The Roman Empire had the sole authority to crucify and did not have to approve His crucifixion.  The Bible reveals that a crowd of Jews accepted responsibility for His crucifixion, saying that His blood would be on them and their children (Matthew 27:25).  It is that revelation upon which Christian anti-Semitism took root.

Sounds like a strong argument that the Jews killed Jesus, except for one critical fact that remains denied by Christianity, and that is the Biblical revelation that literalism or literal interpretation is dead and kills the spiritual message (Romans 7:6; Second Corinthians 3:6).  Once we understand that the Bible is not firstly the literal word of God, but rather a spiritual message that we are to know and embrace, the Bible’s Message is transformed, especially the definition of what a Jew is to God and what a Gentile is.

In Romans 2:27-29, we learn that God’s Jews are not defined outwardly, by way of one’s ancestry or religion, but are defined inwardly, by way of their love for the living spirit over dead literalism.  By knowing the definition of God’s Jews, we know the definition of Gentiles.  Gentiles are those that love the selfishness of dead literalism over the living Spirit of God—the Spirit of Selfless or Brotherly Love.  Just as there are literal Jews that are spiritually Gentiles, there are literal Gentiles that are spiritually Jews.  Everyone that personifies the Spirit of God no matter if they are literally Jew or Gentile is a spiritual Jew or one of God’s Jews.  They are the Chosen Ones of the Spirit of God, because they are the ones that have chosen the Spirit of God, for as you sow, so shall you reap.

Let us not forget that literalism is dead and that we are to move beyond the literal and into the spiritual substance of the matter.  It is true that the crowd of people that took responsibility for Jesus’ death were outwardly or literally Jews, but they were inwardly or spiritually Gentiles.  It was not the Jews that killed Jesus, but the Gentiles, the ones that deny the Spirit of Brotherly Love.  Of course, you will never convince a literalist of this revelation.

I am just a “heretic” non-Christian, yet I figured out the revelation about who killed Jesus within my first year of studying the Bible.  How is it that centuries upon centuries of popes and priests and preachers and evangelists have never taught this revelation when it is quite evident in scripture?  How can we ever measure the weight of Christian brutality and bloodshed upon the Jews?  And all because of what?  Because of a big, fat, easily-disproved Christian lie.  How might this world be different today if Christianity—the self-proclaimed Church of Jesus Christ—had only ever taught and exemplified Jesus’ Spirit of Selfless Love instead of selfish, separatist, superstitious, fearful, holier-than-thou religion?  Are we really to believe that Christianity is the Church of Jesus Christ?  How can that be when Jesus Christ Himself tells us that His Church is not of this world, but of the Spirit (John 8:23, 15:19, 17:14, 17:16, 18:36)? 

The true Church of Jesus Christ does not have walls made of wood or brick or stone, but made of the Spirit of Brotherly Love.  The true Church is YOU when you walk The Way, Truth and Life of the Spirit, no matter your membership in worldly religion or lack of.  Either you live to personify The Way of Brotherly Love or you don’t.  It is as simple as that.  

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The Vile Lie That The Jews Killed Jesus, With Glenn Beck, Barbara Walters, Mel Gibson - Part 1

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On July 13, 2010 Glenn Beck, who hosts the second biggest show on the Fox News Channel, explained that if Jesus had been a victim instead of a Messiah He would have (quote, unquote) “come back from the dead and made the Jews pay for what they did.”  Clearly, Beck believes the deep-rooted Christian lie that the Jews killed Jesus—a vicious lie that has been used to justify the persecution and killing of Jews for many centuries, and that is still used by anti-Semites to this day. 

Recently, on October 21, Barbara Walters, of the morning talk show, The View, addressed the topic of people fearing groups of other people, saying that (quote, unquote) “At its extreme, we went for thousands of years saying the Jews killed Christ and it took a long time for people to understand what portion of it, what the history was… what the whole argument was about.”  Why does Barbara Walters, a world-famous reporter, explain away the Jews killing Jesus as having something do to with the history and whole argument of the matter?  If she is going to bring up this subject why doesn’t she or any of her co-hosts make it clear that the Jews did not kill Jesus?  All the ladies of The View have received multiple copies of my last 2 books so, from my perspective, they have no excuse for their ignorance. 

Back in 2004, Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ taught the world, once again, that (quote, unquote) “the Jews killed the Lord Jesus.”  Consequently, the controversy over the Jews killing Jesus was reignited internationally and not one media mouthpiece ever put this issue to rest by showing how the Jews did not kill Jesus. 

Before I show how the Jews did not kill Jesus, understand that Christianity used that vile lie to justify persecuting and killing Jews for the greater part of its history, building anti-Semitism throughout the world, especially in Europe.  Here is just a partial list of the long, brutal, bloody history of Christian anti-Semitism (from Bernard Grun’s The Timetables of History and from websites http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/timeline.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies).

In the year 325, the First Council of Nicaea met in order to institutionalize the Catholic creed, that it should be the true representation of Christendom.  It was agreed that Catholic clergy were forbidden to even talk to Jews.  Later, it was decreed that Jews could not marry Catholics or hold public office and that Catholics converting to Jews would be put to death.  The Catholic Saint Gregory claimed Jews were “murderers of the Lord,” and Saint Ambrose defined a synagogue was a “refuge of insanity” and “damned by God.”  Saint Augustine taught that the Jews killed Jesus and were cursed.  In the year 413, Catholic monks invaded Palestine to destroy synagogues and kill Jews at the Western Wall.  A year later, Jews in Alexandria, Egypt were expelled by Catholic Saint Cyril.

In the 7th century, Catholics in Toledo, Spain burned Jewish books.  In the 8th century, Pope Stephen IV condemned Jews, saying they were “rebellious against God.”  In the 9th century, the Archbishop of Lyons, France called Jews “sons of darkness.”  In the 10th century, Pope Leo VII encouraged parts of Germany to expel Jews.  In the 11th century, Jews were either converted by force or expelled or slaughtered in parts of Germany and France.  Pope Urban II sanctified religious terrorism when he ordered the First Crusade to free Christendom of Jews and other “heretics” in Europe, Palestine and Egypt.  Those who refused to leave or convert were massacred.  In the 12th century, Jews were kicked out of France and their property confiscated.  In the 13th century, Jews were kicked out of England and Southern Italy.  In Spain, they were ordered to become Christians or leave.  In the 14th century, thousands of Jews were killed, having been accused of spreading the Black Plague.  Jews were expelled from Hungary and parts of Germany.  In the 15th century, Jews were expelled from Austria and Portugal.  The Spanish Inquisition began and Jews were ordered to leave Spain or become Christians.  In the 16th century, the Portuguese Inquisition began, which was even worse than the Spanish Inquisition.  In Germany, Protestantism was in its infancy and its beloved German founder and priest, Martin Luther, called Jews “a whoring people” that are “full of the devil’s feces.”  In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Catholic nations of France, Portugal and Spain finally ended their Inquisitions.  In the 20th century, anti-Semitism reared its ugly head again in Germany, a country that had once been the northernmost portion of the Holy Roman Reich or Empire for 844 years, until 1806.  From 1933 to 1945, Germany became the Third Reich, a term indicating that the Nazi State was the successor of the Holy Roman Empire (German’s Second Empire extended from 1871-1918).  The resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany during this time led to the genocide of Jews that we know as the Holocaust.

For over 15 centuries, generations upon generations of Europeans were saturated with Christianity’s anti-Semitism.  When the Inquisitions finally stopped there was still a seething undercurrent of anti-Semitism in Europe.  Is it any wonder that only a century later the Nazi Third Reich was able to tap into this well of hatred to commit the Holocaust?  To this day, European Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, take no responsibility in the staggering extermination of the Jews by the Nazis.  Do you think for one moment that Christian anti-Semitism bred into the minds of over 15 centuries of Europeans had absolutely nothing to do with the Holocaust?  If Christianity had not justified anti-Semitism upon the horrible lie that the Jews killed Jesus, but had instead accepted and embraced Jews with Brotherly Love throughout all those centuries and denounced any notion of anti-Semitism, would the Holocaust have happened? 

This is the end of Part 1.  Thank You.

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The Vatican's Selfish Saint-Making

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I am in the process of finishing the work for my next video, which will examine comments made by both Glenn Beck and Barbara Walters regarding the easily-disproved Christian lie that the Jews killed Jesus—an atrocious lie that has been used to justify anti-Semitism since the third century.

In the meantime, I decided to present this quick video because of something that happened recently, on October 17.  The Vatican officially created 6 more saints.  I ask you, Is there one among us that is so perfect as to rightfully kick God off His Throne of Judgment and sit down instead, to judge this one to Heaven or that one to Hell? 

The Catholic Church has been in business for nearly 17 centuries.  During its first six centuries it is thought to have created over 7,500 saints, but no one really knows the exact number because canonization or saint-making did not become an official process until the year 993. Since then, more than 2,500 saints have been created, bringing the total to over 10,000 (www.americancatholic.org).   

www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/faqs.aspx

The history of the Catholic Church is filled with the worship of saints and angels, though the Bible teaches the opposite.  We are instructed not to worship angels and told that those who do are vainly puffed-up by their fleshly or carnal minds (Colossians 2:18).  It stands to reason that if we are not to worship angels, all of which are created by God, then we are certainly not to worship saints that are created by man.

At no time does God instruct us to deny Him in the most fundamental way by kicking Him off His Judgment Throne so that we can sit down instead and judge certain people to Heaven and other to Hell.  On the contrary, scripture reveals that the time of judgment will come at the very end, when God will do the judging (John 5:28-29).

Lastly, for those of you new to my site that might think that I hate Catholics or Protestants or Mormons or Jews or Muslims, that is untrue.  Let us not forget that the Institution is not the Individual.  Did you know that there is only one place in the Bible where we learn that Jesus hates?  He hates the (quote, unquote) “deeds of the Nicolaitanes,” meaning that He hates the selfish works of those with power and control over the religious masses or laity (Revelation 2:6).  Why does He hate them?  Because they deny teaching and exemplifying The Way, Truth and Life of Selfless Love for their greater love of selfish dogma in order to further secure their power and control over the people.  Do not be deceived by lovers of selfish religion, but follow the Spirit of Selfless Love alive within you.

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WHAT YOU WON'T LEARN FROM THE DA VINCI CODE MOVIE

Those who are looking for the Holy Grail in some artifact or “holy bloodline” will not succeed. They are looking in the wrong places. The Holy Grail is not of the world, but of the Spirit.

The sum of Jesus’ Message has absolutely nothing to do with religious membership, but that we live to personify God’s Spirit of Selfless Love, building our souls into temples (vessels) of His Good Spirit. Herein lies the transcendent truth of the Holy Grail that you will not learn from the upcoming DA VINCI CODE movie, and certainly not from the pulpits.

Your soul is the “grail” and you are ultimately responsible for making it holy or unholy, for “as you sow, so shall you reap.” The greatest war you will ever fight is in yourself. It is the war of spiritual duality, the “inner war” between Selfless Love (God) and selfishness (self). Only by sowing or personifying the Selfless Spirit instead of selfishness shall you reap or build God’s Spirit within, making your soul into a vessel of His Spirit, shown in Scriptures as the “cup of blessing.” This is the Holy Grail.

For centuries, scholars and warriors have failed to find the Grail, having failed to “see” that it is not a worldly thing, but spiritual. The Holy Grail is within, and shall be “found” and “possessed” by all devoted to The Way that Jesus personified… The Way of God’s Spirit of Selfless Love.

If you want to believe that the Holy Grail is a long-lost cup or the “holy bloodline” created by Mary Magdalene and Jesus… fine. Believing either way is of zero consequence in the end, because embracing mysteries does not bind your soul into Oneness with God. The Spirit knows no mystery. Living in the Spirit is The Way.

Look to the spiritual message of scriptures regarding the Holy Grail.

First Corinthians 10:16-18 (authored by Apostle Paul)
16. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?
[The “cup of blessing” is the vessel of God’s Spirit, referring to the Light of your soul… the Spirit of God within you. The “cup of blessing which we bless” is about you. You bless the “cup of blessing,” or honor the Selfless, Good Spirit within you by continued devotion to the Spirit, which is your communion with God’s power of redemption and salvation (‘blood of Christ’).]
17. The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
[The “bread” is the flesh, representing fleshly lusts… the selfish, worldly ways of the flesh. Your “breaking of the bread” is about overcoming (‘breaking’) your selfishness with the Selfless Spirit, which is your communion with God’s power of redemption and salvation (‘body of Christ’).]18. For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
[The Spirit of God is One. Those who are “one bread, and one body” and partakers of that “one bread” refer to those who are devoted to God’s One Spirit.]

BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

All the commentaries I offer on this blog and in my award-winning work, The Christian Right… or Wrong?, are not designed to attack or offend, but Enlighten.

I wanted to express my viewpoint regarding President Bush’s recent State of the Union Address. Being an expert on the Spirit of the Law regarding Biblical Scriptures, I thought I would comment upon some of President Bush’s remarks and how they relate to Christ’s Message of the Spirit. Why? Because America is roughly 82% Christian and its military is over 90% Christian. We are nation built upon Christian principles, as we are often reminded by our leaders. So then let us have an understanding of what “Christian principles” really mean and how this wisdom might add to some of the President's statements.

President Bush:
To confront the great issues before us, we must act in a spirit of good will and respect for one another, and I will do my part.

Are we a nation whose government “acts in a spirit of good will” or “acts in a spirit of American democracy, corporation building, and financial opportunity?” As far as Christian scriptures are concerned, there is only One Spirit, the Spirit of Good Will, or God's Will.

God is an invisible Spirit who is the Source, or Selfless Giver of Love and all Good, having no darkness whatsoever. Living in the Spirit of God, or "in the spirit of good will" is the individual responsibility of personifying Selfless Love and the fruits thereof (kindness, compassion, peace, forgiveness, tolerance, patience, and all Goodness).

To “act in a spirit of good will” is to follow your Good (God) Conscience, or the Mind of God within you. God’s desire is that we tread His Way of Selfless Love instead of our ways of human selfishness, and that we do so of our own free will, joyfully. If America “must” act in a Spirit of Good Will, then we must be a collective beacon of the Selfless, Good Spirit and not selfishness, which is virtually an impossible task, as it would require all citizens to abide by the Good Spirit. There is no such Selfless nation on Earth. Nations and governments and groups do not have an individual soul, and are committed to a certain set of rules by which they do their business, so as to ensure business success, as that is the desired end-result of any business. No matter how any nation does its "business," its individual citizens have the power to conduct their lives by Selfless Love (God's Will) or selfishness (self-will). If any nation or group of souls desires alignment with God's Will, then the alignment must begin within the hearts and minds of each of its members.

President Bush:
Lacking the military strength to challenge us directly, the terrorists have chosen the weapon of fear.

Yes, the weapon of the terrorists is ultimately fear. Fear crafted from gross misinterpretations of the Koran. Fear born of religious separatism and superstition. The terrorists and their supporters are spiritually ignorant, rejecting that the One Way to eternal love, tolerance, and peace is by building love, tolerance, and peace in the here and now. They reject The Way of God's Selfless Spirit, as it would shatter their walls of religious separatism and fear. They are not about to let go of their separatism, as this is what makes them "holier" than all others and what fuels their cultist power. Let's face it... it is always the same with cultist mentalities. Their belief systems always fundamentally revolve around “us versus them." History continues to prove that one of the most effective ways for an elite few to wield power and control over the souls and pocketbooks of the masses is through religious separatism, fear, and superstition.

How is the religious separatism of fundamentalist Islam any different from the separatism of America's fundamentalist evangelicals? Just as fundamentalist Muslims teach that you must be a Muhammad-believer to get to Paradise and that all others are hellbound, so too do fundamentalist Christians (Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, etc.) teach that you must be a Christ-believer to get to Heaven and that all non-Christians are hellbound. It is precisely this religious separatism that seeks to blame the world’s problems upon “heretic” or “hellbound” unbelievers, which often leads to persecution and war against these perceived “enemies of God.”

The very reason why Bin Laden’s group seeks war is because they have used their scriptures to “sanctify” their holiness above all who are not in their exclusive group and to “sanctify” violence as a solution to their “troubles” with the world's "heretics," specifically the Americans and the Jews. We have seen how Christianity has used their scriptures to "sanctify" violence throughout its history. Consider the multitudes who were persecuted, tortured and slaughtered throughout the Crusades. And let's not forget the Inquisition, which lasted over six centuries! It was Christians who used their scriptures to justify the slavery of Africans in America, an issue that helped lead to the bloodiest of all wars, the American Civil War. The history of Christians persecuting "heretics" is seemingly endless and continues to this day, even in America. It was not too long ago that Jerry Falwell was pointing his finger at America's gays, lesbians and abortionists for helping to bring about the horrors of September 11th, using "holy" scripture to justify his false and unholy viewpoint.

America's foreign policy is naturally affected by Christian leaders and their religious mentalities. For example, the reason why American Christians and their politics are so pro-Israel is because the nation of Israel is a key player in the Bible and especially the Book of Revelation. That's the bottom-line truth of the matter. After all, Jerusalem is the site where Jesus will return, and Armageddon is located about 60 miles north of Jerusalem. Though American evangelicals and orthodox Jews do not advertise their desire to rid Israel of all Muslims, as that might appear unreasonably intolerant, they know that the Muslims must eventually be kicked out of Jerusalem in order for Biblical prophecy to be fulfilled. It is prophesied that the third incarnation of Solomon’s Temple must be built upon the site where Islam’s Dome of the Rock currently sits. The Muslims will never hand over that piece of property, as it is their second holiest site on Earth and also the very spot where they believe Muhammad will return. As long as there are Muslims in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock cannot be destroyed and the Third Temple erected. Unrest and fighting will only increase in Israel until the Muslims have been removed, all because of selfish interpretations of "holy" scriptures.

The media and our government refuse to define the unending turmoil in the Middle East as a "religious war," though the fighting is directly fueled by religious separatism. These religious groups hate and fight and kill, yet all the while call themselves "holy," believing themselves holier than those outside their exclusionary group. How is it that God's "holy" children cannot find happiness and peace in all the blessings they possess, but must cause disputes and wars? It is because of false religion, specifically the false religion of "holier-than-thou" separatism.

President Bush:
Saudi Arabia has taken the first steps to reform. Now it can offer its people a better future by pressing forward with those efforts. Democracies in the Middle East will not look like our own, because they will reflect the traditions of their own citizens. Yet liberty is the future of every nation in the Middle East, because liberty is the right and hope of all humanity. The same is true of Iran, a nation now held hostage by a small, clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people. The regime in that country sponsor terrorists in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon, and that must come to an end.

We are informed that the nation of Iran is being “held hostage” by a small, clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people. But let us not forget that their elite "power" is born of and revolves around their religious separatism. You could easily make the argument that the world’s Catholics are being “held hostage” by a small, clerical elite (the Papacy) that is isolating and repressing them (through enslavement to religious separatism, superstition, and fear as being “The Way” to God’s Kingdom). You could also say this about Billy Graham’s fundamentalist, separatist, repressive teachings.

Though President Bush is specifically referring to the dissolution of terrorist groups, these groups are religious terrorists whose terrorism is "sanctified" by their religious separatism. They claim “holiness” above all others and believe they have the Allah-given right to do the heinous things they are doing. The short-term solution is to dissolve their particular, violent group, but the long-term solution is to dissolve religious separatism entirely! For where there is an undercurrent of religious separatism (or any separatism for that matter), there are souls poised to fight for their self-righteousness. The line between religious separatism and the persecution of “outsiders” is thin. It is the religious separatism that must be stopped if persecutions and wars over religion are ever to end.

Any “church” that teaches any “Way” to God other than the individual responsibility of personifying Selfless Love is a false church led by false leaders, per the Spirit of the Law of both the Bible and the Koran. If it is God you want eternally, than you must sow to His Selfless Spirit and not to selfishness (anti-Spirit). The truest definition of “jihad” is about the battle within your soul, a battle that is won only when you have learned to overcome your evil (selfishness) with good (Selfless Love; The Way and Spirit of God). As given in Romans 12:21: "Overcome evil with good."

If every Christian, Jew and Muslim rejected the false "holier-than-thou" mentality of religious separatism and simply lived to overcome their own evils with God’s Selfless Spirit, peace would reign among them, naturally.

PAT ROBERTSON ON ARIEL SHARON

Today's news reports that Pat Robertson recently preached the following regarding Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon:

Now, Ariel Sharon who is, again, a very likeable person, a delightful person to be with, and I prayed with him personally, but here he's at the point of death. He was dividing God's land. And I would say, "Woe unto any Prime Minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U., the United Nations or the United States of America." God says, "This land belongs to me, you better leave it alone."

Robertson is incorrect. First of all, it is not just the State of Israel that is God's "land," but all the Earth (Leviticus 25:23; Exodus 19:5).

Secondly, the issue of dividing God's "land" is not about literally carving up Israel, but about serving idolatry (selfishness) over His Selfless Spirit. When the faithful and true Israelites first entered the land of Canaan, He instructed them to divide the land among their tribes (Numbers 34:29; Joshua 13:6, 14:5, 18:10). This division of land was not to involve the selling of the land (Leviticus 25:23), meaning that no one should ever be heard to say, "The land within this fence is mine." No. It is God's land, as is the entirety of Earth. Ownership tempts idolatry (selfishness), breeding separation, which is a denial of Oneness in God's Selfless Spirit.

Let's examine this a little more deeply. Remember, God divides souls into two categories: Jews and Gentiles. Romans 2:25-29 reveals that a "Jew" is not defined by one's ancestry or religious membership, but by one's devotion to God's Spirit. A "Gentile" is not defined by one's ancestry or lack of religious membership, but by one's lack of devotion to God's Spirit.

The "land" of the Jews, when interpreted literally, by the Letter of the Law, clearly refers to the land of Canaan... a worldly interpretation. But we must remember that Jesus instructs us to overcome the world with the Spirit and, so too must we overcome the worldly interpretation of scriptures with the spiritual interpretation. In other words, we are to interpret by the Spirit of the Law, not the Letter of the Law. The Spirit of the Law reigns supreme, as it fulfills and supersedes the Letter of the Law.

When interpreted by the Spirit of the Law, the "land" of the Jews is the Estate of God's Spirit. We are to live in God's "land," meaning that we are to personify His Way of Selfless Love and Goodness, no matter where we physically reside upon planet Earth.

As far as God not wanting the followers of His Way (the truest definition of "Jews") to sell His land... this is, once again, not to be interpreted by the Letter of the Law, but by the Spirit of the Law. God knew that we humans would divide up His Earth and claim ownership over our own "pieces" of land. It is not the literal buying and selling of land that is offensive to God, but rather our hearts and motivations in these matters. How do we receive the blessing of land ownership? Do we "corrupt" the land, possessing it selfishly (our hearts movtivated by greed, power, control, status, etc.) or do we "Glorify" the land, possessing it with the Spirit of God (our hearts motivated by charity, love, humility, thankfulness, etc.)?

We are creatures of the mind. Life is not about ownership of worldly things, but "ownership" of those things born of God's Selfless, Good Spirit. If it is your heart's desire to cleave unto God, then you must sow His Spirit, or personify Selfless Love, treading The Way Jesus tread. God is not mocked, for as you sow, so shall you reap.

Spiritually speaking, those who "divide" the land of God are those who live in spiritual duality. Per Jesus, these are the "lukewarm" Laodecians (lay-oh-dis-see-ans) in the Book of Revelation, referring to souls who are neither "hot" (true and faithful to God's Spirit) nor "cold" (unregenerately devoted to the anti-Spirit), but rather an offensive mixture of devotion to both Spirit and anti-Spirit.

“Laodicea” means “common rights of the people.” Those who are "Laodiceans" are spiritually indifferent, having balanced their lives between the Spirit of God and THEIR demands for THEIR rights to live in a society wherein THEY can benefit from THEIR worldly pursuits of money, power, and politics. They readily cast judgments and spout selected scriptural quotes to justify their agendas of separatism, even damning those who do not follow their social and spiritual values. Though they may shout their belief in God, they are not aligned with His Selfless, Good Spirit.

See? Pat Robertson's got it bass-ackwards. It is Pat Roberston himself who divides God's "land" by denying the Selfless Spirit that knows no such judgments upon Ariel Sharon's work to bring peace to Israel. Robertson does not walk in Sharon's shoes and therefore does not know Sharon's heart and motivations, yet holds himself the mouthpiece of God's judgment against Sharon.

Be not deceived, for as we judge, so shall we be judged. As Robertson has judged Sharon for what he perceives as Sharon's "sins," so shall Robertson be likewise judged for his own.

INTELLIGENT DESIGN, UNINTELLIGENT MINDS

INTELLIGENT DESIGN, UNINTELLIGENT CHRISTIANITY


Where is the intelligence in the minds of the leaders of institutionalized, or "corporate" Christianity who insist upon fusing "Intelligent Design" with Science?

Never having been raised in any religion, my lifelong studies of the Bible are not colored by Catholic, Protestant or any religious dogma. The Bible's Message reveals God as the Creator of the Universe, and that He is the Invisible Mind and Spirit of Selfless Love. God, who is the Creative Power and Source of the Universe, has Mind and Spirit and, thus, Intelligence.

The "design" of all physicality and life, born of God's Mind and Spirit, is "Intelligent Design" indeed. But because there is no scientific, empirical proof of God, the religious or spiritual subject of Intelligent Design has no placement in a Science class.

Christians who refuse the evident fact that there is no empirical proof of God have forgotten the equally evident fact that believing in God is about faith. If there was empirical proof of God, then none of us would argue over God or have the need for "faith."

Many of America's high-profile preachers are complaining that it is unfair that Intelligent Design is not offered in Science classes to counterpoint evolution. Christianity's push to get Intelligent Design into the Science cirriculum is nothing but a 'smoke and mirrors' tactic to introduce the religious construct of Creationism as "scientific theory."

Christians who readily "buy in" to Creationism are blindly following unenlightened leaders with unenlightened explanations of scripture.

Christianity's most widely accepted interpretation of the 6 days of Creation is that each day symbolizes 1,000 years, making the Universe 6,000 years old. Why? Because of their literal interpretation of Second Peter 3:8, which reveals that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years."

Many Christian "Creationists" have chosen to use one Biblical verse to deduce that the 6 days of Creation equal 6,000 years. But isn't this absurd? After all, Psalms 90:4 reveals that "a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night." If we understand that 1,000 years is to God as "yesterday when it is past," then 1,000 years by God's perception is instantaneous. Using Psalms 90:4, we deduce that the 6 days of Creation was relatively instantaneous. After all, it's right there in the Bible!

Those who seek to understand scripture by the Letter of the Law will always fail. The Spirit of the Law is where the answer lives.

The 6 "days" of Creation must be understood by the Spirit of the Law, in this case, the Spirit of the word "day." By the Letter of the Law, you can reason that a "day" is a 24-hour period, a 1,000-year period (Second Peter 3:8), or instantaneous (Psalms 90:4). But the Spirit of the Law is about understanding the "meat" of the message.

By the Spirit of the Law, the word "day" simply refers to a relative cycle of time. Let us all agree that the 6 days of Creation represent 6 relative periods of time. Science now shows that our Universe is over 13 billion years old. This does not contradict the 6 days of Creation if you understand that the "6 days" are 6 eras of time.

It is obvious that scriptures offer deeper understandings than just what literal interpretations offer. Even Jesus Himself tells us that His Message requires eyes that "see" and ears that "hear." He is instructing us to look beyond the "surface of the message" (literal understandings; the Letter of the Law) into the "depth of the message" (spiritual understandings; the Spirit of the Law).

Heck... anyone, even a child, can understand words, phrases, and sentences literally. It is only natural to understand the literal meaning before the spiritual meaning. That is how the mind works. How can a mind understand the spiritual nature of a word if it has no idea what the word means?

Today's fundamentalists, particularly, are "stuck" in the Letter of the Law. They often speak of the Bible as "the inerrant word of God," and yet favor one Biblical verse over another regarding the 6 days of Creation. How can one verse supersede another if scriptures are "innerant?"

We humans are "creatures of the mind." Our minds are the ultimate "builders" of who we are and what we will make of ourselves in life. Be not deceived by "mystery," and do not allow others to teach your mind to deny Spirit for "mystery." The Spirit knows no mystery for those who "see" the revelations of the Spirit.

THE TRUE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

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THE TRUE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

The Mormon Church (Latter Day Saints) claims to be the True Church of Jesus Christ. Well, so does the Catholic Church, which calls itself the "Mother Church" and claims that its Pope is the infallible representative of Jesus Christ on Earth. The Jews believe they're the "Chosen Ones" and the Muslims claim that Muhammad is the way to Paradise.

All of these religions hold themselves as "intermediaries" between your eternal soul and God Himself. In so doing, they are all false religions. Each is built upon separatism, which is fundamentally unfair. Each thinks itself "holier" than the other, denying the Bible's central revelation that the One Spirit of God is the One Way to His Kingdom. Global "corporate" religions refuse to teach that a soul's ascension into Heaven or Paradise is ultimately an individual process built upon personal reponsibility that has absolutely nothing to do with separatist religions and their idolatrous dogma.

These exclusionary religions are, by definition, "cults" that exist to enslave souls to their "holier-than-thou" group-mentalities. The True Religion of God is not about being a Mormon or Catholic or Jew, but about being a person who "walks" The Way of God's Spirit, exemplifying Selfless Love.

Would you rather live in a community filled with all types of people from all walks of life who are committed to living lives of Selfless Love or would you rather live in a community filled with Christ-believing, churchgoing Christians? There IS a difference!

The True Church of Jesus Christ is not some exclusionary religious group or a global system of religion. The "Temple of God," or "True Church of Jesus Christ" is your soul filled with God's Spirit. It doesn't matter what religion you say you are, because your "religion" is who you are. You are the Temple of the Living God when you are a living conduit of God's Selfless Spirit. It's that simple. No mystery involved. Just common sense... the common sense of the Spirit of the Law.

THE BIBLE: NOT A "MYSTERY," JUST COMMON SENSE

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THE BIBLE: NOT A "MYSTERY," JUST COMMON SENSE

The only "leap of faith" you need to make concerning the Bible is that God exists. It is not as easy as it sounds. "Believing" in God is not some mental construct that is made more "real" through candles or prayers or preachers or churches. God is the Invisible Spirit of Selfless Love that lives within the hearts, minds and souls of those who live to personify His Spirit.

True "belief" in God is living as a conduit of Selfless Love, especially in times of troubles. You can say you "believe" in God till your tongue falls out, but your "belief" shall mean nothing if have not lived to exemplify God's Spirit. Talk is cheap!

Jesus reveals that "all the law and the prophets" boils down to the First Commandment, which instructs us to love God with all our hearts, minds and souls. In order to love God (the Spirit of Selfless Love), we must live by Selfless Love instead of our own selfishness (jealousy, vengeance, intolerance, self-exaltation, blaming, etc.). We are repeatedly instructed to "overcome evil with good," or overcome our selfishness (self) with Selfless Love (God).

One of the few things that the world's Bible-believing Jews, Christians and Muslims all agree upon is "belief" in the Ten Commandments. If they all just followed the First Commandment, peace would reign among them, naturally. Those who follow the First will not break the rest.

Christians who claim that only "faith in Jesus Christ" leads to Heaven have missed the point. "Faith in Christ" is about personifying Selfless Love before all else. "Faith in Christ" is not about being a Christ-believing Christian who has membership somewhere in the worldly system of corporate Christianity.

"Faith in Christ" is a circumcision of the heart that is justified only by treading The Way of God's Spirit. Faith in Christ will never be justified through such worldly things as religious membership, formulaic prayers or idolatrous rituals. Faith in Christ is justified by our devotion to His Father's Spirit, no matter our religiosity (or lack of).

Christians who idolatrously worship Jesus Christ revere one particular Biblcal revelation, where we are told that Jesus Christ is the Savior for all who believe in Him. Christianity upholds this one revelation as the Bible's central truth, but they are deliberately short-sighted. It must be deliberate! After all, Jesus clearly reveals that some will confess belief in Him, but He will not know them, because they have denied God's Spirit. He also tells us that those who speak against Him shall not suffer the consequences of their sins and blasphemies if they remain true to God's Spirit.

Indeed, Salvation comes to those who "believe" in Jesus Christ. When interpreted by the Letter of the Law, "faith in Jesus" simply means being a Christ-believering Christian. Christian leaders are often heard referring to the world's Christians as "God's Children" and the "Kingdom of God" on Earth, and that only God's Children are "saved," or Heavenbound. By this monumentally selfish, incorrect reasoning, the world's non-Christians are all hellbound and collectively represent the "Kingdom of Satan" on Earth. When will this insanity stop?

When you understand Jesus Christ by the Spirit of the Law, you understand that He was the Mind and Spirit of God alive in the flesh, and is the Mind and Spirit of God alive in your flesh when you "believe" in Him, which is not about becoming a Christian and confessing, "I believe in Jesus as my personal Savior," but about personifying Selfless Love.

If the entirety of the Bible boils down to having "faith" in Christ, as many Christian leaders teach, then why does Jesus Himself tell us that it boils down to loving God (the Spirit of Selfless Love) with all your heart, soul and mind?

If being a Christ-believing Christian is the end-all to your Salvation, then why does Jesus Himself tell us that He'd rather we be heretics who exemplify God's Spirit (like the Good Samaritan) rather than "holy" religionists who deny God's Spirit (like many of history's popes and preachers)?

The Message is clear: God and Christ do not care about your worldly, dogmatic religiosity, but that you "walk" The Way of the Selfless, Good Spirit, living as a conduit of the very Power and Substance of God and Christ.

You can "choose" Christ all you want, but it is Christ who does the choosing in the end, and shall choose only those who have chosen His Father's Way of Selfless Love. God doesn't care if you call yourself a "Christ-believer" or define yourself as Catholic or Jew or Mormon or Muslim or whatever, because He knows you by your devotion to His Spirit.

It is extremely easy for people to speak of their love for God, but not live by God's Spirit. As far as Billy Graham is concerned, if you have "faith in Christ" you are already "saved," no matter your past, present or future sins. This commonly accepted, "central truth" of all Christianity is its biggest lie. It is a fundamental denial of scripture to teach that "faith in Christ" supersedes the personal responsibility of LIVING in the Spirit of God. This fundamental lie at the very heart of corporate Christianity makes for fundamentally-unfair religion.

Can we ever know just how many "Christians" have used God for political gain, financial gain and control over others? How many are sitting in prisons right now for terrible crimes? It stands to reason that somewhere around 82% of America's prison population is Christian, as America is reportedly around 82% Christian. Even criminals of most-heinous crimes have no need for such things as guilt, repentance or a Good Consicence, because big-business Christianity promises that they are all "saved" due to their "faith in Jesus."

If you truly "believe" in God, the Bible's revelations are just plain common sense. Life is about overcoming your selfishness with God's Selfless, Good Spirit. "As you sow, so shall you reap," which means that what we "build" in life shall be our "reward" in death. If you "build" Spirit, the Light of the Spirit shall be builded (magnified; glorified) within you, moving your soul towards Oneness with God, or Eternal Light. If you "build" selfishness (anti-Spirit; darkness), the darkness of the anti-Spirit shall "consume" your soul's Light, further separating your soul from God, towards Eternal Darkness.

God has already Judged. He has Judged by His Grace, which is His Righteous Justice ("as you sow, so shall you reap"). Without the Grace of God's Righteous Justice, there would be no way back to His Kingdom. A repentant, selfless life would account for nothing. God has already Judged, by His Righteous Justice. The rest is up to you.

The Bible's Message of the Spirit, or Spirit of the Law, is an instruction that can be summed up in three words: Be Unselfishly Good.

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