Christianity is not the problem... there is no problem. When I had finished my first book, there were attacks on it by some Christians. But not only Christians, a lot of religious dogma. When you take a close look at theology you can pretty much define where the lies started.
When you reach a level of awareness that is beyond the dogma you atart to see things for what they are. You see past the lies that people have formed around themselves to justify their reality.
The teachings of Christ and other parts of the bible are like the messages we hear now. We filter them to make sense of the fragile eggshell reality we have created around us. We filter everything.
You will have claims of the Bible is 'law and everything is truth'... but when I would question certain truths I found that people would make brilliant excuse on why that part was not literal.
I have read and determined a lot of what I have read to be about perspective. After all there is no such thing as right and wrong, it is simply a matter of perspective.
In my opinion a lot of Pauls writing is influenced by his filter of having been a Pharisee most of his life. Paul was an enlightened being, but he still felt much anger and other negative emotions and even makes it clear in some parts that the writing is his words and not the words of God.
His dominant belief about women... according to his writings, women should not speak in church. If they have an idea then they tell their husband and the husband would deem if it was ok. Then he would speak it.
Um... yeah, very clear and very defined in some type of limitation. Christianity is not the only religion that has these filters in their writings. All religious dogma is designed to keep the masses controlled through fear. Thus we have scary hell, and the thought that we were created imperfect.
When you really think about it and question where this belief came from and whether or not it is true for you you will find that something will not make sense.
The eggshell reality of religion and all other facets of your life are dominated by the lies we tell ourselves to make it a reality. Our logical minds have to have an excuse on why you would keep yourself in a state of fear or depression. Thus we lie to ourselves and others. It doesn't make us bad people.
I am yet to find someone who is a bad person, I see alot of people who are simply confused about what is true for them. It is much easier to take on someone elses truth then your own. Thus you have Christians who are a little more judgemental than others. In that judgement they judge themselves, thus they have to make it public and passionate or else why the heck have they been believing something in that way for so long.
The mentality is "give me rules to follow" those are real, in my face... I can see them, they are within my comfort zone. Some people do not believe they are ready to turn their focus inward, they have been programmed to find the answer outside of themselves. Thus the following of the dogma and the accusations of others who are not inline.
This all has to do with the filter, everyone that attends a church will hear the surmon in a different way due to this very unique filter. It does tend to get a little clogged with fear and doubt.
As far as my thoughts on Christianity. I was kicked out of my church, but I love them all. I know they were doing what they believed was right, what was true for them. That was their truth and they were very passionate for them, if I was in their position and had lived their lives I would have done the same thing. So no one is a bad person... they are just confused and cannot remember who they are... It is scary as "HELL" to face the things you are afraid of and question what you believe to be true, reality can fall apart.
My question is this, why would you judge a group of people and label them into the same group if you know that you are capable of doing what anyone else on this planet has or can do?
Beware of judging those that judge you, that is a dangerous road that will lead to much resentment and anger.
Jesus was very clear in his message, just as Budda and most enlightened beings on this planet, do not disregard him simply because someone has their filter on too tight...
Here is a little that I covered on Jesus
Matthew 14:28-31
28"Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water."
29"Come," he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!"
31Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"
This is the perfect example of doubt. It amazes me some of the miracles that the disciples were able to do because of their faith in Jesus. But when doubt sets in here you see what happens, you sink.
We cannot doubt for a second, do not let any outside factors influence your faith, you must believe completely that you will receive what ever it is you ask for or you will sink and never see it.
I won’t go into complete detail on the next few but if you still have a problem go ahead and take a look in the New Testament you will find several times where Jesus will tell people that they have healed themselves through their faith.
You will also find where he got upset with the disciples because their faith was lacking in casting a demon.
In Matthew 7:7-12 and Luke 11:9-13 he talks about not sitting on your butt and waiting for something to come to you. When opportunity knocks you have to act on it, but these are simple passages talking about the golden rule and stating the very popular ‘Ask and you will find’
We go back to motives in James 4:3, making sure your motives are in line with the positive energy that surrounds us.
For more take a look at
Matthew 21:21
Mark 11:23
John 20:27
Romans 14:23
James 1:6-8
These cover a little more on doubt and also talks about judging others.
There is much more than this, and these messages can be found everywhere, we are constantly trying to remind our self of who we are...
Christianity is no different without the fear.
You are perfect, you are amazing, you are great
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