I absolutely believe as the foundation of my belief that God takes us as if we were a ball of clay and makes us unto Himself as I was told in a dream. This dream is explained in my testimony. Many have tried to convince me that this dream is just a dream, even my own father has tried to explain to me that I had been deceived by Satan, but since when does Satan deliever hope of salvation, I was given the Good News. I had searched very diligently for truth as you can read in my testimony, so maybe God had decided I deserved a little piece of it, and a little piece it is, but a very important piece.
All other
beliefs are subject to change based on new studies, revelations and
discussion with others.
As of 09 December 2008
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I believe we know in our heart what is right and wrong and
when we go against our heart we are judged, our soul becomes sickened
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What we end up with on this earth are people without souls who roam the earth and murder without care, it is unfortunate for us, but in the end they die and are no more while we go on to a better place.
That's what I believe.
Added 12/09/08
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I think I'm getting it figured out.
God is the beach and we are the sand.
As sand, each of us is a part of God.
Where does evil come from?
When the sand refuses to be a part of the beach, it then becomes evil.
I don't believe Jesus is God, but a sand stone, but is a child of God just as we, but more, he is our older brother, a sand stone. I have a theory and I know if I try I could put the scriptures together to support my theory, but I have learned that you can make that bible support just about anything you like, you just pull out the right scriptures. I know, I've had that done to me a time or two.
The bible is given far to much credit for being penned by the human hand so long ago, in languages no longer spoken, and traditions far away from our own.
The true word of God is in your heart and every child hears it the first time they steal a candy bar, call someone stupid or fight with their mother. If we pay attention to it, we will clearly hear it our whole life long.
Jesus was the first and when the harvest comes, we will become like our older brother Jesus.
Salvation comes from following Jesus. The only person I know who has come closest to following Jesus is Ghandi who never claimed to be a Christian. While few Christians come close to the greatness of Ghandi, some subscribe to a teaching that says that you only have to believe, and the stronger the belief, the greater the righteousness, but anyone, regardless of how good, including Ghandi will not be saved, because they don't believe. That's crazy, and I think if Jesus comes you WILL find out otherwise.
The one who learns of the teachings of Jesus and models his or her life around those teaching will fail, but God is merciful and for such we have repentance, they will not go to hell. The true believer is a repentant person.
Speaking of hell, I don't believe there is such a place, and on this subject, I like the Mormon teaching. Second to that would be the Catholic church who believes in purgatory, and by the way, that is scriptural, I had a Catholic Priest show me the scriptures. My belief however is that you can actually kill your soul while you are alive, and for those who do this, their life is hell, and when they die, thats it, there is no soul that goes anywhere, but, for all there is salvation. That door never closes in our life time. Like the Mormon's teach, it is a choice we make. You can say that people who kill their soul have been badly abused, but I don't believe it is forced upon us, but chosen by us, and I know people who lived terrible awful experiences of no choice of their own and have never-the-less been the most charitable of people.
Jesus taught his disciples that he had to die and I believe that is true and the reasoning is really simple, even though at the time his disciples could not and would not understand. People are weird, there is something wrong with us, when God made us He repented. Jesus having a perfect understanding of this knew that a good man can do and teach many great things, but if he lives long and dies of natural causes he is forgotten, but if he is martyred, he is remembered for ever. Being remembered, so will his teachings be remembered, and it is very important that the teachings live on forever, because that is the very thing that can save us.
Concerning America - it was the closest thing to the most perfect government, but not anymore. It once was a nation by and for the people, and I wish the people would take their nation back or Jesus will return soon, because things are very bad and getting worse. Whether or not it is spoken of in the scriptures is debatable. A lot of these scriptures were written in a cryptic language so that only those familiar with the beliefs could understand it. How can a church who disregards the teachings of Jesus possibly claim to understand Revelations, I think they need to humble themselves a bit. If Jesus does return, you better be sure, they will be humbled.
I don't believe the true church is here today, but what we have is a lot of people trying to be the true church and some actually believing they are.
I believe the Essenes, those hiding in the catacombs and other groups in other areas we have heard rumor of, have been taken up. Somewhere around a hundred to two hundred years after Christ (the Messiah) Jesus was put to death on the cross. What we have today is an apostasy. There is no true church but many claiming to be, even the Islam religion. However concerning Islam, in this camp I have found some real friends and must confess that I really don't have full understanding of its doctrine, certainly not enough to make a judgment.
Jesus said you will know them by their fruits, while we see terrorism rather than peacefulness come from this religion, let me just say that where there is goodness, there is evilness ready and willing to devour this goodness, so I ask for a little more open mindedness and less judgment and hope and pray that all are able to live in peace. Besides, I don't believe many of us realize the terror of bombs and other weaponry, directly or indirectly, bringing destruction to others around the world (would this be the good fruit or good news to be shared to the end of the earth?). Judge not less you be judged.
Concerning abortion, different kind of marriage arrangements or not, let me just say as Jesus did in the Aquarian Gospel. Those who spend their whole time weeding other peoples garden find no time to weed their own. Everybody is different and what is best for you may not be best for another. When you stand before God and answer for your life, you will not be asked to answer for your neighbors doing and when you are remembered in history, they won't remember you by what your neighbor did. Those who are not right themselves always will point their fingers at others hoping no one will notice their own misdeeds.
