You "welcome" them? Sure didn't sound like that when you started out calling people dummies, liars, Pharisees, etc.. Normally, when someone posts a thread, they do so to start a discussion. The way you are responding it's like you want to say what you want and everyone should just be delighted to join you in agreement. The thing is, you have said things, Roy Masters has said things, that come flat up against Biblical Christianity and I have asked you probably ten times now why Masters' version of Christianity is at all related to his simple (your word) "Be still" exercise and you have not once given an answer. This tells me you are avoiding it. Now, either you don't know the answer or you are afraid to say it. Which is it?
My questions are completely ON topic since it is YOU that insists Roy Masters is an "amazing Biblical Christian". I want to know how he can call himself "Biblical" when we have spent the last week showing you how far off he is concerning what the Bible says. You have been shown that he rewrites the Bible according to his own thinking. He even dismisses knowing that the Bible is important because he thinks we can "learn" all we need to know by being still and just watching. I'm not the one who is "trying to control" anything, I am asking fairly easy questions and getting the runaround for the last week. Maybe you thought Free Republic was filled with people who are ignorant about spiritual matters. I hope you will think again next time you want to post a thread praising your new prophet. I hope AND pray that you will see the error in what you are following and will turn to Jesus Christ and follow in His way.
“amazing Biblical Christian”.....where did I write that? And the Be still exercise, as I have demonstrated, is in the bible and is a silent simple prayer which is a much better way to pray than talking to God. That was a good answer but you missed it.
And when you guys presumptuously come here and accuse the man that is the topic of my post as being something totally different than what he is and many know him as, that is being like a pharisee and your repeated attempt at painting him as a false Christian is indeed dumb to put it rather nicely. Don’t try and make me out to be what you guys have done to a very noble man. I have stated the truth about you all and you guys have repeatedly misstated facts about Roy. That is a fact. Can you deal with it honestly?
Sorry BB, but you are not part of the esoteric cult that considers their revelations holy and are not subject to proof by the words of Scripture, while a Bible can be chucked:
“The whole process of growing is not from words but from realizing and then you can throw your Bible in the garbage can and there’s no sin in that.” (”The Mystery of Golgotha,” tape).
And “The Scriptures can poison you, and destroy you. They are lethal, they are deadly. They are more deadly than any drug.” (Tape No. 20, “The Sayings of Jesus—Right Tradition.”)
And “Study kills. It is a very dangerous ‘informing’ indeed.” (The Satan Principle, pp. 38-39)
Meanwhile, consistent with his rejection of Biblical hermeneutics, which, as in everyday communication, takes into account context, genre, grammar, etc. in understanding, with the Holy Spirit giving added discernment to believers, Masters “proof text,” “Be still, and know that I am God” and which goes on to say, : I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth, “ (Psalms 46:10) is a misappropriation, as it is not referring to getting oneself into a highly suggestive mental state, including in order to hear from God in a way that is divorced from the words of Scripture, but contextually it is referring to standing in awe in seeing God do the work of subduing His enemies:
“Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. “ (Psalms 46:8-9)
And which is in the context of promoting faith to trust God to do so, rather than striving to fight in your own strength, as it begins, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; “ (Psalms 46:1-2)
And which corresponds to “And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. “ (Exodus 14:13)
And,
“Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you. “ (2 Chronicles 20:17)
And which things we know by Scripture, and are opposed to worry, and instead they promote faith, knowing that we are laborers together with God, (1Cor. 3:9) who is the One who really effectually works in and thru us as we trust and obey Him consistent with Scripture. (Phil. 2:12,13; cf. Jn. 14:10; Mt. 4:4)
Thus once again, Scripture interprets Scripture, the Holy Spirit accordingly, and casting down the imaginations of Masters resulting from his unScriptural hyper suggestive esoteric “revelations” which he considers holy, while the Bible can be used as Charmin.