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To: tired&retired
How is the following statement reconciled with Jesus's declaration that He is the only way?
Religion(s) are like the five blind men that are led to an elephant for the first time and each gets a different part.

52 posted on 07/10/2023 3:15:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Good question. Jesus states this in John 14.

People think of the “WAY” as following a person down a path to a destination. That is not how you find the Kingdom of God.

The Kingdom of God is within you.

As you focus on God in Prayerful Meditation, your consciousness increases in frequency. As it increases in frequency, it increases in size. It expands way beyond your physical body.

A good model to visualize this is Russian Nesting Dolls, where you are the little doll in the middle and God is the big outer doll in which you exist. Jesus is a doll between us and God.

You cannot get to God except by going through Jesus. Thus the statement that you cannot get to God except through Jesus is a true statement.

There are other dolls as well. You must go through all levels. I choose to be Christian as His teachings are my path. However, I understand Jesus’s teachings better by reading Buddhism and Hinduism texts as well. Never to discount the Bible, but to understand it better.

In John 14 Jesus also states that He is in Our Father and Our Father is in Him. Down further, Jesus also states that if He is in us, (that’s communion), then Our Father that is in Him is also in us. Try to understand those scriptures without the Nesting Doll model.

I state this based upon my own experiences and observations by going within. Then I needed to ground my experiences in the Bible.

Jesus also states in John 14, that the things that He does and even more, you too shall do in Him. This is very true. The reason people aren’t doing these things is because they misunderstand His teachings.

Jesus is here RIGHT NOW. If that were not the case, What good would be communion? He is teaching us how to raise up to Him and experience Him. He sent the Helper Spirit to assist us in doing that. That is the “Raised Up” that He teaches us as tribulation happens.

Further supporting this are Matthew 24:26.

“26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.”

We exist with Jesus’s Consciousness. No matter where you exist on earth, you exist within Jesus. No matter where you exist on earth, if you go within and raise up, Jesus is already here.

You are the soul or consciousness that occupies your physical body. When I died and went to Heaven I departed this earthly body. But spiritual growth is attained by transcending and expanding beyond the physical body. That is Heaven on earth.

🙏🙏🙏


54 posted on 07/10/2023 4:15:26 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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