Posted on 08/10/2023 6:58:58 PM PDT by tired&retired
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Matthew 7:22-23 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
It seems that the Lord allows many who are not his own to borrow his name,power and authority to do good works as he wills. Yet these works won’t count for his acceptance of them as his own children in the day of judgment.
Also there is this...from Acts 19:13-17 “13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” 14 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. 15 But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” 16 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all[a] of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.
God lends his authority to governments as wielders of the sword against evil doers!And his authority extends thru the parents of families! Many leaders are not Christian but may act in noble ways under God’s authority whether they are cognizant or mindful of that color of authority extended to and thru them.
Acting under his authority isn’t that hard to do as all are under the law of Moses if they are not under the grace of Christ.
This not to say Mr Tand R you may or not have anything to worry about with Christ. My comments are strictly about authority and who can wield it in Christ’s name! Your points about love are noted!
“However, the same is true when I read the Bhagavad Gita.... or the Upanishads or Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa. They are all describing the same process.”
The society that produced those writings kept people in caste bondage and spiritual darkness. Galatians 3:26-29 testifies against them! “
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
You do equate these writings with the Godhead’s full expression of Radiance in the flesh which is Jesus Christ!!??
1 John 4 testifies against this!
To the greatest extent possible, I try not to use Christ’s Name, but to allow Christ in me to do the work through me. It is not me doing the work. My strength is in my weakness. When I feel His Love in me, I desire nothing, but to do His Will.
As St Francis would say, “to follow the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ and to walk in his footsteps.”
GOOD!
Because otherwise it would appear that Jesus is approving of your delusions and false teaching. You'd be seriously misrepresenting Him.
Adding Jesus as a window dressing to false teachings and doctrines of demons does not validate or legitimize them and gives people a false representation of God and Jesus.
FWIW, I don't doubt your experiences. I think you did experience these delusional events. Just the source and your truly bizzaro teachings about God and that anything you claim to have done for people actually happened. They do NOT line up with Scripture no matter how good they feel and what kind of good you think you are doing with them..
GOD
Stills You
Reassures You
Leads You
Enlightens You
Forgives You
Calms You
Encourages You
Comforts You
SATAN
Rushes You
Frightens You
Pushes You
Confuses You
Condemns You
Stresses You
Discourages You
Worries You
GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION
https://www.raptureready.com/2023/08/09/god-is-not-the-author-of-confusion-by-candy-austin
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I love that!! TRUTH
Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa was also a Christian that studied the Bible, took Communion, and accepted Jesus as His Savior.
Religions are theories and philosophies of the anatomy and physiology of the human soul and how it interacts with its environment. They are for the most part correct, but incomplete.
There is a higher level of understanding that allows a person to accept Jesus as their Savior without discounting the other religions or Christianity.
When the human soul became visable to me, I understood the Bible from a new perspective. That new perspective did not discount Hinduism or Buddhism, but used them to better understand the Bible as the truth.
Religions are to the soul what five blind men are to an elephant when each one gets a different part and fights and argues that each are correct. One gets the trunk and says that an elephant is like a python, another the tail and argues it is like a rope, another the leg and argues it is like a column in a building.... each one is correct, but incomplete.
And yes, it is correct, that no matter the path you take, you cannot get to God except through Jesus.(John 14)
I know Jews that were surprised when they met Jesus during their NDE.
Many of the same things that people attack me for saying, Jesus warned His disciples not to share with others, lest they turn and attack you. For over thirty years I was told not to share as it wasn’t time yet. Well now it’s time as finally things are unfolding as were fortold in the Bible.
I know, we’ve all been told the same since our birth and nothing yet has happened. But this is different. Open your eyes and see the bigger picture and realize that this is different than ever before. While the signs of man’s behavior have repeated many times in history, fooling us that it was time for the messiah to return, the signs of the earth have not been there until now.
I’m not giving a time frame as only God knows. I’m just pointing out a sequence of events that are unfolding in stages.
Maybe soon God will guide me to share more details and demonstrate the details. Absolutely nothing I say or do is inconsistent with Jesus’s words and teachings. I am no one special. I’m a sinner just like everyone else. These things happen through me in spite of me, not because of me.
I have no messiah complex, nor do I want a following. I share for people to ponder. Your religion can only be found by experiencing it within yourself, not by fabricating a set of beliefs intellectually, or by following someone else.
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LOL.... Your thinking is very shallow.
You refer to Jesus and God as separate from you and you must call His name. LOL...
When you truly accept Communion with Jesus, He is within you, not separate from you. You don’t use His name as He speaks through you as Our Father speaks through Jesus.
When Jesus stated, “My Father and I are One” when He came out of the wilderness, He understood this.
John 14
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me;....
19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
Very few Christians truly understand and even fewer experience verse 20. That is true communion.
You left out the Bagavad Gita and the Upanishads but cited the “Swami” in rebuttal. The Swami never really repented of his syncretism, reading thru his history. Jesus remained for him as one of the Brahmaic paths to God.
Jesus is the light of the World, in whom the eternal Logos expressed itself radiantly through his humanity, born of a virgin.
The entire Pauline discourse in Acts 17...”to the unknown God” testifies against you here!
John 14:
“Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. “
There is a step by step growth process where your soul accepts the Holy Spirit or Helper Spirit that will enter you when you invite it into you.
The Holy Spirit is real and experiential. It will cleanse your soul and bring you to wholeness. Wholeness at the lower earthly level is necessary for transcendance to happen.
Transcendence is being “Born Again” as you begin to see, hear, feel, taste and smell directly with your consciousness, beyond your physical body.
But just as when you leave your mother’s womb and are born, you must lean what you are seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling and dmelling. The same is true when you are “Born of the Spirit.”
Just as a child grows and adventures to experience and learn, so will your soul as it grows and expands.
It is during this growing and expanding of conscious awareness beyond your physical body that you will meet and become “One with Jesus.” This is true communion.
It’s not just theory, but experiential and with full awareness that Jesus is real. You will know Him by the Love He radiates. It is unmistakable.
This is how the things that Jesus does and even more you too shall do with Him in you.
You folks are like the Pharasitic Jews eho were persecuting Paul.
Keep in mind, these people were worshiping gold and silver earthly idols, not God. As they couldn’t comprehend God. Just of many here cannot comprehend God.
I challenge each person to write down their own description of God in their own words. Then I challenge them to write it again experientally rather than theoretically.
Just as there are many languages, each describing the same thing, there are many religions describing the same thing. Each of these religions are not describing earthly idols as Acts 17 does, so your comparison is a fallacy in logical argumentation.
If anything, you acting like the Pharisees in Acts 17 is directly comparable.
I believe it’s probable magnetic fields affect the human body and possibly mind, emotions, soulish stuff. But is it implied here the Earth’s magnetic field is the cause of deterioration of the world in the end times? If yes that is not biblical. I can see how magnetics would aggravate things, but the major cause of the deterioration leading to the end is sin. We see ALOT of that kind of self-centeredness now which is basically Luciferian—man as his own little god. Just as described in 2 Timothy 3:2-9.
QUESTION
What does it mean that in the days of the judges everyone did what was right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6)?
ANSWER
Some Bible verses are incorporated like footnotes from the writer or narrator to help interpret or explain how certain events could occur. An example appears in Judges 17:6: “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (NKJV). The same commentary recurs in the concluding verse of the book: “In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes” (Judges 21:25, NLT).
Everyone did what was right in his own eyes equates to saying that a state of anarchy existed in Israel. The phrase originates in the Pentateuch. Israel’s wilderness wandering period was an unsettled time when some of the sacrifices and tithes were not being offered. Moses described this time as “everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes” (Deuteronomy 12:8, ESV). The haphazard worship of those days would end in the Promised Land, which would allow for a more stable mode of community life (Deuteronomy 12:9–14).
The days of the judges were dark and troubling times for the nation of Israel. Moses had commanded the people to do what is right in God’s eyes (Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 6:18; 12:25, 28; 13:19; 21:9). But, after the death of Moses and then Joshua, the people quickly went astray. Judges 17 is the account of Micah and his family, provided as an example of the widespread corruption taking place among the people. Idolatry and moral confusion were rampant. Without a king over the people, everyone did what was right in his own eyes. There was no central governing authority to maintain discipline and order in Israel, and the result was lawlessness.
They did what was right in their own eyes is equivalent to today’s philosophy that “if it feels right, then do it” or “you be you.” Nowadays, we “do our own thing” and sing songs that boast, “I did it my way,” as though this is a good thing. But such moral subjectivism got Israel into trouble, leading the nation into the depths of depravity and moral decay. It will do the same for societies today.
God has an absolute right way spelled out for us in His Word. Proverbs 14:34 puts it like this: “Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (NLT). The same proverb warns, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs 14:12).
If everyone does whatever is right in his own eyes, spiritual confusion and compromise arise, and nations fall into disgrace. God calls His people to obedience and conformity to the standards of right living in His Word: “He will give eternal life to those who keep on doing good, seeking after the glory and honor and immortality that God offers. But he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey the truth and instead live lives of wickedness. There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism” (Romans 2:7–11, NLT).
Thankfully, when we call on the name of Jesus, we are made right in God’s eyes through Jesus Christ’s work of redemption (1 Corinthians 6:9–11; Romans 8:3–4). God’s Spirit guides and empowers us to live righteous and holy lives so that we no longer do as we please but instead live to please Him (Romans 8:11–14; Galatians 5:19–24; Ephesians 4:22–24; Philippians 2:12–13; Hebrews 8:10).
https://www.gotquestions.org/what-was-right-in-their-own-eyes.html
What this video fails to mention is that the human soul is a dipolar field like the earth.(masculine and feminine) Thus the earth changes are causing souls to be unshackled. This is the cause of all the gender identity issues and high divorce rate in the recent years.
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The Word states:
Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Sin, rebellion against the Creator’s divine design and plan, is what separates people from Him—which always results in confusion, suffering and death.
I’ve been feeling the extreme wobble the past few weeks. If feels like I just stepped off a boat onto dry ground and didn’t get my legs yet. Many of you have been feeling it too.
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Yes, I can relate. It’s tough to watch a reprobate society/ government/ society collapse all around us. Keep your eyes on Jesus. He will pull you out of the stormy sea if you trust Him and go to Him.
I’m curious, don’t mean to be nosy so I won’t feel bad if you choose not to answer. You seem to have a lot of experience in psychology. Is that your field, or sociology? You meningitis you did therapeutic hypnosis? I remember you saying you did work with some work with Jung or reviewed some of his papers? Also are you Catholic? I just want to know you better to get a better understanding of your viewpoint. You seem to me as very intelligent and well educated.
MENTIONED. Not meningitis. LOL spellcheck.
Jesus who did not judge.
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Do you believe Jesus does not judge? He’s the top judge. He judged while walking on this Earth and He’s coming back to judge all.
I respect you tremendously sir. Posting this was definitely for a reason.
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I agree!!
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you made my day with your comment
...and Im supossed to think” John of God” is not fraudulent, too?
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