tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16729241889049642562024-03-05T13:36:15.877-08:00A Place To Feel GodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672924188904964256.post-69048095318406659902018-11-28T12:54:00.003-08:002019-06-25T19:05:33.979-07:00Archangel Michael on Free Will<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You cannot have true free will until you overcome learned behavior. Most choices are not really free will. Each place of work has its own rules with choices within those rules until you are on your own. The world has no rules that make sense. Knowing how to make a choice is very important. Tom is confused coming out of stress or trauma. When you respond in a certain way it is learning. A choice is when you decide to do something other than what you have learned. You must challenge the premise of what you have learned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The origin of stress or trauma comes from this place of learned behavior. You cannot make a choice because you are confused. True choice means you have exercised your free will to reject the learned responses.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672924188904964256.post-9893998758475107042018-11-28T12:30:00.002-08:002019-06-25T18:58:28.892-07:00A Message From Archangel Michael<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
Notes from a meeting with Archangel Michael – January 7, 2013<o:p></o:p></div>
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Archangel Michael came to talk to us as an answer to our prayers. These are a summary of his suggestions to us on how to fulfill our prayers. He made it clear that Angels only answer prayers. They suggest what we could do in order to live according to our prayers. There is no enforcement of any kind. If one has big prayers, the suggestions to him or her will be different than if one has small prayers. All are equal. There is no judgment from Heaven on what we “should” do. Free will is respected at all times and each one has to choose for him or herself what he or she wants to do and how he or she wants to live.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The question for people is how to live, die, and love close to God in this world. We are like Paul. After we experience God in an undeniable way, we have to learn how to walk again and talk again because we have been “born again.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In ancient times in Germany, the goal was to do whatever it took to have an experience with God. The people lived with nature and made small offerings on a daily basis. The key was for them to believe in themselves and have faith. Most of Christianity today came from Germany.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everyone’s prayers have been answered by the way one came into this world and where one was born. Most times, however, to really see yourself you have to see yourself through others in a foreign way – in a stark contrast. Most of us can do well anywhere if we see ourselves for what we really are and know what we can do. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There are three types of cultures in this world. The conquered, those transitioning to being conquered, and the conquerors. In the world of the conquered (Michael talked about Africa and Native Americans at the Pine Ridge Reservation), there is unlimited need because the conquerors took a fully functional society and completely changed the way these indigenous people lived. Now nothing happens easily or well. Before being conquered, the people were free to worship and live as they chose and had a life style that suited them. Now their lives have been constrained. Their old ways were denied them by the conquerors and their future now makes no sense. The<u>ir</u>lives are difficult because what they have been taught by the conquerors is not of them. They ask for money because that is what they have learned from the conquerors. Their old cultures did not have money but now that is what they ask for because they have been forced to believe it is necessary. However, it is not of their nature. Their kingdoms now have been filled with the beliefs and cultural rules of the western world. So the questions are, “How do you teach them to walk again? How do you get them to understand they can do it themselves?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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For those places in transition (Nepal for example), an ancient culture is being forced to become modern. The Nepalese are trying to discern how to live but it is a place of battle. In Nepal, they will not ask you for money because they have not yet been conquered. Yet they are selling their daughters into sexual slavery for money.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Missionaries have taken the dominant culture’s society to indigenous people. They bring them medicine and other things the indigenous people need, but then ask for something in return - to profess belief in a God named Jesus. The problem is that the indigenous people already know how to live within their world. Unwittingly, the western world wants to take their very essence from them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The battle is in all places. The conquered need to be liberated from the oppression of the culture these people were forced to embrace. Those in transition need to embrace their past and reject the culture being forced on them. The conquerors need to reassess their own culture and find their true selves. Europe is still strong in the world’s eyes because it once conquered the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The battle is helping each culture understand its own history. You do not have to be what you are not. This should be the focus of education. Education will give each culture its own perspective. School equals perspective and is an alternative to the current self-destructive activities such as selling daughters into prostitution in Nepal. A computer is very cheap these days and will open a window into what once was. However, wherever children gather, predators will come and you have to be on guard. A secure system needs to be established and implemented to keep the children safe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The challenge is to build the model for those at the bottom of society to be self sufficient. Once they are no longer hungry, they can think about God. However, this dependence on government (or NGO’s) provides control and those in charge do not want to lose their control. For example, a man in Bangladesh pioneered micro loans to the women who were then freed. The government did not consider this development positive and he will be executed shortly. If you can change the women, then the world will change. If a woman does not believe she is safe, then she cannot exercise the power necessary for society to change. For instance, if you started a school for women in western Pakistan you would be killed. The challenge is to get people to understand their own power.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Native Americans were prohibited by the U.S. government from praying the way they have always prayed. The dominant culture told them they could only pray in a place called a church to a God named Jesus. For this, they had no reference and therefore could no longer feel as they once did. In order to feel, they introduced a hallucinogen that allowed them to feel again. The U.S. government told them as long as they prayed in that way, then they would be protected. So in Pine Ridge, they started the Native American Church. Each ceremony begins with the Eagle feather fan because that is the way they used to invite their relatives to the ceremony. With the fan they invite Jesus as one of their relatives into the Native American Church. A Native American will ask you to join his or her “church” but never to go to the sweat lodge with them. They never proselytized in their old culture because there was nothing to join. In true prayer there is never control and people must be liberated from the chains they have been taught to embrace. Therefore, each person has to be taught to go back before he or she can go forward. You have to understand each culture’s history to know how to pray to fix it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In Ghana, 1.5 million slaves went through Cape Coast and most did not make it out. This is part of what must be understood to heal that culture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Free is a concept. Churches are not free because they expect something in return. That is not of God. What is of God is building something to help others with no expectation of something in return, including a tax deduction. This is why 501(c)(3) organizations are not perfectly aligned with God. The picture below depicts what I am saying. The four small circles are the four corners of your world. God is the large circle in the middle. The goal is be on the line depicted by God. If you are outside God’s circle, then you are of the world. You can be partly or completely of the world by the approach taken. If it is about the self, you are in the world completely. Total selflessness, puts you next to God. If you want to be of God, then the goal is to be a cup in which to pour out God into this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1672924188904964256" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>God’s methods are sustainable. The world has reached its apex of food production using man’s methods. However, the goals have been wrong. The key to sustainability is quality not quantity. An indigenous banana tree that produces 10 bananas is better than a banana tree from the Philippines that produces 20 bananas because the nutritional make up is completely different. Your science does not yet understand nutrition. Each of you are comprised of microbes from thousands of creatures using those same microbes for eons. Microbes need nurturing. The present lives on the past. This is sustainability as God created it. Production does not equal nutrition. Rather focus on quality instead of quantity. This is why it is better to eat organically grown food rather than GMO alternatives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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People do not want to offend God. Certain Native American tribes such as the Lakota do not believe in traditional farming for two reasons. First, God chooses where everything is to grow perfectly and, second, because the earth is sacred when farmed traditional, the Lakota thought that scarring was sacrilege. The Mohawks (who lived in upper state New York) farmed using traditional methods but they farmed next to a river. Because the ground they farmed was constantly renewed with each flood, there was no scarring. With this knowledge, you now know the Lakota would embrace hydroponic farming methods but not traditional methods. Each culture’s history is to be respected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">GOD</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Introduction</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">God is a name that evokes responses within us. For some it is denial, for some fear, for some praise, and for some it is a combination of fear and praise. Philosophers in the middle ages spent much time trying to describe who God is as well as identifying God’s characteristics because there was little public skepticism then. Anselm of Canterbury in 1078 in his work, <i>Proslogion</i>, defined God as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived.” Anselm was on to something with his definition because we will never be capable of understanding the breadth and depth of God’s power, knowledge, creativity, and, most importantly, love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In our present culture, we unwittingly bring to the subject of God our prior experiences with those who say they know God. We also learned about God from those who had authority over us. For a moment, I want us to ignore this background information and begin our quest to find God anew so we are unencumbered by our past. Let us also momentarily forget the teachings of the Bible as some of these teachings intermingle fear with knowledge because multiple translations through the centuries have allowed misinterpretations to occur. If a single God exists, then let us assume this God is the creator of all things both in this world and beyond. If this is true, then this means God is a force and an intellect beyond anything we can imagine or conceive<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a>. It does not matter whether we start with the science of biology to try to understand the cell and its components or start with the science of astronomy and try to understand how our universe and world were created. If God created everything both large and small, then God inhabits it all, which means God is in the science of quantum physics, the science of chemistry, and every other science we have created because each discipline studies a small aspect of God’s creation. If we acknowledge God exists and did create this world, the next question is whether this God is a personal God. Each person can only answer this question with faith. If your life tracks mine, you have had experiences that prove God is real and here for you when you allow yourself to feel love unencumbered by fear. This article is my attempt to help you remove fear from any experience you have had concerning your concept of God. If you do this, you will find the true God who has always been a part of your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For the moment, let us stay in the world of wonder. Did you ever consider the miracles at work when an egg and a sperm combine to ultimately create a human body that is perfectly designed to hold your soul? Before you spend much time there, step back and consider just the miracle of your soul inhabiting a body. Science is very good at finding answers to minute aspects of God’s handiwork, but it can never understand the miracle of life itself or the miracle of you being you. Yet these are miracles we take for granted with every birth. God has created a world where we are completely surrounded by God but we can live our entire lives denying God’s existence. I have been told we are beings of light who are avatars in human form living in a carbon-based world for just a moment in order to learn more about love. None of our lives is easy but each life can be very rewarding if (and when) we learn more about love, compassion, and forgiveness. This alone demonstrates God’s genius in creating a world that provides us these opportunities to learn.</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Evil’s presence in this world makes it easy for us to deny God’s existence; but, if we only dwell on evil, we miss the point of our being here. God knows we have to be tested if we are to learn about love so God created a world where we are challenged. God’s goal is for us to learn to respond in love when we are confronted with fear. This article contains information that will help you if you want to take the same journey my wife and I are taking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I have been asked by Heaven to share answers to existential and metaphysical questions many have. The beginnings of my story are contained in a book I wrote that can be downloaded for free at aplacetofeelgod.org. If you choose to read this book, please focus on God and the answers God has given me as you begin your journey to rediscover God without fear. The information contained in that book and this article will answer many questions about why you are here and why your life is being lived as it is. It is my prayer that this information will allow you to embrace God anew and marvel at what God does for you daily. The true God is not bound by any human-invented religion, which is why God can be found by anyone regardless of his or her religious background or lack thereof because the true God is available and accessible to all. In God’s universe, no one is abandoned and no one is forced to believe any specific sacred text or doctrine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In my own journey, God found me and saved me with love. What I had previously done or thought was irrelevant to God because God’s love is always unconditional. This same love is available to all. God had to use supernatural experiences to reach me because God knew nothing else would have worked. I was so lost I did not know I was lost. I got to that state because I had accepted lies as the truth. I think most of us arrive at a similar position because we are products of our cultures. Once the dark gets our culture to embrace concepts as true that are really false, we unwittingly embrace these lies and confirmation bias<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a>then keeps us in this lost state. It is my hope and prayer that this article will help to reach those who are as lost as I was. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My suggestion is that you remain open to consider and evaluate new knowledge and feelings that validate that knowledge because both the information and the feelings are critical if you want to appreciate God’s gifts to you in this world. Knowledge without feelings will not work and feelings without understanding their significance will not work. While this article contains new information, you will not really know God until you feel God’s presence within you while simultaneously understanding that what you are experiencing is God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">God specifically designed our bodies to feel, which is why the dark wants us to shut down our natural feelings<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a>, ignore them, or mask them with artificial feelings created by stimulants, alcohol, or legal and illegal drugs. God’s gift of free means we are free to choose these alternative paths, but if we do, we have unwittingly limited what we can accomplish for ourselves and for others while here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In this article I frequently use the words “the dark” or “evil.” In philosophy and theology, there is discussion as to whether evil is an active agency or a passive one resulting from an absence of love and light. Based on my experience, I know the dark is an active force that is intent on harming us and our loved ones while we are in this world. A good summary of this issue is in Yuval Noah Harari’s book <i>Sapiens</i>at page 220:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Polytheism gave birth not merely to monotheist religions but also to dualistic ones. Dualistic religions espouse the existence of two opposing powers: good and evil. Unlike monotheism, dualism believes that evil is an independent power, neither created by the good God, nor subordinate to it. Dualism explains that the entire universe is a battleground between these two forces, and that everything that happens in the world is part of the struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dr. Harari’s summary is not correct when it asserts that God did not create the independent “evil” entity. It is also incorrect when it ascribes “power” to evil. God created the entities that have turned against God. God granted them free will and they used their free will to reject God and God’s love. The nature of free will is that everyone has a choice. One area where the dark has been successful is in convincing us that it actually has power. The only power the dark has is to tempt us into following it but that is not real power. Later in this article, I use the analogy that if we are comparing the power of God to that of evil, then God has the power of the sun while the dark has the power of an ant. However, this analogy is deficient in that it gives too much credit to evil. God is the creator of all things while the dark, which is comprised of entities dedicated to rejecting God and leading us astray, is comprised of entities God created. Created entities never have independent power. I deal later in this article with the concept that God always knew what evil would do before evil did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The best description I have for God is that God is love. This simple three-word phrase conveys all we need to know about God. But because God is so big and we are so small, it is hard for us to relate to God. A good place to start is to picture a woman holding her newborn child. The joy she demonstrates and feels as she holds her gift of new life is exactly how God loves each of us. The enormousness of God’s capacity for love is beyond our comprehension. The closest example we have been given is the love Jesus demonstrated for us when He willingly walked to the Cross. This is why the dark tries to make Jesus and His life controversial. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For our purposes, I would ask that you divorce Jesus from the teachings of institutional Christianity and only examine His life and those sayings attributed to Him that are based solely on love. God’s love is always present in the lives of those who place others above themselves. We find happiness and fulfillment in selflessness because selflessness is love in action. Selflessness is also found in forgiveness and compassion, which is why both are critical components of love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In this world, our relationship with God is challenged given evil’s constant onslaught. We are further challenged because we cannot feel God’s love when we allow fear to influence us. Evil resides in fear and this is why we cannot feel God’s love when fear is present. Love and fear are incompatible. Evil knows how God designed our bodies so the dark uses this knowledge to trick us into separating ourselves from God. We do not realize that God’s gift of free will means we can control whether we allow ourselves to feel God and God’s love or whether we allow ourselves to feel fear. Once we allow fear inside, we have unwittingly asked God to leave. While God never really leaves us, we cannot feel God’s presence when we are filled with fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the state of our world where a battle between love and fear continually rages and where it often appears that fear is winning. In truth, fear never wins but that is not obvious when your perspective is limited to this world. Fortunately, the time is coming when we, with God’s help, will vanquish fear but that time is not yet here. I suggest that our objective should be to help God accelerate that date by learning and practicing in our lives the principles described in this article.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Many believe that evil’s presence reflects poorly on God, provided God even exists. This mindset is based on the belief that if God were truly omnipotent, then God would just eliminate evil. Because evil is here, this binary if-then argument concludes that either God is not omnipotent or God doesn’t care. A philosophical and theological belief that is based on the concept that God doesn’t care is Deism. Under Deistic theology, God exists and did create this universe but God quit interacting with this world after its creation. Under Deism, God is thought to be the great “clockmaker” who created this world, wound it up, and then left to allow it to run on its own. The God of Deism is not a personal God because Deism’s God left. It is easy to understand how this belief came into being given the continual assaults everyone experiences from evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In order to further understand God’s genius, I want to begin by exploring the concept that God should just eliminate evil as there are multiple problems with this thinking. First, any use of force is based on fear and God does not use fear. Second, control by any means, including force, is incompatible with free will. That leaves us with the dilemma that philosophers and theologians have wrestled with for centuries - how do you reconcile a loving and omnipotent God with the effects of evil we see</span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">? One</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">problem with this dilemma is its underlying assumption that God has not already given us the power to eliminate evil ourselves. Another problem is that the dilemma does not recognize God’s omniscience. If God is truly omniscient (which God is), then God knew what evil would do before evil did. This means God has reasons to allow evil to run its course in this world and we need to understand and explore them further. One obvious reason is that evil is an effective tool to teach us about love. If we can learn to forgive those who have hurt ourselves or our loved ones while simultaneously having compassion for the ones spreading evil, we have just started to learn about love. While evil is not necessary for us to learn about love, the effect of evil’s presence is to accelerate our understanding of love’s dimensions. Once we acquire this knowledge, our souls advance because we move closer toward God when we understand more about love. This is the real prize for enduring the dark’s assaults in this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">While we are incapable of understanding God’s capacity, we often presume to know what God should do because God has given us free will. This gift means we are free to be wrong. One of our errors is believing we should tell others what to do or think even though God never does that to us. Given that God lives by this rule, I suggest we need to rethink whether we should tell God (or anyone else for that matter) what to do. In the Alcoholics Anonymous world, there is a saying – attraction rather than promotion. Said another way, lead by example rather than preaching. One who exudes love will convey its benefits more fully than one proclaiming rules to be followed. Jesus lived His life embracing this concept and look what He accomplished. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Seven Principles to Guide Your Life</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As you begin your journey to understand more about God, please be open to the following principles I have been taught<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a>because they will help you better understand evil as well as understanding why you are here. These concepts will also help you to appreciate God’s genius in creating both this world and the opportunities this world provides to everyone who comes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">1. No one is here by chance. Everyone in this world prayed to God to come here as God’s servant in order to learn more about love and fight that which is far from God. The youngest soul in this world is over one million years old, which means this world was never designed for the very young. Everyone here is an immortal being of light who chose to come inside a carbon-based body inside a carbon-based world to serve God for a moment. Everyone knew that God would heal everything the dark did to him or her while here because, ultimately, this world is just an illusion where everything is transient except each person’s soul and what each person learns from the experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2. Most of this world is part of Heaven and always has been. Hell was “created” by the dark because it cannot abide in Heaven. Hell is where the dark lives in fear, which is why it is a place where love cannot be felt. You may be surprised to learn that Hell’s physical location is in our minds. God’s gift of free will gives the dark the opportunity to trick us into creating a space within us for the dark to reside. Our real enemy is fear and this is why a spiritual battle is always raging whether we want to acknowledge it or not. Hell is a place we can move in and out of many times a day. It is also a place where some are tricked into going after that have “passed from flesh.” Fortunately, hell is not permanent for those who have chosen to go there after having “died.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">3. Fortunately, sins are not graded; but, if they were, the worst sin would be the “sin” of self-judgment. This sin is so harmful because it keeps us from feeling love and hearing Heaven clearly. Self-judgment is based solely on fear, which is why it puts us in hell and keeps us there. It is also the sin that nullifies our ability to serve God effectively. Jesus went to the Cross to help us overcome this sin. God knew we needed a visible representation of unconditional love in order to overcome the lack of self-worth that had been imprinted within us through the dark’s continual assaults. These assaults include what has been done to us as well as what we have been tricked into doing to others. This is why Jesus “atoned” for our sins on the Cross. Jesus’ extreme example of selfless love will pull you toward God when you allow it regardless of whether you are a member of the Christian faith. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">4. In answer to Archangel Michael’s prayer, God sent Jesus whose mission was to change the world’s paradigm on relating to God without fear. This is why Jesus’ life was based solely on love. God always loves and that love is stronger than any force we can understand or comprehend. By definition, love encompasses both compassion and forgiveness and not judgment. This is why God loves us unconditionally and never judges us in the manner we understand judgment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">5. One of God’s greatest gifts to us is the ability to live in this world without fear. Once we understand that we can control the level of our own fear and then act on that knowledge, we are truly “born again,” just as Jesus proposed and demonstrated. When we come into this world from Heaven, we have no fear because we have just left Heaven. Fear has to be taught to us by the dark, which means we can learn to reject it. Part of Jesus’ mission was to demonstrate how. While counterintuitive, I have recently been taught that only a small part of each person’s soul is inside his or her body. This means most of each person’s soul still resides in Heaven. Our objective before coming into this world was to learn to bring as much of our true selves as possible from Heaven into this world during our time here. This can only be accomplished when we learn to reject fear. Jesus learned to totally reject fear and so He is our supreme example regardless of whether one adheres to the principles espoused by the institutional Christian faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">6. No human created religion has a monopoly on God’s wisdom and love. Our diversity of cultures and races was deliberately created by God to give everyone here the opportunity to learn more about love as we interact with those different than ourselves. It is this very diversity that allows us to have experiences in this world that are not possible in Heaven; but, this same diversity is what the dark uses to create fear within us in order to try to separate us further. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">7. Never use your free will to limit God or God’s ability to use you to effect change in this world. The power of love is unlimited when you volunteer to become a servant for God because, as God’s servant, you are filled with God and God’s Heavenly Host. This is why you should never doubt your capacity to serve regardless of how much the dark has hurt you. Such thoughts are brought by the dark to reduce your effectiveness. When you understand that the dark has no intrinsic power, then you will know the dark is not something to be feared. Rather it is something that needs your prayers. The dark’s essential impotence is on display when you realize how often it has to assault you to destroy your effectiveness while God only needs a moment to totally erase the effects from the dark’s sustained attacks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I will now address each of these concepts in more depth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Principle 1: Who We are and Why We Are Here</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">No one is here by chance. Everyone in this world prayed to God to come here as God’s servant in order to learn more about love and fight that which is far from God. The youngest soul in this world is over one million years old, which means this world was never designed for the very young. Everyone here is an immortal being of light who chose to come inside a carbon-based body inside a carbon-based world to serve God for a moment. Everyone here knew that God would heal everything the dark did to him or her while here because, ultimately, this world is just an illusion where everything is transient except each person’s soul and what each person learns from this experience. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Think about the ramifications of this information. Your life did not begin when your body was conceived in this world. Everyone who has chosen to come here looked down from Heaven and saw the pain people were experiencing in this realm. Each soul then prayed for God to send him or her here as a “warrior for God to fight that which is far from God.” This means that those currently being attacked by the dark (Lucifer and those who serve him), actually prayed to come here to serve God through bringing more of God’s love into this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For reasons unknown to me, God has determined that now is the time to share certain truths with those currently in this world. Once these truths are known and accepted as true, we will understand that we, with God’s help, have always had the power to defeat evil; but, the defeat of evil will not come through the use of force. It will only come through the use and the presence of unconditional, selfless love. Unconditional, selfless love is the strongest “force” in this world as it only exists in God. When we summon this type of love, we are asking God to come inside us. This is why we reconnect with Heaven and the immortal when we feel God’s presence. Fear resides in the mortal world. Each soul who comes into this world completes his or her journey home when he or she decides to leave the mortal world of fear and return to the immortal world of love - Heaven. Each soul’s individual journey is an answer to that person’s prayer before coming. It does not matter whether that soul only lives for hours, days, or weeks inside a woman’s womb or lives for a hundred years. God knows before anyone comes here how that soul’s journey will be an answer to that soul’s prayers before coming. Life is that personal and that wonderful. While we have absolute free will, God knows exactly how we will exercise our free will while here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We in bodies think in binary terms. If I am in my body, then no one else is in here with me. This world is more nuanced because we are never alone. God is life and there is no life without God. That means that God is always with us and inside us regardless of whether we recognize this fact or feel God’s presence. The fact that our bodies are porous also means we can allow the dark inside us. The dark, which presents as fear, moves in and out of us continuously depending on our state of being. If we are focused on love, the dark must stay away. If we are focused on fear or any of its manifestations, then the dark comes in. Fear presents in many forms such as anger, resentment, greed, jealousy, rage, low self-esteem, or self-judgment. The dark is cunning and gets us to unwittingly allow it inside of us. The more time we give to the dark, the more the dark’s presence within us feels normal. This is why it is so hard to reverse the feelings of “normal” and learn to reject the dark’s presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This world is porous in the same manner our bodies are. Our brains have been designed by God to simultaneously access both this world and the spiritual realm. The spiritual realm always surrounds us and is sustained by God’s energy but it is not visible to us in bodies<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span></span></a>. The spiritual realm, which is where Heaven resides, is in another dimension that we cannot see with our eyes in this world. However, our minds can access that realm with love. God’s helpers and agents, whom we call angels, reside in the spiritual realm but permeate this world too and can access all life forms. We cannot see angels but they always surround us. Unfortunately, some of these angels (as well as other souls) have been tricked into fighting against God within our world. The dark controls the actions of these souls and this is why they continually encourage us to turn against God and hurt both ourselves and others. It is very important to understand that the dark has no intrinsic power. All the dark can do is tempt until such time as it has turned one completely against God and God’s principles. Once completely turned, that soul loses control of his or her own body because there has been a total surrender of free will to the dark.<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span></span></a>I was told once that “the very best you get from the dark, you get at the first meeting.” A good example of this is addiction. As one continues to follow the dark’s suggestions in attempting to find the great pleasure experienced at the first meeting, the soul is led down the path to enslavement. An obvious substance that has this effect is heroin whether from the street or as opioids in its legal form. Alcohol can have that same effect on those who are chemically addicted. For alcoholics and addicts, free will is ultimately lost during their continual search for that initial “feeling.” Once enslaved, the alcoholic or addict does not care whom he or she hurts to get momentary relief from the insatiable craving, which is the mark of enslavement. Another rarely discussed aspect of addiction is selfishness. An addict is only concerned about him- or herself during the quest for self-pleasure. Fortunately, it takes time for the dark to get one to this point; but, once this point is reached, the soul cannot regain his or her free will without help from Heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If angels<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span></span></a>in Heaven could heal this world alone, they would have done so long ago; but, one of the lessons God is teaching is selfless love. Selflessness by definition means that someone else is being prayed for. This is why more is accomplished when we work together “two by two.” For angels to effectively work in our carbon-based world, they need the help of those who are here in bodies.<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a>The angels’ dilemma is that they cannot be seen and are rarely heard but they are always available to assist when called upon. Unfortunately, if they are not called upon, there is nothing they can do because angels will not violate our free will. This is the challenge God created when God devised this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">When a soul prays to come here, God shows him or her a small portion of the life that awaits, a life that presents the necessary circumstances to allow that soul to have his or her specific prayers answered. This knowledge includes who will be in that soul’s family, which gender he or she will be, and to some degree how difficult his or her life will be. Nothing in this world happens by chance. For those of us who live in the West and know how difficult living in the third world can be, we need to be in awe of those souls who volunteer to go to the third world to serve God. But we do not just have to look to the third world. Those souls whose prayers bring them as African Americans living in the under privileged areas of large cities are equally challenged. The obvious question is, “Why would anyone accept such a challenge?” The answer is that you can begin to learn to love as God loves when you learn to forgive those who are heaping judgment on you for your supposed life choices and living circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We rarely appreciate God’s genius in creating this amazing world with its infinite opportunities to learn about love. While most of our journeys are difficult, they are also rewarding. This degree of difficulty, though, is why God designed a world where we are only here for a moment. If we think about it, everything that happens here is dirt interacting with dirt. Our bodies are formed from “dirt” and they return to “dirt” when we leave them. God created this world to allow us to have these experiences in order for us to grow as souls. While our bodies are extremely limiting, the opportunities God provides us for growth are infinite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Another aspect of God’s genius is that we come here without a memory of who we really are, what we prayed for, and where we are from. God specifically designed this world so that we are not sure of anything. All here wanted the challenge of finding faith in a war zone where the dark exists and is continually trying to harm us. If this world were not </span><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">opaque,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">we would not have the experiences that we wanted. Remember, everyone comes directly from Heaven knowing the challenges and opportunities this world provides. This world gives us choices that permit us to learn more about love. In Heaven, everyone is a being of light. Here, each soul inhabits a body that is different from everyone else’s. This is why there are multiple races, religions, sexual orientations, and genders. All of these differences provide us the opportunity to learn to accept and embrace those different than ourselves. It is this process of bodies interacting that creates the opportunities to learn more about love, compassion, and forgiveness. Our experiences in this world are not possible in Heaven, which is why God created this world. This world is God’s gift to us even with its challenges and difficulties. We do not give God enough credit if we think God should just vanquish evil because evil is a great teaching tool. But the pain of living with evil is also why we are only here for a moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">When you understand that everyone prayed to God to come to this world, I hope your outlook changes. This principle means that no one would be here without evil’s presence. It also means that no one here is a victim. Before we chose to come into this world, we looked down from Heaven and saw the pain and suffering that the dark was inflicting on those here. We believed we could help and so we prayed to God to be given the chance to assist God in this world. This is why Heaven calls us “warriors for God who came to fight that which is far from God.” The ultimate gift of this world is learning to fight fear with unconditional, selfless love. Fear is the real enemy because fear is the dark’s lifeblood. This is why fear cannot coexist with love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Heaven is governed by love. When Lucifer fell, he could not remain in Heaven and therefore had to create a space for himself - a space governed and controlled by fear. I will discuss this more in the next section and the last section but this is why we cannot feel Heaven’s presence clearly when we allow fear inside ourselves. The corollary, though, is that once we learn to live without fear, we can reside in Heaven even if we are still in this world. These rules define the spiritual battle that is always raging. God is guided solely by love while the dark is immersed in fear. This world gives us the opportunity to choose between the two every moment we are here and this is why the angels call this world a “war zone.” There is no stasis in this world as there is constant movement from Heaven to hell and back as one lives his or her life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">To assist us in our quest to understand more about love, one of God’s rules is that if you do not forgive the one who assaulted or offended you, you will then become like that person. Lucifer constantly uses this rule to enlist many to help him. One obvious example of this rule at work is in politics. The party in power criticizes the zeal of its opponents only to use those same tactics when it is in the minority. If you look, you will see this rule at work in our culture wars too. The only escape from this morass is love and forgiveness but that approach is rarely considered and so Lucifer “wins” for a moment. Fear divides and love unites with our politics and culture wars proving this principle every day. Unfortunately, this same principle is also on display within our religious institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The 2016 presidential election gave fear a place to sit in many. This outpouring of fear is part of the dark’s last stand. The dark will not be vanquished until we learn that love, forgiveness, compassion, and faith are the only answers. Once again, God’s genius is on display.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Principle Two: Hell and How We Get There</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Most of this world is part of Heaven and always has been. Hell was “created” by the dark because it cannot abide in Heaven. Hell is where the dark lives in fear, which is why it is a place where love cannot be felt. You may be surprised to learn that Hell’s physical location is in our minds. God’s gift of free will gives the dark the opportunity to trick us into creating a space within us for the dark to reside. Our real enemy is fear and this is why a spiritual battle is always raging whether we want to acknowledge it or not. Hell is a place we can move in and out of many times a day. It is also a place where some are tricked into going after that have “passed from flesh.” Fortunately, hell is not permanent for those who have either chosen to go there after having “died” or after acquiring seven or more lost children of God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Most of this world is already part of Heaven or God’s angels could not be here. The part of this world that is not fully Heaven is inside us. When we allow fear inside, we have unwittingly given the dark a place to sit. Our challenge is to find and embrace God while constantly being attacked. This is why this world is one of God’s most difficult worlds because one can absolutely lose sight of God for a time. That state of being is called hell and hell is a place of the dark’s “creation.” Hell is where love cannot be felt as hell is controlled by fear. Fortunately, a soul never goes straight from Heaven into hell. Rather it is a process I will now explain. To avoid confusion, this section deals with the hell we have been taught to be afraid of. This is the hell that one can find after “passing from flesh” or acquiring seven or more “lost children of God” while here. One can also temporarily find hell when rage or anger consumes you but you leave that state when you reject that rage or anger and return to your natural equilibrium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">God specifically designed this world for us to learn certain lessons. Part of that design revolves around how our bodies act in various circumstances. When we first enter our bodies, we do not understand God’s design but the dark does. This gives the dark an initial advantage in its quest to separate us from God. God is teaching us more about love while the dark’s survival requires it to invoke fear in us. This makes fear our ultimate enemy. The dark’s enlisted men have been named “demons” by Lucifer to make us afraid of them. Archangel Michael, who is known by other names in different world religions, calls these souls “lost children of God<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[9]</span></span></span></a>.” The beginning of our separation from God occurs when we unwittingly allow these lost children inside us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Our progression away from God is based on fear. The extent of fear a person has at any moment is based on the number of lost children that person has let inside. The number of lost children at any moment is just a fear gauge. The more lost children the farther the separation from God. This gauge is never static and can change in micro-seconds. However, once someone has acquired seven or more, that person cannot move back under seven without intervention from God. Fortunately, most do not make the complete journey to seven or more during their lives here. The following explanation makes us uncomfortable but is necessary to understand how this world works. Jesus spoke of demons in the Bible but no one really understands how they work. This information will change that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">1. The first lost child comes in because we do not understand that we have space inside of us to fill. The lesson God is teaching is that we exist and can choose whom to allow into our space except there are only two choices – God (love) or the dark (fear). God designed our minds such that we can control our own space even if we do not initially understand this. When one does not understand that this control exists, the first lost child will come in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2. The second lost child comes in because this second one abates the attack of the first one. We are rewarded for allowing the second lost child in because the attack lessens but we now have two. This is a perfect example of how the dark uses its knowledge of how the system works against us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">3. The third lost child is another positive reward. There is less attack as we seek basic needs such as food, clothes, shelter, etc. At this third level, though, the desire has to be for something we need versus something we want.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">4. The fourth lost child comes inside when our desires change from what we need to what we want. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">5. The fifth lost child is allowed inside as our wants multiply. This is when we begin living in the “world” and travel further from who we really are. The fifth and sixth levels are where we try to obtain happiness from the world of things versus service to God and others. This is why the rich are never satisfied with the things they possess. Each new thing will distract for a brief period but then the desire to acquire another new thing will return. This is also why when a rich person owns a hundred-foot yacht, he or she wants an even larger yacht when an acquaintance acquires a yacht bigger than the current one he or she owns. This also explains the insatiable quest to obtain happiness from the things of this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">6. The sixth lost child is allowed in when we believe that society has a place for us (good or bad) and we identify with others who are similarly situated. Everyone at this level acts a certain way to become a part of his or her accepted “tribe.” This is the genesis of gated communities and country clubs<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[10]</span></span></span></a>where access is restricted to those who have the traits the tribe requires for membership. Gangs were created at the opposite end of the socioeconomic spectrum for the same reasons. These are the extreme ends of the spectrum, but many have six lost children even though they are not in country clubs or gangs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">7. The seventh lost child is allowed in when we are focused on controlling another. Once someone has allowed seven (or more) lost children inside, he or she has been captured by the dark and cannot reverse his or her situation without help from God. The trait of this seventh “demon” is the trait that stays with one depending on the reason the seventh lost child was acquired. There are souls on the other side whose feelings align with different patterns of negative behavior such as hate, murder, rape, kidnapping, prostitution, or lust for power. Once the seventh lost child is inside, the person flips from being persecuted to being the persecutor and remains stuck in a continuous loop of pain associated with the fear that allowed this seventh child in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The dark has to use each of these steps to capture you and these steps are not instantaneous. Most souls do not get to seven or more on their journey through this world. Those that do cannot leave this world on their own and are trapped serving Lucifer because they have been tricked into rejecting love and, in the process, have learned to hate themselves. They have also accepted the lie that God will never love them again because of what they have done. It is just a lie but “perception is reality” in this situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The above describes how the dark captures those in flesh. The dark can also capture you after you have left your body. If you commit suicide, unfortunately you immediately go to hell. You can also end up in hell under the following scenario. When a person passes from flesh, he or she will see a light. If the soul moves toward the light, that soul then meets Michael, the angel in charge of this world. Once you are in Michael’s presence, Michael asks you whether you want to review your life with him. Standing right next to Michael is Lucifer. Lucifer is a very beautiful angel. His name “Lucifer” means angel of light. Lucifer immediately explains that it will be extremely painful to look at your life and then he offers you the option of taking his hand. If you take Lucifer’s hand, you immediately travel to hell where you are shown whatever you did not want to look at. Hell is a loop and the scene you wanted to hide from is replayed constantly as you experience the pain you inflicted on another. For example, if you had raped a woman and did not want to look at that event, in hell that rape is all you see except you experience the pain you caused the woman during the rape as well as the pain she experienced the remainder of her life as a result of your actions. While this rape is replaying and you are feeling her pain, Lucifer is there telling you that God will never love you because of what you have done. This is the fire the Bible speaks of when it describes hell. It is always intensely personal and only works because of your own self-judgment. Hell is a prison cell where the door is locked from the inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">What I have just described are the paths to hell and they are the opposite of the paths to heaven. In hell, you have lost the ability to feel love because you have unwittingly been tricked into eliminating the feeling of God from your life. You can only return to your true self with help from Heaven when you are ready to understand how you were tricked. The healing process is the inverse of the process the dark used to get you. At each stage out, you must confront how you were tricked and why. Once you have done this, you will be in a position where you can release the fear and pain to God and begin your healing. In this process, you understand that you are a warrior for God and that you were never a victim. This world is a war zone and all are bruised during their round-trip. The concept of victimhood keeps you from healing because you believe you cannot change your circumstance by yourself. No one here is a victim as all prayed to come and all are in control of their own destinies. God would not have designed this world any other way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Returning to the lost children and their influence in our lives, it is rare for anyone to reach seven or more. Most people live their lives somewhere between three and less than seven lost children living with them. When you have less than seven influencing you, the movement of lost children in and out is instantaneous and in constant flux. More fear means more lost children while less fear means fewer lost children. The number of lost children you have at any moment is just a gauge reflecting how far you are from God. At times, everyone has one or more. When you pray and ask God into your life, the lost children have to leave. As your thoughts reenter the world and you allow fear back inside, the lost children return because they are the ones who bring the feelings of fear. Your life with lost children is a constant ebb and flow depending on your state of mind. Nothing is static or lineal and the number can change many times a second. Fortunately, that number never defines you because it is merely a momentary marker of your current relationship with God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Our relationship with lost children and God is the world we inhabit and the world God designed to teach us more about love. This world was never created for perfection because it is this world’s “imperfection” that creates the opportunities for us to learn more about love. The final hurdle on our journey is learning to forgive ourselves. It is always easier to forgive others but forgiving yourself is the basis for your prayers being answered. I will deal more with this in the discussion in Principle 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Evil’s influence in this world has tricked many into not seeing the presence of Heaven even though Heaven always surrounds us. God never abandoned this world after Lucifer’s fall. God is still in charge and always has been. Philosophers and theologians have mistakenly placed Lucifer and God on the same power plane with each fighting the other. That is absolutely wrong and gives Lucifer too much credit. If comparisons are helpful, think of God as the sun and Lucifer as an ant; but, even that does not give God enough credit. God is the Creator and Lucifer is a creature. All Lucifer can do is trick you into using your free will to move away from God for a time. This trick has no effect on God’s love for you or God’s continuing presence in this world. God’s angels, the Heavenly Host, constantly surround everyone here and are always focused on getting each person’s prayers answered. They always come when you have faith, no fear, and selfless love for others. That is the wonder of this world. Evil continually attempts to lead us away from God while God’s agents are constantly in our midst trying to guide and protect us. It is we who get to choose every moment which side we will embrace. And this is why the angels call this world a “war zone” and everyone here a warrior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Principle Three: The Sin of Self-Judgment</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Fortunately, sins are not graded; but, if they were, the worst sin would be the “sin” of self-judgment. This sin is so harmful because it keeps us from feeling love and hearing Heaven clearly. Self-judgment is based solely on fear, which is why it puts us in hell and keeps us there. It is also the sin that nullifies our ability to serve God effectively. Jesus went to the Cross to help us overcome this sin. God knew we needed a visible representation of unconditional love in order to overcome the lack of self-worth that had been imprinted within us through the dark’s continual assaults. These assaults include what has been done to us as well as what we have been tricked into doing to others. This is why Jesus “atoned” for our sins on the Cross. Jesus’ extreme example of selfless love will pull you toward God when you allow it regardless of whether you are a member of the Christian faith. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">When Lucifer fell, he could not abide in Heaven as Heaven is filled with God’s ever abiding love. Therefore, he had to “create” a space for himself that is separate from love. That place is what we call hell and it is a very small space surrounded by Heaven. A good example is a black hole without any energy. As explained in Section 2, hell is located in our minds as that is the seat of our free will. God created our minds such that we have total free will. Free will is consistent with love because control is based on fear. So, this is the juxtaposition of this world. We are surrounded by Heaven and love but we can choose each instant whether to leave love and embrace fear. The nature of the dark is that it cannot abide in the light. Therefore, for it to win any battle, it has to be deceitful because no one would ever knowingly choose fear and misery. This is why the dark has to trick us in order to lead us astray and why the dark never presents itself openly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">C.S. Lewis wrote a wonderful book about hell and the dark named <i>The Screwtape Letters</i>. The theme of the book is a seasoned devil mentoring a younger devil as he leads a human “patient” astray. The older devil is named Screwtape and the book contains the letters he has written to his apprentice. Professor Lewis was a genius at identifying the dark’s tricks and how they operate. Throughout history, we have wrongly believed that the dark actually has power equal to that of God’s because of the carnage we see before us; but, the dark has no intrinsic power. Its only capacity is to trick us into giving it “power” but that is not real power. It is effective, though, because the results are obvious while the trick is not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The dark’s ultimate trick is for us to believe that we are unworthy of being loved because of the things the dark has tricked us into doing. Self-judgment is based on fear and it is this fear that keeps us from feeling the unconditional love that always surrounds us. Remember, God will respect our free will even though we have embraced a lie. The gift of free will means that we are the only ones who can save ourselves from this self-imposed lost state. Two principles are at play. First, God will never force us to love ourselves and, second, we are not perfect. This is the challenge in this world - to love ourselves in spite of our mistakes. The angels call this self-regard. Most of the time our mistakes are the result of traps the dark set for us anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ask yourself for a moment why God sent Jesus<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[11]</span></span></span></a>to this world. I know it was to change our relationship with our self. Once you have been tricked into believing you are unworthy, it is hard to reverse course. We are always harder on ourselves than we are on others because we believe we have all of the facts when dealing with ourselves. We do not, but we believe we do. Given that dynamic, how does God intervene in a very dramatic way without violating our free will? God solved this dilemma by sending His Son whose mission was to show the world God’s true nature of love. Jesus’ life demonstrated not only the power of God’s love but that both compassion and forgiveness are inseparable aspects<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[12]</span></span></span></a>of love. The Bible uses the word “sin” to describe our mistakes<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[13]</span></span></span></a>. These mistakes can be deliberate or accidental. Unfortunately, institutional religious organizations have used our fear of punishment for past sins as a means to advance their influence and gain worldly riches while preserving the institution. One example of this technique was the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church needed money and sold absolution from sin to raise it. This is a perfect example of how Lucifer works to hurt those seeking to get closer to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The following is an excerpt of an article from the <i>Encyclopedia Britanica</i>on the history of indulgences: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The granting of <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indulgences" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">indulgences</span></a> was <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/predicated" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">predicated</span></a> on two beliefs. First, in the sacrament of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/reconciliation-religion" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">penance</span></a> it did not <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffice" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">suffice</span></a> to have the guilt (<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">culpa</span>) of sin forgiven through <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/absolution-Christianity" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">absolution</span></a> alone; one also needed to undergo temporal punishment (<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">poena</span>, from <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">p[o]enitentia</span>, “penance”) because one had offended Almighty God. Second, indulgences rested on belief in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/purgatory-Roman-Catholicism" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">purgatory</span></a>, a place in the next life where one could continue to cancel the accumulated debt of one’s sins, another Western medieval <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conception" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">conception</span></a>not shared by <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eastern-Orthodoxy" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Eastern Orthodoxy</span></a> or other Eastern Christian churches not recognizing the primacy of the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/pope" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">pope</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">From the early church onward, bishops could reduce or dispense with the rigors of penances, but indulgences emerged in only the 11th and 12th centuries when the idea of purgatory took widespread hold and when the popes became the activist leaders of the reforming church. In their zeal, they promoted the militant reclamation of once-Christian lands - first of Iberia in the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Reconquista" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Reconquista</span></a>, then of the Holy Land in the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Crusades" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Crusades</span></a>- offering “full remission of sins,” the first indulgences, as inducements to participation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Papal pronouncements, oral and written, were often vague, however, and raised many questions among the pious. To clarify all these issues, the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scholasticism" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Scholastic</span></a>theologians of the 12th and 13th centuries worked out a fully <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/articulated" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">articulated</span></a>theory of penance. It consisted of three parts: contrition, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/confession-religion" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">confession</span></a>, and satisfaction. The debt of forgiven sin could be reduced through the performance of good works in this life (pilgrimages, charitable acts, and the like) or through suffering in purgatory. Indulgences could be granted only by popes or, to a lesser extent, archbishops and bishops as ways of helping ordinary people measure and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amortize" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">amortize</span></a>their remaining debt. “Plenary,” or full, indulgences cancelled all the existing obligation, while “partial” indulgences remitted only a portion of it. People naturally wanted to know how much debt was forgiven (just as modern students want to know exactly what they need to study for examinations), so set periods of days, months, and years came gradually to be attached to different kinds of partial indulgences.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">One did not, however, have to do it all by oneself. Medieval <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Christianity</span></a>was a vast <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/community" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">community</span></a>of mutual help through <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/prayer" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">prayer</span></a> and good works, uniting the living and the dead in the Church Militant on earth, the Church Suffering in purgatory, and the Church Triumphant in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/heaven" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">heaven</span></a>. The good works of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jesus" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Jesus Christ</span></a>, the saints, and others could be drawn upon to liberate souls from purgatory. In 1343 Pope<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-VI" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"> Clement VI</span></a> decreed that all these good works were in the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Treasury-of-Merit" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Treasury of Merit</span></a>, over which the pope had control.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This highly complicated theological system, which was framed as a means to help people achieve their eternal <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/salvation-religion" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">salvation</span></a>, easily lent itself to misunderstanding and abuse as early as the 13th century, much sooner than is usually thought. A principal contributing factor was money. Paralleling the rise of indulgences, the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Crusades" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Crusades</span></a>, and the reforming <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/papacy" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">papacy</span></a> was the economic resurgence of Europe that began in the 11th century. Part of this tremendous upsurge was the phenomenon of commutation, through which any services, obligations, or goods could be converted into a corresponding <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monetary" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">monetary</span></a>payment. Those eager to gain <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plenary" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">plenary</span></a> indulgences, but unable to go on <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/pilgrimage-religion" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">pilgrimage</span></a> to Jerusalem, wondered whether they might perform an <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alternative" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">alternative</span></a>good work or make an equivalent offering to a charitable enterprise - for example, the building of a leprosarium or a cathedral. Churchmen allowed such commutation, and the popes even encouraged it, especially <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Innocent-III-pope" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Innocent III</span></a> (reigned 1198–1216) in his various Crusading projects. From the 12th century onward the process of salvation was therefore increasingly bound up with money. Reformers of the 14th and 15th centuries frequently complained about the “sale” of indulgences by pardoners. And as the papacy weakened in this period, <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secular" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">secular</span></a>governments increasingly allowed the granting of indulgences only in return for a substantial share of the yield, often as much as two-thirds. The princes got most of the money, and the popes got most of the blame.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">People also wondered whether they could gain an <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indulgence" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">indulgence</span></a> for someone who had died and was presumed to be in purgatory. If so, in acting out of charity for someone else, were they then obliged to confess their own sins, as they would if they sought to obtain an indulgence for themselves? Although these concerns were surfacing as early as the 13th century, it was only in 1476 that Pope <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sixtus-IV" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Sixtus IV</span></a> declared that one could indeed gain an indulgence for someone in purgatory. Sixtus, however, left unanswered the problem of the necessity of personal <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/confession-religion" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">confession</span></a>. This profound uncertainty surrounding penance threatened to sever completely the nexus between the confession of sin and the achievement of salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Once people believed that the Catholic Church had the power to remit the consequences of sin, the stage was set for abuse. For those who have not had the opportunity to study church history, the Protestant Church came into being after Martin Luther objected to the Roman Catholic Church’s selling of indulgences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Lucifer is especially talented at hurting those trying to get closer to God. The travails of the Catholic Church as it became intertwined with the world is a perfect example of how the dark is able to evoke fear to harm all. Once the Catholic Church begin selling indulgences as a fundraising technique, the Church expanded their alleged power to cover future sin. Those who were rich used their money so they could continue to sin believing they were protected. In truth, the indulgence was worthless and everyone involved had to ultimately look at what they had been tricked into doing even though everything started with the best of intentions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In my discussion of Principle 1, I said that this world is an illusion. I want to expand on that thought. If we think about it, everything in this world is transient. This means our bodies are only here for a moment. God uses molecules to form cells that form organisms that grow and then decay until they have returned to molecules and the process begins again. If we look at the Bible, Genesis 2:7 tells us our bodies are formed from dust. This means we are composed of dirt and when we die our bodies return to dirt. As such, our time here involves dirt (which contains an immortal soul) interacting with other dirt (that contains another immortal soul). Sin is the result of fear and that fear separates us from God. Because there is no life apart from God, the “wages” of sin is momentary separation from God, which truly is death just as the Bible states at Roman 6:23. When we embrace love, we immediately regain life as love is the only thing that is real. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the illusion we inhabit where nothing is permanent except our souls and what we take from our experiences. God created this world to give us experiences that are not possible in Heaven. Our time here seems very real. We come without a memory of where we are really from and live for a short time in this world where everything is temporary. A friend calls this world “earth school” and this perfectly describes God’s intent. Much is made of sin but sin is not real because only God’s love is real. Sin is a great teacher but it does not define us for eternity. Sin is just a momentary lapse while God’s love is capable of healing all transgressions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The ultimate consequence of sin is separation from God until we learn more about love through forgiving ourselves or those who have hurt us. Origen of Alexandria (c.185–c.254) was correct about the universality of salvation. Our time in this world can result in a temporary separation from God but it is only temporary. What are a few years in hell compared to immortality, especially if you grow as a soul in the process?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Theologians have argued for centuries about the meaning of Jesus’ Crucifixion. There are four primary theories: ransom theory, Christus Victor theory, satisfaction theory, and moral influence theory. Books have been written about these theories but I am going to describe each with a single sentence. The ransom theory originated with Origen and had Jesus’ death as a ransom sacrifice to Lucifer. The Christus Victor theory has Christ defeating the powers of evil. The satisfaction theory was developed by Anselm of Canterbury and has Jesus satisfying our debt to God. The moral influence theory has sin breaking God’s moral law and Jesus substituting for us to atone for our sin. The actual arguments are more nuanced than these brief summaries. The closest theory to being right is the Christus Victory theory. Lucifer had convinced us that our sin “permanently” separated us from God. Jesus’ actions were not to change God’s mind about us for how can you change the mind of perfection that knows everything. Jesus’ actions were to change our minds about ourselves. We are the ones who were lost and in need of this supreme example of selfless, sacrificial love. Because God will not violate our free will, we have to change our minds ourselves. This becomes possible when we see God’s love for us as reflected in His Son. This is why we should always forgive ourselves along with those who have hurt us. Once this is done, we are capable of returning to the battle to help those who still believe they are unworthy of receiving love. Love is the only answer as it is this same love that sustains us for eternity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Those who have been tricked into believing they are unworthy of God’s love are in hell and live in the world of mortality. Those in hell return to Heaven and immortality when they finally find the faith that they can be loved again. It only takes a moment and this is why prayers for the “lost” are never wasted. Please pray for those who have been hurt in this spiritual battle as those prayers are needed to fully change this world back to Heaven. The world will change when the lost again find the light. Jesus’ message, illuminated through His life, is that no one is beyond redemption - not even those who nailed Him to that Cross. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Principle Four: Why Jesus Came</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In answer to Archangel Michael’s prayer, God sent Jesus whose mission was to change the world’s paradigm on relating to God without fear. This is why Jesus’ life was based solely on love. God always loves and that love is stronger than any force we can understand or comprehend. By definition, love encompasses both compassion and forgiveness and not judgment. This is why God loves us unconditionally and never judges us in the manner we understand judgment.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Archangel Michael is the angel God placed in charge of this world. The name Michael means “one like God” and, while Michael is perfectly named, Michael is not perfect as this story he told me about himself demonstrates. Did you ever wonder why Jesus came to this world when He did? The answer is that Jesus came in answer to Michael’s prayer. While unknown to us, Heaven is not uniform. Certain souls in Heaven are more advanced than other souls because advancement is based on a soul’s learned capacity to love. As you learn more about love, you move closer to God but it is more than that. You also move closer to God when you learn to use your free will to avoid impure thoughts. Some souls in Heaven are extremely close to God while others have more to learn. It is a place not unlike this world where those who love each other and enjoy each other’s company work together. Also, not everyone in Heaven can come to this world inside a body. If a soul is “large” in Heaven’s terms, then this world is not suitable for that soul because that soul has already learned the lessons this world is teaching. Michael is one of those souls. Because God did not design the bodies of this world to hold a soul of his magnitude, Michael assumed no one his size or larger could come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For many thousands of years after Lucifer’s fall, Michael and the Heavenly Host watched their brother (this is how the angels in Heaven refer to Lucifer) hurt everyone who came to this realm. While Michael never feels fear, he told me that he did not understand why God continued to allow this to occur. As Michael continued to pray for this world and its inhabitants, one day over two thousand years ago Michael realized he had been limiting God with his prayers and so he immediately changed his prayers. As soon as Michael’s prayers changed, God sent His Son Jesus – a soul who was too large to come inside a body unless God decreed it. The lesson in this explanation from Michael is that nothing is impossible for God. This is what God was teaching Michael and it is the same lesson God will teach anyone here when he or she embraces what Michael was taught. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Think about this story for a moment. The angels in Heaven are in constant prayer. Angels are created beings and are not perfect. They pray for guidance and help just as we do. They also make mistakes just as we do. None of this changes God’s love for them or us. God is perfection and is constantly teaching new lessons to God’s creatures regardless of how advanced they are. You never reach infinity while in this world or in Heaven as God always has more to teach. How wonderful is that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">One of God’s lessons is that God always allows us to limit God because that is free will in action. However, when we change our prayers everything changes. We cannot have true free will until we overcome learned behavior because choices that have been taught and ingrained in us are not the result of free will. Each place of work has its own rules with choices permitted only within those rules. When we respond a certain way within such a system, it is the result of learned behavior and not the exercise of free will. A real choice is made when we decide to do something other than what we have learned. Until we challenge faulty but learned premises, we will not exercise free will because we cannot make a choice when we are confused. True choice comes when we have exercised our free will to reject learned responses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I mentioned earlier in this article that Jesus came to change our minds about ourselves. These beliefs about ourselves are part of the learned behavior we have to reject. According to Archangel Michael, Jesus said the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If you are loyal to my manifestation, you are truly my disciples. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Whoever commits sin (lack of faith in the Father, not following what the Son illuminated, or denying the Father) is the slave of sin and the slave is forever unable to hang onto his home, but the way of the Son establishes you till eternity.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">After Michael quoted Jesus’ words to me, he then said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">To pause in Faith is to allow in fear. Fear is not of God and through it [God’s] will cannot be done. Faith should not be paused, but allowed to govern life and action. Embrace the truth of which Jesus spoke and taught, and follow His above words for your prayers to be answered. Do not falter and do not look to yourself but to the needs and prayers of others, as did and does [Jesus] and as do we.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Rather, embrace the world through the eyes of a child. Let all prejudice and pain be swept before you, for to be born anew is truly to learn anew. For the truth is beauty and light and love and compassion and joy. That comes from a place of selflessness and a place of willingness to let others love you.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My brother [Lucifer] has but one trick with many faces – fear. Fear can cause His children to freeze movement towards God.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Affection breaks through the hardest of fears, and love transcends them all. For that is the real trick my brother is playing, to render you unworthy in your own eyes.</b>The key lies within, and through living and loving in the truth, rather than in the sin of fear. When you withdraw from love and its truth, my brother wins. No longer be a slave to the sin of fear, for Faith in all things is always worth it, if you understand it is the way of and to God. (Emphasis mine.)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">These are words for everyone. We have been hurt as well as taught lies about ourselves. Jesus came to expose those lies through shining the light of God’s love. Jesus did not come to start a religion named Christianity. Jesus came as God’s Son to help all here regardless of their cultural religious belief systems. This is why Jesus is the Universal Savior. One of Jesus’ sayings that have caused much confusion is found at John 14:6:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I am the way and the truth and the life, nobody comes to the Father except through me.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Institutional Christianity has interpreted this to mean that Jesus requires people to convert to Christianity to be saved. There are two problems with this. First, when Jesus said this He was a Jew living in a Jewish community. Second, Jesus was speaking metaphorically and not condemning those who had not adopted a specific human created religious system that was not in wide acceptance until the fourth century. Jesus came as God’s representative for this world – God’s Son. God is love and Jesus embodied God’s love in human form. Jesus is telling the world that love is the way and the truth and the life and that nobody will find God without love. This is why Jesus life was lived solely in love whether you look at His admonitions on forgiving seventy times seven or His words asking God to forgive those who crucified Him. This is the same message Michael delivered to me as Heaven is always consistent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The dark is continuously trying to get us to condemn ourselves with fear while God is always shining God’s light of love. Jesus came to this world in answer to Michael’s prayer to give the world an unambiguous message about God, God’s nature, and God’s love. This is why Jesus was disruptive to the cultural order of His day and why Jesus is still disruptive today notwithstanding how the dark wants us to perceive Him. When we learn to forgive ourselves and embrace the truth, this world will no longer hold a place for the dark to sit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Principle Five: The Gift of Being Born Again</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">One of God’s greatest gifts to us is the ability to live in this world without fear. Once we understand that we can control the level of our own fear and then act on that knowledge, we are truly “born again,” just as Jesus proposed and demonstrated. When we come into this world from Heaven, we have no fear because we have just left Heaven. Fear has to be taught to us by the dark, which means we can learn to reject it. Part of Jesus’ mission was to demonstrate how. While counterintuitive, I have recently been taught that only a small part of each person’s soul is inside his or her body. This means most of each person’s soul still resides in Heaven. Our objective before coming into this world was to learn to bring as much of our true selves as possible from Heaven into this world during our time here. This can only be accomplished when we learn to reject fear. Jesus learned to totally reject fear and so He is our supreme example regardless of whether one adheres to the principles espoused by the institutional Christian faith.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We have lived with fear for so long, it is inconceivable to most that a life can be lived without fear. Many justify their fear by saying it is helpful because it protects them. We have been with fear for so long it is now institutionalized and feels normal. The more complex our societies have become, the more fear is unwittingly taught. “Helicopter” parents<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[14]</span></span></span></a>believe they are protecting their children but what they are really teaching them is fear. The body definitely has a fight or flight mechanism based on learned fear; but, the mind can overcome this response. Fear has a spiritual origin that we ignore. Look at Michael’s message in the last section: <i>My brother has but one trick with many faces – fear. Fear can cause His children to freeze movement towards God. </i>I will list just some of the many faces of fear that Michael is talking about: greed, anger, rage, jealousy, hate, self-judgment, envy, lust, gossip, bragging, and bullying. All have their origin in fear, which is why these emotions do so much damage not only to the one experiencing these emotions but to those around them. These emotions are part of Lucifer’s circle of pain for us in this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The defining aspect of each of the emotions I listed in the previous paragraph is selfishness as they are all directed inward. They are based on what the “I” perceives it wants or are responses to a perceived threat to the “I.” God knows that we generally cannot learn the right way until we have learned the emptiness of trying the other ways. So, God designed a world that would teach us these lessons. This world is for teaching and learning, not perfection, and the most important lesson is that only selfless love coupled with faith works. Regardless of your political or cultural beliefs, take a moment to honestly assess how the world’s systems are working. I only see fear, hate, resentment, jealousy, division, etc. with everyone miserable. Our current governmental systems are not based on God’s laws and so they will fail. Now is the time for all to focus on changing the world’s frame on relating to God and to each other. God sent Jesus to create the template so we already have been shown the path. We just need to follow it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Lucifer has worked 2,000 years to try to create dissension surrounding Jesus’ lessons because Jesus’ path is the path to immortality and the only way to extricate ourselves from the web of lies spun by the dark. I want to re-emphasize that Jesus’ path is not exclusively for those who embrace institutional Christianity. There is nothing wrong with that choice but Jesus’ path is also for those who follow other human created religions or no religion at all. Jesus’ path is one of selfless love for all. It is even for those who try to stop you from following Jesus’ path. Fear will be pervasive until we can look at it honestly and then fight against it appropriately with selfless love. It is then that we open the door to Heaven so all there can help us on our quest. Nothing is ever accomplished without God’s help. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Jesus said that no one could see the Kingdom of Heaven until he or she is born again. Being born again means you have learned to reject fear in all its forms. There is no fear in Heaven because Heaven is a place of total love, total joy, total support, and total knowledge about others and yourself. That does not describe this world. We are here because we prayed to God to come here to help others. Each person’s circumstance is an answer to that person’s very specific prayers. Everyone wanted the challenge of finding God and faith in a world where everyone knew that very quest would result in continual attack. There is much pain and suffering here but it is only temporary. God can heal all the dark does and we knew that before we signed up for this journey. Jesus’ use of the phrase “born again” means you have rejected the mortal world of fear and embraced the immortal world of love. You can do this while still in a body or you do it after you pass from flesh and talk to Michael. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This world is more nuanced than we realize. Our true selves, our souls, are so much more complicated than what we understand through science. Science does not even understand life. How then can it explain our souls? Look at the discussion in Principle 1. The youngest soul in this world is over one million years old. What God creates is immortal. None of us will ever die. Sure, our bodies will cease to hold parts of our soul when we leave them, but our true selves will live for eternity. How wonderful is that? Our time in this world in bodies is just a moment in our real existence - a moment that God has given to each of us in answer to our prayers. Everyone came here to serve God knowing the risks associated with this journey. This is why Heaven does not judge those bruised in the battle. Everyone ultimately has to look at his or her actions, however painful that may be, but Heaven does not condemn anyone. Love is the only answer and the more we understand about love, the more of our true selves enter the realm of Heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Jesus learned to totally reject fear in His life and came to demonstrate that living without fear is possible. This is why the dark tries to make Jesus’ teachings exclusionary and divisive. If you begin on a quest to reject fear, never doubt God’s genius in putting you in the perfect place for your prayers to be answered. You may not see God’s genius until you reach the other side, but never doubt God’s plan for your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Principle Six: God’s Church is Not Exclusive</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">No human created religion has a monopoly on God’s wisdom and love. Our diversity of cultures and races was deliberately created by God to give everyone here the opportunity to learn more about love as we interact with those different than ourselves. It is this very diversity that allows us to have experiences in this world that are not possible in Heaven; but, this same diversity is what the dark uses to create fear within us in order to try to separate us further.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This lesson will be difficult for those most committed to their particular religion. The dark is amazingly successful at getting each religion (and sects within each religion) to adopt a tenant that says there is only one path to Heaven. This is just one way the dark hurts those who want to get closer to God. Never forget that God created this world and everyone here with love. By definition, love that strong cannot be exclusionary. This then is the conundrum - how can each human created religion be true to itself and still recognize that it is not the only path to God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Free will means we can each worship God in our own way. Technically, each person’s relationship with God is different than anyone else’s because no one else has had the exact life experiences. God’s love for each of us is that specific and unique. Notwithstanding, our uniqueness, we inherently want communities where we are safe and have access to others. This same impulse is why we have created religion. Religion creates spiritual security as well as being an aid to help us regulate our collective and individual behaviors. Religions are cultural in that they both help create culture and are shaped by culture. Religious doctrine and theology changes over time as the culture changes. This is fine because religion is important in a community’s stability. What is unfortunate is that most religions proselytize. The reasons are basically twofold. First, the institution wants to survive and needs both money and new members. Second, once you accept your religion is the only path, you instinctively try to get those you love on the path you believe is correct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My experiences with Heaven have taught me that the only correct path is selfless love. Once love becomes selfless, you cease to be part of the equation. This means that what others choose to do or believe is up to them and that is fine. God’s ability to love is infinite and God’s love never tries to control us. We need to emulate God on this point and quit trying to control what others think or believe. One of love’s defining aspects is compassion. We need to use that compassion to allow others to believe what they want without our intervention. Once we learn to truly love, this becomes much easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The dark is always trying to bring fear to our interactions with those different than we are. This is when we need to overcome that fear and remember we came here to learn more about love. Part of that education is learning to appreciate cultures and beliefs that are different from our own. God is so large no human created religion can possibly understand God’s depth or breadth. Each religion contains only a portion of God’s wisdom and love for this world. Once we learn to appreciate those who are different and actually learn from them, everyone benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I want to emphasize that this world needs organized religion. If properly led, the church becomes an anchor in turbulent times. However, the church should not proselytize or judge. Everyone will make up his or her own mind about religion and which one or more to follow or none at all. Respecting each person’s free will is part of our learning to live without fear. Control and compulsion are based in fear and this is why they should have no place in anyone’s life. Jesus met with people in homes because He knew the pressures that would come if the church built its own buildings or became an institution. We can see how the dark has used the institution to bring fear inside the church. We need the church and the church needs us but, in this instance, less is more. If resources are focused externally on those in need, then all will benefit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Principle Seven: Never Limit God</span></u></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Never use your free will to limit God or God’s ability to use you to effect change in this world. The power of love is unlimited when you volunteer to become a servant for God because you are filled with God and God’s Heavenly Host when you act as God’s servant. This is why you should never doubt your capacity to serve regardless of how much the dark has hurt you. Such thoughts are brought by the dark to reduce your effectiveness. When you understand that the dark has no intrinsic power, then you will know the dark is not something to be feared. Rather it is something that needs your prayers. The dark’s essential impotence is on display when you realize how often it has to assault you to destroy your effectiveness while God only needs a moment to totally erase the effects from the dark’s sustained attacks.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Let’s return to what Michael told me as recounted in the discussion for Principle 4. God taught Michael never to limit God and that is the same lesson we need to learn ourselves. This is why Michael told me his story. God is limitless, which means God is infinite in all aspects. No one can love more or know more or feel more. Nothing exists outside God’s purview and nothing that happens in this world surprises God. Whether it is the most horrendous rape and torture or the most magnificent triumph, God knew it would happen before it happened. God knew before time exactly how this world would be abused by us as well as how we would abuse each other while here. There are no secrets here that are hidden from God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This brings us full circle to ask “why?” Why would God allow the worst to occur and why would God allow the suffering we see daily? The answer is because God knows what these experiences ultimately teach us about love. This world is a “war zone” and we who are here chose to come to serve God and learn more about love. If the dark were not here, we would not be here. All here knew the dark would hurt them because all knew the dark has the capacity to trick everyone into actually losing sight of God for a time. There is risk with every endeavor so why take this risk? Because all here are warriors who knew that God would ultimately heal them from everything the dark was able to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If your frame of reference ends in this world, nothing will make sense because suffering is part of our experience here. If your reference is based in faith in God, which it was before you chose to come, then you know what ultimately awaits you when you learn more about love and move closer to God. Our time in bodies seems very limiting because it is. What we often fail to appreciate are the myriad opportunities God always provides for our growth as souls while we are here. Can we can learn to forgive those who rape, murder, or harm our loved ones? Can we learn to forgive those lost children who entice souls to kill church members in worship or their classmates in schools? In these circumstances, the dark has not only stolen the earthly lives from those who have been killed but also stolen the continuing relationships those killed had with their loved ones. This is tolerable only because this world is just a moment in the lives of these souls. Never forget that this world is ultimately an illusion God has created for us to learn about love. We must always remember that we do not have the knowledge, the reference point, or the capacity to see what God sees. This is where your faith must surface if you are to find any peace or joy while here. We all know grief is real and that for any healing to occur that grief has to be addressed spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Also, for healing to occur, one must bring faith, selfless love, compassion, and forgiveness to the problem. No one here lives a trivial life. The world may not recognize the significance of an individual’s life, but because everyone’s life involves suffering, no life is trivial from Heaven’s perspective. As each lesson is learned, that knowledge furthers that soul’s development for eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">When Jesus was here in a body, He did not know what He had accomplished. The Bible recounts that Jesus asked God from the Cross, “Why have you forsaken me?” I have been told that this quote is wrong. What Jesus actually asked was, “Have I done enough?” Jesus had to use His own free will during His life and was never told while in a body whether He had accomplished His mission for God. God’s rules do not change for anyone. You will not know what you accomplished for yourself or others until you reach the other side. Otherwise, Heaven would have interfered with your decisions and life while here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Never doubt that God feels the same pain you do just as the angels in Heaven do. You are never really alone while here in a body. God designed this world where you can feel loneliness but know that loneliness is necessary for you to learn the lessons you wanted to learn. In reality, you are always surrounded by more love, compassion, and joy than you know are possible. Once you find the faith to reach out with selfless love, faith, and no fear, you will always feel Heaven’s presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Let me return to God’s rules for a moment as well as God’s genius. Our judicial system works sporadically at best. Many times, guilty people go free while innocent people do not. Such is not the case with God’s system. The Bible says much about God’s wrath and judgment; but, have you ever asked why God would judge anyone when God knew beforehand exactly what that person would do? With God’s foreknowledge, God could “damn” you before you ever left Heaven. Why would God wait for your actions to play out here on earth where you hurt others too? The answer is, God does not damn anyone. This world is an illusion God has created for us to learn more about love. “Earth school,” if you will. Under God’s rules, no one leaves this world and returns to Heaven without first reviewing his or her life with Archangel Michael. Every significant thought or action is reviewed and discussed with Michael in a loving manner to teach you more about love. In the process, you learn to forgive those who have hurt either you or your loved ones. You also re-learn to forgive yourself for your actions that have hurt others. At this meeting, there is no hiding from the truth as everything is exposed to the light because Michael already knows everything you did or thought just as God does. There are no secrets in this world that God and Heaven do not already know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As I said earlier, those in hell have been tricked into going there whether during life or after. I explained how you get there during life; but, you can also get there after you die. When you pass from flesh, you will see a light. If you go to the light, you will meet Archangel Michael who tells you that it is time to review your life. Standing beside Michael is Lucifer who offers you his hand if you do not want to review your life. A small percentage take Lucifer’s hand. Hell is a place of complete self-judgment and self-hatred except that God did not damn you, you damned yourself. God knows you can learn much from having gone to hell even though it is very painful. This is why it is so important to pray for those who are deceased and why self-less love (which includes forgiveness and compassion), faith, and no fear are the only answers to any problem. God’s system is perfect just as one would expect. God’s genius is on display when you realize this world was created in such a way that nothing is obvious. It is this opaqueness that grants us the opportunity to learn what we wanted to learn before we came.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Once you understand that hell is place of self-judgment, you realize how dangerous that emotion is. Heaven permeates this world in ways we will never understand. Once you eliminate fear, which includes self-judgment, you can become God’s eyes, hands, and feet in this world if you willingly become God’s servant. God’s energy will flow through you when you align with God. At that point, everything can change in an instant because nothing is impossible with God and nothing is impossible for you when you are filled with God’s love. No one is inadequate when God is present. I was once told that those who become God’s servants are the point of a spear that is held by the Holy Spirit and thrown by God. Another way to present this is, “Once more into the battle my sons and daughters.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As I have said repeatedly, the dark has no real power. This is why the dark has to continually attack to keep you cowering. However, the wounds will begin to heal once you can accept love. It is a perfect process, which is just what you would expect coming from God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This world is not an easy place; but, it is a perfect place to learn more about love. Everyone here is an immortal being of light residing for a moment inside a body. Nothing here is permanent except our souls and the lessons we learn. Pray for Lucifer and those who follow him when you pray for this world because you are only here because of Lucifer’s presence and past actions. You knew Lucifer would hurt you while you were here and, yet, you were so intrepid you asked God to send you to a world that desperately needs to see God’s love in action. You are a “warrior for God who came to fight that which is far from God.” Never doubt your capacity to serve in spite of everything the dark has done to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The time is coming when the dark will be vanquished from this world. God is removing the curtains to expose Lucifer as the ultimate “Wizard of Oz.” This date of transition comes closer every time you learn to reject fear and start spreading self-less love to those in need. God placed all here in answer to their prayers. Now is the time to embrace those prayers and learn to change so everyone can find true free will. Once that free will is found, healing will come as all move closer to God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="applewebdata://150154BE-AF56-4768-8704-7C2D97C9E57C#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="color: #954f72;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is a link to an article describing the statistical probability life came from non-life without outside intervention: </span><a href="http://www.benotconformed.org/odds-of-abiogenesis.htm" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.benotconformed.org/odds-of-abiogenesis.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">. While the author is a Christian, I am not proselytizing for institutional Christianity. Your religious faith is personal and always up to you. I have included this link just so you can contemplate the math.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">a) All matter, from inert to speed of light, is in sacred motion. Inert matter is just moving very slowly, while the speed of light - and beyond – is extremely fast. Faith, no fear, and selfless love can take us out of the observable zone between inert and the speed of light. Beyond the observable zone is the physics of God, which mystics through the ages learned to travel through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">b) Our body functions as a transducer. Our experience is limited to this “frequency” or “vibration.” (These are not the right terms but some cultures have created words to try to explain this). The fastest item we can see is light, so angels sometimes appear as light or orbs. In their own dimension, they can slow down and appear solid. At a certain speed, atoms will appear as solids (like furniture), but they will disappear when sped up. Atoms dissolve into a non-solid at a certain speed. Energy is mass at a certain speed, which is why it appears solid at low speeds. Angels do not devolve into solids here because they are dimensionally moving so much faster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">c) In our bodies, there is much space between atoms and this is the space our soul occupies. Angels can share this space with us because, at their dimensional speed, our bodies have plenty of space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">f) Your energy, which is your soul, doesn’t dissipate. It just changes form because its speed changes. Your body is a transducer that stays in its present form by slowing down. When you plug your soul back into heaven, which is its natural connection, your soul steps out of its transducer to speed up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">g) Physical location is irrelevant to God. This is why you can connect to someone in another country through prayer. Our souls are faster than light and can leave our bodies (just our transducers) and connect to anyone anywhere. Our transducers (our bodies) are just bio-electro-chemical machines that permit us to experience life in this dimension because all here have slowed down. However, all here can reach around the world simultaneously because our true natures are so much faster. Angels can slow down enough to show up as orbs in photos. Orbs are part of God’s intercession between dimensions. It is like a wormhole connection. The soul exists within the physics of God, which is functional infinity. We exist in both dimensions simultaneously, and our spiritual structure can extend to connect to others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mentioning God in our present culture causes divisions,
arguments, and judgment. Those who believe in God judge those who do not and those
who do not believe in God judge those who do. Those who believe in a certain
institutional religion judge those who do not and vice versa. Even those who
believe in a certain sect within one institutional religion frequently judge
those who are part of the institution but not the sect. There is also much
controversy surrounding God and those who believe they are acting on God’s
behalf. This article addresses how we got here and how we can escape. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The answers that I will be presenting have come directly and
indirectly from the Heavenly Host. In my life, I have been blessed with
circumstances where I had direct contact with God, God’s Angels, and Heaven. Part
of what I have been taught over many thousands of hours of conversation is
contained in this article. For those who are interested in how I obtained this
information, I have written a book about my journey that is available for free
at aplacetofeelgod.com. This article is not about me, though, as the focus
should only be on God. I am just a messenger. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To begin, let me quote from Archangel Raphael who once told
me, “God is really smart.” We in bodies frequently miss this concept as we are
constantly confronted by evil and how it affects us in this life. In this chaos,
we miss the real reason humans are on this planet. By creating this world, God
has given all who come here an incredible opportunity to learn more about love because
no one leaves this world unchanged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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At some point, most of us wonder, “Why am I here? What is
the reason for my existence in this world?” The answer from Heaven is that we prayed
to come to learn more about love. Since God is a God of love, this means that
we move closer to God as we learn more about love. The opposite is true too
though. If we allow fear to govern our lives, then we move further from God because
evil requires fear to exist. In God, there is only love and so there is no place
for fear. Each person in this world during his or her life is given numerous opportunities
to either embrace love or embrace fear. God did not design this world for us to
live perfectly while here. This means that all make mistakes on their journey but
these very mistakes allow us to learn more about love as we learn to forgive others
as well as ourselves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It should surprise no one that humanity has gotten many
things right and many things wrong in the area of organized religion. This is
to be expected once you understand that the dark will attack those seeking to
move closer to God in obvious and non-obvious ways. As each area of an institutional
religion’s dogma is analyzed, your truth detector should look for those
concepts that embrace love and reject those concepts that exude fear. If God is
a God of love (which God is), then any concept that is based in fear is not of
God regardless of whether that concept is contained in the Bible or not. A
religious scholar at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Bart Erhman, has written
many books proving that the Bible is not an inerrant document. This does not
mean, though, that there are not any concepts in the Bible that have been
inspired by God. It just means that God did not dictate what is there to the
authors. When the authors had no fear, they could hear clearly what was coming
from Heaven and when they were afraid they could not. One of the dark’s most
damaging assaults is to convince us that God is speaking to us when it really
is the dark speaking. A glaring example of this is contained in the Hebrew
Bible at Exodus 32:26-28, which reads as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is for the LORD,
come to me!" And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him. He said to
them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Every man of you put his
sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and
kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his
neighbor.'" So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three
thousand men of the people fell that day.…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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God would never command one part of God’s creation to take
the life of another part. This is not what love does. But Moses was filled with
fear and had thus momentarily cut himself off from Heaven. In this void, the
dark appeared and convinced Moses that he was hearing God speaking when it actually
was the dark speaking. This is how God became known as fearful and judgmental
in the Hebrew Bible. It is also one of the reasons that God sent Jesus to
correct these misconceptions that humanity had embraced.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before I continue on my analysis, I want to state some
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is only one God and this God is a God of love. <o:p></o:p></div>
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has placed angels in this world who work as God’s servants to assist all who
come. <o:p></o:p></div>
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here are eternal beings who prayed to come knowing that they would be
inhabiting transient bodies composed of dirt for just a moment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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in this world knew beforehand that evil was here and that evil would attempt to
harm him or her while here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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has no intrinsic power. Evil’s only “power” comes from its ability to trick those
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Concept 1 - There is only one God and this God is a God of
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All of the Abrahamic religions believe there is only one God
and these religions are correct. While it is difficult to comprehend while we
are in these bodies, the only thing that is truly real is God’s love. Inside
this world, sin seems real but it is not. Nothing that is not part of God can
be real and sin is not a part of God. God created this world so that those who
prayed to come here would have their prayers answered. God never designed this
world for perfection. The opportunity this world presents is for all here to
learn from their mistakes. This is the perfection that underlies this world’s
gift of imperfection. This is why all who come are inexorably changed as they learn
more about love when they ultimately learn to forgive and have compassion for
the very ones who hurt either their loved ones or them. Part of this journey is
also learning to forgive ourselves for our own mistakes. This is the world’s
perfection that is frequently missed when we only dwell on evil and its
consequences in our lives. The end point of our analysis should not be within
the confines of this world. We are eternal beings and what we learn while here
will help mold us into what we will become on each of our eternal quests to
grow closer to God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Concept 2 - God loves all of God’s creation unconditionally.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We cannot fathom how much God loves or that God’s love is both
constant and unconditional. Many passages in the Bible frequently invoke
anthropomorphism, which is ascribing to God the natural feelings of humans. But
God is unchanging because perfection by definition cannot be improved upon. This
means that God never changes His love for us. It also means that God never has
any negative emotions such as fear, anger, or judgment (as we understand it).
Rather, God loves unconditionally and that love is so great that it can never
become greater. Consider that for a moment. God’s love for each person is so
great that, no matter what anyone does, that love will never lessen. God
designed this world so that those who come here can learn more about love. This
world was never designed for us to live perfectly in it because our mistakes
are part of the intended experience. We can learn much from our own mistakes -
mistakes that are not possible in Heaven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While this article has been written for those who embrace
any religion or none, I want to expand the concept of the enormousness of God’s
love as it relates to Jesus and His life and death. Nothing I say here should
detract from Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross but the idea that Jesus’ death was
required by God to atone for our sin is wrong. God’s love is a constant and
will always be a constant. Theologically, this means Jesus’ death was not
required by God. The big question then is if God did not require Jesus to die
on the Cross for our sins, why did Jesus come? Jesus came because He knew that the
world needed to see a visible representation of what God’s love looked like
inside a body. Jesus knew that there were souls in this world so hurt by the
dark that their own self-judgment could not be overcome without a visible
representation of God’s love in human form. Jesus came and lived His life and
then went to the Cross in order to reach those who had condemned themselves to
eternal separation from God. This is why Jesus only talked about forgiveness
and compassion because real love encompasses these principles and does not
condemn anyone - not even Lucifer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Concept 3 - God is omnipotent (all powerful) and omniscient
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God is the architect of power and love. Those two words are
rarely put together but, in God’s case, they are appropriate. As such, the only
power that is real is God’s power. God’s love is equally strong and unchanging
(see Concept 2). God is also all knowing. This means that before we came into
this world, God knew exactly what would happen to us and what we would do while
here. Given our limited understanding, this means that some believe we do not
have freewill but this is wrong. Once you understand that control is part of
fear, you understand that God as the architect of love would never want to
control us. Freewill is God’s ultimate gift to us and that gift is born in love.
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God’s horizon is not our horizon. While in the body, we
sometimes think that the end point is within this world and this arbitrary
assumption means that we can never understand why God allowed this world to
exist with evil as a constant predator. But God’s horizon is not controlled by
our limitations. God knows how each person will ultimately respond to the
assaults that come from the dark. In fact, it is those very assaults that are
answers to the prayers that brought each person here to begin with. This is
tough to understand when one sees women and children sexually assaulted and
raped, but we have to remember that those events are happening to bodies by
bodies that are really only dirt that God has assembled for a moment. Nothing
in this world is permanent except our souls and what we take from the
experiences we have while here. The end point is not within this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is much suffering here but that suffering is not
without purpose. Those here prayed to come into this “war zone” in order to
help God reach those here who are lost. The only weapon that works is love,
which means that compassion and forgiveness are crucial if one is to win the battle.
Hate, recrimination, and judgment only further divide and help the dark strengthen
its grasp on those souls who are lost. Jesus’ last act while on the Cross was
to ask God to forgive those tormenting and torturing Him. There can be no
greater example of real love than this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Concept 4 - God has placed angels in this world who work as
God’s servants to assist all who come. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Angels are in this world just as we are. Those serving God
are here as God’s servants and monitor all that happens here. Angels are also
here to assist anyone who asks for help. Angels are created beings just as we
are but they just exist in another dimension. We cannot see their presence
because they move so fast they are invisible to the human eye. The reason they
are invisible is because if we could see angels, then we would not have the
experience in this world that we prayed to have before we came. Angels are
always available to assist us on our journey when we pray selflessly for others
and have faith. Angels have no intrinsic power as all of their power comes from
God. However, when the angels pray selflessly for others, God fills them with
God’s power just as God does us under the same conditions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Angels have freewill just as we do. Thus there are some
angels who have chosen not to serve God but rather work with the dark. This
creates the conditions that have made this world a spiritual war zone. While
all see the effects of this war, we frequently do not realize that the battle
is spiritual because it plays out among those in bodies. Unfortunately, this
means that some souls are lost for a time but fortunately nothing that happens
here is permanent. Any damage the dark does to a body does not permanently
injure the soul as God’s love ultimately heals all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Concept 5 - All here are eternal beings who prayed to come
knowing that they would be inhabiting transient bodies composed of dirt for just
a moment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everyone in this world prayed to come here. This means that
you are not here by accident. When God answers your prayers and allows you to
come, God shows you beforehand the family you will join and whether you will be
male or female. All of this is necessary for God not to violate your freewill.
However, God does not show you everything that will happen because discovery is
part of the challenge. This lack of foreknowledge is a measure of your faith in
God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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God in His infinite wisdom has created a world where nothing
is permanent. Our bodies are formed from dirt with the capacity to hold our
souls for a moment before these bodies return to dirt. This means that everything
in this world is transient except our immortal souls and the lessons that we
learn from the journey. So why would we choose to take this brief trip? Because
all who come are permanently changed as a result of their journey. Some are
lost for a time but all ultimately return to Heaven. Time is irrelevant when
you are immortal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Concept 6 - Everyone in this world knew beforehand that evil
was here and that evil would attempt to harm him or her while here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This transient world grants all here the amazing opportunity
to move closer to God very quickly as they learn more about love in a world
where evil not only exists but is continually attacking. Evil is not an
inconvenient aspect of this world. Rather, evil is the reason we are here.
Without evil in residency, many would not have prayed to come to this world to
help God reach those souls here who are lost. Once it is understood that
everyone is here by choice, then the difficulties all experience while here can
be seen as the teaching tools they are. No one suffers in vain. This revelation
does not diminish the suffering but it does put suffering in context. God
designed our bodies to be able to feel. Evil understands this and continually
tries to entice us into feeling fear or hiding from real emotions while God
gives us the opportunity to feel love. This is the spiritual battle that is
this world. If we can learn to embrace love as well as feel compassion for
those who have hurt either our loved ones or ourselves, then we are beginning
to love as God loves, which is the ultimate reward for embarking on this
difficult journey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Concept 7 - Evil has no intrinsic power. Evil’s only “power”
comes from its ability to trick those who come into hurting themselves through
embracing fear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The dark has no intrinsic power. Rather the dark has to
trick us into unwittingly embracing ideas or positions that hurt ourselves. The
biggest mistake anyone can make in this world is to judge him- or herself
unworthy of God’s love. God’s love never changes but we can block our ability
to feel that love through self-judgment. This is why the dark continually
attempts to get us to embrace self-judgment through the feelings of shame and
guilt. We need to understand that those feelings would never come from God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This world is a war zone where the spiritual battle continually
rages. Our bodies are porous and can be filled with either fear or love at any
instant. The dark by using others can injure our bodies but the dark can never
permanently injure our souls. This is the genius of God’s creation. Many
atheists deny God’s existence because of the obvious effects of evil in this
world. However, the end point of our journey is not within this world. This
world is transient but our souls are not. Once this is understood, each day can
be seen as the opportunity it is. All here are immortal souls who were willing
to endure much suffering in order to help others and God. This world is so much
more than it appears.<o:p></o:p></div>
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God specifically designed our bodies to feel. What we choose
to feel is up to us as we can either live in a world of fear or a world of
love. The world of love is real as that is where God dwells. The world of fear
has been contrived by the dark to separate us from God. Lucifer, when he was
one of the four angels God put in charge or this world, was taught how God
designed this world. That knowledge was not taken from Lucifer when he fell.
This means that Lucifer and the dark know how to violate God’s design in order
to hurt all here. This is why the dark continually attempts to entice us into
embracing false realities that hinder our ability to feel God’s presence. As I
said, our bodies are porous and we can choose which feelings we will allow
inside. If fear is present, then we have unwittingly blocked our ability to
feel God. This truly is a zero sum game. If fear is present, love is not and
vice versa. What is not so well known is that when we seek to feel pleasure
through the use of intoxicants we have also blocked our ability to feel God. The
most common such artificial feeling comes from alcohol use. Most would agree that
drunkenness is not helpful but moderate use is not helpful either. I know that
many will resist this concept but it is true nonetheless. The challenge is to
recognize this concept as true and not attempt to judge or control those who either
do not agree or use alcohol anyway. Judgment and control are just other forms
of fear and, as such, are never helpful if one wants to help another. You have
to understand how the dark works. First the dark hurts us and then it attempts
to get us to blame ourselves for what the dark has done. When we do succumb to
self-judgment, the dark then gives us places of refuge where we can avoid the
feelings of shame and guilt the dark always brings. One such place of refuge is
alcohol use, which should explain its presence everywhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everyone in this world prayed to come here from Heaven in
order to serve God. From Heaven, all can see the suffering of those souls who
are trapped here. But only the most intrepid are willing to come to this world
and subject themselves to the dark’s continual onslaught. This is because God’s
rules for this world mean you come without the knowledge that you are here by
choice. If you had that knowledge, then your experiences here would be
different from what you wanted. You only come with your ethics and your
personality. This makes everyone’s journey here challenging but the reward is
that one can make a huge leap toward God in a very short time through learning
more about love. There is no better place to learn about love than a world
where you are given the opportunity to have compassion for (as well as forgive)
those who have hurt your loved ones or you. Compassion and forgiveness are
primary components of love and this world gives everyone lessons on learning to
embrace love in situations that do not exist in Heaven. This is God’s genius in
permitting this world to exist after Lucifer’s fall. Life in this world is
never easy but it can be eternally rewarding. Everyone is changed as a result
of choosing to come here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Philosophers from time immemorial have tried to reconcile
the concept of God as an all powerful and knowing force with the effects of
evil. Atheists dismiss the idea that God even exists because of the effects of
evil. The problem with these approaches is that both do not account for our
greatest gift from God – the gift of freewill. This gift becomes obvious when
love is understood. Love does not control because control is just another form
of fear. This explains why love is absolutely incompatible with fear. God is a
God of love and as such would never control His creation. One consequence of
granting freewill to creation, though, is that some will choose paths that are
far from God for a time. This principle is currently on display in this world.
Evil is the word we give to the force that seeks to harm others and is the
result of fear and its many faces. This is precisely why God would never
control us. I did not say seek to control us as God could control us if God
chose to. But God has intentionally limited Himself because this limit is consistent
with love. We are not in this world by chance. We are here by choice otherwise
our freewill would have been violated.<o:p></o:p></div>
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God is continually teaching His creation selfless love for
others. This is how those in Heaven live. God allowed this world to exist with
evil as a constant predator because God knows what those who choose to come
here will learn about love in this war zone. Yes, many are hurt for a time but
all will learn eternal truths that will help shape them forever. From Heaven’s
perspective, this world is an illusion. Nothing here is permanent except our
souls and the lessons we learn. Our bodies are composed of dirt formed for a
moment to hold our eternal souls. This world was created for dirt to interact
with dirt so all here will learn more about love. God’s genius is that once we
are inside these bodies, then everything seems real. This is why we have to
come with no memory of our past. If it were any other way, then the experiences
we wanted beforehand would not be possible. For reasons beyond my
comprehension, God has now chosen to lift the veil. Once the veil is fully
lifted, evil will lose its ability to trick and to hurt. Once the light shines
on evil, it will be seen as the powerless “force” it really is. Evil has no
intrinsic power, which is precisely why it has to work in the dark. Once God’s
love is understood as being fully unconditional, unchanging, and
non-judgmental, then the dark will lose its ability to hurt others through bringing
the feelings of shame and guilt. Yes, we make mistakes and are misguided for a
time, but that is how we learn. We prayed to come here to learn and God is
constantly answering our prayers in this war zone. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672924188904964256.post-90619125090093320822014-11-17T08:32:00.000-08:002014-11-17T08:42:09.779-08:00Questions About the Holy Spirit, Sin, and Hell<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">These are questions a friend of mine, whom I will call
“P,” sent to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">In The Gospel of Thomas, it says whoever blasphemes
the Father will be forgiven, whoever blasphemes the Son will be forgiven, but
whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven on Earth or in
Heaven. Your thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Speaking of Holy Spirit, you (I think) have said the
Holy Spirit is all the Angels in Heaven and Earth. I have been taught the Holy
Spirit is a single entity. Please explain this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Finally, if the Holy Spirit is all the Angels in
Heaven and Earth, are we part of the Holy Spirit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My answer:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the unpardonable sin
mentioned by Jesus in the Bible. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is hurting
another in the name of God and it happens all of the time. Muslims are doing it
now but Christians did it during the Crusades. Christians still do it today when they judge
others setting themselves up as God’s chosen enforcers. Jesus said this sin was
unpardonable because it was unpardonable by Him. But nothing is unpardonable by
God. This sin means you have to appear before God and this is what Lucifer is
so afraid of. But how could it really be fearful when the architect of love,
your Creator, leads you to the truth?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Holy Spirit is not all of the Angels in Heaven and Earth.
The composition of the Holy Spirit changes all of the time. God uses the Holy
Spirit to answer your prayers and so it is composed of those Angels who love
you and who want to be used by God at that moment. All power starts and stops
with God but God uses these Angels’ love and combines it with His love to
create the unity of the Holy Spirit who then answers your prayers. We do not
understand the unity that exists in Heaven. When we talk to Michael, we think
it is only him but, at any moment, he can turn into the Holy Spirit when he
goes from talking as Michael to talking as the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is
composed completely of love generated by God and the Angels at that moment just
for you. When we feel that love, we then become part of the Holy Spirit. This
is what true joy is. At that moment, you have become part of Heaven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I have been thinking and praying about evil and how it affects us, I have been taught what “born again” really means. It means that
you have done the work to look at your life with all of your perceived
mistakes. In this process, you must allow yourself to feel again the pain
others have caused you and you them so you can truly forgive both them and
yourself. Once you have done this work, Heaven will take any residual pain with
the result that you truly are “born again.” It has nothing to do with accepting
Jesus as God’s Son. This is how Lucifer has tricked us into embracing more
judgment of each other. Once “born again,” you are no longer laboring under
self-judgment and can then permit God’s love to flow through you to
others. This is what Jesus was teaching through the way He lived His life. The
only real sin is self-judgment because, with it, you have then allowed yourself
to be controlled by Lucifer. As Raphael told me, “you stop in your movement
toward God at the point where you allow fear to overcome you.” Another time he
said, “you are what Lucifer keeps you from becoming.” Both concepts have the
same message. Fear (which self-judgment really is) is the true enemy and is
Lucifer’s only weapon. Once you conquer fear, you will be completely in Heaven
in this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Angels have told me that Lucifer has no real power and
can create nothing real. Lucifer did create Hell so what is it? The Angels serving
God are in Heaven all of the time in this world. Archangel Raphael once told me that if he could waive
his hand and remove all humans from this Earth, it would be fully part of
Heaven again. This means that Hell is inside us. If Heaven is powered by God’s
love, then Hell is the opposite. Hell is a place of such total fear that, once
you are there, you cannot feel God’s love. All you can feel is the fear
generated by self-judgment, which is then reinforced by the dark. It is not that God’s
love does not completely surround you, it is just that you have been tricked
into using your freewill to block your ability to feel that love. Once you have
blocked God’s love, Lucifer then comes and creates Hell by reinforcing your
self-judgment. Hell is a place where the dark continually replays for you the
mistakes it tricked you into making and then tells you God will never take you
back because of these actions. Hell is totally personal because it is your
self-judgment that keeps you there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is why the only escape is looking at your life. This
is also why the dark has to work in the dark. For the dark to succeed, you
cannot see it as work. This is why you never remember the dark’s presence when
you “remember” what you did. When you are afraid and allow fear in, the dark then
persuades you to act in certain negative ways that hurt both others and yourself but you are unaware of its
presence. The dark then tricks you into believing that its actions while inside
of you are what define you. Once you understand the dark’s presence is not
part of the real you, you can “forgive yourself for what you did
not do” as Archangel Michael frequently says. This is why drugs, including
alcohol, are tools the dark always uses to hurt you because they make the dark’s
work much easier.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This world was not designed for perfection and it is your
learning to forgive yourself and others that teaches you more about love. This
is why you chose to come here and how you move closer to God as you learn more
about God’s love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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P, you know Hell well as Lucifer tricked you into going
there most of your life. Your life and your life’s story will help many find
God again as they see God’s love come through you - a man “born again.” Yes,
you are an Angel who prayed to come here to serve God. Welcome to the battle my
friend.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672924188904964256.post-72090079157517439982014-09-29T04:57:00.003-07:002019-06-25T19:56:45.586-07:00Answers to the Deepest of Questions<div class="MsoNormal">
The Age of Enlightenment elevated reason as the path to
knowledge at the expense of faith. So for a moment, let us use reason and try
to make sense of this world. It is easy to look at the pain and suffering we
see everyday and come to the conclusion that a loving and omnipotent (all
powerful) God would never allow this to occur. Many atheists adopt this
approach because it is difficult to rationalize just one instance of child
sexual abuse with a God who supposedly has the power to prevent it. But let us
not stop our analysis there. Given what happened to Jesus when He was here, it would
appear that this omnipotent and loving God is so weak He could not even save
His own Son. When our analysis is based purely on reason and our frame of
reference is limited to this world, this conclusion is inevitable. So what is
wrong with this logic? How can we rationally believe in an omnipotent and
omniscient (all knowing) God given the suffering that occurs every day is this
world? <o:p></o:p></div>
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To answer this question satisfactorily, I think that we must
change our basic assumptions. Let me propose an alternative view as to why God
allows suffering to occur. Before I do, let us start with a more basic question
- why are we here? It is generally thought, without much basis, that we were
created when conceived in this world. We live out our lives here and then go to
Heaven or hell for eternity depending upon the decisions we make while here.
For Christians, there are the additional assumptions that if one has never
heard of Jesus or rejects Jesus as God’s Son, then that person is damned
forever regardless of how such person led his or her life. I have broken
complicated theology and metaphysics down to these simple assumptions but, if
we analyze them for a moment, do they make logical or rational sense? Would God
really consign a child born into a Muslim country to hell for eternity because
this child was never taught that Jesus was God’s Son? Yet many unquestionably believe
this because this is what our Christian culture has taught us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I propose that we need to reassess many of our assumptions
and then use our reason and logic to find answers that are consistent with what
we see but yet gives God His due. Maybe something is happening here that we have
missed. Let us start with the concept that God is omniscient (all knowing) and
follow this idea to its logical conclusion. If God is omniscient, then God
knows before anyone is born who will be raped, tortured, mutilated, addicted,
murdered, abused, etc. God also knows who will commit these atrocities. God knows
that wars will come. God knows that humanity has created countries that are so
divergent in lifestyles and utilization of resources that women in some parts
of this world have to prostitute themselves to survive or, worse, sell their
children into sexual slavery to survive. How can a loving God permit this to
happen? Or more importantly, why would an omnipotent God allow it to happen?
These are questions that have challenged humanity forever. Frankly, it is
amazing to me that anyone believes in God given the way this world runs and yet
millions do. So what is the answer? Why would God create this world in the
first place and why are we here?<o:p></o:p></div>
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If we only use a frame of reference that is tied to this world,
then we must consider the possibility that either there is no God or God is
neither omnipotent nor omniscient. It is easy to see how atheists arrive at
this position given that some people’s lives appear to be a total waste, some never
make it here at all because they are aborted while others make it but arrive in
broken or diseased bodies only to suffer and die. Even among those who are born
healthy, there are frequently life-changing accidents or damaged relationships
that forever alter their happiness. And then, of course, we all suffer and
grieve when we lose loved ones and, finally, we all die ourselves. Voltaire,
who was an atheist, summed it up well when he said:<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is the verdict of
the vastest mind? Silence: the book of fate is closed to us. Man is a stranger
to his own research. He knows not whence he comes, nor whither goes. Tormented
atoms in a bed of mud, devoured by death, a mockery of fate. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So how do we understand this world and discover why we are
here? How do we confront Voltaire’s logic? To me, the answer cannot come from a
frame of reference that is limited to this world as Voltaire has presented that
position very well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let us return to Jesus’ life for a moment. Was Jesus’ life a
failure because God did not save Him? Years ago I was speaking with a Rabbi
scholar and asked why the Jews did not recognize Jesus as their Messiah. This
Rabbi told me the answer was because, “Jesus did not get the job done.” If we review
history for a moment, we see that the Jews of that day were looking for their
Messiah to be an earthly king with the power to smite their enemies just as King
David had done in earlier times. Clearly, if that is your perspective, then
Jesus did not get the job done. But what if the Jews were using the wrong frame
of reference? Realistically, if God were the creator of all peoples, would
there ever be a time when God would send His Son to slay another part of His
creation? If the answer to that question is no, then we have to ask why did God
send His Son? What did God want Jesus to accomplish? What were Jesus’ jobs?
Consider for a moment whether one of Jesus’ jobs was to demonstrate to the
world that there is more to this life than appears on the surface. What if one
of Jesus’ job was to come and answer Voltaire’s questions by demonstrating through
the way He lived His life that there is more at stake here than just suffering
for suffering’s sake. <o:p></o:p></div>
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C. S. Lewis, a famous Christian teacher, once said about
Jesus and His life the following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am trying here to prevent anyone
saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus]: I’m
ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to
be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and
said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would
either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg —
or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this
man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can
shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can
fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any
patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left
that open to us. He did not intend to. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Lewis knew that Jesus and His life were critical to our
understanding of this world and how to live within it. Using language
describing business innovations today, Jesus and His life were “disruptive” to
the cultural understandings of His day and have been ever since. The problem is
we may not be learning the correct lessons.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before we analyze Jesus’ life though, I want us to consider
why Jesus came at all. If the Bible is inerrant, then why was it necessary for
God to send Jesus? Where did God’s perfection in the Old Testament fail? What
did God not dictate to the Old Testament writers that the world needed to know
or be reminded of? Using just our reason, it is difficult to embrace the
conflicting concepts of God’s perfection with God’s inability to dictate what
we need to know. Therefore, I propose that we consider another answer. Assume
for a moment that God will not violate our free will. This means that God
necessarily limits Himself by only acting in ways that respect our free will.
This concept is certainly consistent with unconditional love because there can
be no control in love. Love and fear are incompatible and, given that control
is just a form of fear, God will not try to control us if He truly loves us.
Therefore, I suggest that we have to examine the writings contained in the
Bible another way. Let us assume that when we have no fear, we can hear God
clearly. If that is true, then the opposite is true as well. When we are filled
with fear, then we cannot hear God clearly. This principle would certainly
explain why there are such divergent and contradictory concepts contained in
the Old Testament. If an Old Testament writer were embracing God’s love, then
he would clearly hear God speaking. But if he was filled with fear, then he
could only hear the dark speaking. Just for a moment, let us also assume that
the dark exists and is constantly fighting against God. If that is true, then
the dark must be constantly trying to get us to believe things that separate us
from God. These concepts could explain why there are parts of the Old Testament
where God is portrayed as fearful and unapproachable. It would also explain
those sections were God is commanding that whole villages be killed down to the
last man, woman, and child. This revelation would also explain why Jesus had to
come. If the Old Testament does not perfectly represent knowledge God wants us
to have, then those imperfect beliefs would have to be corrected. God would
need to devise a way to help us and yet His approach would have to be
consistent with us retaining our freewill. Consider whether God sent His Son to
teach us by example as a way to correct the cultural errors we had embraced. From
what we know about Jesus life, He always acted consistently with love. This is
why He said that there were no enemies here and that we needed to forgive
seventy times seven. Both of these statements are logically inconsistent with
the “eye for an eye” narratives contained in the Old Testament and they were
exactly what the world needed (and needs) to hear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me return to the concept of freewill. If freewill is the
defining principle God embraces when interacting with us, then I believe we
have to examine our assumptions about when each person’s life begins. If God
will not violate our freewill, then we have to assume that we did not come to
this world by chance. This would mean that each of us prayed to God to come
here knowing beforehand the challenges this world presents. Freewill would also
explain why there are those opposed to God. Freewill by definition means that
you can choose to accept or reject any path. The Bible has many references to
Lucifer’s interaction with Jesus. (Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13) While Jesus
was in the wilderness, Lucifer attempted to entice Jesus to focus on Himself
instead of focusing on self-sacrifice for others. Therein lies the choice for
all in this world. Lucifer has chosen to reject God and wants others to join
him in that separation. This is the battle that is this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For a moment, suspend your disbelief, and consider whether
the following scenario could be true. God created this world many eons ago and
appointed four angels to help Him here. But, angels have freewill just as we
do. Assume that one of those angels became angry with God and decided to not
only reject Him but to actively try to destroy all that God had created here.
This disillusioned angel then began to try to hurt all souls who came into this
world by getting them to reject God. Also, assume that God permitted this
disillusioned angel to keep his knowledge about how this world works. Assume,
too, that God has very precise rules for those angels who follow Him so that no
one’s freewill is violated. Now assume that this rouge angel rejected these
rules and would violate any soul’s freewill if given the chance. Finally, assume
that there is a window into this world from Heaven where souls from Heaven can
see the suffering of those whom the rouge angel has trapped. What if some of
those souls in Heaven were brave enough to pray to God to allow themselves to
come here to serve God by helping to release those who were trapped? Would this
scenario explain what we see happening around us? And if this scenario is true,
then every soul came here willingly as God’s servant knowing beforehand that he
or she was entering a war zone where evil thrived. It would also mean that no
one here is a victim.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So why would souls come here knowing this? To answer this
question, let us expand our frame of reference. Assume that we are really immortal
beings of light created by God who will live forever. Assume also, that, from
Heaven all know this world is really just an illusion created by God to teach
us important lessons as we get our prayers answered. We come knowing that
nothing here is permanent and that our bodies are just temporary manifestations
created from dirt by God to hold our souls for a moment. We who ask to come
know it will be difficult but we have faith that God will heal all that the
dark does to us while here. This faith in God is complete because we know that once
we get here we will have no memory of where we have come for, if such a memory
existed, then the experiences we wanted would not be possible. Would this
scenario explain what we see?<o:p></o:p></div>
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If this scenario is true, then God and His Heavenly Hosts
(the angels who also prayed to serve God here) are always with us. But the
opposite is true too. The dark is here too and inhabits those parts of us it
has been able to separate from Heaven. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
dark thrives on fear while the light thrives on love. Because the dark cannot
abide in love, it is constantly trying to get us to embrace fear. This means
those in this world can at any moment choose to abide in Heaven with God and
His Heavenly Hosts or not. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Earlier I stated that, if this scenario is true, then there
are no victims here. I want to elaborate on this concept. Once you view
yourself as a victim, then it is difficult to heal from what the dark has done
to you because part of the concept of victimhood is helplessness. An excellent
article on how thinking of yourself as a victim keeps you stuck in your
psychosis can be found at <a href="http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/blaming-your-parents-hurts-you-most-0311134">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/blaming-your-parents-hurts-you-most-0311134</a>.
I do not believe anyone would call Jesus a victim. Yet He was poisoned, beaten,
and crucified. The reason we do not view Jesus as a victim is because we know He
came to this world to accomplish very specific goals. What if the same is true
for each of us? It is if this scenario is true.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of Jesus’ goals was to demonstrate to us how it is
possible to live in this world regardless of what the dark does. While Jesus
could not control what the dark placed in front of Him, He could always control
how He responded. His life demonstrated that each person’s escape from the
effects of what the dark has done can only come through love and forgiveness. These
then are the challenges. First, we need to understand what opportunities this
world provides us. Second, we need to learn to love in the face of evil’s
provocations. The article I cited above shows that once you think of yourself
as a victim, you are doomed to live with the effects of what the dark has done
to you. This is why the culture of victimhood is so damaging to our
relationships with others as well as to us individually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me for a moment explore more of the ramifications of
freewill and return to Jesus’ life. We Christians point to Jesus’ crucifixion
as necessary to atone for the sins of humanity but was it really? Was God’s
sense of justice such that someone had to suffer for these sins? What if the
following scenario is true? God’s love for us is unconditional meaning that
there is nothing we can do or say that will stop God from loving us.
Unconditional means just that. But let’s assume too that the dark is constantly
trying to get us to judge ourselves unworthy of God’s unconditional love. The
dark is very smart and cunning. What if the dark is able to come into us and
get us to hurt others or ourselves without us knowing of the dark’s presence?
What if the dark is then able to convince us that we are unworthy of accepting
God’s love? Freewill being what it is, once we believe that we are irredeemable
then we are irrespective of the truth. If this is true, then it would be
necessary for God to send His Son to demonstrate what true unconditional love
looks like inside a body in this world. So Jesus crucifixion was not necessary theologically
but it was necessary to reach those whom the dark had trapped by coopting their
freewill. Jesus’ life also demonstrates how much God and Jesus love each person
here and that there is so much more to this world than just suffering for suffering’s
sake. </div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The various institutional Christian churches have
been ensnared in a multitude of dogmatic traps, some for nearly 1,600
years. These are traps that have followed from unchecked assumptions that have
defined church dogma. This problem has dramatically limited the efficacy and influence
of the church throughout the ages and has occurred because we have simply ignored obvious lapses
in logic associated with many ancient teachings of the church. The purpose
of this piece is to initiate a dialogue regarding these issues in the hope of
returning the church to the path that was clearly and specifically defined and
demonstrated through the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834),
a German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar, wrote about a subject
he called hermeneutics (which is Greek for a theory of translation or interpretation)
in which the interpreter’s understanding is critical to comprehending the text.
This concept of the interpreter being part of the process of interpretation was
advanced under </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Martin Heidegger</span></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> (1889-1976) when he developed the idea of
the hermeneutic circle. Under this concept, our understanding is limited by our
prior prejudices. To break free of this system, we must embrace an old concept
brought to us by Socrates when he said, “The unexamined life is not worth
living.” Socrates’ life was dedicated to challenging the assumptions of those
who thought they knew the truth. If we are to learn the truth, we must follow
Socrates’ path except, instead of challenging others, we must challenge our own
beliefs. Many are so lost that they do not know they are lost, and I would
posit that the church has fit into this category for many centuries. What makes
this job of self-reflection so difficult is something cognitive scientists call
“motivated reasoning.” What happens is that we unintentionally limit the power of
logic, reason, and evidence to change our minds because we have
allowed ourselves to be controlled by emotion and group loyalty. In this trap, we end up using logic and reason to confirm what
we already think we know rather than using it to discover the truth. This means
that when we encounter evidence that is contradictory to what we believe, we begin
to seek rationalizations to confirm what we already believe instead of allowing
this new evidence to change our minds. This trap is what keeps us stuck with
lies rather than finding new truths.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">What should be obvious to all, though, is that if the status quo were working, the world would not look the way it does. The same
problems exist today that existed in Jesus’ time. Jesus came to help those who
were controlled by the cultural dictates of their day by confronting the lies
they had accepted as truth. Those in power were so afraid of confronting their
wrong assumptions that they removed by Crucifixion the One who came to bring
them salvation. If we are to complete Jesus’ work, we must follow His example
by challenging the accepted norms of our day. As Christians, we are no
different than the Sadducees and Pharisees in that we have been taught and
embrace many assumptions that are wrong. Until we analyze and challenge these
assumptions, we will not find God’s full truth in this world. The following are
seven assumptions some Christians make that are wrong and thus affect how we
engage with God and each other.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->The Bible is
inerrant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Jesus
said you must be a Christian if you are to be “saved.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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must go to church and tithe in order to find God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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is to be feared.<o:p></o:p></div>
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is powerful and to be feared.<o:p></o:p></div>
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sins are unpardonable and this is why hell is eternal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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condemns certain people and therefore expects us to help Him by judging others
and their behavior.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are more assumptions than these but in this article I want
to concentrate on these seven. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Bible is inerrant.</i>
This assumption may be the most damaging to our relationship with God because
it affects how we interact with God as well as each other. Bart D. Ehrman, a
professor at UNC, has written many fine books exploring various textual
discrepancies and inconsistencies in the Biblical texts. His exhaustive and
irrefutable scholarship proves that the Bible is not inerrant but this
assumption remains. The simple fact that there are many dozens, and perhaps
hundreds, of different widely accepted versions and translations of the Bible should lead one to ask which translation is the one dictated by God. It
is interesting to note that the concept of Biblical inerrancy is of recent
origin. An excellent book that categorizes the progression in Christian thought
on how the Bible should be viewed is <i>The
Authority and Interpretation of the Bible</i> by Jack B. Rogers and Donald K.
Mckim. This book shows that most of the Christian patriarchs believed the Bible
was “inspired by God” rather than a literal dictation. The Bible was created to
collect texts that, when read, would allow the reader to experience the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit. However, one consequence of God’s gift of freewill to all of His
creation is that God will not impose His will on others. This means that when an author
had no fear and was listening to Heaven, then God inspired what was written. But
the reverse was true too. When the author was filled with fear and could not
hear Heaven clearly, God did not inspire what was written. Rather, the author’s
fear allowed the dark to come and trick the writer into thinking God was
speaking when it was actually the dark. This simple rule explains the passage in the first book of Samuel where Saul said that God told him to kill the Amalekites down to
the last woman and child. This was not God speaking and is just one example of why God sent His Son to this world.<br />
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God knew that the dark had manipulated those in this world
to hold beliefs that incited fear and created separation from Him. To correct these wrong assumptions humanity had adopted, God sent His Son, Jesus. Jesus’ mission was to <i>demonstrate</i> to others (rather than just
tell them) how one could live in this world totally imbued with God’s love.
This is why some of what Jesus said is logically incompatible with parts of the
Old Testament. This incompatibility is also why a Christian heresy called Marcionism
(circa 144 CE) believed there were two gods – a lower lesser god who appeared
to the Old Testament writers and then a higher God who appeared to Jesus in the
New Testament. How can “go and smite unbelievers” (1 Samuel 15:3) or “an eye
for an eye” (Leviticus 24:20) be reconciled with “love your enemies” (Matthew
5:45-48) or “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing”
(Luke 23:34) absent convoluted logic? Yet we Christians conveniently overlook
these obviously incompatible statements in order to continue to embrace this
tenant of inerrancy. The concept of inerrancy provides security to many because
then no analysis is required but there are negative consequences from this
decision. One such consequence is that the reader never tests for him- or
herself the underlying truth of principles that have been taught for centuries
or millennia. What has happened is that the dark was able to inflict lies on
Old Testament writers many millennia ago and then we adopted these lies as being true just because they happen to appear in the Bible. This circular
logic is no less fallacious than the logic used by a Texas governor in the
1920’s who reputedly said, “If
the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.” My
purpose in using this quote is not to impugn those who have a sincere belief
that the Bible is inerrant. It is to point out that we are the products of what
we have been taught. I assume that this Texas governor grew up reading a
red-letter edition of the Bible and was taught that those were the exact words
that Jesus used even though the English language did not exist when Jesus
walked this earth. Those who now believe the Bible is inerrant (or infallible) are
basing their belief on what they have been taught as well. Part of the problem,
though, is that these scholars are also defending a basic tenant of Evangelical
Christianity. The concern is that if they acknowledge that the Bible is not
inerrant (or infallible), then their whole belief system will crumble and the
members who have been taught this “truth” will leave the church or denomination.
This concern generates fear the dark uses to hurt everyone. My proposal is for us to release
the fear and let God assume control. God can handle the toughest problems if we
will just give Him the opportunity because God’s love can and does conquer all
fear. The solution, though, involves change and most are deathly afraid of
change. This is where faith comes in. We have to overcome our fear and generate
the faith that God will protect us as we release those wrong assumptions that
are hurting us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus was very clear that He had to go (return to Heaven) so
that God would send to the world the Holy Spirit who would become the “comforter”
to all. While our understanding of the Holy Spirit is vague, the Holy Spirit is
clearly not envisioned as a creature of reason or logic. Jesus referred to the fruits
of the Holy Spirit as <span class="text">love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness,</span>
<span class="text">gentleness and self-control. N</span>one of these traits
is a rational or logical principle. Collectively, they are feelings brought to
us by God through the presence of the Holy Spirit. These feelings are the gauge
of truth God gifted to this world. This means that when we read the Bible and
experience one or more of those feelings, we have found truths brought to us by
God. When we read passages that invoke fear, hatred, or other negative
emotions, the Holy Spirit will not come because they (the angels who make up
the Holy Spirit) cannot come to confirm a lie. Love is incompatible with fear
and in God there is no fear. Anyone regardless of his or her state of education
can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit when he or she has faith, no fear, and
selfless love. Those are the conditions necessary for Heaven to come and Heaven
will always come when one puts him- or herself in this state of being of Heaven. This is because these feelings signify that the seeker has joined with Heaven at that
moment. The gifts of the spirit are the same feelings felt by all who are in
Heaven. This means that when one experiences one or more of these feelings, the seeker has
bridged the gulf the dark seeks to create between this world and Heaven. When
those feelings come, the seeker has created within him- or herself the state of
being of Heaven. This is the challenge for all because Heaven is always here and
at each instant can be embraced or rejected. That is the choice God has
given us and He will not influence that choice by violating our freewill. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is why the Bible cannot be inerrant. It was written by
humans who experienced the normal human emotions we all experience in this
world. At times we create the conditions necessary to feel God and at other
times not. When one allows fear to be present, God cannot be felt or heard. My
purpose here is not to attack the Bible, which is the most important book ever
assembled, but rather to suggest that we need to examine and possibly reject certain
passages that the Bible contains that are inconsistent with the lessons Jesus’
life demonstrated. We have to get past our fear that if any minute detail of
the Bible is wrong, then this will lead to a collapse in our faith in the Bible
itself. This concept is well stated by David Allan Hubbard in an article he wrote
that was entitled <i>The Current Tensions:
Is There a Way Out?</i> that was contained in a book entitled <i>Biblical Authority</i> edited by Jack
Rogers. The following is a quote from that article addressing why inerrancy was
embraced by so many in the evangelistic community:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where it is proposed that the divine
character of Scripture is established by the inerrancy of even the minutest
detail and that this in turn must become an essential item of faith, any
negative evidence from scholarly investigation – whether scientific,
historical, archeological, or literary – has the possibility of placing faith
itself in jeopardy… Faced with the conflict between a doctrine of “literal”
inerrancy and the conclusions of respected biblical scholars that seemed to
contradict it, they felt forced either to give up their system of belief or to
give up their sense of intellectual integrity. Where literal inerrancy is made
the chief defense of the truth of the gospel, a collapse in the belief in the
definition of inerrancy may lead to a collapse of the trust in the gospel
itself… Where inerrancy becomes a creedal issue – which it never did for the
Reformers – the other items in that creed may be victims of doubt when
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This is why defenders of inerrancy fought (and fight) so
hard. For them, they had been tricked into believing that Biblical inerrancy
and infallibility was a life or death issue for their denominations and for
faith in God. But God did not bring this fear to them. Their spirited defenses,
though, are good examples how the dark is adept at tricking us. Faith that God
can handle this confusion is the only solution that works. This is why Jesus
told His apostles to shake the dust off their sandals and move to the next town
if the people in one town did not want to listen. Ultimately God had (and has) the
problem handled because love never seeks to control another. Jesus could use this
approach because His livelihood did not depend on His maintaining and growing a
church that was paying Him a salary. There is a reason that God has given us
rules to follow and, when we do not do so, there are always negative and unintended
consequences.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Jesus said you must be
Christian if you are to be “saved.”</i> This assumption comes from the Great
Commission, which Christians have interpreted to be a command from God to
proselytize institutional Christianity to the world. What we Christians
frequently overlook is that when Jesus said those words, He was a Jew living in
a Jewish community. Let us examine those words more closely. Matthew 28:16-20
reads as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>All
power in heaven and earth has been given to me, and where my father sent me, I
too send you. Go therefore teach all the nations, and baptize them in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, And teach them to observe
everything I commanded you, and behold I am with you all the days, until the
end of the universe, amen.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The first sentence confirms that Jesus was the Son of God and
had been given power from God. When Jesus walked this earth, though, He did not
try to establish a new religion. In fact, it was just the opposite. He said
that he was the completion of the Law and not its destroyer. He came to reform
the errors that had been embraced in the Jewish culture and its religion not to
destroy or replace their core beliefs. The Great Commission is therefore a command
for His disciples to “<i>teach all nations
and baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit</i>.”
We know from the Bible that God is a God
of love. This means by extension that love is the essence of both the Son and
Holy Spirit. This then is a command to spread unconditional and selfless love
to all by teaching them “<i>to observe
everything I commanded you</i>.” Jesus’ life was lived to be an example for us
to follow. The command is to teach others about Jesus’ life and His mission by spreading
God’s love selflessly because it is in this manner that God’s love becomes known
to all. Jesus’ teachings, however, must be taught by those striving to learn His
lessons. There is no hypocrisy in love because hypocrisy is another form of
fear. When Jesus suggestions are followed, Jesus’ prayers for this world will
become answered. The last part of the last sentence quoted above confirms that
Jesus will be with those who are striving to follow His suggested approach. When
Jesus was in this world inside a body, He was always in Heaven because He
refused to allow the lies the dark put in front of Him to stand. When we
embrace His approach, the result will (and in fact must) be the same.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no control in love and this is precisely why God
has given us the gift of freewill. Control is another form of fear just as is
imposed uniformity of thought. Love
cannot be selfless if the one giving love is attempting to control the
recipient. Most lessons well learned are those taught by example and this is
what the Great Commission was about rather than proselytizing in the name of institutional
Christianity. If Jesus did not try to convert others to a religion, then why
should we? By definition, love in its pure form is selfless. Not only should we
not proselytize to others, we should respect and honor their different beliefs.
God is so great that no human mind can come close to understanding all that
God is. This means each system created by humanity has a portion of God’s love
that can be shared with others. Institutional Christianity does not have an
exclusive conduit to God and Jesus never said it did. Logically, how could it when Christianity did not even exist when Jesus walked this earth?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Much controversy and misinterpretation have followed Jesus’
statement that “<i>No one comes to my Father except through me.” </i>When He
made this statement He was speaking after the Transfiguration as the complete
embodiment of God’s love in this world. So He did not mean that you had
to be a Christian to find God. He also did not mean that you had to
specifically believe that He was the Son of God. Rather, He meant that the path
to God is attained by living a life imbued with God’s love just as His life demonstrated. Jesus
never asks us to do anything that is impossible or something that He did not
do. We just have to believe that we can follow His example and begin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>You must go to church and tithe in order to
find God</i>. Here I have combined two principles because part of the problem with the
institutional church is that, for it, they are inseparable. The church is
living in the world and needs resources to survive. It therefore has combined giving
with God’s instruction to us on how to find Him in this world. These
irreconcilable differences are precisely why Jesus specifically instructed His
apostles not to take money in service to God because God’s love cannot be
bought or sold. How can any form of love be bought or sold?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
institutional church has become mired in this world and is suffering the
consequences of this decision. A recent article (<a href="http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2014/06/25/why-half-of-all-pastors-want-to-quit-their-jobs/32683">http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2014/06/25/why-half-of-all-pastors-want-to-quit-their-jobs/32683</a>)
categorized some of the problems that clergy are having. A minister devoted to
helping other ministers asked the following question: “What lies are you
tempted to believe in ministry?” The following are some of the answers he
received from pastors that demonstrate that the gauges pastors use to judge
their successes are from the world versus from God:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>I have a small church, which makes me a
bad and ineffective pastor.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>My addiction has no effect on my
congregation.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>More speaking opportunities at ministry
conferences means I’m a legitimate pastor.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The size of our buildings, budget, and
attendance are the only viable way ministry success can be measured.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>If I pastor better, God will love me
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<i>I can please everyone and be faithful to
my calling.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>If I preach better, my church will grow.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>My physical health and wellbeing are not
spiritual matters.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>I don’t need help.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>I don’t have time to rest.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>God’s grace is big, but it’s not big
enough to cover what I’ve done.</i><br />
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Perhaps
the most telling statistic brought out in the article is the following one: <i>Fifty percent of
pastors say they are unable to meet the demands of their job and are so
discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other
way of making a living. </i>The
ministry has become a vocation and this is precisely why Jesus warned his
apostles not to take money for spreading God’s love. Paul was a tent maker and
each apostle had a way to survive other than being paid to spread the Good
News. Money taints the message because when money is involved in any exchange,
fear is present. The one taking the money feels control from the one giving the
money but the problems do not end there. The one giving the money believes he
or she has done what needs to be done by supporting another in God’s work when
each person is called by God to serve. This means all have been hurt through the
exchange. The ministry was never meant to be a “profession.” It is a calling
that should be embarked upon by everyone because all are worthy in God’s eyes.
There is a reason Jesus never took money in His ministry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ultimately, the church is within us all and
resides in our hearts. God is a feeling of love and we do not have to spend
thousand of dollars to become educated in the nuances of theology to help
others find God. That is one of the lies brought by the Enlightenment when
reason became accepted as the path to all knowledge. The problem is that God
specifically designed this world so that we can never comprehend His breadth.
Science only “discovers” very small aspects of God’s genius. While God is
everywhere in this world, we will never be able to understand His presence with
reason. Faith is the way to find your Father and you will know He is there
when you feel the fruits of the Spirit. When the institutional church
understands this and reforms itself, it will thrive in the ways of God and not
the ways of this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Until this world returns to what God
intended it to be, though, the church must continue to survive in a hostile environment.
As such, it will continue to need resources to survive. The challenge for each
church is to use the least amount of resources necessary to sustain itself and
channel everything else into helping others. If the church has ministers
working for free, then those ministers will be free to speak the truth to those
who control the church. Each pastor must decide whether to give up the church
of man and join the church of God. The decision is whether to serve God and,
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versus serving man in relation to God. A better way of stating this principle
is, who is in charge - God or man? Institutional Christianity’s current state
perfectly demonstrates what happens when man tries to be in charge.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>God is to be feared. </i>This concept comes
courtesy of the dark through writings contained in the Old Testament. Here are
some of the citations: Job 28:28; Ps. 19:9; 34:11; 111:10; Proverbs 1:7; 1:29;
2:5; 8:13; 9:10; 10:27; 14:26-27; 15:16, 33; 16:6; 19:23; 22:4; 23:17; and
Isaiah 11:2-3; 33:6. I would counter all of these writings by asking where
Jesus said His Father was to be feared. I am not suggesting that some of these
writers never experienced fear in God’s presence, rather I am suggesting that
God does not want us to fear Him. Why would our Father want to be feared? Fear
is not based in love and is therefore incompatible with God. Does anyone
believe God experiences fear or that Jesus did? Fear is used by the dark to
divide and is therefore not compatible with the light.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If
we are to move closer to God, we must learn to eliminate fear from both our prayer
lives and our actual lives. The idea that God is to be feared is based, in
part, from the sections of the Old Testament I have cited above. This concept
goes unchallenged because of the principle of Biblical inerrancy. The dark has
used this circular logic to keep us from breaking free from lies brought down
through the centuries. This is precisely why we must challenge some of the principles
that we find in the Bible. An excellent example of a writing that was inspired
by God is the 23<sup>rd</sup> Psalm, which I have set forth below:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he
leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the
right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they
comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my
enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. </i><i>Surely
your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will
dwell in the house of the Lord forever.</i></div>
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The Psalmist is very clear that, when you walk with God, you will
have no fear regardless of your circumstance. This is the message Jesus brought
to this world through the manner in which He lived His life. There is no fear
in God and thus no fear in ourselves when we walk with God after breaking free
from the strictures we have unwittingly embraced. Strictures that were brought to us to hurt us courtesy of the dark.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Evil is powerful and to be feared. </i>Evil
is an interesting concept. Atheists believe there is no God because of the evil
they see in this world. Also, atheists frequently ascribe to God the actions of
those who say they are working for Him. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1672924188904964256#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The problem is that these people who believe they are serving God have been tricked by the dark just as we all are by
evil in this world. Most of these negative actions are based in judgment, which is precisely why Jesus said that only God should judge. <br />
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On another front, many scholars are so afraid of evil that
they want to make it a passive concept by defining it as the absence of good.
But evil is very real and active. So the
conundrum with evil is to recognize that it does exist but then give it no power.
Since evil thrives in fear, the way to render it impotent is to live solely
with love. It sounds easy but it will be the biggest challenge of your life. God’s
essence is love while evil’s essence is fear. This is why the two are
incompatible. Jesus demonstrated through the way He lived His life that love
can be embraced regardless of what evil puts in front of you. Evil can only
thrive in the dark because it cannot be honest. Who knowingly wants to hurt
him- or herself by constantly feeling hate, anger, resentment, greed, judgment,
etc.? So how does evil control the actions of so many? By tricking us into following its urgings. Evil is very cunning and knows that it can never show itself or its ability to trick will be lost. One major trick is our culture’s embrace of
alcohol.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1672924188904964256#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a>
You cannot feel Heaven’s presence when alcohol is in your system because it
alters your brain chemistry. You have also made yourself very susceptible to
evil’s provocations. The current concern regarding women being raped at college
is an example of evil’s influence when alcohol is present. Interestingly,
though, there are few suggestions that alcohol use be tempered. The result is
that the different factions fight over how to deal with the problem instead of
confronting its cause. Evil is very smart and always tries to manipulate us in ways that keep
us from confronting the real problem.</div>
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only have to read any newspaper to know that evil can and will hurt you if you
give in to it. The challenge is to recognize that God is the only source of
power and that this power will protect you from evil if you ask. Evil only has the ability to trick rather than force. This means you can control evil’s
influence in your life. This also means that you can control your own level of
fear. When you embrace God, you have reduced your level of fear because fear is
the source of your separation from God. Evil is sneaky, though, and one of its
best tricks is to get us to judge ourselves unworthy of God’s love. This
self-judgment is just fear in another form and prevents us from feeling God’s
love. Once you know that God’s love is unconditional, there is nothing to fear.
At this point, fear will have a very difficult time separating you from your
Father because you will know that fear has no power other than what you give it.
This truth alone will allow you to conquer fear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The church prayed for Lucifer’s healing for many centuries,
but this practice has been discontinued. Since prayer is the most powerful
“weapon” available to us, my suggestion is that we get the church to return to this
practice. God answers every prayer and these prayers will be answered through God
continuing to send His Archangels to reach out to Lucifer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Certain sins are
unpardonable and this is why hell is eternal</i>. Neither of these statements
is true. I have combined them because, while some do not, the concept of
unpardonable sin is the reason we arrive at the belief that hell is eternal. We have embraced the lie that certain sins require eternal atonement. Logically,
if this were true, then what sins did Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross atone for?
I assume the answer would be all those sins that are pardonable since Jesus did
speak of the unpardonable sin. So let us analyze the passage contained at Matthew 12:31-32 where Jesus speaks of the unpardonable sin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Because of this I [Jesus] am telling you, that all sins and blasphemies
may be forgiven to mankind; however, blasphemies against the Spirit shall not
be forgiven to mankind. And whoever says a word against the Son of Man, may be
forgiven. However, whoever speaks against the Spirit, shall never be forgiven,
neither in this realm, nor in the realm that is destined [to come</i>.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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This
translation is from Victor Alexander but it still does not completely capture
what Jesus was saying. The sin of “blasphemies against the Spirit” is committed
when one harms another in the name of God. Jesus’ sacrifice atoned for all sins
except direct sins against God. The reason Jesus said it was unpardonable is
because it was unpardonable by Him. However, nothing is unpardonable by God.
This sin requires you to be in the direct presence of God and can only be
forgiven by God. This is the sin that Lucifer commits daily and his warped
sense of what God’s judgment is keeps him from reaching out to God. The dark
has tricked our culture into thinking that God’s judgment can only be fearful.
We may not like our mistakes presented to us, but, if God truly loves us, how
can this not be beneficial. It is only through exposure to the truth that we can
overcome what the dark has tricked us into doing or thinking we are.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On
a final note, God did not invent hell Lucifer did. God can (and does) use hell
to help those who are tricked into going there to learn to forgive
themselves, but it was never a place of God’s creation. If God did not create
it, then it is not perfect. Hell is just an illusion the dark created to continue
to hurt us. There is nothing we can ever do (or think we are) that will keep us
from God’s unconditional love. Otherwise, God’s love would be conditional. We
can impose a separation on ourselves because we have freewill, but that
separation never starts with God. This fear that we are not worthy is the key
to Lucifer’s panoply of tricks working. His first trick is to get us to embrace
self-judgment because this fear creates the separation Lucifer is seeking.
While some of our actions or thoughts may not be of God, this never changes
God’s unconditional love for us. God is our creator and generates more
love for us than we can ever contemplate or fathom. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>God condemns certain people and therefore
expects us to help Him by judging others and their behavior.</i> This concept
that God judges certain races, religions, and ethnicities comes from the Old
Testament. If the Bible were inerrant, this would be a problem but the Bible is
not inerrant. If all of the concepts contained in the Jewish Bible were both
of God and working, there would not have been a need for Jesus to come. Jesus
came to this world specifically to correct the lies that we had embraced that
were hurting all here. This is why studying Jesus’ life is so important because
He came to show us by example.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If
God had condemned certain people, then why would Jesus say the following?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>You heard it said, 'Love your best friend and hate your enemy.' But, I
am telling you, Like your enemy and bless those who curse you And do good to
those who hate you and pray for those who exploit you and leave you bare; So
that you become the sons of your heavenly Father, He who makes his sun shine on
the good and the wicked, And brings down the rain on the righteous and the
abominable. For if you like those who like you, what are you to be compensated
for? Do not even the revenue collectors do this? And if you greet your brothers
only, What good is that? Do not the revenue collectors do this also? Be
therefore mature people, like your Father in heaven is Mature. </i>(Matthew 5:43-48).<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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God created everyone here. Not everyone here always acts in
conformity with God’s love but that does not change the nature of God’s love
for each of them. Some commit certain actions that are far from God but those actions
never separate these people from God’s love. This world was not designed for
perfection and learning from our mistakes is part of the process of finding our
way back home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We came to this world to learn how to love and this involves
learning to forgive other people and ourselves. The real enemy is the dark who
influences the behavior of those hurting others as well as our own behavior. This
is why Jesus frequently talked about compassion and forgiveness because both
are part of the journey to learn more about love. The fact that we are immortal beings means that the time we spend here is just a moment when compared to
our real existence. But, if, in this moment, we learn to forgive unspeakable infractions
committed against our loved ones or ourselves while here, we will move closer
to God. This is the real prize and the reason we have chosen to come into a
world where we knew we would be attacked by forces opposed to God. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This world is very difficult for us as individuals as well
as for us collectively when we create groups or institutions that strive to
serve God. The reason is that those who strive to serve God are always under constant
attack from the dark. It was no different for the writers and members of the councils and committees who wrote
and assembled the various books of the Bible and it is no different now for those
who strive to lead the institutionalized church. All have been attacked and
influenced by the dark because of their attempt to spread the love of God. In order to “win,” the dark must attack the powerful and influential
institutional churches as well as try to manipulate their dogma to any extent possible. Unfortunately, these attacks have engendered some
troublesome doctrinal policies that have ultimately led the institutional
churches (and their members) in unintended directions. Now is the time to
explore how we got where we are and plan an exit strategy based on embracing
God’s love and light.</div>
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This article has touched on just seven wrong assumptions
that are hurting us. I know more are out there if we just look. My prayer is
that we individually and collectively challenge any assumption that is not
based in selfless love, faith, and no fear. The result will permit the church
to extricate itself from its current state so it can then ready the world for
the return of the One who two thousand years ago came to show us The Way. This
is how we can help Jesus complete the work He started. When we embrace love in
its myriad facets, we join with God. This unity allows Heaven to enter us
thus permitting all to work as one in service to God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go with God for God is always with you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1672924188904964256#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> I apologize if I have
offended anyone by using this patriarchal noun. Obviously, man refers to
humanity, which is comprised of both men and women. From God’s perspective,
neither man nor woman is above or below the other as both sexes are equal. Each just
interacts in this world from a different perspective so that each can learn from the other. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1672924188904964256#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> There is a reason Jesus
said: <i>It is not whoever says to me, 'My Lord, my
Lord,' who enters the Kingdom of Heaven, except whoever does the will of my
Father in Heaven. Many will say to me on that day, My Lord, my Lord, did we not
prophesy in your name and in your name cast out demons and in your name perform
great powers? And then I will declare to them that, I never knew you, go away
from me, workers of abomination. </i>(Matthew 7:21-23)<i>. </i>Jesus was telling us that many would say they were working for God when
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that prohibit the use of alcohol. This has been tried and failed. I am saying
that each person has to make this decision for him- or herself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This blog post is in question and answer format. The
questions are from a social worker of 40 years who works with abused children.
She is an African American female. The questions began after I sent her a
message to me from Archangel Michael.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Message from Michael on September 28, 2011. I loosely wrote
down what Michael said so these are not direct quotes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When you are living in
the world, a life of sacrifice does not appear attractive because you are on
the other side. You only feel the grace of God as you walk the life of
sacrifice and this feeling only grows stronger as your journey progresses. Many
people do not choose this life for two reasons. First they do not feel worthy
to do it and, second, they do not want to give up what they think they have. As
you move deeper into the world, you move slower in service to God because you
get misdirected. As you chase what is of the world you feel worse and so you
chase more of the world. This is the downward cycle for people who have great
wealth. They believe they will feel better if they just get a bigger plane or a
newer car or more houses. However this is journey into hell. The more world
they obtain the less worthy they feel. They are continuing to find
replenishment for the great rush they first feel when they obtain something new
that no one else has. For example, the custom Lamborghini SUV. However the hole
that is felt can only be filled with God. Power can be the same vehicle for
this search. People seek power when they feel weak. This is why someone will
fight all souls when they feel weak. The person has been tricked into believing
that if she has power then she will overcome her feelings of weakness. However
only God can fill that hole too.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Everyone has been
given great gifts but to claim them each person has to risk everything he or
she has constructed in his or her world. For younger people, this is usually
popularity or their ideal peer group. In reality it is this very peer group
that is hurting them but this is not what is seen. Younger people believe if
they proclaim and stand for God they will have to associate with people who are
not “cool.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The nature of free
will is that you can rarely make choices for another. As a parent you do make
choices when your children are small but when your children become adults a
parent’s influence is attenuated at best. For a person to become all he or she
can be, he or she must gain self worth for him- or herself. This can only be
accomplished when the appropriate peer group is embraced. As young adults, their
peer group has much more influence than parents. The environment within the
appropriate peer group is supportive but the environment within the wrong peer
group is destructive. Each person ultimately decides those with whom he or she
will associate.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When someone is on a
self-destructive bent, there is not an easy answer. If you remain too close,
you are kept from your path. The answer is always selfless love but that is not
what people think it is. If someone wants to destroy him- or herself, ultimately
there is very little you can do except get out of his or her way. This is
especially true because from a child’s perspective, all of the restrictions a
parent places in the child’s path to protect the child are viewed as cruel. <b>Psychology
is a tool but faith is the only answer. Also, you do not abandon a person if
you continually pray for them and love them.</b> This is what is known as tough
love.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In a family unit, you
have no control over your spouse and only very limited control over your
children. You cannot allow yourself to continually react to one who is
controlled by the world. Each person will define him- or herself through the
choices that person makes.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you as a parent are
trying to teach your child about service and sacrifice for others, your child
gets to decide how she will respond. In rebellion, sometimes a child will
decide that what she really needs is to get HER way. This quest for control and
power will be the source of her destruction. That is the trick. When one seeks
power, that person will always lose because it becomes about that person. If
instead a person seeks respect then he or she will win. If you respect yourself
you win. <b>The quest for the illusion of power masks a lack of self-regard and
self-respect.</b> This what happens when one decides to hurt others.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children rebel against
their parents (and especially mothers) because they believe they are trying to
be controlled. When one is in this self-destructive cycle, he or she will go to
great lengths to hide from the truth and to defend the lie. (This is why Jesus
was killed. He brought the truth and the crowd did not want to see.) If a
person does not see it for him- or herself, then it is not real. In order to
help someone in this situation, you have to help her find the truth for
herself. You cannot help anyone when you place yourself in that person’s
situation. Feeling compassion alone is not the basis for action. Compassion is
good because it generates love but you should never act on compassion alone.
You must take into account the person’s situation. For example, you would never
take a veteran back from a war to a fireworks show because the sounds of
explosions would trigger that veteran’s defensive mechanisms. You can have
compassion for the person but you still have to think how a person will react.
Compassion by itself does not lead to analysis.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When someone has been
exposed to the path to God and still chooses to follow the dark, all you can do
is grant that person his or her free will. Soon that person’s want will become that
person’s need and the cycle of addiction will bring on the gift of the fire.
Frequently a person has decided that the dark is a good path and wants to try
it out. The problem is the person does not realize what an unforgiving path it
is.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In a family unit
committed to serving God, Lucifer will always attack the weakest length in the
family in an attempt to retard that family’s service. The battle becomes
readily apparent if a person has become used to fear and chaos in life because
then that person will try to create it with self-destructive actions in order
to feel “normal.” This is an example of the length to which someone will go to
defend the prison she has built for herself because the person believes she
cannot live without it. This feeling of control is an illusion but a very
strong one because the person feels safe within the confines of this control.
The chaos and fear become the source of the illusion of control. The only
escape is to give the person real control. Real</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">control is only obtained when you love the person</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unconditionally in order to give the person
a solid base. If you only respond to a person’s acting out, that is not giving
the person real control.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sometimes a person’s
past sexual abuse has given the person attention. However this attention will
never heal a person. Only God can heal and that is done when a person decides
to serve others selflessly in love. These types of problems can be the basis
for something magnificent however everyone has to see that his current path is
not where he wants to go. To escape this cycle of destruction, the person has
to love someone else more than he loves himself. Also, it is important to
realize that loving another is not controlling him or her. When people are
lost, their measuring sticks are wrong and yet they will defend their current
position will all they have. This is how we all get tricked into defending our
self-constructed prisons. The death of Jesus is the best example of each person’s
desire to defend what he or she has constructed to survive. The truth will
always set you free but going there is not usually the first response when the
light shines on you.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Social Worker:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I do need an in-depth conversation with you but at the
present I am in the fight for the children who are dying in this state in the
care or watch of the department of Social Services. The battle, excuse me, the
WAR on children has been and will continue to be my deepest passion as a
warrior. I am angry to the point of using all my energy in this fight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My Response:<o:p></o:p></div>
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You will win with unconditional love. Love is the only
weapon that works. The dark must divide us to win while love unites all. Go
into battle with love and you will have the full complement of Heaven behind
you. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus showed us how and He will be you too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Social Worker:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who do you love? The effects of the darkness are heart wrenching.
I ask God consistently, “What do you want of me? Am I in your will or am I
doing my own thing?” I know I can’t turn away from this anguish. I want to
scream. Remember I told you I have been a Social Worker for forty years and
working with the wounded. There seem to be no end. God continues to give me
wisdom with clients but it is also a burden. How can I use LOVE as a weapon?<o:p></o:p></div>
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My Response:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pray for those doing the hurting. They have been tricked by
the dark and don’t know the truth. Look at Paul’s life before the road to
Damascus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here is how the system works. To win the dark must create
hate, judgment, dissension, and division. In God’s world, there are no losers.
The dark knows our bodies and how God designed them. He therefore constantly
tries to get us to feel fear because that is the only world he can inhabit. When
fear is present, God has ordained that the Heavenly Host cannot intervene
because that would influence our free will. Therefore, each person has to
decide whether to continue to feel fear or allow Heaven to come. The dark has
had our entire lives to get us accustomed to fear and so the process of healing
is to learn that we are all masters of our own level of fear. The beginning of
all sin is fear and it should be obvious that all of the emotions I mentioned
in the first line are different aspects of fear. You have spent your whole
career addressing the consequences of people giving in to fear. The fruits of
the Spirit as detailed in Galatians are feelings from Heaven. The dark cannot
duplicate these feelings and that is why he is constantly trying to get us to
believe that feelings are unreliable. But only God can bring us love and
joy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our challenge in this war zone is to reject any aspect of
fear. Think about love. In love there is no control and that is why God will
never influence our free will. But He will wait an eternity for us to reach out
to Him. Contrast that with the tools of the dark - addiction, unquenchable
craving, anger, hate, judgment, etc. None of these emotions will ever win
anything. There may be a moment of perceived victory, but how does that stand
in the face of unconditional love. This is why unconditional love is the only
weapon that works.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look at Jesus life for a moment as recorded in the
Bible. If there is anyone who had the “right” to judge and condemn those who
poisoned Him, tortured Him, and crucified Him it was Jesus. Yet on the cross He
said, “Forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” (Or something
close.) When asked how many times one had to forgive He said seventy times
seven. Look at the parable of the Good Samaritan. When asked about enemies,
Jesus said, “But I <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">say</span> to
you who hear, Love <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">your enemies</span>,
do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who
abuse you.” This is because He knew the power of love and came to show us what
God’s love looked like inside a body.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Michael once told me, “When you understand love, forgiveness
and compassion are as easy as breathing in this manifestation.” Michael knows
that love is the only weapon that works because he knows that God’s essence is
love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me address your situation (as I understand it) for a
moment. I sent that quote to you because Michael explains perfectly how the
dark deceives us. Anyone that hurts another has allowed the dark inside their
body and so it is the dark that is actually doing the damage. The presence of
alcohol or drugs makes the dark’s work that much easier and that is why there
is so much rape and abuse when alcohol or drugs are present. When you pray for
that person inside the abuser (the real person underneath all of that fear),
Heaven comes. You may not see results immediately but God answers all selfless
prayers for others. When you get angry at someone, the dark wins. When you pray
selflessly, Heaven wins. Those are God’s rules.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the original Lord’s prayer, Jesus said “deliver us
from the evil one” - not “deliver us from evil” as we recite today. Lucifer had
to work hard to get that word “one” out. Your fight has always been against the
dark and not those who have allowed the dark to hurt both themselves and others
using their bodies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who work for the dark have been tricked
into believing that God would never have them back because of their
actions. This is just a lie Lucifer uses to keep his small army in line. When
your light shines on them and they know they are loved by God, they go home to
Heaven. That is what Jesus did when he took the demons out of Legion and
put them in the pigs. Those demons believed they had to be inside flesh to
go home and so Jesus used the flesh of the pigs. Those souls are now
in Heaven serving God again. Your entire professional life has been fighting the
effects that other “lost children of God” (the term Michael uses for
demons) have had on those you counsel. In God’s Kingdom, all are loved
completely - even Lucifer himself. All in this world came to learn how to
love. Those you counsel will learn about love (and thus move closer to
God) when they have forgiven their tormentors. The tormentors will move closer
to God when they learn to forgive themselves for what the dark has done to them
and influenced them to do. Ultimately all are winners in God’s Kingdom
notwithstanding the dark’s actions. Everyone in this world prayed to come here
to serve and all knew that God’s love would ultimately heal them completely
from anything the dark did. What better place to learn about love than a war
zone where you know that you will see the face of evil?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus could not control what the dark placed in front of Him
but He could control how He responded. That is why He showed us that the only proper
response to any provocation is love. Jesus came to show us (not tell us)
how to live in this war zone. Archangel Raphael has told me that “the church
has made Jesus out to be a liar.” The judgment coming from the church today is
what you feel and why you have rejected much of those teachings. You know what
is real and that is why you can feel so much. This is why the dark works very
hard to get you angry because when you are angry you cannot serve God. My wife
and I can teach you how to get Heaven to take that heaviness you feel when you
allow your compassion to overwhelm you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you pray for those hurting the children, you are
moving Heaven and earth to serve God’s will. When you get angry, only Lucifer
wins because you have nullified Heaven’s ability to intervene. <span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Your whole life has been one of
attack. The dark knows who we are and what we can accomplish before we come.
Those who have had it the toughest are those who have the most to give if they
can right themselves. Your whole life has been trying to teach those who come
before you how to heal and then serve. This is why love is the only answer even
in the face of unfathomable pain.</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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You are a huge angel who has come to this world to serve
God. I hope this long narrative helps you on your journey of service.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Go with God, for He is always with you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Social Worker:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Conrad,
I want to dissect what you are saying because I want to debate it. However, a
part of me knows that you are truthful about my work. Christianity
certainly doesn’t dictate that we pray for Lucifer. I remember asking questions
about God when I was very young and some questions were considered
sacrilegious. I do believe that I am here for a purpose and I try to commit to
that purpose. Sometimes I don’t know when it is my passion or God’s will. I
also know that I have some resistance to way God’s love has been demonstrated
in the churches. The Faith-based Initiatives that claim they are serving
people, base their assistance on the level commitment to God as a condition to
receive services. If I am to believe the Bible, Jesus told the leper to stretch
forth his hand and healed him. He never asked if he was a Christian or believed
in God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">My
Response:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Let me
give you more information to digest. I suggest though that you challenge your
assumptions to really process what I am saying otherwise it will not make
sense. Let’s agree on some basic facts that I believe you will accept. First,
there is only one God who is both omniscient and omnipotent. Second, everyone
here was created by Him (or Her if that is your frame) and each soul is
immortal. Third, Jesus really did come to this world. Four, evil exists and is
constantly attacking those who come. And, five, God grants all of His creation
freewill because control is not consistent with true love. With these
assumptions, let’s examine for a moment God’s dilemma. God wants all to learn
to love and grow closer to Him but He will not command it. Because God is God,
He is constantly providing answers to each of our prayers by giving us
opportunities to learn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">God
created this world to give us experiences we could not have in Heaven. In
Heaven, we are all beings of light but while we are here inside a body, there
are more limitations than in Heaven. Here there are differences in race,
culture, sex, etc. He built our bodies to feel and knew that these feelings
could be abused. Also, do not think for a moment that God did not know that
Lucifer would choose to reject Him. But God also knew what could be
accomplished by each soul when he or she learned to overcome what the dark did
to a person while here. The fact that everything here is temporary is why the
Angels call this world an illusion. It is a perfect set for us inside of bodies
to learn how to love. God’s Angels are here to guide us and help us get answers
to our prayers but they will not live our lives for us or that would violate
our freewill. While Lucifer constantly tries to hurt us and get us to feel
hate, judgment, anger, rage, etc., God’s Angels play by God’s rules and try to
get us to learn how to love notwithstanding the dark’s actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">If you
are an eternal being, what is a thousand years in hell if you ultimately learn
to love? Those who come here to serve God know the world they are coming into
and yet choose to come because they understand God’s ability to heal any damage
the dark does. Lest you question God while dealing with the fallout from the
dark’s attack, know that God’s plan is perfect. Before you come to this world,
you talk to Archangel Michael about your mission. You do not remember this talk
or your experiences would not be what you wanted. Before you leave this world
and return to Heaven, you talk to Michael about your actions here. In that
talk, you will see all of the mistakes you made and their impact on the people
you hurt. Michael shows you how the dark tricked you into doing things that
were not of God. As you go through this time, you will feel the pain you heaped
on others and in this process learn to forgive yourself and learn to forgive
those who hurt you. So do not think those who are hurting the children get away
with anything. They will have to ultimately look at what they have done and
will feel the pain they inflicted. This is God’s perfect system for all to
learn more about love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Institutional
religions have been created to try to control our interactions with God. We
need them because they establish boundaries but they should not be used to
judge those who believe differently. If those who control these institutions
acted as Jesus showed us to act, then these institutions would completely serve
God. Currently that is not the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I hope
this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Social
Worker:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">If we have free will
what is the end result of gaining the experiences on earth. Could we not choose
to learn from God?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">I work with wounded
children who grow up wounded adults. How can a child learn to deal with such
pain without rage and anger? The children I see often assume the blame for the
wrong that they have experienced. They are separated from family and lose a
sense of self. I had one child say to me “where was God when my daddy crawled
on top of me?” This child didn’t want to hear about God. I was ministering to a
child that was extremely hurt because his mother chose the abusive boyfriend
over him. As I was telling him that God knows about your hurt he responded by
saying “it hurts past where God is.” He was six years old. What do I do? I am
continually writing programs, creating curriculum that addresses the needs of
families. I sometimes do work for free or very low cost. <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am at an impasse. Does God still hear my
cry for the children? Is there darkness in me that deters heaven from helping
me? There is a song that comes to mind. Hush, Hush somebody’s calling my name,
what shall I do?<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;">My response:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">As I
read your question, please understand not everyone in Heaven chooses to come to this
world. God has millions of worlds but this is the worst in that you can
absolutely lose sight of God for a time. Everyone here has signed up for a huge
challenge. Most souls choose not to come here. You have a very large light
because you came as a woman and an African American. You knew it was going to
be really difficult and yet here you are. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">My
mother sexually molested me from age 3 to 7. The only woman I had ever loved and whom I was
married to for 35 years (and dated for 4 years before marriage) left me when I
asked her to give up alcohol after learning she was an alcoholic from Michael.
I know a little about suffering myself. I have now forgiven my mother and my
first wife and in the process I have learned more about love. Michael once told
me, “Faith is the answer to the great mystery.” Yes, God hears all and suffers
along side us just as the Angels in Heaven do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">The
first reference change is for you to understand that there are
no victims here. Michael told me this once and it took a long to time to
process this information. Everyone here asked to come knowing beforehand the
sorrows and pain that awaited them when the dark attacked. That is why Michael
has told me all here are “warriors for God who came to fight that which is far
from Him in this war zone.” While you do not remember asking to come, you did.
You also knew that God’s love could heal any damage the dark did to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">In the
middle of the suffering you cannot see the end result but God does. What is a
body? Just dirt that God formed for a moment to be used as a tool for us to
learn from. You cannot see what your children will gain once they learn to
forgive but God does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Mary
Magdalene was kidnapped at age 11 and was forced to work in a brothel for over
10 years sleeping with men and women everyday. She has told me, “don’t cry for
me because I wouldn’t change a thing.” She is now a huge Angel and very close
to God because she has learned to forgive and love notwithstanding all that was
done to her body while here. Also, there is not a woman she cannot now help.
God saw beforehand what she could accomplish with the experience she had while
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Is
suffering necessary? No, but if you choose to come to this world, you will
suffer. You came to help others whom the dark has captured. If those who are
hurt can understand that they can use their experiences to move closer to God,
their suffering will not be in vain. You become God’s hands, eyes, feet, and
hands in this world when you bring them unconditional love with no fear or
judgment. You are going God’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Go with
God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Social
Worker:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Conrad, what about the
culture of African Americans that was enslaved and the pain and cruelty they
experienced before they could ever contribute to mankind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">My response:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I may
surprise you with this answer, but God is giving each of us the opportunity to
learn to love. When a slave learned to love those who were torturing her or
raping her, she made a huge leap toward God, which is the real prize. Nothing
here is permanent except our souls and what we take from our experiences while
here. God is only concerned about the individual and his or her advancement
toward Him. There is no better culture in this world because all are illusions. One hundred years from now, they will be gone. This is why
Jesus said we live in the world but are not “of” the world. Anything the world
values is not of God because currently the world is run on the fear Lucifer
brings. Didn’t Jesus say that the first will be last and the last first (or
something close). Those slaves were much closer to God than any of their
masters. Just look at their songs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">We
live in a capitalistic system. Archangel Michael once told me that all of the
money I had made was a “measure of squandered time.” The angels look down each day and
see whether each soul learned to love not whether “mankind” advanced.
Each race is just an illusion too. You are not really black or female, you are
an avatar whom God has placed inside a black female illusion. You are really an
immortal being of light just as we all are. When you learn to forgive those
(white or not) who discriminate against you or patronize you, you have learned
more about how God loves. In Heaven these slights are theoretical but here they
seem very real. God has created our bodies to feel and we can feel joy and love
or we can feel hate, fear, and anger. When we choose love and offer
forgiveness in the face of hate, then God has used Lucifer to teach us some very important lessons
that we will keep for eternity. We cannot learn to forgive by ourselves and
that is the Holy Spirit’s job. When we allow ourselves to love, the Holy Spirit
enters us and helps us. All we have to do is give the Holy Spirit a chance.
This is why the dark never really wins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">If our
frames are stuck in this world and we only see evil at work, we will not learn
what we came here to learn. When we start to see this life as just one of many
opportunities God gives us, then everything changes. This is each person’s
challenge and it can only be accomplished with faith. That is why God has made
this world as He has where we cannot see the Angels at work. We
have to take them and God’s existence on faith; but, once we do, God sends the
fruits of the Spirit to validate that faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">God
created all of these divisions (different races and cultures) so that we can
all learn from each other. God’s wisdom is spread across all and none has a
monopoly. The dark tries to counter this by bringing us fear so that these
differences create divisions. Our job is to live life colorblind and see other
souls (regardless of their culture) as our brothers and sisters and not our
enemies. With love, all are united. In hate, all are separate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I hope
this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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