A BLAST FROM MY PAST, AN EMAIL I WROTE TO A DEVIL CHASING, TONGUE TALKING FUNDY, SENDING ME TO THE pit! ( Written around 2005 )
FOLLOWING IS MY CONVERSATION WITH A TONGUE TALKING CHRISTIAN
FUNDY.
Why does Bible talk make you so angry? You'd be eaten alive if you were a
Preacher or Evangelist fishing for lost souls. Before you catch a fish, you
first need to apply the right kind of bait that fish like. And there are as many
fish looking for food out there as there are lost souls stuck in each of the
cults or Sects. Now how in the world would you ever hook one of those hungry fish if you never
had the least clue what each of those fish ate for dinner? If you don't know
what each cult member believes, and refuse to examine their literature, or hear
them out, you won't ever be in a position to win them to the Christ that you worship.
2nd Timothy 3:16 is recorded that Paul
wrote that "All Scripture is inspired by God..." Now, considering this Epistle
was written LONG before any of the four Gospels were written, who really
knows what "Scriptures" Paul was referring to, if he even wrote 2nd Timothy? The word
"Scriptures" translates into "Holy Writings" by most Greek Scholars.
Now how do you, or anyone else know, just which Holy Writings Paul had read or had
access to? Answer: You DON'T! Pure speculation. He could have had just about all
of them written to date,
including all of the ancient Holy Writings. This "Maze" was not
directed at you personally, but the shoe must have sure fit well, because you
jumped right into them!! :-} I wrote that to a Blog pit bull who was in a Chat
room where I was having a nice conversation with a guy who claims to be the
reincarnation of James, the brother of Jesus. His chief disciple started trashing me, and
this was my response to him,a couple of years ago. But, in your case, how in the
world would you EVER be able to have an intelligent conversation with any
member of the cults I listed
above, if you were trying to win them to Christ? Don't you understand that The
Lord makes room for what ever Gifts his disciples are given? My ministry
was not to stay locked into the Bible arguing until my last breath about tongues
and trivial matters . When ever The Lord suddenly gives me an opportunity to
communicate with ANY soul thirsting for Spirituality, I am ready, able, and
willing, to communicate with them on what ever level they happen to be on,
because I have "studied, to show myself approved,." Can you just imagine
yourself sitting at the Hari Krishna Temple in Laguna Beach, and having
a delicious vegetarian lunch with the Devotees there, in their restaurant, and carrying on a nice
conversation about The Lord with any of them that visited your table, without
your turning red in the face and chocking on your Tofu Burrito?
Didn't Paul say he tried to be all things to all people, and when he was
with Jews, he was a Jew, but when with Christians, he was a Gentle?
Think about how you see every other creature you meet in life, even for a
brief moment, as some lost soul, that The Lord has put in your Path, or has seen
your fishing line, and now has come to taste your bait! Will you start speaking
in tongues when they show up, or have a little conversation first, to try and
find out what level they are on, and what they know to date? If so, then, you NEED to look at what you refuse to
investigate,..... unless you'll be content to be in Heaven all alone! For me, I
get lonesome. I'd like a
little company, and I fully EXPECT to see many whom I have had something to do
with their getting there before me.
Jim's Maze of Seeking God:
As a baby Christian, I was like a lamb being thrown to
the wolves, when I first entered the Church arena, after becoming Born Again. In
my mind’s eye I considered God the Father in the center of the Universe, with
Jesus, the Christ, as the Intercessor between the Father and I. But, as I started to interact with other
Christians, I started to add circles in my diagram branching out from the
center, where the Father is located. In each of my circles, as I studied the
different denominational dogmas, I circled Atonement; Righteousness; Eucharist,
or Communion; Justification; Creator; Love; Grace; Faith; Mercy; Eternity;
Immortality; Sin; Demons; Angels; Miracles; Church; Temple; Election;
Predestination; Fate; Karma, Action or inaction; Reincarnation, Transmigration,
Metempsychosis;
Incarnation; and Resurrection, and last, but certainly not least,
FORGIVENESS.
But, then, I started to venture off the beaten
Fundamentalist track, and my search took me in many other directions included in
the Maze of seeking God.
I studied Manly Palmer Hall’s writings, and attended many
of his lectures, in person, when he was alive. He was the founder of
Philosophical Research Society. I studied the writings of Douglas Baker, Barret,
The Magus; Maurice Burke; Aurthur Edward Waite, Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine and
Isis Unveiled; Alice Baily, Many Theosophy writings; Lost Continents of Atlantis
and Lemuria; I read the
entire Tome of the book called Urantia; as well as Eliphas Levi, Lewis
Spence; Aliester
Crowly, Edgar
Cayce, which
could all fall under the banner of Occultism.
Then, I studied the UFO Sects, such as Shirley McLean;
Schonfield; Erick
Von Daniken; The
Hollow Earth Theory; Zechariah Sitchen; Dr. Horn; and most of the main stream UFO
Sects.
Then, I also investigated Shamanism, starting with
Terrence McKenna,
progressing out to Spiritualism, Channeling, and even read Anton LeVey’s Satanic Bible!
I checked out most of the Christian Cults, as well. Then
of course, I subscribed to the Skeptical Enquirer, and gleaned the wit of Paul
Kurtz and The
Amazing Randy, while I was honing up on Col. Ingersol’s volumes of Atheist books. I fought my
way through the maze of Roman Catholicism, wondering if I had made the correct
move, when I ventured away from my Catholic roots, and ventured into Protestantism.
Then, I had to be tossed back and forth as a ping pong
ball between the Charismatic Pentecostals and Traditional mainline
Fundamentalist Protestants. Then I had to decide between Historicity vs. myth
vs. Tradition of the Bible. And, now allegory enters into the mix!
Once I found that Christianity gleaned the writings of
Eastern religious writings, I was drawn into the maze of Eastern religions,
simultaneously, while I was working through the ten year program of the Twelve
Rosicrucian (AMORC) Degrees. Then, I took the Three Martinist Degrees as icing on the cake of
the Esoteric Christian Maze.
I had to wade through, or sort out Eastern religions,
other then the main stream Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, or Islam, I had to read Ram
Dass, Charles
Tart; study the drug Altered
states of consciousness, read Benjamin Crème’s works; Sri Aurobindo; Nitananda; Yogananda; Dr. Paul Brunton; Muktananda; Satia Sai Baba; The Six Systems
of Indian Philosophy; Rama Khristna Vedanta; Khrishna Consciousness; Meher Baba and the Sufi
Mystic literature; Tibetan Buddhism and the Dali Lama ( Once saw him in person); Taoism;
Confucianism; Shintoism; Essenes; Jainism; Transcendental Meditation;
Egyptology; Judaism and the Kabbala; all leading me to the Radhasoami Sect!
Then, after being initiated by Thakar Singh, then Charan Singh, I found myself
into the Maze of historical bickering among the various Radhasoami Sects, each saying; My Master is
the only Perfect Master, and all others are pseudo masters!”
Along the way, while in the Maze, I had owned and read
more Gnostic works than many could even imagine, and I went DEEPLY into both the
Mormon religion, as well as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I own the entire Nicene Church Father’s Series, all 50
plus volumes that ---- quotes from to support his Bible quotes. I have studies
the Mind Science religions, such as Religious Science, Unity, and own most of
Ellen G. White’s works, including the 6 volume set of when she published
editorials in the newspaper while she was alive.
And, my dear friend, the above is only what comes to my
immediate mind, of what I remember. I have bought, read, and sold more books, in
the past 30 years than the average Christian Church combined! ( Because most of
them have not found the liberty to venture outside of their local Dogma.)
Thank The Lord alone that my "Karma has run over my Dogma!!
THERE WAS MORE, BUT
THIS WAS THE HIGH LIGHT.
Regards,
