JUDGE NOT, THAT YE BE NOT JUDGED!

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,

THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE!!

THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE!!

I'd sure like to have all the Truth to share with Y'all. But, my Truth is most likely, only MY Truth, because no another single soul on the planet, either in the past, or up to the present, has ever walked in my shoes, .....sandals,........or bare feet, experiencing every single event I have experienced. So, we each treasure our very own, individual "truths", depending on many many things.

Race, Religion, Culture, Nationality, Education, past Teachers, Priests, Gurus, Ministers, environment, origins, etc. etc. all play into our learned truths. But, most of us do not possess anything we have not learned from others, or those whom have passed on, and left their Memorials. I "sort of" consider this Blog, as well as my Face book site, as my own Memorial, for others who might stumble upon it, to be able to compare their own individual Journeys, and belief systems, to mine. I never try to force my beliefs upon anyone, and expect that ONLY those seekers who are meant to read the contents, will benefit from any of my experiences or "Rants."

However, no matter what stage of life we find ourselves, there seems to remain various "filters" preventing us from saying, or writing what we really are feeling, at the moment, or believe. This Blog has been sort of "hidden", or at least, Camouflaged from the public, in general, because It was never meant to become a "fight club" or for argumentative dissenters a forum for bringing different opinions of everything I have written to the blog. I have already participated in those kinds of blogs, and have fenced with the Alpha Male/Females in the best of them! ( No one ever wins, or changes anyone Else's minds, and Cyber war is not conducive to ANY ONE'S real beneficial Spirituality, or expansion of the souls. )

"When the pupil is ready, the Master will appear." And, no one is ready, until they consider themselves ready, and are searching for the Truth! The only "Master" that ever exposes the REAL Truth,..... is each soul's own Inner Master, who has been there, all of the time, ever watchful, never abandoning, only hiding until called by that individual soul to lead and guide them! Many "Holy Books" give analogies, such as the Christian Bible's example of "The Prodigal Son returning to the Father, after squandering all of his inheritance." We might use this as our own lesson, of our returning to our own Spiritual Father/Mother once we KNOW we have squandered our own, inheritances, i.e. life in the material realm, right now, on this planet, wearing our own individual earth suits!  

BUT, how close do each of us need to be, to the end of our own lives, here in these earth suits, before we are no longer afraid, or are willing to say exactly what we want to say, and is in our earth suit libraries? When do we become "Whistle Blowers", not afraid of sharing without worrying about being poitically correct, or sounding crazy?

I know, for me, I have always been "inhibited" from saying, or writing, what I wanted to, because of worrying about what "others" would think of me! First and foremost, of course, it was my immediate family, then, friends, then, Employers. And, of course, in spite of us thinking we are free, are any of us really free? Are we even liberated? Even now, at 70 years old, and having reached retirement, and been educated in the U.S. "System", do I dare "say what I want?" Not hardly! There are still plenty of filters between my spirit, my soul, my mind, my brain, my tongue, and my fingers, preventing me from "letting it all hang out!!"

The present Internet atmosphere of Cyber Space, allows a Vehicle of Media space, to share our inner most thoughts with more people on the planet, then at any other time in history, ( as we remember it). BUT, "Big Brother", is always watching us, as never before! Every conversation, post, email, cell phone conversation, etc. etc. is "captured" by hidden eyes, ears, and computers, to keep documented historical tabs on each of us. We can run, but we no longer can hide! I'd hate to be a Criminal, or have skeletons in my closet that I was afraid of being exposed, at this time in history!!

As a retired U.S. citizen, who has played by the rules, worked, saved, payed a whole lot of Taxes, I now am privileged to draw my monthly Social Security Check from the U.S. Govt. It isn't much, but it IS enough to pay my rent, and monthly Utilities, so I certainly don't want to say anything on any Blogs, or Face book, or anywhere, to put any risk of loosing access to my limited Security for my remaining years. Also, Medicare, although lacking, is better than nothing, and also part of the U.S. Retiree's "Benefit Package."

So, I guess, what I am trying to say, in this Post, is, I still have too many filters left in place, to really share what I believe at this point, 100%. But, in the Big picture, who the hell gives a poop?

I hope I have already written and shared enough on this blog, that, at least, exposes interested sojourners on the Path, of where I've looked to find my answers, to date. All of the last of my Bible Seminary Thesises, were written and completed by the end of 1984, so hopefully, no readers will judge me only on Bible writings, although, Christianity is still my firm Foundation and solid Anchor. But, for sure, there is always still "Room at the Cross...........Roads" for more!! The Ocean of Spirituality is always held wide open, for ALL Seeker Souls who have finally become Prodigal Sons/Daughters,and  are ready to return to the Father/Mother, as Marked Elect souls.

Light to All,

Until We meet again, I remain,
Eternal Flame


        

The following is a special Link ( still active this date posted, at least) that the Sect allows their entire 5 Book library to be downloaded for FREE. The books offer comfort to those who may still be grieving about lost loved ones and friends, but the books are very controversal, in nature, especially to Fundamentalist Orthodox religeonists, because they are Channeled material by dis-incarnated spirits who are no longer living in  material humans bodies. I only recently discovered this Link for the FREE 5 books,but I have owned the Spirits Book in hard copy for at least 25 years, and have read it with extreme interest several times. It has 1000 plus Questions & Answers, which reinforce my extreme belief of the Doctrine of Re-incarnation and Karma, amoung many other interesting comments. I am not, nor was ever a member of this Sect, but still highly recommend these FREE books to anyone grieving for lost loved ones.

http://innerenlightenment.com/e-Books.html   

Alone in a Universe of Auditorial Sounds, and Visual Imagry.

Greetings!

Its been some time, since my last post, so I've decided to post a note to let the spirits know I am still earth bound, and inhabiting my earth suit, that has just had its 70th Birthday, this incarnation.  It would seem, that by this time, I would have found all of the answers to birth, life, and death, but, unless I believe my inner private speculations, then, like Y'all, I am flooded with an overload of writings, sermons, speeches, all attempting to convince others to believe their own speculations. To those of us who never stop searching, for Ultimate Truths, the Internet alone, provides new material daily, from multiple new sources, that no one has enough time to research sources and references to establish if true or false. So, who can we put our trust in? Who can we believe? Have all of the "Holy Books" or Scriptures been written, that give us all of the answers we need to arrive Home, the original Home we once left, to arrive here, in these little insignificant earth suits? How can we sort out all the information? Written, Channeled, Preached, spoken, visualized, imagined, and the list goes on.

This is the year 2012, and the hype of the Mayan Calender proving  that Dec. 21, 2012 will have a significant effect on the planet, with the alignment of the planets, and an entire new age will be put into place. Hype or fact? Only YOU can decide for yourself, but, for me, I believe it is all hype, once more, and believe nothing will happen, as nothing has happened in the past Doom Day prophecies of the un-informed. The New Age You Tube DVDs, have unlimited scenarios, by Channelers, Extra-Terrestrials, Aliens, Greys, Hybrids, i.e. half human, half alien, and "Whistle Blowers" are coming forth from Govts., Military, and many sources, claiming that there are underground bases, all over the planet, where Govts. are partnering with Aliens, doing all sorts of experiments, from cloning hybrid humans, to Star Gate Weapon technologies! Astral Projection, while meditations, Out of Body and Near Death experiences claimed by thousands of people, including Abductees, claiming all sorts of things, such as being beamed up to Alien Space Ships, and experimented with, keep You Tube viewers busy indefinitely, if they choose to get their information there.

More of my friends, and people I have known are passing away, and I am finding out that most of them have not started their search for answers to the Three Great Questions: (1) Where Did I Come From? (2) Why Am I Here? (3) Where Am I Going When I Die? I am always "tempted" to offer my own private speculation, as answers to those questions, but, I have wisely finally come to the conclusion, that once a person is ill, and especially, if in any pain at all, it is too late in life to begin searching for those answers. Usually, they do pray, to what ever source they choose, for relief to pain, and also welcome prayers of others to assist them through their problems. Does Prayer work?

I believe each of us, are individual souls, separated from Eternal, Ultimate, Creator, SOUL, while in these earth suits, in any material species, what so ever. So, again, I have posted that I believe, our individual bodies, as miniature reproductions, or replicates, of the Universe, or we are "microcosms" of the "Macrocosm." So, as our bodies, contain, billions and billions of individual cells, each playing their part in our Play of Consciousness, each of us are also, individual cells of the Eternal, Creator, Play of Consciousness! So, when ever any disease attacks our earth suits, individual cells, or "soldiers", team up and attack the intruding germs or bacteria. So, if we all Pray for each other, when ever a friend or acquaintance gets attacked by any illness, or adversity, than, those Prayers act as a Team, fighting off the intruders, the same as happens in the individual earth suits. At least, that's how it works here, on the earth plane. Once we leave our earth suits, there most likely will be new rules. But, without viual images to use as markers, they would have had to have occurred some time during our past, in order for us to recognise. That includes people. Each religion imagines meeting their Savior, on other dimensions, but, as a Christian, would I recognise any man god, such as Jesus, if I had never been alive during his incarnation here on earth? If I was not alive when Jesus was alive, than, how could I recognise a being I had never met in the flesh? Especially, when the Christian Bible states that Satan can trasform himself into an Angel of light, as can his demons! So, we are also told by John, to "test the spirits." So, for me, at least, I test them every day, right here, while I am still in the body, and still have my physical brain computer to assist me, and sort out fact from fiction. After we leave the body, all bets are off, because our spirits will be traumatized, and according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, they will spend many days in an Astral Bardo, while awaiting reincarnation into another material body. But, again, that is too much of a lengthy subject to discuss in this post, but it may be looked at in many of my other posts in this Oasis of souls. But, for certain, if we have created Karma, here on earth, well, we will reincarnate right here, back on earth, to pay off those actions. Until we have received Salvation, i.e. Grace from our Creator God, which can not come by any other method but by GRACE, than, we will remain caught in this illusion, which the Hindus call the "Wheel of 84", which means there are 8,400,000 possible material species a lost soul could be incarnated in. Not provable, of course, but certainly food for thought, considering that 3/4 of the humans on the planet believe in some sort of reincarnation, as I also do. I always like to compare Calvanistic Theology of "Predestination, Election, and Reprobation" to Reincarnation and Karma. To me, one complimants the other, and they are they very same dogma, dressed in different words, or termanolgy. Considering that most languages of our day, can be easily mistranslated, from one to the other, without INNER GUIDANCE, from our own soul, which is a holographic projection from our own Oversoul, than we will contine to flounder like a fish out of water, because that is exactly what we are, i.e. individual drops, seperated from the Ocean of love, or sparks seperated from the Fire of Creation!

We never arrived here by accident. We came from Home Base, as Missonaries of the Universal Soul, and we will each return, to Home Base, when ever our Creator calls us Home, and Grace will abound for those who are marked, or are members of the "Marked Elect", destined to be called home this very incarnation!

So, while the Christian await the 2nd Coming of Christ, the Moslems await the Iman, and the Jews the Messiah, all the while they are making war against each other and killing each other, there need not be any 2nd coming for those that are called, and HEAR the WORD Of God, which is Christ In Us, The Hope Of Glory! John 1:1 makes it clear that The Word was IN God, and WAS God, and BECAME flesh! That "Word" is Christ, and is the same Spirit, that was in Jesus the man, while on earth as a human, as is in each of those humans called to return Home right now, in this very incarnation! The Bible states that "the spirit of man, is the Candle of The Lord." It also states that every man has been given a portion of Light, and that Light, was Christ!! Look Up, for our Redemption Draweth Neigh. We are all going up, and it won't be on any Alien Mother ship, but when our Grace has arrived, we will be sucked right out of our bodies, and will be transported like specks of light back to the Source of Light.

Until we meet again, I remain,
Eternal Flame 

        

CREATOR Uses "Trickle Down" HOLY SPIRIT VIBRATIONS to Guide All Creation!

Dear Readers,

I'd like to claim direct communication with God, or that I hear audible voices in my head directing my every move. But, sorry to disappoint Y'all. I can't hear the words to any particular language. But I DO feel I receive Divine Guidance, in my daily affairs, as long as I ASK my Creator for Grace. It comes at surprising  times when I least expect it, or have given up on my own floundering around trying to solve my own problems!

I have read that our physical bodies might be compared to a miniature universe, or a "microcosm" formed in the image of the "Macrocosm." If we compare, please consider the Macrocosm as our Ultimate Creator of each and every living thing on every planet, star, asteroid, in each Galaxy of the entire Universe! Now, THAT's how Big I consider my Creator to be! Now, compare my present physical body as the miniature microcosm. Now, there is a lot going on in my microcosm body, from the top of my head to the tips of my toes! Most of it is going on without any assistance from me at all, or without any individual cell having the slightest clue about what its part of the entire process of maintaining this body involves. But, for sure, in order to me to be alive and animated, a "Portion", no matter how small, of the same Electro-Magnetic Source that the Ultimate Creator is made of, is injected in me,...........and YOU, in order for us to be alive and in order to be able to experience consciousness in these particular bodies here on earth or ANY other planet! Cool stuff, Huh? So, the Bible taught me that my body is a "Temple of God, and The Holy Spirit Dwells in this Temple." ( paraphrased.) I found that out 35 years ago, and stopped using tobacco and alcohol right away, and have never used either since! ( Didn't want to take the chance of smoking the Holy Ghost out of the Temple!!)

Now, as my pea brain visualizes how the Ultimate Creator communicates with me, is by "Trickle Down" Holy Spirit Vibration. As I understand, ALL,  I mean ALL, Creation exists within the domain, or Spiritual Vehicle of our Ultimate Creator we call God. So, in order to communicate with,  and guide me, this Electro-Magnetic Holy Spirit Vibration comes to me in the form of "Intuitions", "Ringing Radiance" that is an inner ear Sound that constantly rings like buzzing bees in both ears when ever I concentrate or my mind is silent; and also as Inner Light, manifesting in the middle of my forehead when I sit quietly with physical eyes closed concentrate my attention there.

I believe I have had other past lives, because of personalities I have, so my "Oversoul" encompasses me, or my physical body, and is actually my Spirit Guide" while in this physical body. This Spirit Guide is none other than Myself, which includes the totality of every single experience I have ever had in every single physical body or species on any given planet since my Ultimate Creator manifested life in me and decided to share creative experience with me! Cool, Huh? Now, during this time, I obviously must have had many physical Teachers, Masters, Gurus, Saviors, Parents, Siblings, friends, enemies, etc, etc. It can really get complicated, when trying to figure it all out. But, in simplicity,or Laymen's terms,  no matter how many Channels, Levels, physical or Spiritual,s this Electro-Magnet Holy Spirit Vibration of Creationt takes to reach us, and animate us, God never looses our channel,.....as long as we keep our Radio/Receivers turned on, ready to receive the latest communication from Spiritual Headquarters! Hope this make sense, without quoting thousands of Scriptures, and Holy Writings have already been written for those "who have ears to hear, and eyes to see." 


It is no Secret,..........What God can do. What He's done for others, He'll do for YOU!"

Until We meet again, I remain,

Eternal Flame

HOW DO WE GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE, WITHOUT DYING?

Hello Dear Readers!

As far back as I am able to remember, possibly 4-5 years of age, I always remember feeling lost, or "misplaced" or homesick for somewhere else, other than where I was. Now, with almost 70 years of experience, looking back, it seems no matter where I lived, or moved, I always felt the same, i.e. misplaced, and wondering when I will finally get home! But, this last move has given me more peace than any other area I have ever lived, at least, so far. Perhaps it just might be, I am mellowing with age, or the fact I am now really retired, no longer competing in the chaotic world of the workaday world of dog eat dog, all the while watching my back. I still don't have the least clue of what I want to be when I grow up! But I do know, 70 years of floundering around, like a fish out of water, never feeling secure or fulfilled, doesn't feel like I have yet arrived at Shangrala, or Paradis. I wish I had all the answers to share with Y'All, but all I have is speculation gained from the experience of this particular incarnation, because its all I am able to remember. I have tried various practices, and meditation or prayer exercises to try and remember past lives, if there were any, but so far, other than glimpses of dream state type occurrences, I have no proof they ever really did exist in my past. But, I DO have a speculated belief system, that has grown on me by what I have seen, read, heard, or experienced.

From the onset, I should state, that in spite of all the past posts I have shared in this Blog, in order to make any sense at all for me, Karma and Reincarnation seems to be the only fair system that any Creator could be accused of using to control creation in this material world, at least, here on earth where we each create our own individual karma's. "What goes around comes back around."  every action has a consequence, or as the Apostle Paul was quoted to have said, in the Christian Bible, "We reap what we sow," ( paraphrased.) The Calvinistic Theology of John Calvin, of, Predestination, Election and Reprobatation  of souls  born into this world already have their final destiny to be saved or lost in this incarnation, no matter how much works they do, good or bad. In other words, the deck of cards are stacked against the Reprobate, no matter what they do, and Grace abounds for each and every member of the "Marked Elect", according to Calvinistic Theology, and again, I believe it lines up perfectly with the Doctrine of Karma and Reincarnation. ( But, of course, I can't prove I have been around before, in one or more past lives,)  but if I AM able to survive and get out of this place without dying, it will be reincarnation based on my accumulated past karmas created by, non other than myself. I don't blame my Creator, nor anyone else, for my present place where this insignificant grain of sand has landed in Death Valley! I Am grateful to have been allowed to share the promise of living "Three Score and Ten" stated in the Bible. A Score calculates to 20 years, so 70 years are what the Old Testament deity promised humans who tried to be righteous, at least. So, I feel I have just about drew my last year out of the Bank of Life for this incarnation, at least. From here, well, that's what I will continue to discuss.

But, there has to be a reason of why I am here, if none of my past posts on Theology, Eastern Philosophy, Rosicrucianism, Martinism, etc. does not make any sense to a Reader. But, for sure, EACH of us, are individual Special morsels of Atomic Creation, right now, bags of flesh, blood, and bones, ( filled with poop and pee), but also animated with the Creator's Spark of Life which we all share in order to be alive in these individual earth suits. This Spark of Life is a mysterious Electro-Magnetic Current described by Theologians and Philosophers by different interpretations since life begin here on earth. Wars are still fought because of Sects not being able to agree on just what this mysterious Life Force is, and just Who controls It. Of course, each individual believes only they, know the way to use this Life Force, so, until this mysterious Life Force takes material form, and is interviewed on T.V., and explains just how to become proficient of the One and Only Truth,.................well, grains of sand in Eternal Time will continue to share what they think they know in what ever areas they are led to share, such as a Blog like this one you have stumbled onto!

Until We meet again, I remain,......

Eternal Flame

The Spirit of Man

THE SPIRIT OF MAN

The Greek word for the human “spirit” used in the Bible is “pneuma.” Spirit, or the Greek word “pneuma” primarily denotes the wind, to breath, blow, also breath; then especially, the spirit, which like the wind, is invisible and immaterial. Pneuma, or spirit, is the center of man’s being, the portion or area where God deals with humans. Before humans are regenerated, or “born again”, this space does not contain the Spirit of God, but and is either empty, or, at other times, can even be a dwelling place for demon spirits. However, the moment a person receives Christ as Savior, by faith, and is genuinely born again, God sends His Holy Spirit to take up residence in this area (1st Cor. 12:13), and from that time on, starts to communicate to the spirit of man by shaping, molding, and forming him into a new creation! Man’s spirit has a wall around it, dividing it from the soul. The only door into the spirit area, or opening, is guarded by the human “will.” The moment this will succumbs to the Will of God, the Holy Spirit enters this area where the new education of the sense faculties begin. As God has His way, this is the area where Faith, Hope, Prayer, Reverence, and Worship takes place. Therefore, we might refer to the human spirit, after regenerated by the Holy Spirit, as the location in man where all of his spiritual insight takes place!
The “Soul” of man is the part of man which is referred to by the Apostle Paul as “Natural.”, (1st Cor.2:14). The Greek word used for soul is “psuche.”According to Vine’s Dictionary, “Psuche”, the Greek word for “Soul”, “ denotes the breath, the breath of life, then the soul in various meanings such as natural life of the body, the seat of personality, the inward man, the seat of the new life, the life constituted in an individual.” “Natural men” mean the men that live animal lives, such as to satisfy the body’s need of food and sleep, gratify his passions, etc. The soul area of man has an outer dividing wall around it dividing it from the physical body, and the inner wall of the spirit. This outer wall has five openings in it which take in information fed to it by the physical body. The soul is the area where information of each individual intellect is stored to form a unique personality, different from any other. These five openings are in the outer wall to the soul, which are identified as: imagination, conscience, memory, reason, and affections. As the Holy Spirit works in the spirit area of man, there will be times of filling where the Holy Spirit will overflow from the filled spirit compartment into the compartment of the soul, transforming this area, also. Paul recognized this work of the Holy Spirit in genuine believers when he exhorted them in Romans 12:2 saying, “and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (soul compartment), that ye may prove what is good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.”
The Holy Spirit penetrates the “memory” openings of the wall housing the soul area, in order to go through the “will” opening of the spirit wall, into the spirit area.
The body is the physical container of man referred to by Paul as the “Carnal” (1st Cor. 3:1-3) part of man, which houses the soul and the spirit until physical death. The Greek word for body is “Soma”, and this physical house has five openings or gates, which take in information to the soul and spirit compartments, and are in contact with the physical realm. These five openings are: The eye gate takes in all the physical sights into the imagination opening of the soul. The nose gate takes in all the physical odors and smells, and corresponds to the “conscience” opening to the soul, by which the soul detects the presence of good and evil. The ear gate takes in sounds, or hears, corresponding to the memory opening to the soul which recalls what it heard. The mouth gate tastes physical foods, or body fuel, corresponding to the opening of “reason” to the soul permitting the soul to compare facts as the taste compares foods. The feel gate, or touch sense, is the hand by which the affection opening to the soul feels the person of the one it loves, and is warned of danger such as heat, cold, or pain, etc.
The Holy Spirit penetrates the body through the “ear gate”, in order to get through the “memory” gate to the soul, and the “will” gate to the spirit, because the Bible informs us in Romans 10:9 that “faith comes by HEARING, and hearing, by the Word of God.” Faith is a gift from God (1st Cor. 12:9) as well as a spiritual fruit of a regenerated spirit (Galatians 5:22), and is an absolute necessity in order to receive salvation, because we are told in Ephesians 2:8 that we are saved by Grace, through Faith, which is a Gift from God. Going back, for a moment, to the way this gift of God (faith) comes that brings salvation, is when faith comes through the “ear gate” by hearing the WORD of God, the Greek word for “Word” here, is “Rhema”, which actually means the spoken word, directly from God, or the direct communication from God. Another Greek word used for “word” in the New Testament, is “Logos”, meaning the written word of God, or the Son of God, Jesus Christ (John 1:1), who was always with the Father. Faith does not come by “logos”, but by “Rhema.”
Before the diversion from man’s spirit becomes too confusing, the reason I am expounding saving faith is that so many times, it is hard to understand why a person will spend a life time reading the Bible and other Holy Writings, and takes this information in through the “eye gate” and never comes to a saving knowledge of Christ! Now, does this mean that the only way a person can get saved is by haring the bible preached, receiving it through the “ear gate?” The answer to that question is NO! A person can read the bible, taking this knowledge through the “eye gate”, and when it pleases God to reveal the saving knowledge of this information to the spirit, He will do so by transforming the “Logos” fed to the “eye gate” into “Rhema”, revealing it directly to the spirit, at which time, it becomes “Revelation Knowledge,” or quite simply, “Saving Faith” which is His Gift to His Elect, or “Marked.” This truth was revealed to Paul by Christ, because he passed it on to us in 1st Thess. 2:13; “For this cause also thank our God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you HEARD of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word (Rhema) of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.”
To complete this spiritual nature of man, when he is totally filled with the holy Spirit, the Spirit will fill both the spirit and soul compartments, overflowing into the body compartment. The physical manifestations of this occurrence in a believer filled with the spirit, can be utterances in foreign languages, healings, miracles, as listed in 1st Cor. 12. To be filled with the spirit is the greatest enemy to Satan, because sin will be replaced by the Spirit!
In order to complete the subject of the spirit of man, we must examine what happens to the spirit at the physical death of the body when the human spirit looses its home in the physical realm.
In Luke’s gospel, the story of the “rich man and Lazarus” is told, revealing a glimpse of the “underworld.” It describes two compartments; Hell and Paradise, separated by an impassable gulf. At the bottom of this gulf is “the bottomless pit” or “abyss.” Evil spirits, or demons are confined temporarily in this pit, which has a king called “Apollon”, and is kept locked by God who commissions an angel to open it any time he wants to (Revelations 9:1-11; 17:8; 20:1-3).
Before Christ was resurrected, the spirit and soul of the Elect who died physically went to the “Paradise” compartment of this underworld. This was the place where Christ met the penitent thief. after His death on the Cross. When Christ Note that in Luke 23:43, Jesus said to the penitent thief “Verily I say to you, Today, shalt thou be with me in paradise.” Now if Paradise at that time was in Heaven, where did He go at death, and where did He spend the time between the crucifixion and the resurrection? After He was resurrected first appeared to Mary Magdalene, and she recognized Him calling Him “master” (John 20:16), Jesus said to her, “touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father” (John 20:17). So, obviously, Jesus met the penitent thief the day of their physical deaths in Paradise which was in the depths of the earth at that time! When Christ was resurrected, His soul and spirit returned from the underworld, of which He brought back all the occupants of Paradise and locked it up. He now has the “Keys of Death and Hades”, (Revelation 1:18). Death refers to the grave, and Hades to the underworld. Some of those who came back from Paradise with Christ received their bodies rising and ascending with Him as the “First Fruits” of the resurrection from among the dead. (Matt.27:52,53.) The rest were moved to the “Third Heaven”, where Paul was caught up, )2nd Cor. 12:1-4). Paul referred to it as Paradise. Therefore, since the resurrection of Christ, Paradise moved from the underworld to the third Heaven, and now contains the spirits and souls of all the righteous dead, from Adam to the present. They, and all the future believers who die “in Christ”, and go there, will remain until the time when Christ comes back to meet His church in the air (1st Thess. 4:14), bringing them from Paradise to re-unite with their bodies from the grave, and they (these with their new glorified bodies like the body of Jesus), shall ever be with Him. (This subject needs to be discussed more in detain in another thesis under “Eschatology.”)
As for the wicked dead in the Hell compartment of the underworld, as far as we know, they are still there and will remain there until the second resurrection, when they will return to the earth and get their bodies, and proceed to the “Great White Throne” judgment. After judgment, they will be sentenced to the “Second Death” meaning that they will die again, loosing their bodies, and as “disembodied spirits”, they will be cast into the “lake of fire”, (Gr. Gehenna, the “Final Hell”). The last verse of Isaiah describes a place in the earth where they will be as an example for others to look at! “And they shall go forth and look upon the carcass of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. This will be the final eternal prison of all the reprobate, and evil spirits of all ages after the earth is “renovated by fire” and cleansed of all evil and rebellious spirits.
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