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Of course, that is very kind of you to say that: I could never be a Baha'i' and follow diverse religions as if they are all God constructed through Messengers. I have asked God if there is anything called Sanatana Dharma and He denied it.
So there was nothing historical about the miracles?
This would appear to confirm that Christianity was generated up to 200 years after Christ appears to have lived if we believe the stories concerning historical Jesus.
I am a retired mental patient: this has been confirmed to me today by the UK State mental health authorities (Consultant Psychiatrist) whom I am meeting on Friday, 17 May 2019 10.45 am. I told them that I have had direct communications with God. I do not know if they believe me or not. It would be interesting to find out what the UK State says before we meet. Do you live in the United Kingdom?
True, you are very knowledgeable person, and I would therefore have liked to meet you to see what might be best for my future if not also the future of humanity - in that order I insist, pleaseNo I am Aussie born and bread.
All we face in life has meaning, your journey was suited to help you. Our trick is to sort out what is from our own selves and what is from the Manifestations of God.
Some things in life that we do can make that difficult, but we all can make sense of it, as we are never tested beyond our capacity.
Regards Tony
True, you are very knowledgeable person, and I would therefore have liked to meet you to see what might be best for my future if not also the future of humanity - in that order I insist, please
This Monday afternoon I have an appointment for a TRUS Biopsy at the hospital to see if I have cancer of the prostate because they found elevated levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) on doing blood tests. And I want to be in a fit state for my Friday appointment with the Consultant Psychiatrist so this is what concerns me at the moment. The MRI scan showed no 'significant' signs of cancer but the hospital authorities had recommended that one PSA test score of 12 following a previous one of 9, was sufficient cause for concern. They said that the normal level is about 4 but that I have a large prostate which could explain the elevated PSA.
Of course I do not know if God is protecting me from prostate cancer: but I have faith in the medical facilities of the United Kingdom. I will never ask God to do anything for me in a prayer whether it is to protect me from evil or to heal me from my medical issues. Praying is against my deepest held principles. I just pay devotional reverences to God if things are going well. That is a different thing altogether.I will send a prayer your way and wish you all the best. We can use both paths of medicine, medical science and our faith in a greater power of healing. Ask and you will be given, given what is best for you and at times that is healing. You are my elder by 1 year
Let us know how it all unfolds. Together we can show in this thread what the Christ spirit has done, it is with us always.
Regards Tony
But mycsticism IS very practical (nothing to do with mysterious or even religious).
I don't hold Jesus accountable for the religion that developed in his wake. I don't really even venerate him for the revelation and promise that he gave us. If he hadn't done so, I believe someone else would have.
Not according to the story that we have of the events. The Romans were just carrying out the act, it was the Jewish high priests that condemned him to be killed.
I would not even pray that 'May God's Will be done': that is subservience that I reject. God should be left alone to do what He considers necessary. If I benefit from the reality that I am left with, that is a source of contentment for me. If problems occur in life (eg if State-organised persecution continues or my health suffers), I would need to negotiate with such evil myself as far as possible. If I find that impossible in terms of unbearable uncertainty that I face as a result, then alone my thoughts turn to God and I will ask God for advice on how to proceed. He may answer or He may not. Either way I am satisfied that I have done the right thing.
Too many people think spirituality is only about imaginary ghosts and demons; disembodied beings, and all that sort of nonsense. Whereas I think it's first and foremost about the essence of who we are as individual beings. About our biological and circumstantial uniqueness. Our "soul". This was a minimal and somewhat foreign concept in the patriarchal-clan culture of Jesus time, but it was an idea that was developing because his culture was becoming 'Hellenized' by the Roman occupation. So Jesus was introducing this kind of pragmatic (not mystical) 'spiritual' construct to his fellow Jews, and using it to better connect them to each other, and to their own God. So that rather than this 'Hellenization' pulling them apart and obliterating their Jewishness, as an oppressed and subjugated culture, it could actually bring them together, and cohere them.