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originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: rom12345
No one can know God..... All Knowing is God!
No man can see God and live.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: rom12345
Are you not the truth?
Without the seeing of these words.... could the words appear?
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: rom12345
How would you like to be and feel so natural that it felt super?
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
But the world is full of lies. And look now.... where is the world? Isn't the 'world ' just a concept?
Look now and see if you can find anything other that what there actually is.......... without going to concepts about other.......
This is whole and complete.... this that actually IS is denied because thought says there is something else... something more..... something to be found.
This is it....... but that which believes it is separate will seek in time and space for completion and wholeness.
This is God..... there is no thing separate. Everything appears and disappears in God..... no apparent thing can appear outside God.
Are you sure there is a world 'around' you?
Isn't there just what is appearing always presently... and that includes that body/mind that you may have believed to be you?
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
originally posted by: CthruU
He believed adam and eve should not eat the forbidden fruit and we know what happened next so yes it must matter to god what people think.
What happened next?
originally posted by: ParanormalGuy
Sorry for saying this, but I don't think that getting to know God is something that you do through any religion. Actually I think that religions separate you from God! If you have a true relationship with God you will know that there is no hell and that he will love you and accept you no matter what you do in this confused human body.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
How do you know that God knows the future?
God is 'all knowing'...... God is aware of what is appearing/happening.
Is the future appearing/happening?
What is appearing is missed because there is a belief in time....... but what is there really?
“LOOK out,” wrote the apostle Paul to Christians living in the latter half of the first century C.E. What was he warning against? “Perhaps there may be someone who will carry you off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men.”—Colossians 2:8.
Despite Paul’s warning, from the middle of the second century C.E., some Christians began using concepts borrowed from ancient philosophers in order to explain their beliefs. Why? They wanted to be accepted by the educated people of the Roman Empire and thus make more converts.
Justin Martyr, one of the most famous of these Christians, believed that God’s Spokesman had manifested himself to Greek philosophers long before the arrival of Jesus. According to Justin and like-minded teachers, the contribution of philosophy and mythology to Christianity made this form of religion truly universal.
Justin Martyr’s form of Christianity became very successful in gaining converts. However, the adoption of one myth led to the creation of others and produced what is now commonly believed to be Christian doctrine. To expose these myths, compare what the following reference works say with what the Bible actually teaches.