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originally posted by: GATruthseeker
I basically said "screw Bill Gates" on my FB tonight & had the usual suspects like "What on earth are you talking about? Why? So Scary!
linkJesus Christ is the Great I AM. Jesus Christ claimed to be the “I AM.” It is the personal name of the God of the Old Testament (Exodus 3:13-14). On several occasions it is recorded that Jesus used the “I AM” formula in attesting to His deity. He claimed to be the LORD God, Jehovah, Yahweh.
0:40 > Evolved into the greatest public health crisis in over 100 years
First raised its head in China at the end of December / early January
Evolved from less that 50 cases in China in early January
The false hope that we can be our own god.
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: Observationalist
The false hope that we can be our own god.
No offense intended, but I think this is a bit of a bastardization of what the new agers are trying to say. The way I see it is that the main difference between man and "God" is that man's Earthly self is cut off from his higher self. That there are essentially three yous (Holy Trinity). There is the base you ("reptile brain" driven survival mode), the local you (the you that is reading these words and processing this information), and the higher you (your soul that already resides in "heaven"). It's in this higher realm where man is truly made in God's image. They may not be exactly the same, but for all intents and purposes they are the same. It's in this realm that thought alone can pass down to this lower realm (Earth) and manifest itself as real as if by magic.
This line of thought leads people to believe that Jesus will have been more like what the Hindus consider an "ascended master" than the actual God of all time and space, and that each of this has this ability within us. Which again, I would go back to the Pistis Sophia for evidence of this. Because it wasn't just Jesus who transcended and ascended from this plane. All of his disciples did as well. And in the Eastern traditions history is replete with stories of others who have done the same.
So I don't see it as people saying we can become The God of the Universe and instead read it as saying "each of us can become like a god." That path I believe is extremely difficult though, and due to our current state of society very few have the time or discipline to see it through. I know I sure don't. It would require someone to accomplish a soul resonance of some kind ensuring that the three yous are always pulling in the same direction rather than in opposite directions. It would require constant devotion to that end and a complete change in the way we think, eat, breathe, and view the world.
In the end of this thing there will be a need for the religious paradigms to go under a radical shift to unify the world's religions, imo, so that these paths can be 1) known to all and 2) able to be pursued by any who choose to do so without having to wade through a sea of innuendo and riddles.
An awakening implies people are gonna have to start coming clean about what they know. I don't see "new age" philosophy being at odds with Christianity. I think they may be able to learn from one another if people would only change their way of thinking and stop considering everything outside their preferred dogmatic box to somehow be evil. That is a toxic mentality, imo.
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originally posted by: steaming
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
Have you seen ZERO HEDGE ??