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Originally posted by jcojocaru
reply to post by SaturnFX
LOL the end of your post was quite funny.
That being said... This "IAMIAM" sounds like a Jesus impersonator or something... Something is just off about him... We know love is NOTHING without Christ, for Christ showed us the ultimate love. Jesus showed us what love is! Yet "IAMIAM" didn't even mention Christ in this message. Even an atheist can love. Does that mean he is saved? No. Anyone can love. But when you don't add the purpose of Christ to that love, it becomes pointless.
Originally posted by cody599
reply to post by IAMIAM
Hmmmmmmmmmm someone just read Conversations with God, look forward to seeing if you preach the next two books as well? We all know this from birth just a question of remembering etc. Good post though and thanks for sharing. Why is it only people like us hear the true word ? Because we are prepared to question that's why, and when you question God, The is (Richard Bach wisdom) The higher mind etc. the answers will come. Just ask my wife, she regularly talks to her angels and mine, just need find the correct questions to ask, NOT as easy as you may think. Love to all and may your angels sleep on your pillows.
Originally posted by wcitizen
That's where Christianity loses me. Sorry, but posts like this just give me a feeling of frustration and aversion.
Jesus is just a name, a label nothing else. It's what Jesus represents, symbolises even that is the most important thing. Love is Jesus, they are synonymous. As the bard said, 'A rose is still a rose by any other name'. Same with love - call it Jesus, call it Buddha, call it what you want, but as long as its love, that's the only important thing.
To make a statement such as the one in your post: 'Anyone can love. But when you don't add the purpose of Christ to that love, it becomes pointless', is to judge in God's place and to deny the essence of the teachings of the Jesus you purport to believe in. Love is enough in itself. There is no point to love except love itself.
Originally posted by ReginaAdonnaAaron
Originally posted by artistpoet
Yes being a slave to our Creator may be and is a joy but IAMIAM did say that there is no need for another to intervene on our bahalf such as a priest holy person King Queen etc
That is where IAMIAM is wrong. We absolutely were and are in need of Christ Jesus. Saying otherwise is an attempt to take away his glory.
He also leaves out the importance of obedience, faith, loyalty to our Creator and in doing so what has been relayed here is just another watered down version of the "truth". All it is, is what people want to hear rather than what they need to hear.
edit on 1-10-2010 by ReginaAdonnaAaron because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by la vie
Originally posted by dcrowley06
I am a little concerned that you have taken one angle... yin, and made that the absolute answer. There is always a yang. Even God has a yang. There can be no definition of love without hate. God allows sin to occur so that we can understand and grow, because he knows in the bigger picture, this life is short.
Originally posted by preludefanguy
What I've 'seen' is that everything is part of a whole. To my knowledge there is a 'yin' and a 'yang.' We must learn to accept this, as this is OUR reality. You are right though, we do have free will. This is our strength. We must learn how to seperate the different energies in our lives. We must learn how to unattach ourselves from the negative thoughts, emotions. When we learn how to do this, then we are free.
The only reason mankind is stuck where we are now, is because a thought was allowed to propagate through our existence. The thought of dominion over one another. Our ego, our sense of physical reality as short as it is has blinded us. If, we all at once, were to rid ourselves of this thought, if we were to take responsibility for our course, and stop handing it over so willingly to the governments, we would realize it is all wrong. It would only take a thought that was just as viral as the first to erradicate the current system. If we were all to stop living lives the way we are now, stop it all at once and change, we could live in a better world; rarely does change happen over night. People are waking up though, I see it like I've never seen it before. Perhaps enlightenment for us all will happen in small steps as it is currently happening. Perhaps it will catch us all in one swoop.
You are very correct though, when you say that love is all there is. Love is ALL there is. Every other thought, every other life, every other emotion would not be there if it were not for love. Think of love as the medium through which everything else echoes through.
Originally posted by dcrowley06
I am a little concerned that you have taken one angle... yin, and made that the absolute answer. There is always a yang. Even God has a yang. There can be no definition of love without hate. God allows sin to occur so that we can understand and grow, because he knows in the bigger picture, this life is short.
If God wanted us to all love each other he would have taken away our free souls and just commanded us to love each other with no free will. He is all powerful and could have done it. So why didn't he? Perhaps because love has nothing to do with happiness. Unless you experience a bad, how can you know that good is good? God loved us so much that he gave us the ability to hate. And if God is all knowing... wouldn't he know hate? So I think you are misguided and trying to take away the free agency that God provided all of us, and by doing so, you are saying you are greater and know more than God.
Originally posted by Jenwithahat
Some of the things you say make sense only, you say it like you are crazy....which doesn't really help your case!
But, it is true about religion and things like that being invented by man and keeping us apart (only, you keep talking about god...which is strange? what about the multiple gods? or is it only YOUR religion is the real one? which, would really hurt your case again).
Basically, you just have to think about how you deliver the message. It is as important as the message itself!