The Encounter Matters!

[Aknaton]

Originally Posted by MAYA EL

You do realize that the name Jesus didn't even exist 2000yr ago right?. But never mind I know this conversation is not going to be productive do to your delusions of religions grandeur

You imply that you have found some truth, some freedom, yet you are more lost than ever!

Let me know of this truth you have found and how to have a taste of it, methods and all, no problem, I'll give it a go.

Like a drug addict you want an experience handed to you and if I did then I would be no different then all the people that started these religions that control the world today. Is all I will do is tell people to drop there beliefs all of them and never pick them up again.

[sky]

Originally Posted by MAYA EL

Like a drug addict you want an experience handed to you and if I did then I would be no different then all the people that started these religions that control the world today. Is all I will do is tell people to drop there beliefs all of them and never pick them up again.

Some Religions have become ' Cults ' and dropping their beliefs is similar to cutting of one's arms and legs.
You become isolated from your Family, loved ones and friends etc: you are shunned from the Community you once belonged to and it isn't easy for some. Blackmail is used to control the mind and this takes away free choice, you become one with others and your sense of worth diminishes. I personally know people who have ' Awakened ' and realized that the Religious Group they belonged to was far from ' Christ like ' and they left but it was extremely difficult and some needed counselling for many years.

Some are mentally weakend by their experiences and suffer immensely, others are stronger and are able to walk away unscathed. Beliefs are yours and yours alone, if someone tries to force you to change yours to match theirs, run.....

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by sky123

Some Religions have become ' Cults ' and dropping their beliefs is similar to cutting of one's arms and legs.
You become isolated from your Family, loved ones and friends etc: you are shunned from the Community you once belonged to and it isn't easy for some. Blackmail is used to control the mind and this takes away free choice, you become one with others and your sense of worth diminishes. I personally know people who have ' Awakened ' and realized that the Religious Group they belonged to was far from ' Christ like ' and they left but it was extremely difficult and some needed counselling for many years.

Some are mentally weakend by their experiences and suffer immensely, others are stronger and are able to walk away unscathed. Beliefs are yours and yours alone, if someone tries to force you to change yours to match theirs, run.....

You make it seem what you wrote is the norm but I suspect that it is less then 1% of all religions.

As for blackmail, I never heard or read of this practice in any of the various religions let alone being the norm.

As for being 'Awaken', I know of some people that were in our realm and later became 'Awaken'. Some needed counseling.

Like unconditional Divine LOVE.

This is my Father, as in where I came from and where I will return.

There is Light and there is Love. It seems to be rarely expressed but

as Jesus has said Heaven is within.(So I say: Let it out!)

Speaking on Jesus, I personally have not had great experience with Him

other than reading about Him. Rebel fits, religion spoiler, rabble rouser, healer, Son who Loves His father.

But then maybe I have had great experience with Him and just don't know it.

Maybe He has connected me with the Father and Holy Spirit and never gave His name.

Maybe Jesus was expressed in the song:
Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
Hey Mickey
Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
Hey Mickey

I have also heard this expressed:
"Christianity is not a religion it is a relationship."

I do like that saying.

The Bible also states:
"All things were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made."

So a person is always encountering Christ, according to this statement.

And again:
Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
Hey Mickey
Oh Mickey, you're so fine
You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
Hey Mickey...... .......

Originally Posted by sky123

Some Religions have become ' Cults ' and dropping their beliefs is similar to cutting of one's arms and legs.
You become isolated from your Family, loved ones and friends etc: you are shunned from the Community you once belonged to and it isn't easy for some. Blackmail is used to control the mind and this takes away free choice, you become one with others and your sense of worth diminishes. I personally know people who have ' Awakened ' and realized that the Religious Group they belonged to was far from ' Christ like ' and they left but it was extremely difficult and some needed counselling for many years.

Some are mentally weakend by their experiences and suffer immensely, others are stronger and are able to walk away unscathed. Beliefs are yours and yours alone, if someone tries to force you to change yours to match theirs, run.....

Yes I was raised in one they were very "end times " based "spirit filled" Christian belief system . But the branch doesn't matter as much as the roots do and the roots being abrahamic faith based means that whatever branch of christianity one finds themselves on is going to have bad fruit on it