A message from Jesus

[Dragonfly1]

Gee slice, whats going on?.....this is not the slice im used to.... its nothing to do with being wrong with what you say.... I was expressing what I feel about religion, and how I perceived the 'chanelled' message. I can be just a tad sensitive to what i feel at times, but I do respect others opinions on things..... And man, you do like to have the last word......looking forward to your reply

Cheers and Namaste xxxx

[psychoslice]

Originally Posted by Dragonfly1

Gee slice, whats going on?.....this is not the slice im used to.... its nothing to do with being wrong with what you say.... I was expressing what I feel about religion, and how I perceived the 'chanelled' message. I can be just a tad sensitive to what i feel at times, but I do respect others opinions on things..... And man, you do like to have the last word......looking forward to your reply

Cheers and Namaste xxxx

I love my little Scorpio girl. xx

[7luminaries]

OK...now pls excuse and note this is TOTALLY in good fun...and no offense meant...

But I may need to start a mindless thread in another section to rate the attractiveness of the well known masters & sages throughout the ages...

Or maybe Psychoslice can do it?
LOL! I will be the first to reply as I too have my opinions on this humble and irreverent topic...


Now back on point...I think the thread here has a wonderful message generally and I fully took the universal aspects of it...

Cheers!
7L

I don't want to address myself to the origin of the message or the messenger cos i believe in what the message wants to say.We must work for our inner selves but also help others reach a state of inner awareness and love.

Perry J., I think that this is a very interesting subject, and I've spent some time checking out Kim Michaels' website. However, I do have a number of problems with believing that Mr. Michaels is the sole conveyor of messages from Jesus. In fact, I think that Jesus speaks to and through many of us, and some of the people with whom he communicates seem to get the idea that they are the modern incarnation of Jesus, or that they are the only one who receives messages.

In my own life, I have had many of the experiences that Mr. Michaels talks about, and so have quite a few other people I've either known or heard about. In my case, I grew up in a not very religious Jewish family, and I knew absolutely nothing about Jesus. More than that, I wasn't particularly interested.

So, I didn't go looking for Jesus, but I found him anyway. At some point in my life, I became much more interested in such things as religion, spirituality, philosophy, history, the nature of consciousness, unconditional love and other subjects. My interest in finding out what love was about led me into checking out what Jesus had to say on the subject, and I was totally blown away. I still am!

I consider myself to be an enthusiastic student of life, a seeker of information, and I continue to examine the words and deeds of Jesus and other spiritual icons. From what I can tell, there is nothing more exciting, wonderful, interesting powerful or important than love, and I still feel like I'm a beginner at knowing about this subject. Hopefully, I will always be finding out more about this part of life.

We might consider why the teachings of Jesus are so powerful. After all, we are dealing with a relatively obscure teacher from a remote part of the Roman Empire who was nailed to a cross. At the time, there were other religious movements and would-be messiahs who had larger followings than Jesus, but his teachings have lasted for 2000 years and counting, and all of the others have faded into obscurity.

In my quest for information and viewpoints, I've joined a number of Christian and atheist forums. I've heard some people say that Christianity caught a lucky break (or something like that) or that Constantine and some others devised a religion to control the masses. Of course, this ignores the fact that, despite its humble beginings, Christianity had become pretty well established before Constantine made his conversion in 313 a.d.

What works for me is that the reason Christianity (regardless of how many have corrupted and compromised the teachings of Jesus) made it and the others didn't is that what Jesus had to say was and still is that powerful. Even with the corruptions and compromises, we can still figure out what Jesus was saying to us and apply his teachings to our own lives.

So, did Jesus communicate with Kim Michaels? I'm more than willing to believe that happened. Did Jesus communicate with Kim Michaels exclusively? Based on my own experiences and the experiences of others, I believe that Jesus has communicated with many of us, myself included, and this is an ongoing process.

One of my favorite parts of the Bible is where Jesus is standing by the water and telling the simple people around him that they will be fishers of men. I lot of fisherman, carpenters, masons and others have come and gone, but we still know the names of at least some of those who heard the call and followed Jesus. I'd say that Jesus called that one right!

More than that, I'd say that one of the communications that Jesus has made to us is that we are all fishers of men.

[norseman]

I am definitely not christian, yet I honour Christ as a teacher of mankind on a par with Buddha and similar sages. Sadly, the organised religion which has proliferated around the teachings does seem to attract many charlatans.

[sound]

Can I ask how old Jesus was when he passed over? I am not familiar with the finer details of his life ...

Originally Posted by sound

Can I ask how old Jesus was when he passed over? I am not familiar with the finer details of his life ...

There are differences of opinion on that one (and I use the word "opinion" deliberately, for there is no incontravertable evidence to prove one or the other!). It depends on whether you believe he was put to death on the cross and then asceneded into heaven as the Christians tell the tale, or if you believe those who offer evidence to support his having been only close to death and having been tended and administered to by eastern sages skilled in the arts of healing who restored him and spirited him away, taking him to India where it is said he lived to a ripe old age, passing his wisdom and knowledge to all with whom he came into contact. If you believe the first, then he died at the age of 33. If you believe the latter, it would be a much more advanced age.

[norseman]

You forgot the "opinion" that he never existed as a single person in the first place. Difficult to be sure when the bible has been revised, re-interpreted, translated, abridged, etc so many times to fit church doctrine.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by LightFilledHeart

Lovely post, Miss... I find myself nodding throughout, in total accord I've always appreciated the statements of two famous individuals. Iconoclastic filmmaker Woody Allen, who said, "If Jesus came back and saw what was being said and done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up", and the man who freed east India from British rule, Mahatma Gandhi, who said, "I like your Christ very much. Your Christians, not so much. They are nothing like him..."

Somehow I missed this post.

And I also know those 2 quotes!! Btw, have you ever investigated ACIM, Light filled?
A Course In Miracles...I did just this year and it opened me to enormous changes in my beliefs so ingrained in me. Maybe I should start a new thread on what I learned!
Miss Hepburn