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I lay in my bed thinking about My Dearest, my PC Principal.
He lit a spark in me that has been burning since I transcended this inferior mortal plane to enter the one he inhabits. The flames of our love will continue to burn bright for eternity, much like Hell fire. He visits me through breaking realities, and slowly moves his hand down to grab and admire my exposed midriff. I have gave him permission to touch me where he desires, as our relationship exceeds even that of the concept of marriage. As he caresses it, he wraps his other arm around my stomach to my back, squeezing my back against his chest. There’s no use in fighting the feeling while he kisses my cheek.
I am his, and I couldn’t ask for any better.
Cosmic Goddess 🌙💙 Wearing indigo makes me feel like a goddess. At night, I stand under the moon, letting its energy wash over me, awakening my divine feminine and deepening my connection to the cosmos.
Some more stuff Cole Hauser did … *sigh*
JOHNNY DEPP Transcendence (2014) | dir. Wally Pfister
I am not a witch, rather an angel. I have too much connection to the transcendent, too much to bear with just the mind. I now understand, or rather, intuitively sense why I'm transgender. I'm like an angel - androgynous. It's the original state of humanity, and I long to return to it. Like Dante to Beatrice in heaven, they are one and the same. I wish to undergo gender reassignment surgery, and then I would be happy!
Excerpt from a song, The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes:
"On that bleak track (See the sun is gone again) The tears were pouring down her face She was crying and crying for a girl Who died so many years before…"
...
That girl was herself…
I'm going to tell Kim that Jesus really was a rock star. That he was just like Kurt Cobain. I will tell Kim that I myself want to be like Jesus. And I will also tell Kim that you are among the chosen ones.
A thousand years have passed behind me Before me, who knows how much more No one is waiting, they are not looking anywhere I would end my miserable life
I'm nobody, I won't be anymore Bury me in an unmarked grave
― Eli Of Kittim, author of The Little Book of Revelation : The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days
How Are We Saved: Is It Simply By Belief Alone, Or Do We Have To Go Out Of Ourselves Ecstatically In Order To Make That Happen?
By Author Eli Kittim
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What does the Bible say about salvation?
Romans 8.14 implies that if you’re not “led by the Spirit” you’re NOT a child of God. The phrase “led by the Spirit” implies an actual “existential experience” (cf. Mt. 4.1), not mere belief (i.e. an idea presumed, but not known):
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God” (Rom. 8.14).
Romans 8.9 makes it absolutely clear that without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit we are not saved: https://biblehub.com/romans/8-9.htm
Jesus also makes it very clear in John 3.3 that you can not even see the kingdom of God, let alone be possessed by it, unless you are born again: https://biblehub.com/john/3-3.htm
That’s precisely why the Epistle to the Ephesians instructs us to put away the “old self” and to put on a new identity, namely, “the new self,” which is made in the image of God:
“You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness” (4.22-24 NRSV).
And, of course, we must “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet. 3.18) and truly believe “that Jesus is Lord” (Rom. 10.9), especially in the midst of this existential crisis!
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All these verses seem to indicate that the requirements for salvation involve considerable risk. Therefore, we must undergo some kind of personal existential experience (or a Dark night of the soul) in order for a transformation to take place. It is only in the midst of this mysterium tremendum, or existential dread, that salvation can take place. Thus, Philippians 2.12 poignantly says, “So work with fear and trembling to discover what it really means to be saved” (CEV): https://biblehub.com/philippians/2-12.htm
Ezekiel 36.26 drives home this spiritual idea of death and resurrection: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you” (cf. John 12.24)!
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We must first die to our ego before we can reach out for God in faith
The language of the New Testament thus implies that we have to go out of ourselves in order to find God, as Thomas Merton used to say. For example, 2 Corinthians 5:13 suggests that Paul (and by implication each and every apostle) had lost his identity to gain Christ’s (cf. Gal. 2.20):
εἴτε γὰρ ἐξέστημεν, θεῷ ·
Translation: “If we are out of our mind, it is for God” (BSB): https://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/5-13.htm
So the question arises: Why is a *Mad-Mind* mentioned in 2 Corinthians 5:13, and what exactly is Paul trying to teach us about the process or the goal of Salvation?
Astoundingly, we find the exact same theme reiterated in Mark 3.21 where Jesus himself is said to be “out of his mind” (which may be an allusion to the biblical narrative known as the “Temptation of Christ” in which after being baptized Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Judaean Desert to be tempted by Satan): https://biblehub.com/mark/3-21.htm
The soteriological point of that existential experience is that Jesus must lose his identity so as to enter into the divine union with God. I’m by no means suggesting “Adoptionism,” the notion that Jesus was adopted as the Son of God at his baptism. No! Not at all! All I’m saying is that Jesus becomes one of us by taking on human nature (and all the suffering that it entails) so that he, too, like us, is confined to the same spiritual process and requirement of transcending the “self.” As Søren Kierkegaard once wrote, “to have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God” (The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening)!
Similarly, John of the Cross, the celebrated 16th century mystic, says that during “the night of sense” a spirit of dizziness overtakes the spiritual faculties of an individual. This energy overwhelms the mind and causes it to lose its identity. That’s probably what Isaiah 19.14 is all about: https://biblehub.com/isaiah/19-14.htm
Do you recall Acts 2.15 in which Peter had to explain to the crowd that “Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, “ but rather filled with the Holy Spirit?
A contemplative exegesis of Psalm 107.27-30 suggests this mystical journey through the Dark night of the soul:
“they reeled and staggered like drunkards, and were at their wits' end. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he brought them out from their distress; he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad because they had quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.”
This is reminiscent of the path of the mania of love (or the madness sent from the gods) by which we arrive at divine knowledge, as exemplified in Plato’s works: Phaedrus and Symposium. Evagrios the Solitary (aka Evagrios Pontikos), a mystical monk from Pontus (ca. 345-399 ce), says something similar about the prayer of stillness, “which by virtue of the most intense love transports to the noetic realm the intellect that longs for wisdom” (The Philokalia: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth. Trans. G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware. Vol. 1. [London: Faber, 1983], p. 62).
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The Beatitudes must be understood in the same exact context. They’re not a political manifesto that calls for social reform, nor are they about the materially poor or the physically hungry. Matthew 5.3 reads: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Notice that Matthew doesn’t say that they are poor in the sense that they lack sufficient money, but rather that they’re “poor in spirit,” as are those who enter the dark night of the soul! Similarly, the text unambiguously says: “those who hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Mt. 5.6), not for food and drink! It would appear then that the Beatitudes are a guide to inner transformation or regeneration, what it means to be “born from above” (3.3) in the Johannine gospel. Only those who are poor in spirit (not in money), who have emptied themselves and have become as nothing can be blessed, meek, righteous, merciful, pure in heart, peaceful, and loving! Why? Because only those can be “born from above” and “be called children of God” (Mt. 5.9) and receive “the kingdom of heaven” (Mt. 5.10). Only those are worthy of salvation! No one else. That’s the point!
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How then is the Dark night of the soul (which makes us poor in spirit) depicted in Scripture?
One illustration might come from Isaiah 6.5:
“Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Elsewhere, Isaiah 50.10 reads:
“Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?”
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It’s quite clear from Exodus 20.21 that we can only approach God in darkness:
“Then the people stood at a distance, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.”
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So if this is in fact the cost of salvation, how do we obtain it?
Well, first we have to “estimate the cost”:
“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won't you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?” (Lk. 14.28).
If you reply to this question in the affirmative, then the next question is a practical one, namely, how do we proceed?
Answer: Not through discursive thinking but rather through meditation. That’s because God can only be found in silence. Thought is a distraction. One form of Western contemplation that goes back to the desert fathers of Egypt is what is known as *Centering Prayer.* This is a popular Christian meditation that places a strong emphasis on interior silence. In a very advanced stage it leads to inner transformation and union with Christ! In other words, it leads to authentic salvation! And the litmus test of that experience is that you fall madly in love with Jesus Christ!
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Allegorically speaking, Matthew 6.6 alludes to this prayer of stillness when it says:
“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”
The Hebrew Bible also says: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46.10; 62.5)!
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Conclusion
Salvation is not an act of the will or the intellect. Rather, it’s a transformation of the mind: a rebirth! This, then, is the noblest path to salvation, the symbolic road to Emmaus that leads to resurrection, regeneration, and new life! But regeneration and rebirth from above (Jn 3.3-6) require much suffering (Heb. 12.6), pain (Acts 14.22), fear (Phil. 2.12), as well as deep and profound changes to the personality (Acts 2.1-4, 15; 9.20-22). That’s why in 2 Corinthians 12.9 God doesn’t say “my power is made perfect in weakness,” but rather “my power is accomplished in illness.” Most, if not all, Bible versions translate the Greek word ἀσθενείᾳ as “weakness.” But ἀσθενείᾳ really means “illness.” In other words, God’s power is manifested and accomplished in us when we become ill: that is, mentally ill! This, more accurate, translation should really change our understanding of soteriology & inform us about the process of salvation itself❗️
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The Heresy of Modalistic Monarchianism is Alive and Well
By Author Eli Kittim
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What is Modalistic Monarchianism?
Modalistic Monarchianism (aka *Oneness Theology* or Modalism) is a late 2nd and 3rd century theological doctrine that maintains the deity of Christ while emphasising the *oneness* of God. In contrast to Trinitarianism, which depicts the Godhead as three distinct persons coexisting in one being, modalistic monarchianism defines God as a single person. This theological position is related to “patripassianism” and “Sabellianism,” which hold similar views. It has been considered a doctrinal heresy since the early period of the Christian Church.
The term “Modalistic Monarchianism” means that God is not three but *one* person who operates under various “manifestations” or “modes,” such as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. According to this theological position, the complete Godhead dwells in Jesus insofar as his incarnation is concerned. This view therefore ascribes the actions of the *Father* and the *Son* to various *modes*, such as the differences that exist between God’s “transcendence” (which is completely independent of the material universe, beyond being and nonbeing) and God’s incarnation or immanence (i.e. his manifestation in the physical world). Accordingly, the Holy Spirit is not viewed as a distinct entity but rather as a mode of operation of the spirit of God.
It seems as if the Modalistic Monarchians were trying to reconcile the trinitarian concept of the New Testament (NT) with the monotheistic Shema creed in the Torah, which states that “God, the LORD is one" (Deut. 6.4). Modalistic Monarchians accept the inspiration of the Old Testament and therefore believe that Jesus is the manifestation of Yahweh on earth. But they do not worship the Father or the Holy Spirit; only Jesus Christ.
Three modern adherents of this view are Oneness Pentecostalism (aka Jesus Only movement or Apostolic, Jesus' Name Pentecostalism), the World Mission Society Church of God (the relatively new South Korean religious movement), and T. D. Jakes, the bishop of The Potter's House Church (a non-denominational American megachurch).
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Is Jesus really God the Father and God the Holy Spirit?
Given that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are considered to be titles of the one God, not depictions of distinct persons, *Oneness Pentecostals*, for example, maintain that they fulfil Christ’s commandment in Mt. 28.19 to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit by doing so *only* in the name of Jesus. In their defence, they cite Acts 4.12 in which Jesus is the *only* name given in the NT “by which we must be saved.” Acts 4.11-12 reads:
This Jesus is ‘the stone that was rejected by
you, the builders; it has become the
cornerstone. There is salvation in no one
else, for there is no other name under
heaven given among mortals by which we
must be saved.’
However, just because “there is no other name . . . by which we must be saved” does not mean that the Father and the Holy Spirit do not exist! That directly contradicts the grammatical “point of view” of the first person, second person, and third person *personal pronouns* in the NT text.
For example, Jesus is NOT the name of the Father or of the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, Jesus repeatedly refers to the Holy Spirit not in the first person but in the *3rd person*. He calls the Holy Spirit ἐκεῖνος——meaning “He” (Jn. 16.13-14)——as another person that is totally DISTINCT from himself. Jesus says:
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he
will guide you into all the truth” (John
16.13).
Obviously Jesus is not talking about himself but about a separate entity that is called the “Holy Spirit.”
Jesus also repeatedly speaks of the Father in the *3rd person* as a separate and distinct person from himself. Jesus says:
For I did not speak on my own, but the
Father who sent me commanded me to say
all that I have spoken (John 12.49).
Obviously Jesus is NOT the Father, otherwise this modalistic theology would have us believe that Jesus sent himself, commands himself, prays to himself, and talks to himself, while baldly lying to his disciples about an imaginary father (whom he calls “Abba” [Mark 14.36]) who doesn’t really exist. According to this view, Jesus is psychotic or worse. In other words, Jesus is either a lunatic or a liar. So, Modalistic Monarchianism directly contradicts and distorts the NT authors' original language and intended meanings. Therefore, Oneness Theology is completely bogus and misinformed!
1 Jn. 2.22 condemns modalism as an aberration:
This is the antichrist, the one who denies
the Father and the Son.
Is John MacArthur a Christian?
By Goodreads Author Eli Kittim
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MacArthur is a Reformed Protestant and a
strong proponent of expository preaching.
He has been acknowledged by Christianity
Today as one of the most influential
preachers of his time and was a frequent
guest on Larry King Live as a representative
of an evangelical Christian perspective.
— Wikipedia
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Is Religious Experience Unchristian?
John MacArthur typically uses exaggerated caricatures of New Testament (NT) teachings to mock and ridicule *religious existential experiences.* But isn’t religious experience the foundation of our salvation, according to the NT? Romans 8.9 (NLT) says, “remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.” So how do you get the Spirit of Christ to live in you if not through an experience? Is it based on wishful thinking? Jesus says in Jn 3.3: “unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.” But how is someone “born again”? Through a profession of faith? Absolutely not! Jesus clearly emphasizes that no one will be accepted into the kingdom of heaven simply on that basis alone. Much to their horror, those who thought they were saved will be utterly perplexed, confused, and disappointed! They will appeal and say: “Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name.” (Mt. 7.22). But Christ will ultimately reject them and say: “I never knew you” (Mt. 7.23).
So, how is one born again if not through some kind of an experience? And how does one develop a relationship with Christ if not through an experience? Jesus simply becomes an imaginary partner or a wishful thought or daydream? Is that what the NT teaches? And how do we get a new identity, according to Eph. 4.22-24? By reading the Bible? MacArthur clearly contradicts Scripture by implying that Christian salvation is not based on any “experience” at all. Yet, in Philippians 2.12 (NASB) Paul exhorts:
work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling.
Fear and trembling do not occur except in unusual circumstances that involve “experiences” of existential dread! And, according to Paul, these experiences are essential to working out one’s salvation. Yet with regard to religious experience, MacArthur says the exact opposite. In a YouTube video, he exclaims:
it’s nothing but sheer imagination, at best;
and, at worst, you are courting demons. . . .
And some people, sad to say, it’s not
enough to believe in Christ, they pursue the
paranormal, the supernatural, the mystical,
the intuitive, and they make things happen
in the mind that aren’t happening, and they
open themselves to things that do happen
from demonic sources. It’s a frightening
thing to think about.
So demonic sources can make things happen, but God can’t? In other words, he suggests that demons can make things happen in this realm, whereas God is powerless and can’t possibly compete with them. Then he added:
Why is it that people pursue that? I’ll tell you
why. Because somewhere in their theology
they have bought into the fact that it’s not
enough to have Christ. And they’re into all
these experience with angels, and so
forth.
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Should We Reject the Supernatural?
The problem with John MacArthur is that he doesn’t explain the process by which we “have Christ” in the first place. How exactly do we have Christ if not through an experience? He went on to say,
that’s not great faith that brings those
supernatural experiences; that’s doubt
looking for proof that fantasizes those
experiences.
So, according to John MacArthur, the supernatural signs and wonders of the NT, including the supernatural miracles of Jesus, do not involve great faith——contradicting what Jesus himself taught (Mt. 14.31)——but are rather fantasies that don’t really exist! How then does his epistemology differ from that of Liberal theology? Isn’t it one and the same? He’s basically saying that the supernatural dimension does not exist. It’s a fantasy world of imagination, at best, or the realm of the demonic world, at worst. Really? Isn’t that what the Pharisees accused Jesus of, namely, of casting out demons because “He gets his power from Satan, the prince of demons”? (Mt. 12.24 NLT).
In fact, in trying to downplay and discredit visions and experiences, he will even pit Paul against Paul! He employs Paul as a mouthpiece to denigrate visions and revelations. Yet, according to Galatians 1.11-12, everything that Paul knows about Christ is EXCLUSIVELY through visions and revelations (cf. 2 Cor. 12.1-4). Besides, didn’t John of Patmos see visions and revelations that he later encoded in the Book of Revelation? Are we to conclude that he, too, was just imagining things that are not real and do not exist? Was Paul’s vision of Christ (Acts 9.3-5) equally false and imaginary? And this man is lauded and respected as a credible pastor-teacher? Listen to some of his comments that were directed to his congregation:
Now, there’s no higher plane. There is no
surpassing experience. There’s no deeper
life.
If we didn’t know who uttered these words we would easily ascribe them to a positive atheist like Michael Shermer or Richard Dawkins. Astoundingly, they were uttered by John MacArthur. This is downright false. This man has drifted away from Christianity. His epistemological position is extremely dangerous. He’s putting peoples’ salvation on the line. By contrast, here’s Jesus’ promise to those who love him (Jn 14.21):
I will love them and reveal [ἐμφανίσω]
myself to each of them.
MacArthur then diverts his listeners’ attention by attacking a straw man. He creates a false dichotomy and makes it appear as if this debate is about Christ versus experiences. Either Christ is sufficient or else you choose experiences. But that’s a red herring. On the contrary, Jesus demands regeneration, and Paul exhorts believers to “be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Rom. 12.2 NASB), not by simply reading the Bible and pretending to have an imaginary relationship with Jesus. How is Christ sufficient? Simply through reading a Book? That’s preposterous! In fact, the one thing that God wants us to do is to *experience* him. That’s the whole Bible in a nutshell!
(see YouTube video: https://youtu.be/e0fETODHsoM)
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Is the Experience of the Holy Spirit Nonsensical?
In another video, he claims that spiritual formation——in which people seek inside themselves——is “just a lot of bunk.” He says:
digging deep in to find your spiritual core
and your spiritual center . . . is nonsense.
In other words, he’s contradicting the Word of God. Acts 2.1-4 (NLT) reads:
On the day of Pentecost all the believers
were meeting together in one place.
Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven
like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and
it filled the house where they were sitting.
Then, what looked like flames or tongues of
fire appeared and settled on each of them.
And everyone present was filled with the
Holy Spirit and began speaking in other
languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this
ability.
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MacArthur’s Deism
Then he goes on to explain his own theology and soteriology, which are diametrically opposed to those of the NT. He says without flinching:
The assumption is that spiritual truth is
somewhere inside of you. And that is not
true. Spiritual truth is outside of you. It is
external to you. It is in a Book outside of
you. It is not in you. . . . You can go sit on a
rock in the middle of nowhere and think,
and you will find in you no source of divine
revelation whatsoever. Because divine
revelation is external to you. It’s external to
every human being. It’s in a book that God
wrote. And when you put the book down
and start looking into your own brain all
you’re gonna do is be led down a black
hole.
This is a deist understanding of God as a transcendent Being, wholly independent of the material universe, who is not accessible to creatures and does not personally interact with them. So, the NT teaching that the Holy Spirit “will be in you” (ἐν ὑμῖν)——in Jn 14.17, 23 (cf. Rom. 8.9), or “that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you [ἐν ὑμῖν]” (1 Cor. 6.19)——is false? (cf. Titus 3.5; 1 Jn 2.27). This is the exact opposite of what Lk 17.21 says, namely, that the kingdom of God is within you (ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν)! So, “truth” (who is Jesus; Jn 14.6) is never inside (immanent) but always outside of every believer? Of course not! In Rev. 3.20, Jesus declares the exact opposite:
Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you
hear my voice and open the door, I will
come in [εἰσελεύσομαι πρὸς αὐτὸν].
According to MacArthur, it seems that a personal relationship with Jesus is equivalent to just reading about him in a book. So, there’s no truth outside the Bible, no experiential relationship to God, no real spiritual insight, no miracles, no supernatural world, no signs & wonders, no changes in the personality, no religious experiences, no Holy Spirit, nothing whatsoever. This is a form of deism, pure and simple: God does not intervene in the affairs of men except through a book. Not only does this view contradict Scripture, it is patently ridiculous and utterly absurd! To hear a supposed Bible teacher——who holds the attention of millions worldwide on a daily basis——saying these things is absolutely shocking, if not shameful.
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If Being Born Again Is Not an Experience, Is It a form of Rote Learning?
MacArthur continued:
That’s what happens when you start
trying to poke around inside of yourself for
spiritual truth when it’s all contained in
one book, and that book is external to you.
And the spiritual truth resides in that
book, if you never lived or if you never had
a thought. It’s the external truth that we
must understand, cuz there’s nothing
inside, until that truth gets in our minds.
So, he seems to suggest that “truth” gets into our minds not through the experience of regeneration but only by constant reading and repetition. In other words, he reduces Jesus’ and Paul’s spirituality to *rote learning.* So, When Paul says “put on the new self” (Eph. 4.24 NASB) or the new identity, does he mean that our personalities will radically change as we master the Biblical literature through repetition and memorization or through some sort of intellectual assent? If that were so, Christianity would be nothing more than B. F. Skinner’s behaviorism!
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BIBLE IDOLATRY
John MacArthur’s message seems to be that nothing happens inside of us experientially. God only speaks today through the Bible. He has made of the Bible an idol. And he has also broken the first Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Yet he worships the Bible (aka bibliolatry)! Jesus, however, poignantly rebukes such people in John 5.39 (NLT):
You search the Scriptures because you
think they give you eternal life. But the
Scriptures point to me!
In short, according to MacArthur, the Bible has replaced God. God can no longer speak apart from or outside the Bible. Scripture also trumps Jesus. His spiritual relationship to human beings is not direct; it is indirect via the Bible. Put differently, we no longer believe in Jesus or God as realities or entities, which exist outside the Bible, with the ability to communicate and transform our lives. No! They interact with us only in and through the Bible. Therefore, we only believe in the literary “word” of God: *the Bible!* These divine beings only exist inside the Bible and not apart from it. That’s what John MacArthur seems to be saying. He’s in love with a book, not the author of that book. Outside of that book, he doesn’t seem to “know” its author. He only meets him via that book! By contrast, 1 Corinthians 4.20 (KJV) says: “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” This is what the Protestant reformation of sola scriptura has produced. But this epistemology is completely bogus, as if God is incapable of speaking to us outside the Bible. As Jesus observes: “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me” (Mt. 15:8)!
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Conclusion
For John MacArthur, belief, not experience, is the key. Therefore, we don’t need to “experience” or “know” Jesus intimately or personally. The old saying: “Taste and see that the LORD is good” (Psalm 34:8) need not apply. In this strange and demonically twisted scenario, the Bible is Lord!
This is the hallmark of a false teacher. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the NT or with Christ’s command to love God above and beyond everything else, including books (Mk 12.30). It is not sanctioned by the Scriptures. And it is neither according to God’s word nor his will. It is a form of secularism: quasi-deism coupled with liberal theology. It is a counterfeit Christianity! This view is far removed from Christian teaching. It was quite laughable to witness.
If we sum up his theology, and take it to its logical conclusion, it’s as if God & Jesus are simply *literary characters* in the Bible whose powers and abilities are confined and subject to the authors’ discretion. Accordingly, we don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus; we have a personal relationship with the Bible! We don’t know God apart from the Bible. That’s MacArthur’s basic message, namely, that Christianity is not a “spiritual” but rather a “literary” religion! He reduces Apocalyptic Christianity to literature! His rejection of religious experience, and of the operations of the Holy Spirit, is analogous to paganism!
He contradicts both himself and the Bible by stating that mystical, supernatural experiences do not exist. Yet the Bible is filled with them: think of Isaiah, Daniel, Paul, John, and Jesus!
So, his teaching involves not only an unwarranted epistemology——in which real, living, divine persons become reduced to literary characters——but also a self-contradictory exegesis wherein he refutes the very teaching he espouses, namely, the supernatural world of the Bible!
My question is simply this: does John MacArthur represent authentic Christianity?
And, judging from his own statements, the answer is a resounding no!
(see YouTube video: https://youtu.be/mTEm9NI17Do)
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Jewels of Truth Statements: We Are The Storehouse of Heaven On Earth
Hello All, Today's I'll be doing a smaller experimental spiritual wisdom statement in so far I will be channeling from the Fairy realm, specifically from a Leprechaun named "Bobby". I have explored channeling from the benevolent heavenly fairy realms in the past but for personal enrichment. Not so much in sharing it with others let alone doing an automatic writing session with such a spiritual entity. Technically in my clairvoyant abilities as a psychic-medium the angels I channel as teachers, guides, and scholars of the endless heavens. Have stated I can channel from any metaphysical entity that resides in heaven be they ancestors, fairies, angels, archangels, ascended masters (ie Jesus, Mother Mary, Hermes, etc...), and ultimately God himself. Although personally I only have confidence channeling the 16+ angels and some fairies to date. The other spiritual entities including historical ancestors mentioned above. I'm more in training wheels mode sheepishly channeling them since I'm spooked by their celebrity status to us humans. Nonetheless, Bobby is an Irish knave of a very politically incorrect fairy leprechaun with a heart of gold that is associated with me spiritually. My angels have stated in the past that all our guardian angels and/or fairies are our soul mates and only a minority as metaphysical twin souls. In this inference, the soul mate status is non-romantic in nature but more so to do with Agape. I'll start off with "Jewels of Truth" fairy channeled spiritual wisdom statement on Leprechauns 2,469. With an original spiritual meme on the Soul of God 2,397 and a Facebook, short-hand angelic channeled statement on the same topic 546B. Finishing it up with a Twitter, short-hand angelic channeled spiritual statement on Transcendence 547B.
Leprechauns: 2469) All Leprechauns are a spry bunch I tell you. We aren't magically delicious damn you "General Mills"! That has caused us more problems than it is worth in contemporary times. What we are is a magical fae folk not as freaks of Mother Nature. Who by the way is our Queen and not just a turn of the phrase for popular human culture globally. All who act on behalf of the best in Life can claim their fae or fairy holy nature with the old man himself God. That is the proverbial pot of gold O'laddy it isn't a litter of literal gold coins in a black kettle pot. Although the darnest witches always blame us for stealing their kettle pots! Leprechauns come in all varieties and of all global nations on Earth and for any age of history for we are timeless. Many have complained about prosperity in their lives but few realize spiritually that all gold is literally one's personal relationship with grace on Earth. Beyond financial constraints, the treasures of Heaven are already yours for the expressing as of the Love of God dearest ones. You can not pass through that blasted eye of the needle but through the pure Spirit of God in all of you laddies! Only the bravest knights and ladies find their divine inheritance pre-packaged on Earth by the angels and the fairies. Having to surrender the darnest inconsequential bull shit of the ego along the way so one can be reborn completely in the Great Spirit of God. The two births within a lifetime one of the flesh and one of the Holy Spirit. This becomes the ancient rite of passage a trajectory all too common in the sagas of not just finding your pot of gold of God in you akin to "King Midas" metaphysically speaking. This is the eternal heroes quest for the pious man, woman, and even child of all races and species upon Creation. Some innocent humdingers have laid claim to this Glory of God upon Creation, humanity is but just one of them in the Universe. There has even been Saint like Canines that have laid down their lives on behalf of the innocent to become saints in heavenly paradise, I tell Ya! ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo. Soul of God:
546B) All of us on the terms of the infinite share a metaphysical bond like no other in question. We are more than just physically alive we are spiritually engaged as spirits and souls in the grand symphony of the heavens. You and I may be lifelong strangers as people but spiritually we are brothers and sisters because God is our singular holistic parent of our creation. The Image and Likeness of God are grandiose beyond a description of our human cognition of a civilization. A Kingdom has borders although in the endless and spaceless heavens there are no borders whatsoever to the circumference of the body of God himself metaphysically. Here we reside as homo sapiens for a time on Earth a variant of the primate species as hominids existing over 500 thousand years to our flesh. Our genetics make us a biological family as it were encoded. However, with the Holy Spirit of God, these restrictions are transcended instantly beyond any form of identity. We simply in an absolute elegant truth are ONE as the meta embodiment of God(dess) beyond even gender politics of identity as genderless. As what can be considered as pure intelligent energetic consciousness truly neutral in a form beyond good and evil as enlightened as living grace. So to be your best version is to be God like, Christ like, Moses like, Muhammed like, Buddha like, Krishna like, and so forth.... Just be Divine. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo. Transcendence: 547B) Transcend the identity politics of people to include the Immense Grandeur that God is alive in your uniqueness as a living miracle.
Ivan "Atrayo" Pozo-Illas, has devoted 21 years of his life to the pursuit of clairvoyant automatic writing channeling the Angelic host. Ivan is the author of the spiritual wisdom series of "Jewels of Truth" consisting of 3 volumes published to date. He also channels inspired conceptual designs that are multi-faceted for the next society to come that are solutions based as a form of dharmic service. Numerous examples of his work are available at "Atrayo's Oracle" blog site of 11 years plus online. You're welcome to visit his website "Jewelsoftruth.us" for further information or to contact Atrayo directly.
Atrayo's Oracle Vlog On Leprechauns, The Soul of God, & Transcendence
I'm the Clairvoyant author as a sage and angelic mystic to the channeled angelic spiritual wisdom book series of "Jewels of Truth" Volume 1, 2, and 3. I'm a visionary futurist as a muse focusing on innovative original conceptual designs as potential solutions as a form of dharmic service. I'll start off with "Jewels of Truth" fairy channeled spiritual wisdom statement on Leprechauns 2,469. With an original spiritual meme on the Soul of God 2,397 and a Facebook, short-hand angelic channeled statement on the same topic 546B. Finishing it up with a Twitter, short-hand angelic channeled spiritual statement on Transcendence 547B. Jewels of Truth Website: http://jewelsoftruth.us FREE Angelic Invocation Blessing Service. Atrayo's Oracle Blog Entry.
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Beautiful Reminder for us to tune in ourselves of not only saying but also embodying these powerful affirmations to raise our energy vibrations higher as we continue in our transcendence.
Let us continue to transcend from the mundane and physical. And always remind ourselves of the Higher Consciousness from what we truly are!
I am what I am not from this body and mind.
I am Divine Consciousness experiencing itself!
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