(Additional Questions updated November 17, 2009)
Questioning Reality
Is it not “The quality of being real, actuality, actual, existence, being, that which underlies appearances, truth, fact, that which is real and not counterfeit, imaginary, suppositious; the real nature (of)”?
Have we not been taught what reality is from both evolutionists and creationists?
Do not both believe they are right?
Yet can there be two different realities?
What do we see – what is real or what we want to be real?
Can wanting something to be real, make it real?
If others challenge our beliefs, do we not respond by challenging theirs?
Since the beginning of time, hasn’t mankind had differing opinions?
How, then, can we agree on what is or is not real?
If our senses only perceive and interpret, wouldn’t we each believe that our personal interpretations are true?
If so, wouldn’t the same apply to others who perceive differently?
Do not some seek the truth while living the false?
Isn’t when we no longer value the false that we can see it as false?
How can perception be fact unless there is a universal agreement on what is perceived?
What is the difference between belief and knowledge?
Is not what is “real” to some be false to others?
Can there be both reality and unreality – or only reality?
How can we ever find it if we believe in what is not real?
Can the truth be that we are temporary beings because of Adam’s desire to know?
On the other hand, could we all be the result of a natural yet miraculous event that changed clay into life?
Is it beyond us to believe we are all eternal children of an eternal father?
What would it mean to us if we are not of God?
Wouldn’t that mean we have only this life to live?
If so, can we be any better than a carrot?
Can a dead part of eternal reality be possible?
Are our relationships with a select few or with all?
Didn’t Jesus teach that we are all brethren?
Is this not difficult to believe with the many different races with different features?
If we do not know what the truth is, what are we left with but belief?
If so, would that not lead to creating idols such as religion and evolution?
If some of the realities of our world are fear, guilt and sin – wouldn’t these deny a perfect creator?
Are not some “truth” sayers’ teachings not only unlike others, but in many cases completely different from the mainstream religions?
Can we judge or believe the truth – or just know it?
If the journey of discovery threatens our adopted beliefs, would we not protect what we have put all our faith in?
Do not most Christian Churches preach that salvation comes from faith?
Yet faith in what – that believing in faith is superior to knowing?
Did not the Gnostics teach that knowing the truth frees rather than just believing it? (Gnosis – knowledge)
Doesn’t knowing require experience?
In order to protect their doctrine of faith, wasn’t this why – in 1208 – the Pope launched a crusade against the Gnostic “heretics”?
How much faith can we have in a Christian church that kills followers of Jesus?
If we can't create the experience of truth, can we not create the conditions for the experience?
“He that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works be made manifest that they have been wrought in God.” (John 3. 21)
Is reality only one thing, multi-faceted or changeable?
Might different “truths” be that we either evolved or were created by God?
What if there is another “truth” that has been rejected by mankind – yet was taught by Jesus?
Could we be idolizing our mortality that is doomed to perish?
Who can be free while slave to idols?
What are they but what we want in place of what we were given?
Can teachings of the many different religions fit into the category of “fact” and “truth”?
If all religions are based on faith and belief, how can they claim to know what reality is?
How can all personal beliefs be true?
For centuries, were not Christians forbidden to eat meat on Fridays?
If it was God’s command, why did the Church recently rescind this order?
Could God have changed His mind?
Are not differences and change part of our world – not God’s?
If so, how can there be such things as “reality”, “truth”, “real”, “actual existence”, or “fact” if interpretable and different for everyone?
Does this not mean we really only believe rather than know?
Are we not embarrassed after having made a wrong choice?
Can fear of losing face prevent us from changing?
Do we really know what is in our best interest?
Is there only one reality or are there many different ones?
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set ye free”. (John 8:32)
Is this fact or fantasy?
Doesn’t this go against the Church’s doctrine of faith?
How or where do we find this “freeing” truth?
What are we to be free from?
What else but from that which is false?
How many different “truths” does the world offer?
Can all of them be true, just some, or only one?
How do we determine which are and which aren’t?
What on earth is false?
Could everything on earth be false?
The Concise English Dictionary defines truth as: “Conformable to fact or reality,” “That which is true,” “Not false, erroneous, deceptive, counterfeit, or spurious,” “Genuine,” “True religion”.
What is “true religion”?
Is it universal – or different for everyone?
Who does not believe in their expression and devotion being the correct one?
Which of the over 30,000 different registered Christian Church organizations preaches the “real” truth?
Is it not also the same for non-Christian religions?
Wasn't the world flat until around 1500 AD when it “changed” into a globe?
Does not the sun rise every morning and set at night?
Yet do we not now know the sun stays still and the world is a rotating globe?
Were not these – and many other believed “truths” – handed down from ancestors with limited information?
Are we not familiar with the blindfolded men describing what they felt from different parts of an elephant?
Do we not form opinions of what things are, based on our personal experiences and interpretations?
Are not these opinions “fact” until the whole picture is revealed?
If seeing is believing, then is perception the teacher of truth – or must it be experience that brings knowledge of it?
Mustn’t truth be consistent and universal to be true?
Are there billions of “truths”, each based on personal experience and beliefs – or just one?
Is not one that we evolved from an accident of nature and the other that we are descendents of Adam and Eve?
Yet if both are not provable, what are we left with?
What other alternative is there?
Who does not value their adopted, personalized truth?
Are we missing opportunities to learn while desperately protecting our man-made “truths”?
Is it difficult for the proud to learn?
What but one universal truth can threaten all beliefs?
How else can mankind protect mortality other than to attack and destroy any threat?
What would be the biggest threat to mankind?
Could it be the New Testament God who tells us mortals that we are – in truth – not mortals?
If truth is pliable, changeable, distorted and interpreted to suit each “truth sayer”, might we all be truth slayers?
Have we killed the truth of who we really are to protect the mortality we want to be true?
If so, could we have done this to give birth to a substitute personalized truth?
Can we know the truth – or just believe it?
What could be more important than to learn the truth that frees us?
Do we not learn only what we want to learn?
Which do we prefer – to learn how to be free or how to better remain in mortal captivity?
Does not the means for spiritual freedom remain hidden from those preferring spiritual containment?
To worshippers of captivity, is not containment seen as freedom?
Is it possible to learn one thing to know all that is?
If knowing the truth frees, what does just believing in it do – other than confining a free spirit?
Could the truth be that we are temporary beings due to Adam’s disobedience as described in the Old Testament?
On the other hand, can it be that we didn’t come from Adam but descended from Heaven as written in John 3:13?
Can both be true, or only one?
Which one offers what we want most?
Could one of our valued idols be our individual beliefs in what is real?
For example, do not some believe chocolate is good for them and others believe otherwise?
Can anyone know what chocolate tastes like without eating it?
Do our senses “know” – or do they just sense?
Do we not either deny or accept, give or take away the truth of who we really are?
Who claims to know what “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” is?
Is it not true that love only gives and does not take?
Is it not also true that needing and wanting are fear-based?
If truth sets us free, then does not what is false imprison us in our human prison cells?
Wouldn’t protecting our individualized adopted “truths” prevent us from knowing a singular, universal reality?
If we in truth are all brethren, what kind of relationship would that be?
Wouldn’t that make us all members of one family from one Father?
If that is so, must we not be all the same?
Why are we all so different?
Do we not make idols of the things we want and want to be?
Are we idolizing our differences and uniqueness?
Could a reality of this world be that guilt lives and so the truth of perfection and innocence must therefore be dead?
Are we accepting this without question?
How can we ever find the peace beyond our understanding if it is beyond us?
What if it is within our grasp but we just don’t believe it?
If we don’t believe it, why seek it?
Did not our needy condition originate from Adam – who was created incomplete?
Yet if God has no needs or wants, why would He do that?
Why would an uncontainable father want his children contained?
And yet, what else does a body serve?
Would a body “suit” God?
If not, why give an unsuitable gift to His children?
Can there be such a thing as a false reality?
Could it be imagining something and wanting it to come true?
Do not children fantasize and “experience” things from their vivid imagination?
Is it not possible for all-powerful children of an all powerful Father to dream up a fantasy and experience whatever they want in it?
If so, couldn’t they “create” their own “reality” – even if false?
Might that be why we find ourselves in flesh instead of spirit?
Would we prefer that our spirit Father made us of flesh?
“For we know that when this earthly house we live in is taken down - we will have a home in Heaven, an eternal body made for us by God Himself and not by human hands. For verily in this we groan, longing to be grown upon with our habitation which is from Heaven; if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life. Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, Who gave unto us the earnest of the spirit. Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:1-8)
Because of our mortal experience, do we not believe we are temporary human beings – not eternal?
Do we really want an immortal experience that reveals we are not really flesh beings?
If not, does that mean we are content with being only something?
Who in Heaven has and is only something?
Who on earth has or is everything?
Do we not fear the unknown?
Who knows God?
Doesn’t the Old Testament in Proverbs 1:7 teach that “The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge”?
Knowledge of what – His wrath, vengeance and punishment to all who do not fear Him by ignoring His commandments?
Does knowing a fearful God bring us peace?
Can we love those we fear?
Who fears God but lovers of fear?
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect is love. We love, because He first loved us.” (I John 4:18-19)
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. And this commandment have we from him - that he who loveth God loveth his brother also.” (1 John 4:20-21)
“He that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works be made manifest that they have been wrought in God.” (John 3. 21)
Wouldn’t love freely give knowledge and wouldn’t fear lead us only to belief?
Yet if fear was born in Adam, mustn’t God have created it?
Doesn’t fear give birth to selfishness?
Doesn’t selfishness give birth to manipulation?
How can an apple contain all-knowledge?
If Adam and Eve ate the apple and acquired knowledge of good and evil, wouldn’t that mean all of us should now know what God knows?
If not, why not?
Can fruit from another tree really contain eternal life?
Is an armed angel still guarding the tree of eternal life in Eden?
If not, has it died?
Are these Old Testament teachings fact or fantasy?
“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge but he who hates correction is stupid”. (Proverbs 12:1)
Can a perfect child of God need discipline?
Didn’t the author claim to know, believing he was disciplined?
How can discipline and knowledge be linked?
Who likes being corrected?
Could one be the author who wrote this?
Is this the only way in which we get to know the truth?
Who can reveal truth to another?
Is it not revealed only when invited to replace the false?
Wouldn’t knowing of stupidity deny knowledge of perfection?
Did God create us defective or perfect?
“A prudent man keeps his knowledge to himself, but the heart of fools blurts out folly.” (Proverbs 12:23)
Who does not happily share knowledge?
Didn’t Jesus share his?
Didn’t this author share his “knowledge”?
Are these the words of God or of a fearful man?
Does not this “prudent” author believe he knows the truth?
Is he not blurting out his folly from his heart?
Should we believe what this man believes?
If fleas are trained by limiting their jumping with a lid, could we have learned constricted and contradictory truths from others’ beliefs?
Do we fear losing what we have learned and adopted, even if it doesn’t ring true?
Who seeks first the truth but those who have decided to be free from mortal bondage?
Did the early fathers of the Church agree or disagree on what truth is?
If the vote for the final Bible was 24 to 15 – with 16 abstentions – wouldn’t that mean 24 were for it and 31 against?
How can a minority consensus dictate to the world what the truth is?
To what extent is God in control of everything happening on earth?
To what extent are we mortals in control?
If God is really omnipotent, is not His will done?
If so, is this disaster the result of His will?
Can perfection change?
If so, into what else but imperfection?
If not, was it a gift for His children to have a choice to be less than perfect?
Wouldn’t an unloving thought contaminate that which is perfect?
What but a thought of improvement can give birth to lack?
Wouldn’t that thought change the unchangeable state of perfection and completion?
Who planted the seed of the thought of mortality – God or us?
Which do we prefer to believe in – our mortal struggle, weakness and death – or a loving creator who gives all to all?
Who can be grateful for being made of dust and end up as dust instead of inheriting eternal life?
What truth do we worship, other than the one that gives us what we want most?
What do we want most?
Could our “truths” really be only preferred beliefs?
Is not the attribute of love to give and the attribute of fear to get?
What has God gained from withholding all-knowledge from Adam, killing all but a family in the flood, crucifying His son and annihilating all but 144,000 virgin men in the end – peace or loss of peace?
If He needs to gain, how can He be perfect, complete and fulfilled?
Have all His actions brought peace?
“Be ye not called Rabbi, for one is your teacher and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father on earth – for one is your father, which is in Heaven. Neither be ye called master – for one is your master, even the Christ”. (Matt 23:8-12)
If this is really true, can we happily change our minds about creation and the meaning of life?
Who should we learn from – the “master who is within thee” or mortals who claim they know?
How many “masters” are there – 100,000, 1,000,000, billions?
“No man has ascended unto Heaven but he who has descended out of Heaven – even the Son of Man, who is in Heaven”. (John 3:13)
How can man have descended from Heaven if God made us from clay?
Who but the immortal reside in Heaven?
Who but immortal beings can descend from Heaven?
Doesn’t this clearly tell us that we all come from only one immortal Father – not from billions of mortal parents?
If these words are true, how could mortality have come into being?
“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh”? (Galatians 3:3) “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit”. (John 3:6)
Do not these quotes clearly deny that a spirit God created flesh children?
“And it is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is the truth”. (I John 5:7) “The spirit Itself beareth witness to our spirit, that we are children of God”. (Rom 8:16) “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. (Romans 8:9)
Are not these quotes telling us that only spirit is the truth?
Could we have sought and “created” something else?
"From the beginning you were created immortal, and children of eternal life. You destroy death, and you destroy the world, without yourself being destroyed”. (Clement of Alexandria, c150-225, a father of the Church and a Gnostic.)
Do we believe our limited mortality is better than our unlimited immortality?
How difficult can it be to throw away what is binding us instead of freeing us?
Could this world be our mental asylum?
Can immortal, eternal beings die?
Can we put to death our belief in it?
If created immortal, how could we have begun?
Does our world really cease to exist when death ceases to exist?
If Heaven is infinite and everywhere, is hell a part of it or apart from it?
Can we end reincarnation and break the birth and death cycle?
Is it possible that we not only can achieve it, but will?
Yet who would happily exchange a beloved yet fearful world for the unknown beyond?
“All men shall be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth”. (Timothy 2:4)
What do these words tell us, other than we do not leave our three dimensional world by death but by truth?
Is it not good news to learn that we all inevitably return to our Father’s house?
“As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctified myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me. And the glory which thou hadst given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me”. (John 17:18-25)
Could reality be that we are one in spirit with God and each other?
Could we have wanted to create our own playground where we could become separate, unique beings?
If so, wouldn’t that mean we are in control of our destiny – not our Father?
Are we finding ourselves where we have put ourselves?
If our Father created us in spirit as part of Him, isn’t that both where we are and what we are?
If God is love, then must not his children also be?
Could we have made a fearful, wrathful and vengeful God in our image and likeness?
Do we not see pictures of God with a beard and looking just like a human being?
What are the consequences of worshipping a false God?
Isn’t a valued pearl created when an oyster covers a grain of sand inside its shell with layers to make it less irritating?
Have we covered over the truth of God’s perfect creation with what we believe to be a “valued” improvement?
Yet isn’t what was covered up really the only truth?
Who does not teach what they believe to be true?
Is not truth either that of all-power and immunity or of weakness and vulnerability?
If our belief system is true, what can we express but truth?
If: “The pen of the falsifying scribes has turned truth into a lie” (Jere 8:8) doesn’t the Bible itself tell us it is not the true word of God?
Have we been deceived?
By who?
Who else but those interpreting according to their own personal beliefs?
Who does not believe that their beliefs are fact?
“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God”. (Matt 5:8)
What – other than pure minds – can know the truth of purity?
How can it be known other than by accepting the truth of guiltlessness?
If purity cannot become impure, then what other than the truth of innocence can free us to see and know God?
HOW DID THE BEGINNING BEGIN?
What was there before the beginning?
What could the beginning have been other than an event that altered nothingness into something?
Is that not what we now term “The Big Bang”?
Yet isn’t “matter attracts matter” a well known physical law?
Are we not experiencing this law from being held on the ground by gravity?
If so, shouldn’t the rapid expansion after the big bang be slowing down?
Why, then, is it accelerating?
Why does the law of physics not apply to this phenomenon?
Could the beginning have not really been as described in the Old Testament?
“In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth”. (Gen. 1:1)
Why?
What could have motivated Him to suddenly create after immeasurable “time”?
Might He have created the universe to relieve boredom?
Was Heaven really created the day after our world? (Gen 1:6, 1:8 and 1:11)
Does not beginning deny eternalness?
If it is true that God “divided the light from the darkness, calling the light day and the darkness night.” (Gen 1:4), how can there be light where there is darkness?
Yet isn’t daylight “constant” in different parts of the world while it rotates?
Isn’t darkness also “constant” for the same reason?
What, other than “darkness”, existed before this event?
Just God?
Did He have a plan in mind?
If He is a perfect creator, wouldn’t His plan be perfect?
Is that what happened?
If so, why would He lose His peace?
If His plan didn’t turn out the way He wanted, why not?
Is creation according to the Old Testament similar to the teachings of Jesus in the New?
If not, what are we left with, other than choosing the one that suits us best?
Could there be a third alternative?
If so, what could that possibly be?
From the Gospel of Mary: (Pages 1-6 are missing.) Page 7 "What is matter? Will it last forever? The teacher answered: “All that is born, all that is created, all the elements of nature are interwoven and united with each other. All that is composed shall be decomposed; everything returns to its roots; matter returns to the origin of matter. Those who have ears, let them hear.”
Doesn't this tell us that matter is not eternal - and therefore not real?
If the definition of abundance is: “Fullness; plenteousness to overflowing; a more than sufficient quantity or number (of); copiousness; affluence”, could there be degrees of abundance or is it just one thing?
Could God’s abundance be different than ours?
If so, what might the difference be?
Are we all experiencing abundant peace, love and happiness which “passeth understanding”?
If not, why not?
Isn’t worldly abundance changeable and temporary?
Could we have inherited an abundance of lack?
Why were we all born in the state of lack and want?
Was it God’s will?
What other source could there be?
What if we were “not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold” as in (1 Peter 1:18)?
Are silver and gold really corruptible things?
Who would want to be rich if “He who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished” (Prov. 28:20)?
Hasn’t God already punished us, beginning with pain of birth and ending in death?
Does this mean He will punish us more if we want to be wealthy?
Yet how does this contradicting quote match the previous one: “But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth” (Deut. 8:18)?
To whom?
To everyone – or to just the favoured ones who praise, worship and adore Him?
Are not many of the wealthiest in the world afraid of losing what they have?
If so, can they really be “wealthy”?
Did they praise, worship and adore God more than the rest of us?
Which are we to believe – that we are corrupted by wealth or blessed with it?
Isn’t it odd that God gives wealth only to the “worthy” even though they will die, just like the unworthy?
If God commands that “The gold and silver is mine,” (Hag 2:8) are we to give it all to Him?
How do we do that?
What does He do with it?
Does that mean God is “hastening to be rich”?
If so, are we to “do as He says”, not “do as He does”?
How then, can He justify punishing us if we do what He does – get rich quick?
Can reality be that there is really nothing to get – only everything to give?
If “The land is mine” (Lev 25:23) does that mean God not only owns the world and our universe – but everything, including Heaven?
What on earth can be better than Heaven?
Are we to buy or rent from God?
Does He not also control and possess everything we produce, including all our profits as told in (Ps 50:11-12)?
Could He be possessed with our possessions?
Does He not also want our children as in (Genesis 38:7 Exodus 4:23, 11:5, 12:12 12:29, 13:2) where every first born male must be given to Him?
Doesn’t it appear that all females are second class mortals?
Do we know of any parents who have done these things to appease God?
Why do we need to do that?
What if we, the prodigal children, gave ourselves other than everything?
What can be other than everything except nothing or something?
Is this not what we all are – some things?
If so, how can we, the created, be totally unlike the creator who encompasses all that is?
Isn’t wanting abundance proof that we mortals never really had it and never will?
Was it the will of God that caused our state of lack?
Yet could we have wanted something more than that which God gave us?
If so, what could that possibly be?
What else but what God doesn’t have – such as form, senses, pride, fear, the need for nutrition, desire and so on?
If to squander is to: “spend wastefully; to dissipate by foolish prodigality”, what exactly did the prodigal son “waste” or “dissipate” – other than that which his father gave him?
Have we happily exchanged our immortality for mortality?
Isn’t Jesus telling us that this is what we believe we have wasted?
Could this be the result of wanting instead of being content with having all?
Wasn’t Adam created without all-knowledge, all-power and eternal life?
What, then, did he and all of his descendents inherit from God, other than what we presently have and are?
Could we have descended from Heaven to do rather than be?
Does our Father in Heaven need to do things to survive as we do – such as eating or resting?
How many attributes of our creator do we share?
Can we mortals exist without getting?
Can God?
Isn’t getting the opposite of having and being everything?
Yet to have and be everything, mustn’t we let go of something?
Yet if there is only everything in reality, can there be such a thing as something?
Who on earth has not been hurt in some way?
What reason would there be for things going wrong?
Is everything happening by chance – or is there a cause?
If there is a cause, where could it have come from but an angry God?
Has He not gifted some of His children more than others?
If so, why?
Would we?
Does He bless and reward only those who fear, obey and praise Him?
If He seeks praise and adoration, how can He be complete and without any needs?
How do we feel about a “perfect” creator creating defective children?
Yet didn’t Jesus teach otherwise?
Regardless of how abundant some of us may be – are we not all cursed with pain, toil, suffering and death?
Are we to praise and give thanks to God for these “gifts”?
What would it mean to humanity if God had nothing to do with our demise?
Do we prefer to believe that God is responsible?
If so, what would that bring us?
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world the Love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world. The world will pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever”. (1 John 2:15-17)
Is it not the New Testament God that Jesus is referring to?
Who does not value this world and all it offers?
Doesn’t this quote tell us that God does not love the world we believe He made?
If so, could it be that He did not create it?
What is “doing” God’s will?
Do we know anyone who is “doing” it?
Are we doing things from God’s will or from our needs?
“If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven. Then come, follow me”. (Matt 19:21)
Could these words from Jesus be falling on deaf ears?
Is this teaching too frightening?
Doesn’t this quote tell us we humans are not perfect?
Can we ever be perfect?
Do we want to be perfect?
Will doing what this quote says really make us perfect?
How can imperfect mortals become perfect?
Will we not miss our beloved possessions if we give them all away?
Exactly what is this “treasure” we will acquire?
How do we know if it is better than what we already have?
If we in truth were created perfect, how difficult could it be to give up our imperfection?
Wouldn’t it be considered insane for us to do what these words from Jesus suggest we do?
Yet what do we believe that would bring us if we did?
Are we valuing the temporary more than the eternal?
What are we attached to but the worldly things we fear losing?
Wouldn’t that mean we detached ourselves from our Godly inheritance?
Didn’t Jesus say in John 8:51; “If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death”?
How can we believe this quote if death is God’s curse on us all?
Was Jesus wrong?
What if He’s right?
Who but the eternal can give eternal gifts?
Could everything happening in our world be caused by the fallacy of the “fall” of man?
Was not death “caused” by Adam?
Yet if he was a flesh being, how could he have been created by a spirit Father?
If we mortals are not created by God, then by who – or by what?
How can we change our self-imposed impoverishment while believing in deep-seeded guilt?
Who among us would look for answers or change our minds while happily struggling to survive?
When will we decide to reclaim our squandered inheritance?
When else but when we feel the intolerable pain of living in fear and uncertainty?
“For the wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life”. (Rom 6:23)
If the New Testament God freely gave us eternal life, why are we all dying?
Could it be from believing in the Old Testament God who gave us terminal life?
On the other hand, could we have given ourselves the “gift” of mortality that is born to die?
“Reckon ye yourself to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God”. (Rom 6:11)
Are we all really “alive unto God”?
If so, wouldn’t that mean we all will become “dead” to the belief in sin?
Could it also mean that we were given abundant eternal life?
Could we already be “dead unto sin” but just don’t know it?
Might sin then be really only a fantasy?
Isn’t this a radical teaching?
Yet in the Gospel of Mary, didn’t Peter ask: “Since you have become the interpreter of the elements and the events of the world, tell us, what is the sin of the world?” Jesus’ answer was: “There is no sin. It is you who make sin exist, when you act according to the habits of your corrupted nature; this is where sin lies. This is why the Good has come into your midst. It acts together with the elements of your nature so as to reunite it with its roots.” Then he continued: “This is why you become sick and why you die – it is the result of your actions; what you do takes you further away”.
Since we all have a deep-seeded belief that we offended God and incurred His wrath, wouldn’t we expect to be punished rather than regain the abundance He supposedly “withheld”?
In our “adopted” sinful state, wouldn’t we expect to get what we believe we deserve?
Yet doesn’t the quote above tell us there is no sin, therefore no confession, hell or condemnation?
Does not our world believe otherwise?
While valuing our mortality and its restrictions more than our unlimited immortality, are we not happily living in poverty?
Why would God give us riches when Jesus taught, “But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil”. (1Timothy 6:9-10) and “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God”. (Matt 19:24 Mark 10:25 and Luke 18:25)?
Doesn’t this mean it is better for mankind to be “poor”?
Who but the poor seek to gain and who but the thirsty need to drink?
How can the sinful and unworthy expect abundant gifts from God?
What makes life worth living – a Mercedes Benz, money in the bank, a luxurious home, good food, having fun, holidays and so on?
Who seeks for more when satisfied with what they have?
Who wants more but the deprived?
What does being rich bring us?
What does poverty bring us?
Do we want to learn of our true abundance or are we content with mediocrity?
Could we have had it all together and then together lost it all?
Might it have been the idea of gain that prompted us to seek something beyond the infinite and eternal spirit we are?
Yet can there really be more – or less – than the one and all?
Are we willing to change our minds about this world of fear and choose to return to our Heavenly Father?
What if it is inevitable?
Yet won’t that only happen when we tire of our impossible dream?
What better goal is there to seek than the one that sets us free from goals?
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM CAUSE AND EFFECT?
The definition of cause is: “That which produces or contributes to an effect”.
The definition of effect is: “The result of a product or operation; the consequence”.
What would be the effect of being unaligned with God’s will?
How – other than by accident or plan – could our universe and all life forms exist?
While experiencing mortal life on earth, how can we not believe it happened?
If the universe and everything in it is an effect, what caused its existence?
Do we not interpret what our senses perceive?
And do not the things perceived relay back to us what we want to be true – both pleasing and painful?
And is it not true that in our world, perception often deceives?
If so, can we trust what our senses sense?
Can we desensitize our senses?
Do we want to?
What but all-knowledge knows?
How can our experiences bring knowledge of all if only all-knowledge knows the cause of them?
From what source is all-knowledge acquired?
Is it beyond us mortals?
What is the cause of pain, sickness, injustices, accidents, tragedies, suffering and death?
If these are not from God, then from what source?
Is it not true that effects cannot exist without a cause?
For example, if struck on the arm, wouldn’t the pain and bruise prove the blow took place?
Is it not also true that what is causeless can have no effects?
For example, without the blow, how could there be a bruise?
What is the number one cause of death?
What else but birth?
Yet do we not die because of Adam’s “sin”?
How, then, can we “sinful” mortals be as “perfect” as God?
Is that not also why we are imperfect and need to be healed?
What if that event never really happened?
If we discovered that no one is really sinful, how would that affect us?
Why are we all struggling, competing and hoping?
Is it because of a curious ancestor?
Could there be another reason?
Might we have been curious and sought adventure?
However, could there be another path – one that seeks only to give instead of striving to get?
Do not most in the world believe that everything we see is from either nature or God?
Yet can nature be the creator of countless different life forms, all needing both males and females for reproduction?
Can that really be in the realm of possibility?
If not, what are we left with?
Mustn’t creation then be from either an omnipotent, perfect creator or a faulty one?
Yet how can a perfect creator create anything imperfect?
And how can a perfect creation become imperfect?
Who gave mankind “gifts” of lack, want and fear of not getting?
Was it Father God or mother nature?
On the other hand, could it be God’s immortal children believing they have sinned and so unworthy?
We know how nature nurtures but how does God?
What causes things such as fear, imperfection, desire, intelligence, karma, blindness, anger, envy, blue eyes, talent, sickness, good health and poverty – chance or a creator of these?
If caused by a creator, which would be most likely, God or His curious and adventurous children?
Can thoughts have effects?
If so, on who – just the thinker?
Must there not be countless causes for countless effects?
Yet what if there is only one cause for everything happening?
Do not many believe that pain and suffering are necessary to gain eternal peace and harmony?
If that were so, wouldn’t God have needed to embark on a similar journey?
How can anyone believe that our loving Father would deliberately put us where we could be harmed?
Who but the sadistic would do that to their children?
Do not most of us believe that a powerful creator created this universe?
Is it not reasonable to accept that God’s children – inheriting the same power of the Father – could be powerful enough to “create” it?
If not, why not?
If so, what effect would acknowledging this have on us?
In our world, do we not “create” mortals by physical means?
How did God create life – by making Adam in His image out of mud and then animating him by blowing life through his nose as in Gen 2:7?
After that, didn’t He put him to sleep to extract one of his ribs to make Eve?
Didn’t God say, “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” (Gen 3:22-23) and then cast them from Eden?
Doesn’t this say we mortals have become as “they” by knowing both good and evil?
Doesn’t it also say “they” did not want us to be like “them”?
Wouldn’t that mean we are as “they” are?
If so, are “they” mortals – like us?
Who are “they”?
Did God really make coats of skin to cover Adam and Eve’s naked bodies?
If so, wouldn’t He have needed to kill the animals for their skins?
How did He make the coats – with his hands?
Is all of this true?
Who but the eternal can give eternal gifts?
Who but the non-eternal can give non-eternal gifts?
What but God’s love can create an invisible and indivisible family?
Can anything change or affect what God created?
Was not eternal life supposedly denied us because of Adam’s “sin”?
Who but the insane would punish innocent children of guilty parents?
Does not the Old Testament God get angry when things don’t work out the way He wants them to be?
How could they have not worked out – unless His will is as weak as ours?
Can a new born baby wish for some disability – or an adult request a deadly disease?
If not, did God arrange for these?
How could God punish innocent children of “sinful” parents?
Could we?
Could there be another cause – one that reflects eternal perfection?
Might the difference between cause and effect be that the mortal children and parents are the ones experiencing, while it is the spirit children of God who want the experience through the human form?
If this were so, wouldn’t that mean all is going according to our plan – not God’s?
How many would welcome the idea that we – as immortal children of God – are the planners of a fantasy?
Yet is that not the only way in which perfection remains eternally unchangeable?
How can we know of sinlessness and purity while experiencing corruption, sin and guilt?
How can we reconcile pain, suffering and death as part of a perfect plan from a perfect creator?
Can our trials and tribulations be from an angry and vengeful God – or could they be self-inflicted for what we believe we deserve?
Would we leave the door of our home unlocked while believing we are in danger?
Does our “safety” lie inside a prison of fear?
Is not a body a means to an end?
Could we have locked ourselves inside a container we call “body”?
However, wouldn’t locking ourselves in mean locking everyone else out?
Did we choose this or did God?
Does not truth free?
If so, wouldn’t false imprison?
Are we not imprisoned in flesh?
Are we content with that?
Can this be a changeable condition?
Are not beliefs and faith both substitutes for knowledge?
Do they not serve only to make real what we want to be real?
What are the consequences of seeking to gain?
What else but losing awareness of our abundant and eternal peace?
Do not all activities stem from our wish to find what we believe is missing?
Who does anything intending to lose – or for no reason?
Does not giving bring some benefit to the giver?
Would not getting also bring some benefit to the receiver?
Yet how many prefer to give rather than to get?
If love shared is what God’s creation is, would not its sharing be what we understand as “increasing”?
Yet can the infinite increase?
Can eternal creation have ever begun or eventually end?
What – other than changeless perfection – is the effect of changeless reality?
Are not each of us an effect?
Of what – or of who?
Could we be using our powerful imagination to make real what we want to be real?
If so, could the cause of what is happening to us be from our all-powerful higher self, imagining we have become something else?
If not, what are we left with, other than being the effect of an unloving, wrathful creator creating imperfect beings?
Which would bring us eternal peace?
Which would bring us uncertainty, fear and inevitable death?
Does not the solution to our demise become clear and readily available when understanding we are only the effect of our powerful imagination?
Can there be any way out if we are really mortal children of immortal parents?
What mortal has all-power?
What omnipotent being is vulnerable?
Could our collective mind be the source of power that can “create” a universe?
Might this universe be the result of our shared idea of creating by ourselves?
Could we have done this to achieve our goal of mortality and discovery?
Can we learn and gladly accept that in reality nothing can happen without agreement because we are all one and the same?
If true, wouldn’t it mean there are no such things as accidents and victims?
Couldn’t we break the agreement anytime we choose?
Wouldn’t doing so regain awareness of our shared inheritance as children of God rather than of man?
Do we want to regain this inheritance?
If so, when – after death?
Does not seeing error deny a perfect loving creator?
What if there really is no such thing as error?
Is this too outrageous to accept?
What but an imperfect creator can be feared?
If witnessing imperfection makes it fact, wouldn’t perfection be an impossible dream?
Could each mortal be the product of a dreaming immortal?
What if we really only create history in our dreams, consisting of victimization, brief moments of happiness, differences, error, envy, grief, suffering, hate, sickness, death, evil and so on?
Do these not testify to an ungiving and unforgiving world?
On the other hand, could they be only effects of a mind imagining guilt from belief in having done wrong?
“I tell you the truth. Whatever you do to the least of your brothers, you do to me”. (Matt 24:40)
If others can affect what happens to us, mustn’t that be the same in reverse?
What is the result of believing some are unworthy of love?
Wouldn’t it not only attack their truth of innocence, but also attack God and His perfect Creation?
Could this be why attacking someone is really an attack on ourselves?
Isn’t to attack to oppose?
Does not denying others of their truth attack their reality?
If so, wouldn’t we be attacking ours too?
How else can we be safe – other than by ceasing all forms of attack?
Could we have reversed cause and effect by idolizing mortality?
Might this have resulted in the “death” of eternal life?
Can eternity be a long, long time?
Isn’t time the opposite of eternity?
Could our all-powerful and imaginative mind have taken a moment to dream of many different experiences all at once?
Isn’t it difficult for us to imagine this to be true?
Could we have changed unchangeable eternity into progressive time?
When but in time will we realize mortality is unworthy of God’s children and choose to return to our Father’s house?
What but desire to continue imagining keeps us bound in time?
Yet as long as we need to breathe, do we not need to make choices?
Is it not up to us to “choose again”?
Could our choice be between freeing our brothers to free ourselves – or binding them in form so we can remain bound?
Could we be choosing every moment of every day which one we want?
Can we happily reject the “free choice” belief in the Old Testament and adopt Jesus’ teaching that we are all sinless, perfect and could never really have chosen to become anything else?
Who does not need to fix what hurts?
Yet how do we address hurts – by calling the police about noisy neighbours, arranging an appointment with the dentist and so on?
If there was only one cause for all pain, suffering and death, wouldn't fixing it immediately restore perfect peace?
Is this possible?
Who would consider it while believing there are many causes for many effects?
If we aim to fix the cause of our human frailty, what do we believe will happen?
How would we feel if all experiences ceased to exist – including our “good” ones?
Would we relinquish these joyfully or reluctantly?
Who happily throws away a treasure?
Can the cause of weariness be from our total devotion to sustaining our human lives?
If so, do we prefer to remain weary?
What effort would there be in maintaining our eternal spirit reality?
What do we believe would happen if we removed our protection from what was born to die?
Wouldn’t we die?
Yet wouldn’t we be dying to a “substitute” reality – our immortality?
If so, wouldn’t God ensure a peaceful departure when we decide it is time to leave?
Are not faith and desire of an omnipotent child of God one and the same?
If that is so, wouldn’t everyone believe in what is wanted?
Yet how can what is desired by God’s children not be manifested?
Wouldn’t this mean that we see what we want to see, find what we want to find, and achieve what we want to achieve?
Would that not reflect the law of cause and effect?
Wouldn’t believing in a dream being real cause reactions that reinforce its “reality”?
For example, do we not awaken from a dream with anxiety, fear or joy – just as though it was real?
Can dreams of God’s children be wanted more or less – or totally?
Does this not also apply to wanting Heaven, truth and the peace beyond understanding?
Who does not believe they are a body?
Isn’t it strange that death is inevitable as long as we value life inside a beloved flesh container?
When will we realize that taking care of what inevitably expires will never bring us peace?
Is not the body a means to an end?
Isn’t it a means to individualize and separate?
Doesn’t being born mean we are all destined to die?
Mustn’t Adam then have been destined to die since he also had a beginning?
What would an eternal God of love give His children?
What else but His immortality?
What would a God of fear give his children?
What else but deadly fear?
What is the cause of fear?
What gave birth to fear?
Was it created by God?
To what extent does fear control our daily activities?
Can there be any fear in Heaven?
If so, how could His peace be perfect?
Is there just one cause of fear or many?
If it came into being through evolution, what are we left with but to eat or be eaten?
Yet if it was created, how was it born?
Could it have been from Adam and Eve’s disobedience that brought God’s wrath upon them?
Didn’t they hide from Him when He confronted them with their misdeed?
According to the Bible, wasn’t that the beginning of fear?
Yet doesn’t Jesus in the New Testament say that we – as spirit beings – have all “descended from Heaven” – not from mortal beings called Adam and Eve?
If that is so, how, then, was fear born?
What do we make of these quotes from Jesus: “Verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit” (John 3:5-6) “And no man has ascended unto Heaven, but he that has descended out of Heaven, even the son of man, who is in Heaven.” (John 3:13)?
If these are true, where does that leave us?
Isn’t it also clear that eternal spirit beings cannot become non-eternal flesh beings?
What if we really are spirit beings on a journey of discovery?
If so, could that mean all roads lead to home?
Could we have wanted something we believed was missing?
If belief in lack entered our minds, wouldn’t we have wanted to get that which we lacked?
Wouldn’t needing, getting and not having represent poverty – creating fear?
If we wanted our “own” creation, could we not have “created” it in our shared mind?
If so, couldn’t our creation become “real” because we wanted it to be?
Have we “created” our own universe where we could experience whatever we want?
Are we not beholding our creation in which we are well pleased?
Yet if the Kingdom is all there is – infinite and perfect – how can there be anything else?
What if we – as Adam – began imagining an alternate “form” of life?
Could we not have wanted to express our own creative abilities?
Have we lost awareness of our true state of formlessness while focusing all our attention on our proud ability to create on our own?
Would we not believe that our creation was real – in our minds?
What could the effect of this be, other than giving birth to guilt from believing we changed our Father’s perfect creation into something else?
If so, wouldn’t we expect to be punished for having done wrong?
Could not fear, then, have been born from this belief?
If we think we are guilty of hurting our Father, would we not expect Him to be angry and vengeful – seeking to punish us for what we believe we did?
If all this is true – wouldn’t fear, then, be born in our minds?
Is this not the “picture” painted in the Old Testament God of the Bible?
Because we are experiencing our “reality” as flesh beings, is not our spirit reality now dead and buried?
Are we toasting to the death of our eternal spirit reality and raising our glasses to living as long and as well as we can before we die?
What can the solution be, other than our Father waiting for us to finish playing in our leaking sand box and our asking Him to lead us home?
Will we all not eventually become starved for soul food and abandon the fleeting, the changing and the impermanent?
What if we could never really have left our Father’s house?
What would be the consequences of our eliminating the cause of fear?
What else but the peace beyond our comprehension?
What would be the consequences of our eliminating the cause of death?
What could that be but the rebirth of knowing who we really are?
What are we afraid of?
Do we not fear getting speeding tickets, missing a television program or losing something?
Doesn’t protecting our bodies, possessions and reputation keep us in fear?
Are we not afraid of the unknown, the uncertain, the changeable and of being wrong?
If we “hurt” others in any way, whether physically or otherwise, do we not expect to be hurt back?
If so, wouldn’t the expected counter-attack plague our minds with fear while waiting for it to come?
Is this not what creates fear in our minds?
Wouldn’t causing harm to others increase our own guilt?
Yet do we not only attack in “self-defence”?
Do we not fear those who harm us and revere those who please us?
Who would be attacked by a friend?
Do we not believe that one who causes harm is unworthy of love and so deserves to be punished?
If we understood that this automatically happens when we attack someone, would we cease doing it?
Yet how difficult can it be to stop criticizing, blaming, downing, chastising and seeking revenge?
Wouldn’t doing so bring peace and love back into our lives?
If we can’t do that, how would that affect us?
How else but by continuing to believe we are unworthy and so deserve to be hurt?
Who but the hurt, hurt?
Do we love or do we attack that which does not please us?
By attacking anything, are we not reinforcing “wrong” and denying our making it up?
Do we not believe some forms of attack are more justified than others?
Could we be afraid of:
Abandonment?
God’s Will?
God’s anger and retribution?
Our ability to hurt others and ourselves?
My negative and unloving thoughts?
Change?
Life?
Death?
The inevitable learning and experiencing of our immortality?
The unknown truth that frees us from mortality?
What we really are?
Retaliation from others and from God?
Our will?
God giving us everything, meaning the limited ego doesn’t exist?
Being judged?
Being attacked?
Relinquishing control and relying solely on God?
Our bodies malfunctioning?
Awakening?
Healing?
Reality?
The teaching of Jesus?
Discovering that we really are the children of God?
Losing what we have made ourselves to be?
Remembering God?
The world as we see it?
Ourselves?
Not the unknown but the known?
What God knows?
What our hostility covers?
The memory of our loving Father?
What we have made?
What we don’t understand?
What is hidden and obscured?
Rejoining as one spirit?
The present and the future?
Letting the past go?
Hearing thoughts from our spirit mind?
What we have thrown away?
Everything we have excluded from ourselves?
Everything we made up in place of all creation?
That to acknowledge God is to deny all that we think we know?
The hatred in us?
Recognizing our wish to change reality?
Light, being content in darkness?
The approach of God’s love?
Looking within and expecting to find our sinful nature?
Our ego looking within and finding no sin?
Power – preferring our weakness and vulnerability?
Whoever we attack?
Recognizing our wish to destroy and tear others down?
What our eyes see?
Our enemies?
Our truth?
Salvation?
The immediacy of salvation?
Discovering no one could have sinned?
Becoming one, believing it to be a loss?
Loss of our idols, the foundation of our mortal reality?
Losing anything?
Could it be that when the Sons of God shine, darkness, fear and emptiness will cease to exist?
What are the effects of fear?
Who do we know that is not desperately clinging to dear life?
Is that not fearful?
Are we not afraid of being embarrassed, ridiculed, shunned, wrongly accused and ignored?
Could some effects of fear be the loss of:
Peace?
Love?
Stability?
Certainty?
Perfection?
Freedom?
Knowing we are one?
Pure thoughts?
True creativity?
Awareness of Spirit?
Knowledge?
Truth?
Unchangeability?
Knowing God’s love for us?
Where did our fearful condition originate from – God or ourselves?
If we accept responsibility for being afraid, then is it not up to us to exchange our beliefs for what our Father gave us?
Is not “sin” doing something wrong?
Does not doing wrong become the sole cause of guilt?
Is it not true that guilt “demands” punishment?
Wouldn’t expected punishment create fear?
If so, wouldn’t sin stand out as the principal source of all suffering and loss of peace?
Could the weak link in this chain of sin, guilt and fear be guilt?
Might this be where it is released and where resistance against change exists?
Yet if no sin ever occurred, wouldn’t that eliminate the cause of guilt?
What then, but guilt can be the only cause of fear?
What but eternal perfection and innocence can restore perfect peace?
Shouldn’t we learn how sin originated?
If it has no origin, than how could all its effects exist?
Wouldn’t that eliminate all grounds for seeking retribution as well as acknowledging our sinlessness?
If spirit can’t feel, hurt or be hurt – how can we be afraid unless we treasure our belief in mortal victimization?
How can we find anyone guilty if there are no vengeful thoughts in our minds?
Can we undo fear?
If we made fear and react accordingly, wouldn’t that make it real?
If we not only believe that but experience it every day, is it not then an integral part of our lives?
What can we do if fear appears to be out of our control?
Can we “master” it?
If we tried, wouldn’t that strengthen our belief in it?
If so, does that mean fear may never be undone?
If we are the product of our Higher Self – who is in control, the producer or the product?
If the opposite of fear is love, then can we “master” fear through love?
If we can recognize that fear exists in our minds only when love is absent, couldn’t we then begin the undoing process through love?
Would not the first step be to acknowledge our fears and question how to undo them?
Might the next one be to reinterpret what appears to be attack into a call for help?
Would that not change our minds about the power of fear?
And wouldn’t offering the gift of loving help absolve the guilt in both giver and receiver?
How can anyone who frees others from their mortality be afraid?
If to recognize fear is to know it is temporary, wouldn’t we gladly exchange our beliefs?
Wouldn’t asking for divine help in this process ensure success?
Doesn’t attack produce fear?
Yet if we see attack as a call for help, couldn’t we happily respond with love?
If so, wouldn’t fear then cease to exist?
If the fearful are not healed, how can they heal?
What would be required for healing to take place but a lack of fear?
WHAT ARE WE DYING TO KNOW?
If the definition of knowledge is: “The result of knowing; that which is known; certain or clear apprehension of truth or fact; cognition; familiarity gained by actual experience”, are we not all “knowing” different things from different experiences and interpretations?
Isn’t all human "knowledge" second hand?
Who do we know that knows what this knowledge is we are all dying to know?
What is the difference between belief and knowledge?
Might it be that belief is from faith and knowledge from experience?
If “The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge”, (Proverbs 1:7) must we learn only of a fearful God – not a loving one?
Could this quote really be true or is it the belief of one in fear of a vengeful God?
From what source did reproductive life originate – an accident of nature or a thought?
Which of these two beliefs is right?
Can they both be right?
If so, wouldn’t evolution then be caused by the thinker?
How can anyone really know unless “gained by actual experience”?
Are we not left to choose the one that makes most sense?
Could knowledge of all have died when belief was born?
From what source did belief originate?
Mustn’t it have been from an immortal thought rather than a mortal one?
Do not our unshared private thoughts prove our mortality?
What do these private thoughts bring us other than seclusion and exclusion?
How can they convey the same meaning to everyone?
Whose thoughts do we prefer to believe in – our own, those claiming to know, or God’s messenger of truth?
Wouldn’t claiming to know deny it?
Are not our beliefs telling us which we have chosen?
Is it true that “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”? (Prov 23:7)
Does this mean we choose to be mortal or immortal – sinful or innocent – weak or all powerful – fearful or loving, depending on what is in our hearts?
Is this concept beyond the scope of possibility?
Ever wonder why God began creating His children in Eden where He sent the “evil” one?
Is Lucifer also made in God’s image and likeness – just as we are, according to the Bible?
If he is spirit, must he not also be eternal?
If so, why weren’t we made eternal spirit – like God and Lucifer?
Does God have preferences and give different gifts to different children – such as good health to one and blindness to another?
Could we do that?
If we can’t give what we don’t have, how can God?
If He gave us corruptibility, wouldn’t that mean He is corruptible too?
Can God’s perfection be corrupted?
If God is unaffected by knowing good and evil, how could His children be?
How and when did God learn of evil?
If it was before Lucifer and Adam, what could have been evil when there was only God?
If after, who must have given birth to evil but its creator?
Didn’t God arrange the conditions by which Adam could “fall”?
Did He cross his fingers, hoping they wouldn’t eat that apple?
Was the serpent really the tempter?
Could it have been just a symbol of our temptation to seek something other than our Father’s gift of perfection?
Did not this act “open” our eyes?
If so, to what else but imperfection?
Was this a bad thing?
If it was bad for us to know of bad and good, why was it not bad for God?
If God knows all – past present and future – wouldn’t He have known in advance what would happen?
What kind of father tempts his children only to punish them for being tempted?
If Adam wanted the knowledge of his creator, wouldn’t that mean he was created incomplete and therefore imperfect?
Who would prefer to not know?
Who do we know that doesn’t know something?
Isn’t all of this the single cause of all our earthly problems?
Might it be just the fall of man – or could it also be the fall of God, since His “perfect” creation became imperfect?
How can one fruit contain knowledge and another give eternal life?
Did God acquire these by consuming something edible?
Can God really be hurt or offended?
If so, by what, His beloved new child wanting what He has – or by one of His angels wanting power?
“I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me”. (Deuteronomy 5:9)
Is He really a jealous God?
If so, of whom?
Is not this God the creator of those He is jealous of?
Who wouldn’t hate a killer of innocent children?
Do we mortals execute children of wrongdoers or is that the exclusive privilege of God?
Is it not obvious why the Old Testament God is feared or rejected?
Isn’t the Old Testament God wrathful and vengeful?
Isn’t the New Testament God loving and forgiving?
Can He be both of these – or just one?
Is it possible for God to change in any way – such as becoming mortal?
If not, how could He “gift” us with something He doesn’t have – choice?
If choosing requires alternatives, what could God choose between?
If there is something other than everything for God to choose, wouldn’t that mean he lacks that which He chooses and so incomplete?
How can free choice and free will be “gifts” if they kill us?
If the Old Testament God created death, could “And the last to be overcome is death” in 1 Corin 15:26 be blasphemy?
Why would God – after eons of no thought of extermination – create death?
If He did, mustn’t He be our enemy?
Can powerless victims really be children of God?
Can a perfect creation from a perfect creator choose to become imperfect?
How?
Has Jesus’ teaching of a loving and perfect creator been welcomed or rejected by mankind?
If the definition of sin is: “A transgression of duty, morality or the law of God; wickedness, moral depravity,” how could our sinfulness from birth be caused by ancestors wanting to know?
How many commandments did God give man, hundreds, ten or two?
What are the effects of sin – other than feeling guilty?
What else but fear would be the effect of the expected punishment?
Is this not what has been happening in our world since time began?
If the original sin had never taken place, would we all be living forever, going forth and multiplying?
At the rate of our exploding population – even with everyone dying – are we not presently running out of room, food and resources?
If everything happening in this universe is an effect, who but God can be the singular cause of it all?
Yet how could that be if Adam is “responsible” for our demise?
What if God had nothing to do with it?
Might the fall of man from having choice be really only a fallacy?
Could it be the fall of God – by our own hands, that made Him into a wrathful and vengeful Father?
Can we happily choose to give up choice?
Wouldn’t that result in the death of death?
What did God give his children – something, everything or nothing?
Who among us is not born in pain only to struggle through life and die?
Can we unchain our will to set it free?
Didn’t Jesus tell us that it is inevitable?
HOW DO WE FORGIVE?
The definition of forgiveness is: “To pardon or remit, as an offence or debt; not to exact the penalty for; to pardon, not to punish; to cease to feel resentment toward”.
If God forgives, why do the forgiven still die?
In our world, do we not seek justice against those who have done wrong?
Yet if God’s children need forgiveness, then mustn’t His “perfect” creation be flawed?
“Be gentle and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another”. (Col 3:13)
How can we not resent those who hurt us?
If we bear a grudge against anyone, wouldn’t we bear a grudge against God, declaring “At thy hands do we suffer”?
Yet are we not also bearing a grudge against ourselves for the many misdeeds we are ashamed of?
If we have done wrong in the past, do we not remorsefully feel the pain of guilt?
Does securing the past in a locked vault of unpleasant memories help or hurt us?
Is not our world filled with murder, theft, deceit, revenge, injustice, control, envy and hate?
If so, how can this be a reflection of perfection?
Who are we to forgive but those we believe have done wrong?
Yet if wrong occurred, how can guilt ever be erased?
If it is never erased, how can it ever be forgiven?
Are we not grateful to those who help us feel better?
Does the Old Testament God help us feel secure and loved?
How can we be grateful to those who cause us to lose our peace?
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins”. (1 Peter 4:8)
If the fearful God of the Old Testament doesn’t, could He be our man-made substitute God – the one we need to preserve our mortal existence?
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. And this commandment have we from him . . that he who loveth God loveth his brother also”. (I John 4:20-21)
Doesn’t this tell us we cannot love God unless we love everyone?
Is it possible to love God while unsure, hurt, angry, upset, concerned, anxious, doubting, hating anyone, or being victimized?
Don’t all these create fear – not love?
Can the sick, the deformed and the disabled thank and praise God for creating them in their condition?
Who can love anyone who causes harm – especially to children?
Do not some believe that mothers’ pain of birth is from Eve’s persuading Adam to sin against God?
If God does that to all of us in one way or another, are we to just accept that He works in “mysterious ways”?
“For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained”. (John 20:23)
Is not every mortal born sinful?
Does not retaining others’ sins in our minds distract us from our own misdeeds?
Yet if all children of God are eternally innocent, wouldn’t we only need to undo our belief in guilt?
Wouldn’t it be worth the effort to find out whether this can be done?
If not, would that mean we love to hate?
“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too”. (Luke 6:27-28)
Who loves their enemies?
Does God?
If God has enemies, didn’t He create them?
Aren’t our enemies those who have, are, or will hurt us?
Isn’t God our enemy, since He sentences us all to death?
Wouldn’t this also mean we are His enemies?
If Jesus teaches us to forgive, why does the Old Testament God seek revenge?
Is everything really in divine order?
Who believes in nothing ever going wrong?
Can omnipotent children of God be harmed or cause harm?
Could this be why Jesus taught us to turn the other cheek?
Wouldn’t that demonstrate being unaffected by anything except our own thoughts and beliefs?
If we were created eternally perfect, how could we become terminally corruptible?
If one form of forgiveness makes corruption real and the other recognises truth of eternal purity and innocence, which would we rather adopt?
“You will have a great reward, and you will be sons of the most high”. (Luke 6:35)
What but real forgiveness can restore this to us by translating error into truth?
While perceiving someone harming another or sinning against the “laws of God,” do we not – out of the “goodness of our hearts” – forgive that person for what we believe happened?
Yet wouldn’t belief in sin and the resulting guilt remain?
What would be the effect of not forgiving the guilty – other than justifying our grievances and retaining our own hidden guilt?
Wouldn’t all this mean that God creates imperfect beings?
Are we not justified in bearing a grievance against God for cursing us with the sin of Adam?
And if we have a grievance against anyone, wouldn’t that also justify holding grievance against Him?
Do not many believe they are unworthy of ever being forgiven – having done wrong for years?
When we are hurt by someone, do we not believe in righteous retribution – just as the Old Testament God does?
Can we really praise God for sentencing us all to death?
What if God did not do that?
If not, then shouldn’t we forgive ourselves for what we believe He did?
Which do we prefer – being children of a wrathful God or of a loving one?
Didn’t Jesus teach; “Judge not, lest ye be judged”?
If so, are we projecting our faults onto others in attempting to make ourselves appear better?
Could this mean we see in others what is also within ourselves?
Does not seeing misbehaviour in others make it fact rather than judgment?
Aren’t we all excellent judges?
Yet why do we not judge the same?
Does not seeing others guilty ease the pain of our own?
Yet wouldn’t this make the one “doing wrong” forever guilty?
If so, how can guilt ever be forgiven and erased from our minds?
However, can truth replace what we have believed to be fact?
What would happen if we released our investment in interpretation?
If individuality brings weakness and vulnerability, are we not then “victims” of circumstances beyond our control?
Did we forsake our Father’s inheritance and are now out of control?
If so, can we now choose whether or not to remain out of control?
Do we not deny being responsible for what happens to us and so righteously proving others’ guilt?
However, if we really are responsible, wouldn’t that mean that our immortal spirit is arranging all of our mortal experiences?
Is this fearful to mankind – or empowering?
Wouldn’t knowing we can change the future motivate us to do so?
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, ‘Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?’ Thy hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye”. (Matt 7:3-5)
Are we not horrified when someone is mistreated, molested or murdered?
Who believes they do things like that?
What, then, is the “beam” in our eyes?
Might it represent our own guilt we fear discovering?
Is it not easy and natural to spot errors in others and feel obligated to point them out?
Does it not make us feel superior when others are misbehaving or misbelieving?
However, wouldn’t believing in guilt bind us in our world of corruption, fear and death?
How can forgiveness to condemn ever free us from our own guilt?
Wouldn’t we want to learn how to truly forgive everyone?
“Ye have heard it said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, resist not him that is evil; but whosoever smiteth thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also”. (Matt 5:38-39)
No retribution?
When has the Old Testament God ever turned His cheek?
How can the Bible teach both "an eye for an eye" and "turn the other cheek"?
If we say “I forgive you for what you have done,” are not guilt and belief in victimisation reinforced?
If so, how can eternal innocence be joyfully given and received?
In order to change our minds, must we not first understand that no one can be either a victim or a victimizer?
Yet while insisting they exist, will not fear and retribution remain within us?
Is it possible to believe in eternal innocence?
Yet if just one fault ever took place, wouldn’t eternal perfection cease to exist?
Can we forgive by dispelling the belief in error?
How many things have we hidden from ourselves – fearing the discovery of our hidden shame?
Could false forgiveness be a weapon the ego uses to protect itself?
Ego: “Individuality, personality; the self-conscious subject, as contrasted with the non-ego or object; the conscious self, which resists on the one hand the threats of the super ego, (super – over, above, above in position, on top of; more than, of a higher kind) and on the other hand the impulses of the id.” (Id: “The instinctive impulses of the individual.”)
Does this not tell us that the “super ego” is our higher immortal self?
Doesn’t this also say that it threatens our lower ego, the id, or mortal self, and that is why we resist it?
How does it “threaten” us?
Is this not what we are really afraid of – losing our beloved, individual id?
What can the id’s (or ego’s) purpose be, other than to separate and make different?
Doesn’t this oppose spiritual oneness and sameness?
Is it possible that the super ego is threatening the “reality” of “lower” mortals since only one is true?
Might this mean that our lower mortal self is much like a puppet to the higher self?
Could we mortals be the “Pinnochios” created out of matter from our formless immortal self, wanting to experience form?
Who would be the puppeteer – God or our super ego?
Yet which one chooses – our immortal or mortal self?
According to the above definition, wouldn’t the id be what we have become – unique and individual human beings?
Has the ego replaced the real master within?
Could the ego’s goal be death?
Are we not masterminding everything in our lives?
Are not our instinctive impulses to get, survive, marry, mate and reproduce?
Yet does not this definition also tell us that the “super” ego has none of these impulses?
Could that be why we desperately cling to our humanness?
What would be the consequences of asking for a plan of forgiveness from our id instead of our “super” ego?
Do we not see sin clearly and then “forgive” the sinner?
What is the result of making sin real other than making guilt real as well?
What can the ego’s plan for forgiveness be but to make others guilty and protect itself from all threats?
Which do we prefer to practice – forgiving or how to better identify the guilty?
Could the ego’s ultimate goal be to create a God that leads us to oblivion?
Since we all die, is it not succeeding?
If the ego is a separation device, could it be the embodiment of our wish to be our own individual “gods”?
Although impossible, could we have believed in having accomplished this in our dream?
If so, wouldn’t we be proud of our accomplishment – especially if we created a whole universe of our own?
If we believe that what was perfect no longer exists, wouldn’t we have become “guilty” of destroying what God created?
If so, wouldn’t the means given us by Jesus to free each other from guilt be what we really want?
Yet how can we overlook what is clearly in front of our eyes?
Isn’t one form of pseudo-forgiveness when someone “better” takes on a “holy” quest to save “sinners”?
How can there be love when accusing “sinners” of their guilt?
Who forgives and despises?
And do not many of us believe that others are more sinful than we are?
What does false forgiveness do – other than make sin and differences real?
If this is true, then wouldn’t our worldly forgiveness really be condemnation?
What if those wanting to forgive do not claim to be better than others, but insist all are guilty sinners?
Wouldn’t that also make guilt real?
Isn’t there another form that forgives only if someone meets certain standards?
What do all these different ways of forgiving serve, other than perpetuating guilt and unworthiness?
Can love, union and mercy ever be found in this sinful, wrathful, vengeful environment?
Doesn’t this mirror the behaviour of the Old Testament God?
Is there a way in which we will know of everyone’s sinlessness?
If our choice to judge brought us into this world, wouldn’t the opposite of judgment be the means to return to our natural state in Heaven?
What could that be but relinquishing judgment in order to know who we really are?
What is there to judge if reality is one spirit entity?
Wouldn’t real forgiveness be to understand that only innocence and perfection exist?
How else can truth replace what we only believed was true?
If we see guilt, hasn’t our goal been achieved?
Yet if anyone can be guilty, couldn’t we all be?
We can forgive – but can we forget?
If not, have we really forgiven?
If seeing guilt is our goal, what but pain, suffering and death can be our destiny?
However, if it is within us to see either guilt or innocence, are we not choosing the one that serves us best?
Who but the righteous would not want to free others from the “sins” they have?
Yet what but true forgiveness can “take away the sins of the world”?
Is this a fact or a fantasy?
“Then came Peter to him, and said, ‘Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him, till seven times?’ Jesus saith unto him, ‘I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven.’” (Matt 18:21-22)
How determined are we to do whatever it takes to rid our Holy minds of the thought of unholiness?
Who are we to free – just those we believe to be guilty, or everyone from what we think they are – including ourselves?
Who on earth believes they are perfect and innocent of any wrongdoing?
Yet while captive within a body, are we all not imprisoned by our own buried guilt?
If we cannot truly forgive others’ misdeeds, how can we forgive our own?
Who but those seeking freedom from their own guilt would gladly free others from theirs?
What better gift to give them but true forgiveness that absolves all believed wrongdoings?
Will not all of us be saved as taught in Timothy 2:4?
Who are the saved that will regain God’s inheritance but those who are forever free from sin?
Could that be reality?
Who but the worthy and loved can share love?
If our eternal perfection has never been altered – no matter what we believe we have “done” – wouldn’t we always be worthy channels for expressing God’s love?
Not only can we be the means to heal, bless and comfort – didn’t Jesus tell us we will be?
Can we give what we want in order to receive that?
What do we want?
Is All Power within our power?
Is it possible that everyone’s perfection, sameness and oneness can reveal to us the truth that frees?
Do we want to be free?
When?
What will happen to us?
Are we afraid of the unknown?
What do we have to lose?
Do we want to free everyone?
Can we really do that?
Who – having been harmed by another – can love and forgive?
Is not the attack “real” and therefore unforgivable?
Are we able to demonstrate to our “attackers” that they simply responded to our request and are therefore innocent?
Isn’t that turning the other cheek?
If truth needs no forgiving, what can we forgive but what is false?
Yet wouldn’t forgiving the false restore truth?
Is this beyond our reach or is it just a smattering of time before we are out of time and into eternity?
WHICH IS THE REAL GOD?
The definition of “God” in the Concise English Dictionary is: “A supernatural being regarded as controlling natural forces and human destinies and worshipped or propitiated by man; a deity, a divinity; a person formally recognized as divine and entitled to worship, the Supreme Being, the self existent and Eternal Creator and Ruler of the universe”. (Supernatural: “Existing by, due to, or exercising powers above the forces of nature, outside the sphere of natural law”.)
The definition of “person” is: “A human being as distinguished from the lower animals or an inanimate object; one of the three individualities in the godhead, Father, Son, or Holy Spirit”.
Do the above definitions represent what we have learned and understood to be “God” and “persons”?
Why is there no mention of females?
Are they considered by men to be lesser beings?
Are we all really one of the “three individualities”?
Which one?
What is ungodliness?
What else but being unlike God in every way?
In what way are we mortals like God?
Is God really “controlling natural forces and human destinies”?
If so, why would He put His children where they could be harmed?
Wouldn’t He be the cause of deadly viruses, deformed babies, earthquakes, plane crashes and killer floods?
Can the Old Testament God be the same God that Jesus taught?
If so, how could He have changed if perfect?
Is not what changes unstable?
Is not what is unstable unreliable?
Can we rely on a God who changes from being wrathful to loving?
Does God judge?
Why would He judge if He knows?
Can God be more or less than He is – or have more or less than everything?
Does He have a choice or the ability to become imperfect like us?
If so, wouldn’t that nullify His perfection?
If not, why give us imperfection?
If the definition of perfection is “The state of being perfect; supreme excellence; complete development; faultlessness” – what is there to be added or changed if complete?
If this is true, how could God choose anything, being the all that is?
If there is nothing to choose between – how can there be want – and without want, how can there be lack?
Wouldn’t not having a choice be the state of completion – one of the main attributes of perfection?
If God cannot choose between being this or that, how could He have given us something He doesn’t have – choice?
In addition, if God could change from wrath to love, wouldn’t that also deny changeless perfection?
Can perfect love choose to not love, change or miscreate?
Can a wrathful and fearful God love?
Which do we fear most – the God of wrath or the God of love?
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect”. (Matthew 5:48)
If God cannot become faulty, how could His children be?
Is Jesus telling us a fact, or is this a misquote or a fantasy?
Does this not challenge the Biblical declaration that Jesus is the only perfect “begotten” child of God?
If this quote is true, does that mean we are all spirit beings – guiltless and sinless - just like God and Jesus?
If false, what are we left with?
Who would “giveth” and then “taketh” the lives of their children as the Old Testament God angrily does?
If caring parents do whatever is necessary to protect their children, why doesn’t God?
What exactly does God “do”?
Do not shepherds go to find lost sheep?
What has God done?
How do we feel about a God who has hurt us, is still hurting us and will continue to hurt us?
If God is complete, what could He possibly want?
Is He everywhere and knows everything in the past, present and future?
Does He need to learn more than all-knowledge, become more than all-powerful, expand His infinite domain and be worshipped more by His children?
If so, could that be why He commanded us to “Go forth and multiply”?
If God is the “ruler of the universe”, why is our world struggling to survive?
Did He not foresee the outcome?
Has He abandoned us?
If the product is a testimony to its producer and the world is the product of God – how do we rate Him?
If God “loves the smell of burning flesh” (Exodus 29:18 & 25) – does that mean He has a nose?
“And the lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”. (Gen 2:7)
Definition of soul: “The spiritual part of a person”.
Does God have a soul and lungs?
Can we exist without these?
Can God?
If God knows all that is, wouldn’t He have known of Lucifer’s “evil” desire for power?
If so, why proceed to create him and send him here?
Doesn’t this mean God created evil?
Why, then, did God lead us into temptation and delivered us to evil?
Wouldn’t God have known of Adam’s choice in advance?
Has God shared His omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience with His angels?
If so, why not with us?
Does that mean He created us as 2nd class beings?
Yet didn’t Jesus tell us that our loving Father created us as 1st class immortal beings?
Which is true?
Does not the Old Testament God rule through commandments, demanding worship and obedience? (Worship: “The act of paying divine honour to God esp. in religious services; an act or feeling of adoration or loving or admiring devotion or submissive respect.”)
If so, can we love, admire, “give honour” and respect the greatest mass murderer of all time?
If to command is to assume inequality, how, then, can we be the same as our Father?
If the definition of image and likeness is: “copy, simile, counterpart”, does that mean He is a flesh being like us?
If not, in what way are we “copies”, “similes”, or “counterparts” of God?
Could we have made God in our image and likeness?
What do we think of God telling us in Romans 12:19 – “Vengeance is mine”?
If we are commanded to not kill, does that mean He wants to do it all by Himself?
Why have all the “shalt nots” in the Old Testament been replaced by Jesus with only two: love & love?
Did God change His mind?
If so, what persuaded Him to do that?
Who can love a fearful, wrathful, vengeful God who kills all His children – including Jesus?
Were we not commanded to give sacrifices only to God?
Are we not put to death if we give a sacrifice to “another god” as in Ex 22.21?
If many sacrifice their lives to save others, why has God sentenced every human being to death?
How can He get away with murder?
How jealous can the Old Testament God get?
If Jesus taught us to love our enemies, wasn’t he speaking for the New Testament God?
Are we not the Old Testament God’s enemies since He chose to kill us all rather than forgive us for what we have not done?
Yet doesn’t the New Testament God forgive and free us from sin and guilt?
Are the Old and New Testament Gods different – or one and the same?
If the same, why did He change His mind?
Couldn’t He change His mind again?
Can perfection change?
Could our “free choice” now be whether to believe in the Old Testament God of wrath and vengeance or the loving and giving God Jesus taught?
Isn’t our after-life either eternal peace in Heaven or eternal suffering in hell – depending on how obedient we are and on which God we believe in?
Which represents love more:
A) Our Father giving us a choice between not learning what He knows and live forever?
B) Learning what He knows and die?
C) Or happily and lovingly giving us all that He has and knows?
If God didn’t want us to learn, why put the tree in the Garden of Eden?
Who would do that to their children?
Mustn’t He have created death if He planted the tree with fruit that kills?
How much evil did God learn before planting this tree?
Where did He learn evil from?
If we can give our children only what we have, how could our Father give us ignorance and corruptibility – unless He also has these?
Are defective and sick children really cursed because of sinful parents?
If so, can anyone explain why God would curse one child and bless another in the same family?
How does He decide on the appropriate punishment?
Are we to thank our Father for not giving us what He has and is?
Could loving, protecting and nurturing be ungodly to a wrathful and vengeful God?
If it is godly to kill to show love, wouldn’t it be ungodly to not kill?
What can the will of God produce but the inevitable and what can the hope of God produce but uncertainty?
Who seeks to gain but he who has already lost?
What did God gain by withholding power, knowledge and eternal life from His children?
What did He lose?
Why did God bless only some with talents, good health and intelligence?
Are angels powerless like us – or all-powerful like God?
Did He forbid them His knowledge?
If not, wouldn’t they also know of evil?
Why are we mortals not living in Heaven like the immortal angels?
Are they more in God’s image than we are?
If so, does that mean He loves them more than us?
What parent would lovingly give the deadly “gift” of choosing wrongly to a child?
If change is possible for God, then into what – something more or less?
If it is impossible, then how can there be any alternative for God to choose?
“I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me”. (Deuteronomy 5:9)
Who could God be jealous of?
Who else, but a creation of His?
What parents wouldn’t hate God for killing their innocent children?
Are we not all children of parents?
Does God worry?
Why – if He knows only of unchangeable perfection?
What did we inherit from God – everything or something?
“If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross. For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall save it. For what profiteth man if he shall gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life”? (Matt 16:24-26)
At what cost are we clinging to our precious temporary lives that end in inevitable death?
Do we gain by being on this planet or lose?
If we lose, what have we lost?
What have we gained?
If mortality is a precious gift from God, wouldn’t it be for Him too?
Is His “gift” of mortal birth and death really a gift?
Why give us something He doesn’t have or want?
Yet what are we prepared to give in exchange for our mortal lives?
What better gift than blessing each other with the truth of our immortality?
Are we not taught the after-life is either eternal suffering in hell or eternal peace in Heaven – depending on how obedient we are?
Who can treat their children like that?
What did God gain from creating confusion, fear and chaos at the tower of Babel by changing a common language into different, incoherent ones?
With so much difficulty in learning and understanding other languages, has doing this helped communication or hindered it?
Would we do that to our children?
Which does “An eye for an eye” in (Ex 21:23-25) reflect – forgiveness or retribution?
Does love give or does love take?
Is God’s “perfect” peace unaffected by His anger, jealousy, wrath and vengeance?
Is He totally, partially, or not at all in control of all that is?
Who needs to control but one who fears not being in control?
If God is unable to get rid of any of His attributes, how can He not pass them on to His children?
Could we?
Why would a perfect creator be angry at his creation – unless it didn’t work out as planned?
Could God’s plan have become uncontrollable?
Is His plan survival of the fittest?
Why would He create the unfit?
Who can love and trust a parent who is inconsistent and changeable?
Which can we put our faith, hope, love and respect in – the angry, fearful, vengeful and miscreating God of the Old Testament – or the loving, perfect creator in the New?
If “God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him”( I John 4:16), then are we abiding in God’s love without fear – or surviving as best we can in anxiety and hope?
What if He gave us everything and we threw it all away, preferring instead something we made?
Wouldn’t our loving Father protect our eternal perfection, ensuring the uninterruptible “peace which passeth understanding”?
Wouldn’t love free us to imagine whatever we want – even pretending being something other than who and what we really are?
However, if we humans really are children of God, how can we be so different?
How can we fear a God whose love is all encompassing unless we are afraid of what we might lose?
What would we lose other than the pain of being born, struggling through life and dying?
Does God give birth?
If so, wouldn’t that deny omnipresence?
If the wrathful and vengeful God of the Old Testament links with mankind, wouldn’t the loving and forgiving God that Jesus taught be the biggest threat to us earth dwellers?
What are spirit’s attributes other than unchangeable perfection, formlessness, eternalness, infiniteness, all-power and all-knowledge?
How do our attributes compare?
If spirit is one, what is there to compare with?
Can spirit beings create other than spirit beings?
If God is a loving creator of life, wouldn’t He – like us – ensure His children’s eternal safety, happiness, and peace?
Has God abandoned us or did He put in place the means for us to return where we all rejoin in the oneness of formless spirit?
What are the effects of a loving God other than peace, appreciation and gratitude?
What are the effects of a wrathful God other than fear, doubt, uncertainty and concern?
Which is the real God?
If it is really true that “All men shall be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth” (Timothy 2:4), when will we decide to reclaim our inheritance we believe was lost?
Is it not true that to know our Father is to know eternal life?
Which do we prefer – hoping and praying for outcomes – or trusting in a loving Father’s certainty and inevitability?
Is healing changing a condition?
Is it something temporary?
Is it the result of a miracle?
The Concise English Dictionary defines healing as: “To cure, restore to health, repair, make whole, free from guilt, purify, grow, become sound or whole, to reconcile” and others.
Do these definitions shed a new light on healing?
Why would a wrathful, vengeful creator want those he punished to be free from guilt, purified and made whole?
How can healing “free us from guilt”?
Could it be from changing our minds about our impurity?
Do we want to do that?
What kind of health are our minds in?
Do they need repair?
Do we want to “restore” our minds and “repair” our grievances so as to become “sound” and “made whole”?
Is not healing then, much more than just fixing maladies?
If to heal is to “free from guilt,” wouldn’t it have to undo the cause of it?
Could guilt be the cause of all our problems?
If so, wouldn’t the symptoms reoccur until it is eliminated?
Can healing begin by understanding that we can reclaim our squandered inheritance?
If that includes our Father’s perfection, power, knowledge and eternalness – wouldn’t we all be the same?
Should this be true, could we not heal as Jesus did – through faith?
Yet faith in what – his own power or his joined with spirit?
Do we not have the faith of a mountain that we can’t even move a mustard seed?
Didn’t Jesus say, “Ye shall be as I and even greater deeds shall ye do”?
Can we believe this?
Does this apply to everyone?
Is he not telling us it is inevitable?
Who has become as Jesus and done greater deeds?
Was he mistaken?
Do we have enough faith in these words to allow ourselves to be healed so we can heal?
Are his words for just a few or for all of us?
Could this quote refer to the power we have as immortals?
Why would we want to learn from an external “master” instead of the one within us?
What does “greater deeds” mean?
Raising the dead?
Is that healing?
If so, what was healed – the body, or something else, such as the spirit mind?
What better gift can we give than to offer healing and be healed?
Yet shouldn’t we understand why the need for healing, what healing is, and what needs to be healed?
What caused the need for healing?
Could our immortal and perfect Father ever need healing?
Did God create mortals who need care and healing?
Does spirit need healing?
Wasn’t it after Adam “fell” asleep, (or began imagining?) that the desire to “Go forth and multiply” resulted in one spirit “becoming” billions of separate flesh beings?
Yet can mankind have put asunder what an omnipotent spirit creator created as one?
Who created want, fear and lack – God or us?
If we believe in lack, would we not do whatever possible to get what we need?
Can our sought-after gains include uniqueness, differences and being loved individually?
If so, what would these bring us, other than pride of self-creation?
However, wouldn’t guilt enter our collective mind if we believe we offended God by “destroying” what He created?
In expecting His wrath upon us, wouldn’t punishing ourselves hopefully reduce the expected sentence on our judgment day?
What causes headaches, cancer, loneliness and baldness?
Are these different problems or one and the same?
If one, wouldn't fixing it make them all disappear?
Is this possible?
Could we be doing a number of things to ourselves that need healing?
If to heal is to change, then from what?
What else but an impure condition?
Was that created by God or by us?
You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul. For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body. (Plato)
Could our immortal souls have chosen mortality?
What – other than freeing from guilt, purifying and becoming whole – can be true healing?
Are we not focusing on improving our bodies rather than healing our minds?
Wouldn’t our healed minds restore truth of creation – that of being all one indivisible, immortal spirit – rather than billions of different, struggling human beings?
Could being healed be our destiny?
Is not condemnation why we are all in need of healing?
Yet if cursed by Adam’s sin, how can we ever be “purified”?
Might healing begin by miraculously changing our minds about God and His all-encompassing love?
If forgiving wrongdoings makes them real, how can innocence ever be restored?
Is it possible to see “sins” as just errors that cause no real harm?
Do we want to see them differently?
If guilt demands punishment, who gives the sentence – a jury, God, or ourselves?
If guilt is the one cause for all our problems, wouldn’t eternal innocence be the one solution?
Which did we inherit from our Heavenly Father – innocence or guilt?
If God gave each of His children equal power, how could one overpower another?
Might the solution lie in all-powerful beings arranging harm?
If harm is requested, wouldn’t it be helpful rather than harmful?
Mustn’t the goal be established before the means for its accomplishment is found?
Could we have chosen the way of atoning for our misdeeds by arranging suffering?
Would that not bring us a benefit rather than a loss?
How can a goal not be achieved by the omnipotent?
How can there be guilt without sin?
Without guilt, however, wouldn’t fear be causeless and therefore without foundation?
Might forgiveness, then, be healing our mistaken belief in fear, sin and guilt?
Would this not be the means to restore awareness of our eternal innocence and perfection from our perfect, eternal creator?
If to heal is to “make whole,” could that mean each “broken piece” must reunite – as one – to awaken from our dream of separation?
What but healing releases the fear of waking?
Wouldn’t healing involve replacing fear with love?
If so, wouldn’t that free us from our human prison cells?
Would we welcome or fear this?
Did not Jesus teach us to reclaim our perfection, heal all errors, take no thought of the body as separate and to accomplish all things in God’s name?
How could it not happen if our Father willed for us to be united as one with Him?
Could healing have anything to do with recognizing that our will is the same as our Heavenly Father's?
Might sickness, then, be from not doing God’s will?
What is healed?
What needs healing – the cause or the symptom, the awakened mind or the sleeping mind?
Which one is forever guilt-free?
Who needs healing but those who are in need?
Might we be mistaken in our belief in lack, need and want?
Can we really “purify our beliefs” and make them “sound”?
If not, why not?
Who is healed?
If it takes two to heal in true healing, wouldn’t both “patient” and “healer” be healed together – being a loving gift of exchange and sharing?
Is not joining in single purpose the way to free each other from guilt?
What would that result in, other than everyone being purified and made whole?
Wouldn’t that restore what we believed we lost – our unchangeable inheritance of purity?
Who is the healer?
“Physician, heal thyself”.
How do we do that?
Wouldn’t the real physician be the Holy Spirit who does the healing from within us?
Wouldn’t that ensure healing beyond sequential time into past, present and future?
Is He not waiting for us to ask for His help?
Yet if we believe in our guilt, how can we ever expect to be purified?
What is true healing?
If truth sets us free, then can innocence be restored through healing?
Without sin, how can there be guilt?
Is it possible to acknowledge everyone else’s purity while believing we have done wrong?
However, if guilt lies in the past, wouldn’t innocence return by understanding that all that happened – and continues to happen – is by agreement?
Who but our spirit selves can agree on what is to happen?
Rather than die from guilt, can we let guilt die?
Are we able to remedy our human fearful state?
If created perfect by a perfect creator, how could we have ever lost our way and become afraid?
Do we only need to heal a mistaken belief that we left our father’s house and threw our inheritance away?
Can we simply choose to reclaim it?
Could this be the way to become “repaired,” “purified” and “made whole”?
Is there not a saying: “To love yourself is to heal yourself”?
How can we love ourselves if guilty?
Who can offer healing while concerned, doubting, regretting or suffering?
Could changing our minds about others help them to heal?
Do not our condemning thoughts remain until we recognize them as harmful rather than helpful?
If we see guilt in others, do we not need to heal ourselves?
Are we to judge or to not judge?
Can we reinterpret what we see and change our minds about what is wrong and what is right?
Could healing begin by understanding the impossibility for an omnipotent creator to create impotent children?
Who needs healing?
Who but the born, the breathing, the sick and the dying?
What purpose do pain and sickness serve?
Could they bring us deserved self-punishment from guilt?
Wouldn’t that be a “benefit”?
Do not the insane believe sanity to be a threat?
Can we mortals be threatened by our discarded immortality?
Have we arranged for healing to not work and so protect our guilt-ridden but beloved mortality?
What is sickness?
Is it fear, experiencing pain, catching a cold – or something more such as vulnerability, needing sympathy or mental illness?
Might it also be a decision, a means to protect our dreamed-up reality of separation and isolation?
Is it perhaps resisting reuniting and believing in the temporary instead of the eternal?
Could it be believing God’s children are guilty and so deserve to be punished by some form of sickness?
If disease were real, how could it be healed if reality is not subject to change?
Is it not only because sickness is false that can it be healed?
When does healing take place?
Isn’t healing inevitable when we accept the perfection, wholeness, and completion of everyone?
When do we want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
When are we going to seek first the kingdom?
Isn’t that what we are?
Can healing fail?
Who can heal while in doubt?
Who in doubt would call on an omnipotent power to be in charge of the healing process?
Who in fear can give freely – trusting in the inevitability of love’s blessing to everyone?
Does not fear of failure protect weakness rather than strength?
If in truth all of us are one in spirit, wouldn’t a loving gift of healing be exchanged and returned to its sender?
What is an unhealed healer?
Who are unhealed healers but those who heal others without including themselves?
Wouldn’t that result in:
Lack of faith?
Judging instead of knowing?
Seeing some as more or less worthy?
Believing they have something others lack?
Using physical means in place of the mind and faith?
Healing only some, not all?
Believing they are in charge of healing?
Confusing themselves with God, being self created rather than God created?
Offering weakness to a child of God, not the power that is within both?
Asking for money or seeking recognition, leading to failure from valuing what they gain rather than what they give?
Is healing inevitable?
“Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality”.(1 Corinthians 15:53)
Does this not tell us that we corrupt mortals are in truth incorruptible and that we really are immortals?
If so, would not this bring certainty instead of hope?
Is it not also confirming that our immortality is our reality?
Does this not clearly reveal that we are dreaming a dream of fear?
Yet are not all of us destined to regain our inheritance we thought we lost?
Was not eternal and perfect peace our Father’s legacy?
Can we heal ourselves from believing that we did not deserve His love?
When?
Can it be but a matter of mind over matter?
What and WHERE IS HELL?
What is hell?
Hell: “Sheol” (Hebrew), “Hades” (Greek)
Could this definition suffice: “the place of punishment for the wicked after death: the place or state of the dead; a place of extreme misery, pain or suffering; torment and torture”?
Where exactly is this place?
Somewhere deep inside our world where it is extremely hot?
What is the origin of hell?
Did God create it?
Did God cast a fallen angel down to earth first and then created man?
If Lucifer’s residence is hell, is this not it?
Do we not need to die to go to hell?
Are we not all dying here on earth – except Lucifer?
Doesn’t that mean God created man in hell?
Isn’t death the opposite of life – not just a different form of life?
When dead, how could we “feel” pain or suffering in any way – or be conscious of anything?
Should this be true, why the need for hell?
If “soul” means “The spiritual part of a person”, wouldn’t that make it eternal and therefore unable to die?
Can souls suffer?
If souls are “spiritual” parts of us, how could they feel anything – having no senses?
Wouldn’t the soul become “free” once the container ceases to exist?
Does not the passage in (Heb 9:27) say that in death we “sleep” while waiting for resurrection and judgment on whether or not we deserve to enter God’s kingdom?
Who is sleeping – us or our immortal imagining spirit?
If death is the opposite of life, then how can there be another kind of life after death?
Didn’t God tell Adam in (Gen 2:17) that: “if you eat you shall surely die”?
Did He include the “death” of our immortal souls?
Would our souls also go to hell, to be eternally tormented in fire?
Are we not told in (Rom 6:23) that the “Wages of sin is death”?
Yet – according to the Bible – wasn’t Job a righteous man in very good standing with God?
Didn’t he ask God to hide him in Sheol to escape his great suffering? (Job 14:13)
If so, how could Sheol have been hell if it was a haven?
Did Jesus not go to Sheol for three days before and again after His resurrection as in (Ps 16:10)?
Is it not clear in (Ps. 9:17, 18) that not only the good people like Job and Jesus went to Sheol but the bad as well?
In (Ps 139:7-8), was not God Himself in Sheol?
Doesn’t this mean that the place labeled and translated in the New Testament as ‘hell’ is not really a place of eternal suffering?
What can we conclude from all this other than Sheol/Hades is simply a place like any other?
Was it not a place or symbol of annihilation and destruction because death and graves were to be abolished as promised? (See (Matt 25:46) “everlasting punishment” “cutting off” or (2 Thess 1:9) “eternal destruction/ruin”.
What about Gehenna?
Wasn’t it a place of an actual earthly fire (burning sulfur or brimstone) on the outskirts of Jerusalem that was used as the city’s incinerator?
Wasn’t it used by Jesus as a symbol of destruction rather than of punishment or pain?
Could that be why there is no mention in the Bible of live people or animals being cast into the flames?
Does not the Old Testament God inflict ‘hellish’ torment on anyone who disobeys His laws?
Is this not clearly incompatible with the New Testament God’s goodness and His loving nature as in (1 John 4:8)?
What if God never really conceived of tormenting humans (or souls) in fire (Jer 7:31)?
Yet isn’t death God’s punishment for our sins?
Isn’t that enough?
If so, why the need for more torment beyond that? (Rom 6:7, Rom 6:23)
How can the concept of ‘hell’ be reconcilable with common sense, logic, or with our own experience?
How many of us believe in the devil?
“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye rather than having two eyes to be cast into the fires of hell”. (Matt 18:9)
Could this mean our judgment is faulty?
If so, does that mean we will all be punished?
What if the word used for devil (or Satan) really means ‘slanderer’?
Didn’t Jesus call Satan ‘the father of the lie’ in (John 8:44)?
Could Satan be a lie?
Could the ego be the father of the lie?
Are we humans not all individual egos?
But can there be such a thing as egos if in reality we are all one spirit?
What would God gain by keeping all the bad souls alive for eternity after they were already dead?
Would we put up with somebody in captivity constantly calling us names, cursing and spitting at us?
If not, why would God?
Wouldn’t keeping them forever alive be an eternal reminder of His monumental failure?
Why would God do that when He could just get rid of them all as He did in Sodom, Gomorrah and elsewhere?
Is it not true that many humans never needed or wanted God in their earthly lives?
Yet did they not continue living for other things, even bad things?
If that made them happy, how could they suffer by being separated from God?
Are we not all separated from Him?
How can anyone really believe that only the poor go to Heaven and the rich to “hell”?
What can the definition of “inevitable” be but “that which cannot be avoided or prevented”?
If life is constantly changing, doesn’t not knowing what is to come create fear?
Who does not fear the unknown?
Are not death and taxes the only “certainties” in life?
What but birth could be the singular cause of mankind’s inevitable death?
What is inevitable but the will of God?
Can anything happen without God willing it?
Did He will for His children to be forever perfect – or did He only hope?
Which is the world contagious of – the virus of inevitable death or the virus of eternal life?
Is it possible for an all-knowing, perfect creator to not know how His creation would turn out?
Why would God withhold eternal and immortal perfection from His children?
Didn’t this result in the fall of mankind?
If so, why be concerned about seven deadly sins when we're all destined to die?
Can there be two kinds of death – one of fear and one of freedom from fear?
As long as we value our mortality more than our immortality, won’t we inevitably be born in pain, suffer through life and die – as often as we want?
If so, are we not then getting exactly what we believe we deserve?
What baggage are we dragging along on our journey?
Will we ever become tired of it?
Is it an obligatory one?
Do we want it to end?
Can we end it?
If so, how?
If All-Power is when two or more of God’s immortal children are in agreement, couldn’t we have made up this universe, our world, flesh containers, food supply and so on?
If so, wouldn’t happily tearing the agreement up free us to leave and reclaim our discarded inheritance?
Isn't our journey a bumpy road – with many ups and downs?
Yet do we not all eventually hit bottom – and then proceed another six feet deeper?
Are we not born to die from the sentence God put on Adam and all his descendents for disobedience?
Can killing be holy?
Could Jesus have allowed His crucifixion to demonstrate that eternal children of God cannot die?
Is Heaven attained by doing good deeds, obeying commandments, confessing sins, worshiping, praising and believing God kills in order to save?
Isn’t truth the way?
If “no man is pure that is born of a woman,” (Job 25:6) wouldn’t that include Jesus – who also was born of a woman?
Will not the “144,000 virgin men undefiled by women” in Rev 14:5 that God will select to remain on earth also be born of women and therefore “defiled”?
Without reproduction, will not the population remain the same unless some die from frustration or boredom?
Will these selected ones really be better off without any female companions?
If all this is true, how can any of us reclaim our inheritance?
If false, how can we believe the Bible to be the “true” word of God?
Are there such things as chance meetings and occurrences?
Could they have been previously arranged?
Is reading this sentence an accident or was it predestined?
Under what circumstances – if any – can everything happening in our world be in perfect order?
If this were so, wouldn’t it mean that all our goals have, are, and will be inevitably achieved?
Wouldn’t that include birth, pain and death?
What are we seeking?
Peace – happiness - prosperity?
Does God seek?
If so, wouldn’t that mean He lacks?
If He doesn’t lack, why do we?
Can we ask and inevitably have our cup filled?
Can we seek to end seeking?
Wouldn’t asking for the impossible inevitably fail?
What but certainty can be inevitable?
Is achieving any goal within our grasp or are we helplessly out of control?
Are we not all doing the best we can to get whatever we can while we can?
However, might we really be on an impossible mission?
What do we want – some improvement, more of the same, or the final goal – no more goals?
Could this not only be possible but inevitable?
If it took two to separate, won’t it take two to rejoin – boarding the arc as one in order to return to our Father’s kingdom?
Is it time yet to call ahead for a reservation?
“Behold, I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed”. (1 Corinthians 15:51)
Is this a declaration of fact?
Are we predestined to be “changed”?
What will we change into?
How can our incorruptibility and immortality be inevitably restored?
What can the answer be – other than we never really did anything wrong?
Yet how could this be, unless we are equally powerful immortal beings producing and acting out an epic and imagining it to be real?
Do we not react emotionally when watching movies and plays?
What does that represent but wanting emotional, pseudo experiences?
In what other way could our eternal innocence remain unchangeably perfect?
Would it please us more to believe that guilt is real?
If so, why?
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect”. (Matt 5:48)
If we are unlike God – mortal and imperfect – how can this statement be true?
If it is true, how would this affect our beliefs and aspirations?
Doesn’t this quote say we are divinely all-powerful, all-knowing and infinite, sinless, eternal spirit?
Is that what we are experiencing?
Could this quote be wrong?
What if it really is true?
If so, in what way does mortality measure up to immortality?
Until we change our minds about the value of human existence, are we not clinging desperately to our beloved mortality?
Will we ever tire of this journey of desperation?
Do we want to end it?
Can we end it?
Is it not inevitable?
If so, when shall we seek divine guidance to lead us to the descending steps we took – so as to retrace them back to where we believe we left?
“All shall be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth”. (Timothy 2:4)
If we don’t know the truth, mustn’t we therefore know only the false?
Isn’t, then, our three dimensional universe false?
Doesn’t this quote say we will all return home, no matter what we believe we have done?
If so, why be concerned?
Could this mean that what comes down must inevitably go up?
If so, are we not then predestined to return to our Father’s house we left in search of adventure?
What gain can there be from disinheriting our inheritance?
Isn’t that the message Jesus taught – about the prodigal son squandering his inheritance and yet was lovingly welcomed upon his return to his family?
What else would be in alignment with God’s will?
Doesn’t this reveal that freedom comes from knowing the truth rather than from having faith in someone else’s belief in it?
Wouldn’t we then all regain our discarded inheritance including eternalness, all-power and all-knowledge in the homecoming celebration?
Can the quote “And the last to be overcome is death” be true?
Do not those who value mortality fear death?
Do not those who value mortality fear the truth that there is not death?
Could it be inevitable that each and every one of us will die to the idea of death?
If all our scripts lead to oblivion, could there be a final one that ends all scripts?
WHAT IS TRUE LOVE?
The dictionary defines love as: “A feeling of deep regard, fondness, devotion, deep affection, a yearning or desire for; affection between persons of the opposite sex, more or less founded on or combined with desire or passion; to have a strong affection for; to be in love with; to delight in”.
Do these definitions really reflect the meaning of love?
Could our love be the same as God’s love?
Isn’t human love conditional?
Could God’s love also be conditional?
Is not the attribute of love to give?
How can anyone in fear be in love?
If we are not in love, mustn’t we be out of it?
What if the love of God only creates unchangeable and eternally perfect spirit beings?
Wouldn’t creating anything else be from curiosity, resulting in chaos?
If love is creative, then mustn’t fear be deadly?
Does love seek to change or does it simply allow things to be as they are?
Doesn’t wanting to change others not only come from fear but also creates it?
Is it not so that the ego – being in need and want – loves to get rather than give?
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love, because He first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. And this commandment have we from him – that he who loveth God love his brother also”. (I John 4:18-21)
Does this not tell us that fear creates punishment?
What kind of punishment?
Could it be self-inflicted?
Does this mean we all suffer when afraid?
Does this not also tell us that we love as God loves since He made us as Love?
Does this mean we will have no fear if we love perfectly?
Can we learn how to do that?
Doesn’t this also say that we cannot love God unless we love everyone?
Would that include Hitler?
Could we be in fear of love?
Could we be in love with fear?
If the “love of God is poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit” (Rom 5:5) – why are we all dying?
Didn’t Jesus teach in (Luke 6:27-28) and (Matt 5:44) to “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too”?
Do these quotes provide us with a deeper meaning of love?
Did the Old Testament God ever “do” anything like these acts of love?
Yet didn’t Jesus teach us to love as God does?
Was he not referring only to the New Testament God?
How should parents treat their misbehaving children – punish and kill them, or guide and forgive them?
What do we lovingly give our children – a good education and a long life, or a death sentence from wanting to learn what we learned?
If love only gives of itself, is it not just an emotion – but all that is?
What can love create but more love?
What can fear create but more fear?
Do we humans not happily embrace those we love and happily stay away from those we dislike?
Wouldn’t doing what God does help make us in His likeness?
Does not the Old Testament God only kill and the New Testament God only forgive?
Which God should we emulate?
Yet have we “executed” the God of love so the God of fear and wrath can reign?
If there is no greater love than to lay down our lives for our brothers as in John 15:13, how could a God of love sentence us all to death?
Are we not told that He gave His Son’s life rather than His own?
If someone is “treating us badly”, are we really expected to “do good” for someone undeserving?
Can there be such a thing as a “loving” executing God?
Did He protect us from being harmed – or did He arrange the conditions in which we could be?
Are we not in pain if a loved one is lost?
Was God in pain or was He elated and relieved when He destroyed all but a family in a boat?
Is birth and death a gift of love from an eternal father – or a curse?
What can true love be but unchangeable and all-embracing?
If this is so, how could our human conditional and selective love be called love?
If God doesn’t love His enemies, why should we?
Yet didn’t Jesus teach us to do that?
Can we love those we fear and hate?
How can we learn what love can only do unless we understand what love can never do?
Which would be more caring; parents rearing their children in their home – or sending them to a dangerous and deadly remote place?
Can love really be many “splendoured” things?
Are there different kinds of love – including false love?
Could other definitions of love be to like, adore, idolize and worship?
Wouldn’t we be idolaters if we worship what God did not create?
What didn’t He create?
Do we not “love” close friends, songs, presents and money?
Do we not lovingly share our beliefs with others?
Do we not love to be loved and love those who please us?
Is not our primal goal to find love?
Isn’t it true we “love” to get even, tease, criticize and demean?
Are we doing these things to make us feel better?
Do we not love external things instead of being love?
Does love condemn, punish, kill, point out errors, seek to convert and give only to selected ones?
Are not fear and anxiety behind converting others?
What can anyone gain from doing these things?
Personal satisfaction?
Righteousness?
If “Thou shalt do no murder” is for us mortals, why does the Old Testament God “giveth” and “taketh”?
Can taking lives be from love?
Is not love’s attribute to give – not to get?
Can a wrathful God love?
Can a loving God be wrathful?
How could love create some children better than others?
Can anyone who denies knowledge to loved ones be considered sane?
What kind of love has a father who kills his children for wanting to know what he knows?
What kind of love kills one to save others?
And what greater love has a father that simply gives and forgives?
Does not the Old Testament God punish us if we ignore His commandments?
Does not the New Testament God forgive and celebrate our return?
Are not these two opposites the glaring discrepancies between the Old and New Testament Gods?
How can perfect love from a perfect immortal creator create imperfect, mortal beings?
Who would “lovingly” withhold perfection from their children?
Was “free choice” to learn forbidden knowledge a gift of love, a test – or a curse?
What would parents gain by forbidding their children to learn what they have learned?
What did God gain by forbidding Adam from eating the fruit – peace, love and joy or anger and revenge?
Was it God’s love or His wrath that sentenced us all to death for something we did not do?
Which reflects His love more – drowning all but a family in a flood, then arranging His son’s crucifixion and finally killing billions in the end – or simply passing on what He knows to His children?
Wouldn’t He love not just one or a selected few, but everyone equally?
Can love really be contained or conditional?
If to create is to love, wouldn’t that be an extension of self?
Are not loving mothers devoted to their children?
Do they not nurture, teach and protect them from harm?
Haven’t mothers of different life forms given their lives to save their children?
Does not this devotion go beyond love’s definitions?
What do we parents do to our misbehaving children; kill them, punish them or guide them?
Are not some parents devoted to self-indulgence?
If so, wouldn’t that be love of self rather than of their children?
Can self-interest be love or might it really be fear of not getting what is desired?
Do we not protect ourselves against anyone or anything that can harm us?
How can we protect ourselves against a wrathful and vengeful God?
Yet might it really be the New Testament God’s love that most threatens our mortality by having created us in His image as immortal spirit beings?
Did not Jesus teach in Galatians 5:17: “Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh”?
Doesn’t this clearly tell us we were not created as flesh beings?
Wasn’t Jesus crucified because he taught of the God of love who created perfect eternal spirit beings – not temporary flesh ones?
Wasn’t his teaching deemed blasphemous, therefore justifying his execution?
However, doesn’t the Church claim that God arranged Jesus’ death to prove how much He loved us?
Which is the truth?
Can perfect love create other than perfection?
What but imperfection can be created by imperfect love?
What – other than lack – do want and need represent?
Is not lack a fearful state of incompletion and imperfection?
How can we be loving and giving while in fear of not having and needing to get?
Did the Old Testament God deliberately create us flawed or did our imperfection surprise Him?
Which is the opposite of love – hate or fear?
Can we love what we fear?
If we fear those we hate, then mustn’t fear be love’s opposite?
What does fear bring us other than anxiety, confusion, doubt, and in its extreme – death?
Is fear, then, a helpful or debilitating emotion?
If “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction” (Prov 1:7), who should we appoint as our instructor – the “wise” and fearful author of these words or Jesus who knows not of fear?
What knowledge does the fear of God bring?
What else but His withheld gift of eternal perfection and condemning us all to inevitable death?
Are we really supposed to love this God?
Did Jesus?
Didn’t He deny the Old Testament God?
Shouldn’t Christians therefore reject the entire Old Testament?
Yet if the New Testament God’s love envelopes everything, what must fear and death be but fantasies?
Have Jesus’ words of a loving spirit Father creating perfect spirit children fallen on deaf ears?
If so, why?
Have we covered our ears in fear of losing the Old Testament God we rely on to protect our beloved mortality?
Are not those who worship the God of fear living in fear?
Could we be afraid of being “attacked” by the all-embracing love of God?
If so, might that be because we are all searching for a substitute selective love for a selfish purpose?
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”. (John 15:13)
Isn’t selfishness unloving?
Who but the unselfish lovingly give their lives?
While seeking for something instead of being everything, how will we ever find the love of our Father in Heaven Who gives all to all?
Who prefers being afraid instead of being loved unconditionally?
What – other than the basic emotions of fear and love – are we capable of?
Which one controls our lives most?
Isn’t fear like a virus – contagious, immobilizing, imprisoning, debilitating, confusing, creating panic and mass hysteria?
Doesn’t being loved lift us up and bring joy into our hearts?
“What profiteth a man if he gains the whole world yet forfeits his soul”? (Matt 16:21)
Have we not forfeited our souls by “gaining” our world?
Who does our world serve – God or man?
What but belief can make our conflicted world “real”?
Did a loving God create this chaotic world for us or could we have wanted it and so gave it to ourselves?
If this were so, would we not love and protect what we create – even if imperfect?
Does not mankind seek to “gain” Heaven?
How - by believing that love kills to save?
What did God create – love or idolatry?
Why would a wrathful, vengeful creator want those he punished to be free from guilt, purified and made whole?
Did an unloving God make us all lose our souls through Adam – or did we do it by searching for something other than our inheritance?
What did we inherit – all, nothing, or something?
Can a loving, perfect creator and guilt co-exist?
Is not our problem, then, between God’s eternally perfect and unchangeable creation and the belief in our own impermanent, imperfect miscreation?
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become a sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophesy, and know all mysteries and all-knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part: but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away”. (I Cor 13:8-10)
Doesn’t this passage tell us that our so-called “knowledge” will be “done away” since it is not the knowledge of the perfection of all that is?
Does it not also tell us that love does not believe in evil?
If that is true, mustn’t evil be a false belief?
If a part is not the whole – then doesn’t incompletion deny perfection?
Does that mean there is really no such thing a “part”?
Wouldn’t that reflect the condition of one indivisible and unchangeable spirit?
Is it not joyous news to learn that love does not give up hope and cannot fail?
Can it be true that perfection will come and imperfection will cease to be?
How do we feel about the coming of our perfection that puts an end to the imperfect creation we believe we made?
Do not all paths lead to home?
When will that which is perfect come?
Is it individually done or all at once?
Doesn’t this quote also say that our individuality and uniqueness will cease to exist?
Is this good or bad news?
Does it not also tell us that all tongues will cease?
How will we communicate?
How do those in Heaven communicate?
Could it be that all thoughts are shared as one?
How can we give all to all while wanting, needing and getting things in order to survive?
Does our Father in Heaven lack, need or want?
If so, how could He be perfect?
If He commanded all of us to obey Him, is that not getting something rather than giving?
What can getting represent other than a state of impoverishment?
Do we not give what we want and value – either truth or false, love or fear?
Wouldn’t a universal truth be that love gives – such as forgiveness?
Wouldn’t a false truth be that love gets and imprisons in guilt?
Is it true that love never fails?
Will prophesies, speech and mortal knowledge really be done away?
Wouldn’t this mean that everything we have learned will never be part of reality?
Does this concern us or please us?
Can love really “taketh no account of evil”?
Could that mean there has never been such a thing as evil?
If to create is to love, wouldn’t God love what He created?
If so, wouldn’t He lovingly share everything He has and is?
If that were true, is it not possible that we – the prodigal sons – could have exchanged our Godly inheritance for something else such as gain, variety or improvement?
Is God lovingly and patiently waiting for us with a welcoming feast where we regain what we believe we threw away?
If so, what are we waiting for – an invitation?
WHAT IS PRAYER?
If the definition of prayer is: “To ask for; to beseech; to entreat; supplicate; petition; beg; address God”, can this really be how to reach God?
What role does faith have in prayer?
Can faith be both weak and strong?
How can repeated words fill the heart?
Wouldn’t only wordless love accomplish that?
Didn’t Jesus teach us in Phil 4:6 to “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God”?
Could this mean that rather than asking for something, we are to give thanks for what He has already given us?
Wouldn’t doing so reinforce our belief in God creating only perfect beings?
Doesn’t being “anxious for nothing” mean that we are to be free from fear, worry, doubt and concern?
If so, why the need for prayer?
If we created the conditions in which we need prayer, have we not answered our own prayer?
Isn’t prayer desiring and hoping to gain some mortal benefit?
Since mortal life is in a constant state of lack and need, do we not “ask for,” “entreat,” “beseech,” “petition” and “beg” until we die?
What would be the consequence of begging God for things rather than thanking Him?
Wouldn’t that mean He only gives if asked?
If so, wouldn’t that reinforce our belief in imperfect mortality?
If He is all-knowing, wouldn’t He know what is in need of correction – even before we pray to Him?
What can God’s answer be, other than “you do this but to yourself”?
Yet if He deliberately made us imperfect, why would He correct us?
What does all this reveal – other than believing God created us lacking and needing to go shopping?
How did we get into this situation where we need to pray?
Was it from God’s will?
If so, why create us needy?
If not, how could we have become in need?
Did God prefer that we need Him?
If so, wouldn’t God need us to need Him?
Can God be in need – just like us?
Wouldn’t that be a state of imperfection – just like us?
We know what we want but do we know what we really need?
Could we have wanted our own gifts of time in place of God’s gift of eternal abundance?
If so, could that be why we believe we need to pray?
What can the prayer “Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil” do if God led us into temptation and delivered us unto evil?
Wasn’t the fallen angel in the Garden of Eden?
Would we do anything like that to our children?
Who but our Father would know what is best for us?
Yet do we not seek help from many other sources?
How many have prayed yet failed to receive what was asked for?
What would be the cause of this?
Could it be from lack of faith?
Might it be from misunderstanding its power?
Wouldn’t we lose faith if our prayers were not answered?
If so, wouldn’t that keep us in fear and poverty?
How can we give freely in this condition?
Could praying for specific things be asking for the past to be repeated in some way?
Could the aim of prayer be to free the present from our past, allowing for a different future?
If so, where would this power of prayer lie – in one of us, in God, or could it be when “two or more who are gathered in His name” – with God included?
Who lovingly prays for their enemies?
Yet if we have enemies, are we not in serious need of prayer?
Could we be our own enemies by having “prayed” to become mortals?
Are we really supposed to pray for those we believe need correction?
Do we not believe they should be as we are?
Yet how can we know the needs of others if we don’t really know our own?
Could our Father’s love answer prayers for things that delay our homecoming or for things that create more fear in us?
Wouldn’t we offer immediate help to our children – without being asked?
Is “Ask and ye shall receive” as in John 16:24 a guarantee?
Would that be all the time or just now and then?
If all the time, does that mean we are getting exactly what we want?
What power does prayer have if our present faulty condition came from God?
What power does prayer have if God gave us everything?
Although we have been told that all prayers are answered – hasn’t our experience proven otherwise?
Have we missed something, or was Jesus wrong?
Are we, in reality, more than mere mortals?
What can immortality be but one inseparable spirit and what can mortality be but billions of different and visible beings?
If God willed for us to be born in pain, suffer through life and die, why do we believe praying to Him would change His mind?
Are we hoping He will by our pleading and begging Him to ease our misery?
If God has no ears, wouldn’t speaking words be useless?
Does He not know what we need?
Does He not also know that we do not really need to need?
Can words and the prayer be contradictory?
What do we need – above all else?
Do we know?
-If God knows and we ask for something that imprisons rather than frees, could He give us such a “gift” – even though it was asked for?
Can a loving, eternal parent prefer to give temporary life to his children?
Who answers our prayers – God – or could there be another source?
If so, might it be our “higher selves” – the spirit children of a spirit Father?
Could there be a conflicting interest between God’s will for us and what we want?
How can God possibly free us while we prefer being imprisoned in decaying, mortal bodies?
Is it possible that we are receiving exactly what we have asked for?
How so – unless we are each the effect of an all-powerful immortal child of God wanting to be mortal?
Would not the “prayer” of an omnipotent child of God be inevitably answered?
Yet if what God willed cannot be changed, wouldn’t mortality be only a fantastic fantasy where we want, need, seek, and get?
How can prayer succeed unless we recognize it asks for only one thing – the truth that sets us free?
And what is that – other than eternal guiltlessness, perfection and oneness – given to us by our loving Father?
What are the consequences of praying for things of the world?
Wouldn’t doing so keep us here rather than preparing to return home?
If real prayer asks for what is already given, wouldn’t asking for anything else fail?
Could the secret of real prayer be to forget the specific things we think we need?
What else can real prayer be but a letting go and letting God be in control?
What can our Father do but continuously remind us that we in truth want for nothing, being everything in spirit?
Who prays without fear but those who have come to realize the love of a giving God?
What does “To give is to receive” mean?
Does “receive” mean to “get” or could it also mean “accept” – accept the truth that our loving Father gave us everything?
If this were so, couldn’t we then justifiably reclaim our “squandered” inheritance?
What else would we want?
Have we always had it but became unaware of it while on our mortal journey?
Wouldn’t praying for worldly things reinforce our belief that we were created in a state of lack?
If so, must it not bring to us what we asked for in this world because we wanted them – not God?
Can God really answer prayers for things such as parking spots?
What are the consequences, if any, of praying for exclusive personal benefits rather than for everyone’s?
If all-power lies when two or more share the same goal, could we not pray to be led to the ark of peace and board it arm in arm?
If God and His creation are one, can we pray for awareness of our oneness and sameness?
Can true prayer be selfish?
Does not praying imply hope – revealing a state of hopelessness?
Is it not strange that prayer never releases the mind from creating the very conditions that make prayer necessary?
What are the consequences of asking for life-changing experiences?
If asking for something specific, wouldn’t we expect to get what we asked for?
Yet wouldn’t that be telling God what we need?
What if we needed something else but remain unaware of it?
Wouldn’t love provide the means to be released from mortal bondage rather than helping us survive in a deadly and dying world?
Which are we praying for – a better world or to be with our Father?
Can we trust Him to lead us home?
What prayer but this is in line with His will?
Could He have wanted for anything else – such as causing us to suffer and die?
If miracles happen through prayer, could this help us change our minds?
Would that not regain our knowledge of the truth that frees?
Yet which do we want to hear – His answer or our own?
Might there have been many answers we have already received but not yet heard?
When will we pray to ascend?
When else but when we hit bottom?
Are we afraid to know the will of God?
What if there really is only one problem?
Wouldn’t that require only one answer – for eternity?
If all our problems lie in the false being made into a false truth, what other than replacing false with truth would be the goal of prayer?
Is not true prayer expressing the being – the true creation of God?
Do we really want our freedom?
Could we be praying for something else?
What is the one thing we want, above all else?
Wouldn’t praying for the inevitable inevitably regain what we believe we have lost?
Our Father, one with us in Heaven, hallowed be our name. Our Kingdom come, our will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. We are given each day our daily bread and in our forgiveness we are free of trespasses against each other. We are led free from temptation and are delivered from evil, for we are the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever, Amen.
WHAT IS SALVATION?
If the definition of salvation is “The saving of mankind from the power and effects of sin”, exactly how much power does sin have?
Can we understand and accept this definition while believing in sin and its consequences?
How does sin affect us other than making us eternally guilty?
If guilty, how can we be saved?
What caused the need for salvation?
Was it the fall of man or was it God creating the conditions in which the fall could occur?
What are the requirements for salvation?
Could they be praying, believing God kills to save, keeping holy the Sabbath, doing good deeds, tithing, obeying all commands, praising, adoring, worshipping and fearing God?
Yet could salvation simply be to know the truth rather than just believe in it?
Who on earth is not affected by man’s “sin” against God?
Which caused the need for salvation – Adam and Eve wanting to learn – or was it because God planted a deadly tree in their backyard?
Was Eve really a temptress and “responsible” for our demise?
Was it not Adam and Eve’s curiosity why we are in need of salvation?
Was giving them choice a gift of love or one with deadly consequences?
Who but men in control of everything “Godly” would write this?
What if the word “sin” in Hebrew originally meant “missing the mark”?
Who changed “missing the mark” into sin – God or man?
If “missing the mark” is the true meaning, how could it have become sinning by disobeying commandments – resulting in all of mankind’s toil, suffering and death?
Who would execute someone who made a mistake?
What would happen if we re-translated “sin” into error?
How would this new understanding affect our beliefs?
Aren’t mistakes correctable?
In the Old Testament, are we not sentenced to eternal suffering in the fires of hell if we disobey any one of over 600 commandments?
Yet didn’t Jesus replace them all with only two – both of love?
Wouldn’t this reflect correcting errors rather than killing all of “sinful” mankind?
Are we afraid of God’s wrath if we challenge the words of the Bible, even if they don’t make sense?
Regardless of how we pray, do good deeds and behave, do we not all still die?
Is this acceptable or can it be questioned?
Who on earth condemns their children and all their descendents for wanting to learn?
Who would lovingly withhold valued gifts and talents from them?
Can love really behave that way?
Isn’t the Old Testament God’s behaviour unnatural?
Does sin really have power?
Does it have enough to change reality?
Which is reality – that all mortals are sinful or that all children of God are eternally perfect?
Which reflects love?
We have learned of the cause of sin, but what are its effects?
Do we not feel guilty after having done wrong?
Wouldn’t guilt then be the effect?
What would that cause, other than expected punishment for misbehaving?
Wouldn’t that create fear in our hearts while waiting for it to happen?
Yet if the truth is that we are all clones of God, how can one all-powerful being do to another all-powerful being what was not asked for?
Could the answer be that no child of God can do anything to any other child of God without agreement – being equal and alike in every respect?
If so, what could be wrong?
According to Christian belief (in John 1:29) is not salvation solely from the sacrifice of “God’s only begotten son” who “taketh away the sins of the world”?
If we are still suffering, has not God’s plan for our salvation failed?
Is it not also taught (in John 3:16) that “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish”?
If we are to love as God loves, shouldn’t we give up one of our children to demonstrate how much we love the others?
Was this quote from God or man?
Do we know of anyone who is over150 years old?
Does that mean this quote from John 3:16 is incorrect?
Is there another meaning behind this teaching?
Might it have anything to do with our being spirit rather than perishable flesh beings?
Could it mean believing in our immortality?
Can we be both mortal and immortal?
If so, wouldn’t that mean there are two different and opposing realities?
Does not the quote from 1 John 2:15: “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world the Love of the Father is not in him” oppose the one above from John 3:16?
Which is true – that God loves our world or doesn’t?
How can anyone believe that salvation depends on the killing of one child so others can be saved?
Who among us knows which ones deserve to be saved and which ones don’t?
Wouldn’t true salvation be that everyone is saved?
Is it not believed that only one without sin can offer the supreme sacrifice for atonement of man’s sins and guilt?
Doesn’t rejecting this “truth” bring us death – the consequence of “sinning” by not believing?
Why was Jesus the only one without sin?
Was it because He was God’s “only” begotten child?
Was not Jesus in God’s image and likeness?
Were we not also created in God’s image and likeness?
Wouldn’t that mean we are in both Jesus’ and God’s image and likeness?
If so, wouldn’t that make us sinless?
If not, why not, unless we really are not at all like them?
Why couldn’t God have simply removed His curse on all His children?
Are we or are we not His children?
What would we do if we were God?
What would be the consequences of learning there is no such thing as sin?
Wouldn’t churches and religions no longer serve any purpose?
Do they not exist only to preserve the need for salvation?
Yet do they not also keep us in ignorance, since faith and belief are not part of knowledge?
Doesn’t that reinforce our belief that God created the corruptible and sinful?
If so, why do Christians worship the Old Testament God if Jesus taught against Him?
In psalm 23:3, doesn’t God restore our souls?
How can we believe our reconciliation with God was achieved by His son’s crucifixion?
According to the Church, was not Jesus’ death the ransom paid for the sin of Adam?
However, is it not obvious that this accomplished nothing?
Do not some believe it is enough to just accept Jesus as their saviour through his crucifixion, while others believe in rituals and rules?
And is it not clear that there are many different interpretations on what salvation is – not only in Christianity but in all religions?
Which one is true?
Can they all lead to Heaven?
If Jesus’ crucifixion was arranged by His Father to demonstrate His love for us, wouldn’t those who crucified him be assassins for God?
If so, did God reward and thank them?
Wouldn’t that mean they wouldn’t be punished – just only if they killed without His permission?
Yet didn’t Jesus teach only of the God of Love?
Why, then, did the Churches – built on the teachings of Jesus – retain the Old Testament God of wrath and fear Jesus denied and was killed for?
Hasn’t the Christian Bible become just an addition to the teachings in the Old Testament that Jesus taught against?
Is Jesus really the saviour of the world?
What does that mean?
Does He save only souls or does He also save our planet?
Can it be saved?
From what?
For what?
Could it mean saving all of us from believing in an imaginary reality?
“And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world”. (John 12:47)
What – no judgment???
Isn’t judging what the Old Testament God does?
Yet isn’t to judge to accuse?
Is Jesus leaving judgment to God – or is there another, deeper meaning to this passage?
What if the cause of man’s “mistake” is our eternal, powerful shared mind wanting and believing we have become unique, individual, mortal beings?
If so, wouldn’t we worshippers of these prized mortal “gifts” attack whatever or whoever threatens them?
If separation is salvation for flesh beings, wouldn’t spiritual union be a threat to humanity?
Might we be protecting ourselves from this union and therefore from the love of a perfect, immortal Father?
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and Perfect will of God”. (Romans 12:2)
If Jesus came to “save the world”, does this passage not contradict John 12:47?
Could one of these have been altered to suit the scribe’s belief?
Can anything of God be “good and acceptable” – or is it perfect?
If perfect, how can evil possibly exist?
How exactly is the “transformation of our minds” accomplished?
Does it come from what we see, hear or sense, or is it accomplished through the unseen, the unheard, the unsensed and unknown – our own divinity?
Can we gladly abandon all teachings of the world, all restricting values, concepts, ideas, opinions and experiences and welcome the renewing of our shared mind by acknowledging our joint will?
Can we learn what God’s will cannot be and so recognize what it must be?
If we do not seek first the kingdom, wouldn’t that mean we are content with mediocrity?
Are we able to accept the idea that we are all saviours whenever we choose to be?
Who is our saviour – someone least likely or most likely?
What if after accepting our roles as saviours we learn everyone is one with all, being a single, spirit entity?
Would this please us or disturb us?
Because there is no sequential time in timeless eternity, could each of us, as one spirit, be the first “man” Adam – and also the last?
Is this concept too outrageous?
If so, might that be because we squandered our omniscience?
If it were within our power, would we want this present incarnation to be our last – or is human life too precious?
“The truth shall set ye free”. (John 8:32)
Where does salvation come from – other than our truth?
What other source can there be – God relenting and revoking His curse on us?
Are we not choosing every moment of every day whether to keep our mortal “reality” or exchange it for our Godly inheritance?
Could the process of awakening be through elimination rather than acquisition?
What prevents us from awakening or “knowing the truth” other than our determination to sustain our mortality?
Can salvation through sacrifice and repentance be the truth that frees us?
Yet isn’t repenting an admission of having done wrong?
Do we not then hope to be cleansed through contrition?
Yet wouldn’t that reinforce our belief in sin, guilt and deserved punishment?
Didn’t Jesus teach of his Father being only one of love?
If so, how can God be both one to love and one to fear?
Doesn’t love forgive and condemnation punish?
How can these two opposing characteristics be reconciled?
Are we not choosing the God that we want to be true?
What if salvation is nothing more than recognising that only truth is true and nothing else is?
If so, shouldn’t we learn of this truth that frees – just as Jesus did?
Could it be that it is not just through Jesus alone that we are saved, but through our united spirit?
Are we waiting for God to help us or is He knocking on the door, waiting for us to open it?
How can we expect Him to help us remain in fear, pain and death when His love beckons us to return home?
Who but our brethren will reflect our truth when we give their truth to them?
If we each made our own descending steps, must we not ascend by these same steps?
Is there only one path for each of us or many?
If many, could they be connected into one multi-faceted journey?
Is it not up to each of us when to return – just as it was up to Jesus?
Can we call on him to help us find these steps?
Do we want to leave?
Are we able to believe the “sinful” can offer us the truth that lies within them?
If not, why not?
Are we resisting believing this because of our own guilt from past misdeeds?
What if we recognized others want the same goal of freedom we want?
What if we recognized the “guilty” as a source of help rather than hindrance and through our helping them, we are helped?
Could we be helping each other to remain either bound or free?
If so, wouldn’t we do whatever we could to help others along their journeys?
“You will have a great reward, and you will be sons of the Most High”. (Luke 6:35)
What is the reward?
Can we really change from being sons of man to sons of God?
How?
Does not selfish interest occupy our thoughts?
Wouldn’t this interfere with self-realisation?
Yet can we bring ourselves to believe in our “sinful” brothers’ sinlessness to free us from our own hidden guilt?
How else but by the undoing of our world while in our human state can we open the door – freeing us to experience our eternal innocence?
Can the only difficulty in achieving our salvation be in valuing our dream more than reality?
What but the real can be brought into reality?
And what can that be but our loving thoughts?
How can fearful thoughts or memories of a nightmare be part of perfect peace?
Who can enter Heaven with one trace of fear in their holy mind?
Wouldn’t any mis-thought contaminate what is pure?
Could our thoughts come from our spirit minds that believe we are flesh beings?
What but the loving thoughts we share can be real, being eternal?
What needs to be changed but our holy minds that believe in unholiness?
Has not our truth of equality, sameness and indivisibility died from wanting individuality?
Is it not when all our experiences are seen as unworthy that we will abandon our pursuit and wake up to the reality of our God-given perfection?
What but our holy joined mind can be God’s temple?
If so, wouldn’t it need to be free of the idea of separation and its consequences – such as desire, money changers, dealers in comparative values and the search for profit?
How else can we express divinity through our human bodies except by inviting the God of Love into our thoughts?
Who but those serving holiness and perfection can serve truth?
Is not salvation necessary because we believe our mortality is a “gift” from God?
Do we not focus all our attention to self-preservation?
How can our goal of retaining individuality into the beyond ever be achieved if we are one infinite and eternal spirit?
Are we not “saving” our health, peace of mind, comfort, reputation, self-esteem and possessions?
Can we understand salvation to be release from needs, wants, suffering and death?
Are we seeking relief from the pain of these rather than eliminating their cause?
Do we not all teach what we believe to be true?
Could salvation come from learning and teaching the opposite of the ego’s belief system?
Might it also come from undoing our belief in our misdeeds?
What saviour would prefer to stay in a chaotic world?
Do we really need to attain what we already are?
Can we happily let go of what interferes with knowing that?
Could salvation be through anything ritualistic or physical?
How can death bring eternal life?
Are they not opposites?
Isn’t death lack of life?
How can anything bring eternal life if it is always there?
If what dies never was, can we die to the idea of death and instead give birth to the idea of immortality?
Are we willing to deny our self-imprisonment that keeps us from freeing ourselves?
Does not the world believe death is the doorway to the “after” life?
Yet what about “And the last enemy to be overcome is death” in 1 Corin 15:26?
Doesn’t that shut the door?
Is it beyond belief that death could never have been from God’s curse, but from our own?
Could we have “created” beginning and ending?
Could death have been conceived from the idea of birth?
If “No man has ascended unto Heaven but he who descended from Heaven,” (John, 3:13) does this mean what came down must go up?
Doesn’t salvation apply only to a form that dies, not to an eternal spirit?
Yet isn’t spirit what we really are – not flesh beings?
If so, what needs to be saved?
If minds are joined as one in spirit, can we not all overcome death?
Why not, if Jesus did?
Doesn’t He tell us we will too?
“Blessed are all who hear God’s Word and put it into practice”. (Luke 11:28)
What is God’s word?
Can we hear it?
Are we to believe those who tell us what God’s word is?
Isn’t the Old Testament God telling us one thing and the New Testament God telling us something else?
If so, which word of which God should we believe in?
What makes more sense – that God created a faulty creation and kills us all for something we did not do – or that His perfection is passed on to His children?
“Indeed, I promise you, today you will be with me in paradise”. (Luke 23:43)
Did Jesus make a false promise?
To whom does this apply?
Can we be assured that this promise applies to everyone?
When?
Today?
Why not?
When will be the day when there is nothing left on our list of needs and wants?
Can salvation be in the future – or is it only in the present?
Which present do we want?
If our truth sets us free, shouldn’t we learn what is false and let it all go?
Is it too difficult a task or is it really that simple?
Could the first step be to unlearn what we have learned and invite divine guidance?
Could we be postponing the process?
If so, what are we afraid of losing?
If what we believe has served us “well” up until now, why would we want to change?
Wouldn’t exchanging our mortality for immortality be seen as a loss while we prefer getting, having and exploring?
When will fear cease to exist?
When else but when we welcome what was given in place of what we wanted?
What could the result of that be, other than exchanging fear for unshakable faith in a perfect, loving creator?
Which speeds up our awakening to reality more – succeeding in life or failing?
What will all this bring us but learning how to be love rather than seeking to be loved?
If love is what we are, wouldn’t that be easy, simply because it is natural?
Wouldn’t attempting to be or do anything else become difficult to sustain due to the constant propping up of a dream that can never last?
If sleeping is withdrawing, could awakening be joining?
Wouldn’t that regain awareness of the truth of our united spirit?
“Except ye turn and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of Heaven” (Matt 8:3)
What does this mean?
Can it mean that we are in truth all innocent and untouched by corruption?
Could the key to salvation be that all God’s children are equal in every respect?
If everyone inherits all of God’s attributes – including all-power – who can be harmed by anything or anyone, or harm anything or anyone?
After all, how can one united spirit harm itself?
Wouldn’t this mean that innocence, perfection and purity reign forever without interruption?
What better goal is there to seek than the truth that sets us free from seeking goals?
Could God’s perfection be the key to our salvation?
What but perfection can come from perfection?
If this were true, do we really need to be saved?
Could salvation be that we are to remember what we have forgotten?
Might we only need salvation from believing we live as separate mortal beings on a remote planet?
If so, could that mean we not only can but will give our human lives away for all of mankind?
Wouldn’t we then be the redeemers of the world rather than its keeper?
How else do we begin the journey home, other than by placing our faith in a creator of love and then learning how to regain what we discarded?
Must we not return to the door we made to descend into our fantasyland and pass through it back into our inherited eternal immortality?
Is it not up to us?
Who but ourselves can bring us there?
Would it not have taken two or more to imagine “leaving” our Father’s house?
Who but our brothers and sisters are our saviours when we offer them their salvation?
Who is ready to go but he who no longer wishes to stay?
-If God sent a spacecraft to bring us home, would we go immediately – or some other time, perhaps after putting things in order and saying goodbye?
Can salvation be to simply “Click our heels three times and repeat ‘There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home…’”?
What is the effect of awakening, other than our little self disappearing into the nothingness it always was?
What else but awakening to our true Self returns knowledge of the all that we are?
Will: “The mental power or faculty by which one initiates or controls one’s activities, opp. to external causation and to impulse or instinct; the exercise of this power, an act of willing, a choice of volition, an intention, a fixed or authoritative purpose; determination, energy of character, power of carrying out one’s intentions of dominating others; that which is willed, resolved or determined upon”.
What is the will of God?
Is it all there is?
Is it inevitable and all-powerful or changeable and unpredictable?
Can “want” or “hope” blend in with inevitability?
Can the will of God wait upon time to be accomplished?
Who can oppose God’s will?
If He willed His children have everything, how could it not happen?
Why did God give us free will to become imperfect?
Can He?
What would that serve?
Could He have created us perfect and yet changeable?
Would God want changeability?
If perfect and complete, what would He gain from that?
Could our will be the same as God’s?
Who needs to control but those who fear not being in control?
Isn’t being out of control why He’s angry?
What does this say about the domineering Old Testament God?
How can anyone disobey God’s will if it is all-powerful?
If it isn’t powerful, then to what extent is He in control?
How many of His creations have disobeyed Him from the beginning?
Would that not mean He was – and still is – unable to control?
“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh”? (Galatians 5:17)
How could we have begun in spirit only to end up as flesh?
Are we fooling ourselves?
Did God will for His children to be spirit or flesh beings?
Which one reflects perfection?
Which one reflects love?
Which one reflects the truth that sets us free?
Which one reflects “oops”?
If we had the choice, from which source would we prefer to be born of, spirit or flesh?
Could the “missing link” of creation be our desire to experience ourselves as flesh beings?
Might this be why we have lost awareness of our inherited eternal spirit?
Can we choose to be only spirit and not mortals?
Has God’s will ever been done on earth?
How do we determine that?
If not by now, will it ever be?
Doesn’t His willful destruction of humanity reveal His being severely hurt?
Has He not cursed us all with lives of struggling, suffering and death?
If God’s will is, has, and forever will be done precisely as planned – mustn’t it therefore be unlimited and all-powerful?
If so, do we really have any choice?
Wouldn’t His will have ensured that His perfect, peaceful creation could never change?
Can we believe this when all around us is obvious chaos?
Is it possible that the many things going wrong in our lives is from not doing God’s will?
Could He have willed for His perfect creation to become altered?
If so, why?
If not, how could it have happened?
What if we – in immortal truth – are God’s perfect children wanting to create on our own?
Should this be so, wouldn’t that result in disowning our Godly inheritance?
Wouldn’t the consequences of that cause us to become disconnected from our Father and His will?
Yet if we are the will of God, why are we unlike Him in every way?
What legacy did our Father leave us?
Do we have what He has and is – or do we have what He hasn’t and isn’t?
Did He create us so He could “dominate others”?
Does this not reflect what we do – with not just our own children but with others, including pets?
Doesn’t domination reflect differences rather than sameness?
“The Lord, the Lord, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth; Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the inequity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, upon the third and fourth generation”. (Exodus 34:6-7)
How can God or anyone “forgive iniquity” and at the same time “by no means clear the guilty”?
Do these not contradict each other?
If so, how can we believe it?
Can God’s forgiveness condemn?
Doesn’t this passage include condemning innocent unborn children?
If God’s only will is to create children as perfect as He, what would that mean to mankind?
Does not our mortal experience prove otherwise?
Might there be another cause for imperfection – other than God’s will?
Could we flesh beings be the result of our passion to create all by ourselves?
If God willed that we “know our brothers as ourselves”, wouldn’t that then be unavoidable?
Do we know each other just as much as we know ourselves?
If not, why not?
Could it be because our goal was mortal individuality and differences?
Has it been “achieved”?
If “All ye are brethren”, (Matt 23:8:12) what kind of relationship do we really have?
Do we prefer to judge rather than know each other?
What have we gained by not knowing our reality?
What have we lost by not knowing our reality?
Can we be in harmony with God if His will and ours are different?
If we share the same will with our Father, wouldn’t that mean we are all united with Him in spiritual oneness?
What could prevent our reunion other than preferring things remain as they are?
Can we gladly put ourselves in God’s hands or do we prefer to do it “our way”?
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God”? (Romans 12:2)
Is God’s will really perfect?
Can it change?
If so, how?
If not, how does that affect us?
Does not this quote encourage us to consider changing our beliefs in flaw and sin?
Are we to not conform to worldly ways?
Isn’t this a radical reversal of worldly doctrines that claim to preach the “truth”?
“For I am come down from Heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me”. (John 6:38)
Did Jesus descend – just as we did?
However, didn’t he choose to do God’s will while we chose to do our own?
If we could accept that our will and God’s are one, how could there be any strain in doing His will?
Might we be afraid of our Father’s will?
If so, could it be because we are using our powerful shared mind to create our very own universe?
Wouldn’t knowing this help us understand our mortal weaknesses, vulnerability and death?
If we are the will of God, and see ourselves as fearful, doesn’t that mean we are afraid of what we really are?
Is it possible that it is not the will of God of which we are afraid, but our own?
What but this should we ask ourselves: “Do I want to know my Father’s will for me”?
Could we be afraid of asking this?
Are we mortal because of God’s will – or because of our desire?
How can anything that God creates oppose His will?
Yet, do we not believe we can?
What if God gave us free will for our joy in creating the perfect and free?
Yet wouldn’t an imprisoned and exclusive will create imperfection, restriction and limitation?
Isn’t that what we are as flesh beings?
If God's children are equal in will, then in reality wouldn’t we all be the will of our Father?
Can His children really squander their immortal inheritance and die?
If the ego has its own will, mustn’t it be exclusive and different – proud of its solo journey through time?
Is it too difficult to believe that the will of God is our heritage?
Instead of "Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven”, can we choose to "Will first the Kingdom of Heaven”?
Wouldn’t that bring knowledge of who and where we really are?
Who does not feel imprisoned or restricted in some way?
If this is the result of our own “free” will, how can we regard it as free?
Mustn’t free will lead to freedom rather than captivity?
IS THE BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD?
Is there any way to find an answer to this question?
How can we determine whether or not the Bible is the unadulterated spoken words from our Father in Heaven?
Do not all Christian denominations make it an article of faith that the entire Bible is God’s word?
Yet how can a perfect creator produce a book of learning that is not only inconsistent and contradictory – but describes two distinctly different Gods?
What proof do we have that God is the author?
Does not the Bible claim that Moses heard God’s Spirit speaking to him from the cloud above the ark of the covenant and so wrote them down?
Did anyone else witness that?
Could he have made it up?
How could anyone know?
Are we not left with only belief – again?
Have not many contributors of the Bible claimed to have received words directly from God?
Were the words transmitted orally, physically or mentally?
Are not words and thoughts constantly popping into our minds?
Where do they come from?
How would anyone know whether or not an inspiration came from a person’s ego, from God, or from the devil?
Is it not easy for anyone to claim being “inspired by God”?
Yet wouldn’t the test of truth be whether the teaching was consistent, based on love and easy for everyone to understand?
Are there not many different opinions on what the Bible says?
What proof do the Christians have that the New Testament was inspired by the Holy Spirit?
If there is any, wouldn’t one be a statement from the authors telling us they were inspired?
Wouldn’t another be an assertion by the Holy Spirit that they were?
Do not all Christian churches teach that the narratives and epistles of the New Testament were given to the authors by the Holy Spirit through verbal inspiration?
Wouldn’t proof be from authors of the New Testament declaring that these were dictated to them?
Yet if all the authors were “instruments of God’s Spirit,” why didn’t they give credit to God like the writers of the Old Testament did?
Didn’t they repeatedly emphasize it was a divine revelation with words such as “Thus saith Jehovah”, or “God spoke”?
Is it not strange that of all the books of the New Testament, only one, “The Revelation of John”, was communicated by an angel?
And is it not also strange that the authors of all the other books of the New Testament say nothing about divine influence on their writings?
Does not Luke state in the first few lines of his gospel that he compiled his own story?
What are we to think of this: “Many before me have undertaken to write the story of the well-established events that happened among us. Their accounts agree with what we are told by those who were eye-witnesses from the beginning, and who appeared in public to proclaim the truth. Having looked carefully into all the facts from the very outset, I have also decided to write them down in historical order that you may convince yourself of the truth of that which you have learned by word of mouth”?
Doesn’t he tell the same story that many others before him had written down?
Wasn’t he familiar with their writings?
Didn’t he re-examine these one by one and arrange them in chronological order?
Didn’t he write only his own account?
Did he not do what any conscientious historian would do?
If he had written down only what was given him by the Holy Spirit, why the need for research – or arrangement in chronological sequence – or careful investigation of all the facts?
Why would he have needed to make a personal investigation?
Would it not be the same with his Acts of the Apostles?
Did not the apostle John declare in the First Epistle that he himself witnessed the events that he relates?
Is not the same thing true of the gospels of Matthew and Mark, and of the various epistles?
If the only mention of “inspiration” by the Holy Spirit is in Revelation, how can the Church claim the entire New Testament was divinely inspired?
Doesn’t all this tell us that the authors of the New Testament wrote what they personally believed was correct?
Shouldn’t the New Testament contain all the truths that Jesus wanted to reveal to us?
What are these truths that He promised?
Have they been eliminated to suit the belief of those assembling the Bible?
If all that is left is about three thousand incomplete copies and fragments of copies – no two of which agree – who can say what the truth is?
What other book has undergone such vast changes from copiers?
“You think yourselves wise and believe that you are in possession of the truth. Yes, but the pen of the falsifying copyists has turned truth into a lie”. (Jere 8:8)
Is this the “word of God”?
If so, doesn’t that say it all?
What are we to believe when we have only unproved and unprovable “inspired” nature of the New Testament?
Could the discrepancies in the documents be a looming threat to Christianity?
Since there are many passages in which the gospels contradict each other – even those reporting the same facts – how can anyone believe that God was the only author?
“Those of us who are acquainted only with our standardized New Testament would never suspect that there are many thousand different versions in existence. Competent judges estimate that the number of discrepancies exceeds the number of words in the New Testament. Under the circumstances, the church of today would not be a little embarrassed if called upon to uphold the doctrine of “inspiration”.
How can the Church respond to this, from Dr. Eugene Huen’s Hiljsbuch zum Verstaendnis der Bibel (Guide to the interpretation of the Bible)?
Are not these words in alignment with Jeremiah 8:8?
Does not the Bible confuse and cause differences of opinion – even to the point of putting to death some who disagreed?
Can we really believe in a book from an organization that has secret and private teachings for only a few selected ones?
“And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: do this in remembrance of me”. (1 Corinthians 11:24) If Jesus said “in remembrance”, why has the Church claimed that the communion bread physically changed into the “body of Christ”?
“Blessed are all who hear God’s word and put it into practice”. (Luke 11:28)
From what word are we to hear of – that of the God in the Old Testament or that of the New?
Do we not hear only what we want to hear and see only what we want to see?
Do we not believe in the God we want to be true?
Do not most religions believe in an all-powerful creator of our universe?
Is there any another alternative?
“But with God everything is possible” (Matt 19:26)
If God’s will be done, would it not be inevitable?
“But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind”. (James 1:6)
When we pray, do we not hope to be answered?
Yet, shouldn’t we expect to be?
“Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures”. (Luke 24:45)
How many have closed minds?
How many still do not understand the Scriptures?
Who claims to know what they mean?
Who admits they do not understand them?
“Remember those who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith”. (Heb 13:7)
Which should we believe – the interpretation of a mortal or that of the master within us?
Who should we align with – the faithful believing in the God of wrath, those believing in the God of love, or those believing in both?
Is it really “more blessed to give than to receive”? (Acts 20:35)
Is it not true that love only gives and fear seeks to get?
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of Power, of Love and Self-discipline”.(2 Tim 1:7)
Which God gave us this, the Old Testament God or the New?
“We are God’s ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you”. (Cor 5:20)
Who is speaking to us?
What are they saying – words given by the Holy Spirit or their own?
How many Christians believe they do not know what the Bible teaches?
Yet do they believe only in the God of love Jesus taught?
If they believe in the Old Testament that Jesus denied, can they really be considered “Christians”?
-“I can do all things through Him Who strengthens me”. (Phill 4:13)
Was Jesus empowered by the Holy Spirit?
If so, can we be too?
If not, why not?
Isn’t Jesus telling us that his power is not of him?
Wouldn’t that mean God created His only son without His power – just like us?
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins”. (1 Peter 4:8)
Can all our sins really be erased by love – not penance?
How many believe this?
“Do nothing from selfishness or vain conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself”. (Phil 2:3)
Does not this quote reflect real love?
Doesn’t the New Testament God regard His children more than himself?
How did the Old Testament God regard His children?
How can we mortals regard thieves and murderers as more important than law-abiding citizens?
Yet which do we prefer – to see what the New Testament God sees or what we see?
Are there not many who believe they and others are unworthy?
Are we to love them?
Does the Old Testament God?
Doesn’t the God of the New Testament?
Which one is the real God?
“But the righteous man shall live by faith”. (Rom 1:17)
Who believes they are not righteous?
Can faith really be better than knowledge?
If so, shouldn’t we resist knowing the truth?
What would be the consequences of doing that?
“Rejoice that your names are written in Heaven”. (Luke 10:20)
All of us – or just “deserving” ones?
“He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God”. (John 8:47)
Do not many claim to know what God says?
Can we learn how to hear what God has to say?
If not, does that mean we do not belong to our Father?
To whom, then, do we belong – Satan?
How can we not belong to God?
Do we just believe we don’t and can choose to believe otherwise?
Yet how can we flesh beings belong to our spirit Father?
“Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old things passed away; behold, new things have come”. (2 Cor 5:17)
How can a man be “in Christ”?
What does “in Christ” mean?
Could it mean all are as one with Christ in spirit?
Do we know of anyone created by God who has become a “new creation”?
Can there be such a thing as “new” in eternity?
Might this really mean renewed?
“The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the spirit is life and peace”. (Rom 8:6)
Doesn’t this tell us that we all die from being out of control?
How do we get the spirit to control our minds?
Do we want that?
Wouldn’t we be out of control?
Wouldn’t that make us afraid?
Yet if already out of control and in fear, might this be the way Home?
“And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus”. (Phill 4:19)
Will meet all our needs?
Why hasn’t He done so from the beginning?
Could it be because we created a God that we can relate to as mortals?
Might Jesus be referring to the God of love in the New Testament rather than the God of fear in the Old?
What if our Father would gladly meet our needs, except we are too busy fulfilling our wants?
“For the wisdom of the world is foolishness in God’s sight”. (1 Cor 3:19)
Are we to throw away all we have learned?
Have we learned only foolishness?
Does that include what we have learned from the Old Testament Bible – the one Jesus denied and rejected?
Could we perhaps be fools fooling ourselves?
“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father Who is unseen. Then your Father, Who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, don’t keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him”. (Matt 6:6-8)
If God knows everything, why does He wait for us to pray before giving us what we need?
Would we do that to our children?
“And man loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were unholy”. (John 3:19)
All mankind?
Are all of us remaining in darkness?
Are all our deeds really unholy?
Who can love the unknown?
What is this “light” we should love?
Could that be what we are?
“But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness for him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised”. (1 Cor 2:14)
Do we not believe the things of the flesh are sensible?
What are the “things of the spirit”?
What would it mean to Christianity if the Biblical prophesies were not fulfilled?
If it says in Matthew 1:22 "All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: ‘Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel’” (which means God with us) why is there no mention in the Old Testament of a virgin conceiving a son?
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Imman'u-el”.
If this prophecy quoted in the New Testament from Isaiah 7:14 is true – then how can “young woman” have been changed into “virgin”?
Why do some Bibles say “virgin” when the Hebrew word in Isaiah 7:14 is “almah” which translates into girl or young woman?
If the Hebrew word for virgin is “betulah”, and is found in Rebecca in Gen 24:16: “a virgin, neither had any man known her”, why did the Church change “young woman” to “virgin”?
Why have only "The New English Bible", "The Good News Bible", the “King James Bible” and "The Revised Standard Version" translated this verse in the correct way – not as virgin?
If nowhere in the Old Testament do virgins give birth, and nowhere in the Old Testament is there a prophecy that the messiah will be born unto a virgin, how does that affect Christianity?
Could the New Testament be misquoting the Old Testament?
Who would do that?
Why would anyone do that?
If the definition of Christianity is: “The doctrines and precepts taught by Christ; faith in Christ and his teaching”, how can “Christians” claim to be Christians if they embrace the Old Testament – the one Jesus denied and was crucified for blasphemy?
Is the coming of the messiah in Isaiah 7 really referring to Jesus’ coming?
Doesn’t this chapter talk about God giving a sign to Achaz, that he will have tranquillity in his days?
Does not the whole chapter speak about the days of Achaz – about 700 years before Jesus?
Yet how could God give him a sign for a baby to be born 700 years after his death?
Is not the baby that was mentioned only a sign, not a redeemer?
What about this other Old Testament prophecy quoted in the New Testament: “And he rose and took the child and his mother by night, and departed to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ‘Out of Egypt did I call my son’”? (Matthew 2:14-15)
Is it not curious that a verse from Hosea 11:1 says: “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son” is applied to Jesus?
But who is the son of God in the Old Testament?
What does this tell us in Ex 4:22: “And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my first-born son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me”; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son’”?
Is it not clear that it was Israel who was redeemed by God from the slavery in Egypt?
If so, mustn’t Israel have been God’s first-born son?
What about Adam – who was made in His image and likeness?
What about Jesus?
Does not Hosea in chapters 10 and 11 speak constantly of Israel – not of Jesus?
Has the Church taken a verse out of context and presented it to us as a messianic prophecy?
What would we think if in Matthew 2:23, Jesus “Went and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, ‘He shall be called a Nazarene’” when nowhere in the Old Testament is there a prophesy saying the messiah will live in Nazareth nor “shall be called a Nazarene”?
What do we make of this in Luke 24:44-47 – "Then he said to them, ‘These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.’”?
How is it that nowhere in the entire Old Testament is it written that "the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem”?
Considering all the Biblical discrepancies, can we really accept and adopt what does not ring true?
Can we really trust a teaching that compels us to believe it or perish?
WHAT is religion?
Doesn’t the dictionary tell us that it is “The belief in a super-human being or beings, esp. a personal God, controlling the universe and entitled to worship and obedience; the feelings, effects on conduct, and the practices resulting from such belief; a system of faith, doctrine, and worship”?
Did God create a perfect universe?
How well has He controlled His creation?
Is He really entitled to be worshipped and obeyed?
Why, if He kills all of humanity?
If the attribute of perfection is unchangeability, how could everything He created be born, change and then die?
Could the definition above also mean something else?
For example, do we not “religiously believe” or “worship” and “have faith in” those we trust, those we admire, those we love and those who love us?
Do we not also believe in the existence of religion?
Can believing graduate into “fact” when we adopt others’ religious beliefs?
Are there not many who worship “pagan” gods?
In which God do we trust – the one in the Old Testament, the one in the New, or both?
Can a religion be worshipping something material that is supposed to have supernatural power?
Are not religions controlled by the elite males – not elected by the people?
Does not each religious institution claim theirs is the “right” one?
If so, wouldn’t that mean those who believe otherwise will burn forever in hell?
Who but the fearful righteous forbid others to examine other religions?
Do religions allow freedom of expression or do they set laws and rules?
Haven’t some not only excommunicated disobedient believers, but put some to death?
Didn’t the Church burn Latmer Ridley Cranther at the stake in the 1300s because he translated the Latin Bible into English?
Who were these executions commanded by, God or the Church leaders?
Do not religions seek to recruit or convert others to their beliefs?
Do not most of us do that?
Wouldn’t believing in something that no one else believes in challenge our own beliefs?
Does God really get upset when we don’t worship Him?
Would we get upset if our children didn’t worship us?
Might the biggest threat to mankind be to learn what the love of God could never do?
Which religious institution teaches sinlessness, perfection and inevitable return to our Father’s house?
Isn’t Jesus the only one who teaches these?
Doesn’t His teaching stand alone and has nothing to do with religion?
Were not his teachings contrary to the Old Testament God?
Didn’t he chastise the money changers outside the synagogue by overturning their tables?
Are not these rebellious acts of his really why he was put to death – by his own people?
WHOSE word was made flesh?
If the definition of creation is: “The act of creating, esp. creating the world; that which is created or produced; the universe, the world, all created things”, wouldn’t the creator of all things be all powerful?
Can a perfect creation from a perfect creator change?
How?
Can a perfect creator create an imperfect creation?
How?
If only spirit is perfect, wouldn’t God’s love ensure that His spirit creations remain forever unchangeable?
Are we not proud of our creations?
If not, would we kill them?
Is God proud of His creations?
If not, why not?
If we mortals do not create, are we not considered to be unfulfilled?
Wouldn’t the same be true for God?
If so, why would He have waited eons before deciding to create something?
Are we not told in Genesis 1:6, 1:8 and 1:11 that Heaven was created after our world?
Where did God live before creation – in the undivided darkness and in solitude?
Did He not create Heaven in the “firmament” as in Gen 1:7? (Def: “The sky regarded as a solid expanse, the vault of Heaven”.)
If so, is His kingdom just a part of infinity?
Can the sky really be a “solid” expanse?
If so, shouldn’t we be able to see Heaven in the sky?
Wasn’t it ancient lore that tells us God’s dominion was above the clouds?
If Archbishop James Ussher (by studying the Old Testament in forensic detail and counting all the 'begats') backtracked over the millennia to work out that the world was created in 4000 BC, wouldn’t that mean it was not billions and billions of years ago as scientists suggest, but shortly before the Egyptians built the pyramids?
If this is so, mustn’t the scientists be wrong?
If Vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, John Lightfoot, worked out that the creation of Adam occurred at 9 a.m. on Sunday, 23 October in the year of 4004 BC – does that make him a Libra?
Could other data provided by biblical scholars be true – such as the precise dimensions of Heaven, calculated from Revelations 21:16?
Could it really be 496, 793, 088, 000, 000, 000, 000 cubic feet – without need for expansion?
If the first edition of Pear's Shilling Cyclopaedia (1897) tells us that half of Heaven is reserved for the throne of God and the Court of Heaven, and a quarter of it for the streets of the city, isn’t it comforting to know that the quarter left will be enough to provide 30,321,843,750,000,000,000 ordinary-sized rooms?
If calculations are correct, are we not pleased to learn that all of us on earth and all the inhabitants of a million worlds will have private rooms?
Are there toilets in Heaven?
Will our neighbours be quiet?
Mustn’t there be many streets in the city if they take up a quarter of Heavenly space?
Will we need to wear shoes?
Is there day and night in Heaven just as it is here?
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. (Gen 1:26)
Their image and likeness?
Who are “they” that are speaking these words?
How many of “them” are there?
Are “they” males and females – just like us?
“And God made man in His own image, male and female made He them. And He blessed them” (Gen 1:27-28)
How could God create a male and female in His likeness?
If there are males and females in Heaven, wouldn’t differences deny perfection?
How did “our” image change into “His”?
Does this second quote in Genesis support the first?
If not, has the Old Testament begun with a discrepancy?
Could this mean that Eve did not come from Adam’s rib?
Which of the five races of the world is in God’s image:
1) Mongoloid (Asian and American Indian)
2) Caucasoid (European)
3) Australoid (Australian and oceanic)
4) ******* (East African black)
5) Capoid (South African black)?
Are all these in His image?
If immortality is being, then is mortality not being?
Does not doing involve the body?
Can spirit immortals do – or just be?
Are we mortals to do or not do?
Are we to be or not to be?
Isn’t that the question?
In which God are we to believe:
1) In the Old Testament, God is one -
2) “In the beginning,” God is male and female -
3) In Christianity, God is three?
“And the lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”. (Gen 2:7)
Are we living souls?
If soul is spirit, how could we be form?
Can a spirit being also be a flesh being?
How, if they are opposites?
How can we be in God’s image and likeness if created from dust – unless He was too?
Wouldn’t God need lungs to have “breathed” into Adam’s nostrils?
Does He also hear, see, feel, smell and taste as we do?
If we are clones of the Old Testament God, doesn’t that answer why we judge, withhold gifts from the unworthy, condemn, kill, threaten and seek revenge against those who do not behave the way we want them to?
Was our mortal existence planned or did we evolve from clay?
If we exist from a thought, who is the thinker?
Why did God create creatures that can only survive by eating other creatures?
Does God need to eat to stay alive?
If not, why do we?
After eons of questioning our origin and purpose, is there not still disagreement?
Can we love parents who send us to a foreign country, put something dangerous in our playpen, then tell us not to play with it or we will die?
How do we feel about God’s condemning all of mankind to toil, suffering and death because we wanted to know what He knows?
Is it true that those who are not circumcised are not of God?
Why the need to circumcise?
What does that serve?
Is it the only way to be “of God”?
If so, doesn’t that mean some are His children and most aren’t?
Are all women then not of God?
Who hurt but the hurt – but how can the all-powerful be hurt?
How would we feel if He eliminated all but our immediate family in a flood – privileged?
Would we still feel privileged if He crucified us to demonstrate His love to the decadent ones He created?
How do we feel about His foretelling of annihilating billions in the future – including the unborn and innocent?
After Armageddon, is not God going to restore worldly “perfection” to the selected male survivors?
Why is God going to exclude women?
Is it because they are believed to be defilers of men?
Who but males could have made a male God in their image?
Do not men control all the religions of this world?
What must we think of this, “How can man be clean that is born of a woman”? (Job 25:4)
Are we not all born of women – including Jesus?
Are women really the sole source of defilement?
If so, wouldn’t that make women more evil than men?
Is it God or mortal males who preach this righteous nonsense?
Why would men want to demean women?
Wouldn’t it be only from fear?
Could men be afraid of the power of love women have?
Can we really love a wrathful, angry, vengeful, fearful, jealous Father who sentences us all to death for what we did not do?
How can all children become sinful from their ancestors’ sins?
“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh”? (Galatians 3:3)
Doesn’t this convincingly confirm that we were created as spirit, not dirt?
Could we have believed covering our spirit with flesh would make us better?
If so, what exactly has improved?
Can we temporary flesh beings ever become eternally perfect?
“Verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit”. (John 3:5-6)
How can spirit end up as flesh?
Is it not crystal clear that we flesh beings will never enter Heaven?
Do we not protect what we value most?
Wouldn’t that be either our mortality or immortality?
Can we regain our spirit reality?
If we can’t be both, are we not experiencing the one we prefer?
In order to retain what we are, then do we not have to “kill” whatever threatens our mortality?
Wouldn’t the threat be our immortal spirit?
Is not our immortal spirit unknown and therefore “dead” in our awareness?
“No man has ascended unto Heaven but he who has descended out of Heaven – even the Son of Man, who is in Heaven”. (John 3:13)
Doesn’t this clearly tell us that we all came to earth – just as Jesus did?
Does it not also deny the myth of being descendents of Adam?
If so, then from where and how did “original sin” originate?
If not from God, must it not be from man?
Yet wouldn’t that mean that we created something God did not create?
How could that be possible if God created all that is?
“And the last to be overcome is death”! (1 Corin 15:26)
Is this inevitable?
For everyone?
How do we do that?
Could this not also be blasphemy – since the Old Testament God created death?
“If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death”. (John 8:51)
What is Jesus saying?
Is He telling us the truth?
If death is not our sentence from God, then can we understand what Jesus meant by this quote?
Does it not tell us that we are all destined to overcome the sentence of death?
Could we have sentenced ourselves?
If so, can we rescind this sentence we put on ourselves?
Isn’t that what Jesus is telling us?
Is this good news?
Can we believe it?
Do we want to?
Does love withhold gifts – or only give?
Who but the curious, the jealous or insane would withhold the gift of immortal perfection from their children?
What would God benefit from creating some of His children better than others?
Why would God not will for us to be as perfect as He?
Why were we never offered the choice whether to eat the apple or not?
Who would shorten their children’s lives and make them toil and suffer because they wanted to learn?
If “God’s will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,” then is He not in full control?
If so, why did He become angry?
If not in control, then how powerful can His will be?
Who but the fearful need to control others and what else but love frees from control?
What would we do if we knew our children were facing devastation – nothing, or everything we could?
Who would wait to be asked before attending to a child’s suffering?
Does God answer all prayers, just some, or none?
If He knows only of eternal perfection, what can His answer be but that we are experiencing what we believe we deserve?
“Love not the world, neither the things in the world. If anyone loves the world the Love of the Father is not in him. (1 John 2:15-16)
Does this not deny that God created our planet?
Does this not tell us to withdraw our investment in it?
If we are not to love the world, then how valuable can this world be to God?
How can God not love what He creates?
How valuable is this world to us?
Could we be loving our world because we made it?
If “God is spirit” (John 4:24), how can His children be something else?
If we are to “Call no man father, for one is your father, who is in Heaven” (Matt 23:9) who, or what then, is the source of our mortal existence?
Is Jesus our brother?
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are”! (1 John 3:1)
Isn’t Jesus including himself in this?
If so, doesn’t that mean we really are like him?
Are God’s children mortal or immortal?
“Reckon ye yourself to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God”. (Rom 6:11)
Could this be telling us that in reality we are sinless and therefore with God?
Isn’t this a radical teaching – opposing age-old teachings and beliefs?
“Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because His seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God. In this the children of God are manifest”. (1 John 3:9)
Clearly, doesn’t this say that all God’s children cannot sin?
Does that mean innocence reigns?
Which are we begotten of – God or man?
Is God still creating flesh beings, the sinful, the deformed, the imperfect and invalids?
If so, wouldn’t that mean we are not of God?
How, if sinful, can we be as “perfect” as our Heavenly Father?
If nobody’s perfect, what caused imperfection – the creator of all, the created of the creator of all, or mother nature?
“Ye are all brethren”. (Matt 23:8-12)
Are we to take this literally?
If so, might we all be the same “age”?
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the spirit is life and peace”. (Romans 8:5-6)
“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his”. (Romans 8:9)
Can we be both spirit and flesh?
Have we always been spirit?
If so, how could we have become anything else?
If not, how can spirit become flesh?
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the spirit do abstain from the deeds of the body, ye shall live”. (Romans 8:13)
Are we to cease taking care of our bodies?
Wouldn’t that be suicide?
Yet could we have committed immortal suicide to become mortals?
Do not these quotes tell us that spirit is life and our beloved mortality isn’t?
If so, how does this affect our iron-clad belief in being humans?
Are not these quotes telling us that we are protecting our mortality against our immortality?
Do we not protect ourselves by attacking anything that threatens us?
What is the threat – other than our Father creating us immortal rather than mortal?
Could that be why we humans must deny this and attack the source that threatens our humanity?
If our immortality is unknown to us, wouldn’t it therefore be “dead”?
However, who needs to learn but those who do not know?
Does not the passage above tell us that peace is controlled only by our spirit – not by our mortal mind?
What about these two: “Those who are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God”. (Romans 8:14) and “The spirit Itself beareth witness to our spirit, that we are children of God”. (Rom 8:16)?
What do these teach us other than we, in truth, are spirit children of a spirit Father – not mortal children of mortal parents?
Is that not why Jesus said we are all brethren and to call no man father?
How can that be unless we are only spirit beings?
Can spirits die?
Can form see spirit?
Can spirit see form?
Could there be another meaning in all of this, such as living forever as God created us – as spirits?
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set ye free”. (John 8:32)
Doesn’t this mean that false imprisons and we humans are not yet free?
What is this false thing that imprisons and how do we come to know this truth that “sets us free”?
Can a limitless spirit be limited to a body?
Could the truth be that God only creates perfect beings?
Could the false be that God creates lesser beings – weak, frail mortals totally unlike Him?
“Be ye perfect even as your father in Heaven is perfect”. (Matt 5:48)
Are we perfect clones of a perfect God – or something entirely different?
If God’s perfection includes omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, who on earth inherited any of these?
If God’s children inherited His attributes, must we not then be identical, immortal beings?
If so, might we be using our inherited power – as one spirit – to make our own playground where we could be unique individuals?
If “The word was made flesh” (John 1:14) whose word was it from – God’s?
Could it have been our word – “creatively imagining” this universe and naming all things – thereby making them real?
Might Adam represent all of us as the one indivisible spiritual creation of our Father?
Biblically, didn’t Adam fall into a deep sleep?
Is it not curious that nowhere in the Bible does it say he woke up?
Upon awakening in the morning, do we not have some left-over effect from our dreams, perhaps feeling happy or victimized?
Soon after, do we not realize they were only dreams – even though we reacted as though they were real?
If we are all-powerful, could we not be using our imagination to “experience” whatever we want?
What if all we need to do is choose to awaken from our dream of separation and uniqueness?
If “All the world’s a stage, and we are but the players,” could we have created the stage, written our scripts, designed the settings and our costumes?
If so, wouldn’t we cherish whatever we made “up” because we made it?
Could our pure Minds believe they have become impure?
Wouldn’t we then write scripts that are punitive in order to cleanse our buried guilt?
Do we not do what we believe is in our highest good?
How much effort do we put in living long, keeping the house clean, eating the right food and so on?
How much effort do we put in finding the truth that frees us from our march towards death?
“Behold, I show you a mystery we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality”. (1 Corinthians 15:53)
Does this apply to all mortals?
How do we “put on incorruption and immortality”?
Who wants to?
Can we really “take off” our mortality?
How?
How else but from discarding our mortal costume?
How would we feel if it is inevitable?
“Verily I say unto you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do”. (John 14:12)
Do we know of anyone who has done greater works than Jesus?
Is he telling us the truth?
Can we believe these words or do we prefer to believe in our weakness and unworthiness?
Didn’t Jesus tell us in Matt 27:41 that our “spirit is willing” but our “flesh is weak”?
Could our spirit be not just willing, but all powerful?
“Ask and ye shall receive”. (John 16:24)
How many have asked and did not receive?
Could it mean this quote is not true?
On the other hand, could it mean God’s all-powerful Children get exactly what they want?
Wouldn’t that mean everyone’s prayers are always answered – no matter what happens?
If this is true, how would this affect us?
Didn’t Jesus also say, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall save it. For what profiteth a man if he shall gain the whole world and forfeit his life”? (Matt 16:21)
What does that tell us about the value of our beloved human lives?
Are we to happily lose our lives?
What, then, is saved?
What else but our eternal reality?
“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ”. (Phil 3:7)
Have we gained by our human experience – or lost?
Have we not lost awareness of our spirit reality?
“And everyone that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children or lands for my name’s sake shall receive a hundred fold and shall inherit eternal life”. (Matt 19:29)
How many do we know that have left everything – including their families – for God's Kingdom?
Who does not value their mortality and worldly goods more than their immortality?
Did Jesus?
“All men shall be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth”. (1Timothy 2:4)
Is that the truth?
Everyone returns to Heaven?
Does this not deny eternal suffering in hell?
If this means that no one will be excluded, is that not joyous news?
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”. (Romans 12:2)
Become non-conformist?
Are we happily welcoming or stubbornly resisting the renewing of our minds?
“Set your mind on things above, not on things that are on earth”. (Col 3:2)
What are we focusing on – abundance, better health and longevity?
What are the “things above” we are to focus on?
What else but the truth of our reality as immortal children of God?
“For what is thought highly of by men is loathsome in the sight of God”. (Luke 16:15)
Does this mean He knows of imperfection?
If so, what would that represent?
How could God know of imperfection when He created only perfection?
What are we thinking highly of?
Could it be fixing the world or perhaps getting a new car?
Could it be self preservation, finding a partner or going on a cruise?
Is the quote above telling us God has eyes?
“Those who are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God”. (Romans 8:14)
Who but other mortals lead us on earth?
Do not these leaders claim to know where to lead us?
Do they not need followers?
Do not followers need leaders?
Isn’t that an ideal symbiotic condition?
Can we become unconcerned about things happening in our world and focus our attention on how to return to our Father’s house?
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and self-discipline”. (2 Tim 1:7)
Could we, in truth, be one spirit with – and in – God?
Wouldn’t that be a perfect, unchangeable creation?
Which makes more sense – that we were created by the love of God or by His curiosity?
In order to learn what must be, mustn’t we first learn what cannot be?
“Seek first the kingdom and all shall be given unto thee”. (Matt 6:33)
Want only to be free of want?
Can it be that simple?
WHAT ARE RELATIONSHIPS?
Relationship: the state of being related; connection by blood, kinship.
Kinship: Stock, family, relations connection, kindred, of the same family nature or kind.
Do these definitions describe the relationship God has with all His children?
Are we connected with our Father in Heaven by blood – or spirit?
Are we expecting to bring our mortality into our immortal Father’s house?
If we are flesh beings and God is spirit, in what way are we of the “same family nature” as God?
Did He not create humans who are neither related, connected by blood nor like each other?
Can we question our relationship with God and each other – or are we content with what we have adopted?
Because we experience ourselves as individual flesh beings, do we not seek to join with others?
What kind of relationships are we seeking?
Could we be related to members of God’s immortal family as well as our mortal family?
Wouldn’t that mean we are not of one nature but two?
Yet are we not experiencing only mortality?
Can we have different relationships with two different realities or just this one?
Wouldn’t false relationships be used to change what is true?
What would that mean – other than we wanted different relationships with many different people?
Do we not also have relationships with things, plans, outcomes and ideas – in fact everything in our universe?
Wouldn’t that include things such as anger, anxiety, fear, and righteousness?
Could we consider these as meaningful relationships?
Why not if they bring meaning into our lives?
In fact, wouldn’t we have a relationship with everything we have named?
What would be the difference between a real relationship and a substitute one?
Could a real one be that we are perfect beings sharing perfection and love as one spirit?
Could a substitute one be that we are flesh beings seeking people and things to relate to?
Are not all relationships here changeable, conditional and impermanent?
Who do they serve but us mortals?
Does not seeking special relationships with a few exclude rather than include?
Is this not mankind’s ideal?
Do we not value what we have?
Wouldn’t it help us to learn what our relationships really are?
Yet if what we have gives us what we want, why change?
Can we have a real relationship with someone we don’t know?
Do we know God or just believe in Him?
Can mortals know immortals?
What is the cause of human relationships?
What else but one infinite spirit child of God wanting to become form in order to separate, go forth, mate with other forms and multiply?
Who but our Heavenly Father can be the cause of our real relationship as one combined entity?
If there are no “things” in Heaven, then what can we relate with, other than the love we have, share and are?
How can we accept this if we believe we are in a state of lack and incompletion?
If abundant love is what we all are, how can we really be different and separated?
If we are all one and the same, what kind of relationship would that be, other than one of wholeness and holiness?
If there really are no differences, uniqueness, individuality, or specialness, then wouldn’t our reality be oneness and sameness rather than billions of unique individuals?
What can the goal of a real and holy relationship be, other than reality and holiness?
Where can our real relationship exist other than beyond separate bodies?
MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
Are angels male, female or neither?
Are all God’s children dying to be born to die?
Are all spirits holy – or just some?
Are not all preachers “masters” and so against Jesus’ teaching?
Are not false prophets those who tell others what the truth is?
Are not hard lessons done last out of fear, hoping things will work out?
Are not our opinions “fact”?
Are not people prayed to, prayed for and preyed upon?
Are our minds in a quandary?
Are spirits born or are they eternal?
Are the Beatles right?
Is love all there is?
Are there any similarities between the New and the Old Testament God?
If so, what are they?
Are there such things as tall/small, long/short, better/worse in Heaven?
Are we accustomed to mortality and unaccustomed to immortality?
Are we afraid to die?
If so, would that be from not knowing what comes next?
Are we anxiously rowing our boat up the stream?
Are we digesting the soul food offered by the world even though it doesn’t taste right?
Are we fiddling while our mortal homes burn?
Are we forgiving or for getting?
Are we here against our will or from our will?
Are we like God or not?
Are we mortals dying to live immortally or immortals dying to live mortally?
Are we not afraid of losing what we have and not getting what we want?
Can peace ever be found in this condition?
Are we not either helpful or hurtful, uplifting or downing?
Are we not in fear if concerned about what others think of us?
Are we protecting ourselves from the deadliest threat to our mortal existence – the love of a perfect immortal creator?
Are we really fearful mortal beings needing, wanting fearing, seeking?
If so, how could we be “like father like son”?
Are we running out of time or happy to stay in it?
Are we still “eating” the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
When will we “eat” the fruit of the tree that brings us eternal life?
Are we sustained by the Love of God or by the love of food?
Are we to know of our own truth or that of everyone’s?
Are we to thank God for not giving us what He has and is?
Are we waiting for God or is He waiting for us?
Based on how much we take care of our bodies, must we not be proud of our mortal costumes?
Can a child of God be a powerless victim?
Can a contained spirit be free?
Can an infinite spirit become finite and contained?
Can a guilty ego believe it deserves to be loved?
Can a thought of truth be the truth?
Can ability to change be an attribute of changeless perfection?
Can an all-powerful God need a day of rest?
Can an open mind preach?
Can anything that has an end be real?
Can being kind to all but one mean we are unkind?
Can believers live happily with non-believers?
Can form be a projection from our mind?
Can giving love be the same as giving truth?
Can God be worried about His all-powerful children?
Can God change His mind?
If so, what would that represent?
Can God interfere with our desire to remain mortal?
Can healing be only one way?
Can love be never having to say “sorry”?
Can man be proud of running a mile under four minutes or climbing Mount Everest?
How does that compare with the children of God creating miles and mountains?
Can mortal gain bring a corresponding spiritual loss?
Can mortals see, hear or feel the formless?
Can formless immortals see, hear or feel mortals?
Can necessity be a mother?
Can one for all & all for one also be one in all and all in one?
Can only a few things give us opportunity to learn or can all things?
Can our children be dogs or flowers?
If not, how can God's children be unlike Him in every way?
Can our ego be an acronym for Edging God Out?
Can pain be a gain?
In what way?
Could it serve to change our minds about who we are?
Can proud parents arrange for their children to die prematurely?
Can salt water and fresh water come from the same stream?
Can spirit beings descend from Heaven and transform into flesh beings?
Can the cause of mortal death be from immortal suicide?
Can the eternal give birth to temporary flesh beings?
Can the formless be seen, heard or felt?
Can there be such a thing as “natural” death?
Can there really be marriages made in Heaven?
Can we, as spirits, be both “drops” in the ocean as well as be the ocean?
Can we be at peace while needing the next breath to stay alive?
Can we end the beginning?
Do we want to?
Can we use time to get out of time and into eternity?
Can we experience our mortality and our immortality at the same time?
Can we give and get at the same time?
Can we kill or destroy what God never made?
Can we seek the love of God and at the same time hate our enemies?
Can what is interpretable be knowable?
Can what never have begun end?
Can what is not everything be nothing?
Can whatever is named be nothing – or must it not be an effect of something?
Could a tombstone be the proof we need for our believed mortal existence?
Could all mishaps be opportunities to change our minds about the meaning of life?
Could death be giving up the ghost?
Could everything be supernatural?
Could everything happening be a gift of learning?
Could human mortal life be planned obsolescence?
Could it be that God is in us and we are in God?
Could it be that those who say they know, don’t know?
Could those who say they don’t know, really know?
Could leaders be created from lack of self-confidence?
Could learning what not to do open the door to learning what to do?
Could our beliefs be believed to be fact?
Could our Heavenly teacher be one who talks in our sleep?
Could our human script have been written prior to birth?
Could succeeding in the world mean we have failed in Heaven?
Could the devil be the self and could hell be the mess the self makes?
Could the devil really cheat us out of birthright as Sons of God?
Could the only advice worth giving be to not take anyone else’s advice – including this advice?
Could the only thing that matters to us mortals is that there is such a thing as matter?
Could there be power behind poverty being real?
Could trying to solve problems create more?
Could we be afraid of truth?
Could we be blocking what doesn’t sound right with noise?
Could we be fallen angels in disguise?
Could we be fools fooling ourselves?
Could we be master counterfeiters?
Could we be mortal slaves of our immortal reality?
Could we have committed immortal suicide to become mortals?
Could we have committed ourselves to solitary confinement?
Could we have programmed our lives prior to conception?
Could we have wanted to do rather than be?
Could we have wanted to want?
Could we – in spirit – all be born adults?
Could what is not of God not only attack reality but also God?
Curiosity killed the cat but didn’t satisfaction bring it back – and back and back?
Isn’t our return Home inevitable when we realize our world is one of fear and therefore not of God?
Did God arrange for defects in children because of their parent’s sins?
Did God create everything – including evil, pain, suffering, death and the AIDS virus?
Did God create some animals as food for other animals to eat?
Did God create things and flesh beings or just spirit?
Did God name everything or did we?
Did God need to learn as we do?
Did God really give the world to His son? Why?
Didn’t Jesus also need to learn?
Didn’t God need a day of rest after creating the universe?
What did He do on His day off?
Has He rested enough yet?
Didn’t Jesus tell us, “I of myself can do nothing” and went about His “Father’s business”?
Doesn’t this make us the same as he, since we need the same source of help?
Didn’t Jesus tell us to “Take no heed for the future”?
Did not the Diamonds believe that “Life is but a dream”?
Did we create things and made them real by naming them?
Did we descend to experience things as flesh beings because spirit can’t experience?
Did we forget to laugh at the idea of mortality and so took it seriously?
Do not beliefs separate, disintegrate and create war?
How can peace be found in chaos?
Do not believers in human containment pray to an external God, thereby never knowing Him?
Do not humans require constant effort, attention and planning?
Does spirit need to do that?
Does God have vocal cords, ears, eyes and a nose as we do?
Does God need to be worshipped?
Does not mind repeat what it has learned so bad habits are repeated and difficult to correct?
Do not peace and love come from within, not from without?
If these are not created by us – mustn’t they come into being when we know our true self?
Do not words create only reaction?
For example, isn’t the word “love” not really love and the word “God” not really God?
Do we do things for no reason or do we do things from either love or fear?
Do we give a piece of our minds or do we give the Peace of God’s Mind?
Do we not hope?
If so, is not certainty lost and outward searching is the believed solution?
Do we not need to be needed?
Is not need a state of poverty?
Do we make things happen or do things just happen?
Do we need to take out life insurance?
Could God be our life insurance?
Do we not all fear losing our treasures?
Do we not believe in either creation or evolution based on what suits us best rather than on fact?
Do we not dig down only as far as we dare to?
Do we not expect car dealers to fix faults in cars under warranty?
Why didn’t God ensure we remain perfect rather than creating us faulty?
Didn’t that set the stage for our death?
Why didn’t He fix His faulty creation instead of sending it to the scrap yard?
Do we not pray for peace yet prepare for war?
Do we not prefer to own rather than share?
Do we not protect what we value most?
What needs protection but our humanity?
Does spirit need protecting?
Against what?
Do we not seek first what we want most?
Do we not value having choices?
How would we feel if we had no choice?
Do we not want more of this and more of that?
What does that bring us to, other than the mortician?
Do we not want to be specially loved and want to love special people?
Do we prefer to do or undo?
Do we really enjoy being members of the human race track?
Do we see what is really there or do we see what we want to see?
Does God get bored?
Does God give gifts He wouldn’t want for Himself?
Does God have a birthday?
Does God have vocal cords, ears, eyes and a nose as we do?
Does God really “giveth and taketh”?
Is that love?
Does not behaviour reveal the beliefs that motivate it?
Does not divine reason lead us towards divine realisation?
Does reality lie only when the mind knows that it can never know?
Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make it expected?
Does not God tell us not to do what he does but to do what He says?
Does not hope reflect a state of uneasiness, incompleteness and seeks for external fulfilment?
Wouldn’t those clinging to hope be dying, as salvation is projected into the future instead of accepting it in the now where it is found?
Does not saying “sorry” strengthen belief in guilt – denying perfection?
Does not the world believe that death rather than truth is the prerequisite to be in Heaven with our Father?
Doesn’t mankind speculate about reality and so does not know it?
Doesn’t whatever we are attached to in our world delay us from returning to our Father’s house?
Does owning things free us – or are we bound in fear of losing what we have?
Does the unquestionable truth forbid us to question the many Biblical discrepancies?
Would it be sinful if we did?
Doesn’t divine love only give?
Is not the love of mankind desire-based?
Doesn’t living in the past or future mean living in the mind, which believes in time – not Eternity?
Have we not created religions that dominate us?
Yet because we yearn for guidance, are we not contented slaves?
How can a formless spirit have eyes to see and a nose to smell?
How can a perfect creator of all know of imperfection?
How can an immortal Father create mortals?
How can an infinite Father give birth to a finite child?
How can children of God be children of man?
How can God create some perfect beings and some not?
How can imperfect mortals become perfect, immortal beings?
How can money be the root of all evil?
Is it not greed and desire rather than paper and metal?
How can needy mortals be perfect if the state of perfection is completion?
How can one indivisible spirit have divided into billions of different mortal personalities?
How can perfect love exist if just one thing is imperfect?
How can purity become impure unless something made it become impure?
How can spirit beings see – unless they also have eyes?
How can that which is of time be timeless?
How can there be only one God if He is one of the trinity?
How can we be born guilty – having done nothing wrong?
How can we inherit guilt from someone else?
How can we know while preferring to judge?
Do we not value our ability to judge rather than to know?
How could Jesus be born of a virgin and be the descendent of Abraham – whose lineage ended with Joseph – who did not father Jesus?
Which then, was Jesus the son of; Mary, Mary and Joseph, or God?
How do spirit beings reproduce?
How do we know what is true unless we know what is not true?
How many of us are doubting Thomases?
How many of us have plucked an eye out when offended by what we saw?
Are we to take this literally?
Could we all be seeing what does not offend us?
How many things do we worry about?
How many things on earth do we need to fix to find peace?
Doesn’t that tell us that something is drastically wrong with this world?
How much have we inherited in our abundant account from God?
How will we ever know until we begin freely passing out gifts of God’s love to everyone?
How would we feel if God made it rain and flooded the whole world to kill us all?
If a child inherits the sins of the father, is that what happened to Adam?
If Adam was created perfect, how could he have made an imperfect choice?
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, does God see both the beautiful and the ugly?
If “flesh begets flesh and spirit begets spirit” (John 3: 5-6) from which source was Adam “begotten”?
If disease were real, how could it be healed if reality is not subject to change?
Is it not only because sickness is false that can it be healed?
If doing is an activity, is the opposite just being?
If given a choice, which would we prefer, having faith and belief or knowledge?
If God arranged Jesus’ death, wouldn’t the Jews therefore be assassins for God?
If God can smell and speak, can He also feel, see and hear like us?
If God created differences, which among us is the most perfect?
If God doesn’t protect Himself with fences, alarms, clothing, toothpaste, shoes and fly spray – why do His children?
If God gave us a "loving" gift of mortality, why did He not give it to himself?
If God gave us everything, was it not enough?
If God has no choice, why do we?
If God is not in control of everything happening on earth, does that mean Lucifer is?
If God is spirit and spirit is everywhere, how can our spirit be somewhere?
If God needed to rest on the seventh day, does that mean He was tired?
If God is vengeful and has wants and needs, does that mean He is just like us?
If hell is where we suffer, is this not it?
If in truth we are all one spirit, could saying the word “you” strengthen our belief in mortal separation?
If it is impossible for God to be a victim – why are His children?
If it was within God’s power to create a perfect and unchangeable creation and didn’t – why?
If it were possible, would we want to change into immortal beings?
If it were possible, would we want to end beginning and ending?
If Jesus died to save us from our sins, wouldn’t that mean we are all now innocent rather than sinful?
If so, why is God’s curse of death on all mankind still remaining?
If not, did God’s plan fail?
Is it true that if we believe this we are saved?
What happened to all those who died before Jesus was born?
If Jesus said “My Lord and my God?” in John 20:28, doesn’t that mean he is just like us – not begotten of God?
If love gives and fear gets, what did God get from tempting Adam?
If Jesus was the one to set the Jews free, why are they not free?
If Lucifer was in the Garden of Eden, wouldn’t that mean he existed before Adam?
If only spirit is real, what can flesh be but a fantasy?
If patience is a virtue, shouldn’t we become impatient to become patient?
If perfection exists only in eternity, then mustn't what is not eternal be flawed?
If perfection can’t change, how could the Old Testament God become perfectly loving instead of remaining wrathful?
If spirit begets spirit and flesh begets flesh, how can a Spirit Father beget flesh children?
If spirit has no ears, will we miss the sound of music in Heaven?
If spirit needs no protection, why do we?
If the attribute of love is to give and the attribute of fear is to get, why does God get angry?
If the Sabbath was changed to Sunday, why didn’t God inform the Jews?
If it wasn’t God’s will to change it, wouldn’t Christians be sinning?
If there are no two things alike in our universe, isn’t that the opposite of Heaven – only 1 thing?
If there is an answer for every question, unless a particular question is asked, wouldn’t the answer remain unknown?
If there is such a thing as a victim, or there is such a thing as an accident, or something gone wrong - wouldn’t the perfect creator God of love be dead?
If thoughts pop into our minds – are they from God, us, or Satan?
If transformation comes from stillness, might our activities bring death?
If we are as perfect as God, wouldn’t that mean we are forever sinless and guiltless?
If we are more than humans, why are we content with being less?
If we are not compelled, mustn’t we be impelled?
If we are not grateful, wouldn’t that mean something has gone wrong?
If we are one with God, how can we not share His will?
If we aren’t where God lives, must we not be where Satan lives?
If we are to be like God, shouldn’t we treat our children the way God treats His?
If we are to sustain the “truth” of our mortality, mustn’t we reject Jesus’ teaching of our immortality?
If we believe we need no correction, why do we believe others do?
If we could choose, which would we prefer – to gain the kingdom or be it?
If we “do the truth” as in John 3:21, do we come to the light so that our works are manifested?
If we don’t ask, how can we learn?
If we don’t know what to do, why not forgive and give the blessing of truth?
If we had a choice, which do we prefer: being the commander in chief or being commanded by the chief?
If we had all-power, would we have created this world as it is?
If we had the choice, where would we prefer to be right now, here or Heaven?
If we had the choice, which would we prefer to be – the created or the creator of the created?
If we have made the unreal real, then has the real become the unreal?
If we learned what the truth isn’t and let it go, what would be replaced but the real truth?
If we look up to anyone, are we not looking down on ourselves – and vice versa?
If we need to correct others, do we not need to correct ourselves?
If we offended God, what has He done to us?
If we possess anything, does that mean we are possessed by it?
If we protect our flesh body, wouldn’t that result in attacking whatever threatens it – such as our spirit reality?
If we see differences and separation, how can we learn and believe that we are one?
If we see in others what is in us, is that good or bad?
If we sought vengeance against those who hurt us and returned love to those who love us – would that make us Godly?
If we want success at the expense of our neighbours, wouldn’t we really be cheating ourselves?
If we were able to immediately acquire a talent, which would we choose?
If what we create is not reality, then mustn’t it be a substitute?
Yet what can substitute for reality?
Doesn’t the false remain false until it is seen as false?
If whatever was no longer exists except in memory, is that a benefit or burden?
In any given moment, are we not fully committed to what we are doing?
In this universe, is there such a thing as one and the same?
In what way are we flesh beings in the image and likeness of a spirit God?
Is attraction distraction?
Is church a place or is it where two or more gather together?
Is clinging to dear life really a “gift” from God?
Is free choice whether or not to learn knowledge and die a gift, a test, or a curse?
Is giving fearful for those who believe they lack?
Is God Caucasion?
Is Heaven non-dimensional and opposite to our three dimensional universe?
Is ignorance not just the absence of learning, but also the confusion and conflict of values?
Is it a gift to be born in pain and struggle through life only to die?
Is it acceptable to live in a decaying carcass?
Is it beyond reason that “The last to be overcome is death” releases us from mortality?
If true, wouldn’t our eternal spirit then replace our believed reality as flesh beings?
Is it “Godly” to kill children who disobey their parents’ commands?
Is it mind over matter or is it matter over mind?
Is it not because we are confused that we need an authority?
Having created one – whether political or religious – do we not follow its directions in hope of finding truth?
Is it not obvious that women are not in the image of God?
Is it not the self-identity that is caught up in disease?
Can spirit know of it?
Is it not the self that is selfish, ingathering, acquisitive, hateful, antagonistic, unforgiving and violent?
Do these bring health or sickness?
Is it not true that if we hurt anyone we can expect to be hurt back?
Is it not true that if we look up to anyone, we look down on ourselves?
Is it not true that in our universe there are no two things exactly alike?
Is it not true that we never protect what causes us fear?
Do we not want to kill what threatens our human “reality”?
What can threaten us more than our reality as spirit clones of God?
Is it not true that whatever we worship becomes an idol?
Is it possible or impossible that everything is possible?
Is it possible or impossible for something to be everything?
Is it possible or impossible for everything to be something?
Is it possible to experience mortality and immortality at the same time?
Is it possible to put timeless truth into temporary time?
Is it true that many live in the bondage of fear “All the days of their life” (Heb 2:15)?
Is Jesus really the only begotten child of God?
What about Adam?
What about Israel?
Is life not a mixture of excitement, boredom, aging, changing and uncertainty?
Is life really surviving as best we can while aging, doubting, being ignorant and concerned?
Is not accepting another’s path imitation?
Is not certainty in perfection?
Is not guilt the effect of having done wrong?
Is not our only choice really between truth or false?
Is not our universe in a constant state of change?
Isn’t change the opposite of eternalness, perfection and unchangeability?
Is not our world filled with many problems?
What if there is really only one?
Is not reality realised through recognition of what is false rather than what is true?
Is not potential unused power?
Is not right thinking achieved only through recognizing the false as false?
If right thinking frees, then doesn’t conditioned thinking oppress?
Is not the cause of all problems greed, desire, ambition and hunger for power?
Is not uncertainty in imperfection?
Is our way really the high way?
Isn’t a sanctuary just an unrecognised prison?
Isn’t denying the false giving it a reality it does not possess?
Wouldn’t understanding how it arises bring recognition of its falseness?
Wouldn’t the real come into being when the false is seen as having no existence and gladly let go?
Isn’t following another’s path to imitate?
Does not imitating ensure not being on the right path?
Isn’t recognising being bound the first step to freedom?
Isn’t the hereafter here now?
Isn’t it just a question of what we're here after?
Isn’t truth beyond our human minds?
Isn’t truth like mathematics?
Is it not exact?
Who can explain why 2 + 2 = 4 and not five?
Isn’t trying to become virtuous cover up what we are?
Isn’t want the state of poverty?
And isn’t the state of abundance one of giving?
Isn’t what is eternal true?
Is it not the temporary that is false?
Isn’t whatever we do for the benefit of either our mortality or immortality?
Is not consciousness a mortal attribute, not a spirit one?
Is not everything born in need?
Is not our only real choice between whether or not to learn of the truth that sets us free?
Is not the Old Testament God the saviour of form, mortality, differences, accidents and change?
Is not the past just memory and is not the future hope mixed with fear?
Is not the truth of the world based on the past?
Is not trying to convert from the belief others don’t have what we have?
Is the world changing for the better?
What does history reveal?
Is humanity becoming more loving and peaceful – or more selfish and afraid?
Is the world our shopping center where we get instead of having and being all?
Is there a link between belief and knowledge?
Is there an answer for every question?
If so, is not the answer unrecognized until the question is asked?
If we ask questions that keep us in fear, then won’t the answers support our condition?
Is there laughter in Heaven?
If so, is there also concern, doubt, pleasure, desire, hope and regret?
Is there one curriculum for mortals and another for immortals?
Is there something more than this universe?
If so, what is it and what does it look like?
Is there such a thing as a finality to infinity?
Is there such a thing as bad luck?
Is there such a thing as choice in Heaven?
If so, between what and what?
Is there such a thing as impatience in Heaven?
Is time the weaver of illusions?
Karma or no karma – is that the question?
Looking back, would God do the same thing or do something better?
Might the truth be that we don’t really know what the truth is?
Mustn’t God be multi-lingual if He built the tower of Babel?
On a scale of 1-100, how would we rate this world and its creator?
Shouldn’t we be looking beyond ahead?
Since spirit and form cannot co-exist, have we not chosen which one lives and which one doesn’t?
To the Jews, wasn’t Jesus the “evil” one?
To what extent do our beliefs control our minds?
To worshippers of a god of fear, wouldn’t the God of Love become the enemy?
Under what circumstances, if any, can a loss be seen as a gain?
Under what circumstances, if any, can anyone not feel responsible for upsetting or hurting others?
Under who’s care are we under?
Until the false is recognized as false, does not truth remain unknown?
Was God’s gift of life to us conditional?
We can name different things but can we name the nameless?
We don’t believe we are nothing and like to believe we’re something – but can we believe we are everything?
We know divine love is eternal but doesn’t the love of man die with the self?
Were we really created from dust only to end up as dust?
What are angels?
Were they created from dirt like us?
What are we nourished by – the love of God or the love of food?
What are we planting in the garden of our minds – real flowers or plastic ones?
What attributes do we have that mirrors God’s?
What but a broken mind can create a broken body?
Who has a broken mind – God or us?
What did the lions eat in the Garden of Eden before Adam ate the apple?
What did we inherit from God – something, everything or nothing?
What do we hunger for – helping the awakening process or delaying it?
What do we seek first other than what we want above all else?
Isn’t the choice between the kingdom and the offerings of our world?
What does God’s needing to rest on the seventh day reveal?
What does winning in our world bring us?
What else can we mortals do but come last in the human race?
What exactly did Jesus mean by letting the dead bury the dead?
Who are the “dead” ones who will bury the dead?
Who are the not “dead” who will not bury the dead?
Could it have meant those who are committed to mortality (the dead in spirit) will bury those who have died?
What food are we feeding our soul?
What food are we feeding our mortality?
What is the best loving gift we can give to each other?
What life form doesn’t struggle through life only to die?
What on earth do we need to fix to find peace?
What if all prayers really are answered?
What if all-power of the Father has been given to His children?
What if God cloned us?
What if God did not make us in His image and likeness?
What if it is up to us to allow truth to dawn in our sleeping mind?
What if God gave us everything in our creation?
What if God’s perfect creations could never change and can only be as He is?
What if the Bible is not the word of God but the word of man – claiming it was from God?
What if the love of a perfect creator couldn’t sentence us all to death, being His perfect creation?
What if there is no such thing as luck?
What if there is no such thing as “what if”?
What if we never really had “free” choice?
What if we were created – just not by God?
What is it that hurts us so much that we want to hurt others?
What is perfection?
Can it change?
What is the best loving gift we can give to each other?
What is the cost of dependency?
What is there to do in Heaven?
If nothing to do, might Heaven come second on our priority list?
What makes us happy?
Are we not happy when right?
Are we not unhappy when we are wrong?
What seeds are we planting in our minds – those that free us from fear or those that nourish it?
What was God’s gift to us – impoverishment or empowerment?
What works are we to manifest?
What would it be like if we were all identical?
Would that bring us joy or confusion?
What would it mean if there is no such a thing as an accident?
What would it mean if God’s love really is all-encompassing?
What would we miss by discarding mortality to ascend into Heaven and become immortal?
When confusion ceases, do not problems cease to exist?
When Jesus said, “Get thee behind me Satan”, might Satan be the ego – the anti-Christ?
Could this quote mean that the form is in front of self?
When that which continues comes to an end, what is there but reality?
Isn’t ending feared unless it relieves pain?
Doesn’t our human mind fear its end and so cling to the past and future?
When we die to our wish for mortality, what is there but only immortal life?
When will we cease valuing our mortality and see it for what it is – death to our immortality?
When will we row gently down the stream knowing that life is but a dream?
When young, do we not look to the future?
When old, do we not look to the past?
When will we learn to live in the present?
Where do thoughts originate, from the human brain or somewhere else?
Could it be from the spirit mind?
Which are we – good for nothing or perfect for everything?
Which are we to celebrate – our mortal birth day or our death day?
Which are we seeking – physical or spiritual fitness?
Which brings us more joy – getting or giving?
Which can we do without – God or our dog?
Which do we prefer – to judge or to know?
Which garden do we tend – the one in our backyard or the one in our minds?
Which is behind the desire to convert – love or fear?
Which is better – growing, expanding and changing in our world – or not growing, expanding and changing in Heaven?
Which is better – having all or being everything?
Which is better – seeking for more or being free of seeking?
Which is the better path to bring us home – paddling upstream or drifting downstream?
Which is true: the God of the Old Testament created us out of clay or the God of the New Testament made us spirit beings?
Which of the three gospels were the last words spoken by Jesus when he died:
“Father, why have you forsaken me”. (Matt 27:46 & Mark 15:34) or
“Into thy hands I commend my spirit”. (Luke 24:47) or
“It is finished”. (John 19:30)?
Which treasures do we value most – our mortal changeable ones or our eternal perfection?
Which would we prefer – to be better than others or helping others to better themselves?
Which would we prefer – to be nourished by dog food or God food?
Which would we prefer – to be the determiner of what comes next or be led?
Which would we prefer – to be the whole ocean with all other drops or be only one drop detached from the ocean?
Which would we prefer – to believe or to know?
Which would we prefer – to be right or to be happy?
Which would we prefer – to do or to be?
Which would we prefer to pass on – an infectious smile or an infectious frown?
Which would we prefer – winning the lottery or knowing the truth that frees?
Which would we prefer to be – fishermen or fish?
Who caused our death – Adam or God?
Who controls but he who fears not being in control?
Who are free but those who are unattached?
Who designed our mortal costumes – God?
If “No man has ascended unto Heaven but he who descended from Heaven”, what does this say other than we are our own costume makers?
Who do we know that is seeking first the kingdom?
Who does not want to be in control?
Who exchanges beliefs when satisfied with what they have?
Who knows what is in another’s mind?
Who lives in hope but the uncertain?
Who but the uncertain live in fear?
Who on earth does not suffer?
Who, wanting to descend, would want to ascend – unless tired of the experience?
Who would not want to abandon a sinking ship?
Who would want to leave paradise?
Is this it?
If not, is Heaven it?
If we chose to leave Heaven, could it have been hell to us?
Who would not want to leave hell?
Who would leave this world but those who have had enough – and who would stay but those who want more?
Who wrote our mortal scripts – God, no one, or us?
Why are we made in the image of the Old Testament God - not of the New Testament God?
Why are we mortal and God isn’t?
Does He give gifts He wouldn’t want for Himself?
Why did God cast the “evil” Lucifer to the Garden of Eden?
To test Adam?
Isn’t Lucifer’s dominion called hell?
Why did Lucifer escape the death sentence?
Why do mortals need protection and the immortal don't?
Why do we live in hope rather than in certainty?
Why do we need nutrition to survive if our Father doesn't?
Why do we not wonder why we wonder instead of know?
Why does God kill all His children yet lets Satan live?
Why is God killing us for seeking knowledge? Do we not educate our children?
Why isn’t our Father living with his family on the planet He created?
Why was Jesus tutored?
Didn’t he inherit all-knowledge from his father?
Why would a spirit parent want a flesh child?
Why would spirit need things?
Would it not be true that if we really are in the image and likeness of God, there can be no difference?
Wouldn’t being concerned about the future keep us in fear and so lose our peace?
Wouldn’t forcing quietness of mind create conflict?
Wouldn’t keeping our mortal minds active keep our immortality away?
Wouldn’t knowing evil kill the truth of innocence and perfection?
Wouldn’t loving our neighbours as ourselves mean loving our immortal brothers because we share the same reality?
Wouldn’t seeing the self as merely an assembly of memories, experiences, limited beliefs and conformities motivate us to be free of these?
Wouldn’t seeking an authority mean not having self-confidence and therefore becoming an imitator?
Wouldn’t seeking truth while retaining the false be doomed to fail?
Wouldn’t that which is not of God not only attacks reality but also God?
Wouldn’t valuing anything that God did not create lead to death?
Wouldn’t what is made up in our minds not really matter because it is not the truth?
Wouldn’t whatever we protect create fear rather than free us from it?
Does God need to protect His omnipotent children?
If so, would He do that out of love or fear?
If not, wouldn’t that be because of our inherited all-power?
Would we kiss what threatens our lives – or kill it?
Would we choose to create life forms that need to eat other life forms in order to survive?
Could God really do that?
Would we restrict our children in prison cells?
Could God really do that?
“Ye are the light of the world”. (Matt 5:14)
All of us?
Might not some of us be the dark of the world?
QUESTIONING REALITY ADDITIONS Nov 17, 2009
-If God has no needs, why do we?
-Wasn’t Jesus a teacher of God? If so, did he teach the Old Testament God, both Gods - or only the God of the New?
-Who created our senses - God?
-Who created our destinies - God or us?
-When were our destinies created - before our births or after?
-What exactly were we destined to?
-Could our world have been inhabited by aliens?
-Isn’t being in gratitude being in love?
-Did we come here to learn that we never really needed to learn anything?
-Is not the equation 2+2=4 universally accepted? Is not Perfect creator = perfect creation a perfect equation? If so, how, then, can imperfection exist? Yet do not the religious believe we are born to die from Adam’s sin?
-Can what is created perfect become imperfect?
-If imperfection exists, does that mean there is no such thing as a perfect creator?
-If a perfect God needs nothing, why do we need to worship Him?
-If we pity anyone, wouldn’t that mean a perfect creator did not create a perfect being?
-If anything in our universe has gone wrong, who is responsible - the creator or the created?
-If God loves us so much, why doesn’t he rescind His death sentence on us?
-Can there be degrees of perfection and purity?
-Isn’t knowledge really only found in Heaven? Isn’t learning only found on earth?
-What do we teach - only love or some other expression?
-Which do we prefer – to be or not to be?
-Have we blocked God out so we could descend from Heaven and become mortals?
-Which do we prefer - actively doing or actively undoing?
-Are we really supposed to worship God? Is that really what our Father demands? Wouldn’t that mean He has need? If so, how can He be perfect?
-Didn’t God know of evil before creation? Wouldn’t knowing of evil contaminate perfection?
-Has man created God in man’s image and likeness?
-Are we not experiencing fear in many ways? If so, can we love Him for creating us fearful?
-If we abandoned Truth wouldn’t it be unwanted?
-Is it not true that perfection and eternity never change? In time, do not imperfection and time reign? How can they both exist?
-Doesn’t hope seek for the possible? Yet isn’t the inevitable invited through hopelessness?
-Isn’t it true that we are hiding from what we fear? Could we be hiding from the Truth of who we are?
-Can our search for the pot of gold be an endless journey while hoping to find this elusive “treasure”?
-Could the result of mortal differences be envy, pride, hope - and an unfair God?
-If we hate one person, how can we love God?
-Do not tragedies lead to wanting understanding? Who do we turn to for answers - those who claim to know or our Father’s messenger of truth?
-Can the changeless change?
-Can what changes stop changing?
-What would God benefit by creating different and unique individuals rather than creating us all the same?
-Might displaying strength really be to cover up weakness?
-Can becoming temporary successful be better than being eternally perfect?
-Are not all religions created and controlled by men to support mortal beliefs?
-Are not all religions the founders of schooling?
-Could we - having become deaf to God’s call - need hearing aids?
-How else can we defend our “truths” other than by attacking what threatens them?
-What is the biggest threat to us - other than God’s love telling us we spirit beings could never have become flesh?
-How can we reconcile two different realities - mortality and immortality?
-If we seek externally for
things we lack, wouldn’t that mean God did not give us everything?
-Do not those who follow need a leader – and vice-versa?
-“And no man has ascended unto Heaven, but he that has descended out of Heaven, even the son of man, who is in heaven.” Have we really descended from Heaven as in John 3:13? If not from Adam, how does that affect us?
-What is our purpose here – to learn? Learn what – all about evil, lust and desire, getting as much as we can while we can before we can’t?
-Could we be searching endlessly for the elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
-How exactly is our life insured?
-Are not our wishes upholding our dream of mortality?
-Do we not value our mortal specialness and uniqueness? Yet is that really better than eternal equality, perfection and peace beyond our understanding?
-Isn’t certainty a state in which there is no doubt?
-If we choose Truth, wouldn’t that mean regaining our reality as spirit beings?
-Who but the disillusioned grieve?
-Who gladly abandons what works?
-Who seeks for the unknown but he who is dissatisfied with the known?
-Wouldn’t any mortal gain bring a corresponding spiritual loss?
-What but a weak and fearful mouse needs to roar like a lion?
-Does true power need a demonstration? What but weakness needs a show of strength to cover it up?
-Which do we exercise – physical or spiritual strength?
-What are we praying for - right this moment: peace on earth or for life to improve? What if there was a higher goal - readily available just for the asking?
-What does the world offer that Heaven doesn’t?
-Which do we prefer: shopping, getting, going, reading, seeing movies, reading books, finding the right partner, going on a cruise – or return to our Father’s House?
-Can we be totally motivated to remain in the world and unmotivated to ascend to our Father’s Kingdom?
-If one thing has gone wrong in our universe, who is to blame – the creator or the created?
-If God creates anything imperfect, wouldn’t we fear Him rather than praise Him?
-Does God fear anything?
-Who killed Jesus, God or
man?
-What did God give His children?
-In which God are we in the image and likeness of – the one in the Old Testament
or the new?
-Do we really know God? Is He really male and female as in Gen 1:27?
-If God is everywhere, does that mean He is also in hell?
-Does God just be or does He also do - like us?
-Which would we prefer – to
do or to be?
-What does worship represent?
-What are the effects of worshipping?
-Do attachments bind or free?
-What are we attached to?
-Doesn’t naming things reflect differences?
-Did God name things?
-If so, wouldn’t that mean we individual spirit children are separate and unique rather than being one spirit?
-Will we be keeping our names in Heaven?
-If so, wouldn’t that make us different rather than being one?
-Is forgiveness required in Heaven?
-Who knows what God knows?
-Does God know what we know?
-How potent is the will of God?
-Could predestination have been doomed from the start?
-Is it not true that oil and water cannot mix?
-Is it not true that there are no two things in our universe that are exactly alike?
-If spirit is one, wouldn’t that mean there is no such thing as two - or more?
-What needs to be healed – the symptom or the cause?
-If God’s love is all-encompassing, why is our love selective and special?
-Is it not so that only the hurt hurt, and only lovers love?
-Which is better – defeating an opponent or helping him?
-Is it possible that the ego is a saboteur?
-How can we not judge when all our senses are to judge?
-Doesn't judging really mean "not knowing"?
-Are we being helped by a higher source or are we on our own?
-When did God decide to create death – before or after Adam?
-Did God create both the fittest and the weak?
-Could God really create the unholy?
-Does God grow – like us?
-Could children of God have disguised themselves as mortals?
-What if everything happening is according to plan?
-If the Sabbath is Saturday, will those who worship on Sunday go to hell?
-Does God really need to be worshipped?
-Can an all-powerful child of God be a victim?
-Is choice really a gift?
-Is it possible that those who cycle together recycle together?
-If we are in God’s image, does He need to get – just as we do?
-Do we not protect what we value most? If it is our selves, mustn’t we attack whatever threatens our mortality? What greater threat is there to us than God creating us as mortal beings - not immortal?
-Is there such a thing as time in Heaven?
-Under what circumstances can love never have to say “sorry”?
-If purity and perfection are unchangeable, mustn’t they be forever?
-How can Heaven be a separate, isolated place if it is infinite?
-Will we remember all our mortal experiences - including all our mortal ones - when we go to Heaven?
-On earth, what life form doesn’t go shopping? Does God?
-Who can name one attribute we share with the image and likeness of God?
-Is there such a thing as luck?
-Do we pray to God out of gratitude or out of need?
-Why do we need God’s help - unless we are helpless?
-Did God create us helpless?
-If spirit is one, wouldn’t that mean there is no such thing as two or more?
-Can learning how a headache feels be a part of reality?
-What is Spiritual? “Pertaining to or consisting of spirit; immaterial; incorporeal; pertaining to the soul or the inner nature; derived from or pertaining to God, pure holy, sacred, divine, inspired, pertaining to sacred things”.
-What is Holy? Sacred; set apart for the service of God or other sacred use; morally pure; free from sin or sinful affection”.
-Can mortality really be a gift from God?
-If only the hurt hurt, what hurt God so much that he condemned us all to death?
-Does God see, hear, taste, smell and feel – just like us?
-Wasn’t God pleased with His newborn son Jesus?
-When in eternity did God learn of birth and death?
-Was he not displeased with his first mortal creation – Adam? Yet weren’t they both mortals?
-Didn't God command us to “Go forth and multiply? Yet, are not many starving?
-If we can’t make something out of everything, have we made something out nothing?
-Are we giving out of love or withholding out of fear?
-Is not needing to change fearful?
-Is not wanting to change cheerful?
-Wouldn’t those seeking to gain have already lost?
-Does not the ego say: “I want it thus”?
-Do not animals sense danger – just like us?
-Why do men have nipples?
-Does God have a special relationship with each one of us or just one relationship for everyone?
-Do we not own things? What does God own?
-Who has put most people to death?
-Could our way out be by giving – not getting?
-Was giving us choice a gift or a curse?
-Can choice really be a gift?
-Does God have a choice? If not, why give that to us?
-How would we feel if angels were aware of everything we do?
-Is it possible that we are all suicidal?
-Which escalator are we on – the ascending or descending?
-If “All are saved and come to know the Truth”, why are we not saved and know only the false?
-Why do we children of Go live in our dimension - not God’s?
-Wouldn’t a universal truth be 1+1=2? If so, wouldn’t truth be that a perfect creator can only create perfection?
-Did God provide us with a free will kit?
-Are we a part of God or apart from Him?
-Could our only need be to give truth, not get it?
-Can there be such a thing as degrees of perfection and purity?
-Did God have Jesus killed to impress us and to show how much He loves us?
-Can God sin?
-If one of God’s commandments is “Thou shalt not kill” has He not sinned by flooding the world, killing all but a family?
-If love is all-encompassing, why are we not all encompassed?
-Can All that is become something?
-Do we not protect ourselves and those we love – including our possessions?
-If God really made Adam in His image and likeness, is Jesus in the image and likeness of Adam?
-If we are not for giving, what are we for - but getting?
-Are there genders in Heaven?
-If this were so, wouldn’t that mean differences?
-If different, which would be in the image and likeness of God?
-Are we not afraid of mosquitoes, swine flu and so on?
-Did God create these?
-Isn’t mortality deadly?
-Isn’t immortality changeless?
-Wouldn’t truth of one all-encompassing spirit challenge what we experience?
-Do we not seek to gain – not lose? What do we want – above all else?
-How did want begin – other than from belief in a state of lack?
-In what way does want affect us – other than believing in God withholding the gift of perfection and completion?
-Didn’t Jesus teach that “Spirit begets spirit and flesh begets flesh”?
-If the dictionary says that spirit is “A part of man” – doesn’t that exclude God?
-Can spirit be temporary or unchangeable?
-Are we all brethren or not?
-Why are we not brothers and sisters?
-What living thing do we know that creates unlike itself?
-What is the consequence of forgiving – other than making error and guilt real?
-If we fail to see perfection in anyone, how can we see it in ourselves?
-Who does not lock there doors?
-If “In the beginning was the word and the word was made flesh” is true, who made flesh – God?
-Did God make flesh from a thought, a decision, a desire - or from mud?
-If so, why?
-Did His plan work out the way He willed it to be?
-If not, why not?
-Didn’t curiosity kill the cat? Didn’t satisfaction bring it back & back & back – just like we do?
-Are we prolonging or shortcutting our awakening?
-Could we have created a false God – the Old Testament God – to worship in place of the God Jesus taught?
-If we are not grateful, wouldn’t that mean God is a faulty creator?
-Can anything in Heaven change? If so, how could it be perfect?
-If what is perfect cannot change, how can we mortals be “as perfect as is our Father in Heaven”?
-Can we put our faith in a God who created beings totally unlike Him in every way?
-Is attempting to convert from love or fear?
-Can we accept God’s forgiveness by extending it to others?
-If we are to “Be still and know that I am God” (ps46v10) – how can we know the unknowable? Isn’t to know – to experience?
-If God knows what is to come, why the need to test Adam?
-Did God create all that is – including money, the root of all evil?
-If we are to live in hope, wouldn’t uncertainty keep us in fear?
-If we chose to descend, then wouldn’t we only need to ascend – back to where we left?
-Does God love some more than others? If so, what would that reflect?
-If “The last to overcome is death”, how do we do that?
-If God gave us the commandment “Thou shalt not kill,” why does it not apply to God?
-Why did God create animals that survive by killing other animals?
-Hasn’t God sentenced all His children to death?
-Is God enjoying watching floods, starvation, earthquakes and other “natural” disasters?
-Have we stuffed ourselves into mortal suitcases?
-If every living thing on earth must go shopping to survive, what does God do?
-Did Jesus create a new religion – or was it formed by his followers?
-Which would we prefer – to live in hope or in certainty?
-Who but flesh beings need protection?
-Can an all-powerful God be a victim? If not, how can His all-powerful children be victims?
-Do we not eventually become sick and tired of being sick and tired?
-In what way do religions serve mankind?
-What would be the consequences if everything is going exactly according to plan?
-Why does God need to be worshipped?
-Does God need to sleep or go shopping?
-Can there be such a thing as nothing?
-If fear is an effect, what caused it?
-Does God know what we know?
-Is to learn to know or just believe?
-If we want to be free from mortal bondage, mustn’t we free each other?
-Are angels a) both male and female b) just male or c) just female?
-Did God give us free will to become unlike Him in every way?
-Are not those who control - in fear of not being in control?
-Which is the better gift - mortality or immortality?
-What does God need to get - apart of vengeance?
-Are there any marriages or birthdays in Heaven?
-Are there any birthday celebrations in Heaven?
-Is there food in Heaven?
-How do those in Heaven communicate?
-Are there choices or preferences in Heaven?
-What do we believe we deserve?
-Do we not attract what we believe we deserve?
-Do all of God's children really deserve to die?
-How can we "Overcome death" (1Corin 15-26)? By choosing to be "born" again as created Spirits of God?
-Does it really make sense to pray to God Who cursed us all to death?
-Have we made ourselves into make-believe children of God?
-Can anyone know the Truth without experiencing it? (John 8:31-32)
-Is there such a thing as time in Heaven?
-In Heaven, is 1+1= 2, 1+1=1, or is there only 1?
-How can we be in God's image and likeness if He is an eternal spirit and we are temporary mortals?
-If this world doesn't suit God, why put us here?
-What is hell but being born in pain, suffering through life only to die?
-If God doesn't need, why do we?
-Do not anger, sadness, sickness, loss and suffering - prove we are imperfect?
-Could our best teachers be those we disrespect?
-What, other than disconnecting ourselves from beliefs, will we come to know the Truth that sets us free?
-When, exactly, do we inherit the earth?
-Is stepping on an ant an accident or an inevitable event?
-Is our present "karma" from past lives or from God?
-What does "being in the now" mean?
-Does God need to exercise to remain fit?
-Who - holding a grievance - can enter Heaven?
-Does locking doors bring us peace or fear?
-How many dimensions exist - 1, 2, 3, or are there more?
-How can mankind ignore the messages of crop circles?
-Does God need food - clothes - money - a holiday - a car - a computer - rest?
-If nothing here grows without fertilization, is that the same in Heaven?
-Which do we want to see, visible mortals or invisible spirits?
-How powerful is All-Power?
-Who can match the numbers of people God has killed?
-If God is everywhere, where
can He go?
-Is not mortality the opposite of immortality?
-Isn't what is opposite opposing the opposition?
-Must we not protect ourselves against any opposition?
-Do we not fear being attacked and so protect ourselves by attacking any threats?
-Do we not fear being out of control?
-Can God change? If so, into what - imperfection?
-Which do we prefer - to be right or happy?
-Are our bodies really a gift from God?
-If a child breaks his leg, do we not immediately attend to the child? Why does God wait for us to pray for His help?
-Why does God need to be worshipped?
-How can we love a God who says we are to fear him in order to know him?
-Is not our world unpredictable and uncertain? Does not fear reign - not love and certainty?
-Is it not true that spirit has nothing to do because it has no body to do it with?
-Does not the Bible open with the discrepancy "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness" (Gen 1.26)? Who are "they"?
-Does it not change in Gen 1.27 to "And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them."
-Could that mean that God is both male and female?
-Can anyone provide one attribute we have that likens to God?
-"And I say unto you, be not afraid of them that kill the body." (Luke 12:4-5) Do we not kill those who kill?
-Could it be that those who cycle together - recycle together?
-If in Luke 12:6-7 no birds are forgotten by God and all hairs are counted - why did He sentence all forms to death?
-What but inquisitive minds can open doors?
-Which do we prefer to gain - money or eternal life?
-Do we heal, comfort & bless - or do we aggravate & curse?
-Did God create envy and unfairness?
-If we chose to descend from heaven, can we now choose to ascend?
-Should we worry about the past, what we are going to do, or focus on the now?
-What did Jesus mean when he said "Lest ye become as little children?"
-Can God lose? Didn't He lose His temper?
-Who does not want to love and be loved?
-Is not change the opposite of changelessness? If so, How can we ever be like God?
-If all spirits are clones of God - what exactly are we?
-Isn't to judge really mean "to not know"?
-Which do we prefer to gain - money or eternal life?
-Do we heal, comfort & bless or harm, aggravate & curse?
-Did God create envy and unfairness?
-If we chose to descend from Heaven, can we now choose to ascend?
-Didn't we all suicide by choosing birth and death in place of immortality?
-Is God in or out of control?
-Didn’t God command Pharaoh to “Let my son Israel go so he can worship me”? Are we not taught that Jesus was His only son?”
-When Israel wasn’t released, didn’t God set out to kill Pharaoh’s first born?
-If spirit is one, what is there to see – or to find – or to get – or to go to?
-Is God in or out of control?
-In Exodus 4:23, Didn’t God say to Pharaoh “Let my son go so he can worship me”?
-Didn’t He also tell him that He will kill his first born?
-Did God really create His first child to worship Him?
-Wouldn’t that mean He is in need and therefore imperfect?
-What about Jesus?
-If “All shall come to know the Truth”, won’t we all be free?
-Can there be different scripts for Heaven and earth?
-Did God really name all things such as octopus or diamond?
-Could we be getting only what we deserve – not what we want?
-If Jesus taught to us sell all we have and follow him, what about abundance?
-Could Holy Communion be all of us returning to our Father’s house as one?
-Can we, in Truth, miss anything?
-Which do we seek first – the Kingdom or something else?
-Could our last choice be to have no more choices?
-Might our spirit Mind be controlling our mortal mind?
-Could we be fiddling while our homes burn?
-Is there such a thing as differences in Heaven?
-Does God manipulate events here?
-Are both worrying and caring love and fear based?
-Which are we taking more seriously - our mortality or immortality?
-Do we see what we want to see rather than seeing what is really there?
-If we don't sell all we have, give to the poor and follow Jesus, does that mean we won't go to heaven?
-What was there prior to “The beginning”?
-Didn’t we come here to judge – not to know?
-Did Jesus start a new religion or was it by others?
-Are there only 3 dimensions – or are there more?
-If we see our children in pain, do we wait for them to ask us for help or do we run to them?
-What would praying to God represent, other than wrong exists and perfection doesn’t?
-Might the pebbles in our shoes be God’s call for us to return and discover we never could have descended from Heaven?
-If God has nothing to do with beginning and ending, could His call to us be the irritating “pebbles in our shoes?”
-Where is Heaven - far away in all directions?
-Could we be in the centre of infinity?
THE GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE
(Pages 1-6 are missing.) Page 7 What is matter? Will it last forever? The teacher answered: “All that is born, all that is created, all the elements of nature are interwoven and united with each other. All that is composed shall be decomposed; everything returns to its roots; matter returns to the origin of matter. Those who have ears, let them hear.”
Peter said to him: “Since you have become the interpreter of the elements and the events of the world, tell us, what is the sin of the world?”
The teacher answered: “There is no sin. It is you who make sin exist, when you act according to the habits of your corrupted nature; this is where sin lies. This is why the Good has come into your midst. It acts together with the elements of your nature so as to reunite it with its roots.” Then he continued: “This is why you become sick and why you die – it is the result of your actions; what you do takes you further away. Those who have ears, let them hear.
Page 8 Attachment to matter gives rise to passion against nature. Thus trouble lies in the whole body; this is why I tell you: ‘Be in harmony.’ If you are out of balance, take inspiration from manifestations of your true nature. Those who have ears, let them hear.”
After saying this, the Blessed One greeted them all, saying: “Peace be with you – may my peace arise and be fulfilled within you! Be vigilant and allow no one to mislead you by saying: ‘Here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ For it is within you that the son of Man dwells. Go to him, for those who seek him, find him. Walk forth, and announce the gospel of the Kingdom.
Page 9 Impose no law other than that which I have witnessed. Do not add more laws to those given in the Torah, lest you become bound by them.” Having said all this, he departed. The disciples were in sorrow, shedding many tears and saying; “How are we to go among the unbelievers and announce the gospel of the Kingdom of the Son of Man? They did not spare His life, so why should they spare ours?”
Then Mary arose, embraced them all, and began to speak to her brothers: “Do not remain in sorrow and doubt, for his grace will guide you and comfort you. Instead, let us praise his greatness, for he has prepared us for this. He is calling upon us to become fully (Anthropos) human.” (Anthropos is the original Greek word used. Leloup’s inclusion of this word here is to indicate that our impoverished modern word human cannot be an adequate translation. Thus Mary turned their hearts toward the Good, and they began to discuss the meaning of the Teacher’s words.
Page 10 Peter said to Mary; “Sister, we know that the teacher loved you differently from other women. Tell us whatever you remember of any words he told you which we have not yet heard.” Mary said to them: “I will now speak to you of that which has not been given to you to hear. I had a vision of the Teacher, and I said to him; ‘Lord I see you now in this vision.’ And he answered: ‘You are blessed, for the sight of me does not disturb you. There where there is the nous, lies the treasure.’
Then I said to him: ‘Lord, when someone meets you in a moment of vision, is it through the soul [psyche] that they see, or is it through the Spirit [Pneuma]?’ The teacher answered: ‘It is neither through the soul nor the spirit, but the nous between the two which sets the vision, and it is this which (….)’”
(Pages 11-14 are missing) Page 15 And Craving said: “I did not see you descend, but now I see you rising. Why did you lie, since you belong to me?” The soul answered: ‘I saw you, though you did not see me. I was with you as a garment, and you never felt me.’ Having said this, the soul left, rejoicing greatly. Then it entered into the third climate, known as Ignorance. Ignorance inquired of the soul: ‘Where are you going? You are dominated by wicked inclinations. Indeed, you lack discrimination, and you are enslaved.’ The soul answered: ‘Why do you judge me, since I have made no judgment? I have been dominated, but I myself have not dominated. I have not been recognized but I myself have recognized that all things which are composed shall be decomposed, on earth and in Heaven.’
Page 16 Freed from this third climate, the soul continued its ascent, and found itself in the fourth climate. This has seven manifestations: the first manifestation is Darkness; the second, Craving; the third, Ignorance; the fourth, Lethal Jealousy; the fifth, Enslavement to the Body; the sixth, Intoxicated Wisdom; the seventh, Guileful Wisdom. These are the seven manifestations of Wrath, and they oppressed the soul with questions: ‘Where do you come from, murderer?’ and ‘Where are you going vagabond?’ The soul answered: ‘That which oppressed me has been slain; that which encircled me has vanished; my craving has faded, and I am freed from my ignorance.
Page 17 I left the world with the aid of another world; a design was erased, by virtue of a higher design. Henceforth I travel toward Repose, where time rests in the Eternity of time; I go now into Silence.’” Having said all this, Mary became silent, for it was in silence that the Teacher spoke to her. Then Andrew began to speak, and said to his brothers: “Tell me, what do you think of these things she has been telling us? As for me, I do not believe the Teacher would speak like this. These ideas are too different from those we have known.” And Peter added: “How is it possible that the Teacher talked in this manner with a woman about secrets of which we ourselves are ignorant? Must we change our customs, and listen to this woman? Did he really choose her and prefer her to us?”
Page 18 Then Mary wept, and answered him; “My brother Peter, what can you be thinking? Do you believe that this is just my imagination, that I invented this vision? Or do you believe that I would lie about our Teacher?” At this, Levi spoke up: “Peter, you have always been hot-tempered, and now we see you repudiating a woman, just as our adversaries do. Yet if the Teacher held her worthy, who are you to reject her? Surely the Teacher knew her very well, for he loved her more than us. Therefore, let us atone, and become fully human (Anthropos), so that the Teacher can take root in us. Let us grow as he demanded of us, and walk forth to spread the gospel without trying to lay down any rules and laws other than those witnessed.” When Levi had said these words, they all went forth to spread the Gospel.
SELECTED PASSAGES OF THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
(11) Jesus said: This Heaven shall pass away, and that which above it shall pass away; and they that are dead are not alive and they that live shall not die. In the days when you were eating that which is dead, you were making it alive. When you come in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you have become two, what will you do?
(14) Jesus said to them: If you fast, you will beget a sin for yourselves; and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give alms, you will do an evil to your spirits. And if you go into any land and travel in its regions, if they receive you eat what they set before you. Heal the sick among them. For that which goes into your mouth will not defile you, but that which comes forth from your mouth, that is what will defile you.
(15) Jesus said: When you see him who was not born of woman, throw yourselves down upon your face and worship him. He is your Father.
(16) Jesus said: Perhaps men think that I am come to cast peace upon the world, and know not that I am come to cast divisions upon the earth, fire, sword, war. For there shall be five in a house; there shall be three against two, and two against three, the father against the son and the son against the father, and they shall stand as solitaries.
(18) The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end shall be. Jesus said: Have you then discovered the beginning, that you seek after the end? For where the beginning is, there shall the end be. Blessed is he who shall stand in the beginning, and he shall know the end and shall not taste of death.
(29) Jesus said: If the flesh has come into being because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has come into being because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. But as for me, I marvel at this, how this great wealth has settled in this poverty.
(41) Jesus said: He who has in his hand, to him shall be given; and he who has not, from him shall be taken even the little that he has.
(42) Jesus said: Become passers-by.
(56) Jesus said: He who has known the world has found corpse, and he who has found a corpse, the world is not worthy of him.
(87) Jesus said: Wretched is the body which depends upon a body, and wretched is the soul which depends on these two.
(94) Jesus said: He who seeks shall find, and he who knocks to him it shall be opened.
(95) Jesus said: If you have money, do not lend at interest, but give it to him from whom you will not receive them back.
(110) Jesus said: He who has found the world and become rich, let him deny the world.
(112) Jesus said: Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul; woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh.
SOME QUOTES
Albert Einstein
“Not everything that counts can be counted,
and not everything that can be counted counts”.
(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind”.
“I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details”.
“I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice”.
“The only real valuable thing is intuition”.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit it a very persistent one”.
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind”.
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe” – a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty”.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.
“In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep”.
“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”.
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”.
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school”.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing”.
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods”.
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing”.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction”.
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself”.
“God is subtle but he is not malicious”.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”.
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”.
-“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity”.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe”.
“A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death”.
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge”.
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically”.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.
SHAKESPEARE
“Our revels now ascended.
These are our actors,
As I foretold you, we’re all spirits and
Are melted into thin air
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rock behind.
We are such stuff as dreams are made of
And our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
PAPAJI
“You are nameless.
Where there is form there is name
And where there is name there must be form.
You are not that, you are within the form
And you are someone which has no name
Because only form needs name.
Who is sitting in your own heart?
Does it have a name?
The indweller of the heart,
That is what you really are.
You are not born of your parents,
You are that which has no name,
Which will never die or be born,
That which is eternal.”
SOME GOODIES
Life can be complicated, but happiness is really pretty simple. Anon.
The heart that gives, gathers. Marianne Moore
Change your thoughts and change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Anon.
Burn brightly without burning out. Richard Biggs
It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life – that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes in the wind of change we find our true direction. Anon.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale
Courage does not always roar – sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying ... “I will try again tomorrow.” Mary Anne Radmacher
Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle
The best sermons are lived, not preached. Cowboy wisdom
A great many think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it is possible. Rich Devos
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
It’s choice – not chance – that determines our destiny. Jean Nidetch
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows. Helen Keller
Kind worlds can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
All knowledge is second hand. Sufi
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Louis Borges
A Review of God’s Day in Court
By Ellen Tanner Marsh - best selling author, New York Times
A crisis of the spirit has led more than one fictional character on a journey to discover the meaning of life. In Beau’s God’s Day in Court, his protagonist, Vic, faces questions that move beyond existentialist doubt. “If I am a man - and if being so means that I live in a constant state of fear - then what is the source of my humanness?” Vic muses. “And if we are descendents of Adam and Eve, then doesn’t our very existence emanate from God's will?”
These are practical and intriguing questions, to be sure, but the plot, as they say, thickens considerably. For starters, Vic is weighed down by the realization that so much of his life is based on fear. He fears loss and isolation; he fears death. He asks why a benevolent God would create a civilization mired in war and dissent, grief and adversity. Furthermore, if God has handed man these hardships, then perhaps He needs to be held accountable?
So, Vic decides to set the record straight, and files a lawsuit against God.
The courtroom scenes in God’s Day in Court rival anything existing in modern literature. The accusations slung at Vic and his lawsuit - that such an act in itself is blasphemous and diabolic in nature - only urges him forward. Vic reminds the public that men kill, deceive, even sacrifice their lives in His name; that civilizations have ceased to exist and that commandments are dishonoured; that children around the world starve, suffer and often live with horrific disfigurement. Who, he wants to know, should bear the burden of blame?
The trial becomes universally watched, and Beau pulls it off brilliantly. Not only is the Pope made to testify, but a woman from Seattle named Mary - who somehow seems to be the incarnation of God - presents a treatise that is spellbinding. The dramatic result is a polarization of beliefs never before seen in the world. Those fundamentalists who used the fear of God to control their flocks suddenly find their churches empty and forced to close; those who believe in a loving God find their numbers swelling.
Depending on your own religious beliefs you will either revile the premise of this book or find yourself cheering. At the very least, you will ask yourself why no one has thought to hold God accountable in this manner before. Perhaps because it took a unique writer like Beau to give us this creative and unusual approach to questions about life, religion, and our responsibility toward one another in a world beset by fear.
A Review of God’s Day in Court
By Jennifer Hoskins
Reviewer for New Dawn Magazine
This book is all at once a surprising,
disturbing and artfully enlightening look aimed squarely at prevailing religious
principles.
Beau has captured all that is contradictory in belief systems and opened it up
for our consideration. I cannot tell who or what the author Beau is whether
professionally or spiritually. He gives us no author information. After you read
this book, you will agree that it is simply not important. The book speaks for
itself.
The content of the book is in two distinct parts.
Part one is the actual court case. Vic is weighed down by fear and despondency
at the state of the world and asks the questions that occur to any thinking
person. Why do so many bad things happen if God created a perfect world? Why do
God’s children suffer from famine, flood, fire, war, genocide?
Vic decides to file a law suit against God and this takes up a third of the
book. Vic and his lawyer Bill call proxy witnesses for God. These are the heads
of the major religions. The Pope is a highlight. The arguments are drawn from
scriptural sources and lay bare the contradictions so often presented in
organised religion.
The testimony for the defense is brought by a woman of Maori origin called Mary.
She is characterised as some kind of trance medium and she speaks as if she is
God. Her testimony will rivet your eyes to the book. I will not spoil your
reading by giving the verdict.
No matter what your beliefs or lack of beliefs, you will be tantalised by the
arguments presented and dazzled by Mary’s testimony. While much of the
scriptural basis is Christian, it soon becomes clear that each and every person,
no matter what faith will learn by what she has to say. The style here is
narrative and fascinating to read, despite having deep metaphysical concepts
regarding religion embedded in it.
Part two takes up the story a year later when the consequences of the court case
have reverberated around the world.
A request is put to Mary by the media for her to speak in a live televised
address. She welcomes this. The address makes up the bulk of the book and
depending on your beliefs can be releasing, disturbing, or deeply
thought-provoking. Mary again speaks as God. It is a declaration of the deepest
spiritual truths.
Each small chapter is prefaced by, “We shall now speak of….” Each philosophical,
spiritual and religious concept is addressed in a direct way using Biblical
quotes and either reinforcing or showing how organized religion has distorted
them. The speaker uses contemporary and historical references as illustrations
of the use of the concepts.
I am not a theologian but as I read each chapter, the content rang true in both
my mind and heart. It has the ring of authority and is logically unfolded.
Subjects such as Truth, Creation, The Big Bang, Cause & Effect, Karma, The Ego,
Time, The Will of God, Faith, Prayer, Relationships, Love, and Needs are all
addressed. I cannot think of an area that is not covered. Over fifty areas are
discussed. Each is essentially a short, powerful sermon. The style is in
declaratory format as opposed to conversational format, with accompanying
scriptures and illustrations.
I found the content on many of these subjects ran counter to my traditional
Anglo-Saxon upbringing… and yet it seems so straightforward. Organised,
hierarchical religion takes a battering as do all kinds of guilt, fear, and
feelings of separation. The underlying message is always that of Love, Healing
and Unity – towards self first, then all life.
Some chapters contain suggestions on how to practice such things as prayer and
healing. These are well worth a try and I am personally giving it a go.
This very unusual book will be a life-changing experience for some people. I
would recommend it for those who want to be rid of fear, depression, guilt and
isolation. For those with an intellectual or argumentative bent, well, you can
pick it to bits if you like.
For me, I have just accepted it on face value and am seeing how it works for me.
To paraphrase the late Jimmy Durante, “Thank you Beau, whoever you are!”
Review of We Must Take Humour Seriously
By Ellen Tanner Marsh
Best selling author, New York Times
We've all heard the classic Henny Youngman one-liner: "Take my wife...please!" Imagine holding a book that contains more than 1300 similarly clever and occasionally self-effacing one-liners. In Beau's We Must Take Humour Seriously! we get all of those zingers...and more.
In the section New Words for Our New Age, for instance, comic Beau throws out one clever contender for lexicography after another. Hipatitis, he writes, is defined as "terminal coolness," osteopornosis as "a degenerate disease." And "the bozone layer" is something that, "unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future."
There are infamous last words ("This doesn't taste right"), crazy definitions (Paranoid: You probably think I don't know the answer, right?), military humor ("If you see a bomb technician running, follow him,") children's definitions of love ("When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you,") and sage comments about aging ("It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser."). There are short stories (always funny) and bizarre book titles (my pride won't allow me to repeat any of them here. Fine, okay, but only one: Split Personalities by Jacqueline Hyde. Didn't I warn you?).
The bottom line? This book will make everyone laugh. In fact, anyone who reads this august work and does not laugh is either comatose or dead. (Incidentally, there are jokes about those conditions too.) Beau does everyone a favor by reminding us that, in the age of weapons of mass destruction, corporate meltdown, rising crime and worldwide poverty and disease, laughter my well be the most effective medicine for our times. Even if a few teaspoons of We Must Take Humour Seriously! won't cure these terrible ills, at least we can laugh while the "real" antidote is being developed.