Separating Truth from Religion and Myth
Ask any member of the Christian clergy on what they base their authority and they will be quick to wave a copy of the Bible in your face. Many will be quick to tell you that the Bible is the inerrant word of God. "The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus."--John 12:21. If this is the inerrant word of God then you would expect the authors to know where they lived. Yet, here it says Bethsaida of Galilee. You may be surprised to learn that there is no such town in Galilee. Bethsaida is on the eastside of Lake Tiberius not the west which is where Galilee is located. If you ask for proof of the existence of Jesus Christ they will tout the gospels as their source for proof of the existence of Jesus. However, what they fail to mention is that during the Dark Ages it was the Christian church that banned people from reading or owning their very own Bibles. In fact they burned these Bibles along with their owners.

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit."--Matthew 7:15-17. There are those in the clergy who would have you believe that I am a false prophet, but it is not I who brought about the 'Dark Ages', it is not I who burned books and burned people at the stake. That is the fruit of the Orthodox Christian religion. All the hatred and wars that exist today, and over the past millennium are the fruit of organized religion and counter religious ideologies.

"But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God."--Matthew 26:63. Here the high priest, the supreme religious power in all of Israel, is commanding Jesus to explain by whose authority is it that he claims himself to be the Christ. In other words Jesus' teaching were not accepted by the religious powers back then, and to this very day his religious teachings are ignored by Christian leaders who proclaim him Lord. "Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy."--Matthew 26:65.

From where do the priests and ministers get their authority? Is it from God, or is it from man? From where do they get the authority to celebrate Christmas or the Feast of Ishtar, oh I mean Easter, from where? Today Christian preachers do precisely what the early Christian authors of the New Testament accused the Jewish priests of doing. They claim that they get their authority from the Bible which is the holy word of God, but as I am showing you what they preach is not of the Bible, but of their own dogmatic religious doctrine which has nothing to do with the Bible. If you walk into any Christian Church in the World, they will tell you that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, was crucified, died, and was buried, only to rise on the third day to cleanse the sins of all those who believe in him, or should I say are members of their Christian denomination. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God,..."--1John 3:1, 2. How often has your minister read these passages to you?

"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."--1John 3:9

"Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself."--Psalm 80:17. The power resides in the right hemisphere of your brain, and you can access it and it doesn't cost you a dime.

"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:"--Numbers 23:19. This one totally contradicts Christians who worship Jesus as God. There exists a part of you that is the carnal mind, and there is a part of you that is the spiritual mind or the son of God. "No man hath seen God at any time,"--John 1:18. For all the apologists who quote the Old Testament, particularly Isaiah, as prophesizing the coming of Jesus, try out this one: " I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour."--Isaiah 43:11.

"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."--John 4:24. According to 1John 1:5, God is light. Since the definition of spirit has been muddied by religion attaching it to the emotions, I will go with a far more rational meaning. Wave particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that every particle or quantic entity may be partly described in terms not only of particles, but also of waves. So, you can consider God to be an un-collapsed wave therefore invisible. Since it was the premise of the Jesus movement that the human or carnal mind is corrupt, it must therefore be bypassed to get to the truth. "And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on."--Luke 12:22. As soon as you think you shut down access to the spiritual or right hemisphere of your brain. "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him."--John 4:23. You cannot worship God through the intellect which is part of the physical world. In order to commune with God you must do so in spirit.

"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."--Revelation 2:7. The paradise of God would be the kingdom which according to Luke 17:21 is in you. "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches."--Revelation 1:20. Christian theologians will often claim that the Bible doesn't mention chakras, but that is because they use different terminology. Rather than refer to the Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye and Crown chakras; the Bible makes many references to Earth or Egypt, Water or baptism, Air or third heaven, and Fire or the Holy Ghost which are the pathway to the renewed mind.

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