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Originally posted by speedemon666
Adrian, I thought you might be interested in this. www.hiddenmeanings.com. Let me know what you think. Buck
Made a note of it, but fairly brain dead at the moment to deal with it but will look at it
The religions that tell you not to practice meditation are trying to keep you out of Gods temple. Their reason is that they feel only they as high priests can enter the temple. Not so as we have seen. The religious people who come against meditation as they do, are actually coming against Jesus Christ. It was Jesus Christ who said in the scriptures that the Kingdom of God is within you. No one can change that. The only place that you can read the words of Jesus Christ are in the Bible and that’s what it says.
..meditation because... it can open you up spirtually to a whole other world. It says that spiritualism is an abomination pure and simple. Forget the con artists, there is a dark spirtual world out there and it is suprising how easy it is to get involved in it and how "difficult" it is to get outta it.
Leviticus 19
26 Do not practice divination or sorcery.
31 " 'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.
I mean how can it be any plainer. It is within you.
Yet religious people come against meditation. They refute the need to go within oneself and find God, why, because they want you to have to come to them. That sounds terrible but it was Jesus who said it.
You cannot find God, albeit by meditation or through yourself.The Only way to God is through Jesus Christ.
John 14
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
Note that Jesus is talking to the scribes and Pharisees which are the religious teachers of the day. The pastors of the day and he calls them hyprocrites. Why. Because they are always so concerned about people going to the temple or going to church but they block them from going into themselves where the true temple is. So why the word hyprocrite. Because they want you in church not that you may be blessed but that you may support them. You shut up the Kingdom of Heaven.
This falls into different catagories
1) Sunday Christians, who go to church 'cos it's the done thing, and cos the go, they do there bit and when they die go to heaven. (wrong!)
2) Don't go to Church but are generally good people, nice to old ppl, dont steal etc. they may believe that they will get to the gates (that is also wrong!)
The ONLY way for eternal life is to believe and accept that Jesus Christ died for your sin's.
You should go to Church to share your belief's with "other" Christians, it's also a comfortable place to praise God. There is an anlogy, that when you become a Christian you are compared to a burning ember, but without other burning ember's your flame could die and not grow.
Reason being is that just becoming a Christian can put you in a whole load of danger and precarious situations, run with dog's become a dog. The pressure to confirm is amazingly strong. If you know as a Christian something is wrong do you turn a vblind eye ? join in ?
Being A Christian just puts you on the right road, but its a dangerous and often long and crooked one, as opposed to the nice easy one followed by "the others"
RELIGION IS TRULY THE ANTI CHRIST
It was Jesus who said the Kingdom of Heaven is within you and it was Jesus who said that it is religious people who shut that Kingdom up. They prevent people from going in because they scare people about the need for meditation by saying that there are demons and devils in the mind. In Matthew 15:14 it says that religious leaders are blind leaders of the blind. In other words they cannot see and they are showing the way to others who cannot see and they both wind up in a ditch.
Religion is just a word, just as Protestant, Catholic, etc.
I've already explained about meditation.
A true religious leader - and there are out there - have a calling from God to spread his word's and sometime to bring understanding to his words, which some may not understand, kinda like a teacher would, in fact the Apostles were the "original" 12 leaders, some lead, some follow all are equal.
The Kingdom of heaven is not inside you, The kingdom of heaven is found by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour.