Monday, November 18, 2013

On God's Timing:

And how is it exactly, that we achieve the purposes of God in the Earth, is it by striving with our circumstances, running around trying to do what we know in our heads should be done?! Or is it more to our being lead, a reading of the signs to us that as God opens the doors we become aware of just exactly when we are to act. A sense in our spirits, not our minds, as to God's timing - not this striving, striving, striving to do. Christ said, how is it that you can look at the sky and know what the weather will be, yet you can not read the signs of the times?! I wish I could give my brother John the patience to believe that in God's time this great work will come about, but I can not - it is his process and I will not interfere with what God has for him to learn......

Gnosticism

What are Gnostics? For centuries there has been no clear definition of the term. For me personally, they are a group of followers of any teaching in truth who, seeing how men take the purity of these truths and twist them to their own selfish agenda's, separate from those 'churches'(men's organized religions formerd around those truths) being founded on men's 'dogma'. There were Gnostics in Christ's time, as well. They refused to allow the purity of Christ's teachings to be adulterated by men's agenized teachings and doctrines. We don't read of Christ preaching against homosexuals(as opposed to the practice of homosexuality), for instance, yet we find denominations(a term which infers 'to make a separation'), influenced by Pauline doctrine, persecuting them as opposed to loving them into the Kingdom of God. Women being viewed as 'lesser' based on Judaist/Pharisaical influences first introduced by Paul, once again. Out of his zealous missions, many churches were formed and these dogmas persisted through all of his established doctrines - and so on to this day. But the Gnostic movement has remained unorganized and hardly defined, being uninfluenced solely by one individual's or any one group's belief system, i.e. dogmas. If we look at long established churches, such as the Roman Catholic church, we see examples of dogma gone awry and deviations from the truths of Christ's teachings, which have caused aberrations to practices in the extreme. These errant practices, such as 'transubstination'(the actual turning of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ for consumption), based on man's dogma, have been propagated throughout the organized, religious world since the days of the first Corinthian church, whereupon at one time the office of Church Whore was a sanctioned position within the structure of The Body. The waywardness of this early church, caused by men's influences upon truth, constantly needed Paul's disciplinary attentions(scholars believe there where four letters to the Corinthian church, two of which were lost, all predominately corrective in tone). Even the famous 'Love Chapter' of the first letter, being viewed in retrospect as an attempt to dissuade the practise of prostitution in the church, by light of the true definition of love. The term 'Christian' itself was first used against followers of Christ as a demeaning slur, comparative to terms like 'infidel'. Why would you assume a title given you by your enemy?! I am not a 'Christian', I am a Son of the most high God and a follower and brother to Jesus Christ, the great Raboni, and am essentially Gnostic, as regards the disciplines of my faith in Jesus Christ.