Exactly. Sex is absolutely sacred and the controllers of this world have arrayed its misuse against us in such of a myriad of ways even by Jesus’s time that he and the apostles were trying to put it in the simplest terms possible why that misuse is detrimental to your existence.
It is our creative force in both the material and spiritual. There are correct ways to use it, but what all those pieces of scripture were trying to convey is there is a higher path that can be walked in regards to this. It isn’t meant to be the definitive way or even expected of everyone.
The Bible does not remove our divinity or spark. It literally is arrayed around reminding you of it because again even by Jesus’s time the world of darkness had already created this forgetfulness.
Matthew 6:22
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 10:34
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
Romans 8:16
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
The entities that fall under that descriptor are those that have already through their free will choice severed their connection to God. Eternal damnation was never meant for the masses just because they were deceived and didn’t follow every single letter of the Law. That conflation is a deception manifested by the dark world. Projection of the ultimate fate of those entities that took the steps to sever their connection with God, Love, and Creation.
It is why they need us to survive. They sacrificed eternity for temporal power.
"Eternal damnation was never meant for the masses just because they were deceived and didn’t follow every single letter of the Law."
The church certainly did make it sound like it was for the masses.
You have an interesting take on things. Are your views personal or are they the teachings of a church or denomination?
I am much more partial to the lesser conceptual framework of Zen, Buddhism, Tao, Tantra etc.
The churches have been compromised for a long time. They teach a version of Christianity that is vastly manipulated and now almost completely removed from the mysticism that was deeply ingrained in early Christianity. The funny thing is that manipulation is easily undone if you ignore the churches and actually just read the New Testament. At the very least the Gospel of John is a good starting point.
Overall this is from the study of ancient history and of every major faith for several decades. My understanding of Christianity comes with the background of knowing that the world wasn't compartmentalized in the ancient days like they try to tell us. Between the Silk and Incense roads, and by their very nature the curiosity of those that seek God there was direct exchanges of spiritual traditions and ideas from all over the world as pilgrims would travel with the caravans and seek out their spiritual counterparts as they traveled.
If you read the New Testament and couple that with the Apocrypha the picture becomes clearer, but essentially the universal bird's eye view of it all is that every major faith is telling the same story. Jesus was very aware of the spiritual traditions of the Egyptians, Indians, Chinese, etc and if you read his teachings with that knowledge in mind you see him addressing several concepts that are key components of the major faiths from those areas.
There is also evidence that in the so called "lost years" of Jesus's life he made a pilgrimage to India as well to learn from the Vedic priests and Buddhist monks.
Exactly. Sex is absolutely sacred and the controllers of this world have arrayed its misuse against us in such of a myriad of ways even by Jesus’s time that he and the apostles were trying to put it in the simplest terms possible why that misuse is detrimental to your existence.
It is our creative force in both the material and spiritual. There are correct ways to use it, but what all those pieces of scripture were trying to convey is there is a higher path that can be walked in regards to this. It isn’t meant to be the definitive way or even expected of everyone.
The Bible does not remove our divinity or spark. It literally is arrayed around reminding you of it because again even by Jesus’s time the world of darkness had already created this forgetfulness.
Matthew 6:22
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 10:34
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
Romans 8:16
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Nice post actually :- I agree with everything in your first two paragraphs but I disagree that it does not remove mans divinity from him.
You have provided some nice quotes from Mathew, John and Romans but there would be many contradictory indications elsewhere.
The whole notion of eternal damnation is separation of you from God. How can God be with you if you are damned and undergoing eternal suffering?
Nice to agree with you about the other though, sex and real love expressed through that is sacred and transformative.
The entities that fall under that descriptor are those that have already through their free will choice severed their connection to God. Eternal damnation was never meant for the masses just because they were deceived and didn’t follow every single letter of the Law. That conflation is a deception manifested by the dark world. Projection of the ultimate fate of those entities that took the steps to sever their connection with God, Love, and Creation.
It is why they need us to survive. They sacrificed eternity for temporal power.
"Eternal damnation was never meant for the masses just because they were deceived and didn’t follow every single letter of the Law."
The church certainly did make it sound like it was for the masses. You have an interesting take on things. Are your views personal or are they the teachings of a church or denomination?
I am much more partial to the lesser conceptual framework of Zen, Buddhism, Tao, Tantra etc.
The churches have been compromised for a long time. They teach a version of Christianity that is vastly manipulated and now almost completely removed from the mysticism that was deeply ingrained in early Christianity. The funny thing is that manipulation is easily undone if you ignore the churches and actually just read the New Testament. At the very least the Gospel of John is a good starting point.
Overall this is from the study of ancient history and of every major faith for several decades. My understanding of Christianity comes with the background of knowing that the world wasn't compartmentalized in the ancient days like they try to tell us. Between the Silk and Incense roads, and by their very nature the curiosity of those that seek God there was direct exchanges of spiritual traditions and ideas from all over the world as pilgrims would travel with the caravans and seek out their spiritual counterparts as they traveled.
If you read the New Testament and couple that with the Apocrypha the picture becomes clearer, but essentially the universal bird's eye view of it all is that every major faith is telling the same story. Jesus was very aware of the spiritual traditions of the Egyptians, Indians, Chinese, etc and if you read his teachings with that knowledge in mind you see him addressing several concepts that are key components of the major faiths from those areas.
There is also evidence that in the so called "lost years" of Jesus's life he made a pilgrimage to India as well to learn from the Vedic priests and Buddhist monks.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/uljc/index.htm
https://www.devorss.com/product/life-and-teaching-of-the-masters-of-the-far-east-box-set-volume-1-to-6/
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/