Re: Dissolving Ego Tensions
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:06 pm
Before some critics reply to my previous post with something like: "You can't equate Matthew 6:24 with being supported by the universe! You are not an expert on the Bible or on the original Greek language."
To that I reply: Really? Let's look at it in a larger New Testament context and see what Jesus Christ said, shall we:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -- Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)
Sounds pretty much like being supported by the universe to me. And the part about not worrying about tomorrow fits another previous post about the unpredictability of the future. Tomorrow is uncertain. So if we try too hard to control what will happen tomorrow then that will cause worry in us. Of course the nasty "archons" want us to worry about money, which means worrying about the future. The archons are agents of Satan, the prince of this world as Jesus called him. And actually that's just a metaphor for our original sin, which in turn is yet another metaphor for missing the mark, which means to be disconnected from the totality of reality by the false belief in total separation. So Satan is only a living entity by the power we give to that belief.
To seek the kingdom of God means to connect with the Holy Spirit within us. Christ through his Advocate the Holy Spirit does not give as the world gives. The Holy Spirit is intelligent wholeness in action. Our belief in total separation means that we miss the wholeness and cling to unholy (not whole) things like money and other separate, external, fragmented and incomplete forms of power and security. That's satanic forms of power which suck loosh out of us and drain us. Concerns about money make it evil. Use money as a tool and it becomes neutral.
To that I reply: Really? Let's look at it in a larger New Testament context and see what Jesus Christ said, shall we:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -- Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)
Sounds pretty much like being supported by the universe to me. And the part about not worrying about tomorrow fits another previous post about the unpredictability of the future. Tomorrow is uncertain. So if we try too hard to control what will happen tomorrow then that will cause worry in us. Of course the nasty "archons" want us to worry about money, which means worrying about the future. The archons are agents of Satan, the prince of this world as Jesus called him. And actually that's just a metaphor for our original sin, which in turn is yet another metaphor for missing the mark, which means to be disconnected from the totality of reality by the false belief in total separation. So Satan is only a living entity by the power we give to that belief.
To seek the kingdom of God means to connect with the Holy Spirit within us. Christ through his Advocate the Holy Spirit does not give as the world gives. The Holy Spirit is intelligent wholeness in action. Our belief in total separation means that we miss the wholeness and cling to unholy (not whole) things like money and other separate, external, fragmented and incomplete forms of power and security. That's satanic forms of power which suck loosh out of us and drain us. Concerns about money make it evil. Use money as a tool and it becomes neutral.