All who come to this world come to die. Yet those who hear my words and take them to heart will not taste death. Let him who has ears let him hear. Death is indecision. It is not a ticket to, or doorway to heaven. All sickness is a dress rehearsal for death. Sickness is a defense against the truth. No one leaves this world through death, but through truth. Truth is accepted by a decision. To be decided is to be chosen. If the blind lead the blind, they will both fall well into a ditch. Jesus
Yes, many more are yet to come. Swear not to die, you holy Sons of God! You make a bargain you cannot keep. The Son of Life cannot be killed. He is as immortal as his Father. What he is cannot be changed. He is the only thing in the universe that must be one. What seems eternal all will have an end. The stars will disappear, and night and day will be no more. All things that come and go, the tides, the seasons and the lives of men; all things that change with time and bloom and fade will not return. Where time has set an end is not where the eternal is. God's Son can never change by what men made of him. He will be as he was and as he is, for time appointed not his destiny, nor set the hour of his birth and death. Forgiveness will not change him. Yet time waits upon forgiveness that the things of time may disappear because they have no use. Nothing survives its purpose. If it be concieved to die, then die it must unless it does not take this purpose as its own. Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. You were not born to die. This world will bind your feet and tie your hands and kill your body only if you think that it was made to crucify God's Son. Even though the world is a dream of death, you need not let is stand for this to you. Let this be changed, and everything else in the world will be changed as well. There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God's Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! And what a joy it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! For it will be but a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time. Seek not outside yourself. All your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? Would you prefer to be right or happy? All who comes here still has some hope, a lingering illusion, or some dream that there is something outside of himself that will bring happiness and peace to him. If everything is in him, this cannot be so. So what are you doing here? Therefore by your coming, you deny the truth about yourself, and seek for something more than everything. This is the purpose you have bestowed upon the body; that it seek for what you lack, and give you what would make yourself complete. And so, you must wander aimlessly about, in search of something you cannot find, believing that you are what you are not. These lingering illusions will impel you to seek out a thousand idols, and to seek beyond them for a thousand more. And each will fail you, all excepting one...for you will die, not understanding that the idol you seek is de facto your death. In this way you seek to kill God's Son within, and prove you are a victor over him. Whenever you try to reach a goal in which the body's betterment is cast as major beneficiary, you try to bring about your death. For you believe you can suffer lack, and lack is death. To sacrifice is to give up, and thus to be without and to have suffered loss. And by this giving up is life renounced. Seek not outside yourself. The search implies you are not whole within and fear to look upon your devastation....preferring to seek outside yourself for what you are. Jesus
No, the stupidity of these people is truly invincible. Thats the basis of there strength, that its pointless arguing with a stupid person; therefore they cannot be defeated. Springer for president. That's if Henry Rollins doesnt run.
Many, mouthing my name, have made an idol out of me. What is an idol? Do you think you know? Idols are unrecognizable as such, and are never seen for what they really are. That is the only power that they have. The purpose of idols is to obscure, and they are feared and worshiped, both, because you do not know what they are for, and why they have been made. An idol is an image of your brother that you would value more than what he is. Idols are made that your brother may be replaced, no matter what the form of the idol. And it is this that is never perceived and recognized. Be it a body or a thing, a place, a situation or a circumstance, an object owned or wanted, or a right demanded or achieved, it is the same. Let not their form decieve you. Idols are substitutes for your reality. In some way, you believe your idols will complete your little self. You believe your idols will provide for safety in a world perceived as dangerous, with forces massed against your confidence and peace of mind. No one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss. Such a one seeks beyond his little self for strength to raise his head, and stand apart from all the misery the world reflects. This is the penalty for looking not within for certainty and quiet calm that liberates you from the world, and lets you stand apart, in quiet and in peace. An idol is a false impression, or a false belief; some form of anti-Christ. All forms of anti-Christ oppose the Christ. Yet, Christ's enemy is nowhere. He can take no form in which he ever will be real. What is an idol? Nothing! It must be believed before it seems to come to life, and given power that it may be feared. Its life and power are its believers gift. A miracle does not restore the truth. It merely lifts the dark veil you have placed over the face of Christ and let's the truth shine unencumbered, being what it is. It does not need belief to be itself, for it has been created; so it is. An idol is established by belief, and when belief is withdrawn the idol "dies". This is the anti-Christ: the strange idea there is a power past omnipotence, a place beyond the infinite, a time transcending the eternal. Such is this world: where such a power, place and time have been given form...shaping the impossible. Here the deathless come to die, the all-encompassing to suffer loss, the timeless to be made slaves of time. Here the changless comes to change; here the peace of God gives way to chaos. Here comes the Son of God to hate a little while; to suffer pain and finally to die. Where is an idol? Nowhere! An idol is beyond where God has set all things forever, leaving no room for anything to be except His Will. An idol must be nothing and nowhere, while God is everything and everywhere. What purpose has an idol then? What is it for? This is the only question that has many answers, each depending on the one of whom the question is asked. The world believes in idols. No one comes unless he worshipped them, and still attempts to seek for one that yet might offer him a gift reality does not contain. Each worshipper of idols harbors hope his special deities will give him more than other men possess. It must be more. It does not really matter more of what; more beauty, more intelligence, more wealth, or even more affliction and more pain. But more of something is what an idol is for. And when one fails another takes its place, with hope of finding more of something else. Be not decieved by the forms the "something" takes. An idol is a means for getting more. And it is this that is against God's Will. God has not many Sons, but only One. Who can have more, and who be given less? In Heaven would the Son of God but laugh if idols could intrude upon his peace. For more than Heaven can you never have! If Heaven is within, why would you seek for idols that would make of Heaven less, to give you more than God bestowed upon your brother and on you, as one with Him? God gave you all there is. And to be sure you could not lose it, He also gave the same to every living thing as well. And thus is every living thing a part of you, as of Himself. No idol can establish you as more than God. But you will never be content with being less. Jesus