The Becoming God

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Healing in the Second Half: The Curse of Religion: man's false perception of difference and separation from the Unmoved God

The theology of Moses is that God is ONE unit of myriad awarenesses-of-being (Heb., e'had), which are the resultant action of movement by a greater ONE, an ineffable all-inclusive unit which exists above movement and every other imaginable thing. And that ONE includes us!

Moses saw that we, God's awarenesses-of-being, the e'had, give life to our bodies. We are the living spirit of God, the conscious power the Ineffable "breathed." "Breathed" means spoken, the Ineffable's movement of imagining, so we are each God-spoken dreams of man, the living Word of God.

Dreams are imagination and, dream or not, the intents of the ONE become manifest facilitated by the corporal aspects of the universe. The "meat" of life is not its physical manifestation but the spirit experience that rides the physical. The physical simply facilitates. We are on a ride. I hope you are having fun. 

The unmoved, ineffable Source, its imaging and resultant, reflective action, the e'had and all its concomitant manifesting ARE ONE INTEGRAL UNIT, UNSEPARATED AND UNDIVIDED, INFINITE AND ETERNAL.

Ironically, Moses' non-dual theology of ONE extending from ONE without division has since become a dualistic religion of TWO: God and his creation, separate, divided and sometimes estranged. Religion's perspective is that there is difference between ourselves and God: he is "other." "We are here, and we are this; God is there, and He is that."

Moses, though, saw this seeming difference only as man's temporary ignorance, an episode of amnesia resultant from awareness's transcendence to unawareness, a lull in development to be surpassed by subsequent learning and enlightenment. Moses saw man on a perpetual upward swing, subject to futility only for the purpose of the progress and development of unawareness to awareness which should be accomplished, the generation of the completed Man. This Completed Man being generated is key. He is the his in "his coming," in anglicized Hebrew, YHWH. 


Instead of equipping man for this work of generation, though, religion inculcates man's sense of estrangement from God and confuses the purpose of futility as sin. Religion obfuscates the path of progress with a world of fantasy and falsehood.

This honestly breaks my heart. One can sense the desperation and turmoil within the victims of religion. They cry out frightened, hurting and alone, though they know God is real, know God is there, believe the Bible with all their hearts and trust that God can see them and hear them. They pray in every name of God they can think of searching for an acceptable formula: “Why doesn't he do something?” Religion only affords them confusion and anguish,
because in their perception God is distant.

Well, at least they have the futility part down pat. How many millions, billions of people have wished, hoped and prayed in utter desperation and exasperation to a God who is not out in the separate "there” of their fantasized Heaven? They cannot recognize with their dualistic reckoning that they within themselves are the God they are praying to; that they not only have a live-wire connection to God, they are the live-wire connection to God. How sad to be the wire that runs no distance inside to the Power and not know it, looking instead outside for a connection that is not there.
The purpose of futility is to get us to look in the right place. 


It is time to turn inside with confidence, to realize that God is always, ever here as our being. There is no distance to "him," for there can never be: separation is an impossibility to what something is.

"O come, Holy Spirit; O come, Jesus Christ; O come help me, Lord God Almighty."
"Eh? Come? Come from where to where?"
"O come from Heaven where you are to earth where I am and heal me." 
"Dude, I can't go anywhere. I AM everywhere. I simply become. I have become everything, everywhere. All I can do is pot up the holy spirit in you, your awareness of MY BEING YOU AND YOUR BEING ME--that you, inside, are YHWH Elohim, the Son of God AND the Son of Man."
"Oh, no. Pastor says that is Satanism, the lie of the Devil and the Great Deception. To believe what you say would be falling away from the faith. I would be apostate, anathema, cursed. The last thing Pastor would want would be for me to believe what God says.

"Wait. Did I just say . . . ?
"Well, anyway, I can't just worship myself as God and pray to me as Jesus Christ."
"No, don't. We are being, the Ineffable's ACTIONYHWH (Jehovah, LORD) means HIS becoming; it is a third-person, singular VERB; not you or I, exactly. Because we are the Power and the Wisdom of the Ineffable, we are the Ineffable, but worshiping ourselves would be like worshiping the Ba'als and Ashtaroth, the elements of the King instead of the King himself. Don't do that."
"So, there is another?"
"Yesno. Get the drift of "emanations of." Worship Him of whom we emanations are, the ONE WHO EXISTED BEFORE HIS MOVEMENT: The Pre-Emanate. That is not done by looking outward."
"It almost sounds like we should look within ourselves, like meditation or something, but we are not allowed to do that because that is Hindu devil worship."
"(Sigh.) Well, you are up on your religions, aren't you? Maybe God could make meditation clean with his holy presence and it will be okay for us to do within the bounds of worshiping him, of praying. Then, within ourselves, we could go into his presence and prostrate ourselves before him with all the rejoicing and humility and adoration that his presence calls for."
"Yeah. I think I'd like to try that. And, um, remember how I was asking God to come down from heaven to heal me? If he is here as me, not distant and separate, how do I get his touch to be healed?"

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Here I have to go out on a speculative limb:Could it be that we have to become not ourselves? I have been healed a number of times and am trying to pull together their common, scriptural elements with this philosophy. When at the Melodyland Christian Center's Charismatic Clinic Charles Hunter prayed for people's limbs to grow to the right length, I was ready for my shorter arm to grow. I expected it. I had the frame of mind that my shorter left arm was going to become the same length as my right. Mentally, I became not myself; my mind was already touching what I was going to be. That assumption is called faith. The same process goes for my back and my neck: each time, I expected their healing--I was already "there" in my mind, and those particular healings were instantaneous.

When penniless Neville expressed his desire to go to Barbados, his teacher, Abdullah, said, "You are in Barbados." Neville was confused because he was not in Barbados, but for Abdullah, he was. Neville learned to become not himself in New York, but Neville in Barbados. "I was physically in New York, but I slept in my bed in my family's home on Barbados, with New York two-thousand miles to the northwest." He became not himself, but the man sleeping two-thousand miles away. In his lectures and books Neville shared many such experiences--of him and others becoming not themselves, but imagining they were who they wanted to be.

"Whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you will receive" (Mark 11: 14, Alexander). Touch the person who is coming. Jesus was saying to become not yourself, who does not have, but the person who has. When God in Moses said, "I come by the Creative Light HIS coming," isn't that what he meant?

HIS coming. His who? The coming Complete Man, the goal of the plan set in Genesis, "Let us make man in our image." Each miracle is a step towards him. Perhaps our being touched by God is our touching the experience of the coming man.

Some of us call care to call it faith. It wouldn't hurt to try it, would it? What would it be like to be the one who has? Let his (or her) feeling seep into your bones. Sleep there, and see what happens.


Thursday, May 22, 2014

THE THEOLOGY OF MOSES: A VISION OF PRACTICAL GODHOOD

Let’s give credit where credit is due: I was inspired by a comment made by Victor Alexander regarding my post on Neville Goddard's vision (see What is Wrong With the World and How to Fix It -- http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-is-wrong-with-world-and-how-to-fix.html )

 In his vision Neville saw an enormous field of sunflowers. All had human faces and moved in perfect unison to God's will. He saw that they were all locked in the soil, while he was free. Right next to the field was the worst of dumps. In the dump Neville saw a rat, and he caught it, and he put the rat he caught into a cage. --A strange vision.

I suggested to Alexander that Neville's vision was an illustration of God, that the Ineffable became the consciousnesses of the sunflowers who follow his light--the imagination that is the e'had, us--who, in order to become free and independent as the Ineffable wills for us, "ignoranced" our own awareness of being to the level of rats and "caged" ourselves with the body's five senses. We "died" for the joy of saving us, of setting ourselves free. --Okay, a stranger explanation.

Alexander's response was "keep writing and posting your ideas, because through your vision of the Godhood . . . ." (emphasis mine).

". . . through your vision of the Godhood?" Godhood? At first, I thought he meant 'Godhead' and had made a mistake. But, no, Alexander had "hit the nail on the head." My vision is a vision of what we all want, Godhood. "If I were God . . ."

The Godhood--the Godhood God alone has. I realized the implications, and the world change under my feet. Everything was new, different, because with Alexander's help, I had discovered the theology of Moses! 

The theology of Moses is that because God is within us, as us, his Godhood is ours also--"the two shall be one flesh." God--Moses' imagination--said, "Ahiyeh Ashur ehiyeh": "I, the Eternal Creative Light, become" (Exodus 3: 14, my take on Alexander's translation). Ignoranced down to our level or not, God is who he is, and he has become us so that we may become him. So, realized Moses, it is.

It is. The Eternal, Creative Light that is God within us is the same Shining Brilliance that Adam saw in the Garden of Eden. "Adam" was Moses, and so was Eve (the Godhood is "mother" to its creation; it gives birth to it). It is for us to face that same Divine Light and to live Life, which It is, with humility and Its Godhood.

Moses was speaking autobiographically in Genesis--of himself and of his own experiences. It is his own story. The name of the book of Genesis is Creation. Creation is an effect of Godhood. One attribute for certain of the Ineffable, the Most High God, is Godhood. Moses was saying that we are Him, the Most High. Creation is what we do, know it or not and like it or not. Moses learned how to "God" in mind and to create his world nobly. Genesis is a lesson book. Godhood, or Godding, is what he wrote about. Godhood is what YHWH means; it is what Elohim does, and they are us.

Who sent you, Moses?  "Ahiyeh." That is, "Nobody 'sent' me, I, the divine Almighty God, COME!" 

If you want to know more about this view, I recommend you listen to Neville Goddard on Youtube.com. Most of his audio lectures and all his books and printed lectures are available free on the internet if you know how to search for them. I am not responsible for any viruses your computer might pick up--take care to protect it with the best anti-virus software and search/download wisely.

First of all, listen to God's Law and His Promise: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eyqadF9R9Y
 

And then perhaps Imagination Plus Faith: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDGn6KWJh1s


The lecture that starts with Neville's vision is Unless I Go Away: 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sux5iWH-Vmk


Neville was taught this "Practical Godhood" in 1930s New York by an old Ethiopian Jew, Abdullah: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6B1eGrFvw


It occurs to me that How to Use Your Imagination by Neville could have been titled How to Exercise the Godhood: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKS_QIPet-k 

You will soon see that there are many lectures available on the subject, and the subject is the Godhood. The Godhood is ours. The consciousness within us is Eternal Spirit. This Eternal Spirit is God. We have the Godhood.

Of course, there is only one God; there is no other. When you pray to God, go within and take your petition to our fellow consciousnesses in the e'had, up in the "field" of your mind. Show all the other sunflowers what you want by imagining it. In Neville's vision the sunflowers all moved together in perfect unison following the will of God the Father, and that Father is YOU! "Where two or three are gathered in my nature . . ." There you are. Our imaginations create together!

The theology of Moses is the practical Godhood that came with us when we came here. There is only one real Godhood, which is the God within us. When you find that the Godhood works for you, you have found Him!

Monday, May 19, 2014

Fund a More Accurate Movie About the Aramaic Jesus

Victor Alexander, a translator of the ancient Aramaic Bible
into English, wants to make a more accurate movie about the
Jesus of the Aramaic New Testament.
 
I use Alexander's translation because he does, basically,
just translate what the ancient text says. And the
character's in the Bible spoke ARAMAIC. Their culture and
their lives were conducted in Aramaic. Their perspectives
and their theology were Aramaic.

If you want to fund a more accurate portrayal of Jesus,
here is the letter Mr. Alexander sent/published in 
indiegogo.com:
 
I'm writing to let you know about the 'Story of Jesus'.
This is my new Indiegogo campaign for making the movie
I've been writing about.

Take a moment to check it out on Indiegogo and also 
share it with your friends. All the tools are there.
Get perks, make a contribution, or simply follow updates.
If enough of us get behind it, we can make 'Story of Jesus' 
happen!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/792894/emal/5243002

With Maryah's blessings,
Vic Alexander
 
It only takes one really good person to make a movie like
this a "go."

Wednesday, May 07, 2014

How Abdullah taught Neville Goddard how to be a Christian

Just discovered this jewel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNf2pkD7Pk

Someone posted on youtube.com how Abdullah, an old Ethiopian Jew, taught Neville Goddard how to be a Christian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6B1eGrFvw

It is a pretty good summary of the prayer technique of Neville, Abdullah, and Joseph Murphy, so I am not going to explain it here. What may be difficult to grasp is the location or attitude of faith. Neville has indicated elsewhere (his book Your Faith is Your Fortune) that it is in meditation at the "Unconditioned Awareness of Being" level of consciousness, where you "know that you are because you are, but you are not aware of being any thing at all."

In that state of unconditioned awareness, believe that what you desire IS your reality. When you get its IS-my-reality established as your present, three dimensional reference in your mind, everything else will take on the sense of being distant and "flat."

Being (in your mind) "there," enjoy the imagined IS-state of your desire with those who would know you when the IS is physically manifest. For example: a woman who desired to be married would feel the joy and pride and honor of marriage to her husband, and might "hear" in her imagination . . .

"See my ring?"
"Yes, it's beautiful. You must be very happy."
"Yes, I really am."

Feel the joy NOW of then, and don't abandon the feeling. For you, the "future" reference IS present. You have moved to already being there. Be there when you fall asleep, and God will cause the steps of incidents to its manifestation.

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

What is wrong with the world and how to fix it: Moses put the ancient, primary and foundational Aramaic Theology in the front where it can't be missed!


Why is there pain and suffering and confusion in the world? What is the Abomination of Desolation and the Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit? While I was listening to Neville Goddard's "Unless I Go Away" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sux5iWH-Vmk) for the umpteenth time, I realized that the vision he described clearly answers these questions.

Neville saw an enormous field full of very large and lovely sunflowers. Each sunflower had a human face, and they all moved together "in rhythm to God's command: if one swayed, they all swayed; if one smiled, they all smiled; if one frowned, they all frowned." Neville knew he could not compare to the majesty of any one of these flowers, but he, at least, was free, while every one of them was fixed in the ground. "I was more free than all of them put together, and millions more, times any number." Next to the field of sunflowers was an ugly dump where they throw all the garbage of the world, and, seeing a rat, Neville tried to catch it. He caught the rat, and he put it into a cage. Then the vision faded.

Yes, that explains why there is pain and suffering and confusion in the world, as well as what the Abomination of Desolation and the Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit are. Here is how:

The whole thing is an illustration of God. YHWH, the creator God, is ONE conscious awareness of being made up of myriad such conscious awarenesses, each awareness an individual "child" of the Father (Heb. e'had: one made up of many). As the Most High God "moves" by desiring, the myriad individual awarenesses follow like sunflowers tracking the life-giving light of the sun. In perfect agreement, their vivid, believing imagining of his desires manifest dimensionally, creating and directing the universe. The faces on the sunflowers are our awarenesses, yet we are as little children in that while the Father is free and self-developed, we are not. We are God . . . and yet not like him! What has the Most High Father desired? That we be mature like him, including being independent, individual, and free.

"Onward and upward to becoming more like the Most High," said we in agreement. "Let us make man in our image: the Eternal Life-giver, independent and free, in control, self-directed and self-developed." A tall order that takes a lot of time to mature and the generation of consciousness, awareness and character FROM SCRATCH. We imagined and created the END of what he desired for us to be in the future, and we are becoming it.

To become THAT, both God and free, we had to forget all that we are as God and go back to square one--to complete ignorance--and develop from there. We are still in heaven as awarenesses of being, but we have completely scrubbed it from our consciousness and have hid from ourselves, dwelling in our dream of generating unto the freedom of God's son, the Son of Man.

Welcome to the dump. The field and the dump are not separate places, but one. We are awarenesses in the field dreaming our conception of self as humans in the dump. We are altogether forgetful of our true nature. To propel our dream along in regenerating consciousness of that nature, we put ourselves into these "cages"--the five bodily senses whose limiting we experience as humans. We have become like immoral, greedy rats to push us to become more like the Most High who is holy, independent, individual and self-generated—and utterly free. However, the complete ignorance we have been born into is a problem.

Limits to propel us? Surprisingly like marriage. As unconscionable humans with the eternal awareness that we are hidden inside (see Ecclesiastes 3: 17), boy, what a mess we make of things, and how we want relief from it! But this is our wisdom: trapped "naked and unashamed" (ignorant in our cages), the light that lighteth every man (read--the divine life, "Adam") is us, and we desire (read--with intense longing, imagination, "rib") to give birth to (read--"Eve") expression (read--'Cain, Abel").

Yes, it is all spiritual--God and us as one. It is our higher consciousness, the Shining One (read--"Jesus Christ, Serpent/YHWH*")—the awareness within us who attacks our independent self-lordship--the idea of our being separate from God--which was born of complete ignorance. We foolishly resist ("Thou shalt not eat" isn't a commandment; it is a lament!) until the love and wisdom of God win out and we see Jesus Christ for what he really is, the brilliant effulgence of God's Glory, the divine awareness of being we are within us. When we submit to God we "eat" of the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil and gain conscience. Finally, we are on the road to fulfilling God's will for our lives. If you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, Halleluiah!

As human conscience, our awareness of being goes upon its “belly,” humbly eating the dust of human life until it leads our conception of self to the resurrection from the dead, which is the state of ignorance we are in in the forgetting of our divinity. In the final Resurrection, memory will return, and we will again be alive as God and free.

No, they didn't teach me this in Sunday School, either (but they should have!). Who could imagine that the Bible actually means what it says?

Why is there pain and suffering and confusion in the world? It is because we begin life in the ignorant state of forgetfulness, like reprobate rats--deficient and apostate--and think that we are a body separate from God. Our perceptual deficiency plays out in our doing everything stupidly: we imagine every bad thing that can happen, which imagining causes it to happen. What we fear manifests, because it is what we have imagined. We are--unbeknownst to ourselves--the creator God, creating our own ill "fate" by imagining it!

The Abomination of Desolation is our sense of separation and division from God. Our bodies and brains are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and the sense of division from God has no place there! To believe that we are separate from God is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, whose witness is: "Listen! O Israel, YHWH your God, YHWH--who is the Most High AND you, is the ONE made up of many" (Deuteronomy 6: 4).

The grievous sin of thinking that we are separate from God we must adamantly refuse, for never in eternity will God ever accept even the notion of division between him and us. Is it your sin? If you believe that God, the Lord or Jesus Christ is some thing other than yourself, then yes, yes it is. How can a man be less than deficient if he doesn't believe that Jesus Christ--God Almighty--is in him (Second Corinthians 13: 4-5)? And "in" means IS! 

In heaven, the “field” where we are pure awareness of being, what we want is exactly what we imagine. What we want for ourselves is to develop--from scratch--the moral character to make free-will choices for the good of all. So, as humans our conceptions of self will continue to get slammed by all the bad things we ourselves freely think . . . until we learn to believe what the Bible teaches about our Source's nature—the nature of the Most High . . . which is the “Law” (Principle) we are supposed to be following and conforming to (see Raymond Holliwell, Working With the Law). Once we can perform even an iota the Law in our heart (it has to do with attitudes--the church is 180 degrees off on Adam’s “fall,” our final submission/humility before God), then we can receive the Promise.

Human need is replaced with surpassing abundance (jethro/shua--"salvation") by the expansion of God, Yah, whom we are, not just in the harvest season but also in the instantaneous and miraculous. Our awareness of being is within us, as us, becoming more and more like the Most High God. This is the Gospel Moses proclaimed: "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh"--"By bright, flaming creative imagining, I become his becoming" (Exodus 3: 14, my personal take on Victor Alexander's translation of the Aramaic).

Imagine well, my friend, for you are becoming free in maturity, an independent individual who also just happens to be the One True God.

* It should perplex that there is so much said about Satan in the New Testament and so little in the Old. The Hebrew word for serpent, nachash, means to hiss, mutter or whisper, and carries the sense of fascinate and enchant; whereas the Chaldean means brass, copper--from the idea "to be bright." Note that the ancient pictograph for YHWH was the combination of a ram's head AND A SNAKE (together representing strength and wisdom--power that is conscious--and reflective BRIGHTNESS in the light of the Sun). Obviously, the ancient Semites didn't associate shining serpents with an evil being, but with God their savior!

Simmer down, simmer down. The word Satan does mean opponent, its root "to attack, to accuse," but who is doing what to whom? Adam, the life-giving consciousness with complete amnesia (forgetting his divinity in the "flip" from--here you go: from being the consciousness of God in a "sunflower" to being the ignorant consciousness of a rat) thinks that he or she is a body and is completely separated from God. Whereas we should be completely aghast at our nakedness, in our ignorance we are completely unashamed.

Moses never entertained the notion of a Satan other than the ignorance and doubt our own darkened minds. That is why he never spoke of one--our ignorance is the anti-Christ! The "serpent" who was "more subtil than any beast of the field" was the one who had made them . . . the wisdom of God imagined through us! Even with a conscience, our immature attempts of religion "step" on Christ's headship whenever we think that we are in some way separate from him. Stop stepping on the Truth of God.

The strength and wisdom to overcome the ignorance of forgetfulness is within us. This is the inner war we wage--the humility of laying down our own self-lordship before God is our objective. "How fully can you surrender and not be afraid?" (Frank C. Laubach, Open Windows, Swinging Doors).
 
What good things you want, still your mind in prayer and go back to your "sunflower" awareness of being, the simple, floating consciousness who is creating the world, and create what you want in your imagination there. You ARE the life-giving spirit of God, so imagine the holy things you desire there as had--complete and possessed--for you become their fulfilled end. Create your plan's outcome like we did in Genesis, and trust the infinite and Almighty God to bring it to pass. When it works, you know that you have found him--Christ in you, the hope of Glory.

Friday, May 02, 2014

I Might Have Joined the AAC, the Ancient Aramaic Church, and Why I Didn't.

I am often inspired by Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic version of the Bible, and I exchanged some e-mails of encouragement and support for his translation work, because I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE MYSTICS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE SAID.

If we want to find out what the mystics, the prophets of old ACTUALLY wrote so that we can learn what they ACTUALLY meant, then we can either become them--mystics--ourselves or get an accurate translation of the ancient Aramaic.

The only tenet, if you would, of the Ancient Aramaic Church is that the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures are the only authentic Scripture, which, I told Mr. Alexander, I do not believe. Alexander responded:

"To be a member of the AAC would limit you to the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures and their mindset. You'd have to respect their terminology, and so you wouldn't be free to indulge your imagination beyond the actual Texts of the Scriptures."

This I cannot do. The only authentic Scripture to me is the sense the Manifestation of God "speaks" to our hearts, the emotional element of our imaginations, and that usually doesn't have words that can be scribed. If you have been prostrate in The Presence, you know what I mean. In the pursuit of God and right, we cannot possibly indulge our imaginations ENOUGH.

The imagination is our connection to God. I cannot subject my connection to God to any "their mindset" or "their terminology." My theology being too "new," Mr. Alexander requested I stay outside and do what I feel I need to do about it.

I do agree that the ancient Aramaic version of the Bible is the best and most authentic version of the Bible by which God can illumine our souls. I am certain that it is easier for God to illumine the words his prophets actually spoke than the politically framed prose of our "Bibles." But I am going to have to go it alone--to find out what the mystics, the prophets of old ACTUALLY wrote so that I can learn what they ACTUALLY meant, I will have to become one of them myself. Thankfully, God is still in the business.

AND, now I have an accurate translation of the ancient Aramaic.

I am under no illusion that Alexander's translations are perfect, and I haven't read all of them, but what I have read tells me that he is trying to put the original ancient Aramaic text out as clearly as he can in English. I do not think he even knows all the time what the text means, it is just "this is what it says" as best as he can figure it. That is more than I can find anywhere else, and I appreciate what he is attempting ever so much. I am elated with the jewels of insights I find in his texts. They are why I haven't read them all--I can't get very far before I am completely blown away and sent on tangents of contemplation:

"O God, is that what you meant?" I experience great joy and elation for having found the truth, and great grief for having misread his words for so long a time and for the waste of time involved.

The Ancient Aramaic Church. The scriptures they had in their hands then . . . in our hands now, time not withstanding . . . the same words they read and we read in our own tongues and times . . . quickened by the same Almighty God.

The AAC is a wonderful idea, but that last bit I penned, "quickened by the same Almighty God," no, I am not going to give that up or subject myself or limit God to any "their." Mr. Alexander has his agenda as a translator, and God bless him for it. I encourage you to support him. But I also have my own agenda for having encountered God--that ruined me for anything less than knowing Him! I appreciate Mr. Alexander for the tools has given me for this war, but it is a war and they tools for war, and this old Navy man will take his ship and sword and steer into the midst of the battle inside, "mindsets" and "terminology" be damned.
 
I don't know, but does having been rejected by the AAC make me the first modern Ancient Aramaic heretic? Look out, Brother Joseph Cupertino!

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