I grew up in a very fundamental, traditional, KJV-only church. For the most part, I can understand the rationale, the arguments behind their beliefs.
I will cut to the chase for this comment. Not long ago, I found out about Neville Goddard, Abraham Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Law of Attraction, etc. Secretly, in my heart of hearts, I have given up many of my old beliefs gotten from the church I grew up in: eternal damnation, churchianity, "the gospel", etc.
Neville Goddard is the best teacher that I learn from simply because he is closest to the Bible compared to the other somewhat like-minded spiritualists.
It is hard to stomach Neville's teachings but I test them against my strong theological knowledge, and I find them to be "un-wanting" for the most part.
I would like to know what is your perspective of eschatology. What do you think of the book of Revelation and the many "end-time prophetic" verses in the 4 gospels and the OT prophets. What do we make of them in light of understanding that the Bible is all psychological (per Neville Goddard)? There is a portion in Isaiah that described Israel's literal war in 1967, if I am not wrong, regarding the "tongue" of land between Israel and Egypt. Then it seems the Bible seems to be right about the third, final world war being the last. It is quite plausible.
How then do we approach the entire book of Revelation? Many prophetic verses in the Bible have either already came to pass (proven by history or archaeology to some extent), or look ready to come to pass.
I have gotten over the hump that Christ is another person outside me. I AM CHRIST, I AM GOD, but eschatology just seems so real, so literal, so near to larger fulfilment. I can not deny that the Bible can be interpreted literally and psychologically (mentally, spiritually, etc). What is your view on this?
By the way, I have heard it been said that Josephus wrote of the crucificion of Jesus Christ. How do we reconcile that with Goddard's teachings? My current position is that there was a real Jesus Christ who claimed to know the Father and he was crucified by claiming to be King of the Jews, but I also affirm that Christ is our imagination, and I wonder why people cannot believe that something can be true in more than one way.
God spoke to me audibly, so I set out to find what he has said to other people. I found he is in constant transition becoming himself MANIFESTED, and there is nothing other than himself, which makes him us and we him in the process of becoming him. The processes involved in his becoming are complicated to us, but he knows exactly what he is doing and lets us know. Thus I have learned to read the Bible a bit differently than others, and am here trying to get us in sync with his program.
Discovering that God is real and the world is per the Bible (Spirit based, not matter based), I realized everything I thought I knew--my whole secular and religious worldviews--were wrong! Studying the Bible in light of the God I discovered, I have found that most things taught about it are wrong, too. God is right, and the Bible was originally, too, but it has been edited, corrupted, falsified, mistranslated, misread and misinterpreted to mitigate our understanding of its message of oneness. "God is One," includes YOU!!!
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Hello there,
I grew up in a very fundamental, traditional, KJV-only church. For the most part, I can understand the rationale, the arguments behind their beliefs.
I will cut to the chase for this comment. Not long ago, I found out about Neville Goddard, Abraham Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Law of Attraction, etc. Secretly, in my heart of hearts, I have given up many of my old beliefs gotten from the church I grew up in: eternal damnation, churchianity, "the gospel", etc.
Neville Goddard is the best teacher that I learn from simply because he is closest to the Bible compared to the other somewhat like-minded spiritualists.
It is hard to stomach Neville's teachings but I test them against my strong theological knowledge, and I find them to be "un-wanting" for the most part.
I would like to know what is your perspective of eschatology. What do you think of the book of Revelation and the many "end-time prophetic" verses in the 4 gospels and the OT prophets. What do we make of them in light of understanding that the Bible is all psychological (per Neville Goddard)? There is a portion in Isaiah that described Israel's literal war in 1967, if I am not wrong, regarding the "tongue" of land between Israel and Egypt. Then it seems the Bible seems to be right about the third, final world war being the last. It is quite plausible.
How then do we approach the entire book of Revelation? Many prophetic verses in the Bible have either already came to pass (proven by history or archaeology to some extent), or look ready to come to pass.
I have gotten over the hump that Christ is another person outside me. I AM CHRIST, I AM GOD, but eschatology just seems so real, so literal, so near to larger fulfilment. I can not deny that the Bible can be interpreted literally and psychologically (mentally, spiritually, etc). What is your view on this?
By the way, I have heard it been said that Josephus wrote of the crucificion of Jesus Christ. How do we reconcile that with Goddard's teachings? My current position is that there was a real Jesus Christ who claimed to know the Father and he was crucified by claiming to be King of the Jews, but I also affirm that Christ is our imagination, and I wonder why people cannot believe that something can be true in more than one way.
Help me out here, please. Thank you.
By Anonymous, at 8:34 PM
I hope I do not confuse you further with this response:
https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2021/11/dear-anonymous.html
By Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 12:14 AM
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