If you truly want to know and experience God, you have to transcend religion.
Until you know God, you will never be free.
- The Place of Religion
Religion is the kindergarten of knowing God. It is the mind
tuning school to give direction to the natural instinct of being aware of the
greater being and purpose.
Religion makes you look for God in the farthest spectrum but
when you transcend religion, you realized that God is not far, God is within
you.
The “far-God” dogma enable men to capitalize and anoint
themselves as intercessors (Men of God), creating rules to keep the flock in
line.
This is the opposite of the enlightenment Christ brought to
us.
- The Milk and Solid Food
Religion keeps us in the rudiments of the truth – the milk
of spirituality, whereas we should be taking solid food. Heb 5:12 “In
fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you
the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of
solid food”.
When the yearning of an individual for spirituality is no
longer satisfied by the place of religion (Church), that the person’s soul thirsting
for more, leaving behind the elementary teachings about Christ and pressing
towards maturity.
Unfortunately, most churches are not equipped to help such
individual transcend.
The following are the teachings (according to Apostle Paul, Heb 6:1,2) that are baby foods in the spiritual journey;
i. Repentance from sins
ii. Faith in God (or towards God)
iii. Baptism
iv. Miracles
v. Resurrection of the dead
vi. Eternal Judgment
vii. Heaven and Hell fire
Inasmuch as you view the above as the core teachings of
Christianity, they are no more different from the Jewish teachings. The truth
remains that, Christ’s teachings was beyond all these.
Does that make the fundamental teachings wrong? NO! In fact Apostle Paul said, “Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as
worldly people, as mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not
solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!” 1Co
3:1,2.
- Transcending When you are READY!
When you are ready, you will feel it. It is not about
scriptural arguments or demonstration of the “power of God”. When you feel it, you
feel peace and the interconnection of all spiritual essence and teachings.
The Word of God would make more sense in your everyday
living, the natural world and even science.
You will
be united in the faith and in the full knowledge of God, unto the measure
of the stature of the fulness of Christ: no more tossed to and fro, and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men (MOG).
You feel
united as each individual part does its job, the body builds itself up in love.
(Eph. 4:13-16).
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