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This is something unexpected. While some Evangelicals are founding anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-liberal, and anti-immigration groups, there’s another assembly called Red-Letter Christians. They are called Red-Letter because they have red-letter editions of the Bible, and are obeying the commandments of Jesus. Love your enemies, judge not that ye be not judged, and forgive those who hate you, do not resist evil, and help your fellow man. Jesus said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” –John 14:15
They don’t picket abortion clinics, they don’t exclude gays, nor call them names, they don’t involve themselves in politics, and they are devoted to feeding the hungry, healing the sick, visiting the shut-ins, and helping others. Their goal is to love as Jesus loved, and taught from the hillsides of Jerusalem. They are reviving the core of Christian teachings, turning back the clock to the beginnings of Christianity. God bless them, the Christians are back on the job of helping and loving others.
Anon
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Who has not asked:
“What am I doing here?”
In a moment of quiet despair
who has not wondered “why me?”
No one knows how life began. Many theories abound, but facts are scarce. Religion, science, even aliens are used to explain creation. However, if theories were facts they would not be theories. We can only look at the wonders of this world speculating how they came into being. We can only guess how the Universe was born, and by what power it was thrust into reality.
It is simplistic to believe creation was chance and mankind only a fluke of fate. It is more logical to assume a “Higher Intelligence” put this world together. Religion attempts to describe this “Higher Intelligence” with many contradictory behaviors. One cannot rationally believe these man-made explanations.
From the beginning of recorded history man has believed in life after death. Paintings on cave walls reveal cavemen believed. Where did this idea/belief come from, how did mankind start to believe in life after death? It is possible they experienced themselves outside their body. Today, due to traumatic events folks have found themselves out of body and still very much alive. These experiences are called “Near Death Experiences.” It is estimated eight million people living in the U.S. have experienced this out-of-body phenomenon.
What is within the human body that still exists after death? Is it conscious energy given by a Higher Intelligence? Is this conscious energy the real you — your personality, thoughts, beliefs and memory? We humans do not create this energy, nor can we destroy it. It is eternal. For simplicity we will call this energy “consciousness.” A married couple can’t create consciousness. They only create the mortal coil, or body in which it exists here on planet earth. If the body becomes unable to sustain consciousness, it returns to the non-physical.
We come into the physical to grow into emotional maturity. We have to work at it every day. Watching our words and actions to insure we harm no one. The methods have been taught by Master Teachers. Jesus, Confucius, Krishna, and Buddha to name a few. The methods are: love your enemies, forgive those who use and/or exploit you, return good for evil, and help those in need. Your wealth or position in the physical matters not one whit. If you’re like most, you’ll not feel the value until after you try. It is infinitely worthwhile.
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If you should gain advantage through dishonesty, it will always be redressed. You will lose trust and respect. All deeds of lying and deceit will be rectified either here in the physical or when your consciousness returns to the non-physical. You cannot harm another without harming self. The judge is always yourself. There is no running away, the deed will be with you until resolved by a like deed to yourself. The universal law of justice, “Like Attracts Like,” cannot be circumvented.
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How do we know truth? Every day we make decisions. Dozens of people directing us to do this or that. Asking us to believe in their truth and make it ours. Join their political party and think as they do, so we will be safe. How do we sort through this mass of information and choose the real truth? How do we know who is speaking truth and who isn’t?
The good news is, we all come into life with a built-in truth detector. Some call it a moral conscious, or a gut feeling. The bad news is, we don’t always follow what we know to be truth.
Here are a few things that guide me: (1) Looking beyond the “discourse” into the reality behind it. A “What you do speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you say” type of assessment. (2) Knowing that truth is open and free to all. No party or organization has any “secret” truth. (3) Truth can be understood by all. It is never so complicated that only a few can know. (4) Truth is always at hand. You don’t need to go somewhere “special” to find it. And (5) truth will stand up to all questions and remain truth. There is nothing so “sacred” about truth that it can’t be questioned.
Those who say: “I believe she was assaulted, But …” are not telling truth. They either don’t believe her or not willing to stand for the truth.
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Where is your Commitment?
This is something unexpected. While some Evangelicals are founding anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-liberal, and anti-immigration groups, there’s another assembly called Red-Letter Christians. They are called Red-Letter because they have red-letter editions of the Bible, and are obeying the commandments of Jesus. Love your enemies, judge not that ye be not judged, and forgive those who hate you, do not resist evil, and help your fellow man. Jesus said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” –John 14:15
They don’t picket abortion clinics, they don’t exclude gays, nor call them names, they don’t involve themselves in politics, and they are devoted to feeding the hungry, healing the sick, visiting the shut-ins, and helping others. Their goal is to love as Jesus loved, and taught from the hillsides of Jerusalem. They are reviving the core of Christian teachings, turning back the clock to the beginnings of Christianity. God bless them, the Christians are back on the job of helping and loving others.
Anon
© 2018, Lekatt. All rights reserved.