Manna wrote:I tried to talk to God a few times, but all God would do was tell me to get back to my life.
"Quit worrying about all that, Manna, you've got studying to do." ...
"Quit worrying about all that, Manna, you've got a house to clean." ...
"Quit worrying about all that, Manna, you need to go shopping." ...
That's how you know it's not God - if it's anything to do with maintaining our murderous status quo here, it's not from God - but of course, it really is since God created the people telling you what to do, who usually think of themselves as God's Servants so they are.
By His Spirit only: Dreams are from God, visions are from God, pop-in words are from God. If you're perverse, they'll be perverse, if you're sweet, they'll be sweet, if you're egotistical, they'll be egotistical, etc.
Perverse stuff is harder to figure out, but I perservere perversely.
Everything the churches attribute to "Satan", all that "supernatural" stuff that actually happens, is from God.
If there is a God who is like Christ taught us, who else could do it? We need to rethink what we've been taught to think, because it doesn't work that way. We've proven it.
Churches (religions) forbid dreams, visions - especially Biblical views presented by their "children" that are contrary to their own - because allowing them would make the church chaos, and it could not perform its function of preserving the words of Jesus until we are ready to hear them.
When the church accused Jesus of "casting out devils" by the power of Beelzebub, Jesus pointed out: "If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges."
Churches call the Spirit of God manifested in people "Beelzebub" and "Satan", and his scripturally recorded methods of communication "Satanic" - because each manifestation is different, addressed to a unique individual.
We are their children, and we are their judges. But, as Jesus said: "Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?"
Is it so hard to see the right thing to do, when all four Gospels are like blueprints for what to do?
In Leonard Cohen's words:
Take a long time with your anger,
sleepy head.
Don't waste it in riots.
Don't tangle it with ideas.
The Devil won't let me speak,
will only let me hint
that you are a slave,
your misery a deliberate policy
of those in whose thrall you suffer,
and who are sustained
by your misfortune.
The atrocities over there,
the interior paralysis over here--
Pleased with the better deal?
You are clamped down.
You are being bred for pain.
The Devil ties my tongue.
I'm speaking to you,
'friend of my scribbled life'.
You have been conquered by those
who know how to conquer invisibly.
The curtains move so beautifully,
lace curtains of some
sweet old intrigue:
the Devil tempting me
to turn away from alarming you.
So I must say it quickly.
Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know --
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook.
Recognize the hook.
You are listening to Radio Resistance.
Help them off the hook, help them off the hook, help them off the hook, Leonard Cohen.
When the "Devil" lets this man speak, the hooks will evaporate, one church at a time, counting backwards like falling dominos.
Casey
Maybe my memory loss has something to do with the mystical "ineffable" thingy.