Got it? Get it! my deepest spiritual beliefs/experiences
This is an example of my deepest felt religion/spirituality
Hebrews 6:1-2 lists in woeful summary the 6 fundamentals
of Christian belief/faith/life. The "laying on of hands" therein
mentioned refers to healing and "spiritual gifts" both of which
are considerably controversial, and tend to be dealt with
in each denomination, and even each individual local church,
on a basis of their "clientelle's" wants/needs/desires and
perceived mission in their communities, as prejudices and
limited $ funds have major impact on what will be tolerated.
I have a short essay on these 6 fundamentals listing paragraph
on each and a contemporary song which embodies the
belief. I won't share that with you now.
Hebrews in general is the most mature expression of the
deeper levels of Christianity in my personal opinion, with
6 warnings if you look carefully, which I won't discuss
just now.
I have studied Bible quite a bit over the years, had some
mystical experiences, and 3 files called
Practising What Preach, Seeing Cross Thru Jesus Eyes,
and Seeing Heaven Above Here Below indicate my
perception of the invisible must really existent
"heavenly realms" in 3 steps of increasingly
close contact with GOD, not just God or gods.
I don't memorize a lot of Bible verses, only have about
35 to share which have been of particular deep significance
in my life. There are 65 others which are of great significance
personally but I am only prepared to share them with a wife
or my family and maybe best friends of long duration,
after such person has passed test of "worthy" by studying
Bible themselves and not just diddling around or having
a blase attitude about religion. GOD helps those who help
themselves by being earnest ( Hebrews 11:6). A positive
attitude is suggested as a most productive starting point
( Philippians 4:8 ) as in Emmet Fox, "Make Your Life
Worthwhile" book.
My 3 essays here mentioned
each lists a contemporary song with vocals
which exemplifies it in my estimate, perhaps
just a wild imagination guess.
Each of the 3 essays uses an "acrostic" theme to assist
memorization of portions thereof. These are "Lesbian",
"Sexual" and "Gumption". Whether these names are at
any way relevant to the theme is unknown to me.
I do regard that perhaps if my mission in life fails,
then maybe a Lesbian might be able to be more
broadminded and compassionate and able to
communicate better what I have tried over the
years to communicate, plus adding her own intuitive
insights beyond all my possible understanding.
Women "small discuss" amongst themselves much
more than do men, they have to, and Lesbians might
perhaps do even more so.
Bless you, and I hope that this does not offend
you. Cherished beliefs of one person can easily
be seen as ignoramous, offensive, irrelevant,
dastardly, or downright insulting by others particularly
if others have had a totally different upbringing and
unexposure to various beliefs. I was exposed to
various denominations in high school Key Club
where we men as a group visited the various churches
in town. Later in my one semester in seminary I
took a course in various world religions. And I have
studied buddhist wisdom, Catholic mystical writings
( I HAD TO TO EXPLAIN WHAT WAS HAPPENING
TO ME SO SURPRISINGLY ), and some New Age
which corresponds closely with Abraham Maslow
psychological studies and in particular the Enneagram
of which I became aware thru reading first a book by
Helen Palmer in California. So thereby I ended up
being a mixed breed of Baptist / Methodist choir songs /
Buddhist wisdom / Catholic mysticismSt. Teresa
of Avila saint. I don't mention New Age because that
is too provocative and I consider it to be a "derivative" of
Sufi mysticism, not an original contribution, although in the
area of "states of consciousness" they may have
made some original contributions.
Let me add that as to the best politically correct &
legitimately objective impartial equitable scholarly views
on Christian faith -- I subscribe to expositions of F.F. Bruce,
who was a British Plymouth Brethren of world renown.
This is my private beliefs mostly.
I hope & pray that my flaws do not lead accidentally
to throwing out the baby with the bath water. I am hopeing
that you can have the same motto as I do --
"Take the truth where you find it. GOD put it there
so there, so HE/SHE/THEY won't mind it". For simplicity
sake I say "he" and also God instead of God usually.
e.g. sometimes you can find God on a thrown away scrap of paper!
Bless you and I hope that as you ponder this
email over time it will be of some benefit in
your personal religious/spiritual life.
Am I a little bit ditzy or am I not on this? lol!
