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Thank you so much. Hopefully, most will be able to see what you did here and it's a perfect example of my post which you quote. (as in, you read my post and your natural mind provided you with ADOLF HITLER! and off you went along that thoughtstream) (Seriously dude, Hitler? C'mon man)...

Nice post. Actual spiritual things are foolishness to the religionist; neither can he even know that this topic is a(n essential) spiritual thing. --- To the reader, Watch what happens within you regarding this topic. Your mind will take the subject "breath awareness exercise" and put it in a...

Of course, bringing attention to the breath is OK. Not only is it OK, it is, for many that have attained or are attaining, the most important spiritual tool that they have. I'm being 100% serious. We're talking about 2 things here: your awareness/attention and breath. These are the two...

OP is onto something. To help understand it better, I'd offer this: The kingdom of heaven is within you. Those who say they will enter heaven after they die are in error. If they do not first enter heaven while they live, when they die they will receive nothing. Those who wait for a rapture...

Thinking and knowing are mutually exclusive states of awareness.

Hi Rocky: Hopefully, you will keep going along these lines, for I suspect a Word has inspired you. The natural, carnal mind cannot know God, cannot know spiritual things and is, in fact, enmity against the Father and His Son every minute of every day. Carnal just means senses. So, the carnal...

Jack: The idea is that name equates to nature. I googled and this quote is on the first page, "In biblical thought, a name is not merely a label of identification but also an expression of the bearer's essential nature." We could probably find 1000's of sources that would say similar. So...

Behavior modification is one common way to look at things. But, the Way of Christ is about being transformed by the renewing of your mind (Rom 12:2): The renewal of consciousness. Everything we do, think, and feel externally begins internally. As an illustration, did you check Indian cricket...

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. All material is just energy in different vibrations, different forms. All the energy that existed in the beginning, exists now. No more, no less. The form energy takes constantly changes. The water is here, in various forms.

If one were to endure within the temptation to judge another those thoughts of judgment may be transformed into the Crown of Life.

And much fruit is produced by the working OUT of our salvation. Let's not confuse doing works to gain something and the practical working out of something. I find this a sticky point for some people (not necessarily you, shturt). The "work out your salvation" is an unfoldment. In Him we Live...

OHHH! And if something like That arises within you, REJOICE! He is with you always! Thanks for your kind words Madad.

Perhaps it would be beneficial if we double-check to make sure we understand what eternal life actually is. Many seem to believe eternal life is, something like, a span of existence that goes on forever. Yet, most doctrine says that man, by virtue of being born, by default, will exist forever...

Yes, Paul is saying to love, be kind. Do not take revenge. Leave room for "God's wrath". Leave that to Him. Taking revenge would be you playacting God's wrath. You, ON THE CONTRARY, be kind and overcome evil with good. ON THE CONTRARY to taking matters into your own hands and taking...

There were burning coals on the altar in the temple (Lev 16:12). Because we are the temple of God, there are coals or burning coals within us too. Others (our "enemies") are a temple of God as well. The passage indicates that the act of kindness is like us giving burning coals to another. In...

Well, it's obviously not literal. So, coals represent something. There's alot of references to coals in the bible so the symbol is probably interpreted for us within scripture. The effect of the coals may be this: Is 6:6-7 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his...

If you knew that God is Spirit (John 4:24) and that there is One Spirit (Eph 4:4) and how your spirit is an emanation of that One Spirit without which none would live, move or even exist (Acts 17:28) Then you could comprehend how all things will be reconciled and come Home to God, returning to...

Mike, the self must decrease so that Christ in you can increase. In the moment of offence, in the midst of an experience, one is primed for liberation. When you are in the middle of thinking and feeling guilt, and when you deal with it in the moment, that is the time for you to gain knowledge...

Ah, I see, We are the church....so, it's a corporate cleansing of the "We?" I wonder how that works? Because, when I read the OP, it seems as if Theophilus is saying that 'I am cleansed by the washing of the water of the word'. Is he saying, I am the church? I am the wife of the Bridegroom...

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. Her, the pronoun, refers to a female, wives or church. Which of these things are you, O Theophilus? If you be none of these...