"Look here, it's the lamb of God who takes upon himself the wrongdoing of theworld." - John 1:29
"You see, God loved the world so much He Gave His only son, sothat everyone who believes in him would not be lost, but instead have everlastinglife." - John 3:16
If we believe God's only son was sent to take our sinsupon himself so we could have everlasting life with God, then every gospels is toolong!
All teachings and doings of Jesus could be excluded, they are uneccessary toreach everlasting life.
Every gospel does not need to be longer than 12 versesforming a single chapter. But they are longer!
Are they not longer, becauseJesus needed to teach the people how to live with God so they could bring forth theKingdom of God in their own life?
"The speculative dogma of vicariousatonement, which has based Christian thought for centuries can not be charged to theauthor of the Sermon on the Mount, or the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
"Theleaders of Christian thought have diverted the followers of Jesus and his teaching from the practical application and study of God power. They have taught them to lookupon his teaching as the experiences of the Apostles after his time, instead ofteaching them the law which those teachings were based was an exact science whichcould be understood and experienced in the lives of all.
"The Orientals havemade the scientific phase of their religion to the supreme object of their study andattainment. In this they have gone on the the other extreme. In this way both has consigned their religion to the realm of miracules and supernatural. The one hasbecome absorbed in the wholly ethical, while the other has become absorbed in thescientific side only. Thus both has shut out true spirituality.
"The monasticlife of retirement, asceticism and seclusion from the world, wherether in Buddhisticor Christian monasteries, is neither a neccessity nor is it the true method ofattaining spiritual enlightenment nor the realization of the perfect life of wisdomand power brought forth by Jesus.
"These monastic systems have been inexistence for many thousands of years, yet they have in no wise accomplished as muchfor the uplift of the common people as did the teaching of Jesus in the few shortyears of his time here on earth.
- Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East volume 2, page 7-8
Christians get tears in their eyes, when they think of Jesus as the lamb. -That hedied for them. But the will get tears of joy in their eyes when they understand whatJesus teaching really means for people. They could bring forth the Kingdom of Godfrom within, in their own lives with the right understanding and practice of theteaching of Jesus.
"Right here comes the suggestion that has lead to the idolatry of the past.Men sought to grave in wood or stone, gold, silver or brass the image of that theyidealizad, but any idol can only imperfectly picture the ideal. The image, the idol,is no sooner formed than men become conscious that the ideal surpasses the idol, andthey are shown that they must gaze upon love, and idealize for themselves that theywish to bring forth from the within, instead of graving any idol in outer form of theideal they would express. A later form of idolatry is to idealize the personality ofthe one who expresses our ideal. We should idealize the ideal which he expresses andnot the personality which expresses it. This is true even of one so great person asJesus. Thus Jesus chose to go away, when He saw that the people were idealing Hispersonality instead of the ideal He represented. They sought to make Him their King...
Life and Teaching of the Masters ofthe Far East volume 1, page 59-60
In statechristianity Jesus isIdolworshipped, in some countries Mother Mary is Idolworshipped and in some countriesSaints are also Idolworshipped.
Free Christianity, like the Pentecoastal Movementalso have Idolworshipping of Jesus as the Saviour and the Lamb. But Idolworshippingof Mother Mary and Saints are abscent, however a recent kind of "Idolworshipping" isthe look upon historical Christians (John Calvin,..) and the "worship" of modernChristian leaders (Ulf Ekman, The Pope..)
The last type of "worship" comes tobeing when Christians looks upon their own failures and begin to think -"God doesn'tanswer my prayer- but Ulf Ekman's prayers is answered" or "Ulf Ekman is such acaresmatic person, he must be sent by God, let him be my Shepherd."
"If you look back to your ancestors, you will, before you realize it, be worshippingthem; for with your creative ability, you will have brought forth that which you havegazed upon. You will be living by their standards of your own. You will begin tolook like your ancestors, but you will not accomplished what they haveaccomplished. You will begin to drop back; for if you live by another's ideal, youcan not accomplish that which the one who conceived the ideal accomplished. You musteither go on or return. There are no half-way measures. This ancestor worship isone of the direct causes of nations' (Church, Assamble, Organization) degenerating."- Life and Teaching of the Masters ofthe Far East volume 2, page 31
The "Worship" of Christian Leaders is an effect of Christian wrongthinkingor rather - lack of thinking.
When the Masters made a bread miracle forSpalding's research team one of the members said this: "We came here, as we supposed,to find the remains of a people, long since dead and gone. Instead, we find a peopleliving a far more wonderful and active life than can be comprehended. If this thingthat we have seen could be herald abroad, you would have the whole world bowing atyour feet." The three ladies said they did not wish the world to bow at their feet,but they longed to see all mankind bowing at God's feet. They went on to say thatmankind already had too many idols.
The ideal was the thing really needed.
- Life and Teaching of the Mastersof the Far East volume 2, page 102-103
"It is in this way the Christ wasborn. Mary, the Great Mother, perceived the ideal; the ideal was held in mind, thenconceived in the soil of her soul, held for a time there, then brought forth or bornas the perfect Christ Child, the First Born, the Only Begotten, the Son of God. Hewas nourished and protected; given the very best of the mother; watched over andcherished until He grew from childhood into manhood. It is thus the Christ comes toall of us; first as an ideal planted in the soil of our soul - the central partwhere God is - held in mind as the perfect ideal, then brought forth or born as theperfect Child, the Christ Consciousness.
- Life and Teaching of the Mastersof the Far East volume 1, page 23-24
"God is holding the ideal perfectworld in mind in every detail and it is bound to come forth as a heaven or perfecthome where all His children, all His creatures, and all His creations may dwell inpeace and harmony. This is the perfect world that God saw in the beginning and theone He is thinking into existence right now, and the time of its manifestation liesin our acceptance of it. When we can come to the one place and know that we are allone, one man, and know that we are all members of God’s body as much as one memberof our body is a part of the whole body, then we are in, and of, God’s kingdom,heaven here on earth, now.
"To make this manifest, realize that there isnothing material in heaven. All is spiritual. Realize that heaven is a perfect stateof consciousness, a perfect world here on earth now, and all we need to do is toaccept it. It is here all about us, waiting for us to open the inner eye. Throughthat eye our bodies shall be made light, the light which is neither of the sun normoon but of the Father; and the Father is right here in the very innermost part ofour being. We must sufficiently realize that there is nothing material, that all isspiritual. Then we must think of that wonderful God-given spiritual world which isright here now if we can realize it.
- Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East volume 1, page 47
"All the different isms, cults, andcreeds, all the different angles of all beliefs, are all good for they willeventually lead their followers to the realization that underneath all there is adeep factor of actuality that has been missed, a deep something that has not beencontacted or they have failed to contact that which rightly belongs to them, whichthey can and should rightfufly possess. We see it is this very thing that willeventually drive man to possess all. The very fact that man knows there issomething to possess, which can be possessed and which he has not, will goad him onuntil he has it. It is in this way every step in advance is made in all things.
The idea is first pressed out from God’s into man’s consciousness and hesees there is something ahead if he will but go on. Here man usually blunders andfails to recognize the source from which the idea came; but thinks that it camewholly from within himself. He gets away from God and, instead of letting Godexpress through him the perfection God sees for him, he goes on and expresses inhis own way and brings forth imperfectly the thing which should be perfectlywrought or manifest.
"If he should but realize that every idea is adirect, perfect expression from God and, as soon as this idea comes to him, hewould immediately make it his ideal to be expressed from God, then take his mortalhands off and let God express through him the perfect way, this ideal would comeforth perfect. Here we must realize that God is above the mortal and the mortalcannot help in any way. In this way man would learn in a short time to expressperfection. The one great thing man must learn is to get forever through and outof the psychic or mind forces and express directly from God, for all psychicforces are created wholly by man and they are likely to mislead."
- Life and Teaching of theMasters of the Far East volume 1, page 89-90
"Every child born is goodand perfect. There are no bad children. It does not matter whether they areconceived in the perfect or immaculate or through the sense or material way.The one conceived in the perfect way will soon recognize his Sonship with theFather, that he is the Christ or Son of God; then he will develop and unfoldquickly and he will see only perfection. The one conceived through the sense waymay also immediately recognize his Sonship, perceive that the Christ is in him,and may realize his perfection by idealizing the Christ. He gazes upon that ideal,loves and cherishes it until he manifests or brings forth that which he gazesupon, the Christ. He is re-born and is perfect. He has brought forth perfectionfrom within himself, that perfection which was always there. The one held to theideal and was perfect; the other perceived the ideal and unfolded that ideal,and regained perfection. Thus no child is bad; all are good and from God."
- Life and Teaching of theMasters of the Far East volume 1, page 105
"God’s love islike a pure spring that gushes from a mountain. At its source it is pure but asit flows on its course it becomes clouded and polluted until it enters the oceanso impure it does not even resemble that which emerged from the source. As itenters the ocean it begins to drop the mud and slime to the bottom and againrises to the surface as a part of the glad, free ocean, from which it again canbe taken up to refresh the spring.
"You can see and talk with God at anytime, just as you can with father, mother, brother, or friend. Indeed, He is farcloser than any mortal can be. God is far dearer and truer than any friend. Godis never wrought up, nor angry, nor cast down. God never destroys, nor hurts,nor hinders one of His children or creatures or creations. If God did thesethings, He would not be God. The god that judges, destroys, or withholds anygood thing from his children or creatures or creations is but a god that isconjured up by man’s ignorant thinking; and you need not fear that god unlessyou wish to do so. For the true God stretches forth His hand and says, 'Allthat I have is yours.' When one of your poets said that God is closer thanbreathing and nearer than hands or feet, he was inspired by God. All areinspired by God when that inspiration is for the good or the right and all canbe inspired by God at all times if they only will.
"When I said,‘I am the Christ, the only begotten of God’, I did not declare this for myselfalone, for had I done this I could not have become the Christ. I say definitelythat, in order to bring forth the Christ, I, as well as all others, mustdeclare it; then must live the life, and the Christ must appear. You may declarethe Christ all you will and, if you do not live the life, the Christ will neverappear. Just think, dear friends, if all would decleare the Christ then livethe life for one years or five years, what an awakening there would be. Thepossibibilities cannot be imagined. That was the vision that I saw.
- Life and Teaching of theMasters of the Far East volume 2, page 53-54
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