Reply #25: Your faith in consciousness is brave.

[Beam Me Up]

I wish I had more of it. I'm certainly not without fear.

I'm more afraid of Christians than Muslims or Jews, however, as they have built into their mythology an "end time." The Eastern traditions also speak of great cyclical changes but Christian theologians tend to have a very flat view of time and any idea of 'higher' dimensions. It is written, "The Christian prayer is for the end of the world, that it might come quickly. The only question is how; a mistake here could prove quite costly."

In other words, "fundamentalists" (regardless of their religion) are fundamentally MATERIALISTS, not spiritual. They do not understand that KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is something to be earned, not assumed.

This is what the Apostle Paul had to say about it:

And I brethren, when I came to you, came
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring unto you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know any thing
among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear,
and in much trembling.

And my speech and my preaching was not
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstrations of the Spirit and of power:

That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that
are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor
of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

But we speak the wisdom of God in a
mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
ordained before the world unto our glory.

But it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him.

But God hat revealed them unto us by his
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things,
yea, the deep things of God.

For what man knoweth the things of a man,
save the spirit of man which is in him? even
so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God.

Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness
unto him: neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet
he himself is judged of no man.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ.