Juditha:
I don't know it all, but I try to listen to my heart.
My heart tells me that God has ultimate wisdom and infinite love. The same is true with Jesus.
There are numerous times within the Bible in which God is spoken of as if he "isn't" a being of ultimate wisdom and infinite love. When such occurences happen, I have a choice. Either I can decide that despite what my heart tells me God isn't a being of ultimate wisdom and infinite love, or I can consider the factor of how numerous men (not women) have determined what went into the Bible, and some of these people didn't understand what God is actually about.
You know, for the longest time I thought I was free of fundamentalist ideas. Eventually my spiritual development reached the point where parts of my unconscious mind were made known to me. I found that some of these parts believed that perhaps fundamentalist ideas are true, and if I go against them satan and eternal damnation are headed my way.
As I would go for my daily walk I would tell God that his divine plan is important to me and whatever it is I'm on board. But, I also told him that I can't assert to myself that the Bible is completely true and Jesus is a significant part of your plan, without really knowing. Especially not since my heart tells me that you are a being of infinite love and wisdom. I'm open to what you have to tell me.
God responded, and I started to receive messages and have experiences that told me that Jesus Christ is a significant part of the spiritual evolution of mankind. However, I've also been told not in the fundamentalist way that people believe. I also get the feeling that God and Jesus don't mind if we question the Bible. This is part of the reason we were given minds to discriminate with. So we won't be mislead by the false interpretations of others, and end up believing in viewpoints which suggest that God isn't a being of infinite love and wisdom, and that he would allow things to play out so that billions of his beloved children end up in hell for all of eternity, simply because they didn't come around to believing in a certain way.
On more than one occasion I've experienced divine love in a manner where I wanted to get down on my knees in order to express my grattitude and humility towards God, Jesus and other beings of love and light. I didn't, because I don't believe that they want to be worshipped in such a way. They just want to be appreciated for who they are.
I figure that God and Jesus experience more love than I've experienced. This being the case, I don't see how they could possibly match the diescriptions that are sometimes presented in the Bible. Do you realize how much it would hurt them if billions of souls ended up in hell for all eternity? No way they would allow things to play out in such a way.
God and Jesus won't stop loving you for wondering if the Bible completely represents what they are completely about. If anything, you would put really big smiles on their faces.
Quote:Hi Recoverer,i did not mean that Jesus was talking to the devil in the desert for forty days and forty nights,i meant that the devil tempted him now and again through those days and nights.
Everyone seems to think that the bible is not to be beleived,whatever i say about the bible,i get put down for it,i just given up,i guess i best not say anymore.
It must be a nice feeling for you to know it all recoverer and i say this with all respect
Love and God bless Love juditha