That is a beautiful post Vince, thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
I Am Dude wrote on Mar 12th, 2007 at 5:07am:I was wrong to have doubted his existance. To think that a being that does not exist can cause me to feel such love is unimaginable.
Nah, its not wrong to think or feel that and in some respects its kind of understandable. When i was younger, and researching early Christianity, while i was drawn to Yeshua and his teachings about universal love, etc., i was very repulsed by the Church and its history, the things they did and allowed in the name of Christ.
I feel that if i didn't have a strong karmic connection to Yeshua and his Total self, i probably would have grown up thinking and feeling very similar to what you've felt and thought, that it ALL was a bunch of hooey or extremely exaggerated, etc. There is nothing wrong with honest skepticism.
Christianity as a religion and religious force, has done a lot of good for the world, but it has caused so much destruction and suffering as well. Religiously, i've always leaned somewhat more to the Eastern, especially like Buddhism partly because the history of same has been much more tolerant and actually practicing what they teach. Also because from a young age, things like karma, other lives, etc. just made sense to me on a deep level.
Quote:This, of course, does not mean I am going to convert to Christianity. It simply means my newfound respect for Jesus is strong, and as I further meditate on his presence I hope to futher strengthen my relationship with this being. I truely appreciate what he has done for mankind and for all spirits in our human system.
Hah! No need to my friend. There are plenty of us who believe in the role of the Christ, and the importance of this role, who aren't operating from within mainstream, orthodox, or dogmatic/overly-structured Christian belief systems.
The way i look at it, is that we are all ultimately equal especially in the eyes of Source, because we are all connected and like One large self. But at the same time, there are many different, individual, and unique parts within that Whole and because of that, and freewill, we are all operating within different states of consciousness which are either more expanded (more inclusive), or more contracted (less inclusive), and there is the most expanded state where an individual consciousness is All inclusive and consciously aware of and intune with all other consciousnesses.
I, like Recoverer, believe that Yeshua and Christ both represent that most expanded state of being, of which all of us originally were part of before we decided to move out of it for whatever reason. And we're all working to get back to that state of beingness, cause well for one, its just feels a heck of a lot more good than any other state.
Yeshua as a Soul, or Total self/Disk, is not greater or lesser than any of us in the ultimate sense, but he has had and does have a pretty unique role (and the way he developed in the Earth system and before) in all of this within this
particular Universe.
For his dedication to helping all of us regardless of what we do or don't do, what we believe or don't believe, for his faithfulness, and sticking to the ways of Source even while a physical personality like us, i highly, highly respect him and i'm extremely grateful to him for his continual and consistent unconditional help to all of us.
Much appreciation to you for sharing, and much respect for you and your willingness to be open.
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