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activity cannot be seen or heard with natural eyes or ears. Because these soulish activities do make people feel good, satisfied, proud and fulfilled, people make a habit of doing them repeatedly and regularly. In Biblical terms, they feed their souls on regular religious activity just like they feed their physical bodies on natural food. Religious people believe that they must belong to and participate in the activities of a religious community (i.e. institution) to feel good, satisfied, proud and fulfilled about their relationship with God. This is the substance of their soulish life. The truth is that their soulish life — not their spiritual life — is based on the opportunities offered to them by man-made, human institutions, based on false doctrines — not by God. It does not occur to religious people that they can feel, good, satisfied, proud and fulfilled only through faith in a God that they cannot see without being part of a religious community. The truth is that they feed their souls and create internal security for themselves by joining themselves to man-made religious institutions. This is not the same as trusting a God whom they cannot see with natural eyes, whom the cannot… (Search hits: 32 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 91821.91)
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…spiritual laws because religious laws require listening to the voices of religious leaders (i. e. false prophets) instead of God’s spoken voice. The story of Adam and Eve shows that God allows people to choose to be religious. They had a choice to eat from the Tree of Life or from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They were spiritually alive as long as they ate from the Tree of Life, but they died spiritually (i.e. they could no longer hear God’s spoken voice) when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. When they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they sinned by eating evil soulish food served by false prophets. Abounding grace accrues to people who have practiced religion zealously for a long time. The more religious they were, the more they appreciate being set free from religion. The more the have listened to false prophets, they more they will appreciate hearing God’s spoken voice. Having been spiritually dead while sinning practicing religion, they have great appreciation for being spiritually alive while listening to God’s spoken voice. Romans 7:9: I was once alive apart from the Law; but when… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 11477.74)
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…high priests, witnesses, and warriors. Unclean types are false prophets, Giants and Nephilim, Judas, Kings, Queens and Princes, Pharisees and Scribes, Serpents, Devils, Satans, Adversaries, Demons, Evil Spirits and Anti-Christs. Angels can be either clean or unclean. The clean and unclean principle is found throughout the Bible. The essential challenge in discerning between good, clean, spiritual food and unclean, evil food is in evaluating who is serving the food. This means we must know the hearts of the characters we find in the Bible. Clean people have clean/pure hearts and serve clean spiritual food (i.e. teaching). Unclean people have evil/impure hearts and serve unclean, evil, soulish food. STUDY TIP: See this link for a detailed discussion of clean and unclean foods. Here are the rules of thumb to follow when making these evaluations about Bible characters: Food served by God or true prophets is good, clean food and safe to eat because it gives life to the spirit. Food served by religious leaders and false prophets is unsafe because it only nourishes the soulish flesh and not the spirit. STUDY TIP: See DISCERN BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN, HOLY AND PROFANE, AND SOUL AND SPIRIT for understanding of the differences between… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 11477.74)
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…how it atones for spiritual sin. The answer hinges on knowledge of the nature of sin: Sin is the term that God uses to describe man’s condition when man listens to the voices of false prophets instead of listening to God’s voice. Just like famine in the natural body leads to death, famine from hearing God’s voice leads to spiritual death. This principle is based on the truth that man lives on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. In other words, if we do not keep on being filled with the word (i.e. spirit) of God, we will die spiritually. Just as a natural body will eventually die if it only consumes food with no nutritional value, a spiritual body will die if it consumes only evil, soulish food. Similarly, just as a natural body that consumes healthy food will live, a spiritual body that consumes good, spiritual food will live. Religious people consume a steady diet of evil, soulish food. They symbolically eat this food when they listen to the words of false prophets. See these links for various Biblical characters that qualify as False Prophets: Balaam Judas *** Kings, Queens and Princes Pharisees and Scribes… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 11477.74)
…all New Covenant disciples are messiahs. Bring good news to people who are afflicted with religion. Tell people that their relationship with God depends on the condition of their heart — not on religious activity. Turn religious people from worshiping in the flesh to worshiping in spirit and truth. Tell religious people that, because God sees religion as his enemy, he is calling them out of defiled religion into pure religion. Divide New Covenant disciples from Old/First Covenant religionists by speaking God’s words. Serve God as true prophets , angels, messiahs, high priests, witnesses and warriors who speak the gospel (i.e. God’s spoken words) to religious people who cannot hear God’s voice. Make disciples/followers by teaching them how to reinterpret scriptures for their spiritual meaning. Convert people from the religious practices of idolatry and listening to false prophets to people who listen to God’s voice. Make disciples and teach them. Confront and rebuke religious leaders for their religious practices. Religious leaders are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil who serve evil, soulish food to religious people. They are False Prophets, Serpents, Devils, Satans, Adversaries Demons, Evil Spirits, Anti-Christs, and foolish, worthless, stupid shepherds who tempt people to practice religion…. (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 8608.3)
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…Why Rituals Work Who Benefits from Religion? Religious people do not need social scientists or psychologists to tell them that religion is food for them. They know it to be true because they experience the benefits on a regular basis. They may not articulate in their conscious minds what those benefits are, but they intuitively know that they are real and they value those benefits — even though the religious food they eat only nourishes their souls and not their spirits. So, they ignorantly keep going back to church or synagogue for food that does not satisfy because they are deceived about the truth that the food religion offers is unclean. STUDY TIP: See Pride for a deeper discussion about the benefits of religion. But religion is not the only place that offers soulish food. Atheists who attend godless churches have learned the value of a non-religious community in which they fellowship with others to replicate the benefits of religion in non-religious venues. Gathering together with people who think like they do. Listening to inspirational teachings. Singing songs. Helping others. Celebrating life together. People who attend these secular gatherings understand the value of community and ritual. Even though they have… (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 8608.3)
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…also learn if we listen carefully, is that the cure for the curses exists in repenting for not obeying the command to listen and then begin listening. This principle is so simple that it is hard to grasp. Here is another way of saying it. If we get sick because we eat unhealthy food, the way we get well is by eating good healthy food. We see this principle often in the news and publications about physical health. Food with too much fat, sugar and man-made additives contributes to obesity, cancer, and other kinds of bodily ailments. Eating natural, unadulterated food is the best way to achieve physical health. This principle also applies with respect to spiritual food. That is why God gives such clear instructions about what kinds of spiritual food can be eaten and what kinds cannot be eaten. These are discussed in detail in Bread, Food and Wine. People get spiritually sick and die when they eat evil, soulish food served by false prophets. The only way to get spiritually healthy, therefore, is to eat good, spiritual food that comes from the mouth of God. That’s it. God’s spoken word is the cure to the curses. God’s… (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 8608.3)
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…who do not have that authority results in deception and religion. See Bread, Food and Wine, FALSE PROPHETS and TRUE PROPHETS and COVENANT COMPARISONS: PURE RELIGION AND DEFILED RELIGION for insights on discerning who speaks for God and who doesn’t. Religious leaders with and without titles (e.g. rabbi, pastor, etc.) and degrees who presume to speak for God are usurpers and imposters who represent that what they speak is equal to God’s spoken voice. They are, in their eyes, like God. In God’s eyes, however, they are other gods, idols, evil angels, false prophets and Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil whose words seem good for food but yield forbidden fruit that causes death for those who eat it. STUDY TIP: See Bread, Food and Wine and Wood (trees), Gold, Silver, Stone for more about Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Religious leaders are free to speak and write in this way, of course, just as people are free to listen to them and read what they write. In Biblical symbolism, people are free to eat (i.e. listen to and read) the words (i.e. evil, soulish food) of religious leaders just as they are free to eat (i.e…. (Search hits: 3 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 8608.3)
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…think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. COMMENTARY: Jesus did not come to bring peace between men. That is the kind of messiah for which the Jews were looking. Jesus came to bring peace to the hearts of individual persons. The sword that Jesus brings is the sword of God’s spoken word. God’s word divides between soul and spirit. That means that it exposes defiled, soulish religion and differentiates it from pure religion. Then, when religious people understand the difference between the two types of religion, they are challenged to make a choice about which religion they will practice. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; 36 and a man’s foes will be those of his own household. 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38 and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 He who finds his… (Search hits: 2 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 5738.87)
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…commands to seek him with all you heart, to listen to his voice and to take his words into the heart. Seeking God yields the reward of knowing him in your heart. When you have heard his voice you have brought the tithe into the storehouse. Knowing God in the heart is a spiritual treasure unlike any material treasure. Hearing God’s spoken voice is a spiritual experience unlike any physical, intellectual or emotional experience. Religious people are not able to enjoy this experience because they listen to false prophets who serve them evil, soulish food. Only after they quit practicing religion and listen to true prophets who serve good, spiritual food, will they be able to hear God’s voice. Because the storehouse/heart spiritual place, it is impossible to bring material things like agricultural produce or money into it. The Bible tells us that only two spiritual things can be brought into a heart: 1) God’s spoken word is brought into clean, pure hearts. 2) Idols can be brought into evil, impure hearts. People must be careful, therefore, to bring only clean, pure things into clean, pure hearts. They must know how to discern between good and evil. If they don’t… (Search hits: 2 in body, 0 in title, %category% in categories, 0 in tags, %taxonomy% in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 5738.87)