The joy of all new in my life journey brought me new hopes. Confident and full of hope I walked on my new journey loving and being loved.
But one of the other joy living in America was the untold happiness to live in the only country in the world who proudly said the words ~ In God we trust - One Nation under God ~ a country with Judeo-Christian values.
I thought before coming here that I will learn so much about God, knowing that Americans have traveled around the world to preach the Gospel.
Thank God I had a good knowledge of His Word before coming here. In Los Angeles easily you can deviate from following Jesus in the pursue of your own self-deification.
Not knowing what awaits me here and being totally unprepared I often found myself caught uneducated regarding the American/Los Angeles spiritual life. It took me a while before I realized what they call God...
It seemed that no one understands my spiritual values. Look! I never lived a Christian life in the light of the Most High God, but even so I knew the second commandment
" You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below "
From childhood I had this logic " I myself am created - I don't worship created beings/ things "
I always looked to God the Creator of all things as the One that deserves to be praised.
As a child even before reading the Bible I marvel the beauty with which I am made, modestly I say it! It just seemed so formidable the capabilities with which we are born. The entirely human body functions are a miracle.
Before knowing God, at an early age I already wonder of my being. Without knowing the Bible cheerfully I already said *...I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, Psalm 139:14!
One of my main values in life is the praise which belongs to the One True God. This is the only thing in life that I strictly follow.
And who would have thought that in America ~ One Nation Under God ~ built on biblical values I will feel lost...
Lost in their blindness and my lack of knowledge in world religions being familiar only with Christianity or Atheism.
My faith was challenged, always being accused in being narrow minded.
Much suffering brought me in defending my faith! I asked God not to let me, and in complete surrender I put my life in His hands. And radically my life changed, I start study and became knowledgeable in the various religions of the world.
My God is Holy!!
~ Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts - Isaiah 6:3 ~
It offends me when they say that all religions are the same and serve the same God. This is far from the truth and I wonder the basic they use to define God.
I learned people either praise themselves or are giving glory to some loathsome gods.
This city where I live I feel surrounded by pagan idolatry; and every day more and more it's being cut off from its godly heritage...
It has happened a few times to discuss with friends the nature of God or rather how they perceive God! The discussions came spontaneous and the opinions were radically different, I encounter many times a cold attitude towards the God of the Bible with a list of accusation such as: my God is judgmental, Bible has been corrupted, the Old Testament is full of violence and so on...
But let me tell you this the Bible so far outshines every competing source for being God's revelation!! And the so-called " missing books of the Bible " none of these books were included in the Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus, who quoted from every section of Old Testament Scripture, never once quoted from the " missing books of the Bible ". The Apocrypha/ Deuterocanonical books - and Gnostic gospels, due to their historical and theological errors and contradictions must be viewed as historical and religious documents, not as the inspired, authoritative Word of God.
I find it interesting how people are devoted and reverence the teachings of people who were in search of "self " in pursuing " enlightenment "; which eventually as shown from the teachings of Buddha could not answer the following:
What am I?
How am I?
Am I?
Am I not?
Did I exist in the past?
Did I not exist in the past?
What was I in the past?
How was I in the past?
Having been what, did I become what in the past?
Shall I exist in future?
Shall I not exist in future?
What shall I be in future?
How shall I be in future?
Having been what, shall I become what in future?
Whence came this person?
Whither will he go?
So, what exactly Buddha taught us? We are a confused "self " gods lost in the quantum world in a temporary state of illusion of permanence until through multiple reincarnation discover the impermanence of reality.
What is the existence of the world in time - the existence of the world in space - to personal identity - to life after death?? Buddha is said to have kept silent because in Buddhism there is no beginning and no end.
Though eventually he announced - desirelessness - the ultimate state of Nirvana. So if life is cyclical why is there an end?
In the words of Deepak Chopra the purpose of life is that
* " In reality, we are divinity in disguise, and the gods and goddesses in embryo that are contained within us seek to be fully materialized. True success is therefore the experience of the miraculos. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us. "
* " We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity. "
* " Today I will lovingly nurture the god or goddess in embryo that lies deep within my soul. I will pay attention to the spirit within me that animates both my body and mind. I will awaken myself to this deep stillness within my heart. I will carry the consciousness of times, eternal Being in the midst of time-bound experience. "
In response to Chopra, the well known Christian apologist and writer Ravi Zacharias wrote in his book Jesus Among Other Gods the following:
Who are the we? Who is the god? Who is the self? Are these different entities with which we are cohabiting? Is there a god who needs me ( which me? ) to bring him ( which him, if it is actually me? ) to birth so that my deluded self will cease to be deluded and will emerge divine as the real self? How did this god end up in the embryonic form while I became full grown, so that I will give him the privilege of birth and lose my humanity to find my divinity? At the risk of being frivolous, this is the ultimate version of " Who's on first. "
How can it be that we are the outworking of the quantum world but at the same time, gods? Is that what a few thousand years of human history have taught us? We are lonely and confused gods who have lost our way? - Ravi Zacharias
Please, my dear precious friend seek the truth!
*... the truth will set you free! John 8:32
Remember Lucifer, the most beautiful angel created by God became a demon because of his pride.
“You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God an anointed guardian cherub, blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. You were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the montain of God. Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor." Ezekiel 28:13-19
“How you are fallen from heaven,O Day Star, son of Dawn You said in your heart ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God. I will set my throne on high; I will make myself like the Most High. " Isaiah 14:12-14
And to this day Satan the “god of this age” blinds the minds of the unbelievers.
*...the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 2 Corinthians 4:4
I beseech you, please wake-up from the state of ~ Man is God in a temporary state of self- forgetfulness ~
Do you not see that this is a lie of Satan?!!..he deceived Eve saying: you will be like God - Genesis 3:5 - and with the same lie is deceiving you!
With both the angels and humanity, God chose to present a choice - free will!
Man is not a “law unto himself.” Man is a creature in the Creator’s universe, and as such is subject to the will of the Creator. To suggest otherwise is to elevate man beyond his station and to bring God down to the level of the creature. S. Michael Houdmann.
The True God, the Holy One of Israel, the Most High is: One, eternal, immutable, incomparable, inscrutable, just, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, righteous, sovereign, spirit. God is truth, holy, consuming fire, gracious, infinite Being. He is three in One - the Bible teaches that the Father is God, that Jesus is God -( the Word was with God, and the Word was God; and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1 The Word Became Flesh ) and that the Holy Spirit is God - same in substance, equal in power and glory.
God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence!
Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit born of the virgin Mary. The angel Gabriel said to Mary: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. Luke 1:35
For God so loved the world,that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:23
Biblical God is Holy, Righteous and Pure!
In the pagan religion
Brahma the creator - commits incest with his daughter Saraswati. There are two stories about her genesis in the ' Saraswati Puruna ' one is that Brahma created his beautiful daughter Saraswati direct from his ' vital strenght ' or seminal fluid. The other is that Brahma used to collect his semen in a pot whenever he masturbated fixing his carnal eyes on the celestial beauty Urvasi. Brahma's semen in the pot gave birth to the sage Agastya, and Agastya in turn gave birth to Saraswati. Whatever story you look at, you will see a being who by any means cannot be called God!
Krishna/ Shiva the destroyer - during his youth used to steal butter, milk and fruit. Krishna also lusted after cow-herd girls and was told to have numerous wives and many affairs with the cow-herdesses.
Shiva's wife goddess Parvati decided to create a companion for herself - a son, called Ganesh! The elephant head was attached to the body of Ganesh after Shiva unaware who this boy was; and coming home from a long journey. Ganesh shouted at him ‘Go away!’ Shiva was quick-tempered and had little patience for anyone he regarded as an enemy. He drew his sword and with one swift movement of his sword he sent Ganesh’s head flying off far.
Ganesha
Vishnu the preserver - also had many wives...
These are gods worthy of praise?
The God of the Bible reigns alone - the idea that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the queen of heaven has no scriptural basis whatsoever! She never thought of herself as “immaculate” and deserving of veneration. Mary’s own words: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant " Luke 1:47-48 . Only sinners need a savior, and Mary recognized that need in herself. The phrase “the queen of heaven” appears in the Bible twice and in both cases it has to do with idolatry - the biblical references to the “queen of heaven” refer to the goddess of an idolatrous, false religion.
Jesus Himself issued a mild rebuke to a woman who cried out to Him, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you" (Luke 11:27) replying to her, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." He could certainly have said, “Yes, blessed be the Queen of Heaven!” But He did not. He was affirming the same truth that the Bible affirms—there is no queen of heaven.
Seek the truth - do not get enchanted by demonic teaching - because that's what it is! The Spirit clearly says that in latter times some people will turn away from the faith. They will pay attention to spirits that deceive and to the teaching of demons. 1 Timothy 4:1
STOP!! Doing yoga, self-worship - spiritual growth and enlightenment.
The word yoga means "union," and the goal is to unite one's transitory (temporary) self with the infinite Brahman, the Hindu concept of "God. " Note: Brahma the creator who commits incest with his daughter Saraswati!
Yoga is a Satanic spiritual practice - Kundalini yoga is the most satanic yoga practice out there! The goal of Kundalini yoga is to awaken the "snake" - to experience what is called " god realisation "
Hello! Don't you realize who is this snake? Satan himself!
Satan Thrown Down to Earth - that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Revelation 12:9
Come out of your yoga practices before it destroys you! Every time you do yoga you are in fact worshiping Satan - coming into agreement with him and opening up doors to devils to invade your life.
Search: the dangers of Kundalini awakening! Please, my dear precious friend don't awake that ancient serpent, called Satan.
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light 2 Corinthians 11:14
Let Jesus be your door opener!
