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There’s nothing wrong or immoral about being a nominal Christian, an earthly Christian, or an orthodox Christian. I call all of those Christian Lite. The Bible was written in Eastern mythological and metaphorical language. To try and make the Bible a literal historical record of events is to miss the esoteric messages which transform life!

Religion and many churches in America have made re-birth or being “born again” a three minute event that fits much like teh One-Minute Manager concept. Come forward after the second stanza and confess Jesus as your Lord and savior, fill out a membership card, join the orientation classes, and YOU ARE IN!

In to Christian Lite!

In Eastern Biblical language and images, MAN represents the lower state of those here on earth while HEAVEN (Kingdom of God) is symbolic of the evolving and higher consciousness of man. Luke 17:20 reminded us that the Kingdom of God is within and not some external “thing”. Between these two planes (heaven and earth) and various levels of porgression- advancement-consciousness.

John the baptizer is an excellent example.

Jesus says of John that “Among men (here on erth) born of a woman that there was none greater than John. John was at the top of the heap in the “earthly spehere”. John was Christian Lite! But, when it comes to comapring the John here on earth with the potentialities of John from a spiritual-heavenly view point, Jesus concludes, “The LEAST in the Kingdom of God was greater than John”.

Bummer, unless Christian Lite is your goal and in America it’s the prevailing purpose. In other words, John was living way below his purpose for being. Aren’t we all! Maurice Nicoll put it this way, “To pass from the highet stage on the lower level to the lowest stage on the higher level demans a re-birth or transformation of man. Jesus taught repentance and re-birth while John only taught repentance. John never was born from “above”. The descriptions of John affirm such (he wore skins, leather belt, and ate locusts.

John could only undersand from an “earth level” and so he came to question if Jesus was really who he had thought he was. Get the point? Unless we move into the deeper esoteric aspects of Jesus, who became the Christ, we will lapse into Christian Lite and eventually wind of questioning the existence of God.

But, NEW WINE can’t be put in your current stinking thinking (OLD WINE).