Once upon a time in a denomination that served me well in my early religious journey, I embraced the written word as the infallible, inerrant, and inspired exact words of God. Later, I learned that what I’d actually done was make the King James translation an idol and had fallen into a word I’d never heard of course- Bibliolatry. Now, I see the sixty six books of the library called the Bible the SACRED words of my Christian community.
What I didn’t know is that everything is God- it’s ALL GOD! 
And thus it is all SACRED. I am no longer bound like a ball and chain to the written word of sixty six books. I am even FREE to seek the sacred and inspired in the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Truth, and another hundred such books. I can see God in nature. The Spirit can speak to me through road signs and billboards. The Spirit enlivens my Spirit through words and action of people. It’s ALL SACRED- it ALL GOD!
Come alive to that voice in the wilderness crying out, “Here I am”.
Words are powerful but in and of themselves they can be lifeless unless you sense and feel the Spirit that comes with them. God-Consciousness-Spirit is always speaking, The still small voice and Truth is calling to us from every corner of the day. The internal, eternal voice is whispering to you now as you read these lines; however, so is your damn ego! And that ego is fighting for its survival right now as always.
Our egos want to rule and direct our lives and what better plan than to get us to believe only in sixty six books, some three quarters of a million words, in the precise words that King James or whomever translated and wrote them, and finally, above all watch out for the Spirit that could lead you astray. Yep! Lead us away from the ego and it’s hold on our minds and thus very lives.
The Bible is the WORD (singular) of God, but not “the precise words” of God. Use it, but don’t abuse it by denying what the Spirit is saying every moment of every day from the least suspecting places, events and people.
Every once in a while I need a refresher on this very subject. Today, I will listen, once again to Eckart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”. It reminds me so well how acknowledging the ego usurps its power and allows me to live in the Now. My spirit tells me it’s time to reestablish the Now in my life. Thanks!
If I write a letter to someone and tell them it’s my word for them, but not my words, that makes no sense. God in His sovereignty, knew men considered foolish by many (I Cor. 1:27,28) would be His instrument to compile the books we now consider the Bible. He knew billions of people would pick up their Bibles and expect to hear the word of God through the pens of the men who wrote each page. Thousands of years have gone by since Moses write the first five books. They’ve been scrutinized, studied and found to hold up to the most critical investigation. Even unbelieves have been amazed to see consistent themes when seeking God’s truth with an open heart. If there is no standard for our lives, then we’re apt to be “carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming…” (Ephesians 4:14) God still speaks, but we must measure what we hear by what He’s said repeatedly through the ages. Ps. 119:89 declares, “Forever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in heaven” Many years later, Peter gave the church a warning that “no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.” (2 Pet. 1:20,21)
Every response is filled with quotes from the 66 books. “Is there life after the book?” Try to let the Spirit speak without the quotes. Maybe you will hear truth through the spirit as well. Bibliolatry is alive and well!
If I write a letter and it’s in my original pensmanship, yes it is my word. But when we have no originals, it’s then mans interpretations (and there are hundreds of translations-ideas about what might have originally been intended-said) of whatever concept was passed on. Over the thousands of years our consciousness has progressed. We no longer believe as they did in the OT, that it was okay to KILL people, stone kids because they were disobedient, etc. That was man’s idea of who God was and they were wrong as Jesus affirmed.
Jesus did affirm God’s mercy. Man has a choice. Jesus made it clear in John 5:29 those who committed evil deeds would be resurrected for judgment. In Luke 17:26-30, Jesus affirmed the righteous judgments in the days of Noah as well as of Sodom and Gomorrah. Since we know God is longsuffering and offers mercy, we know these people were warned by God. Ps. 19:9,11 declares, “The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether…moreover, by them Thy servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.” They refused His mercy. Your perception of God and Jesus doesn’t line up with the Bible.
The intent of the inspired scriptures of the world was to affirm and validate this journey we call life, through all of its mountaintops and valleys alike. Unfortunately, we have done the exact opposite of what was intended by using the journey of life to validate the inspired scriptures, henceforth entrapping ourselves in a dream.
I AM the Book of Life and I fill that book with inspired stories every day. What stories will we create today? Will they be centered on love, or will they be grounded in the ego’s need to be correct? Let’s not be threatened by a diversity of opinions, but rather be encouraged that God reveals Itself as each and every person on this planet and beyond. Let’s do as Jesus did and allow the Word (which we are) to be written on the heart. Christ does not point to scripture—scripture points to the Christ of each of us.
I LOVE THE CHRIST IN YOU LINDA !!! HAVE AN AWESOME NEW YEAR 2009 ! ( Ray 9:35 ) ..Ray is my name 9:35 is the time
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