"Christ tells us, "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." The Light of God is within each one of us and so is the "single eye." But how to develop the single eye and how to witness the Light of God is the problem within us, and none can solve these problems for us but a living competent Master who, like Christ, has had an actual living experience of them in his own person and makes it manifest to us by means of actual experience."
" This Divine Link is in every heart. With that we have to establish contact - a real and living contact. But how? You can find it by transcending physical consciousness. The Bible says; "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." One who is Word personified will naturally be able to join you with the Word within. That Power ever abides in us. It is the Bread of Life,. and verily we live by it, though we have never recognized it. Christ tells us, "Whosoever partaketh of this bread will have everlasting life." He never meant his body but the Word personified and within him. It is often described by the sages as the Water of Life. Christ says, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
But how to get this Bread of Life or Water of Life, that bestows life everlasting? How to sip this elixir? All the scriptures tell us in one voice that it can be had from a living Saint who is an embodiment of this active life principle. It will not cost you anything, not a farthing. It is as much a gift of nature as light, air and water. This experience of Truth you can get through the grace of a living Master, competent enough to contact you with the Divine Link within.
What is this experience like? The Bible says: "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." And further it says: "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." That shows there is some experience of light within."

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Salvation is very simple...perhaps too simple for many. Salvation has nothing to do with you apart from your willingness to accept the gift of God in faith.

You cant be good enough, do enough, live good enough, be smart enough, or do anything to contribute to salvation. Salvation is from God alone, by His grace and no one or nothing else.

Salvation doesnt require a magic formula or anything other than your belief and acceptance in Jesus Christ, born of a virgin without sin. Jesus Christ, the pure Lamb of God, came as the only acceptable atonement for our sins to appease righteous God. Jesus Christ was tortured for all mankind and crucified, shedding His pure blood to cover our sins. The third day Christ Jesus rose from the grave of His own power gives all His children enternal life.

Before you mock this..meditate on this Truth. One day, until Christ returns, all mankind will face death, the last breath. Will we enter life enternal prepared for Heaven or Hell? Sarcasism, pride, arrogance, and rejection of Christ wont help anyone. Christ is the sole way to enter Heaven. Death has no tolerance for opinions.

Then you dont believe in Jesus Christ.

I can believe in the life the surrounds me . I can believe that it created me . I can believe that it sustains me . Why is it so hard for people to be happy with what they have ?

Every living thing on this planet , is loving every minute of it , while humans wallow in misery .

No problem...you, lud and a couple others are reasonably in the religion category. The others have no desire for Truth.

Nope, they're just visitors. This one escaped though

No problem...you, lud and a couple others are reasonably in the religion category. The others have no desire for Truth.

Every living thing on this planet , is loving every minute of it , while humans wallow in misery .

That is not so. Animals, through no fault of their own, suffer enormously, as well.

No person can choose whether or not to suffer, or be afflicted. But the difference maker is what we make of it. Do we view the suffering as only evil and/or unfair?

Or do we see suffering as a tool in God's hand to make us perfect--or get us on the road to perfection?

For that is God's aim. "Be ye perfect, as My Father in Heaven is Perfect." Genuine Christians know that suffering is part of the "full treatment" with an eternal purpose we do not see, or understand fully.

Just as the back side of a tapestry appears a tangle of threads and a confusion of colors with no apparent design.

I, for one, want to one day see the front of that "tapestry."

Hit the quote button Walt to see which part of the photobucket code you should post (ONLY!) to avoid stretching the page.

The shear stupidity of your comments is unfathomable. Did you ever stop and ask yourself who created those things around you? You are all the same...so your reply to that question keeps going backwards until you come to a microbe. Did you ever ask who created the microbes? The simple end to this is that there is a divine Creator....period...a single Creator...period.

Faith is ncessary for salvation, but faith alone will not save us. Martin Luther was wrong.

Salvation from self, deliverance from the inevitability of finite existence/death via the transfer of the seat of consciousness from the physical world to the spiritual.

Its not what I feel its what I desire. Is this life the only life you desire to experience, sail?

You didn't answer my question.

Answer the question I asked you and I will answer yours.

Peace

You know, nobody gets a paycheck without doing the work. Nobody gets to eat without growing the crops and making the harvest happen. How is it that Salvation happens by "believing" ? Unless you actively transplant your being by developing an inner path through meditation, you are nowhere, despite what you tell yourself or what you read in SCRIPTURE. One does not inherit revelation by reading about it or "believing". You must seek it for yourself, inside you.

You didn't answer my question.

Answer the question I asked you and I will answer yours.

I answered your question. Its not a matter of what I "feel about (myself) that needs salvation." Its a matter of what I desire the same as it is with you. So, is this life the only life you desire to experience, sail?

You said "Unfortunately, we have been seeking the Kingdom of God without" and then you espouse 'correctly' about seeking it within and I said Jesus didn't teach to seek the Kingdom of God without. Are you just making a false premise so you can correct it or what?

More of this Gnostic New Ageism again huh? As Christians, we believe in the literal resurrection of the body, and so after the end of the world, heaven will also include the material dimension and will become fully a literal place.

The Kingdom of God is within us insofar as the Holy Spirit dwells within us. The Holy Spirit will dwell within us when we are free from mortal sin, i.e. when we do God's Will. This indwelling of the Holy Spirit (and with Him the rest of the Trinity: the Father and the Son) is why the Father, who is in Heaven is also within the saints (us - when we're free from sin). They do God's will and so He rules their hearts as a King and thus His Kingdom is within them.

You, I or anyone else will not , I repeat, not enter Gods Kingdom after death with one stain of unforgiven sin. You can meditate till the c*ck crows 3 times all you'll hear in your New Age transcendental state is the gnashing of teeth.

And you know all this from reading it in a book........
Of all of the prevalent Holy books in circulation in the world, The KJV is the most edited, mis-translated and manipulated interpretation of the life of a God-man. The important parts, what the living Jesus taught his living disciples, is left out. Just hints remain.