2009.09.1.04. How Do We Hear The Almighty? Created by James3 on 8/24/2019 8:15:50 PM How Do We Hear The Almighty?
The previous article asserted that the "bible" is NOT the inerrant "word" of the Almighty, that it is a collection of writings by human beings that contains errors.
Why is this?
This is a vital question.
The Almighty is a Spirit and we are spirit beings BUT we inhabit physical bodies and while we are in those bodies we are constrained to communicate largely through those bodies via spoken and written words.
Thus apart from limited spirit-to-spirit communication which few people today know about or have experience of, the vast majority of conscious communication between human beings takes place through spoken words, written words, body language and eye contact.
As a consequence of the spiritual and emotional condition of human beings today body language and eye contact frequently send mixed messages and even incorrect messages and there is wide disparity in terms of how we interpret them. Certain people groups consider strong eye contact to be essential, others regard it as an indication of respect to avert their eyes and not connect. Thus one people group views this as "shifty" and "untrustworthy" and other people groups view it as desirable.
Accordingly, when it comes to the matters of the Almighty, most people rely on the spoken and written word through other people for most of their conscious communication.
Insofar as many people today have beliefs that the Almighty does not speak audibly or through human beings today, many / most people rely on the writings and teachings of others in order to learn about the matters of the Almighty. They then rely on applying their intellect, conditioned by what they already know, in order to resolve problems, answer questions and formulate their opinions.
Few people who believe that the Almighty no longer speaks seem to ask themselves WHY the Almighty should choose NOT to speak to people today and therefore they do not ask why there should not be prophets in this age. They have been told that there are no prophets and therefore do not attempt to hear the Almighty themselves and are skeptical of, or totally reject others who claim to hear the Almighty.
If someone has not heard the lie that there are no prophets and that the Almighty no longer speaks they are MUCH more likely to encounter prophets AND to hear the Almighty.
To the extent that people DO believe the Almighty speaks to them or to others we are faced with another major challenge -- the people who claim to hear the Almighty frequently do NOT agree.
Why?
Firstly because we live in an extremely corrupt world orders of magnitude more corrupt than it was at the time of Yahooshua. In the same way that the world in which Yahooshua lived was orders of magnitude more corrupt than at the time of Moses. Likewise the world at the time of Moses was orders of magnitude more corrupt than at the time of Adam (even at the end of Adam’s life).
This is a characteristic of the exponential decay curve of human knowledge and experience of the Almighty discussed in previous articles.
Since we do NOT know what we do NOT know, we do NOT know what we do NOT know!
This seemingly redundant statement is, in fact, extremely IMPORTANT to answering the questions posed above -- why is there so little agreement and so much dispute between those who claim to serve the Almighty?
Why are there so many "bibles", so many denominations, so many religions?
Why do two sincere believers who start out with the impression that they share the same beliefs frequently end up in dispute and separation?
Why do so many people claim so many contradictory revelations from the Almighty?
The short answer is "because we are human" and "because our spirits are constrained to communicate through our bodies".
The Almighty is a Spirit being, He does NOT speak to us in English or any other language. He speaks to us Spirit-to-spirit in a non-verbal language.
The human spirit is the "heart" of the human being.
Our spirits communicate with the Almighty more or less directly, however, since most people have demons and we live in a world populated by billions of demons and messengers {angels} many of which are allied with the "dark side", there is an enormous amount of spirit-to-spirit communication taking place with our spirits over-and-above the communication with the Almighty.
There is also human spirit to human spirit communication that most people are not aware of.
Many people are not aware of these matters and therefore do not seek to differentiate between the different spiritual messages they are receiving OR else they attempt to reject ALL spiritual messages.
It is really important to draw this distinction and, where appropriate, to bind and cast into the Pit demons or Satanic messengers that are transmitting these messages. This should be done "in the name of Yahooshua".
Having received a spiritual message from the Almighty the message is communicated from our spirit to our mind by the soul.
The soul can be corrupted or polluted by "soul force" prayers, inner vows and other factors that affect the ability of the soul to communicate a clear message and convert it from spiritual "language" to the electrical impulses that our brains can interpret. The soul is the interface between mind and spirit -- a bit like the keyboard, screen and mouse are an interface between a human being and a computer.
As one works to receive healing in all areas of one's life one can pray for specific healing of soul force prayers, inner vows, etc after one has recognized that they are errors and renounced them. Refer previous articles on the ETI list.
Having received the electrical message generated by interaction with the soul the mind works to convert that message into our mother tongue -- the primary language we learned in the first years of our lives.
The brain is designed so that what it learns in the first five years of life forms the primary foundation for all further learning. The memory is like a "write once" electronic device such as a digital compact disc (CD). Once it has imprinted a particular message that message remains and cannot be easily replaced.
It requires considerable effort to imprint a new pattern and remove the original pattern of memory settings.
In recognition of this the forces of darkness direct particular effort to ensuring that every child experiences a number of traumatic events during the first few years of life and also that they take on fundamental untruths.
As one increases in age the ability of the brain to take on information distinct from what it first learned reduces progressively until, by age fifty, the capability of most human beings to dislodge old beliefs and take on new beliefs is seriously diminished.
All translation of electrical impulses into the mother tongue or into another language takes place using information stored in the memory, much in the same way that a computer processes all information that is input to it.
Each piece of information comprises a spiritual pattern together with an associated word or action. Accordingly, if the memory does not have a word to accurately describe the electrical impulse, it either ignores it or associates that electrical impulse with the pattern that most closely matches it.
Thus, if the Spirit of the Almighty speaks of “Yahooshua” and the only word that the mind knows to describe that impulse is "Jesus" then the person hears "Jesus" and since the impulse "Yahooshua" is associated with "Jesus" it is extremely DIFFICULT for the brain to convert that into "Yahooshua". It is therefore extremely difficult for the brain to accept the word "Yahoohsua" since this requires discarding of the previous program.
This same principle applies to every concept and every principle that we learn and communicate throughout life.
Accordingly, the Almighty extends great mercy and grace to us in order that we might come to a personal knowledge of Him and grow in relationship with Him and it requires considerable effort, repetition and I on our side if we are to learn more truth to replace our incorrect beliefs.
The fact that it is difficult and that the Almighty extends Grace is NOT an excuse not to change. Resistance to change is "hardening of the heart".
Because memory is a permanent "write once" function, replacing wrong beliefs requires energy and actually physically, chemically and electronically damages the brain. The brain switches that contain the wrong information have to be disconnected if the old information is to be fully discarded OR our minds have to continuously check for incorrect messages and retranslate them to the correct message.
Depending on age and other factors it requires increasing energy to take on new beliefs and discard old beliefs.
This is why older people generally find it more difficult to change their beliefs than younger people.
Because major change actually does damage to the brain there are limits on adaptability and we should therefore NOT judge people who find difficulty in changing.
All humans have this problem of changing their mental programming and therefore every human being is, at some level, an unreliable translator of messages from the Almighty.
The only exceptions to this are Adam, Eve and Yahooshua since they were created directly by the Almighty and had access to truth from the start. However Adam and Eve were innocent and I and did not have the experience to accurately discern and resist the false messages received from Satan.
Yahooshua was the first spirit created and had been active and conscious up to the time He was implanted into the supernaturally created foetus in the womb of Mary. Thus his conscious knowledge and experience of Satan's operation resulted in Yahooshua being the only human being who has ever been in a position from conception to resist attacks by the forces of darkness and therefore not to succumb at some stage in his life.
This does NOT mean that Yahooshua is the Almighty, it simply means that there were very special circumstances pertaining to Yahooshua that the Almighty elected to permit in the case of Yahooshua. This was done in order to deal with the rebellion of Satan and the seduction of Eve and Adam in order to regain authority on earth.
Some of the most significant negative programming occurs while people are in the womb. If the embryo receives the spiritual message “not wanted” or “abortion” it takes on a traumatic belief of rejection even when this happens a very short while after conception.
Accordingly, no human being, including no prophet, is infallible. Even Yahooshua had the opportunity to sin and to turn away from his trial at any time. He did NOT sin because he exerted his will and because of the anointing of the Spirit of the Almighty that was upon him.
With the exception of Yahooshua the indications are that most and possibly all prophets have at some time made an error. Noah got drunk, Moses struck the rock, David committed adultery with Bathsheba, etc.
Even Yahooshua asked for the cup to be taken from him but then exerted his WILL to choose to continue with his sacrifice. "Father, YOUR WILL NOT mine" is a vital principle for all of us.
Accordingly it can be expected that there will be errors in the writings and utterances of any human being as evidenced in the previous article.
Expressed differently, every human being who has ever in any way experienced trauma or been in any way influenced by demons or who has been taught or believed any lie, will be subject to their mind filtering information.
Where those people have been educated with false teachings, wrong words, cultural or linguistic bias, etc that will be reflected in what they write and say.
In other words, anything that any human being says is subject to a certain lack of precision and therefore anything that the Almighty seeks to communicate with us through a human being is subject to some level of bias or lack of precision.
The Almighty wants a personal relationship with each one of us. Yahooshua told us that we were to be given the set-apart Spirit as our teacher and not to call any man teacher. Elsewhere we are told that it is the will of the Almighty that we should ALL know the Almighty.
Accordingly, bias and lack of precision on the part of human beings is NOT an issue.
Forming a personal relationship with the Almighty, being taught by His Spirit and being led by Him is part of the TEST that will determine our rank in heaven for eternity.
Dealing with these issues is called softening of the heart, the reverse of hardening of the heart.
The challenge for each one of us is to pray the prayers suggested previously and other prayers, such as "Father I ask you to soften my heart" or "Father I ask you to remove all hardening from my heart" or whatever seems appropriate.
Notwithstanding the above, it is the choice and way of the Father to speak to us through others. Through prophets verbally or in writing, through our neigbours, our friends and our enemies, through believers and unbelievers, through signs in the sky and through nature. He is at liberty to speak to us ANY WAY He chooses. He can even speak to us directly or audibly or through a donkey!
There is no reason for us to expect Him to limit Himself in terms of His choices of communication and there is certainly no reason in this most corrupt and darkest age in the history of mankind for Him to speak less clearly or less frequently to those who are willing to listen.
In fact, I suggest that He is speaking more and we are listening less than in any previous age.
Having said all the above, the collection of writings commonly referred to as "the Bible" IS an important resource.
However it is up to us each to determine through prayer and close relationship with the Almighty which "books" in "THE book" are largely inspired or inspired not at all. Which version of differing "source" manuscripts is more precise, which translation is more precise, etc.
In reality there is NO version, or collection, or source or translation that is consistently and uniquely precise and reliable.
Part of the answer is to read as MANY translations and versions as possible and to constantly pray for guidance as to which passage in which translation and which version most accurately represents truth.
And then ...
to seek the Almighty for guidance
in other words to refer to whatever source He sends to us, be it a book, an audio or video tape, a radio or TV program, an article in a newspaper or magazine, a person we meet on a bus, an aircraft, a train, a ship, in the street, in church, wherever. He can speak through an email or a web site. He can speak to us ANY WAY HE CHOOSES. It is our choice whether we hear.
The Almighty ALSO speaks to us audibly if we are listening and subconsciously by His “still small voice” and our consciences.
Even if a source is 99.9% error, if that source contains 0.1% truth that we need at any time then THAT is the source we need. If we judge the error we will miss the truth.
That is one reason we are told NOT to judge others, because they all have some truth and it might be the truth we need.
I am firmly persuaded that if one were able to collate, collect and comprehensively document ALL the truth that is held by all the human beings on the planet today we would find that we were very much closer to all truth than ANY SINGLE human being is today.
We might not be nearly as close to all truth as we would like to be but we will still be much closer to all truth than any one of us on our own. This is because the Almighty WANTS us to live in community with one another and learn from one another, that is part of "love your neighbour as yourself".
Ultimately each of us is individually responsible for what we believe.
We are each, individually, on a journey in which we are challenged to discover truth and thereby draw closer to the Almighty -- the journey is NOT to seek truth for the sake of truth BUT to seek truth as PART of seeking the Almighty because He IS truth.
Truth is NOT an intellectual issue, it is a SPIRITUAL reality.
In the case of women this is constrained by the requirement that they submit to their husbands in EVERYTHING. This is coupled by the requirement that the husband is required to pay the price on the Day of Judgment for everything his woman / women do in submission to him (as the anointed one loved the body of believers).
The above article offers some points relating to hearing from and being led by the Almighty in terms of some technical issues that many are not aware of.
They are offered in the hope that this information will assist people to draw closer to the Almighty.
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