Before you start your journey, you have get this initial thought in your head. “it is my journey and no one elses – anyone gets into my boat and tries to wresstle the wheel from me so they can “steer me” to their destination, they will walk the plank. It’s my job to steer my own boat to wherever we end up, no one elses. Just me. If I see a light house i won’t go there because there are dangerous rocks. I hear gulls I know land is close. I see the stars, the moon and sun so i know where i roughly am. I feel rain, there’s water, i see fish there’s is food. I have wind, i have sail, i am okay on my own – nothing is broken.
THE BIBLE (nutshell edition)
Dear Traveller,
Here Is the simple vesion. It wasn’t SIN that came into this world, it was judgement. Before Eve bit. Everything was good. God said so. After every 6th of the creation, it says “and it was good”. Only man has the arrogance to pronounce any of God’s creation bad. Men THINK Bad. They THINK they have the right to judge. Jesus was under judgement. Jesus was God. Man judged God, found him wanting, and killed him. Judgement is HELL, right now, whever you issue it to anybody & anything.
Lucky for us, you cannot kill the creator, He just recreates himself. The Holy Spirit.
Jesus came to teach. You should listen. He is the greatest teacher THAT ever lived. His work is devine. Live his “whole of the law”,I write now from the memory that resides in my heart, and not my head.
“Love God the best that you are able to, & LOVE your neighbour equally as you do yourself.”
“Who is my neighbour?”
“EVERYONE!!!”
Come and pay St Stephen’s Church in Newport a visit and meet with the best teacher the world has ever known.
Warning : – YOU have to find HIM for yourself, all we can do is point you in the right direction. He has to be YOUR friend. No good at all you THINKING that he is a friend of one of your friends. HE IS YOUR FRIEND.
We ( The Rev Lyn Kenny and I [Registered Parish Assisant] ) are not here to “brain wash” you, or coerce you, or anything like that. If God does not emerge as ’your personal friend’ in times of good, as well as bad, then what’s the point?
SIMPLER STILL, look within yourself, seek God there, he wants you to find him. You can easily do this unaided. There is nothing “special” about churchie people BUT we know one thing, that you don’t… yet! God Loves Us. And that’s where it all starts. The transformation to a new kinder, more caring, more loving, more understanding, more “real” you.
written with the love i give myself.
IF BEING A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT CHANGE YOU THEN WHAT IS THE POINT??
Paul <©>€
The Fool sets out on a Bible Study that changes his life forever.
The Fool on the Hill The Beatles Day after dayAlone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he’s just a fool
And he never gives an answer But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning ’round Well on the way
Head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices
Talking perfectly loud, But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning ’round And nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning ’round
I often feel like the fool. I look at people living lives around me and all is total confusion. Why did they do that? Why did they say that? Why is that important to them? Who is it that they so desperately want to be? Was the end result really worth all the blood, sweat and tears that they put into that? All you can cling to sometimes, is that we are here, and a day comes, and it becomes night, and then it is day again. Why have I not mind-invented a purpose and reason for my life? Mine surely is the plight of The NOT understanding. Life is a gift, not a right, the only thing my spirit needs to know is that it should and celebrate LIFE and enjoy life. To celebrate everyday of your existence you do NOT have to own the best house on the block, have the fastest car ever made (these are nice things, don’t get me wrong, and I love both my home and my car, BUT they are not the reason for my existence) PLUS none of this material wealth counts a jot, if you are desperately unhappy. At this stage it looks like I am going down the road of Buddha and there is much to be gained out of a study of one of the richest princes there ever was. He had everything he could ever want, and yet he was desperately unhappy, and wanted to know why. Yep, you could read the Dharma, and it will inspire and redirect you. BUT good news you do not have to, if you do not want to, and it would sort of destroy this wander down A BIBLE PATH if we did. So, feeling somewhat detached from modern life, and all its frantic business, we looked and saw how JUDGEMENT came into the world. Before the fall, Adam & Eve had no idea what good and bad was, and so never judged anything. AND YET they were happy like that, and their happiness would have continued if that Wiley old snake had not tempted Eve into the first rebellion against the creator. The first defiance of God. Have you noticed just how judgemental people around you are? They are and with the advent of social media they are getting worse. Everyone has an opinion of everything BUT nobody agrees. GOD SAW EVEN BACK THEN THAT MANKIND HAD A BIG, BIG PROBLEM.Along comes that guy Moses. Who leads the Nation out of bondage and slavery into a land of of their own BUT God wants something in return. Moses goes up Mount Sinai and gets given two stone tablets and on these are the beginnings of a legal society. IF EVERYONE stuck to these Ten Commandments there would be no need for anyone to judge anyone else at all. Good Plan. BUT it relied on you and me actually re-remembering that we are all from the same source and that no one is better worse than anybody else AND SOME PEOPLE just think they deserve more and better than everyone else. And to achieve it they lie, steal, murder, etc.
A Quick Reminder of the two stone tablets
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ONE Exo 20:3 You are to have no other gods besides me. Exo 20:4 “You are not to make for yourselves an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above, or on earth below, or in the water under the earth.
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TWO Exo 20:5 You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them; because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the parents, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,Exo 20:6 but showing gracious love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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THREE Exo 20:7 “You are not to misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave the one who misuses his name unpunished.
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FOUR Exo 20:8 “Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy. Exo 20:9 Six days you are to labor and do all your work,Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You are not to do any work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor the alien who is within your gates,Exo 20:11 because the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, in six days, then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
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FIVE Exo 20:12 “Honour your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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SIX Exo 20:13 “You are not to murder.
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SEVEN Exo 20:14 “You are not to commit adultery.
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EIGHT Exo 20:15 “You are not to steal.
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NINE Exo 20:16 “You are not to testify falsely against your neighbours
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TEN Exo 20:17 “You are not to covet your neighbours house. You are not to covet your neighbours wife, or his male or female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.”
MOSES made it with the stones down the mountain, which would have been quite tricky as it was dark by now. While he was gone some of the tribes had taken it into their head to worship and ancient God called Baal. Number one command was broken already even before the people had heard what God demanded of them. In temper Moses throws down the stones and they break. How graphic is that The Law was Broken… quite literally. Not an auspicious start.
Now is a time to take some ’time-out’ from the bible stuff. Thanks for staying with it thus far. All the Old Testament stuff I want to cover is now all done. Thank God, says you, BUT it’s very important to define the problem before you look at the solution. We’re zooming the years soon to about 29AD to look at the master’s ministry. Theologians will say “this is too simple an explanation, it leaves so much un-answered and un-mentioned, it’s a complete and utter waste of time!” Right, at the beginning, I hope I made it plain that this site is not for The Thinkers, The ANALYSTS, The Reviewers, The Soothsayers & Fortune Tellers. This site is for the big-hearted people who just want a greater understanding of The Creator, and this wonderful world, that we are soooooo privileged to be in, in the moment. Quit criticising and complaining about every damn thing, you didn’t make it, you’re just a squatter, not the Landlord! At this point I would heartily recommend you buy a copy of a quite ancient old book which is cheap (or maybe even free) from the internet. “How to win friends and influence people.” by Dale Carnegie – a tale of how to treat other people in a caring, non-judgmental, way. Wonderful reading.
