7287	Forums / Main Forum / Faith = Works?	on: June 30, 2007, 02:30:20 PM
We do not realize how personality and our entire make up has a lot to do with what we think God is like. And if we have a false perception of God then we are going to hear things that are coming through our corrupted souls. So that what we hear is nothing but what we have devised about God in our own minds. Its not really what we think God is telling us nor is it what we think about God that is necessarily true. He says , \"You thought i was all together like you. \" In other words we are so corrupted that we can talk ourselves into a truth of our world view of our particular minute little place in this world with no reference to Gods big view of the events that transpire around us. This is terribly complicated. We are like the man who saw the streets of a particular city that they were wet with water and concluded that there had be a rain the night before, only to learn later that there was a man going down the streets with a truck steam cleaning the streets. Our view of things is so tainted because we cannot observe all of the intricacies of a particular situation, since we cannot view what goes on in the soul or spirit of man. So we cannot even understand what transpires in us most of the time. We trust way too much in the physiological views of man which can be a form of control in the incomplete falseness of a particular scientific observation.  There are controlling people and there are natural followers. The followers are more susceptible to believe what other people tell them about themselves than what is true. We always get the bad rap. Just like Thomas in the bible. He is always blamed for doubting. But really , the follower is more able to question everything without being over revolutionary since his natural disposition is self doubt. And Thomas was completely understanding of this paradigm. And then Jesus offers Thomas the complete facts of faith since Thomas demanded to understand the truth by questioning what others were saying. Thomas understood that others mislead especially the controller or the self righteous. There really is a message for followers that is less harsh than for the controllers, because the controllers act as if they are helpless in order to get the followers to do what they want. The self righteous pharisees were laying heavy burdens on the poor, the oppressed and the followers. This self righteous world view was trying to define the truth for the rest of society to follow. With the controllers comes rules. Extra things to follow. What the followers do not understand is that because they are so susceptible to guilt, doubt, and pain,that they think God is giving them the rules and then living in condemnation .And it is a total world view we are talking about here. Which is very difficult for followers to apply the doctrines to the whole of life. We can be very revolutionary in our world views because what we struggle with is being afraid of voicing balance in truth. And if there is a need for those who are afraid to stand up for themselves it is in this socialistic society. We live in a time where what works is socialistic. If we step back and see that the powerless in society are more than ever being controlled we can see it now. We are like the kid in the sound of music who was courting the young girl only to find out later that he joined the third Reich and blew the whistle on the Trapp family.  What a controller has a very hard time doing is seeing how the other person feels, and is affected, putting themselves in the weakness of the followers. A controlling person usually needs a wake-up call in order for them to get in line, and they are more able to change on a dime, without becoming emotionally involved in the hurt. It is easier for them to deny themselves with a strong push. Thats what followers need to understand about their view of themselves in standing up. There are spiritual deli mas that accompany these mind games. It is spiritual because God has made a personal promise to come to the help of the followers in the supernatural paradigm.Our view of ourselves and the truth can be a play on our past reactions to how we were treated. Some of us really need to be angry at how we are treated. Some of us will naturally be under the spell of a controller. The word of God, with all of the understanding of who God is will teach us how we know what our particular struggles of mind are. Reality is in our minds, our thoughts , and then we act according to our way of thinking. These interdependent paradigms of mind are like a spell that comes over us so that we think reality is something totally different than how God is and what He is doing in us. Because this spell is a spiritual one predominately since the only other alternative are trusting in the rules, we need a much deeper transformation than socialization. The societies of the world being controlled by Satan do not offer us the truth about ourselves. Societies are paradigms where there are followers and controllers and there is a direction that is anti spiritual, since we view the things of this life imperfectly, the confidence is not in the direction of society but in what God has revealed to us in His word. What He sees is how the streets got wet since we could not see that part of reality.