Every human being, including Christians and unbelievers alike, are to a greater or lesser degree unconsciously trapped in a ‘personal mythology’ regarding God and themselves!
Myths are imaginary and unproved collective ideas, beliefs and fictitious stories, based on legends and tradition. These mostly untested concepts are invented to justify ourselves, and designed to explain and give meaning to the mysterious dimensions of life.Most our ‘personal mythology’ consists of a mixed ‘fruit salad’ consisting of a intermingling and blending together into one mass of various ingredient
Who am I?
These consists of fear filled superstitions, fables, erroneous beliefs, personal subjective experience, cultural influence, denominational conjecture and religious dogma based on the Bible and the opinions of men etc. etc.
For instance, for most of us our inherited opinion is that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, had to come Adam’s world, into the mess Adam made, and attempt to build a faith bridge back to God! A bridge we have to somehow find during our lifetime and successfully cross, or alternatively God will dump us into ‘hell’, to be tormented eternally!
The eternal fact is that Adam came into Christ’s world!
The eternal fact is that we were saved in Christ even before we fell in Adam!
Untwisting and unravelling our familiar and deeply held, and cherished misconceptions, in order to dig through to the bedrock of ‘truth’ or ‘reality’, that actually came through Jesus Christ is not easy and often most painful.
Yet, not unlike a Tiger caught in a fatal trap, we sometimes have to chew off our own leg, in order to rescue our very existence from life’s traps!
A good place to commence in exposing our ‘personal mythology’ is to get a clear perspective on and to begin to recognise the distinction between ‘Objective’ and ‘Subjective’ spiritual realities.
The following audio teaching’s could prove helpful.
‘The Objective and Subjective Spiritually Reality of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!’
http://www2.uhaveaudio.com/1291244607_32/mp3/g0/ql
Then to ask the question; “Who is Jesus Christ”, and what did the Triune God accomplished through Jesus for and on behalf mankind, and therefore of you personally”
‘Jesus Christ, the Master Key to unlocking the Mystery of the Bible.’
http://www2.uhaveaudio.com/1291234889_32/mp3/g0/ql
http://www2.uhaveaudio.com/1291927708_32/mp3/g0/ql
http://www2.uhaveaudio.com/1291931261_32/mp3/g0/ql
To ask and answer the vital question, “Who is God?”
‘The Mythology of God in the Mind of the Believer – Re-discovering the Heart of the Father’
http://www2.uhaveaudio.com/1291858093_32/mp3/g0/ql
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Pastor Andre Oosthuizen of South Africa ” Transforming our Vision to the Apostolic Understanding of the Cosmic Nature and Universal Lordship of Jesus the Christ, and the Inclusion and Infusion of Humanity into the Love and Life of the Trinity by Challenging Redundant and Stagnant Traditional Religious Mindsets and Spiritual Blind Spots.”
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The above Information was written by Pastor Andre. The fact is that we are already contaminated with ideas and concepts that derive from family, friends church, ethnic and gender, nationality and so forth. The Kingdom of God is a diametrically oppossed sytem of thinking and operational construct from what we are used to working through. This is one reason for the "confusion" that ppl experince in the spiritual walk. You are attempting to walk a spiritual road with an earthly mindset. They are incongruent and so Most Folks attempt to wrap the Bible around their life instead of their life around the Bible.
Rev. Richard Johnson, B.Sc.; Be blessed.
The above Information was written by Pastor Andre. The fact is that we are already contaminated with ideas and concepts that derive from family, friends church, ethnic and gender, nationality and so forth. The Kingdom of God is a diametrically oppossed sytem of thinking and operational construct from what we are used to working through. This is one reason for the "confusion" that ppl experince in the spiritual walk. You are attempting to walk a spiritual road with an earthly mindset. They are incongruent and so Most Folks attempt to wrap the Bible around their life instead of their life around the Bible.
Rev. Richard Johnson, B.Sc.; Be blessed.
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