tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post3666620487907132106..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Is This When "The Way" Was Lost?colkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-52464985260130582812009-06-17T10:23:13.031-06:002009-06-17T10:23:13.031-06:00Paul, thank you for the link. You have a fantasti...Paul, thank you for the link. You have a fantastic site. If you don't mind I'm going to list it on the front page of my blog.<br /><br />Just for fun I read the post on dragons in heaven. I had no idea there were all those references to dragons in the Bible. In a number of very powerful healing journeys for other people, I have run across dragons. I took them to be another type of archetypal imagery floating around in my consciousness, but their function was as gate keepers to other dimensions, mostly having to do with time, and they do purify one before they let you through their guarded portal.<br /><br />I've seen four and been allowed past two of them, but not without being accomanied by other light beings. So I guess I'm not surprised that Isaiah has angels and dragons together in heaven.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-69519646469505567562009-06-16T12:59:02.233-06:002009-06-16T12:59:02.233-06:00"Christian philosophers perverted the academi..."Christian philosophers perverted the academic world from its role of teaching students how to think, to a dogmatic teaching of what to think."<br /><br />Such an environment opposed to free will and intellect will create and has created religious automatons, religious wars, religious self-righteousness, and unending extremes in religious narcissism. The history of the last 1500 years demonstrates this is true.<br /><br />The consequence of ongoing questioning is to enable the channels for thoughtfulness, understanding and eventual learning how to think with Christ at one’s center of their being. Shutting the valve off to questioning freely essentially makes one an intellectual prisoner of tyranny over thought or allowing oneself to be subject to a form of mind control. In such a state one cannot grow or mature. All things living are continuously moving and evolving. Intellectual atrophy sets in and spiritual death occurs in those who cannot think, reason or speculate, or imagine or even dream. “Let the dead bury their dead” Jesus said to the one who wanted to go back instead of forward in following Jesus.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-43304097451235323452009-06-16T08:36:45.238-06:002009-06-16T08:36:45.238-06:00I completely agree with the comment about the swit...I completely agree with the comment about the switch from ethics to doctrine.<br /><br />My favorite passage on this is Titus 2:1-10. Paul calls the points in that chapter "sound doctrine."<br /><br />Is it what we would call sound doctrine or have we switched to something else?<br /><br />I have a page addressing this whole issue at http://www.christian-history.org/doctrine.html. I hope you don't mind me referencing it, but I think the point about "a sermon on ethics" is EXTREMELY important to following Christ and to Christian unity.<br /><br />What's the "sure foundation of God" according to the Bible? "Let those who name the name of Christ depart from iniquity" (2 Tim. 2:22).<br /><br />Or how about John's comment: "He who practices righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous" (somewhere between verses 7 and 10 in 1 Jn. 3).Paul Pavaohttp://www.christian-history.orgnoreply@blogger.com