Ah, the response to the eye of the needle verse makes more sense now. We are victims of our culture. To my ears, when I hear Jesus saying that it is (nearly) impossible for the rich to get to heaven, my response isn't: then who can? But it seems in the first century, the thinking was different (presumably for more reasons than home mikvehs). Thanks, Dr. Bergsma.
What I am about to ask is not meant to judge you, perhaps it is to judge myself. But are you saying that because you like the fact that she was able to keep her possessions? Or are you saying that because you actually admire her presumably being able to divorce herself from the wealth and use the resources as God wished? Because I think our being content in our wealth is contrary to having "pistis" in God. Another Catholic Production video on this topic, one of my favorites: ua-cam.com/video/_vRVuoq5JbE/v-deo.html
Blessed are the poor in spirit because although you are ignorant in the knowledge that you are SPIRIT and not a finite, mortal being, you are blessed because you are the very thing in which you believe you are poor....SPIRIT!! Christ is the Realization that God is Spirit, and Spirit is the ONLY PRESENCE(there is nothing else), then living, moving and having your being in this Principle.... This is the Message of the Realized Christ through Jesus! This means all things that stem from a belief in matter/form/physicality/time/space as reality, no matter how it appears is not a Reality. Whether it be an illness, hunger, lack, goodness, evil, person, place, thing, etc... Only what is of Spirit is Reality, and the human form, including the 5 senses, is not of Spirit. All things of Spirit/Reality are Imperishable, while all things of Matter/Unreality are Perishable. What is of God is Eternal and Immortal. What is not of God is finite and illusory, and only playing out as the delusional belief in a Life Separate and Apart from Spirit/God!! The book called the bible is not a religious manuscript, nor are there any religious teachings. A religious teaching is of the Ignorance of the Human intellect, and the book we call the bible can not be understood through the human intellect, as it does not and can not know Truth. Spirit is Perfect.... Spirit is Infinite.... Spirit is Constant Renewal.... Spirit is The Only Presence.... I Am Spirit because God is Spirit and Spirit is the Only Presence!! Here's a bit of what Jesus says about the form of Jesus, and all other appearances of any form.... If I speak of myself I bear witness to a lie.... I of mine own self am nothing. I of mine own self can do nothing.... Why callest thou me good..... Jesus realized that since Spirit is the Only Presence, ALL is Spirit and not form, and tried to tell the world to follow this Principle, but the human mind can not let go of its belief in the 5 senses and human thought, or SATAN as Jesus called them!! You either believe that Spirit is the Only Presence, which is Christ Realization, or you believe in the illusion of form, making you the ANTI-CHRIST..... It's that simple..... Yet it takes a LARGE DEGREE OF SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT to recognize the Truth of Spirit as the Only Presence and then Be Perfect as Father Consciousness is Perfect! It starts with losing a reliance upon that which can only lie to you.....the 5 Senses and Human Thought, or the World Mind and his Son Satan!! The human mind doesn't have the ability to think, it only accepts thoughts from the World Mind, and then acts upon them accordingly. Numerology, Gematria, Psychology, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Mental Sciences are all outside of the scope of Spirit/Truth, as all are of man's ignorance of his Immortal Being! The true message of the bible is not for the timid, it is for those who are willing to walk the Earth in Proportion to their Receptivity of Spiritual Omnipresence!! Through the Realization and Acceptance of Spirit as the Only Presence, Jesus became an Interpreter and Demonstrator(as all will ultimately be)for the language of the Realization of Spirit/God as the Only Presence. Therefore, also Demonstrated the Unreality of the Material World. The Realization of the Christ Principle through Jesus is inviting us to live in the Kingdom of Heaven Right Here, Right Now, through the Realization of the I....(meaning Immortal Spirit) in the Midst of each of us. We are being asked to live in our 7th Day Perfect, Spiritual State of Being. We are being asked to stop struggling, surviving, searching, and trying to make things happen because we are already complete in the Kingdom of Heaven right here, as Spirit IS THE ONLY PRESENCE, and we must Rest in this Realization! This is HONORING THE SABBATH! To honor the 7th Day of Creation and Rest in it!! Spirit, our Truth of Being will not flow through a Mortal/Material/Finite Sense of Reality. There must be a meekness unto Divine Thought/Divine Sense. Because I Am Spirit I have no human purpose. Once this takes place as the Activity of Truth in Our Consciousness, it is this Truth/Spirit that speaks through us in a way that the human mind can not discern(Speaking in Tongues), i.e. The words of Truth/Spirit/Christ/God spoken through Jesus. Instead, the words have been adulterated(made inferior by adding SEPARATION to it's message) to mean something entirely different than it's Spiritual meaning(Thou shalt not commit the Adulteration of Spirit)! I, the Spirit of You, am the Way and the Truth and the Life. What we believe we are experiencing as a human/physical/mortal being is actually the Binding/Imprisoning of Our Spiritual Immortality as the Truth of the Activity of Our Consciousness into a Mortal and Material Sense of Awareneness. Follow me I, the Spirit of your being across the Mystic Ocean of Time and Space where you don't walk in the world of matter, form, physicality, iniquity, mortality. Where everything appears to be, only Spirit/God is.... The Cornerstone of the Christ(God/Spiritual Consciousness Realized)Teaching is that Spirit/God is the Only Presence, not to worship Jesus the illusory form that is nothing and can do nothing of itself....(with Spirit being the only Presence, to worship anything of an illusory material nature, such as a human form, is to worship a graven image, as all matter is a graven image). Through Conscious Realization We must Establish Our Oneness with Spirit....! Christ(name used to identify a State of Consciousness)is "birthed" in us when we come to the virginal conscious realization that Spirit(Divine Consciousness)is the Only Presence. It is an unadulterated, unsullied moment of Illumination. It is an immaculate conception of the rare, but highly receptive, intuitive readiness for the Absolute Truth. It is an unblemished, impeccable Mystical insight into our True Spiritual Nature. The Birth of Our Spiritual State of Being as the Activity of Truth in Our Consciousness. Realize your own Immortal Nature within and it will lead you out of the Veiled Dream of Time and Space. Out of the Karmic Cycle of Birth and Death. The Spirit we are walks in the Kingdom of Heaven right here, where no mortal being or carnal mind can reach it!! The Spirit we are is Untouchable, and only sees that which is the Kingdom of Spirit/God. Abstain from the Temptation to believe that which is finite/material is of Consciousness/Spirit/God. If it's happening in Time and Space it can not be taking place. The Supreme illusion of the Human Mind is that it accepts mortality/form as reality. What is not of Spirit is not a reality. Every Temptation of this World is Meaningless when you know the Truth of Your Immortal Christ/God/Spiritual Being!! The Matter/Form/Error/Evil is not there, ONLY THE TEMPTATION TO ACCEPT IT AS REALITY IS!! No religion has found God, ever!! Only the Mystic has Realized God/Immortality because the Mystic knows where not to look(As the Mystical Consciousness wrote the Bible about the Reality of Spirit and the Unreality of Matter for the Development of Spiritual Discernment in Students of Mysticism, or Truth). Religion, Philosophy, and Science seek God/Spirit/Truth in the Material World of Illusion through the faculty responsible for it, the human mind, hoping for a glimpse of Truth/God where no Truth/God of any kind Exists. The Mystic Discerns the Reality of Spirit through the Unreality of Matter. The Mystic knows Our True and Only State of Being is Incorporeal, Infinite, and Omnipresent(at least to the human intellect and senses). The Mystic sees only the Spirit of Immortality through the Sense of Form/Matter of all beings. The Mystic knows that if it is happening in Time and Space it is Not Taking Place. The Mystic allows Infinite Perfection to be his Thought through Conscious Awareness of Spirit as the Only Presence!! Therefore, the Mystic reaches not for God or Truth, the Mystic Rests in the Realization of it!! This releases him from the reliance upon that which is ERRONEOUS, the 5 Senses!! We don't Transcend the Illusion, We Realize the Truth of Spiritual Immortality!! Peace Be Unto You!!
if all these so called churches including the catholic church are rich then why not sell all that you have take up your cross and follow me and if all the christians went out to become witness for Jesus Christ would we not be doing God's will so what is God's will anyway? let me know not as a catholic but as a christian if that is what you are I want proof and I want the truth
He's dead wrong: self-sufficiency is the sole recipe ingredient needed to *serve* God by serving neighbor; poverty of spirit is the *cause* of selfishness at its core, so thus it is horrible to have as a trait, as it leads man to knife those ahead of him in the course of salvation in order to make sure he gets to Paradise, and after cutting them to disable them, throwing them off the bridge of the Lord's cross.
Praise jesus christ amen
So, so good. Thank you.
Now I understand that in my relationship with God, I am poor spiritually; but in my relationship with my fellow humans, I am spiritually rich.
Now it makes sense, Thank you
Wonderful explanation...thank you so much
Ah, the response to the eye of the needle verse makes more sense now. We are victims of our culture. To my ears, when I hear Jesus saying that it is (nearly) impossible for the rich to get to heaven, my response isn't: then who can? But it seems in the first century, the thinking was different (presumably for more reasons than home mikvehs). Thanks, Dr. Bergsma.
agree. makes so much more sense.
This was really good
Great story about the homeless man vs the Contessa. Very lucid.
What I am about to ask is not meant to judge you, perhaps it is to judge myself. But are you saying that because you like the fact that she was able to keep her possessions? Or are you saying that because you actually admire her presumably being able to divorce herself from the wealth and use the resources as God wished? Because I think our being content in our wealth is contrary to having "pistis" in God. Another Catholic Production video on this topic, one of my favorites: ua-cam.com/video/_vRVuoq5JbE/v-deo.html
Amén!! 😊😇🙏
Blessed are the poor in spirit because although you are ignorant in the knowledge that you are SPIRIT and not a finite, mortal being, you are blessed because you are the very thing in which you believe you are poor....SPIRIT!!
Christ is the Realization that God is Spirit, and Spirit is the ONLY PRESENCE(there is nothing else), then living, moving and having your being in this Principle....
This is the Message of the Realized Christ through Jesus!
This means all things that stem from a belief in matter/form/physicality/time/space as reality, no matter how it appears is not a Reality. Whether it be an illness, hunger, lack, goodness, evil, person, place, thing, etc...
Only what is of Spirit is Reality, and the human form, including the 5 senses, is not of Spirit.
All things of Spirit/Reality are Imperishable, while all things of Matter/Unreality are Perishable.
What is of God is Eternal and Immortal.
What is not of God is finite and illusory, and only playing out as the delusional belief in a Life Separate and Apart from Spirit/God!!
The book called the bible is not a religious manuscript, nor are there any religious teachings.
A religious teaching is of the Ignorance of the Human intellect, and the book we call the bible can not be understood through the human intellect, as it does not and can not know Truth.
Spirit is Perfect....
Spirit is Infinite....
Spirit is Constant Renewal....
Spirit is The Only Presence....
I Am Spirit because God is Spirit and Spirit is the Only Presence!!
Here's a bit of what Jesus says about the form of Jesus, and all other appearances of any form....
If I speak of myself I bear witness to a lie....
I of mine own self am nothing. I of mine own self can do nothing....
Why callest thou me good.....
Jesus realized that since Spirit is the Only Presence, ALL is Spirit and not form, and tried to tell the world to follow this Principle, but the human mind can not let go of its belief in the 5 senses and human thought, or SATAN as Jesus called them!!
You either believe that Spirit is the Only Presence, which is Christ Realization, or you believe in the illusion of form, making you the ANTI-CHRIST.....
It's that simple.....
Yet it takes a LARGE DEGREE OF SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT to recognize the Truth of Spirit as the Only Presence and then Be Perfect as Father Consciousness is Perfect!
It starts with losing a reliance upon that which can only lie to you.....the 5 Senses and Human Thought, or the World Mind and his Son Satan!!
The human mind doesn't have the ability to think, it only accepts thoughts from the World Mind, and then acts upon them accordingly.
Numerology, Gematria, Psychology, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Mental Sciences are all outside of the scope of Spirit/Truth, as all are of man's ignorance of his Immortal Being!
The true message of the bible is not for the timid, it is for those who are willing to walk the Earth in Proportion to their Receptivity of Spiritual Omnipresence!!
Through the Realization and Acceptance of Spirit as the Only Presence, Jesus became an Interpreter and Demonstrator(as all will ultimately be)for the language of the Realization of Spirit/God as the Only Presence. Therefore, also Demonstrated the Unreality of the Material World.
The Realization of the Christ Principle through Jesus is inviting us to live in the Kingdom of Heaven Right Here, Right Now, through the Realization of the I....(meaning Immortal Spirit) in the Midst of each of us. We are being asked to live in our 7th Day Perfect, Spiritual State of Being. We are being asked to stop struggling, surviving, searching, and trying to make things happen because we are already complete in the Kingdom of Heaven right here, as Spirit IS THE ONLY PRESENCE, and we must Rest in this Realization! This is HONORING THE SABBATH! To honor the 7th Day of Creation and Rest in it!!
Spirit, our Truth of Being will not flow through a Mortal/Material/Finite Sense of Reality.
There must be a meekness unto Divine Thought/Divine Sense.
Because I Am Spirit I have no human purpose.
Once this takes place as the Activity of Truth in Our Consciousness, it is this Truth/Spirit that speaks through us in a way that the human mind can not discern(Speaking in Tongues), i.e. The words of Truth/Spirit/Christ/God spoken through Jesus. Instead, the words have been adulterated(made inferior by adding SEPARATION to it's message) to mean something entirely different than it's Spiritual meaning(Thou shalt not commit the Adulteration of Spirit)!
I, the Spirit of You, am the Way and the Truth and the Life.
What we believe we are experiencing as a human/physical/mortal being is actually the Binding/Imprisoning of Our Spiritual Immortality as the Truth of the Activity of Our Consciousness into a Mortal and Material Sense of Awareneness.
Follow me I, the Spirit of your being across the Mystic Ocean of Time and Space where you don't walk in the world of matter, form, physicality, iniquity, mortality.
Where everything appears to be, only Spirit/God is....
The Cornerstone of the Christ(God/Spiritual Consciousness Realized)Teaching is that Spirit/God is the Only Presence, not to worship Jesus the illusory form that is nothing and can do nothing of itself....(with Spirit being the only Presence, to worship anything of an illusory material nature, such as a human form, is to worship a graven image, as all matter is a graven image).
Through Conscious Realization We must Establish Our Oneness with Spirit....!
Christ(name used to identify a State of Consciousness)is "birthed" in us when we come to the virginal conscious realization that Spirit(Divine Consciousness)is the Only Presence. It is an unadulterated, unsullied moment of Illumination. It is an immaculate conception of the rare, but highly receptive, intuitive readiness for the Absolute Truth. It is an unblemished, impeccable Mystical insight into our True Spiritual Nature. The Birth of Our Spiritual State of Being as the Activity of Truth in Our Consciousness.
Realize your own Immortal Nature within and it will lead you out of the Veiled Dream of Time and Space. Out of the Karmic Cycle of Birth and Death.
The Spirit we are walks in the Kingdom of Heaven right here, where no mortal being or carnal mind can reach it!!
The Spirit we are is Untouchable, and only sees that which is the Kingdom of Spirit/God.
Abstain from the Temptation to believe that which is finite/material is of Consciousness/Spirit/God. If it's happening in Time and Space it can not be taking place.
The Supreme illusion of the Human Mind is that it accepts mortality/form as reality.
What is not of Spirit is not a reality.
Every Temptation of this World is Meaningless when you know the Truth of Your Immortal Christ/God/Spiritual Being!! The Matter/Form/Error/Evil is not there, ONLY THE TEMPTATION TO ACCEPT IT AS REALITY IS!!
No religion has found God, ever!!
Only the Mystic has Realized God/Immortality because the Mystic knows where not to look(As the Mystical Consciousness wrote the Bible about the Reality of Spirit and the Unreality of Matter for the Development of Spiritual Discernment in Students of Mysticism, or Truth).
Religion, Philosophy, and Science seek God/Spirit/Truth in the Material World of Illusion through the faculty responsible for it, the human mind, hoping for a glimpse of Truth/God where no Truth/God of any kind Exists.
The Mystic Discerns the Reality of Spirit through the Unreality of Matter.
The Mystic knows Our True and Only State of Being is Incorporeal, Infinite, and Omnipresent(at least to the human intellect and senses).
The Mystic sees only the Spirit of Immortality through the Sense of Form/Matter of all beings.
The Mystic knows that if it is happening in Time and Space it is Not Taking Place.
The Mystic allows Infinite Perfection to be his Thought through Conscious Awareness of Spirit as the Only Presence!!
Therefore, the Mystic reaches not for God or Truth, the Mystic Rests in the Realization of it!! This releases him from the reliance upon that which is ERRONEOUS, the 5 Senses!!
We don't Transcend the Illusion, We Realize the Truth of Spiritual Immortality!!
Peace Be Unto You!!
We're at the mercy of the court he give mercy to who He wants to and if he doesn't we don't get it
What about Hillel who was acoal worker and the greatest sage? What about rabbi Yosi shoemaker, rabbi Akiva, who was extremely poor etc
What about them?
Rabbi akiva mentor was actually excommunicated and tried by the romans for accepting and talking with a christian and agreed
Too much focus on temporal poverty
if all these so called churches including the catholic church are rich then why not sell all that you have take up your cross and follow me and if all the christians went out to become witness for Jesus Christ would we not be doing God's will so what is God's will anyway? let me know not as a catholic but as a christian if that is what you are I want proof and I want the truth
He's dead wrong: self-sufficiency is the sole recipe ingredient needed to *serve* God by serving neighbor; poverty of spirit is the *cause* of selfishness at its core, so thus it is horrible to have as a trait, as it leads man to knife those ahead of him in the course of salvation in order to make sure he gets to Paradise, and after cutting them to disable them, throwing them off the bridge of the Lord's cross.