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_ Jesus and Religion
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♥ How do you know God?
♥  Where does He/She live and thrive
♥ It is within You

♥ The spiritual fruits
♥  Which live in your heart and mind
♥ Are God’s gifts to you

♥ Divine certainty
♥  Is based on experience
♥ Joy is in service

♥ In your feeling heart
♥  Spiritual living resides
♥ Not in a doctrine

♥ With your thinking mind
♥  You choose either Love or Hate
♥ Our God’s name is Love

♥ Either love or hate
♥  You have the choice in your life
♥ To follow God’s love

♥ The spiritual fruits
♥  Love, joy, peace and compassion
♥ Are yours as God's gifts


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Call to doubt and faith
Poet: Christian Wiman

A CALL TO DOUBT AND FAITH: CHRISTIAN WIMAN ON REMEMBERING GOD Krista Tippert "On Being"

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"Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.  For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith".     Romans 12:1 –3 

romans  12:1-3

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Jefferson Bethke's
"Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus"

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Holy N.T. Scripture:
  “For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.   (Personal Relationships)    
21    “You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24   leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.”

Matthew 5:20-24  (NASB)  see listing for Bible Gateway (link) to Biblical References
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:20-24%20%20&version=NASB

Mother Teresa and Service

Look after the poor

Jesus said to followers

God is their father

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"When Jesus would have risen to depart, one of the lawyers who was at the table, addressing him, said: "But, Master, in some of your statements you reproach us also. Is there nothing good in the scribes, the Pharisees, or the lawyers?" And Jesus, standing, replied to the lawyer: "You, like the Pharisees, delight in the first places at the feasts and in wearing long robes while you put heavy burdens, grievous to be borne, on men's shoulders. And when the souls of men stagger under these heavy burdens, you will not so much as lift with one of your fingers. Woe upon you who take your greatest delight in building tombs for the prophets your fathers killed! And that you consent to what your fathers did is made manifest when you now plan to kill those who come in this day doing what the prophets did in their day—proclaiming the righteousness of God and revealing the mercy of the heavenly Father. But of all the generations that are past, the blood of the prophets and the apostles shall be required of this perverse and self-righteous generation. Woe upon all of you lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge from the common people! You yourselves refuse to enter into the way of truth, and at the same time you would hinder all others who seek to enter therein. But you cannot thus shut up the doors of the kingdom of heaven:"
The Urantia Book:  166:1.5


Cross Reference to N.T. Luke  11:45-50
More "woes" Luke 11:45-50 (same) "Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation."