Holistic Spirituality Holy Triage

This article is dedicated to my hero of the moment
→ http://blog.jayraguda.com/2008/08/beauty.html
This is a continuation of the article below that I wrote about a year ago
→ http://www.holytriage.info/index.php?/archives/203-Gods-Shadow.html

My children continue to remind me of love defined (God defined). Yesterday we were again at the Wal-Mart mentioned in the article above. We were on our way up to beautiful Woods Canyon Lake in the Arizona White Mountains. In the above article I mentioned the horrible lost look in my son Noah's eyes when he believed for a moment he was lost in this Wal-Mart far from home. So here we are a year later at the same Wal-Mart and I noticed Noah was nervously following me very closely as he remember that scary day. He didn't tell me he was nervous, but as his father I could tell. It was at that moment that I was surprised by my own words. I stopped, looked him in the eyes and referred to that scary day a year earlier when he felt lost and then asked him a question. The question was.... You thought it was only up to you that day to know where you were didn't you? Then he said “what”. Then I asked it differently..... You thought it was only up to you to keep an eye on yourself that day didn't you? Then Noah said “Yes”.

What is childlike faith and how do we end up losing it?

Before that day at Wal-Mart Noah always took for granted that I was watching him, but then came that day when he looked up and didn't see me. The truth was that dad was watching even though he couldn't see dad. Not sure if you could relate as a parent, but that lost look in Noah's eyes to this day still brings a gut wrenching tear to my eye. If there is one thing that many enslaved Christians fail to take for granted is God's sovereignty watching over them. Yesterday when I asked Noah that question God was asking me that question at the same time. God “The Father” of all fathers was asking me if I believed our love was a one way street where it was only up to me to watch myself. The Father was asking me if I believed He was always watching over me even when I get myself lost or lose sight of Him. It was at that moment the image of the Father God in me said “Josh I hate to see that lost look in your eyes even more then you hate to see it in your own son's eyes”. The truth is that you Josh are an imperfect father and could in fact lose sight of your children, but God “The Father” will absolutely never lose sight of His. Jesus said in the parable of the lost sheep that when one of His sheep goes astray that He will leave the 99 to go after the one. When did you Josh lose your childlike faith? Remember this........ a fathers words will only penetrate as deeply as his children's belief in him.

To be comforted by The Father's words you must first hear Him speaking them to you personally

How do you hear “The Fathers” voice? Love defined properly is God. When you look at your love for your spouse, your children or your friends you are actually seeing at that moment a reflection of God's image. In my life love is the only evidence of God's existence be it in another person or in this world. Love is spiritual in nature. God is love. When we love God and love others we are hearing God's voice and obeying it completely. God is the groom of the church, God is the Father of His children and God is inside us living in our purified hearts. God has written His words in love upon our hearts. When God's children live from their hearts as opposed to their minds they are guaranteed to experience God. Love is illogical. Love covers a multitude of sins. He who is forgiven much loves much. It is love that will cause someone to give up everything to pursue someone else. I am commanding you as you read this to stop hearing God's voice second hand and start hearing His voice all on your own. I know for many this is hard to grasp because of the wounds festering inside of your souls. Ask God to heal you and then start watching for the people that He will send into your life to make love (God) believable again. My conclusion is you cannot praise or believe in a God that you are subconsciously blaming for everything that goes wrong in your life.

You cannot out sin God's forgiveness
You cannot out run God
You can never be so lost that God cannot find you
Nothing can seperate us from God's love
God desires that NONE shall perish

The Greek Word Jesus used for Hell

If you still believe in hell do yourself a favor by looking up the word hell as spoken by Jesus in the original Greek language.The word for hell that Jesus chose was Gehenna a garbage dump where criminals bodies were burned. Jesus was clearly predicting a time when God would launch His judgement on Jerusalem. When Rome destroyed Jerusalem they threw the bodies of the jews into Gehenna. The doctrines of hell that the church currently teaches did not even exist in the old testament.

The Greek Word Jesus used for Perish

(John 3:15)  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The Greek word for Perish means to destroy fully. People who do not have proper belief in God are completely annilaited. People clearly do not go to a spiritual place, but instead simply just vanish forever. As for John 3:15 above those who believe properly will live eternally. How did a majority of the church take something so simple and turn into something so complicated.

The existance of the modern hell taught by churches accross the globe is surprisingly easy to disprove with just some basic study of the original Greek words. Ask yourself this question. How does the modern doctrines of hell taught by the church insult the character of God? Would you be capable as a human (less loving then God) of sending someone to be tortured forever and ever? Could you even imagine God creating a place for this purpose? Many Church leaders will have a lot of explaining to do someday.

For a huge research project with lots of Biblical and historical evidence disproving the existence of hell click the link below:

Is Hell Real?