Dedicated
to our
LGBTQ and Transgender Brothers
& Sisters
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The Fruit of Love, Now Forbidden? |
It is time to rethink some
important aspects of why we are here on earth. |
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Pills? Sorry, pills cannot do what
an experience of love can do! |
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Who are we? We are creatures of love because we were created by a God who is totally unconditional love. He cannot create that which He is not. There is only one kind of love, and it is Divine Love because God is Love. Since we are also a union of body, soul and spirit, that means that every part of our body, soul and spirit is an instrument of the love that we are. Love Is One We know that we are love and loved when we experience it. Love is an experience that is received and given unconditionally. It fills us with peace, tranquility, patience, joy, happiness, goodness, forgiveness, vitality and pleasure, all dwelling within us in various degrees, not only in the body, but also the soul and spirit. Love Grows Our Heavenly Triune God is a loving social Being. They are a loving Divine Family, Father, Mother Holy Spirit and Son. Consequently, we too of our very nature are family since we are made to their image and likeness. Being social by nature, we truly mature in an integrated way by being embraced, kissed and caressed in some way by others, and by sharing our love with others in the way that they can accept it from us.
However, living in a world of contracts and conditions, actions and decisions which cause separation of ourselves from others, we need to know that sometimes our negative fears of not being loved nor able to share love may push us to use certain parts of our body as instruments of harm rather than instruments of love. Despite the problems, we must never forget that since God is Love, and since everyone dwells within God, that Divine Love dwelling with us, whenever we allow it, will heal us of that which is broken within us. True love of its nature heals the needs of our selfish desires. It heals our anxieties, tensions and hurts from rejections. Love heals. Love lasts. Love is Divine. Our True Inner Desire Is Always To Love To help us make the right choices, let’s accept our body, especially our sexual organs, as an instrument of love, rather than as a toy. Let’s thank God always for the moments we receive and share love, never forgetting that it is also Their love that we shared. Let’s look at one another and the world from a loving heart rather than from law. If we happen to hurt or abuse someone instead of loving them, let’s ask for forgiveness, and then, that Love will heal the wounded heart. Never forget that we are love, because we are made to God’s image and likeness. You may contact us for more information and counseling. Skype and Messenger Rooms are available for virtual contact. Appointments can be arranged by writing us using our email below. La Ermita – The
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We
are born in family, Their Family. We are born in love, Their love. That is
our divine inheritance as a child of our Beloved Father and Mother. We cannot
avoid being one with Them and others. We cannot avoid desiring to be one with
all. Our very hugs and caresses express our desire to be one with the one who
is receiving our love, our very being. Please read this also!
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Are
holy scriptures infallible? June 18,
2022 My dear
friends... In my
Friendship with God I asked a very direct question --- and received a very
direct answer. I would like to share with you that exchange... Can’t
You say something about gays? I have been asked over and over again, at
lectures and appearances and retreats all over the world: won’t You say
something to end once and for all the violence and cruelty and discrimination
against gays? So much of it is done in Your name. So much of it is said to be
justified by Your teaching, and Your law. “I have said before, and I will say again: There
is no form and there is no manner in which the expression of love which is
pure and true is inappropriate. I
cannot be more unequivocal than that.” This
passage from the Conversations with God cosmology always rings in my mind
whenever the subject of gays and their struggle for acceptance in our society
comes up --- and especially when it makes the news. And it has done so again
now. The Rev.
Tim Reed, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gravel Ridge in Jacksonville,
Arkansas was quoted in a news story the other day as saying that his church
has no choice but to terminate its charter with Boy Scout Troop 542 because
the Boy Scouts of America has lifted its ban on openly gay youths. Reed told
one of the major television news networks that “it’s not a hate thing.” He
said it is a “moral stance we must take as a Southern Baptist Church.” The
Christian minister was quoted by the network as saying: “God’s word
explicitly says homosexuality is a choice, a sin.” Now I
don’t mind when people use the Bible as their Source and Authority on matters
of spiritual consequence, but I do have a problem with people who use the
Bible “buffet style,” choosing only those verses that suit their purpose or
personal opinion, then ignoring anything and everything that does not—or that
they think might make them, as staunch believers in the Bible, “look
bad.” Rev. Reed
is not the first Christian who has used “God’s Word” as moral authority for
rejecting gays. I have heard other Christians do so, most often pointing to
the Bible’s book of Leviticus at Chapter 18, Verse 22. As found in the King
James Version that verse says: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
womankind: it is abomination.” Many Bible Believers also cite Leviticus
20:13, which offers this: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put
to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
Using the
Bible in this way may seem to provide righteous authority to some Southern
Baptist churches, most of which are predicted to end their charters with
Scouting in the weeks ahead. That could amount to nearly 4,000 Boy Scout
troops soon without a sponsor. Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptists’
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, was quoted in the news story
mentioned above as saying that “Southern Baptists are going to be leaving the
Boy Scouts en masse.” Southern
Baptists have, of course, the right to believe exactly as they believe. And,
having said that...is it now Fair Question time? I should like to ask: Which
verses of the Bible should be operative in our lives if we are to live up to
God’s moral injunctions, as the Southern Baptists feel that they are doing in
response to the Boy Scouts’ decision to admit gay youths? Do you
suppose it might be the verse in the Book of Deuteronomy where it says that
if a man marries a woman and finds that she is not a virgin, and if her
family cannot prove that she was a virgin before her marriage, “she shall be
brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall
stone her to death”? Or perhaps it would be the verse that says that if found
to be in an adulterous relationship, both the man and the woman are to be
taken to the city gates and also stoned to death. (Before deciding, please
keep in mind that if this were to be applied, some churches would have to
stone to death their own ministers.) Or perhaps
it’s the verse that says that only certain people are welcome in God’s house
of worship. If you happen to be a child born out of wedlock, or the
great-great-great-grandchild of a person born out of wedlock, God says you
may not set foot inside a church. The Bible makes this very clear. It says
that no illegitimate child, “nor any of his descendants may enter the
assembly of the Lord, even down to the tenth generation.” And, did
you know this? If a certain part of a man’s body happens to be injured in an
accident or as a result of war, he may likewise not join with other
worshippers of God in a House of the Lord. The Bible says: “If a man's
testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be included in the
assembly of the Lord.” Yes, these
are words right out of the Bible. Turn to Deuteronomy 23:1-2, New Living
Translation. “Oh,” you might say, “one of those modern Bibles.” Yes. The King
James Version has it this way: “He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his
privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord,” but
it means the same thing. And the
Bible has some startling news for women who take some of those self-defense
classes that are offered these days. They can find themselves in a lot of
trouble because of some of what they might learn in those classes. The Bible
says: “If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue
her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his
private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.” God’s Word
also provides us clear guidance on what to do about children who don’t obey
their parents. These are probably not thoughts that many mothers would
have—maybe even not Southern Baptist mothers, but we have no choice but to
obey. As Rev. Reed would say, "God's word explicitly tells us" how
we are to respond. And what does God’s Word instruct us to do with rebellious
children? Kill them. Now you
might not believe that, but it’s right there, plain as day, and you can’t
deny God’s Word: “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not
obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline
him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders
at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is
stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a
drunkard.’ Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must
purge the evil from among you.” I guess
that would do it, all right… So with
respect, I am not totally convinced that humanity’s infallible answers will
be found in the Bible. I can’t agree with the above verses. Any of them. Some
Christians may not agree with all of the above verses, either. But if we are
going to be Buffet Bible Believers, rather than a Literal Word of God
Believer, then it would be wonderful to know which verses of the Bible we are
advised to ignore, and which we should apply to the letter. All of
this brings up the question: Are holy books literal truth? Are we to take the
Bible, or the Qu'ran, or the Upanishads, or the
Book of Mormon, or any other holy scripture as God’s Word Inerrant? If so,
which holy book is the one without error? Or is it possible that
Conversations with God has it right when it says that the Bible and all other
holy books written by humans might best be valued and embraced for its
wonderful wisdom in many places, but never accepted in whole, with every word
considered to be literally true, given that they were written by fallible
humans...? Hugs and
love, Neale Walsch, author of Conversations
with God |