the spirit of GOD in our heart is always prompting us to seek closer conscious contact with GOD,what do you need to rise above your present level. level 1. ignorance of GOD. level 2, LAW. level 3, GRACE, level 4 unconditional LOVE
2006-09-07 07:21:33 · 21 answers · asked by Weldon 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
preacher,you say pride,I say a sense of self seperate from GOD,are we saying the same thing?On one level it appears desire seperates us from GOD,the root of desire is "sin,the root of "sin" is Guilt,the root of guilt is the absense of GOD.
2006-09-07 08:09:34 · update #1
TL1,One's ego sees its demise when you turn to GOD,LISTEN TO YOUR HEART.
2006-09-07 10:46:12 · update #2
daveroswell04,YES it is a marketable product,it is what GOD deals in. I love playing in it.
2006-09-07 10:49:47 · update #3
furious_chem, Come,go to work for GOD you will never meet another stupid person,ignorant maybe,but all are perfect when you have the right eyesight.
2006-09-07 10:53:04 · update #4
anime_grl87, Be still take three deep breaths,with sencere heart ask GOD your Question,let go of it, become the witness and watch your screen of mind for answer,Do not engage your thoughts, it would stop the process. you can analyze later.
2006-09-07 11:00:01 · update #5
Mrs Potts R, any excuse will do,if you can't face the truth. LOVE
2006-09-07 11:02:22 · update #6
Grandma Susie, You can't use that excuse, It's mine. LOVE
2006-09-07 11:04:29 · update #7
RuneAmuk., YOU GOT "IT"
2006-09-07 11:08:13 · update #8
icraesharbor, GET your own experience and answers,seek and you will find,knock and it will be opened unto you.Climb out of the muk into spirit. LOVE
2006-09-07 11:13:41 · update #9
ONLY YOURSELF AND LACK OF INTEREST OR STUDYING CAN PREVENT IT
2006-09-07 07:27:53 · answer #1 · answered by jkpoet2@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My spiritual growth is more along the lines of the Zen ox. I've only made it to 3.
What keeps me from it is laziness.
1: The Self is faintly intuited, like sensing the presence of the Ox, and the journey begins.
2: Like finding a few hoof marks of the Ox, traces of the teachings of the path are found.
3: The Ox is glimpsed, as one comes to see that the Self is beyond the personality self.
4: The Ox has been caught hold of, and the pursuit of the Self is now firmly practiced.
5: The Ox is tamed, as the mind is tamed, while staying focused on finding the Self.
6: The Ox is ridden, as the mind is mastered, becoming a friend on the inner journey to Self.
7: The Ox is left aside, as the Seeker rests in the stillness of the inner chamber.
8: Both Ox and Seeker are forgotten, allowing the individual self to rest in the True Self.
9: Ox and Seeker merge into emptiness, wholeness, beingness; the absolute Truth.
10: The Realized returns to the marketplace of life, living in the world, yet in the Self.
2006-09-07 07:27:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1 is almost always ego. Followed by allowing the influence of evil to sway decisions on how to proceed in life. Keeping one from attending to the spiritual as should #1
2006-09-07 07:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So, stepping into touch with your inner new child is rather a regression? i think of I agree in princple. yet what do you enable go of and what do you hold? To enable go fullyyt is to have not have been given any non secular underpinnings or ethical framework in any respect. looks to me that letting go is a controversy of having mature priorities and heavily theory-out values somewhat than an ecclectic, relativist, something is going physique of ideas. in case you comprehend what's genuine and rather significant, each and every thing else merely of course falls far off from inattention.
2016-09-30 10:45:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only things that can prevent spiritual growth are ignorance and sin.
And you're wrong to divide it into levels like that. There's no biblical basis for that kind of scale, and it opens up a forum for people to start comparing themselves to others. Jesus is our yardstick of spiritual maturity. His life is our goal.
2006-09-07 07:29:18 · answer #5 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing prevents my spiritual growth. I try my best daily to maintain a close relationship with God. I pray constantly for myself and others (never material things), in hopes that we can all join hands someday and stop being so judgemental towards one another.
2006-09-07 07:26:37 · answer #6 · answered by Shining Ray of Light 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I must be stuck on level 2, because I know all about god. Of course, I didn't like what I heard.
2006-09-07 07:43:14 · answer #7 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Born-Again Christian once said to me that my child was going to Hell because she wasn't 'born-again'! The only spiritual growth I want is for a cancer to miraculously grow and take away his perverted voicebox
2006-09-07 07:28:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The spiritual hermit crab must find the right seashell to grow into.
2006-09-07 07:25:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Distrust of people who talk about spirituality as if it's a marketable product.
2006-09-07 07:23:45 · answer #10 · answered by daveroswell04 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Common sense.
2006-09-07 07:22:49 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋