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		<title>By: Masked Rider Kiba</title>
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		<dc:creator>Masked Rider Kiba</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dudes, the Essene religious group flourished since 200 BC. Yet prophecies about Jesus being called a Nazarene or Jesus' ties to this "Nazareth-Nazarene issue" dated back even to the time of the prophets, with some evidences dating back 500 BC. Come on guys, don't be stubborn kids. For the believers, can some of you cite verses on the BIBLE to prove my claim? I know I can't remember verses, but I'm sure there are...
Anyway, MAY THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH US ALWAYS!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dudes, the Essene religious group flourished since 200 BC. Yet prophecies about Jesus being called a Nazarene or Jesus&#8217; ties to this &#8220;Nazareth-Nazarene issue&#8221; dated back even to the time of the prophets, with some evidences dating back 500 BC. Come on guys, don&#8217;t be stubborn kids. For the believers, can some of you cite verses on the BIBLE to prove my claim? I know I can&#8217;t remember verses, but I&#8217;m sure there are&#8230;<br />
Anyway, MAY THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH US ALWAYS!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Beiruth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Christ is not a member of any organization founded by man.
Instead, Jesus is the head of the Church of God.

 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews 3:6
King James Version

 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
I Timothy 3:15
King James Version</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christ is not a member of any organization founded by man.<br />
Instead, Jesus is the head of the Church of God.</p>
<p> But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.<br />
Hebrews 3:6<br />
King James Version</p>
<p> But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.<br />
I Timothy 3:15<br />
King James Version</p>
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		<title>By: Rhina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rhina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jesus Christ was never an essene, and Bro Eli has laid out the simple and logical reasons. Several verses mentioned by Bro Eli are proofs that JESUS CHRIST himself said that He received directly from GOD THE FATHER all that HE preached. It has been prophesied that many will claim that they are also followers of CHRIST. Some even attached the name of CHRIST in their own churches to project an image of originality or bolster their claim of being the true church, which they are not. Almost all churches claiming to be Christians have their own illussions and false claims that they are connected to CHRIST. Many pretends of course that they are of GOD but their actions contradict them. The issue has been biblically explained, thus similar claims by any other group in the future is easy to understand. Bro Eli and Bro Daniel will always be there to help us understand the biblical messages or any claim or question to the contrary. Lets hear more topics in this blog. Thank you Bro Eli and Bro Daniel. LET US PRAISE GOD.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ was never an essene, and Bro Eli has laid out the simple and logical reasons. Several verses mentioned by Bro Eli are proofs that JESUS CHRIST himself said that He received directly from GOD THE FATHER all that HE preached. It has been prophesied that many will claim that they are also followers of CHRIST. Some even attached the name of CHRIST in their own churches to project an image of originality or bolster their claim of being the true church, which they are not. Almost all churches claiming to be Christians have their own illussions and false claims that they are connected to CHRIST. Many pretends of course that they are of GOD but their actions contradict them. The issue has been biblically explained, thus similar claims by any other group in the future is easy to understand. Bro Eli and Bro Daniel will always be there to help us understand the biblical messages or any claim or question to the contrary. Lets hear more topics in this blog. Thank you Bro Eli and Bro Daniel. LET US PRAISE GOD.</p>
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		<title>By: bijoy</title>
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		<dc:creator>bijoy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi i just surfed in searching for interesting facts on Essenes in the blogs.
  you have a cool blog. Do keep up the good work. I'll be back for more. i live
  far from where you live. its nice to be able to see what people from across
  the world thinks. 
On a related note perhaps you might find the following article interesting.
  we are currently doing a series of posts on essenes and their culture and i'll
  like to hear your take on the subject via comments. See ya there....
&#160;
&lt;a href="http://keralaarticles.blogspot.com/2007/07/essenes-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Historical
  Facts on Essene Culture&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&#160;
Warm Regards from the Other Side of the Moon.
Bijoy Cletus - Kerala, India</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi i just surfed in searching for interesting facts on Essenes in the blogs.<br />
  you have a cool blog. Do keep up the good work. I&#8217;ll be back for more. i live<br />
  far from where you live. its nice to be able to see what people from across<br />
  the world thinks.<br />
On a related note perhaps you might find the following article interesting.<br />
  we are currently doing a series of posts on essenes and their culture and i&#8217;ll<br />
  like to hear your take on the subject via comments. See ya there&#8230;.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<a href="http://keralaarticles.blogspot.com/2007/07/essenes-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>Historical<br />
  Facts on Essene Culture</strong></a><br />
&nbsp;<br />
Warm Regards from the Other Side of the Moon.<br />
Bijoy Cletus - Kerala, India</p>
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		<title>By: Nazar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To chad

you wrote:  remember that as Jews/Israelites, they are commanded by God to celebrate Passover annually and on such occasions they are required to eat lamb


my reply: 

"the man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus,
 because HE DID THIS on the sabbath." (John 5:15-16)

  “the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath”

 Passoever feast was commanded for the jews/Israelite  to celebrate but the Jews/Israelite were not created for the Passoverl feast.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To chad</p>
<p>you wrote:  remember that as Jews/Israelites, they are commanded by God to celebrate Passover annually and on such occasions they are required to eat lamb</p>
<p>my reply: </p>
<p>&#8220;the man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus,<br />
 because HE DID THIS on the sabbath.&#8221; (John 5:15-16)</p>
<p>  “the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath”</p>
<p> Passoever feast was commanded for the jews/Israelite  to celebrate but the Jews/Israelite were not created for the Passoverl feast.</p>
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		<title>By: "Brethen"</title>
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		<dc:creator>"Brethen"</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Karma provides us with the only rational explanation for our plight in the world,  Yes it is very simple to define Karma but one can spend a lifetime studying its finer  points.  The principle of Karma can be stated quite simply:  Karma is a moral law of  cause and effect wherein an individual is given precisely what he has earned.  This means that our present status in this world (for example health, financial
 circumstances, place of residence, parents, and relative, degree of happiness and sadness and   so on.) is determined by the actions we have performed in the past.  What past?  Those lifetimes which have lived prior to our present incarnation.  

 

It is not possible to have the law of karma without the principle of reincarnation or transmigration of the soul. For if we are reaping what we have sown, we must have 
sown the seeds in some past existence, as we cannot account for all our present karmas  from what we have sown in this one lifetime.

 

An interesting principles is given in the bible in the Gospel of John:

 John 9:1-3 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which  was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
  
This would have been an excellent opportunity for Jesus to come right out against the doctrine of Karma and Reincarnation.   But he did not do so. Instead, he resorted to the doctrine of Predestination by saying, "Neither this man sinned or  his parents, but [in order] that the works of God might be manifest through him. so taking the story at face value, the disciples clearly presumes that the suffering 
of the blind man and his parents is due to sin. And since the man was born blind,  it seems that they are thinking of some past existence, for how else could an embryo or a newborn baby have committed sin. With regards to John 9:1-3 the reply however, s incongruous, for Jesus says that neither the parents nor the man  have sinned but that the situation has been divinely arranged so that he can perform the miracles
restoring sight to the blind man. That God would have created such suffering simply so that Jesus could perform a miracle seems an UNTENABLE idea.
  
With so many sick people already in need of help, surely there would have been NO need  for a  baby to be born blind simply for the sake of a miracle later in his life. And many other similar miracles stories in the gospels are clearly associated with the  FORGIVENESS OF SINS- AGAIN POINTING TO THE DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIN AND PHYSICAL 
INFIRMITY, AND THEY END HAPPILY WITH JESUS CURING THE SICK PERSON OF HIS OR HER PARTICULAR  CONDITION, TELLING THEM THAT THEIR SINS ARE FORGIVEN…..”go and sin no more” john  5:14,  john 8:11, mat 9:2 and in one instances he adds  “”lest worse thing come to you” john 5:14. ALSO IN st. John, Jesus says that neither the man nor his parents have sinned. Perhaps, then, the dialogue was originally one 
of John’s metaphorical passages with a double meaning, implying both THE PHYSICAL AND  THE SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS INTO WHICH ALL SOULS ARE BORN BOTH BEING THE RESULT OF SIN.  So,  FOR IF IT WERE AGREED THAT SICKNESS WAS THE RESULT OF SIN, THEN NATURALLY THOSE WHO ARE
 BORN WITH INFIRMITIES MUST  HAVE COMMITTED SINS BEFORE THEIR BIRTH.
  
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (matt. 14:14)
  
A new born baby can hardly have performed any action for which he needs repent! However,the Bible is very firm on the principles that we have been born into a state of sin. 
This sin is in fact, the karma of our previous births for which we are suffering in this  lifetime.  We must pay for our past actions and repent (through right living and  meditation) before we can enter the kingdom of heaven.  Many persons who live seemingly evil lives in this incarnation are getting many rewards by which of riches, good health, long life, and the like.  Obviously they cannot be  receiving these rewards as a result of their present actions.
  
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.  And theservant abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth ever.  John 8:43-45
  
There are two types of people in the world One is the devotee of a Saint and hence a devotte of the Lord, and the Other is the devotee of mind and senses.  The devotees of
 the Lord always remain devoted to the “Saints” and gradually become free from all sin  (karma) by performing the spiritual practices directed by him., the other person however
 is dominated by the mind and senses and therefore is always committing sins and having  to suffer as a result of those sins or karmas.  So they are the “servants of sins” because they have no option but to reap the results of their sinful deeds.  A
 servant is not free to do as he likes, but has to go where his master wants him to . “The servant of sin” cannot abide in the house of the lord forever, but must continually shift from one body to another, in birth after birth, according to the sins and unfulfil led desires of  his previous birth.  By “servant”, Christ means one who is a victim of the senses. He is a servant of sin and hence can never remain in one house or in one body.  His master is in and wherever his sins take him, he has to go to reap the consequences of them; for wherever the master goes, the servant must also go.  The “Son” on the other hand, is one who has risen above the sphere of sin…..of Action and Reaction…..and has become one with the Father. 

The sphere of action and reactions is another term for the realm of karma.  One who has risen above the realm of karma is saved from birth and death and abides forever with the Father. “The son abideth ever” refers to any evolved soul who has realized the Father within himself and consequently has merged into the Father.  The master of the house can always go out of the house whenever he likes, but the servant cannot leave without the permission of the master.  Our karmas are our master, but the son is his own master.  Karma cannot keep him in the body.
  
Christ gives us some advice as to how to handle our karmas:
  
“Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer,
 and thou be cast into prison.  Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out hence, till thou has maid the uttermost farthing.  Matthew 5:25-26
  
Here, Christ suggest that we should ask for forgiveness quickly and pay our debts while we are still in this body and while the other party is also in this world, or we will be cast into prison.  This world into which we are continuously cast by the “Wheel of transmigration”, is a prison for us, as we are separated from the Father and are unable to return to our true home.  If we forgive our adversary, then we are in a position to ask for forgiveness from the father.  But if we do not forgive the karmas which have been performed against us, how can we expect forgiveness?
  
Then Christ tells his disciples how one can escape from the Wheel of Transmigration:
  
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 8:51.
  
Christ says that if you keep my teaching, that is, if you are faithful to my teaching, you will never see death.  Obviously, every one of us in this world must face death sometimes. But for those who are followers of a perfect living master, there will not be rebirth: they will not have to face death again.  They will be free from death, in other words, free from transmigration. And how do we follow the teachings of the Christ?
  
“If ye continue in my Word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.  John 8:31-32
  
“If ye continue in my Word” means: If you continue to attach yourselves to the Holy spirit or “Word” within to which I have connected you.  Christ is telling us that we should follow his instructions and perform the spiritual practice which he has taught.  When we follow the spiritual practice as instructed
 by the living master, then we come in contact with the “Truth”, The “Word” or the Holy ghost.  Then we become truly free.  Then we are cleansed of all our karmas.  
And this can only happen when we contact a Perfect living master, and receive the boon of initiation from him and attend to the spiritual practice which he teaches.  But so  long as we are a victim of the mind and senses, we can never be properly free.
  
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”.  John 8:36
  
Therefore, if we want to become the master in our house (this human form), a perfect master is necessary, who is one with the Father, and he will set us free from this Wheel of birth and death.  
  
Christ explains that it is the Lord himself who has ordained the necessity of a 
living master.
  
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and  believeth on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 
 John 6:40
  
You see, it is Ludicrous to believe that God is a soul-making factory who daily dispatches a newly created souls to earth and then on the basis of tiny span of life, dispatches them to Heaven or to some eternal Hell.  This Theory does not hold up very  well to critical examination.  The human lifetime is so short as to make God-realization a near impossibility in any one lifetime.
  
So in short, as one can see, it is an endless chain of cause and effect.  This is what Christ means when he so often refers to the fact that we are born into sin or, in other words, with our own particular Karma.  Without a Perfect Master  we can 
never return to the Father.  Our load of Karmas is so heavy that we are bound to this world for Eons and have been wandering as prodigal sons since the creation of the world</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Karma provides us with the only rational explanation for our plight in the world,  Yes it is very simple to define Karma but one can spend a lifetime studying its finer  points.  The principle of Karma can be stated quite simply:  Karma is a moral law of  cause and effect wherein an individual is given precisely what he has earned.  This means that our present status in this world (for example health, financial<br />
 circumstances, place of residence, parents, and relative, degree of happiness and sadness and   so on.) is determined by the actions we have performed in the past.  What past?  Those lifetimes which have lived prior to our present incarnation.  </p>
<p>It is not possible to have the law of karma without the principle of reincarnation or transmigration of the soul. For if we are reaping what we have sown, we must have<br />
sown the seeds in some past existence, as we cannot account for all our present karmas  from what we have sown in this one lifetime.</p>
<p>An interesting principles is given in the bible in the Gospel of John:</p>
<p> John 9:1-3 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which  was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.</p>
<p>This would have been an excellent opportunity for Jesus to come right out against the doctrine of Karma and Reincarnation.   But he did not do so. Instead, he resorted to the doctrine of Predestination by saying, &#8220;Neither this man sinned or  his parents, but [in order] that the works of God might be manifest through him. so taking the story at face value, the disciples clearly presumes that the suffering<br />
of the blind man and his parents is due to sin. And since the man was born blind,  it seems that they are thinking of some past existence, for how else could an embryo or a newborn baby have committed sin. With regards to John 9:1-3 the reply however, s incongruous, for Jesus says that neither the parents nor the man  have sinned but that the situation has been divinely arranged so that he can perform the miracles<br />
restoring sight to the blind man. That God would have created such suffering simply so that Jesus could perform a miracle seems an UNTENABLE idea.</p>
<p>With so many sick people already in need of help, surely there would have been NO need  for a  baby to be born blind simply for the sake of a miracle later in his life. And many other similar miracles stories in the gospels are clearly associated with the  FORGIVENESS OF SINS- AGAIN POINTING TO THE DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIN AND PHYSICAL<br />
INFIRMITY, AND THEY END HAPPILY WITH JESUS CURING THE SICK PERSON OF HIS OR HER PARTICULAR  CONDITION, TELLING THEM THAT THEIR SINS ARE FORGIVEN…..”go and sin no more” john  5:14,  john 8:11, mat 9:2 and in one instances he adds  “”lest worse thing come to you” john 5:14. ALSO IN st. John, Jesus says that neither the man nor his parents have sinned. Perhaps, then, the dialogue was originally one<br />
of John’s metaphorical passages with a double meaning, implying both THE PHYSICAL AND  THE SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS INTO WHICH ALL SOULS ARE BORN BOTH BEING THE RESULT OF SIN.  So,  FOR IF IT WERE AGREED THAT SICKNESS WAS THE RESULT OF SIN, THEN NATURALLY THOSE WHO ARE<br />
 BORN WITH INFIRMITIES MUST  HAVE COMMITTED SINS BEFORE THEIR BIRTH.</p>
<p>Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (matt. 14:14)</p>
<p>A new born baby can hardly have performed any action for which he needs repent! However,the Bible is very firm on the principles that we have been born into a state of sin.<br />
This sin is in fact, the karma of our previous births for which we are suffering in this  lifetime.  We must pay for our past actions and repent (through right living and  meditation) before we can enter the kingdom of heaven.  Many persons who live seemingly evil lives in this incarnation are getting many rewards by which of riches, good health, long life, and the like.  Obviously they cannot be  receiving these rewards as a result of their present actions.</p>
<p>Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.  And theservant abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth ever.  John 8:43-45</p>
<p>There are two types of people in the world One is the devotee of a Saint and hence a devotte of the Lord, and the Other is the devotee of mind and senses.  The devotees of<br />
 the Lord always remain devoted to the “Saints” and gradually become free from all sin  (karma) by performing the spiritual practices directed by him., the other person however<br />
 is dominated by the mind and senses and therefore is always committing sins and having  to suffer as a result of those sins or karmas.  So they are the “servants of sins” because they have no option but to reap the results of their sinful deeds.  A<br />
 servant is not free to do as he likes, but has to go where his master wants him to . “The servant of sin” cannot abide in the house of the lord forever, but must continually shift from one body to another, in birth after birth, according to the sins and unfulfil led desires of  his previous birth.  By “servant”, Christ means one who is a victim of the senses. He is a servant of sin and hence can never remain in one house or in one body.  His master is in and wherever his sins take him, he has to go to reap the consequences of them; for wherever the master goes, the servant must also go.  The “Son” on the other hand, is one who has risen above the sphere of sin…..of Action and Reaction…..and has become one with the Father. </p>
<p>The sphere of action and reactions is another term for the realm of karma.  One who has risen above the realm of karma is saved from birth and death and abides forever with the Father. “The son abideth ever” refers to any evolved soul who has realized the Father within himself and consequently has merged into the Father.  The master of the house can always go out of the house whenever he likes, but the servant cannot leave without the permission of the master.  Our karmas are our master, but the son is his own master.  Karma cannot keep him in the body.</p>
<p>Christ gives us some advice as to how to handle our karmas:</p>
<p>“Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer,<br />
 and thou be cast into prison.  Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out hence, till thou has maid the uttermost farthing.  Matthew 5:25-26</p>
<p>Here, Christ suggest that we should ask for forgiveness quickly and pay our debts while we are still in this body and while the other party is also in this world, or we will be cast into prison.  This world into which we are continuously cast by the “Wheel of transmigration”, is a prison for us, as we are separated from the Father and are unable to return to our true home.  If we forgive our adversary, then we are in a position to ask for forgiveness from the father.  But if we do not forgive the karmas which have been performed against us, how can we expect forgiveness?</p>
<p>Then Christ tells his disciples how one can escape from the Wheel of Transmigration:</p>
<p>Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 8:51.</p>
<p>Christ says that if you keep my teaching, that is, if you are faithful to my teaching, you will never see death.  Obviously, every one of us in this world must face death sometimes. But for those who are followers of a perfect living master, there will not be rebirth: they will not have to face death again.  They will be free from death, in other words, free from transmigration. And how do we follow the teachings of the Christ?</p>
<p>“If ye continue in my Word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.  John 8:31-32</p>
<p>“If ye continue in my Word” means: If you continue to attach yourselves to the Holy spirit or “Word” within to which I have connected you.  Christ is telling us that we should follow his instructions and perform the spiritual practice which he has taught.  When we follow the spiritual practice as instructed<br />
 by the living master, then we come in contact with the “Truth”, The “Word” or the Holy ghost.  Then we become truly free.  Then we are cleansed of all our karmas.<br />
And this can only happen when we contact a Perfect living master, and receive the boon of initiation from him and attend to the spiritual practice which he teaches.  But so  long as we are a victim of the mind and senses, we can never be properly free.</p>
<p>“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”.  John 8:36</p>
<p>Therefore, if we want to become the master in our house (this human form), a perfect master is necessary, who is one with the Father, and he will set us free from this Wheel of birth and death.  </p>
<p>Christ explains that it is the Lord himself who has ordained the necessity of a<br />
living master.</p>
<p>“And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and  believeth on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.<br />
 John 6:40</p>
<p>You see, it is Ludicrous to believe that God is a soul-making factory who daily dispatches a newly created souls to earth and then on the basis of tiny span of life, dispatches them to Heaven or to some eternal Hell.  This Theory does not hold up very  well to critical examination.  The human lifetime is so short as to make God-realization a near impossibility in any one lifetime.</p>
<p>So in short, as one can see, it is an endless chain of cause and effect.  This is what Christ means when he so often refers to the fact that we are born into sin or, in other words, with our own particular Karma.  Without a Perfect Master  we can<br />
never return to the Father.  Our load of Karmas is so heavy that we are bound to this world for Eons and have been wandering as prodigal sons since the creation of the world</p>
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		<title>By: Essene</title>
		<link>http://esoriano.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/was-jesus-christ-an-essene/#comment-3235</link>
		<dc:creator>Essene</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To chad:

You said: remember that as Jews/Israelites, they are commanded by God to celebrate Passover annually and on such occasions they are required to eat lamb



my reply:

” the man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because HE DID THIS on the sabbath.  (John 5:15-16)

"the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath"

Likewise, Passover feast was commanded for the Jews/Israelite to celebrate,  but they were not created for Passoever feast.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To chad:</p>
<p>You said: remember that as Jews/Israelites, they are commanded by God to celebrate Passover annually and on such occasions they are required to eat lamb</p>
<p>my reply:</p>
<p>” the man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because HE DID THIS on the sabbath.  (John 5:15-16)</p>
<p>&#8220;the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath&#8221;</p>
<p>Likewise, Passover feast was commanded for the Jews/Israelite to celebrate,  but they were not created for Passoever feast.</p>
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