From Bizarre to Weird

"Your faith has healed you." Notice whose faith it was.

Most of the disagreement related to this one tends toward a rather insistent hostile denial – moving up the belief scale to mild head-shaking; then some who actually wish it were true – to believing it is possible, “but,” … then onto a mere handful who have grabbed onto the concept to the point of declaring it true for themselves.

I stumbled onto it when doing a word-study in the original language of the so-called (by many) “faith chapter” of the Christian Bible, Hebrews 11.

I say “so-called” because I have never met a person who refers to this chapter in that way who has the faith to believe that the accurate translation of a two-verse passage within the chapter can be true for them.

Almost all my deeply held beliefs come from a rather intense self-saturation of the words printed in red in a red-letter edition of the Bible and then studying those words in the original language.

Come on Brad, that's way to much faith.

Jay is looking over my shoulder at the moment and nodding his approval that, yes what he was quoted as saying back then in the Aramaic language is exactly what I am about to write …in other words what I’m about to write is what he is saying NOW! “Nothing shall be impossible to anyone who believes enough.”

The context in which he said those words has led me to teach some other rather weird things …which we will probably get into in a later segment.

For now, let’s concentrate on the fact that if we believe enough and lo, these many years I have been saying that the operative word here is enough.

The burning question here is...

So, what was/is being said is that we have the potential to be and do anything we choose; the gap between this infinite potential and what most people believe is caused by the choice to be limited.

The following is what I’m led to insert …when you get to the bottom it refers to a two part podcast, that I’ve been told by many was the biggest faith booster that they ever heard. I’m going to suggest to Ryan, right here that he doesn’t activate the links in this article, but that you have to do a little bit of work to get the podcasts …go to the top menu bar at www.spiritualhealingsource.com, click on the tab “Brad On” then scroll down to “Extreme Faith” …then scroll down to the podcast links.

Then there is “Extreme Faith…”

Are you willing to jump off the ledge?

Practicing faith doesn't always require extraordinary circumstances.

There are certain things I love to ridicule …one in particular is the proclivity of preachers to talk about the so-called “scriptural definition of faith” found in the “faith chapter” (Hebrews the eleventh chapter) “…Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Why is this tendency of preachers to quote this passage a subject of ridicule by Brad Cullen? Primarily because it is a meaningless, intellectual, dullness of narcotic proportion, when compared with the faith which Jesus called us to – and which he referred to as “God-faith,” the faith that is so potent it can kill a tree, no less.

Then let’s look at the “faith” that is also found in the same chapter of Hebrews …in fact, let’s go there now and see if we can soak up this bit of “extreme faith” and see if you can begin to agree that comparing it with repeating over and over the above referenced “scriptural definition of faith” doesn’t prove that the definition is a bit lacking in real depth and spiritual strength and power …here it comes:

It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven so he would not die. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. Before he was taken, the Scripture says that he was a man who truly pleased God. Without [this kind of] faith no one can please God. Anyone who comes to God must believe that he is real and that he rewards those who truly want to find him [with HIS own method of death avoidance].  [Brad’s amplification]

Let's all help to put these guys out of work...by faith.

The religious love to refer to physical death as “God taking someone home.” This passage puts a whole different “spin” on God taking someone “home to be with HIM” (by faith, don’t forget), and instead of dying.

How far do you want to take faith? Let’s go to extremes! “Heaven is NOW, the kingdom of God is NOW; living in extreme faith means realizing that death has been abolished and our perfect SPIRIT PARENT lives in us to do HER/HIS/ITS work in the presence and power of SPIRIT …NOW!

For an amplification of “Extreme Faith” please click on the links below — first the one at the left (part 1)   then part 2 at the right

Podcast 15 Seven Secrets Revisited pt 1 and don’t forget to return and click on  this too!Podcast 16 Seven Secrets Revisited pt 2

I just asked if this series is finished and got, “By no means!” So we’ll see you in Part Six.

b

This entry was posted on March 10, 2015 at 5:33 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Posted in Perspective by Ryan Bruce No Comments Yet