The Truth transcends religion, it unites us together and it connects us to God Himself.
What is The Truth? The Truth is God Himself. The Truth is love. The Truth is the quality of bestowal/love of others/altruism.
The quality of bestowal transcends everything - religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, social status etc. When you seek to benefit others, you don't care if they're tall, short, black, white, Christian, Muslim, gay, straight, rich, poor etc. All you care about is their welfare and well-being.
Currently, we're all immersed in selfishness and we need to return to The Truth. Our internal qualities need to change from selfishness to bestowal and we need to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
The One True God, The Infinite God, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the only one who can change your internal qualities. Ask Him for help and He'll change you.
In this way, we'll become connected with each other in mutual responsibility, we'll become genuinely concern for the welfare and well-being of one another.
Also, we'll become connected to God because our internal qualities will become similar to God's quality. God is love/bestowal and we'll become connected to Him in quality.
Religion plays a big part in society today. While in some ways it has a positive influence, it's currently immersed in selfishness and this has to change.
Religion Today - The Positive Sides
There are many positive things about religion.
Religion teaches people about God, about a higher power, about morality, ethics, right and wrong behaviour, good and evil etc.
Religion also provides comfort, it calms people down and it helps people cope. Also, people have a built-in need to connect to a higher power and religion provides that.
In this way, religion creates a deficiency for God, which gives God something to fulfill. There has to be a lack for there to be a fulfillment and by developing a lack for God, a deficiency is created for Him to fulfill.
Also, some religions talk about love, it's corporeal love, but nevertheless, it's a positive message of unity. Spiritual love/unconditional love/true love is seeking to benefit others instead of yourself.
The different religions also play a role in God's plan. Each one contributes to the arc-story of the journey of our internal qualities.
Like actors in a movie, each religion shows how our internal qualities will change from selfishness to bestowal. Each religion is necessary because it tells a specific part of the story and together the different religions tell the full story. In this way, all the religions become united as one.
Also, everything on earth is organized and operated from above. Everything has purpose and meaning. You're in the religion you're in for a specific reason. If you accept that God manages everything, then you should accept everything that He manages. Don't criticize other religions, rather accept them because they're meant to be. Plus, they tell the story of your internal qualities so they're a reflection of you.
We are all one family and we need to start behaving like one family. Our focus should be on compassion, empathy, kindness, tolerance, respect, unity etc. We should stop focusing on those elements that divide us and keep us separated from one another.
The key message should be love: love God and do what He commands, God commands us to love one another and love is seeking to benefit others instead of yourself.
Religion Today - Immersed in Selfishness
Today, we're all immersed in selfishness, everyone's seeking to benefit themselves. And religion is also immersed in selfishness.
Selfish Religious Leaders
Religious organizations are run by leaders who are immersed in selfishness. These leaders seek money, privilege, power, praise, prestige, honour, adoration, status and other selfish personal profits and gains. They use God as leverage to pursue their own selfish ambitions.
Selfish religious leaders create and run selfish religious organizations, and the message they preach is also rooted in selfishness.
Today, there's a disconnect between religion and God Himself because God is the quality of bestowal and religion is immersed in selfishness.
As such, religious leaders need to change. Their internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal, they have to seek to benefit others instead of themselves. All people need to return to God in quality.
Different Religious Organizations
There are so many different religious organizations today, each one preaching a unique doctrine, each one insisting it's right. This confuses everybody.
The different religious organizations become pitted against one another in a battle of who's right and who's wrong.
This creates an antagonistic environment in the religious community that creates tension, stress and division.
The "holier than thou" mentality that permeates religion is rooted in selfishness. In front of God we are all equal, no one is greater than or lesser than his/her friend.
The different religious organizations need to focus on benefiting others instead of themselves. The quality of bestowal is about
nullifying yourself to others, subjugating yourself to serve others and doing everything you can to make others happy.
Lack of Spiritual Nourishment
Religion doesn't provide true spiritual nourishment, which is why people remain unfulfilled even after they've performed all the necessary religious requirements.
The pleasure that people get from engaging in religious activities is fleeting and it quickly fades away.
We know that religion in and of itself isn't the answer because if it were, it would have set a tremendous example in society, offering absolute fulfillment and happiness.
That hasn't happened. Something's still missing and people still remain unfulfilled. There's an emptiness within people that even religion can't fill.
People are afraid to admit that religion doesn't fulfill them, they're afraid of what others may think, they're afraid that this may express doubt, or a lack of faith, or a sign of spiritual weakness, or that they're not true believers, or that they're lacking something others have etc. As such, people remain unfulfilled with religion, but they don't admit it.
There's an emptiness within each and every one of us that only God can fill. Only God Himself can fill that emptiness within and He fills it with Himself and with His Truth - that we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
True spiritual nourishment and pleasure comes directly from God Himself because when we're in the quality of bestowal (seeking to benefit others), we become connected to God in quality. Spiritual pleasure is very intense and it's greater than all other pleasures combined. Rapture
Faith Versus The Truth
Religion is based on corporeal faith and there's a difference between faith and truth.
Corporeal faith is when a person believes in something blindly, without actually knowing it to be true. Someone tells them or they read it somewhere and they believe.
The Truth is when a person experience something personally, they know it to be true because they become it, they sense it themselves, they are it.
The Truth is the quality of bestowal, which is God's quality. When your internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, you become similar to God in quality. This isn't something that you believe, it's something that you become. You become The Truth.
Corporeal Faith Verses Spiritual Faith
There's a difference between corporeal faith and spiritual faith.
Corporeal faith is rooted in selfishness because believers seek personal profit and gain. They pray for God to give them a better life in this world and a better life in the next world. Either way, it's about what God can do for them. They're thinking only about themselves.
Spiritual faith is rooted in bestowal, it's not about what God can do for you, it's about what you can do for God.
What can you do for God? You can love Him by doing what He commands. God commands us to love one another, and love is seeking to benefit others instead of yourself. So spiritual faith is thinking of others, not yourself.
Corporeal Judgement Versus Spiritual Judgement
There's a difference between corporeal judgement and spiritual judgement.
Corporeal judgement is rooted in selfishness because people judge others. Corporeal judgement permeates religion because people interpret religious texts incorrectly, and then pass judgement on others. A person who judges others, feels more powerful than others and they feel greater than others. It gives them a sense of authority.
Spiritual judgement is not about judging others, is about judging yourself. You judge your own internal qualities, you scrutinize yourself. You judge your internal quality of selfishness and your internal quality of bestowal. You seek to be in the quality of bestowal in order to be in adhesion with The Creator and in order to benefit others instead of yourself.
Some people feel obligated to point out other people's sins - they think they're doing God's work, they think this is love and they think they're helping the sinners. Instead of trying to change others, we should focus on changing ourselves. We should seek to be in the quality of bestowal, benefiting others instead of ourselves.
Being Seen As Righteous
Some believers get trapped in a selfish quality of wanting to be seen as righteous. As such, they engage in religious activities only to be seen by other people.
You can set a good example for others by engaging in constructive behaviour that has a positive influence on others. However, in everything you do, seek to benefit others instead of yourself.
Fear of Disobeying God
Some religions perform a lot of rituals, ceremonies and services and some people are afraid that if they don't engage in these activities they'll 'disobey God'. These people become paranoid, obsessed and afraid of the consequences of not participating.
To obey God is to listen to Him and to do what He commands. God commands us to love one another and love is seeking to benefit others instead of yourself. The only thing you should be afraid of is that you haven't done enough to benefit others.
Fate
Faith it would seem, is sometimes a matter of fate. Many people are born into their faith because they're born into a certain environment that influences them accordingly. Even though they had nothing to do with their circumstances, they still develop an "I'm right and you're wrong" mentality.
We should accept that there are many things outside of our control. We should accept that God controls everything. Because He controls everything, we should listen to Him. God commands us to love one another, so we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
Lack of Genuine Connections
The quality of selfishness permeates religious communities, which is why people don't feel genuinely connected to others. Instead, they may feel a sense of competition, they may feel judged and policed, and they may feel disconnected and unhappy.
The one thing that makes people happy is connection. We're social creates and we're happiest when we're connected in sincere, genuine and trusting relationships that make us feel safe.
Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal, we need to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. In this way, we'll become connected in mutual responsibility because everyone will be genuinely concerned for the welfare and well-being of others.
This will create a true connection between us and we'll become connected with God Himself. The nature of this pure divine connection will make us feel very happy.
Scripture Quoting
Pride
There are some people who know the scriptures inside out and they can quote scripture impressively.
This may make them feel knowledgeable and intelligent; however, it may also lead to pride, because instead of benefiting others, they're trying to show others how much they know.
It's a good thing to know the scriptures and it's a good thing to share the scriptures; however, it's important to be mindful of the needs of others. So in everything you do, seek to benefit others instead of yourself.
knowing verses KNOWING
Knowing the scriptures may give people a false sense of spiritual connection. There's a difference between knowing the scriptures and KNOWING the scriptures.
If you're in the quality of selfishness, seeking to benefit yourself, you know the scriptures, but you're not actually connected to God because you're not in His quality of bestowal.
The scriptures talk about our internal qualities - how our internal qualities will change from selfishness to bestowal and how we'll return to God in quality. When your internal qualities change to bestowal, you'll KNOW the scriptures.
You'll KNOW the scriptures because you'll become what the scriptures talk about - your internal quality will become similar to God's quality and you'll become connected to Him.
Justifying Religious Positions
Some people quote scripture to justify their religious positions. However, people with contradictory positions quote different verses from the same book. Sometimes they quote the same verse with a different interpretation. This confuses everybody.
The reason this happens is because people interpret the scriptures incorrectly and they do so to suit their purposes. God Himself doesn't reveal The Truth to them, they come up with it themselves.
When scripture is interpreted incorrectly, it's full of 'contradictions'. When scripture is interpreted with The Truth (the language of our internal qualities), all contradictions disappear and one clear consistent, unified message appears: love God and seek to benefit others instead of yourself.
The Bible and The Quran
The Bible and The Quran are holy books filled with many mysteries that nobody can truly understand. (The books are actually talking about our internal qualities).
As such, people divide the books into two parts - the parts they 'understand' and the parts that they don't understand.
The parts they 'understand' they interpret to suit their purposes, and the parts they don't understand they dismiss with great reverence as being God's mysteries.
If some parts are God's mysteries, could it be that the parts they 'understand' have actually been misinterpreted?
God Himself is the only one who can reveal The Truth about The Bible and The Quran. Both books are talking about our internal qualities, how we'll change from selfishness to bestowal and how we'll return to God in quality. How we'll seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
God Himself is the only one who can change our internal qualities, He is the only one who can reveal The Truth. Ask Him for help and He will change you.
Defending Religion
Some people defend their religious beliefs, and they do so for various reasons.
Defending God
Some people feel obligated to defend God. They take any criticism against their religion as a criticism against God.
God doesn't need anyone to defend Him, He needs people to listen to Him.
God commands us to love one another. If we love Him we should do what He asks. We should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
Religion As An Identity
For some people, religion is a part of their identity. They take any criticism against their religion as a direct criticism against them.
They defend their religion because they're defending themselves.
Our true identity is revealed when we connect with God Himself. We connect with God when our internal qualities become similar to God's quality, meaning when our qualities change from selfishness to bestowal and we seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
When we seek to benefit others we reveal our true identify and potential, which is how much we can benefit others and society as a whole.
Religion As A Ticket To Heaven
Everybody wants to go to heaven and some people see their religion as their ticket to heaven.
They take any criticism against their religion as a threat against this ticket, so they defend their religion.
Heaven is when you're connected to God, when your internal qualities become similar to God's quality and you seek to benefit others instead of yourself. If you do this, then you'll be in heaven.
Fear of Going To Hell
Some people are afraid of going to hell and they see their religion as their insurance policy. They take any criticism against their religion as a criticism against this insurance policy, so they defend their religion. Some religions control people by scaring them about hell.
Hell is a sense of feeling disconnected from God. True connection with God happens when your internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal and you seek to benefit others instead of yourself. Your quality becomes similar to God's quality and you become connected with God in quality. The only thing you should be afraid of is not doing enough to benefit others.
Tests Of Faith
Some people expect to be tested in their faith. They take any criticism against their religion as a test, so they defend their religion to prove their strength of faith.
In this realm, the one question you're constantly being asked is, "How much do you love others?" This is the only question you're being asked, and it comes to you through various tests.
Loving others means seeking to benefit them, thinking of them instead of yourself. When we do this we'll become connected in mutual responsibility and we'll become connected to God Himself.
Emotionally Attached To Religion
Some people are emotionally attached to their material possessions, their houses, cars etc., and some become emotionally attached to their religion, so they defend their religion because they're emotionally dependent on it.
The only emotional attachment you should have is to God Himself. You shouldn't have any other emotional attachments. You should seek to be in the quality of bestowal, benefiting others instead of yourself.
Being in Control
Some people control every aspect of their lives, including the role religion plays in their lives. Any criticism against their religion is taken as an infringement upon their territory of control. So they defend their religion because they're defending their territory.
The only Being in control is God Himself. There is none else besides Him. We need to accept this, relinquish our personal control, listen to what He tells us and be in the quality of bestowal. God commands us to love one another and we should do so. We should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
Rights And Personal Choices
Some people enjoy their personal freedoms and they see religion as a personal choice and right. Any criticism against their religion is taken as an infringement upon their rights, so they defend their religion.
Corporeal freedom of choice is an illusion, it doesn't exist because we're all operated from above. True freedom of choice is between the quality of selfishness and the quality of bestowal.
True freedom is the quality of bestowal itself, when you seek to benefit others instead of yourself. Your true rights and choices are the many different ways you can find to benefit others.
Familiarity and Habit
We're all creatures of habit and some people become entrenched in religious routines. Any criticism against their religion is taken as a threat because it implies change, and they're afraid of change because it's outside their comfort zone. Also, some people may assume religious routines add to their connection with God and change would disrupt this connection. As such, they defend their religion.
We can't remain in the quality of selfishness any longer, we have to leave it. Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal, we have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
The only habit we should have is seeking to benefit others instead of ourselves. The only thing that adds to our connection with God is finding new ways to benefit others.
Anchors And Wanting To Belong
Some people feel safe when they're anchored to something, e.g a job, family, and even religion, it gives them a sense of belonging. Any criticism against their religion is a threat against something they feel they belong to, so they defend their religion.
The only anchor we should have is God Himself. He is the only one we belong to, He is the only one who should make us feel safe. We connect to God by being in the quality of bestowal, seeking to benefit others instead of ourselves.
Summary
The Truth transcends religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, social status etc. The Truth, the quality of bestowal, connects us to one another and to God Himself.
Today we're all immersed in selfishness, but this has to change. Our internal qualities have to transform from selfishness to bestowal. We have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
The One True God, The Infinite God, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the only one who can change our internal qualities. Ask Him for help and He'll change you.
We are one family and we have to start behaving like one family. We have to connect with each other in mutual responsibility and be genuinely concerned for each other's welfare and well-being.
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