Why Did God Allow Animal Blood Sacrifices?

Please, why did God allow blood sacrifices? You have to understand that salvation, divine favor, divine blessings, etc, come by grace through faith and faith alone. Faith in God that he is your spiritual Father and that he loves you. But primitive man found it extremely difficult to grasp unto faith, a spiritual substance, without going through something that is physically tangible to him. He strongly felt he needed to bring in some "works." 

God, our heavenly Father ministers to us directly. He also ministers to us through his angels: sanobim angels, cherubim angels, seraphim angels, etc. These angels, working with religious leaders worldwide succeeded in prevailing on some of them to replace human blood sacrifices with animal blood sacrifices. 

If man could not immerse himself in faith and faith alone and in sacrifices of a broken heart, a contrite heart, a repentant heart alone BUT INSISTS ON offering his costliest possession - children as sacrifices; if he cannot make that leap from human blood sacrifice to faith and faith alone, then he could be met halfway. At least, it would be better to get him to replace the humans with his choicest animals. The senseless killings of fellow human beings had to stop! 

Sincerely! 🎇🌱💗
Love, Light, and Life!
- Karo E.K.D. Akamune
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Jesus Presented the Full Gospel Message

Jesus declared the full gospel message. He taught the good news of God's kingdom, which included the requirements for salvation and spiritual growth. We see the proof of these in the very lives of his disciples (believers). They repented. Their sins were completely forgiven. Their souls were cleansed and uplifted. They experienced "the new birth" - salvation, born again, born from above, born of the spirit. All these happened WITHOUT Jesus shedding a single drop of blood. 

Zacchaeus is a very good example (Luke 19:1-10). He sincerely repented. And God forgave him all his sins. This is why Jesus said to him that SALVATION had come to him. It is not proper for some people to twist this and say Jesus did not mean that Zacchaeus had received the free gift of salvation. Please, why are you twisting or misinterpreting Jesus' words all because you stubbornly insist on justifying the man-made blood atonement doctrine of our ancestors and of Paul? 

The seventy (70) evangelists of Luke 10 present another example of believers who were already saved or born again as a result of the Master’s gospel ministry. Our Master, Jesus, himself declared that their names were already written in heaven because they had already received the heavenly Father's (our spiritual Father's) free gift of salvation (Luke 10:18-20). Now please, do people receive salvation at the cross of Christ? Yes, they do. People receive salvation, cross or no cross: by having a personal, life transforming, soul rejuvenating encounter with God and his love. 

You cannot understand the gospel of the kingdom: the gospel of salvation and spiritual growth by using our ancestors and individuals like Peter and Paul as the standard teachers. No, please! Jesus is the standard teacher! All teachings must be brought under the radar of Jesus' teachings. That's how you do it. When you understand these things, you will easily see how people from other cultures and religions here on earth, and also those in other planets (a.k.a. aliens) receive salvation and grow spiritually. And you will not misunderstand the statements Jesus made concerning his death and resurrection. 

Luke 10, NKJV
18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” 

A Salvation Prayer  
To receive our heavenly Father's life transforming gift of salvation, please, you may say this prayer in faith:  

Oh God! My heavenly Father, with all my heart, I accept you as my spiritual Father. Thank you for your infinite love towards me. I embrace your love with all of my heart, mind, and soul. I yearn to have a personal revelational encounter with you. I seek a Father-son relationship with you. God, my spiritual Father, I accept your divine forgiveness of any and all of my sins. May I walk in your divine love and spiritual power in my dealings with others. I make a wholehearted commitment to do your will. In faith, I ask all these under your great grace, in the name above all other names. Amen. Thank you, God, my SOURCE! I adore and worship you! ❤🙏💜 

Love, Light, and Life!
- Karo E. Akamune
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🕊️🌱 The Tithing Technique 🕊️🌱

Tithing, in and of itself, is NOT under any religious law. Long, long, long before our tribes or nations began implementing religious, socio-cultural LAWS, tithing was already being practiced in this our universe. Tithing is a great principle that helps a group of people plan, budget, and execute projects. Plain and simple. 

Tithe is NOT by force. But religious, socio-cultural laws (like the Law of Moses) may force people to pay tithes and attach penalties against defaulters. You, as an individual, have to decide whether or not to subject yourself to such laws. If you understand the teachings of Jesus, you will know that it is NOT in your best interest to enslave yourself to man-made religious, socio-cultural laws. 

At the same time, wisdom may admonish you to practice tithing - NOT under "the law" but under grace. Generally speaking, if you are truly intelligent, wise, and spiritually minded, you will always set money aside, for example, 3%, 10%, 20%, etc. 

This is money we may call "charity money" or "gift money". From this money, you may allocate a portion towards the work of a religious group; another portion towards assisting family members, friends, strangers, etc. And you do so cheerfully, according to what you can afford, NOT foolishly beyond your means. Some people give foolishly in the name of "Dangerous or Violent Giving" and then turn around later to beg others for financial assistance. Please, with all due respect, that's just being stupid. 

Melchizedek lived on earth, in Salem, before there was anything like the Jewish religious, socio-cultural laws, a.k.a. "the Law of Moses." He had a church and sent out missionaries around the world. His members gave tithes to his work. Abraham was one of them. 

We have a Biblical record, "Melchizedek Blesses Abram", Genesis 14:20, https://biblehub.com/genesis/14-20.htm, that makes mention of Abraham giving a tenth to Melchizedek. Please, understand this: What Abraham did was NOT a one-off thing. No, please. The record in the Bible does NOT say that was the first and only time Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek. 

It simply shows an example, or an incidence of Abraham giving a tenth to Melchizedek, the Sheik, Leader, or King of Salem, who also functioned as a Priest. And there is so, so much more to be said about this amazing Melchizedek Son of God! Think. Listen to the Spirit of Truth. Receive insight. Abraham was a student of Melchizedek, and he regularly gave tithes to his work. 

In short, the Salem colony, at its height, carried over one hundred thousand (over 100,000) regular tithe payers on the rolls of the Melchizedek brotherhood. You will see this revelation in the Urantia Book Paper 93, "Machiventa Melchizedek", 93:6.8, https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-93-machiventa-melchizedek  

An Example of the Tithing Technique on another Planet
Source: The Urantia Book Paper 55, Section 3, "The Golden Ages" 

55:3.2-6
Human government in the conduct of material affairs continues to function throughout this age of relative progress and perfection. The public activities of a world in the first stage of light and life which I recently visited were financed by the tithing technique. Every adult worker—and all able-bodied citizens worked at something—paid ten per cent of his income or increase to the public treasury, and it was disbursed as follows:

1. Three per cent was expended in the promotion of truth—science, education, and philosophy.
2. Three per cent was devoted to beauty—play, social leisure, and art.
3. Three per cent was dedicated to goodness—social service, altruism, and religion.
4. One per cent was assigned to the insurance reserves against the risk of incapacity for labor resultant from accident, disease, old age, or unpreventable disasters. 

Source Links:
Text: https://urantiabook.org/055-The-Spheres-of-Light-and-Life/#55_3
Audio: https://assetrepository.urantiabook.org/AssetRepository/Audio/eng01/055-The-Spheres-of-Light-and-Life/P055_03.mp3 

Blessed Be! 
- Karo E.K.D. Akamune 
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Inspiration and Infallibility

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2 Timothy 3:16, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness," 

Yes, God inspired people to write scriptures. And God has not stopped inspiring people to write scriptures or spiritual materials. That God inspires you to write a message does NOT mean every single thing you write is going to be infallible, inerrant, and/or absolute. God inspires you to write does not mean God will miraculously take over your mind, your hand and all your faculties and then write every single thing through you. 

2 Timothy 3:16 has been greatly misunderstood. The Apostle Paul who wrote that statement also indicated to us that some things in his letters that he wrote were his own views not God's instructions or message. For example, in 1 Corinthians 7:12, "To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her." In addition, in 1 Corinthians 13:9, he said, "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part." 

Now please, why would you then take every single word written by such a brother to be infallible, inerrant, and absolute? He has already told you, directly and indirectly that some of what he was writing were his own personal opinions. This does not mean he was not inspired to write.  

God inspires you to write a book does not mean you will not include your own opinions. And yes, people can learn from your own opinion, but it will be wrong, and it can be very disastrous if they regard your opinion as "the know all and be all of it all" - as totally infallible, inerrant, and absolute. When you read any book, including the Urantia Book, the Bible, Quran, Gita, etc, you should submit to the Spirit of Truth to teach you. You should not blindly accept every single thing. If you blindly and foolishly accept every single thing without having a fruitful understanding of what you have accepted, you are most likely going to run into some serious problems. 

Sincerely accept what you can accept now. Leave the rest. With time, you will learn more, and maybe accept some more. YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY OR ONE YEAR. God does not have a gun to your head that you must accept everything. Our heavenly Father does not work that way, please. We learn and grow, little by little. The most important thing is not that you understand everything right now. The most important thing is that you have received salvation, and you are walking in love and in other fruits of the spirit. Do that. And little by little, you shall grow and wax very, very great in God's kingdom.

Paul himself did not know that future generations will take his every word as infallible, inerrant, and absolute. These people have created a lot of problems for themselves as a result. And we see these terrible problems playing out in their lives before our very eyes. Paul had his strengths and his weaknesses. He had his successes and his failures... ...Just like you and I. The only totally perfect human being was Jesus. We can, and should add Melchizedek to this list of flawless messengers. 

The Revelators of the Urantia Book highlighted Paul's great contributions and also his shortcomings. We are to learn from his strengths and weaknesses. The Urantia Book quotes a lot from Paul's teachings and also the teachings of various people. The UB is very fair and unbiased. Paul himself never said he knew it all. In short, he said he knew in part - partially. So, please, always bear this in mind when you read his letters. He didn't have all the answers. He got some right and got some wrong.

Paul never said everything he wrote was absolutely 💯 correct. He didn't say that, please. Some people are saying that today. But Paul himself never said that. Every single teaching must be brought under the radar of the teachings of Jesus. That's how you do it. Jesus never ever said a book will teach you. But he said THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH will teach you. I pray we understand why he said that. Please, listen to this message, from the beginning to the end. It will help you a lot: "Who Is Your Teacher: God Or A Book?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDB_VNxeX9E 

Cheers!🍷🎇😇🤍🌱🙏🏻 
- Karo E.K.D. Akamune

GOD SPEAKS TO YOU DIRECTLY!

 

Yes, the still, small voice, the spirit fragment of God the Father within you, your Thought Adjuster (TA) communicates with you directly. It occurs in your thoughts, in the highest realms of your thoughts. Sometimes, this communication may successfully get to your feelings. Sometimes, but not all the time. When it comes to "feelings," please, we have to be very careful because sometimes, the "feeling" may not be from God. 

However, the communication starts at the thought level. From the highest realms of our thoughts. In the superconscious levels of the mind, the communication is passed down to our souls (this is the domain of the mid-mind, morontia mind) and then to our conscious mind, our brains, our senses, our feelings - the electro-chemical parts of our being. As the communication travels or goes from the superconscious mind down to the conscious mind, it might get diluted or corrupted because of our animal or carnal nature, our ignorance, etc. It might be interfered with. This is a major reason why one has to be careful NOT to rush to conclusions to say, "Thus saith the Lord." 

If you are actually growing intellectually and spiritually, you should find it easier to ascertain or properly identify the divine messages. The closer you are to God, the more mature you become, and the easier it becomes for you to receive your TA's messages, understand them, interpret them properly, and execute them effectively. And yes, sometimes, you can literally, audibly hear your TA (indwelling spirit Thought Adjuster; God the Father in you) speak to you with a human voice, in your own language. It's always very, very beautiful, filled with love! Hallelujah! Namaste! Glory! ️     

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God speaks to us in our highest THOUGHTS. Please see Urantia Book 101:1.3 

101:1.3, "The divine spirit makes contact with mortal man, not by feelings or emotions, but in the realm of the highest and most spiritualized thinking. It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead you Godward..." 

For mid-mind, please see Urantia Book 111:2.8 

111:2.8, "The midway creatures have long denominated this evolving soul of man the mid-mind in contradistinction to the lower or material mind and the higher or cosmic mind. This mid-mind is really a morontia phenomenon since it exists in the realm between the material and the spiritual..."

For the superconscious mind, please see Urantia Book 91:2.6 

91:2.6, "...But there is also a domain of prayer wherein the intellectually alert and spiritually progressing individual attains more or less contact with the superconscious levels of the human mind, the domain of the indwelling Thought Adjuster..."

Can you literally, audibly hear the Inner Voice, the voice of your Thought Adjuster, your Mystery Monitor? 

Yes, you can. However, please check this: 

Excerpts from Paper 110 - Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

110:6:5 The Adjusters are always near you and of you, but rarely can they speak directly, as another being, to you.

110:7:9 Human beings below the third and second circles of attainment rarely hear the Adjuster’s direct voice except in moments of supreme desire, in a supreme situation, and consequent upon a supreme decision.

Please be careful not to rush to believe or conclude that a new idea or concept that comes to your mind has come from your Thought Adjuster (TA). It may sound like a great or nice idea. This does not necessarily mean it has come from God. Be patient. Discuss it with your TA. Don't be in a rush. 

Excerpts from Paper 110 - Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals 

110:5:6 But it is dangerous to entertain the idea that every new concept originating in the human mind is the dictation of the Adjuster. ... This is dangerous ground, and every human being must settle these problems for himself in accordance with his natural human wisdom and superhuman insight.

110:5:5 It is extremely dangerous to postulate as to the Adjuster content of the dream life.

Sincerely, 
Love, Light, and Life! 
- Brother Karo E.K.D. Akamune 
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Saved by Faith and Faith Alone

We often hear of religions that sprang forth from Abraham - the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Now, please factor this in: Abraham was here about 4,000 years ago. Do you know that long, long, long before Abraham was even born, there were African Traditional Religion, South American Traditional Religion, etc? In short, what you call the "Law of Moses" was already being practiced by Africans, South Americans, North Americans (Native Americans), etc, 6,000 years ago, 20,000 years ago and beyond. 

Clean and unclean things. Stoning guilty offenders to death. Marrying your late brother's wife. Agricultural laws. Human and animal blood sacrifices. Worship temples having the outer court, inner court, and innermost court with various Priests and a High Priest (Chief Priest). Etc. Everything you see in Judaism was already being practiced by other religions thousands upon thousands of years before there was anything called, "Judaism". So please, who copied who? 

Now, please why did God allow blood sacrifices? You have to understand that salvation, divine favor, divine blessings, etc come by grace through faith and faith alone. Faith in God that he is your spiritual Father and that he loves you. But primitive man found it extremely difficult to grasp unto faith, a spiritual substance, without going through something that is physically tangible to him. He strongly felt he needed to bring in some "works."

Even when Jesus was here, we saw a woman who found it very difficult to walk in faith and faith alone in order to receive her healing. She strongly believed that she had to do something physically tangible like touching the hem of his garment. To this day, some people struggle to exercise faith without a physical intermediary. 

Primitive man insisted on paying something very expensive or offering a very costly physical sacrifice in order to get God's attention. Spiritual realities like grace, faith, and love were just too abstract for him to comprehend. Something outward or visible needed to be brought in to help him gravitate towards the invisible. And what could be more expensive or costlier than a human life! As a result, human blood sacrifices became popular worldwide for thousands upon thousands of years, long, long, long before there were prophets like Moses. 

God, our heavenly Father ministers to us directly. He also ministers to us through his angels: sanobim angels, cherubim angels, seraphim angels, etc. These angels, working with religious leaders worldwide succeeded in prevailing on some of them to replace human blood sacrifices with animal blood sacrifices. If man could not immerse himself in faith and faith alone and in sacrifices of a broken heart, a contrite heart, a repentant heart alone BUT INSISTS ON offering his costliest possession - children as sacrifices; if he cannot make that leap from human blood sacrifice to faith and faith alone, then he could be met halfway. At least, it would be better to get him to replace the humans with his choicest animals. The senseless killings of fellow human beings had to stop! 

God never ever needed blood. It was the very slow growth of man that called for it. You are saved by grace through faith and faith alone; not by works.

Peace and Blessings! 🙏🌷🎇🤍🌺🌼🌎🦋🌌💎💗

- Brother Karo E.K.D. Akamune
The Christ Michael Center
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Body, Soul, and Spirit, PART II

You are made up of body, soul, and spirit. In addition, you have the carnal, animal nature - the mark of the beast as a result of your evolutionary animal origin. You also have a personality and a mind. Your personality is eternally changeless. It is permanence in the midst of all kinds of continuous changes. Your mind is very, very deep, very, very wide, broad, etc. It experiences changes. Your mind is divided into three main aspects: the material, the morontial, and the spiritual aspects. 

You have willpower. You have "free will." You have the power of decision-choice given to you by God. Now, for you to have amazing experiences, and outstanding victories in your daily life, you have to make use of your power of choice to choose godly thoughts, words, and actions that will get you to tap into the great powers or awesome abilities of your body, soul, and spirit. *This is a call to action!* Please, have this in mind as you continue reading. Be blessed!

YOUR BODY
Your body is physical or material, and it is the outer court of your temple, your tabernacle. This is the outer court of your mind. This is the material part of your mind. This is your conscious mind. For example, your brain, a very vital part of your body, has direct access to your conscious mind. As a result, we may say that your body is in the conscious levels of your mind. 

YOUR SOUL 

Your soul exists in the middle realms of your mind, in the middle area of your mind - your mid-mind. This is the inner court of your mind - the morontia part of your mind. Your soul is morontial in nature. This means it exists in a realm between the outward-physical, carnal, or material and the spiritual. (Think of "morontia" as semi-spiritual). Your soul is growing intellectually and spiritually. Your soul is in what we may call the subconscious levels of your mind (for lack of better words).  

For mid-mind, please see Urantia Book 111:2.8

111:2.8, "The midway creatures have long denominated this evolving soul of man the mid-mind in contradistinction to the lower or material mind and the higher or cosmic mind. This mid-mind is really a morontia phenomenon since it exists in the realm between the material and the spiritual..."

YOUR SPIRIT 

Your spirit is the divine spirit, your Thought Adjuster, the still, small voice within you. (This is the technique through which God the Father, himself, is able to live in you. Please, remember, the Paradise Father cannot literally live in you. You will explode!) Your spirit dwells in the superconscious levels of your mind. This is your Holy of Holies within. This is the highest area of your mind. This is your innermost temple or innermost court within. This is the purely spiritual part of your mind. This part of your mind is 100% pure, spotless, pure gold, pure bliss, etc. This is "the citadel of the spirit."

For the superconscious mind, please see Urantia Book 91:2.6
91:2.6, "...But there is also a domain of prayer wherein the intellectually alert and spiritually progressing individual attains more or less contact with the superconscious levels of the human mind, the domain of the indwelling Thought Adjuster..."

This Urantia Book (UB) text more or less reveals the domains of your soul and your spirit - the subconscious levels of your mind (domain of the soul) and the superconscious levels of your mind (domain of the spirit):   

UB Paper 91:3.5, "...Prayer induces the human ego to look both ways for help: for material aid to the subconscious reservoir of mortal experience, for inspiration and guidance to the superconscious borders of the contact of the material with the spiritual, with the Mystery Monitor." 

Sincerely, 

Love & Light!

-- Brother Karo Akamune 

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