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 

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- 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 

ChristMichaelCenter.org 

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! 💖🙏💜

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How To Prevail Mightily: Thought, Word, Action

When you understand the Trinity concept and bring it into your life, it will help you to become more than a conqueror. One way to look at the Paradise Trinity is this: God the Father is the "Thought". God the Eternal Son is the "Word" and God the Infinite Spirit is the "Action", "Act" or "Deed". The Father thinks the Thought. The Son speaks the Word. The Spirit does the Deed.

It is very, very important to understand that everything must start with the "thought". If you really want to experience great success, you must follow process. And this is the process:

1st: The Thought.

2nd: The Word.

3rd: The Act or Action.

A very big reason why some people do not see amazing breakthroughs in their lives is this: They are not following due process. You cannot skip the "Thought" and jump straight to the "Word" or "Act". You cannot skip the Father and jump straight to the Son, Christ or the Holy Spirit. (The Eternal Son manifests as Christ Michael to us; the Infinite Spirit manifests as the Holy Spirit to us, here on planet Earth far, far, far, far, far away from the Paradise realms.) You cannot skip the heart of the Father, which is in the "Thought" and expect to see the manifestations of the Holy Spirit greatly in your life. Yes, you may see some little manifestations, here and there BUT if you desire amazing manifestations; amazing victories everyday, then you must excel, first and foremost, at the level or stage of the "Thought".

Now please, how does God the heavenly Father manifest to us? How can you gain access to the "Thought"? This is a very, very important question. How can you prevail in your thought life? To discover the answer to these questions, you have to know how the Father manifests to you as the "Thought". The answer is hidden in plain sight! The Father manifests to you as your spirit - the still small voice within; the divine spark of God; the Inner Voice. This is your "Thought Adjuster". This is how the Father who is actually very, very far, far, far, far away from you comes so, so, so, so close to you. He does this by way of the divine spirit within - your "Thought Adjuster". Faith acts to release the superhuman activities of the divine spark, the immortal germ, that lives within your mind. You need FAITH!

To gain the victory in your thought life or in your thoughts, you have to learn how to excel with your thoughts. To do this, you have to know how to approach God as, "Thought". Everything starts with the thought. This is why God the Father is called the First Source and Center of all! Hallelujah! To mightily and lovingly prevail in your thoughts, you have to walk in enjoying wonderful interactions with God in your thoughts. This is where your Inner Voice, Inner Guide, Thought Adjuster or still small voice within comes in. You have to allow God to come to you as a still small voice, interacting with you in the realm of your thoughts. And there are different techniques to make this happen successfully. When you get this right, then you can succeed with the "Word" powerfully and then you can move onto "Action".

This is how you prevail; how you excel in any and all areas of your life. This is how you gain the victory. This is the process. So many people miss out and are just suffering and struggling because they are not following PROCESS. Firstly, you must build a loving, amazing, intimate, one-on-one, personal conversational relationship with your divine Thought Adjuster who lives within your mind; let God take charge of your thoughts or your thought life. And then the Son (the Word) will be able to gain deep roots in you for the Spirit (the Action, the Act) to move in you and through you to manifest amazing wonders for your intellectual and spiritual uplift and that of others - God adding value to others through you; God bringing so much love and blessings and breakthroughs to you and to others through you. And please, note that you can be enjoying all these at the same time: Thought, Word, Action, for in a sense, they are intertwined. But you must learn to follow the right process. Hallelujah!

With sincerity,

Brother Karo Akamune

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Death, Physical Death

 "...What magic could death, the natural dissolution of the material body, hold that such a simple step should instantly transform the mortal and material mind into an immortal and perfected spirit? Such beliefs are but ignorant superstitions and pleasing fables." - Urantia Book 48:0.3 

So, right here in the Urantia Book, we see that: 
Death, physical death, is the natural dissolution of the material body.
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Death is a simple step that we take to transition from this earthly realm to the celestial realms. 

Death is a technique that releases the soul and allows the soul and spirit to leave this earth and go to heaven. This is simply the function of death - death of the physical body. Death has no power to make you a perfected spirit. To become a perfected spirit, or for your soul to become perfect as your spirit Thought Adjuster is perfect, you have to grow intellectually and spiritually. 

Three Kinds of Death 
There are three different kinds of death:
UB Paper 112:3, "The Phenomenon of Death" 

112:3.1
Urantians generally recognize only one kind of death, the physical cessation of life energies; but concerning personality survival there are really three kinds:

112:3.2
1. Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, when he has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of the Adjuster and the surviving seraphim, when such co-ordinate advice has been recorded on Uversa, and after the Censors and their reflective associates have verified these findings, thereupon do the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of the indwelling Monitor. But this release of the Adjuster in no way affects the duties of the personal or group seraphim concerned with that Adjuster-abandoned individual. This kind of death is final in its significance irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living energies of the physical and mind mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is already dead; the continuing life merely indicates the persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies. 

112:3.3
2. Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive. 

112:3.4
3. Physical (body and mind) death. When death overtakes a human being, the Adjuster remains in the citadel of the mind until it ceases to function as an intelligent mechanism, about the time that the measurable brain energies cease their rhythmic vital pulsations. Following this dissolution the Adjuster takes leave of the vanishing mind, just as unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and proceeds to Divinington by way of Uversa. 

Now please, let's take a look at, "The wages of sin is death." Please, what does this mean? 

Urantia Book 53:9.8
"But for ages the seven prison worlds of spiritual darkness in Satania have constituted a solemn warning to all Nebadon, eloquently and effectively proclaiming the great truth “that the way of the transgressor is hard”; “that within every sin is concealed the seed of its own destruction”; that “the wages of sin is death.”"  

“The wages of sin is death”: This is talking about spiritual or soul death NOT physical death (not body and mind death). Physical death is simply the natural dissolution of the material body of flesh and blood. It is used to release the soul and spirit from this earthly realm. Another way to release the soul and spirit from this earthly realm is translation by the spiritual fires of God, "chariots of fire": "the spiritual fires of consuming grandeur and ascending glory." (UB 55:2.5)

Blessed Be! 🍷❤️😇🙏
- Brother Karo Akamune