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Reality and the Christian

The Truth about Materialism & Immaterialism

By Eric William King

Why are Christians here? We are here to help raise the Human consciousness to the awareness of their condition and into a personal relationship with their Creator. The Human condition is sinful. What is sin? Sin is everything contrary to the will [way] of God. Today, God is sending a most precious message to and through His true Church. The message contains the “righteousness of Christ”. Without the righteousness of Jesus Christ, we would all be stuck in “self-righteousness”.

Today God is asking His children to do something very important. He is asking them to yield up preconceived opinions and to simply accept the Truth. You live in the Fallen Matrix. Humans underestimate the power of delusion. Human thought is completely delusional without the proper connection to the Mind of Christ. A person must “tune into” the frequency of the Word of God – faith comes through hearing.

The “New Birth” takes place when the person allows the Holy Spirit to come into his spirit thus creating an “alchemical-wedding”. The soul is developed, along with the physical body, throughout life. For the Christian the soul develops much differently than the soul of a spiritually “lost person”. The Human mind is the arena where the personality develops. To the “born again” Christian the Holy Spirit is injected into the Human mind. The Holy Spirit dwells within the Christian. The Human mind and the Holy Spirit become conscious of each other. The Christian soul begins to take on the qualities of the Divine Nature through the revealed will of Divine Intelligence (God).

The one who is truly “born again” has the proper connection to God. Growing into Christian maturity is a life-long process. The humble stick with it, the proud and arrogant stick with their fallen “self-righteousness”.

Growth in Reality

How does the Christian grow? Hearing is the connection. Hearing can come through all different forms of Human communication. The point is, the Gospel must be received and accepted for the person to become regenerated. The person who truly accepts Jesus the Christ as Savior and Lord begins to “mentally download” the “New Covenant” – a completely new thought pattern begins to develop. Through the fight-of-faith one stays the course and grows into Christian Maturity.

True Christian living is the result of true spiritual regeneration and is not a “self-effort”. Being obedient happens because one is saved, one is not obedient to earn anything.

The true Christian becomes willing and able to exchange his righteousness for the righteousness of Jesus Christ. All Human “righteousness” is in fact “un-righteousness”. This hurts the Human ego. A Kenite cannot and will not accept the true Jesus Christ. In this Fallen Matrix we have to deal with the “seed of the Wicked One” and we have those who are not and will not become God’s true children. We have all of this plus the fallen Human sinful nature even within ourselves. Surrounding most Humans are the fallen angels – the Wicked Watchers.

It is shocking to most - to truly understand what is going on behind the scenes. We are surrounded by living beings created out of Super Matter that we cannot see. We are in the physical world but it is a “spiritual ocean” full of living entities. God has sent His only-begotten Son, Jesus the Christ, into this fallen program [matrix] to give us the medicine of true Salvation. Ultimately this will bring complete restoration to the God family.

This knowledge [gnosis] cannot be underestimated. These Truths must become strongly cemented in your spiritual foundation to have what it takes to make it through this fallen Earth life experience.

The modern Laodicean Christians are sleeping. They do not want the “eyesalve” which would enable them to see the Light of the Seventh Message. They first must accept the “Righteousness of Christ”, they must understand the true doctrine of salvation. Salvation is the complete work of God, not man. You cannot learn properly if these Truths do not become a wedded part of the Human psyche.

Reality Dropouts

Many who were raised Christian start out good but going into their older life they feel like they might be missing something. This is the result of wrong motives. If one goes into a religion or even philosophy to find self-perfection, they will never be happy. People turn away from God to “self-help” books and Human psychology. There is scientific truth in some of these “self-help” studies but every Human is built differently and even thinks differently. Only God ultimately knows what is right for each individual person and the answers for all people are found in His eternal Word.

Does all this sound too easy? Simply accept and believe in the person of Jesus Christ? It is enough because accepting Jesus Christ is a supernatural act – it is beyond science as we understand it. People can prove the reality of Jesus Christ for themselves through faith. The Kenites don’t like the topic of “faith”. Why? It is beyond the Human ego. Pride goeth before the fall.

Relationship involves everything – not just Humans. There is no such thing as “space”. All things are touching each other through atomic energy and atoms. You are touching the moon through a string of subatomic particles. Just because we do not have the faculties as Humans to feel or truly realize this does not mean that it is not true. The higher Heavens are made from “super material” that is beyond our physical world comprehension. Even our resurrected bodies will be made out of material – super material.

The Truth about Space

As Christians we use the phrase “spiritual” to help explain things that we cannot see or perceive in a normal way. Spirits have always been described as “ghosts”. What is a ghost made out of anyhow? Here we must understand our spiritual reality. If our perception is off, our thoughts and decisions are off. Is there a “spiritual” reality that does not involve some kind of matter? Is all of creation a material reality? Or is there something else? Well, most would never describe consciousness as a “material thing” but as a living thought process. What is guiding material? If our thoughts are only material what is changing and guiding our thoughts?

The Bible teaches that everything created - in what we would call the “outside of God” - is made up of space but space itself is made up of some kind of material. Because there is space [or distance] perceived in Paradise then there must be some kind of material in the “spiritual” worlds. Ancient Greek theologians have described spiritual things to be made out of God’s “uncreated energies”. Does this mean that God is made out of some kind of eternal and perfect material? Most describe God as immaterial.

The Bible teaches the paradox that God is everywhere but He is not “creation”. He is certainly everywhere in creation. When too much "fallen" and limited Human reason/logic gets involved the loss of faith is inevitable. Without faith one will never discover or come to know the unknown.

What is nonexistence? Can something truly go no-place? All is here and always was but is simply transmuted, reformed – transformed, regenerated according to God’s will. This is why there must be a permanent place for all the evil folk – they got to stay some “place” in “space” for eternity. Makes sense.

So, from a true Christian perspective “everything” includes every-thing. The phrase “nothing” is the explanation of things not perceived. We believe that there is a substance called super-material. All material is the basis of relationship and morality. People may believe in different things regarding these issues but that does not change the reality of them. Truths can be tested. Moral decisions and their outcomes can also be tested. Morality is a reality.

The Fact

The fact is, the message that Jesus the Messiah brought to planet Earth is very disturbing. The prideful fallen man doesn’t like the message of Jesus Christ. The Christian faith involves more than just mental assent. It is also much more than some human organization, denomination or so-called non-denomination. It is a Living Message – it is REALITY. It is a moral life of supernatural knowledge to be lived by the Spirit and the indwelling Christ.

Many Christians who begin to truly mature in their faith find that some of the “new things” that they are learning - and believing - are the Truth and may bring direct conflict with the teachings of their current denomination or so-called non-denomination. I will state here that the true Christians in the Ancient Antiochene Church of God, are teachable. We are constantly discussing and learning from God’s Holy Word. We do that with humility. We thank God that He knows everything that we need to know and that He reveals when and how He will to His true Children. He leads, guides, directs, and protects His true children.

Please stay with us here at “The Shepherds Way” and “Nugget of Truth”. Don’t give up. I wish you all happy ‘Christ filled’ holidays as we approach the end of this year.

Eric William King (November 1^st 2024)