{"id":1164,"date":"2023-07-21T00:48:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T23:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2023-07-21T00:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T23:48:56","slug":"christ-returns-of-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1164","title":{"rendered":"Christ Returns – of maybe not!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often I slate a book but I couldn\u2019t even bring myself to finish this one, so full of human ignorance presented as spiritual doctrine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I had loved the idea of reading this because I adore the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch. Channelling wisdom, whether from our innate being or from other realms, texts like these often carry so many nuggets of gold, encouragement and faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This, however, was a travesty of that principle. Whoever the \u2018Recorder\u2019 is seems to have imagined the story of Jesus based solely on their own interpretation and spiritual belief, I can\u2019t for one moment believe that there is any true channelling or even connection to inner truth. Contradictions run through all the pages: \u2018thank goodness Jesus was a rebel as it opened his heart to look outside of the religious doctrine of the day but if you rebel against absorbing the doctrine of this book you will bring hardship on yourself, despite the fact that god isn\u2019t punishing.\u2019 To pr\u00e9cis just a fraction of the mess!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Added to this, having personally been fascinated by the idea of Jesus as a human being and having looked into the historical evidence of his existence, it is clear the \u2018Recorder\u2019 hasn\u2019t bothered with any of that and just states their own belief of the version of events because they claim they are speaking on behalf of Christ. It\u2019s quite laughable except when it becomes antisemitic and explains that Jews have brought all that has befallen them on themselves because of the way they practice their religion, under the guise of \u2018law of attraction\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I stopped reading.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought of not bothering to write up this book, best just to ignore and not give energy to, but actually I think it\u2019s important to acknowledge how easy it can be to present work as facts and information rather than owning that it is just a personal belief. I could readily accept this book as someone\u2019s ideas, I might reject it or just cherry pick the worthwhile elements but pretending this comes from Jesus\u2019s spirit is quite another level!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A great reminder to stick to \u2018I\u2019 statements. Speaking on behalf of someone else only brings confusion! LOL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First published on social media on 20th July 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not often I slate a book but I couldn\u2019t even bring myself to finish this one, so full of human ignorance presented as spiritual doctrine.\u00a0 I had loved the idea of reading this because I adore the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch. Channelling wisdom, whether from our innate being or from … Continue reading “Christ Returns – of maybe not!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[436,653,387,651,652,654,269],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-channelling","tag-ignorance","tag-istatements","tag-jesus","tag-spiritualbypassing","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}