Jahn
Lets get those guys your speaking about in here right now
because I have had enough of this your religion my religion bullshit
and if we get buddha Jesus mohammad
and chuck norris in here
we can sort this out
I have walked "with" jesus
What Jesus do you know? Are you familiar with this edition of Jesus? (Some years later Jesus Christ).
Well, in general terms religion is not propelling esoteric students forward on their spiritual path, simply because that "religious ideas" keep them stuck. Simple as that, get free, go find the Universe as it is ...
English Standard Version of the New Testament Mark 7:
1) Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,
2) they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
3) (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly,a holding to the tradition of the elders,
4) and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) [My comment is that it is very good to wash the hands before eating, so I do not disagree with that, but this story of Jesus is not about hygiene].
5) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”
6) And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
“‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
7) in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
9) And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
10) For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
11) But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God
12) then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
13) thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
What Defiles a Person
14) And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:
15) There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
17) And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18) And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
19) since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled. (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
20) And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him".
Is this clearly understood by everyone!?
