“Are we to base our entire worldview on the writings of ancients who demonised a medical condition they couldn’t understand?”
😆 some of the way you write things is so funny, in a very good way though. The meaning is so clear and concise and the words you use perfect. You must have practiced writing quite a bit in your life.
But it’s funny because it’s true. It’s hilarious. The thing is I went to Catholic school for 18 friggin years. It kills me to think my whole childhood was some kind of lie. The whole thing. And that was how I was supposed to deal with life by learning all that. So what did I learn that actually helped me for my life when I was a kid? To go to school in learn the dates of every war? My whole childhood was a lie. I’m still as dumb as I was when I was born about a lot of things. And I read so much every day. But I don’t even know what is real anymore. And it’s gonna get a lot worse soon with AI.
Greetings, grace, peace and blessings to you and all Sotiris Rex,
Yes, you are right though you might not have meant to say this. Religion is against Lord Jesus Christ. Religious people that browbeat or frighten others work for satan. And Satan is real as we see the demonized around us.
The catholic church is a goddess worship cult. Mary is not God nor is she sitting on any side of God.
Your questions are valid that most people who hear voices are crazy. Yet the materials of the books of the King James bible written by dozens of different people over hundreds of years in different languages that are all consistent with each other. There is even research proving it to be scientifically accurate. And if we look at headlines and observe around us, the KJV is prescient. If Substack allowed attachments I would send a couple screenshots. Here is something I cobbled together, should it be of interest.
I understand that the nuns that browbeat and bullied us and said we can only get to heaven through confessing through the Catholic Church we’re wrong to intimidate us and really always had something very negative to say to students especially certain grade teachers like the fourth grade teacher was just evil
A great teacher makes you feel like you are her favorite. That fourth grade teacher made you feel like she hated you the most.
My mother had told me later that people were scared of her other nuns were scared of her and that she hated everybody and I didn’t know it like I said I felt like I was at target at the time.
She made me destroy all my artwork and sometimes I kept it when I could in fifth grade I ended up winning art prize
I look back on it and say something felt wrong and the people I’m meeting in churches down south are just nicer. they give money to Israel and I won’t. But I feel better if I go and I hear him talk about volunteering like he did today. I like going to their picnics. They do wholesome activities that I like to do. Wholesome family activities.
Grace, peace and blessings to you and all Sharon R. Fiore, in the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank you for sharing. I am so sorry you were targeted by the nuns...
Especially as a child... The poor children.
I keep hearing no church is perfect yet most pastors much less christians I meet don't even know what the whole deal is:
"the gospel By which also ye are saved, [believe that] Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; [Jesus] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins ..., through the forbearance of God; ...by the law of faith. Romans Chapter 3:25-27
I am in the South, in NW Arkansas where there is satanism and a lot of child sex abuse and churches can't handle it.. The local library is famous yet trying to remove legal liabilities for harming children for sex abuse... I talked to four churches.. :(
SO I don't go because locally it is messed up here, and generally people that call themselves tend to be religious rather than having a relationship with Lord Jesus Christ.
Praise the Lord you have found good fellowship with local churches.
I agree I am not supporting the satanic state of Isreal. .. I love my genuine jewish spiritual older brother of the old testament. When I rightly divide the bible, it seems the Jews were told to scatter because they disobeyed God so... most pastors claiming to support zionism are confused...
I am just looking forward to the Rapture. Thank you for writing!
All this get to know Jesus and the media is spawning a lot of Christ is king stuff. I question if we really know JC even existed, historically, factually. So dogma relating to him is just another layer of belief. When you study the early history of the first millennia it’s a realisation that what we believe, base our entire identity and raison d’etre on was probably fabricated by the folks who were in power then, oh yeah it was the Romans. Fascinating and freeing.
It's a sad realisation. I still believe it's more joyous to believe in something, even f it's false. Truly Jesus Christ was right: "blessed are the poor in the spirit."
These are all good questions and ones that I have been researching for an answer to for a decade now. All religions as you rightly point out have always been a means of social control before there were police etc. I do think that there is God which is completely nothing to do with religions. Some people have to experience things in their lives to get to the deeper understanding of what we each believe to be true. Which is the only way we will ever know anything. The fact that some of us are critically thinking and researching this proves that we are not nutcases who will believe in fairies 🧚 Reason and research are all that we have open to us. Maybe some will find the answers. Most are lazy and dumb and never even consider it at all. If anyone has a chance to learn the truth it is us.
"If anyone has a chance to learn the truth it is us." I'd like to think so. But perhaps the limits of our nature makes us unable to reach or comprehend the truth. Maybe we don't even deserve the truth.
"I separate the existence of God from organized religions." Good move!
I once read a similar quote, "my vision of God is too vast for one religion to hold" one of the greatest faults we have is defining divinity for each other. Each of us has their own road, some of us might travel side by side and our limited language makes it seem as if we're walking the same way. But no one can walk in another person's feet.
I have been researching this very topic for over 10 years now. Not easy going. From what I have found I personally only believe in the Geneva Bible New Testament. So maybe it is a new religion completely. We will never know for sure. I am more about seeking the truth and the deeper you dig you realize that every man made religion has been infiltrated. I do not think the answer is to not believe in anything. Just follow the facts based on your own research. We may never know the exact truth on everything but we can try our best. 😊
I just heard this somewhere. Not much of an idea what to think of it.
- Meditations of a Groundskeeper at Perinel — who insists on “Respect for Being”
- What if: Matter manifests out of spirit. And not: Consciousness depends on matter.
- Who can know enough to say which, or even that this is a binary alternative?
- What if: Something else is the basis of both matter and spirit. And it is that something else that determines the priority of and relationship between matter and spirit.
- Allow “Being” to name that something else.
- The matter<>spirit intermingling that is us seeks to comprehend Being.
- Whatever Being Bēs we already be it however impossible to wrap it in Ising.
Interesting. I used to think about the notion of "consciousness before matter." I think it creates more questions than the answers it brings. We try to find the simplest solutions. Maybe that's our problem...
I think people are scared of the idea of self-reliance that they'd rather believe in comfortable lies. The cosmic abandonment is traumatizing, for our existence is a deep-rooted insecurity plagued with mystery and doubt.
There was a neuroscience show that had a guest talking about coming out of school and into the field in the 1990s. He said that back then, neuroscience didn't care for studying consciousness. 3 decades ago, they didn't see the importance of consciousness?!? No wonder why it took so long to stop slavery, apartheid, war, etc.
You nailed it, we depend on the stories of others who claim they knew the creator, who themselves could have been hallucinating, just like the many that thought con-vid shots were safe and effective cause so and so says so. Since when is seeing the unseeable proof of the unseeable?
I have had a near death experience before landing from a big fall and it felt like I had minutes to determine my fate and understand that my family will be ok if I'm dead or paralyzed.
Was I hallucinating from the shock of falling and facing doom? Yes.
I used to have out of body experiences and tried a few experiments with it to validate whether it was real or some sort of dream like thing. One time it was at work and I went through a locked door into a room and studied the contents of that room. When I came back, I wrote down what I saw the best I could and looked to gain access to that room. When I was able to see what was in that room, it didn't match what I "saw" in my obe.
I figured it was a dream state and told a friend who does obe. She said it was the astral state and that's why things didn't match. I asked her if she ever went there and communicated with another astral traveler that she knew in there or if they both looked at the same area and shared observations. Nope... Her astral view didn't match others. So why did she and others still believe it was real and not question it?
Belief that our consciousness exists out of our bodies lead her and others to think that is why things didn't match with reality and ignore the fact that dreaming can feel more real than real.
“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.” - Robert Anton Wilson
It's a human exploit to believe in history from books and stories, but this tendency doesn't exist in tribal people. It came from the development of writing, which allowed us to record things that may or may not have happened.
I started to go to catholic church again. I grew up in it and while I disagree with a tremendous amount of things (particularly the whole catholic institution) I think the local community is good. We have a great priest here who can preach thoughtful ideas. I would like my son to go and spend a mere 1 hour/week with something not usual. Maybe these unsufferable 1 hours will give him some valuable thoughts I'm certain it did to me.
Your religious leaders are no different/ better than your political leaders.
In earlier times, your religious leaders sent you en masse into their "holy wars" to destroy, plunder and murder unknown peoples who had not harmed them, and promised those plunderers and murderers salvation and eternal life in return.
To name just a few blatant examples: Crusades, 100-year and 30-year wars, against each other, so-called Christians against so-called Christians, with the same intentions ... They were also involved in all the world wars, etc.
Reasonable and truly believing people who understood it, however, they declared heretics, because they did not believe their church, them and their dogmas* - * their irrefutable truths, which come from God personally, and therefore must not be thought about and discussed, because it is the mortal sin.
They persecuted such genuinely believing Christians, cursed them forever (anathema), scourged/ lashed, beheaded, broken on the wheel, burned them alive, etc., ... even for quite banal things; e.g. anyone who did not want to eat meat/ who wanted to be a vegetarian was forever cursed (anathema). This "wise" dogma still applies today/ it has never been officially abolished.
Since this power was taken away from them ... they only give you false promises and false hopes to bind you to themselves and their organizations. So they just want to bind as many people as possible to them, which brings them more power/ influence, honor/ prestige and money/ wealth.
Those are organizations and not communities. A community consists of persons/ souls who have a lot in common. But what does a decent or pious believer have in common with a pedophile priest, mafia boss, etc. except that he prays together with them in the same building. That can only defile one (even more) - and never cleanse/ purify one/ bring closer to God.
In 1984, a student distributed flyers with the inscription "The church is the biggest criminal organization of all times".
At the so-called "Bochum §166 trial" he was proven RIGHT.
Your "Honorable Ones" also "love" your children so much (mostly boys, but also some girls), and thereby damage or even destroy them for the whole remaining life. They call themselves Christians, but are anti-Christians; although not all of them. Some priests/ clerics are just like employees in a local administration or government. They have a comfortable job, good salary and it is enough for them, so they obey their leaders without thinking for themselves whether it is the right or the wrong thing to do. If they did not do so, they would declare them heretics and fire them.
That the other (so-called) religious communities (religions) are not (basically) different, could, but should not comfort you.
God does NOT dwell in houses made with hands. Cf. 1 Kings 8: 27, 2 Chronicles 2: 5, Psalm 11: 4 & 103: 19; Isaiah 66: 1; Acts 7: 48, Matt. 5: 34-35 & 23: 22.
The word church does not exist in the Greek source text, but the word Ecclesia = Assembly. The point is that Christ = the One and Only Teacher (Matthew 23: 8-12) gathers certain souls AROUND Himself, WITH Himself and finally IN Himself (in Spirit). These are the different stages of spiritual development.
This assembly is a heavenly assembly and does not refer to anything earthly, because Christ did not found or build any earthly church. Some souls from all nations belong to this assembly, while all nations consist mainly of non-believers, non-sufficient believers or false believers. Nevertheless, the clerics and therefore the people also pray: "God, please, save my/ our nation" - which is a great sin, because it represents the pagan way of thinking and believing.
The true, resp. knowledgeable Christians do not pray in churches (together with the aforementioned pedophile clerics, mafia bosses etc. who are also always present) but where and how Christ has clearly commanded.
Matthew 6: 6 (Christ commanded)
But when you pray, go into YOUR Room, Close the Door* and PRAY to your Father, who is in unseen/ hidden. Then your Father, who is in unseen/ hidden will reward you.
(* So that no one can disturb/ distract you. This unseen/ hidden is much closer to you than you think)
• this word "prosekynēsan" has several meanings, and when it comes to prayer, it means "to prostrate oneself in prayer"
on this mountain, and you (plural) say that the place to pray is in JERUSALEM.
21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will pray to the Father NEITHER on this mountain NOR in Jerusalem. ...
23 But the hour is coming, and NOW IS, when the TRUE prayers will pray to the Father in Spirit and Truth; for the Father also SEEKS such as his worshippers/ prayers/ prosekynēsan.
24 God is a Spirit, and those who worship/ pray to Him must pray IN Spirit and Truth.
(So, neither on Mount Zion nor in Jerusalem (which is foolishly considered by the ignorant to be a good/ best place for prayer), where many temples and churches are to find, NO, but exclusively alone and undisturbed, so that you can dedicate yourself completely to God alone, in Spirit and Truth.)
And by our prayer, we FALL on our FACES to the ground before our Lord (what is not possible in the churches, and there must never be any image or object/ figure in front of us), just as Jesus used to do:
Matthew 26:39
And Jesus went a little farther, and FELL on His FACE, and prayed, saying, "My Father ...
This can be understood and adopted only by those who live (think, talk, and act) long enough according to the easy-understandable commandments & instructions of God - because God grants understanding to such Humans/ God-Seekers. All others remain ignorant. Ignorance = False belief or No belief.
“Are we to base our entire worldview on the writings of ancients who demonised a medical condition they couldn’t understand?”
😆 some of the way you write things is so funny, in a very good way though. The meaning is so clear and concise and the words you use perfect. You must have practiced writing quite a bit in your life.
But it’s funny because it’s true. It’s hilarious. The thing is I went to Catholic school for 18 friggin years. It kills me to think my whole childhood was some kind of lie. The whole thing. And that was how I was supposed to deal with life by learning all that. So what did I learn that actually helped me for my life when I was a kid? To go to school in learn the dates of every war? My whole childhood was a lie. I’m still as dumb as I was when I was born about a lot of things. And I read so much every day. But I don’t even know what is real anymore. And it’s gonna get a lot worse soon with AI.
I see you can relate perfectly to the point of this article. Unfortunately, this is our curse: to know we can’t know
And since many, many people cannot handle that situation, they have to pretend they know exactly what’s going on.
I do it all the time!
It's our only hope for a mind-numbed paradise, our opium
Greetings, grace, peace and blessings to you and all Sotiris Rex,
Yes, you are right though you might not have meant to say this. Religion is against Lord Jesus Christ. Religious people that browbeat or frighten others work for satan. And Satan is real as we see the demonized around us.
The catholic church is a goddess worship cult. Mary is not God nor is she sitting on any side of God.
Your questions are valid that most people who hear voices are crazy. Yet the materials of the books of the King James bible written by dozens of different people over hundreds of years in different languages that are all consistent with each other. There is even research proving it to be scientifically accurate. And if we look at headlines and observe around us, the KJV is prescient. If Substack allowed attachments I would send a couple screenshots. Here is something I cobbled together, should it be of interest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrejkacoklyat/p/who-wrote-the-bible-and-regardless
I understand that the nuns that browbeat and bullied us and said we can only get to heaven through confessing through the Catholic Church we’re wrong to intimidate us and really always had something very negative to say to students especially certain grade teachers like the fourth grade teacher was just evil
A great teacher makes you feel like you are her favorite. That fourth grade teacher made you feel like she hated you the most.
My mother had told me later that people were scared of her other nuns were scared of her and that she hated everybody and I didn’t know it like I said I felt like I was at target at the time.
She made me destroy all my artwork and sometimes I kept it when I could in fifth grade I ended up winning art prize
I look back on it and say something felt wrong and the people I’m meeting in churches down south are just nicer. they give money to Israel and I won’t. But I feel better if I go and I hear him talk about volunteering like he did today. I like going to their picnics. They do wholesome activities that I like to do. Wholesome family activities.
Grace, peace and blessings to you and all Sharon R. Fiore, in the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank you for sharing. I am so sorry you were targeted by the nuns...
Especially as a child... The poor children.
I keep hearing no church is perfect yet most pastors much less christians I meet don't even know what the whole deal is:
"the gospel By which also ye are saved, [believe that] Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; [Jesus] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins ..., through the forbearance of God; ...by the law of faith. Romans Chapter 3:25-27
I am in the South, in NW Arkansas where there is satanism and a lot of child sex abuse and churches can't handle it.. The local library is famous yet trying to remove legal liabilities for harming children for sex abuse... I talked to four churches.. :(
SO I don't go because locally it is messed up here, and generally people that call themselves tend to be religious rather than having a relationship with Lord Jesus Christ.
Praise the Lord you have found good fellowship with local churches.
I agree I am not supporting the satanic state of Isreal. .. I love my genuine jewish spiritual older brother of the old testament. When I rightly divide the bible, it seems the Jews were told to scatter because they disobeyed God so... most pastors claiming to support zionism are confused...
I am just looking forward to the Rapture. Thank you for writing!
Definitely a time to be connected to nature and one’s body, really helps to keep it real and get on with celebrating life, resonating with IAM.
All this get to know Jesus and the media is spawning a lot of Christ is king stuff. I question if we really know JC even existed, historically, factually. So dogma relating to him is just another layer of belief. When you study the early history of the first millennia it’s a realisation that what we believe, base our entire identity and raison d’etre on was probably fabricated by the folks who were in power then, oh yeah it was the Romans. Fascinating and freeing.
It's a sad realisation. I still believe it's more joyous to believe in something, even f it's false. Truly Jesus Christ was right: "blessed are the poor in the spirit."
These are all good questions and ones that I have been researching for an answer to for a decade now. All religions as you rightly point out have always been a means of social control before there were police etc. I do think that there is God which is completely nothing to do with religions. Some people have to experience things in their lives to get to the deeper understanding of what we each believe to be true. Which is the only way we will ever know anything. The fact that some of us are critically thinking and researching this proves that we are not nutcases who will believe in fairies 🧚 Reason and research are all that we have open to us. Maybe some will find the answers. Most are lazy and dumb and never even consider it at all. If anyone has a chance to learn the truth it is us.
"If anyone has a chance to learn the truth it is us." I'd like to think so. But perhaps the limits of our nature makes us unable to reach or comprehend the truth. Maybe we don't even deserve the truth.
I think we deserve it. Perhaps our mental capacity as good as it may be for some of us, still does not compete with God. Makes sense.
"I separate the existence of God from organized religions." Good move!
I once read a similar quote, "my vision of God is too vast for one religion to hold" one of the greatest faults we have is defining divinity for each other. Each of us has their own road, some of us might travel side by side and our limited language makes it seem as if we're walking the same way. But no one can walk in another person's feet.
I have been researching this very topic for over 10 years now. Not easy going. From what I have found I personally only believe in the Geneva Bible New Testament. So maybe it is a new religion completely. We will never know for sure. I am more about seeking the truth and the deeper you dig you realize that every man made religion has been infiltrated. I do not think the answer is to not believe in anything. Just follow the facts based on your own research. We may never know the exact truth on everything but we can try our best. 😊
I just heard this somewhere. Not much of an idea what to think of it.
- Meditations of a Groundskeeper at Perinel — who insists on “Respect for Being”
- What if: Matter manifests out of spirit. And not: Consciousness depends on matter.
- Who can know enough to say which, or even that this is a binary alternative?
- What if: Something else is the basis of both matter and spirit. And it is that something else that determines the priority of and relationship between matter and spirit.
- Allow “Being” to name that something else.
- The matter<>spirit intermingling that is us seeks to comprehend Being.
- Whatever Being Bēs we already be it however impossible to wrap it in Ising.
Interesting. I used to think about the notion of "consciousness before matter." I think it creates more questions than the answers it brings. We try to find the simplest solutions. Maybe that's our problem...
There is a way to prove God’s existence and nature. Take a look at this. You get close to some of the ideas but don’t go far enough.
https://youtu.be/5yvPf9p17VE?si=FpIaC-QgKA2FvP55
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
I think people are scared of the idea of self-reliance that they'd rather believe in comfortable lies. The cosmic abandonment is traumatizing, for our existence is a deep-rooted insecurity plagued with mystery and doubt.
"Where do we come from?"
"Where are we going?"
"What is the meaning of life?"
This: "The cosmic abandonment is traumatizing, for our existence is a deep-rooted insecurity plagued with"
There was a neuroscience show that had a guest talking about coming out of school and into the field in the 1990s. He said that back then, neuroscience didn't care for studying consciousness. 3 decades ago, they didn't see the importance of consciousness?!? No wonder why it took so long to stop slavery, apartheid, war, etc.
You nailed it, we depend on the stories of others who claim they knew the creator, who themselves could have been hallucinating, just like the many that thought con-vid shots were safe and effective cause so and so says so. Since when is seeing the unseeable proof of the unseeable?
I have had a near death experience before landing from a big fall and it felt like I had minutes to determine my fate and understand that my family will be ok if I'm dead or paralyzed.
Was I hallucinating from the shock of falling and facing doom? Yes.
I used to have out of body experiences and tried a few experiments with it to validate whether it was real or some sort of dream like thing. One time it was at work and I went through a locked door into a room and studied the contents of that room. When I came back, I wrote down what I saw the best I could and looked to gain access to that room. When I was able to see what was in that room, it didn't match what I "saw" in my obe.
I figured it was a dream state and told a friend who does obe. She said it was the astral state and that's why things didn't match. I asked her if she ever went there and communicated with another astral traveler that she knew in there or if they both looked at the same area and shared observations. Nope... Her astral view didn't match others. So why did she and others still believe it was real and not question it?
Belief that our consciousness exists out of our bodies lead her and others to think that is why things didn't match with reality and ignore the fact that dreaming can feel more real than real.
“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.” - Robert Anton Wilson
It's a human exploit to believe in history from books and stories, but this tendency doesn't exist in tribal people. It came from the development of writing, which allowed us to record things that may or may not have happened.
https://robc137.substack.com/p/alphabet-vs-the-goddess
I started to go to catholic church again. I grew up in it and while I disagree with a tremendous amount of things (particularly the whole catholic institution) I think the local community is good. We have a great priest here who can preach thoughtful ideas. I would like my son to go and spend a mere 1 hour/week with something not usual. Maybe these unsufferable 1 hours will give him some valuable thoughts I'm certain it did to me.
Your religious leaders are no different/ better than your political leaders.
In earlier times, your religious leaders sent you en masse into their "holy wars" to destroy, plunder and murder unknown peoples who had not harmed them, and promised those plunderers and murderers salvation and eternal life in return.
To name just a few blatant examples: Crusades, 100-year and 30-year wars, against each other, so-called Christians against so-called Christians, with the same intentions ... They were also involved in all the world wars, etc.
Reasonable and truly believing people who understood it, however, they declared heretics, because they did not believe their church, them and their dogmas* - * their irrefutable truths, which come from God personally, and therefore must not be thought about and discussed, because it is the mortal sin.
They persecuted such genuinely believing Christians, cursed them forever (anathema), scourged/ lashed, beheaded, broken on the wheel, burned them alive, etc., ... even for quite banal things; e.g. anyone who did not want to eat meat/ who wanted to be a vegetarian was forever cursed (anathema). This "wise" dogma still applies today/ it has never been officially abolished.
Since this power was taken away from them ... they only give you false promises and false hopes to bind you to themselves and their organizations. So they just want to bind as many people as possible to them, which brings them more power/ influence, honor/ prestige and money/ wealth.
Those are organizations and not communities. A community consists of persons/ souls who have a lot in common. But what does a decent or pious believer have in common with a pedophile priest, mafia boss, etc. except that he prays together with them in the same building. That can only defile one (even more) - and never cleanse/ purify one/ bring closer to God.
In 1984, a student distributed flyers with the inscription "The church is the biggest criminal organization of all times".
At the so-called "Bochum §166 trial" he was proven RIGHT.
Why this is the Truth? See https://theologe.de/
Your "Honorable Ones" also "love" your children so much (mostly boys, but also some girls), and thereby damage or even destroy them for the whole remaining life. They call themselves Christians, but are anti-Christians; although not all of them. Some priests/ clerics are just like employees in a local administration or government. They have a comfortable job, good salary and it is enough for them, so they obey their leaders without thinking for themselves whether it is the right or the wrong thing to do. If they did not do so, they would declare them heretics and fire them.
That the other (so-called) religious communities (religions) are not (basically) different, could, but should not comfort you.
God does NOT dwell in houses made with hands. Cf. 1 Kings 8: 27, 2 Chronicles 2: 5, Psalm 11: 4 & 103: 19; Isaiah 66: 1; Acts 7: 48, Matt. 5: 34-35 & 23: 22.
The word church does not exist in the Greek source text, but the word Ecclesia = Assembly. The point is that Christ = the One and Only Teacher (Matthew 23: 8-12) gathers certain souls AROUND Himself, WITH Himself and finally IN Himself (in Spirit). These are the different stages of spiritual development.
This assembly is a heavenly assembly and does not refer to anything earthly, because Christ did not found or build any earthly church. Some souls from all nations belong to this assembly, while all nations consist mainly of non-believers, non-sufficient believers or false believers. Nevertheless, the clerics and therefore the people also pray: "God, please, save my/ our nation" - which is a great sin, because it represents the pagan way of thinking and believing.
The true, resp. knowledgeable Christians do not pray in churches (together with the aforementioned pedophile clerics, mafia bosses etc. who are also always present) but where and how Christ has clearly commanded.
Matthew 6: 6 (Christ commanded)
But when you pray, go into YOUR Room, Close the Door* and PRAY to your Father, who is in unseen/ hidden. Then your Father, who is in unseen/ hidden will reward you.
(* So that no one can disturb/ distract you. This unseen/ hidden is much closer to you than you think)
John 4: 20-23 (A woman said to Jesus)
20 Our forefathers worshiped/ prayed*/ προσεκύνησαν (prosekynēsan)*
• this word "prosekynēsan" has several meanings, and when it comes to prayer, it means "to prostrate oneself in prayer"
on this mountain, and you (plural) say that the place to pray is in JERUSALEM.
21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will pray to the Father NEITHER on this mountain NOR in Jerusalem. ...
23 But the hour is coming, and NOW IS, when the TRUE prayers will pray to the Father in Spirit and Truth; for the Father also SEEKS such as his worshippers/ prayers/ prosekynēsan.
24 God is a Spirit, and those who worship/ pray to Him must pray IN Spirit and Truth.
(So, neither on Mount Zion nor in Jerusalem (which is foolishly considered by the ignorant to be a good/ best place for prayer), where many temples and churches are to find, NO, but exclusively alone and undisturbed, so that you can dedicate yourself completely to God alone, in Spirit and Truth.)
And by our prayer, we FALL on our FACES to the ground before our Lord (what is not possible in the churches, and there must never be any image or object/ figure in front of us), just as Jesus used to do:
Matthew 26:39
And Jesus went a little farther, and FELL on His FACE, and prayed, saying, "My Father ...
This can be understood and adopted only by those who live (think, talk, and act) long enough according to the easy-understandable commandments & instructions of God - because God grants understanding to such Humans/ God-Seekers. All others remain ignorant. Ignorance = False belief or No belief.
The END of the Very Last EMPIRE, this jewish-satanic Empire! https://mile7bar.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-very-last-empire
If you want to find out more about the true Teaching of Christ, then read
The "Little Bible School", but also the IMPORTANT https://mile7bar.substack.com/p/the-little-bible-school-but-also