Growth in knowledge and understanding, mental growth.
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Spiritual Growth
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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Growth in knowledge and understanding, mental growth.
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I don't tend to think in terms of growth as much as change - it goes back to having an ecological/scientific understanding of how our universe is based on exchanges of energy. So what others call "growth" I tend to interpret more as a realignment of one's nature and character to some other state. This always comes with negatives and positives - when something grows something else is diminished - so mindfulness of this tradeoff is something I consider important to consider. Basically, one might aim to "grow" the virtues or character one wishes to have in one's life at the expense of things one does not consider virtuous or of value. One cannot have it all, so to speak.
Spiritual growth is growth to God. In other words......faith.
Faithless won't heed God's commandments ("thou shalt not kill)," and let Satan's fear and Satan's lies convince them to "fight the Axis of Evil" as faithless President W. Bush did.
In Revelation it shows God's commandment to us in modern times (do not attack Iraq or face God's wrath....end of the world wrath, that is). At no time in history has God ever ended all life, but he will now because President W. Bush's betrayal of God was so severe, and had so many warnings. Example: Revelation 15 (seven plagues, including COVID), not to mention droughts, forest fires, plagues (giant Asian hornets), Global Warming, etc. Lacking faith, President W. Bush also spied on all telephones (not just a few) of Americans (source: Eric Snowden's smuggled documents). Lacking faith, President W. Bush made torture camps, like the one at Guantanamo, and many others. I first found out about W. Bush's torture camps when the International Red Cross wrote about them and photographed them in Iraq. Shortly after, friendly fire (from United States troops, bombed and killed the International Red Cross who reported the torture camps).
Jews kept their faith as Catholic Hitler tortured to death millions of them (using tattoos as lamp shades, melting gold fillings, and rendering fat (what little they had) for soap).
Raped little boys kept their faith (though some of the traumatized were driven away from God by the severe trauma), when Catholic priests raped them. The Catholic church remains faithless and the Catholic church is still ruled by the antiChrist, so you can see that they moved rapist priests to other churches, where they could rape again, and now they declare bankruptcy because they value mammon and graven images more than justice (to help heal their rape victims).
Victims of the Catholic Inquisition remained faithful until they were tortured into submission. Satan, ruling the Catholic church, tried to do as much damage as he could.
Satan's fear (terrorism made fear) caused America to ignore God and attack Iraq (a nation not involved with terrorism).
Satan's fear made all those "orange alerts" issued by the Office of Homeland Security. Tom Ridge, Director of Homeland Security, in his interview on the Paula Zahn TV show, said that only he was supposed to issue Orange Alerts, but someone higher (the only people higher were President W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney) issued those repeated Orange Alerts instead.
President W. Bush hid information about his torture camp in Guantanamo from the American people. He knew that honesty would not work. Satan rules by deception, and President W. Bush was on the side of Satan. President W. Bush had pretended to fight evil, but was evil, himself.
Revelation (a chapter of the bible) says that Iraq was attacked twice, once by the dragon, and once by the beast (son of the dragon, born of the mouth of the dragon). Revelation says that the dragon and beast were demons that escaped from the brimstone depths of the bottomless pit of hell and inhabited bodies that would rule the most powerful country in the world (source: Revelation 17:18).
Satan's fear made us ignore God's order to "turn the other cheek" and instead make war and murder and torture.
Spiritual growth means that we ignore the things of man (pain, sex, fear) and obey God.
Faithless won't heed God's commandments ("thou shalt not kill)," and let Satan's fear and Satan's lies convince them to "fight the Axis of Evil" as faithless President W. Bush did.
In Revelation it shows God's commandment to us in modern times (do not attack Iraq or face God's wrath....end of the world wrath, that is). At no time in history has God ever ended all life, but he will now because President W. Bush's betrayal of God was so severe, and had so many warnings. Example: Revelation 15 (seven plagues, including COVID), not to mention droughts, forest fires, plagues (giant Asian hornets), Global Warming, etc. Lacking faith, President W. Bush also spied on all telephones (not just a few) of Americans (source: Eric Snowden's smuggled documents). Lacking faith, President W. Bush made torture camps, like the one at Guantanamo, and many others. I first found out about W. Bush's torture camps when the International Red Cross wrote about them and photographed them in Iraq. Shortly after, friendly fire (from United States troops, bombed and killed the International Red Cross who reported the torture camps).
Jews kept their faith as Catholic Hitler tortured to death millions of them (using tattoos as lamp shades, melting gold fillings, and rendering fat (what little they had) for soap).
Raped little boys kept their faith (though some of the traumatized were driven away from God by the severe trauma), when Catholic priests raped them. The Catholic church remains faithless and the Catholic church is still ruled by the antiChrist, so you can see that they moved rapist priests to other churches, where they could rape again, and now they declare bankruptcy because they value mammon and graven images more than justice (to help heal their rape victims).
Victims of the Catholic Inquisition remained faithful until they were tortured into submission. Satan, ruling the Catholic church, tried to do as much damage as he could.
Satan's fear (terrorism made fear) caused America to ignore God and attack Iraq (a nation not involved with terrorism).
Satan's fear made all those "orange alerts" issued by the Office of Homeland Security. Tom Ridge, Director of Homeland Security, in his interview on the Paula Zahn TV show, said that only he was supposed to issue Orange Alerts, but someone higher (the only people higher were President W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney) issued those repeated Orange Alerts instead.
President W. Bush hid information about his torture camp in Guantanamo from the American people. He knew that honesty would not work. Satan rules by deception, and President W. Bush was on the side of Satan. President W. Bush had pretended to fight evil, but was evil, himself.
Revelation (a chapter of the bible) says that Iraq was attacked twice, once by the dragon, and once by the beast (son of the dragon, born of the mouth of the dragon). Revelation says that the dragon and beast were demons that escaped from the brimstone depths of the bottomless pit of hell and inhabited bodies that would rule the most powerful country in the world (source: Revelation 17:18).
Satan's fear made us ignore God's order to "turn the other cheek" and instead make war and murder and torture.
Spiritual growth means that we ignore the things of man (pain, sex, fear) and obey God.