Can a Christian be a Spiritualist?

Can a Christian be a Spiritualist? The answer to this question is a resounding yes. Just because Spiritualism doesn’t preach that one must belong to a certain denominational church or believe in Christ as savior, confess their sins to God doesn’t mean that individual Christians can’t be Spiritualists. Oh you say, yes, Spiritualists do believe in God, and Christ but not as savior, per sa. When Modern Spiritualism was just getting started in the mid 1800s, all Spiritualism was known as Christian Spiritualism. This was because the people involved in Spiritualism were originally members of denominational Christian churches. Spiritualists in the early days believe in the teachings of the church and even used them in their churches. Until recent years, all Spiritualist churches had a Bible on their pulpits. They know that Jesus was one of the most gifted mediums of his time. “Medium” yes medium. There is the story in the Bible where Jesus was talking to a woman of Samaria at a well where he told her all about her life and what was happening at the time he met her. Gospel According to Saint John 4:19 “The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet”. Webster’s dictionary says that a “prophet an authoritative person who divines the future”. Is a Spiritualist also a prophet? In many ways the answer is yes. They often do give people information about future events in their lives. However, a “Spiritualist mediumship” in no way gets involves with fortune telling. The work of a medium is to prove the reality of survival after so called death and to pass on practical help and understanding when needed. The information a medium gives a person is meant to help them make their own decisions in their life, not make them for the person.

The question is, what happens to the Spiritualist when he/she dies? Christianity says that non-Christians sleep in the grave until the “great day of judgment”. When a Christian dies he/she is then “absent from the body and present with the Lord”. We answer this by saying that we go to be with the same Lord and heaven that Christians go to when we die. However, what Christians don’t know is that we also believe that the criminal, etc. will go to a lower spirit world where they will be given an opportunity to make restitution for their wrongs, and then be able to progress to higher spirit worlds. You can’t accept that, ah? That’s ok. You see it has been proven by thousands of mediums that life continues after the change called death and that is the only think that Spiritualists are really saying. Yes, we also believe that we can communicate with the so-called dead, as a proven fact. Did Jesus go into the grave and sleep when he died? No. He was very much alive and came back many times to teach and be with his disciples.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s scientists and highly educated men and women investigated Spiritualist phenomena and came to the conclusion that it was real, not a fakery or even fraudulent in any way. However, their were a large number of people who took advantage of the “darkened séance room” to defraud the sitters. That is one major reason the scientist went to extreme measures to assure that no fraud was possible with the people they were investigating. [See Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s books “History of Spiritualism” Volume I and II.]

All Spiritualist churches and associations make sure that the people who attend their activities are not asked to set aside any of their own religious beliefs or even stop attending their denominational church. The director of the church I attend is a Jewish woman who is married to an Anglican Priest and her best friend is a Catholic nun.

One of the main things that I want the reader to know is that God has provided for each and everyone of His spiritual children no matter what wrong choices, sins, they had made or are making here on this earth plain. Something Christians just can’t accept are non-Christians because their Bible and denominations refuse to believe in them and their teachings. People who were not born and raised in their particular denomination are lost.

When one reads the Bible one finds dozens of examples of Spiritualist phenomena, especially in the Old Testament. Jesus was not only a special son of God, but one of the greatest men who ever lived. There is no doubt about it. Jesus was a gifted healer, teacher and prophet. One only needs to read to Bible to know this.

Is God a God of wrath and does he hate sin? No, God is not a God of wrath, God is a God of love but He does hate sin. Because he hates sin he has provided a way for all his children in this physical world to make restitution for their sins. Whether you believe that Jesus is the only way or not makes no difference. God is a God of love and loves every man, woman and child in this world. Even all non-Christians who have lived here from the beginning of time? The bible tells us that God is perfect and His creation is perfect and He created "He them in His own image." So why would a perfect God create a human being in His image, and then have to send a son to be killed by them? The answer is that God in His infinite wisdom gave man total free will; free will to choose between right or wrong. Can it be that only the church can determine what is right and what can be considered as wrong? Can perfection produce non-perfection? Can it be true that humanity could only become Christian after the death of Jesus? What about the billions, trillions who came into this world long before Jesus did? Were they lost to eternal hell fire and brimstone?

One of the biggest things that people in this world do is judge each other. It doesn’t matter whether or not a person has been told from birth “don’t judge others.” They judge others just the same because that is what their parents and grandparents did. If you were a non-Christian before you became a Christian, was their any hope that you could be saved? You say yes, but how do you really know this? You were no doubt told by a Christian that you were called by God to be saved and that is why you are. Choice. That is what you were given. A choice to choose between what Christians considered right over wrong.

I could go on for pages talking about all the things mentioned above and would not exhaust the subject. Whether a person believe in Jesus or not doesn’t mean that they are lost for all eternity. If it were so, God would not be a God of love.

Expectations

In days long past when I was young, I took to the woods to find what no others could find. I searched here and there for weeks and found not what I search for. Why did you continue I was asked, my reply was "it was expected of me."

We often search for what others expect of us not knowing that we were only to search for what was best for us. Like so many things not found, they are often beyond are abilities to locate. It doesn't matter that we're never told what was really expected of us, what we are really to look for, what mattered is, we did what we were told. This we did when we were young, but now we older.

Going beyond all expectations is something that we can do. We only need to get started. The question is what is it that we expect of ourselves? Do we stand up to our own expectation? Or do we fall short? Who is it that we really have to satisfy? Is it really you? Can't I do what I want without criticism, or make or do something totally unexpected? Like what you ask? Good question. You see it doesn't matter what it is. It is I who does it. It is your place to be a good observer and just watch and do nothing, even say nothing. No matter what...

The big mistake people always make has to do with others. You demand that others conform to your expectations or else. Why? They don't think or act like you. They weren't raised the same way you were or even by your parents. Would that have made a difference? Consider, they don't even look like you. So why question another persons right to be who they are? You and I are to live our lives in harmony with others by letting them be who and what they are. Make no mistakes here, they are who they are and cannot be anything else. The big questions is, can you agree with this and let others find their own way in life to search for what is theirs, not what you expected of them?

Our Thoughts

I was just reading an article where the author said that we should stop and take a look at our thoughts and know what they are really saying. As I thought about that I realized that it was next to impossible for me to do. How does one look at something that is a part of him/her? Can we see our thoughts passing by our minds eye as if they were scrolling by on a screen? If this was possible, then I can stop my thoughts and analyze them as often as needed and see them for what they are? Thoughts that were just something that the mind came up with in response to a stimulus of some kind. It is only by looking at our thoughts in a different way than we normally do that we are able to understand their true meaning and intent. Yes, we often think one thing and say or write something else. Our minds thoughts streaming by without being stopped to analyze what they are.

However we might try checking our thoughts by writing them down. Then we can see them as others might see them when they read what we have to say. We can even see if they are coherent or are scattered without direction.

Far too many of us don't take the time to really think through our thoughts, ideas. It seems that we have not written them down and sent on their way before making sure we have them right. Most often it is only when others people talk to us about what we said or wrote that we take the time to look at our thoughts and try to figure them out. Hopefully we are not too late to make things right.

It has been said that"thoughts are things" . Things that keep coming up in our lives to make us think and try to get things right. No body wants to be around a person who always seems to be saying the wrong things at the wrong time. The person who speaks before putting his mind in gear...

Now that you have an idea of how thoughts can affect your life; making life good for us or challenging, be careful what you say. Think first, our spoken thoughts could come back on us in a way the is definitely not good.

Can't Sleep

It was one in the morning and Joe was not asleep yet. He kept tossing and turning as though it was impossible for him to sleep. How many times has that happened to you? How often have you tried to sleep and couldn't quite make it? More often than you care to admit I'm sure.

Last night was one of those nights. I couldn't get to sleep. I even took the time to read, get a small glass of milk. Nothing seemed to work. This morning I had to get up early to run some errands. After lunch I laid down for a nap. Just as I was about to fall asleep, the phone rang. It was a friend and we talked for half an hour. You're beginning to get the picture! No rest for the wicked.

Life sometimes seems to be moving us so fast that we just don't have time to relax and enjoy what we have. There seems to be something happening all the time. We get up too early, we sleep in too long, maybe, we just end up with sleepless nights. Oh boy! Is their anyone or any thing that can help us? Yes you say. What then is it?

Why are you laughing? What's so funny? You. Me? Yes you. You think that you're the only one with a problem and, I have news for you. You're not the only one. You see, everyone has sleepless nights and errands to run and very little time to do it all.

Even if we had 48 hour in a day it wouldn't be enough. Even though we are organized to a great extent, we still have problems fitting everything into the 10 or 12 hours we spend at work. Organization of our work load is not the real problem. Fitting it all in is.