Quote from nutmeg:
oh boy.... I might learn more than I bargained for {:>) but I'll bite. How can I manifest invulnerability? But first, am I on the right track - defenselessness ensures our safety?
p.s. I always admire people who get to the finish line before me. Buffett espoused a card with twenty punches. We each have about 20 opportunities in our life time to make good investments. My timing has been off on occasions.
Yes you are on the right track. But let's understand how or why defenselessness correlates with safety. Try to accept this axiom: You make what you defend against. Give this universal application and you will make speedy progress. Following this line or reasoning, we made this world, and we are busy defending ourselves against it. You can replace the word "we" with "I", and make yet swifter progress. When I speak to "you" regarding salvation, I almost always address you who make this world. That way, I speak to you as an equal, reasoning with that aspect of your mind that is actually able to make a decision about it. So I'm speaking to the "boss", or, the "Lord".
Invulnerability correlates directly with guiltlessness. You are invulnerable because you are guiltless. You are invulnerable now, but don't believe it until you accept guiltlessness. An understanding of this must precede defenselessness. You must be convinced of your guiltlessness before you'ld be willing to lay down your arms. If you did not understand why you were laying down your arms, the gesture would not address the core issue which provokes the percieved need to constantly by on guard.
The Truth declares universal innocence, putting it out there for acceptance sooner or later. It does not say that there was guilt and now it is no more. It says that there never was any guilt ever. The sooner this is accepted, the sooner you can lay down your arms and manifest invulnerability. Once accepted, invulnerability is immediate. There is no delay between acceptance and invulnerability. Most of the investment is in preparing to accept it. Once accepted, the payoff is instantaneous. In this way, you can use what you see and experience as feedback upon whether or not you have actually accepted sinlessness. You may use the world as an indicator of your acceptance of the guiltless analysis. Fully accepted, you would not see this world, because it is the *chart* of a guilty Lord. It is the picture of crucifixion. Seeing it indicates you have not accepted your own innocence. So the alledged guilt that I speak of presages this world, and the world arises to *justify* the judgment. Crazy? Yes. True? No. The world is the effect of a belief in guilt. As the belief is dispelled, the world passes away from your sight. The sight of this world indicates a lingering desire to see the Son of God crucified.
The world denies that you are the Lord and is hell-bent on proving it in a million ingenious little ways, each of them an attack upon your soveriegnty. You made it this way. You made it this way because you assumed/judged that you were guilty, commencing a building frenzy of fantastic defense mechanisms. One mechanism is like that FBI identity protection program where they change your name and place so that you cannot be spotted/located and brought to the truth for justice. The prime identifying attribute of the Lord is oneness. So to hide this, the one mind scatters and disberses to the four-winds, so-to-speak. The appearance of man [many], is a defense mechanism, hiding the identity of the Lord that he not be found. Problems, sickness and death are yet more ingenious defenses against the truth. Completely lost, the artist formerly known as "Lord" cannot be brought to justice, which is deemed even worse than anything the world has to offer. In this way, the world was built to hide from "hell", when in fact, it is an ingenious way to hide from heaven. That is it's sole purpose. And that is why the acceptance of innocence is complicated with meaningless rhetoric and ritual. There is no way to accept your innocence under most so-called Christian formats. These, in fact, have become elaborate defense mechanisms, functioning to keep you out of heaven. Fact is, the world is a state of fear, afraid of both the light and the dark, choosing not to choose, letting death decide for them what comes afterward.
The herd mentality becomes apparent as you study the above. There is a desire to see the Son of God crucified. This transforms the Son into a herd running a gauntlet of lions. There is also a desire to mitigate the ugliest effects of this by running toward the center of the herds mentality. The herd, for example, places education as a high priority. In fact, education is a defense, a way to arm yourself against the dogs of poverty.
Almost everything man does is some kind of defense against something made...by a Lord long denied, deeply dissociated, and arguably absent. In fact, to do anything is a defense! This is because the Lord does not "do" anything. He simply "is" everything. Doing is done on the run from truth. Doing defends the damned against salvation. With this perspective, "keep on truckin" is translated as "go to hell". The fastest way back to heaven is to stop doing anything at all. Repentance enables the mind to hit the brakes.
Now let's review the axiom again, you make what you defend against. The world is defending itself against the concept of guilt by doing things. Guilt is "made" by *judgement*, and the world arises to bear false witness. *Flesh* is made by a Lord on the run, dissociating itself along the way, covering it's tracks, making it impossible for a posse to find him, but also making it impossible to find his way back. Here, then, is man's predicament. He maintains a guilt-complex, oblivious to it's origins, utterly mislead as to it's solution. Daily, man defends himself against his alt-universe, all the while devoting himself to it for what it offers him. A thought-stream boils under the surface, driving his every step. Man is torn between wanting to accept guiltlessness, and wanting to reject it. His existence thrives on rejecting it while acceptance drives him to extinction. He is afraid to accept it, and afraid of rejecting it.
Jesus