Cline's Blog

Let's Get Over It and Get On With It!

"... At a time when you should be teaching others, you need teachers yourselves to repeat to you the A B C of God's revelation to men.  You have become people who need a milk diet and cannot face solid food!  For anyone who continues to live on "milk" is obviously immature -- he simply has not grown up.  "Solid food" is only for the adult, that is for the man who has deveoped by experience his power to discriminate between what is good and what is bad for him.

" Let us leave behind the elementary teaching about Christ and go forward to adult understanding.  Let us not lay over and over again the foundation truths -- repentance from the deeds which led to death, believing in God, baptism and laying on of hands, belief in the life to come and the final judgement.  No, if God allows, let us go on."

(Letter to the Hebrews 5:12 - 6:1, The New Testament in Modern English, trans. J. B. Phillips.)

The above quotation appears in the preface to my 1965 book: The Bronze Age God in the Space Age: How to Establish Vital Contact with God.  It's been out of print many years now.  The title was my own, the subtitle was added by the editor after he read the original manuscript.

That was a long time ago -- and to this day I follow the path I described then. 

In 2002 I decided to update and revise the original, only to find that three decades of historic advancement required a totally new book: Apocalypse Survival Guide: Helpful Hints for a Happy Ending.

Both books try to penetrate deep-mind psychological conditioning by 2000 years of religious propaganda that blocks people today from understanding and following the admonishment of the Apostle Paul when he wrote this and other letters that make up about two-thirds of the New Testament.

As I write these blogs I receive comments that are supported by interpretations of ancient spoken dialiects, expressions and coloquialisms from remote regions where the commonly spoken Aramaic was later translated back and forth into Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and a thousand or more years later into modern English; and they seem to expect me to do the same without question!

This way, the spiritual deep-mind meaning of the original spoken words can be twisted to avoid the truth that within us is the Christ here and now, availabe to anyone, regardless of political and religious doctrine and law.

The 20th Century was the history-hinge of the gateway into Apocalypse.  It leads into the end of the world of old ideas!

My prayer-thoughts are with you always.

Blessed Be!