Is THE GREAT DIVIDE real? You would only ask such a question from 'this' side of THE GREAT DIVIDE.Kutso wrote:So, is THE GREAT DIVIDE for real, or is everything left for God to decide? Do we really have a matter of choice in anything at all? Who knows? Noone.
Kutso
I think Jesus may have been talking about crossing THE GREAT DIVIDE here.
"Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."
-- John 3:7
I don't think Jesus was referring to the emotional convulsive indulgences some of the church people think it is.
Is everything left for God to decide? I don't know.
Do we have a choice? I don't know.
I do know that many of the people have had to go through intense periods of searching and suffering. Although no amount of searching and suffering can 'make it happen' as far as I can tell.
I know that the Bible says:
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Luke 11:9-10 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
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9And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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I have spent my entire life Asking, Searching and Knocking...just like it says in the above verses.
To little or no avail it would seem.
It looks to me like Tolle, Byron Katie and Leonard Jacobson are fulfilling their respective Destinies and operating powerfully from within their respective Callings.
Call it what you will. Consider it what you wish.
The fact remains that Tolle, Byron Katie and Leonard Jacobson are all now ABLE whereas before they were all UNABLE.
I call the difference between the two states of being THE GREAT DIVIDE.
"...some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade".

-- Karl Childers (from Sling Blade)