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Oneness... in Jesus...?

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Well I don't want to stray from the OP but I can't help pointing out that Kabbalah has no place in the life of a Holy Spirit filled Christian regardless of nationality. It is Rabbinic mysticism which denies the Gospel of the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ of Nazareth and replaces it with "occult knowledge".
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There you are wrong even if Judah studying Kabbalah does not see Christ within, I read it and I can, He is all through it. Besides the Four Living Creatures John describes in Revelation come from Kabbalah (as does John 1.1-5) therefore if it not Christian are you saying John the Evangelist was not a Christian because He knew and used Kabbalah?
 
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I'm a Buddhist, and being an Eastern tradition have things in common with those traditions. Experiencing oneness is a common theme in Eastern religions... and is realised through letting go of our individual egoic identity, and the actions that come from and support egoic identity (I, Me, Mine!)

Selflessness, and letting go of pride also seems to be an important part of the Christian tradition. St. Paul warns against the boastfulness of 'works', St. James seems to criticize an empty faith (pride based) that has no real substance to it.
❤️ Is it a common experience for Christians to experience oneness. Would you share your testimony please.
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There isn't going to be that kind of concept in Christianity, rather Christian theology will speak of concepts such as union, communion, theosis, etc.

That there is a union with Christ, and in this union with Christ there is koinonia--communion--in the entire Body. I've chosen to use the Greek word koinonia here, because it's a really good word. It is translated as communion, but also translates to partaking, participation, togetherness. It has as its root word the Greek word for "common" (koine). It is, we might say the common-union of all believers together in and with one another by their union to Christ--to the sharing of a common life.

There is no dissolution of identity, but rather a redemption of identity. I am united to Christ and being healed, transformed, by my justification, ongoing sanctification, and ultimately in the resurrection of the body and the glory of the age to come.

Perhaps it could be said that I will never be you, and you will never be me, but in Christ you and me become we. And that means love, grace, and a life lived together not for oneself but for another.

Imagine a table where people don't feed themselves, but instead reach across the table to feed one another--we are fed because we look outside of us to our neighbor. That is koinonia, that is communion, that is what we are called to, and what we are being conformed to.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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There you are wrong even if Judah studying Kabbalah does not see Christ within, I read it and I can, He is all through it. Besides the Four Living Creatures John describes in Revelation come from Kabbalah (as does John 1.1-5) therefore if it not Christian are you saying John the Evangelist was not a Christian because He knew and used Kabbalah?
I encourage you to keep exploring the Gospel without extra non Christian sources. Blessings.
 
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I'm a Buddhist, and being an Eastern tradition have things in common with those traditions. Experiencing oneness is a common theme in Eastern religions... and is realised through letting go of our individual egoic identity, and the actions that come from and support egoic identity (I, Me, Mine!)

Selflessness, and letting go of pride also seems to be an important part of the Christian tradition. St. Paul warns against the boastfulness of 'works', St. James seems to criticize an empty faith (pride based) that has no real substance to it.
❤️ Is it a common experience for Christians to experience oneness. Would you share your testimony please.
Thank you.
"Oneness" isn't a buzzword in the Christianity that I'm familiar with.
We need to avoid the sins of pride and greed. We need to be humble and openhanded. Some are more drastic in this pursuit than others, but I suspect the end goal for a Christian will be different from the end goal for a Buddhist.
 
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That's not a feeling of oneness though... that's a feeling of detachment.

It's important not to confuse pre-personal experiences with transpersonal experiences....

First of all this is not an experience of disconnection with ourselves or the world. Yes at time the world seems so insignificant, but the connection remains. I do understand that some do experience depersonalization, and that is a counterfeit experience with the Holy Spirit. If someone experiences a out of body experience that is a disconnection from the physical world, but it is very real and doesn't continue beyond the experience. That is the difference between reality and the disorder.
 
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I encourage you to keep exploring the Gospel without extra non Christian sources. Blessings.

When exploring Christianity many with differing opinions or experiences are searching for truth. Telling them that they shouldn't consider other insights and opinions is being closed minded in my opinion. Just remember, God only wrote the Ten commandments, Moses added to it, and man put the New Testament together, then we protestants tore it apart and through out what we didn't like. If one insists in refusing to look outside the box, you may very well miss some amazing truths.
I believe God is still speaking to us, most just aren't listening.
 
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I encourage you to keep exploring the Gospel without extra non Christian sources. Blessings.

Actually my husband and I have already spend years studying this way before I experienced dreams and visions that sent us too Is.28 and back to studying Jewish History, Identity and the Law. In this journey nothing had drawn us away from the Gospel but strengthened our faith and understanding which makes sense, HaShem called Israel long ago to what Judah today (at least some) believe, and keep them from being wiped out for a reason as well.

Still one who has not studied the Gospels as deeply or for so many decades might not be called to the same calling.
 
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I'm a Buddhist, and being an Eastern tradition have things in common with those traditions. Experiencing oneness is a common theme in Eastern religions... and is realised through letting go of our individual egoic identity, and the actions that come from and support egoic identity (I, Me, Mine!)

God indicates in His word, that "letting go of our individual egoic identity" in any way that would please Him is impossible apart from Him.

Selflessness, and letting go of pride also seems to be an important part of the Christian tradition. St. Paul warns against the boastfulness of 'works', St. James seems to criticize an empty faith (pride based) that has no real substance to it.
❤️ Is it a common experience for Christians to experience oneness. Would you share your testimony please.
Thank you.

Yes, selflessness and humility are aspects of Christian living.

The type of faith that the apostle James criticizes is a merely intellectual faith that agrees to the tenets of the Gospel but does not intend to act in conformity to those tenets.

The Bible urges unity among believers and it offers to us a spiritual union with Christ. But a mystical oneness, a sharing in God's essence and becoming divine thereby, is not the sort of union with Himself that God offers to us. We may enjoy fellowship with God through faith in His Son, but we cannot ever be divine in the sense or way in which God is. We relate to God as servant to Master, branch to tree, creature to Creator, inferior to Superior. This never changes. I can - and do - know God personally and directly and enjoy Him more and more as my knowledge and personal experience of Him deepens, but I will always be His creation, contingent upon Him for my being, finite in my existence, limited in my power and understanding.
 
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