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God's Purpose For Man...why You Are Here by dd12345: 3:33pm On Aug 03, 2015
Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going to?

Richard Bach in his book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" using in symbolic form the analogy and the symbols, shows to the present humanity, the possibility that
has the human being to know and to surpass oneself, reaching every time greater perfection degrees, concerning the knowledge of the cosmos and of the "oneself".

The book is about a group of seagulls that do the same things every day: flying in order to find food, eating, sleeping. That is, the only worry of these seagulls was flying the same way, to the same place, eating and sleeping in an unconscious and mechanical manner.

But one of them turned different, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, an enterprising seagull that wanted to be different, not just an ordinary seagull. He did not want to fly the same way or do the things everybody did. He believed that putting in a lot of effort, flying better and higher would be possible. And he started flying higher and further.

Jonathan Livingston’s terrible ordeal started in this point, because he was already rejected by his own relatives, and by the rest of the seagulls.
They did not accept his changing, his being different. Nobody liked him anymore as he was considered abnormal. The unconscious and mechanical seagulls did not accept Jonathan beating, because all they were part of a mechanical life style. This is the explanation of as someone who wants to change and to be different from the rest is rejected by the group he/she is part of and sometimes even by his/her relatives.

Nowadays, society is, as hypnotized and mechanized concerning the behavior behind life that somebody desiring to change is considered abnormal.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull overcomes the first obstacle, that is, the rejection of its own relatives and keeps on going, looking for its real goal, he betters himself and starts flying at thousand of miles per hour, flying vertically and doing something that never was done: flying into the night.

How wonderful is the world for those brave ones who initiates themselves into the spiritual path. Their point of view of world and life is real and totally different.
Jonathan Livingston was able to fly higher to places where he met seagulls that could fly higher too, so he started living among wiser seagulls.
Jonathan, as every wise man, was not selfish and he wanted to share and preach his experiences and knowledge, he said: "I have found out the reason to live, we can go beyond our ignorance, we can discover ourselves as perfect, intelligent and capable creatures, we can be free". This phrase reminds us The Christ, when He answered revolutionary to a Pharisee: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free".

Jonathan Livingston, who was plenty of love and wisdom, came back to teach his friends and relatives how to fly higher, vertically and into the darkness, but the seagulls board rejected him. He is denigrated, humiliated and expelled from the group, he is accused of inept and he has to run away to save his life.

Nevertheless, Jonathan flew to higher places and met beings who flying higher and asks them: "Why are there just a few seagulls at this altitude?" He was answered: "They are not interested in knowing either where they come from, or where they are going to, and they do not know how many lives it takes a seagull to reach perfection. If they do not learn, then next life they probably will know the same or less, perhaps".

Jonathan was after the great power, to achieve the maximum speed, that is, the perfection with no limits. When the seagulls expelled Jonathan they damaged themselves, but he came back again, as wise man, to give them wisdom.

He came back with some prepared disciples, he performed every kind of acrobatics, he flew vertically and at fantastic speeds. The eight thousand seagulls in the group stared at him without blinking. They were certainly astonished and puzzled by that powerful giant full of knowledge and wisdom.

Some seagulls said that he used collective hypnosis; others, the minority, became his disciples. As Christ said: "Many are called, but few are chosen". And from this great colony a group of gulls formed that began[b] “TO KNOW GOD’S PURPOSE FOR THEM…TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST …TO REACH PERFECTION WHICH JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF REACHED Roman 8:29" And to be better than ever before. Bach said that some reached perfection.


If you, dear disciple, want to break away from mechanical habits and routine and find the real purpose of existence.
If you want to free yourself from ignorance, pain and suffering.
If you want to free your soul from sin oppression.
If you want to know the truth which will make you free… SEEK A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.

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Re: God's Purpose For Man...why You Are Here by dd12345: 3:45pm On Aug 03, 2015
MAN WAS NOT BORN ON EARTH TO LIVE TO DIE...and repeating the same process for generations...man was not born to go to school..get work...proceate and die and his children repeating the same process...man was not created to live to eat, satisfy his belly and die...IT IS JUST A MEANS TO AN END ...NOT THE END IN ITSELF...MAN WAS BORN TO JOURNEY TO GOD...TO BE A REFLECTION OF GOD ON EARTH..TO BE LIKE GOD HIMSELF...HAVING ALL ATTRIBUTES OF GOD...psalm 82vs 6 says "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.'...this can only be possible by seeking a personal relationship with JESUS CHRIST who himself have journeyed to that level...by seeking his face..beholding him...it is what you behold that you will become

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