Soul Speak #35 (Oct 13/20) A re-phrasing of Acts 2:38 from NEW conscious awareness!

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#christianity #baptism #immersed
As I was meditating (pondering) within myself today, I was made aware of some new insights regarding the "exclusivity" that the Christian religion is. It's one way and it's "our" way, the Christian way only.
As I was 'transported' back to the time of Jesus... I could not see that He was in any way about "sectarianism" or setting up an "exclusive" branch of religion in honour of Himself.
So naturally I ask "what happened?" to bring this outcome? I am not exactly sure what happened, but intent probably got lost somewhere between translation and lots of misunderstanding.
Then I started to ponder some Christian words such as "Holy Spirit" and "Christ"... I came to understand that another word for Holy Spirit is simply Divine Awareness, and Christ is another word for Divine Consciousness.
I am thinking of rephrasing a well known scripture verse that says,
And Shimeon said to them, “Return to God and be immersed everyone of you, in the name of THE LORD JEHOVAH Yeshua, for release from sin, so that you may receive the gift of The Spirit of Holiness.” Aramaic in Plain English Acts 2:38
If one were to re-phrase it like the below, it would open it up to all people equally, without them having the concern of joining an exclusive club (church/religion/sect). This is my paraphrase...
"Consider God (and turn within) and be immersed everyone of you into the consciousness of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, for release from error of mind, so that you may receive the gift of Divine Awareness."
We have made it all about externals, like water baptism to "join a church", but what if that wasn't speaking of literal waters, but the immersion into the waters of divine consciousness?

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