All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Bibliolatry crushes the inspired word of the Bible

Definitions

INCLUSION DESTROYS BIBLIOLATRY

We don’t place ourselves “under the authority of the Bible”.

Rather we got stuck in religion when we surrendered to the “authority” of another person’s interpretation of the Bible.

God is not a book. That’s called bibliolatry.

It was the Pharisees who were bibliolaters and placed their interpretations over relationships. The word Pharisee means separatist.

Here is the nuance. One will say, “I love people even if I disagree.” Perfect.

But in religion that can really mean “I really care about you that you are going to hell and I still see you as separate until you agree with me and join my club’s interpretation”.

Caring is a step forward but it still masks separation.

Consider the possibility that all were created equal. Everyone is my brother/sister. My “parish” is the world. There is only one human family, one God and Father of all who is above all, through all and in all. There is no us/them. There is only an illusion of separation which religion fosters.
~ Chuck Crisco

Just Don’t Do It!

Unwanted thoughts

AN URGENT DISCUSSION
Is this you?
You commune with the “I AM” of your being for some time. You feel really good and bask in it for awhile. Finally it’s time to set aside this joyous awakening and get back to the mundane.
In comes your number one intruder – right where your God-awareness used to be. You’re much stronger now thanks to your prior focus but, alas, all of that is starting to slip away. In a few more minutes that entire height that you attained earlier will be lost.
You’re gonna wanna fight me on this and that’s okay: give it yer best shot! I’ve done that scenario for years and years. My tear-stained face and battle scars will happily attest to my many, many ‘false starts’ before I finally got my act together.
JUST DON’T DO IT !!! . Don’t leave the plateau that you attained earlier. Make that your #1 priority – no matter what. IF YOU LEAVE IT YOU’LL LOSE IT : IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT !!!
Choosing instead not to compromise your former level of spiritual apprehension will put you in a place called “higher consciousness” and that’s a pretty wonderful place to be!

De-hypnotize and all the junk will flee!

De-hypnotize

When you decide the time has come to assume accountability for your mental state and determine to de-hypnotize your mind, God will jump in there big time and take over for you. All you need to do is maintain your determination. Be a fanatic! It wasn’t a mere little slip-up that filled your consciousness with devastating limitations – it was full-scale hypnotism.
Think of everything you know about this insidious destroyer of the spirit and nature of the real man. The first step is the comfy-cozy trance-like state, then all the horrific self-defeating, seductive suggestions rush in.
All you need to do is de-hypnotize! Claim your rightful heritage as a Son of God who cannot be fooled anymore. Procrastination is your only enemy now. Don’t decide to start thinking aright five minutes from now: do it now!

Having a hard time?

Letter for YOU

ARE YOU HAVING A HARD TIME ?
Try this:
[I don’t even know what I’m going to say. God told me to write, so here goes.]
Take one inspired Scripture or one direct revelation to you from God (they’re actually pretty much the same thing) and press it for all it’s worth.
For example, “Take no [human] thought for your life” because God has every possible answer to every possible need. Right now I think it would be safe to say that your thinking is open enough for God to speak directly to and through you. So, ask one sincere question such as “What about my ___?” Now listen.
Take no human thought means GET OUT !!! of the human realm (sorry I should’ve warned you!)
Choose right now whether you’re gonna give God a chance. He can’t be found in the realm of the flesh. Petition Him to come down till the cows come home – He ain’t moving! So you (we) have got to go up and out of this limited, fallible, self-defeating mindset – clear out of this mind altogether.
If the concept of God, His kingdom, the mind of Christ, I AM, Oneness being INSIDE OF YOU is a little strange to you then I’ve got REALLY GOOD NEWS for you: it’s here and it heals big time!
Meditate on it – it’s a whole new mindset, a whole new life! Be courageous right now and leave your whole former life – like the other 12 disciples had to – leave all ego-related issues in the ash-heap that is mortal mind and determine to hear only God. (I can almost see you sailing past me on this ‘coz I’ve got some junk keeps popping up, but remember it was Father who said to me: “Write!”)
This message – that you can and must leave all contrary arguments (as I must) – will bring you to heights of spiritual awareness heretofore unknown.

Overcoming time – HF

Application of Scriptures

OVERCOMING T-I-M-E :
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven- [2] A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. [3] A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up. [4] A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance. [5] A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. [6] A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. [7] A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak. [8] A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace. [9] What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? [10] I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-10 NASB

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
Galatians 4:4 kjv
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law.
Galatians 4:4 NASB

NO PAST, NO FUTURE: N-O-W IS ALL THERE IS :
With a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.
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Sharon DuVall: Robin, as I was reading the scriptures you posted about time I also noticed the pair of opposites…time for this and that…we can see what tree that is coming from…Tree of Life is timeless, ageless, ONEness, ISness, ASness, NOWness…whoohoo!

Betrayal Zone – Rutherford

Family

My head is still spinning
My heart is still reeling
I know I will never
Get past all the feelings
That come when you see
How their “final hand’s” played
Great is the pain when a man is betrayed
You could try and explain things
But, it falls on deaf ears
They’ve already decided which parts they will hear
And the 99% of the great things you’ve done
Disappear in the poison they pour on the “one.”
It doesn’t take much to rub the wrong way
What you DO or DON’T DO…. SAY or DON’T SAY!
Are all matters of little when minds are Infected
And every last thing you have done gets inspected.
If there could be ONE simple “sit down” to try
You could point out the truths and dispel all the lies
But, instead you are left simply “holding the bag”
With your righteousness dirtier than old filthy rags.
So you pack up your dreams and you trust what will be
Will somehow be better than what you could see
And you rub on the salve in the wound in your soul
and you picture a future that looks less than whole
and you make up your mind that the reasons and rhymes
Will, somehow be cleared up in Love’s perfect time.
You pick up your crown and you dust off your throne
And you try to convince yourself “you’re good, alone”
And you give thanks for, through this, the light that has shone
And you make up your mind to move on.
LIFE sucks…….in the BETRAYAL ZONE!
~ Robert Rutherford
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Well, It’s official my birthday.
This year, I declare on 5 the number of grace, 17 the number of victory and 18 means alive Life
I won’t give darkness one drop of attention still, I will praise Him. I believe the numbers of my birthday confirm this day to be a day where I step into a new season of grace multiplied with a great victory that will result in a life alive!
~Linda Barnett – birthday = April&Michal anniversary
5/17/72, 5/17/89, 5/17/91 R&A
89+17=06(?) +17=23

If you take the time and dwell…

Application of Scriptures

[… Y]ou are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. [10] If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. [11] But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:9-11 NASB
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You’re not in the fleshly mind but in the Spirit if the Spirit of God dwells in you, i.e., if you’ve taken the time and the effort to become Spiritually conscious.

Keeping things to yourself – in your heart!

Bible quotes

THE ACTIVITY OF THE HOLY GHOST WITHIN YOU:

Genesis 37:10-11 NIV
When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” [11] His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
[KEPT THE MATTER IN MIND]

Daniel 7:28 NIV
“This is the end of the matter. I, Daniel, was deeply troubled by my thoughts, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”
[KEPT THE MATTER TO MYSELF]

Luke 2:19 NIV
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
[PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART]

Luke 2:51-52 NIV
Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. [52] And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
[TREASURED ALL THESE THINGS IN HER HEART]

WHEN THE HOLY GHOST IS ALL THAT THERE IS OF YOU.