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from a Parabolic friend Mar 21, 2008
By Michael Montague
Kelly Deppen in "The Parabola" has written a Divine book which unlocks great mysteries from Heaven. It is a Bridge to the other side. You, the reader, will become closer to the One who loves you more than you will ever know. This book is a must read for "King's kids." In this book, one may discover that they have a friend in Heaven, and that life is not about "me" or self. The Bible says that "In Him we live, and move, and have our being." "He must increase, and we must decrease." We are not "human doings," but rather we are "human beings." When one is aligned with Heaven, parabollically speaking, the power of Heaven jumps to the other being. In this symbiotic relationship, that which was lost is found - "Christ in you, the hope of Glory." Keith Green once said that Christians are people that are "Bananas for Jesus." You will find this to be true in this book, and you too may find that you have a friend in Pennsylvania (and that is a good thing!). There is a greater reward in this book than one can imagine, it is an impartation from the Throne of God. May His love embrace you as you read it!
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Gateway Revelation Nov 21, 2007
By Cheryl A. Boyd
"Prophet's Voice of Dominion"
Kelly Deppen's book, "The Parabola" is a gateway revelation into experiencing Jesus Christ as reality. If it is your desire to access that place of living and moving and being in Him, this prophetic impartation will assist you in entering and prospering in that realm. This book is an excellent source in the press to "cast your net on the other side for a draught" and to open both your natural and spiritual eyes to the hidden things and the goodness of God. It is truly off the deep end!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
The Parabola Apr 25, 2009
By CH
Many Christians are raised knowing that Jesus Christ died for their sins but few are raised to know that they can have a relationship with Jesus.
Kelly Deppen has written a awesome book that takes us deep into an understanding of the relationship that we can have with Jesus Christ and who we are in Him.
I recommend THE PARABOLA highly for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of what it means to really KNOW Jesus Christ.
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 No wonder she had me from page one.. Mar 18, 2009
By Dave Wainscott
"Parabola: Experiencing Jesus as Reality,"
through the lens of parobola, "aims to explore the Person of Jesus Christ as
Reality and as The Realm in which His people live..
..and also explore the convergence of recent discoveries in mathematics and quantum theory and the scriptures.."
No wonder she had me from page one..
That's the point, I think; read it from page one.
If you started (or she started) with her vision of Fulton Sheen in his glorified state on page 85, you might not even bother with the rest of the book. (Uh, pretend you didn't hear about that yet!). But by that point, even a cessationist is likely to believe her. (:
(Good thing she didn't recount the whole episode in tongues (: )
If you started with page 112's
"Hello, earth to the scientists: We could have told you that. Could it be that this 'higher dimensional space' is our higher reality we know as 'in Christ Jesus'?," you...and more importantly any skeptic scientists reading...might have unnecessarily not read on, reading her as one of those fanatic fundies in their undies, and a reductionist one to boot. But in context and sweep of the book, she earns her authority by page 112. She has done her homework. And as the back cover suggests, she has a gift of "prophetically provoking."
Much of the book is corraboratory evidence, midrash even, from scripture and physics, of the reality of being in the Kingdom, in the heavenly realms, and most significantly "in Christ Jesus." In college, one of my professors assigned us a paper around the question, "Based on the Epistle to the Romans, is the phrase 'in Christ,' meant to signify a spiritual, metaphysical reality/ mystical union and relationship, or is it merely a figure of speech?"
I always assumed the expected answer was the latter, but I have hungered for, and find the Scripture itself hungering for us, more of the former.
I got an "A" anyway.
It is risky for a believer with a bare-bones knowledge) to plunder an attempt to back the Bible up from math and science, it only makes us look as dumb as we sometimes are.
I usually prefer to read non-Christian PhDs who...without trying to..build beautiful cases for God. Try Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Hoftsadter's "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid." After deeply (and longly: 719 pages) studying math, art and science, he has no better phrase than an awed "eternal braid" for the Godhaunted connectedness and convergence of them all.
He believes in the eternal braid, but not necessarily in the Eternal One as we know him.
Or Frances Collins, an evangelical beliver in Jesus, PhD and head of the Human Genome Project who wrote the landmark, "The Language of God"
(interestingly also a commentary on a diagram with God-impliations: the double helix)
Suffice to say it is a good and God thing that we also have believers and thinkers like Deppen. She need not be a Pulitzer Prize winner or PhD ("I often say, "You can have more degrees than a summer day in Fresno, and still not know what you're talking about") to speak and write well (in a mere 119 pages) in this area of potential landmine and embarrassment to the cause of Christ. She is charismatic (in both senses of the word)....and if you really need a PhD's recommendation of her, there is a glowing endorsement of the book by one in the intro...so
the book reads like some kind of morphing, parabola even, of:
passionate devotional theology
and
easy to understand, but not watered down physics.
How cool is that?
So, having said all that I have said about reading her from page one, especially if this is new turf and territory to you, let me lift from the book just a few quotes (in paginated order of course) that I have underlined. This may give you a taste of the vibe and flow. But what you are missing here is the brilliant emergence and progression with which she builds her case.
Religion has historically explained reality dualistically, meaning it has separated spiritual and physical reality, and never the two shall meet. This dichotomy has had many names; 'the spirit and the flesh,' 'heaven and earth,' and my least favorite: 'the church and the world.' That just smacks of judgement, doesn't it?
-p.32
Einstein reframed our picture of physical reality.. in less than a month in 1905.
-p. 43
(In particle-wave duality....the photon exists in two dimensions...This is what I like to call the proof of the possibility of being in two places at once. (48)... Here is where our parabola serves us well...This is the land of being in two places at once. You are simultaneously in the physical earth realm and in the metaphysical Body of Chist. (61)
I never under any circumstance ask the question 'What denomination are you?' The Lord taught me to refer to denominations as expression of Him. So I am incorporating that into my awareness and the way I speak. (80)
Strangely, the five ...solid, yet separate String Theories remind me of the current state of the fivefold Christian ministries: apostolic, prophetic, evangelical, pastoral, teaching...What the manifold ministries need is a unifying convergence-a singularity. I believe with all of my being that this place of unity is called 'in Christ Jesus.' (p 109)
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Praise God for the Parabola Jan 02, 2009
By hoodie
"hoodie"
This revelation changed my life. It has 'expanded' my consciousness. I have been stretched. Knowing Christ as reality and location is exactly the type of understanding we must all embrace if we are to live the life that our Father intended. I love when she teaches in this book 'It has never been the intention of the Father for us to be separated from our Source'... WOW! Praise God for the Parabola. You will not be disappointed with this book. It's a milestone. You will read it again and again. I appreciate the revelation and the sections with Quantum Physics as well... God bless you Kelly and PLEASE continue to write.
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