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On Earth as it is in Heaven! May 28, 2009
I highly recommend this book. Jesus Christ Himself taught in parables, or stories that painted an impression on the hearts of those with an ear to hear. Kelly Deepen does the same as she motivates us to change our thinking with powerful parallels to scientific truths, that even the foolish things of the world confound the wise! (1 Corinthians 1:27)
"Parabola" by Kelly Deepen, gets us as Born Again believers to see ourselves in two places at once, on earth and in heavenly places. She challenges each reader to come to grips with that truth and to have a kingdom mentality that will override earthly limitations. In "Parabola", Kelly teaches us that our utmost desire should be for our reality to be "In Jesus" and that is so even now as we receive it! The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Rev 11:15). Thank you Kelly, for a wonderful book!
ETERNAL LIFE vs. mortality May 06, 2009
Kelly Deppen has the authority & The Anointing to teach what every believer needs to know. In her book "Parabola: Experiencing JESUS As Reality" Kelly imparts wisdom and understanding, giving the reader much to ponder.
One example of things that made me go hmmm! I found on p. 23 "The name of this realm, this wasteland is mortality. It is the prison camp of the unenlightened. This is a realm where even birth is seen as the first step toward death."... "There is another realm where life happens! This is the physical world which Christ permeated and changed. He came literally to split time." ... "So at the same moment Christ split time in two, or B.C. and A.D., He created a new realm and a new dimension called "in Him"." That's when I shouted HALELUJIAH, & praised my KING for authorizing me to be IN HIM!
This book is a must read! In a short 131 pages it will change your paradigm, & you may even pop a quiff! I did! I spent a little over an hour reading this book and it has changed my life.
Wow! Thanks so much Kelly for holding GOD's hand & mine simultaneously while I read this book! Thanks for being my bridge to a better understanding of HIS reality! Blessings on your ministry.
The Parabola Apr 25, 2009
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.
 No wonder she had me from page one.. Mar 18, 2009
"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)
Praise God for the Parabola Jan 02, 2009
This revelation changed my life. It has 'expanded' my paradigm. 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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