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NOT STIGMATA! (but experiencing the Christ's suffering through speaking and living the truth)

Stigmata is a word that few people are fully aware of and I was one of the many who was totally ignorant of its meaning till this word came across my path on various occasions and I decided to look at it a little closer by holy ghost leading.

Whether it be 'stigmata' or a people calling themselves 'stigmatics' I automatically hear warning bells sound, for the simple reason I don't find any teaching of it by the Christ or his apostles.....Isaiah  8:20 ......click.

Stigmatic, whether they are male or female, famous religious peoples or totally unknown, they are without doubt deceived and without the true gospel light of Messiah's Doctrine. Jesus suffered once and for all and no self inflicted wound, pain or imaginary pain can add to the Christ's Finished Work at Calvary's Tree but it surely can defame it (without any true damage)....click.

Peoples who involve themselves in such practices and those who accept and believe in stigmatics/stigma are off with the pixies and have twisted minds and have also twisted scripture...'they are guilty of defamation of holy writ....click.

When St. Paul said that he bore the marks of the Christ in his body he was not trying to put himself on par with the Christ and his sufferings for he was not a fool. St. Paul was humbly and simply implying that he too suffered at the hands of sinners, hypocrites, his own peoples, by way of whipping, lean supplies, rejection, being despised, betrayed and hated.......2 Corinthians 11:23-28...Selah.....click.

Hence St. Paul's wounds were many and likened unto the Christ's, not overlooking his much debated 'thorn in the flesh' which was a gift/present given to him from his God/Jesus. So, there really is no room for the tales of the likes of Francis of Assisi, Cathy of Ricci, Gemma Galgani and all the rest.....2 Corinthians 12:7, Acts 9:16.

Stigmata only ever amounts to men and women pushing themselves forward in front of the Christ or at least trying to be Jesus and even try to steal his glory in a very subtle way, which is actually rather devilish for satan is  a very subtle operator (like a dingo), or pretend lion I find this to maybe even be his last name.....'Subtle'...ref/Genesis, Eden-Eve.

I find it enough to say all true (ministers) disciples of the Christ suffer and carry about the marks of the Christ in their bodies simply by walking in the light/the Christ's Doctrine. I myself have scars/marks on my forehead from the flames of a professing Muslim, I have been rejected by churched peoples for decades, threatened, stoned, beaten and mocked daily and all because I speak Jesus Message 'as it is' ...click.

You know when your marks are the marks of the Christ "You would not have them if you were not preaching the doctrine of the Christ", they are not self inflicted, neither are they imaginary.

● Please read / 2 Timothy 3:12, 13, Philippians 1:29.......Selah.....click.

Amen.