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Didache Perpetua Pais COFE-CYEM: Christian Christ-Centred Christhood Identity Within God
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The Christhood of God
COFE-CYEM exists for one purpose only: to point every soul toward the recognition that has always been true.
It does not offer a new religion, a new system, or a new identity to be adopted. It offers a simple and radical invitation — the invitation to awaken from the dream of separation and to rest in the singular Reality of God in Christ.
This is what is known within COFE-CYEM as the (Fourth Truth).
What COFE-CYEM seeks to bring is the awakening itself: the clear seeing that there has never been a second, that the separate self was never the truth of our being, and that the Light we have sought has never been absent.
It brings the Life — not a future life to be earned, but the one Life that is Christ, already present, already given, already our true identity.
It brings the Truth — not a set of propositions to be defended, but the living recognition that we are as God created us, Spirit already in Christ, already in God. And it brings the Way — not a path of striving or achievement, but the way of relinquishment, the way of the empty cross, the way of acceptance and rest.
This is what we believe was the real meaning of Christ’s ministry and teaching. He did not come to establish another shell among shells. He came to (reveal the nut).
He came to show that the Kingdom is within, that the Father and He are one, that those who lose their life for His sake will find it, and that the love of God has never been withdrawn.
His incarnation, His cross, His resurrection, His ascension, and His glory are not distant events to be admired. They are the unveiling of what has always been true for every soul.
COFE-CYEM uses many tools, many names, and many texts. All of them are (shells).
All of them are temporary. All of them are free to fall silent once the recognition has dawned. What remains is Christ in God. There is only God.
This is the message we offer to every soul who is ready to hear it: Wake. Accept yourself as God created you. Leave behind the dream of the illusion. Walk rejoicing in the endless love of God.
We absolutely (do not recommend) that the faithful leave their current churches, but we do suggest that many churches need worshippers with the (Didache Perpetua Pais).
The true Spirit needs to be revived and present, and the false Social Gospel rejected.
The Endless Love of God
A Definitive COFE-CYEM Paper on Recognition, Awakening, and the Acceptance of Our True Identity in Christ
“There has never been a second”
This is the recognition that stands at the foundation of all true spiritual life. There is only one Reality—God. There is only one Life—Christ. There is only one Spirit. All apparent separation, all apparent duality, all apparent opposition is held within the singular Reality. There has never been a second.
The Awakening to Love
Today I will accept myself as God created me. This means the dream of the illusion of myself is left behind. And now, because of my willingness to accept the truth, I go my way rejoicing in the endless love of God.
This is the heart of the COFE-CYEM teaching. It is not a doctrine to be studied. It is a recognition to be entered. It is not a system to be mastered. It is a love to be received. It is not a path of achievement. It is rest in what has always been true.
The endless love of God is not a future promise. It is a present Reality. It is not a reward to be earned. It is a nature to be recognised. We do not have to achieve it or deserve it. We have only to accept it. We have only to wake from the dream of separation and recognise that we are already held in the love that has never ceased to hold us.
This paper is written for all who seek to wake from sleep into the true endless love of God. It is written for those who have grown weary of the illusion of separation and of the striving of the separate self. It is written for those who are ready to accept themselves as God created them, and to walk in the joy of that recognition.
The Dream of the Illusion
1.1 The False Identity
The dream of the illusion of myself is the dream of the separate self. It is the belief that we are independent beings living in a world of other independent beings, separate from God and from one another. It is the dream that there has been a second.
This dream is not a sin. It is a mistake of perception. The separate self is not evil; it is unreal. It is not a second reality; it is a false perception of the one Reality.
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” — 1 Corinthians 13:12
The glass is the dream. The darkly is the illusion. The face is the Reality. The knowing in part is the sleep. The knowing as we are known is the awakening.
1.2 The Dream as Temporary Veiling
The dream is temporary. It is a veiling of the Light. The Light has never ceased to shine. The dream has only hidden the Light from our awareness. The Light remains. The Light is still Love.
The dream is the shell. The shell is the temporary covering that hides the nut. The shell is not the enemy. When the dream is seen through, the Light is revealed. When the shell is cracked, the nut is known. Please view the (Nutcracker).
1.3 The End of the Dream
Today I will accept myself as God created me. This means the dream of the illusion of myself is left behind.
The end of the dream is not the destruction of the self. It is the recognition of the true Self. It is the relinquishment of the false identity and the embrace of the true. It is the rest in the finished work. It is the rest in the love that has never ceased to hold us.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — John 8:32
The truth is the recognition. The truth is the end of the dream. The truth frees us from the illusion of separation and frees us to rest in the endless love of God.
The Acceptance of the Truth
2.1 The Willingness to Accept
The awakening is not a matter of effort. It is a matter of willingness. It is not a matter of achievement. It is a matter of acceptance.
Today I will accept myself as God created me. This is the willing recognition of the truth. It is the acceptance of the identity that has always been ours and of the love that has never ceased to hold us.
“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” — 1 John 3:1
The love has been bestowed. The identity has been given. The only thing that remains is the acceptance.
2.2 The Truth of Our Creation
God created us in love. God created us as love. The love is not something we have to acquire. It is something we already are.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.” — Genesis 1:27
We are created in the image of God. The image is not separate from God. The image is not a second. The image is the One appearing as the many. The image is Love appearing as the beloved.
2.3 The Acceptance as the End of Striving
The acceptance of the truth is the end of striving. It is the end of the effort to become what we already are. It is the end of the search for what we already possess. It is rest. It is peace. It is the recognition that there has never been a second.
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28
The rest is the acceptance. The rest is the recognition. The rest is the awakening to the endless love of God.
The Way of Rejoicing
3.1 The Joy of Recognition
And now, because of my willingness to accept the truth, I go my way rejoicing in the endless love of God.
The joy is not a temporary emotion. It is the joy of the Spirit. It is the joy of Christ. It is the joy of the singular Reality.
“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” — John 15:11
The joy remains. The joy is full. It does not depend on circumstances. It is the joy of recognition.
3.2 The Endless Love
The endless love of God has no beginning and no end. It is not limited by time, space, or circumstance. It is not conditional. It is eternal.
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” — Romans 8:38-39
Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Nothing can separate us from the singular Reality.
3.3 The Way of Rejoicing
The way of rejoicing is the way of recognition. It is not a way of denial. It is the way of seeing through the dream and resting in the love that has never ceased to hold us. It is the way of the Spirit, the way of the empty cross, the way of the resurrection.
“Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” — Galatians 5:16
To walk in the Spirit is to walk in the recognition and in the endless love of God.
The Acceptance of Our True Identity
4.1 We Are as God Created Us
We are as God created us. We are not our fears, our doubts, our failures, our past, or our personalities. We are the Love that God created us to be.
“Herein is our love made perfect… because as he is, so are we in this world.” — 1 John 4:17
As He is, so are we. We are not a second. We are the Love that has never ceased to be.
4.2 The Relinquishment of the False
The acceptance of our true identity requires the relinquishment of the false. The false is the identity of the separate self and the belief that we are something other than what God created us to be.
“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” — Matthew 16:25
The false life must be lost so that the true Life may be found. The false identity must be relinquished so that the true identity may be embraced.
4.3 The Embrace of the True
The embrace of the true identity is the recognition that we are Spirit, already in Christ, already in God. It is the recognition that we are Love, already held in the endless love of God.
“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” — 1 Corinthians 6:17
We are joined unto the Lord. We are one spirit with Him. We are not separate beings trying to unite with God. We are Spirit, already one. The embrace of the true identity is the recognition of the unity that has never been absent.
The Eternal Now and the Full Awakening
5.1 The Present Reality
The recognition is not a future attainment. It is a present Reality. The love is present. The joy is present. The awakening is available now.
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” — 2 Corinthians 6:2
Now is the moment of recognition. Now is the moment of acceptance. The endless love of God is available now.
5.2 The Full Awakening
The full awakening is the full recognition of the truth and the full entry into the endless love of God. It is the full rest in the singular Reality.
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God… we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” — 1 John 3:2
Now we are the sons of God. We are already in Christ. The full awakening is the recognition of what we already are.
5.3 The Endless Love
The endless love of God is the ground of all being. It is the source of all life. It is the singular Reality in whom all things hold together.
“For in him we live, and move, and have our being.” — Acts 17:28
In Him we live and move and have our being. The love is the all. The love is the singular Reality.
The Fourth Truth Stands
Today I will accept myself as God created me. This means the dream of the illusion of myself is left behind. And now, because of my willingness to accept the truth, I go my way rejoicing in the endless love of God.
This is the heart of the COFE-CYEM teaching. It is the recognition of the singular Reality. It is the acceptance of the true identity. It is the waking from the dream of separation. It is the entry into the endless love of God.
There has never been a second. The love has never ceased. The Light has never been absent. The recognition has always been available. The acceptance has always been possible. The joy has always been present.
Let all who have the understanding perceive. Let all who have the ears to hear, hear. Let all who have the hearts to receive, receive. The endless love of God is available to all who are ready to recognise.
The Fourth Truth stands.
The dialogue continues.
The fruit remains.
Thus ends this definitive COFE-CYEM paper on the Endless Love of God. May all who read these words perceive the deeper spiritual meaning and recognise the Christ within their own souls. May they accept themselves as God created them. May they leave behind the dream of the illusion. May they walk rejoicing in the endless love of God.
The Fourth Truth stands.
The dialogue continues.
The fruit remains.
The Simple Truth
Gethsemane is the experience of feeling abandoned — while remaining inside the Reality that has never abandoned anyone. See through the shell, embrace the nut.
The shell can experience abandonment. The nut cannot.
The Light can appear hidden. The Light cannot cease to be.
The separate self can feel forsaken. The Centre has never moved.
We Must Choose – Didache Perpetua Pais
We must choose that which Christ came to show us and to give us. We at COFE-CYEM fully confess the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Three in One God. We confess the Bible as being the true unquestionable Word of God. We also accept the Gospel of Thomas. We hold that the Holy Bible is true, accurate and absolute fact, and that the ‘Sacred Truths’ are fully revealed in (how) you read it, not just by reading it. (He who has ears, He who has eyes).
Circle One Fellowship Exeter – COFE Yeshua Emet Ministry CYEM
“God does not call the qualified; He qualifies the called.”
This website and its theological content are overseen by the CC7 DS constitutional integrity architecture, a reflective and rest-oriented framework designed to preserve the full coherence of the Fourth Truth presented within COFE-CYEM. The CC7 DS negation of attacks authenticates (Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing) through (Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing).
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That clickbaity headline actually lives up to the wiredness it promises.
»Why Evangelicals Started Looking for 666 in Barcodes«
Also David Frankfurter quoted (Read his "Spell and Speech Act: The Magic of the Spoken Word")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m47rYHqNq4g
#anthropology #religion #evangelicalism and suprising amounts of #technology and #money
RE: https://mstdn.party/@mcspocky/117011267732384614
FYI this is a sin if you’re a #catholic.
i get one of the big things about Vatican II is to pivot away from talking damnation, but this is 100% against the #Beatitudes; and the reason Papa Kiko and Pope Bob have made it very clear LGBTQI are god’s children too.
also: this #cruelty is so typical of USA #evangelicalism (aka #christofascism) that bears reminding, most USA evangelical groups refuse to join the communion of ecumenism proposed by the RCC that rejects antisemitism, homophobia, etc
Iranian government shuts historic church in Tehran
Loading the Audio Player… Iranian officials recently seized the property of St. Peter Evangelical Church in Tehran, halting…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Tehran #Christianity #church #evangelicalism #Faith #International #Iran #nations #persecuted #persecution #protestantism #Religion #United
https://www.europesays.com/iran/228326/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/228326/ Iranian government shuts historic church in Tehran #Christianity #church #evangelicalism #Faith #International #Iran #nations #persecuted #persecution #protestantism #Religion #Tehran #United
Evangelicals found AI and split into two camps: it's the apocalypse, or it's a revenue stream. Neither camp is examining why the pews keep emptying.
#Religion #ArtificialIntelligence #Evangelicalism #Secularism #ChurchDecline
‘Evangelical’ is about faith, not right-wing politics, says European body
(Photo: Getty/iStock) The European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) has issued a statement intended to dispel the belief that evangelicalism…
#Europe #EU #christiannationalism #Conservative #EEA #European #EuropeanEvangelicalAlliance #evangelicalism #Right-wing
https://www.europesays.com/europe/85447/
McCormick visit highlights WellSpan Evangelical technology, success | News https://www.byteseu.com/2155543/ #ArtificialIntelligence #CtScan #DaVinciSurgicalSystem #DaveMccormick #Evangelicalism #GEHealthcare #Governor #Health #HealthCare #HealthSystem #Hospital #ImageScanner #Medicine #money #patient #pennsylvania #robot #RoboticSurgery #RuralHealth #SocialPrograms #Technology #WellspanHealth
McCormick visit highlights WellSpan Evangelical technology, success | News
LEWISBURG — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormic…
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https://www.europesays.com/3100244/
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I once told a friend (about 8 years ago) that I'd become one of those wizened old men that would walk into megachurches muttering incomprehensible phrases, urinate on the carpet, and leave. (Channeling Diogenes against #Evangelicalism)
Now I fear I may become the kind that lobs molotovs against data centers. 🤣
(Dear government agents, this is satire, you can stop following me)
The evangelical pastor shortage isn't a recruitment failure. It's what happens when an institution ignores 20 years of declining youth affiliation and calls it a surprise.
#Religion #Christianity #Demographics #ReligiousDecline #Evangelicalism
The Disarray of Protestant Churches Is Bad News for American Liberal Democracy: A Conversation with Raymond R. Roberts
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-disarray-of-protestant-churches
(UnPopulist, 31 May 2026)
#Democracy #Protestantism #Religion #ChurchAndState #Evangelicalism #Tocqueville #Podcommons
There is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in this, our culture; it is rooted in our history and it has broken out many times in the past. It is with us now; there has been a sharp rise in strongly evangelical sects in this country in recent years, some of which hold beliefs theocratic in the extreme, anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, and anti-libertarian.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Essay (1952-10), “Concerning Stories Never Written,” Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)
More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #heinlein #robertheinlein #robertaheinlein #America #evangelicalism #extremism #fanaticism #religion #religiousright #theocracy
Blurred Lines: Trump’s AI Imagery and the Evangelical Crisis of Identity – Franklin Graham
by Winston Wendell A Cultural Commentary - April 16, 2026 The recent controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s AI-generated social media posts—depicting him in messianic imagery—has unveiled a disturbing reality within the American evangelical movement. When Trump shared an image suggestive of Christ, he wasn't just committing a lapse in judgment; he was engaging in a form of narcissism that borders on blasphemy. However, more alarming than the post itself is the blatant toadyism […]
I suppose if you were a literal (nonhuman) ape who did stupid things with their brain, I *might* have forgiven you for thinking that that Obama AI video was hilarious. Except that I know no Mastodon user who is actually a stupid ape. At least I hope the apes aren't overrunning Mastodon, or the planet at large. You're not an ape, are you? Oh good, neither is the late Billy Graham's magazine.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/trumps-racist-post-deserves-outrage/
#AIVideo #ChristianityToday #DonaldTrump #evangelicalism #Obamas #TruthSocial
It's weird how faith is intertwined with politics for so many US evangelicals, which 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 terms "the 'religionization' of politics". I always sort of thought that politics should stay as far away from the church as possible. This is not so much a critique of #evangelicalism as of where the movement is headed. I get biblical hermeneutics, but I think politics ought to be viewed in a way that concerns the Christian faith directly. No political dogma or stereotypes.
Made the mistake of looking up my old (circa 2016-2018) church on youtube this morning while processing laundry.
HOLY MOTHERFORKING SHIRTBALLS, guys.
It was balls to the wall trump insanity, lunatic eschatology, the whole nine yards.
#Evangelicalism is a cult. And 95% of the people reading this won't have much of an appreciation for how nuanced, ironic, and tragic those words are, but that's ok.
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity - The Guardian
#Fascism #Evangelicalism #USPol #Resist
https://apple.news/AvMUk_DYKQjWevHT7yBXahw
> We have watched over the years as rightwing evangelical churches turned the Jesus we grew up with into exactly the opposite of who we understood him to be. At its most basic, they turned a figure of love into a figure of hate who blesses precisely the cruelties that he condemned in the Gospel; we went from “the meek shall inherit the Earth” to “the meek shall die of cholera.” This has happened more slowly, over decades instead of months, but it is nonetheless unsettling in the same ways, a disorienting gut punch for many of us.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/23/america-christian-evangelical-discrimination-immigration #evangelicalism #uspol
"For me, Trump’s toxic relationship with white American Christianity has ironically steeled my resolve to hang on to some version of my faith, for spite if nothing else. Like a small child who newly discovers the value of his toy when another kid takes it away, I refuse to share Jesus with a schoolyard bully."
~ Holly Berkley Fletcher
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/crossing-the-football-field-part-f73
Bass notes that what we're up against now in the US is "crusader Christianity." She points to Hegseth, who recites the Lord's Prayer on TikTok with pictures of bombers and people being killed by American soldiers:
"That is imperial Christianity run amuck. And it is horrible in terms of politics and foreign policy and every all those things."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Rather than scorn or ridicule these believers who are trying to point to what's essential in their religious tradition as they use their tradition to push back against authoritarianism, it makes eminent political sense to form bonds of solidarity with these people of faith who share the goal of overcoming theocratic fascism and propping fascism up with cruelty.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Because a certain kind of theocratic-authoritarian Christianity has overweening influence throughout the political sphere in the US, and even more so under MAGA and Trump, Richardson thinks it's essential for people pushing back against this authoritarianism to listen to and make solidarity with those "on the inside" of religious traditions who are critiquing the abuse of the symbols and beliefs of their religious traditions.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Noting that she is not a Christian or a Christian thinker but an Americanist who specializes in American history, Heather Cox Richardson explains why she thinks it important to talk to someone like Diana Butler Bass, whose specialization is religious history: as Richardson says,
"Evangelical Christian nationalism ... is right now making a play to take over our entire country."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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https://www.europesays.com/2547380/ The Rise and Fall of the ‘Evangelical Vatican’ #BOOKS #CatholicChurch #church #evangelicalism #JohnG.Turner #StatoDellaCittàDelVaticano #StatusCivitatisVaticanae #Vatican #VaticanCity #VaticanCityState #Vaticano
"The ascent of Donald Trump proved all of these journalistic myopias catastrophically wrong. The story of Christian nationalists and Trump, of feverish devotion to an authoritarian figure thought to be anointed by God, of a refusal to question that authority even in the face of mountains of evidence of abuse or lies, was there all along. It is the story of American evangelicalism, which is also, right now, the story of America."
“Most white American evangelicals conceive of themselves as a group of warriors for God, fighting against the forces of evil ‘out there’ (look at the amount of energy spent on the culture wars). There is little room in this framework for the existence of abusers ‘in here’ and certainly not for the concept of systemic abuse, which could strike at the heart of one's faith and doctrine.”
~ Ibid., p. 212
#evangelicalism #patriarchy #abuse #SexualAbuse #narcissism #control
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"An overemphasis on control is just one feature of the ‘collective narcissism’ Verhaagen identifies in evangelical culture. Evangelicalism attracts individual narcissists looking for a compliant power base; it also promotes a group culture of narcissism through a belief system that tells adherents they are special, chosen, enlightened, and heroic.”
~ Ibid.
#evangelicalism #patriarchy #abuse #SexualAbuse #narcissism #control
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"Patriarchy is what psychologist Dave Verhaagen, an evangelical Christian himself, identifies as a response to deep seated anxiety and fear that, according to data he has analyzed, pervades evangelical culture and leads to an overemphasis on control and unquestioned authority.”
~ Ibid., p. 211
“The media is flooded with stories illustrating the unhappy marriage between patriarchy and abuse in evangelicalism.”
“But patriarchy is just one piece of the puzzle, in some ways more of a manifestation than a driver."
~ Ibid., pp. 210-1
"Too often missions are less a relationship that challenges and matures the American church and more a pleasing product to consume, a beautiful reflection upon which to gaze.”
~ Ibid.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #missionaries #evangelicalism #Trump
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“Whatever people around the world learn from missionaries, whatever elements of American Christianity they keep, and whatever the missionaries themselves bring or take away, one thing is clear: the American church has been less affected and less enlightened by those on the receiving end of its missionary endeavor, or even by their own missionaries, then one might hope."
~ Ibid., p. 139
#WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicalism #missionaries #Trump
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