If Jesus did not die (which is the first misconception) then Jesus did not die for my sins. While the church might scratch it’s metaphorical head on my first statement, it would take my head off for the second statement. Killing someone (in the name of God) is LOVE of course. Since I believe in original blessing and not original sin, I’ve automatically reduced the need for an ancient Old Testament sacrifice that Christianity adopted. We simply must get over and past the scrificial blood demanding paradigms. Continue reading ‘# 47- Jesus Did Not Die!’
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There is no questioning the fact- Jesus was a man: a male. And He called God Abba Father, but God certainly isn’t a man- male! When the Bible was written, men were dominant, they ruled the roost, and God couldn’t be anything but a MALE according to the Biblical authors. This isn’t deep logic, nor does it need intense investigation. Continue reading ‘# 46- A Changing View Of God’
The church loves to blame original sin on Eve, who tempted Adam, who passed his blood line down to me. Say what? I’ve already mentioned the fact that if I believe in anything, I must follow Matthew Fox and his “original blessing” concept. Of course all Bible-believing Christians blame our mess on Satan, the Devil, the serpent. But, I really do need to ask the obvious question. How can any of this make sense when Adam and Eve are UNHISTORICAL? Continue reading ‘# 45- Blaming Adam & Eve?’
We are transformed, we are energized, and we are saved NOT by any proper name, not even by the English names Jesus and Christ! Put ‘em together, separate ‘em, or put a comma between them and it’s all the same. We are in fact saved by the SPIRIT of Jesus, the Christ. God, the Father, the Spirit was IN Christ reconciling Himself to the world. Continue reading ‘# 44- Not By Proper Names!’
One of the msot over-worked Scriptures by fundamentalists is II Timothy 3:16. So what does INSPIRATION mean anyway? The word inspiration comes by way of the Latin wherein the King James translations of the Greek word θεοπνευστος (theopneustos) means literally “God-breathed“. Fundamentalism take that to mean something akin to “automatic writing“, in that the writers of the Bible had no will nor personality of their own, but were only putting on paper what God spoke to them. I don’t think so! Continue reading ‘# 43- Practical Inspiration’
The church loudly proclaims that God is omnipotent! And then it says that 80% of God’s plan is a failure. How does that work? Tell me. How in the HELL (metaphorical language you know) does that work? My answer is- it doesn’t! The traditional thinking has been that JUSTICE is a back up plan in the event that LOVE isn’t capable of doing it’s job. Come on mankind, get real. God is also omniscient. He SAW before He DID. Love wins! Continue reading ‘# 42- There Is No “Back-Up” Plan’
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