Embracing life within the Christian community and not seeing the need for Jesus to be “sent to die for my sins” is tatamount to radical heretical synthesis. But, let me get back to my primary point which may help explain the secondary one- if possible. Remember, one has to “suspend DISBELIEF in order to BELIEVE“. If we could only comprehend that we are ONE and we are not separated from our Source! Death cannot separate us because there really is no death!

Jesus did not die!

Neither was there a reversal of death (neither resusitation, nor resurrection).

Simply stated Jesus just transitioned His state of consciousness. He de-materialized His more dense state (we are dense in many ways!) and reappeared in a lighter state. And then once He had demonstrated a higher resonating vibratory pitch, He transitioned once more into the pure light frequency that took Him back to the Source from which we all came, and to which we are all headed.

Religion need not be mediated, at least not the way the modern-day church goes about it! We do all need a spiritual community though.

The challenge and question is simply how REAL can we be here in this third dimension? How much of a higher, more true resonance of our “angels of light” that we are can we attain while in these dense matter bodies that we inhabit. Jesus showed us that we have a CHOICE. We have FREE WILL. Ledt me use the words of Greg Braden who said, “Jesus, the Christ demonstrated that there is NO JUDGMENT from creation itself against any one individual for actions or deeds resulting from the use of CHOCIE and or RFEE WILL. There is no day when the weight of SIN will prevent an individual from moving into a higher form of expression or heaven”.

That statement affirms my “God is Love : Hell Is Not” concepts.

Each of determines our own hell on earth (can you say karma?) and Jesus came to show us the WAY. Jesus came to show us the TRUTH. And Jesus came to show us the LIFE that never, ever ends (but just transcends). Jesus did not die.

Jesus IS ALIVE!

Saying that God is a man or male is absurd to say the least though there are many that both consciously and unconsciously believe such. Sex is the characteristic of we humans we have a need of procreation and growth. But God has no such needs (He, She, It, Thou) as He exists eternally in a realm wherein there is no sexual differentiation.

God has no gender!

That said, you are now beginning to see changes in how humanhood and society not only SEES God, but the WORDS used to describe this God. I can’t see myself changes the “he” in the God I know, but neither do I object to how those who view and describe God differently. And it’s happening faster than you know.

In 1992 the Methodist Church of Great Britain concluded that the use of “female imagery” is compatible with faithfulness to the Scriptures. More and more Bible translations are using inclusive language. Fatherhood verbage will be replaced by statements about God’s love for mankind. And there will be a focus on the filial relationships of Jesus to God rather than on His sonship.

One needs to know where to draw the line and I’d suggest this is not the place.

You do know that the Genesis story is a myth right?

Neither CNN, nor FOXNews was there to give us accurate reporting. And saying that it was a myth doesn’t mean we throw it all out. Myths carry truths which are important to our understanding of self and society. Thus the origin of evil cannot be explained by original sin that started with Adam and Eve who did not exist and were not historical, material homo sapiens.

Thus there was no need to make an idol out of Mary, develop the immaculate conception, or annuncion theories to justify the “original sin” theory. Evolutionists have made logical sense (maybe not spiritual) as they contend since there was no primal man, there could not be a primal sin. Hmmmm.

So, where in the hell (metaphorically speaking) does that leave us?

Maybe we’re stuck with Emil Brunner’s comment that, “We cannot go further beyond this myth of Adam and Eve,” Somehow I just don’t want to leave it there!

We need to blame our pain on someone!

Maybe we could just simply say that because man is a “moral being“, he is capable of both good an evil. Maybe because man is conscious of his consciousness, he can choose to be and do whatever he wants which includes both good and bad actions. Maybe there’s no one to blame but ourselves, but then in today’s post modern society that just doesn’t seem politically correct does it!

It was so much easier when I just accepted my early doctrinal instruction and didn’t think!

Jesus is the heart of Christianity!
And…..
Jesus is the heart of the relationship between ALL men and God.

Meaning……
Christ is not only the HEAD of the church but of ALL mankind!

It was IN this one person, this human from Nazareth, this Jew from Israel, this person who was both “Man for God” and “Man for others” who became so filled with the Spirit that He represents the truth about every man. Everyone!

All will be eventually be saved in that fourth dimension thanks to what Jesus did on the cross for ALL mankind! His Spirit is alive today and forever more. His Spirit is all in all and to those that neither saw nor heard the name (Christomonism) will see Him in nature, history, and life regardless of how remote that location might be!

First of all it depends upon which ancient “text” wer’re using, which language, or which translation. Earlier translations read, “All Scripture that is inspired”. Change one word and you have an entirely different meaning my friend.

One cannot simply remove the human factors that go into the writing of the Bible which is a library of books, not ONE book. The Bible is written in many genres, by differing personalities, over thousands of years, to specific communities (Jewish and Christian primarily).

What needs to be considered is: who did the writing, for what period of time, under what conditions, and what the importance was for each writer. As Dr. R.P.C. Hanson said it, “The religious concept of inspiration is no longer tenable and that in its place we should speak of the Bible as unique precisely because it gives us the formative, hence the normative, account of what Christianity, as a faith in God, professes to be”.

Now, I can work with that and so can a lot of other people who need to know about God, Jesus, and the WAY wiithout hyper-literal religious concepts getting in the way of the Spirit! The Bible tells me and others how ancient societies reponded to what they “believed” to be God’s relationship to them in a given part of the world, and at specific times.

And the rubber meets the road when you cna answer that for YOURSELF. TODAY!

God needs a back up plan? How foolish.

Justice is no substitute for love. It’s not the fall-back which comes into operation when the other hasa failed to be effective. God falls back on JUSTICE when His plan of LOVE fails? John Baillie (1886-1960) was a Scottish theologian, a Church of Scotland minister and he put forth one of the more common sense statements in his book, And the Life Everlasting.

Quoting from page 244 of that book, “It is like saying that a state which was obliged to keep half it’s citizens perpetually in prison would be as ideal a fatherland as one in which complete absence of crime kept the prisons perpetually empty- provided only that the penal laws were administered with equal justice in the two cases.”

God has no power but the power of Love.

Quoting John A. T. Robinson, “God has no purpose other than the purpose of love, and no nature other than the nature of love. If that fails, God fails. Justice has no second line of defence; it has no power of it’s own.”

There’s but ONE PLAN and Jesus has (past tense) fulfilled it for ALL!

Martin Luther changed a whole lot of the religious landscape with his reformational spirit. Few are aware that he not only wrote the Bible in German, took on the Catholic church and it’s “indulgences“, but also changed the books of the Bible. Say what? Can you do that? He did, but then he changed that too. I’m fine with the New Testament canon being closed. I mean, who am I to question that? But, the books of the New Testament are not the sole revelation of God, any more than the historical or living Christ is.

Where is it that we can CONFINE God to? Tell me! Where?

Omnipresence is just that; the ability to be present in every place at any, and/or every, time; unbounded or universal presence. So, God wasn’t at some point “back then”. God is NOW and He is forever NOW. God has spoken, God is speaking, and God will forever be speaking, whether we listen or not.

I Peter 2:6 tells us that Jesus is the corner stone and the greatest example of whom God IS; however, where the name of Jesus has never been heard, God’s there nonetheless. And I am not going to sell God short and say that He’s not capable outside of Jesus, to care for His creation.

Many do.

God has not separated Himself from ANY of His creation and Romans 8:38,39 reminds us of that. And, as Norman Pittenger wrote, “The early church fathers in the Patristic age, recognized the work of the “Logos” throughout the cosmos, human history, and every child of God”. The world was made by the Logos and thus the incarnation is in ALL things.

I know that’s a bit deep for some, but while Jesus was the manifested incarnation of God, the incarnation is still with us, everywhere we look. God is not the ruthless moralist that many denominations have painted Him to be. Moral? No doubt! Ruthless? No way! The remedial aspect of the atonement (because of sin) is secondary for me. Or as I often put things, overcoming sin is a good place to begin, but a lousy place to end. The chief benefit of the atonement is bringing men into relationship with God.

God is omnipresence and God is “still” speaking, loving, revealing!

God is not a dictator. Instead of divine dictation, God is luring, wooing, enticing, inviting, and constantly whispering to us what we can be! I can respond to that! In fact, I AM!

God is not the “unmoved mover” that many theologians and philosophers picture. God is relational. He created us under the Edenic covenant to have fellowship. It’s hard to grasp, but God wants to commune, talk, have conversation with, and think through us, each and every day. Each and every one of us makes a difference to God. You do! I do! We all do!

What we have to do to comprehend that is to slow down and listen!

The Houston bumper sticker that says “God listens” is but half of the picture. He’s also talking. The question really is, are YOU listening? And if you can say yes, then the follow up question is are you responding? You need to because God’s not going to yank your chain every hour to make sure you know who’s boss.

He already knows that!

We’ve lost sight of the bigger picture that Jesus came to proclaim!

Can you say KINGDOM?

We can now more fully participate in the divine life because of His life that He demonstrated and lived completely. For those that will pay attention, Jesus offered us a whole new level of living, a new relationship with God, that would be easier to surrender to and walk in faith. As Norman Pittenger put it, “The soteriological pre-condition for christology is broader and wider than much of our recent Christian theology would imply.”

That’s hitting the nail square on the head with the hammer.

Let’s get past the point that we’re all sinners! Come on! If anything is obvious that is, but to camp in that paradigm can get depressing. We are estranged from God. No doubts here. But, what’s the divine purpose of living anyway? Is it to repent everyday, get saved every day (can you do that?), and wallow in our sin nature? Listen, even as sinners, man was yet created in the image of God, and yet while sinners God loved us. I know this riles the self-righteous, but God’s arms are around the entire world!

There is no place God has not left Himself a witness! No place!

Another way of putting it is that this is an incarnational world! God is at work everywhere, in every culture, every “other” religion, and in the Malaysian forests where no civilized man has yet visited. There are such places. We know because we keep discovering them.

Salvation is just one of those “markers” along the journey of life. Almost all religions have some form of salvistic paradigm. We’ve got that. Now on with life, living the Kingdom, and being living epistles. The game is not over (soteriology), and the game hasn’t just begun. The GAME IS ON and has been ON for millions of years. Let’s wake up, put a helmet on, and get in there for a few plays.

Now!

Whatcha say?

Jesus did not come to teach doctrine, nor was He a doctrinal teacher!

The church has misrepresented Him in this and many other things.

Jesus didn’t come to start and be the founder of a new religion- church! Posthumously, the church attributed things to Him that He never spoke of nor advocated. But, the church found it in their best interests to ascribe these things to Him though.

Here’s the core of this 38th theses. I can come into the presence of the Creator of the universe all by myself. I don’t need someone to lead me in a sinners prayer to find intimacy with God. I don’t need a MAN in a DRESS to put a wafer in my mouth to take communion. I don’t need a fancy small “fits two” box to tell my confessions to another that I might be forgiven.

In order to have a right relationship with God, I don’t need to go through an infallible anyone (can you say Pope?), read the right Scriptures, say the right words, accept and affirm the right belief system, join the right denomination, repeat the proper and orthodox creeds, or even pray in unknown tongues. I don’t need a MEDIATED spiritual, religious, church paradigm.

Blow that box to hell! Remember, that’s just a metaphor: don’t take it literally!

Now, while I don’t NEED (as in have to have), one cannot live outside COMMUNITY! Who’s yours?

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