God At The Core!

I am sure I could get an argument (it’s the Protestant thing to do you know) about what the main teaching of Christianity is all about. That’s GOOD NEWS because Christianity has so many wonderful aspects to its nature; however, would say that the central teaching- at the core, is the principle of INCARNATION!

God came to earth in MAN!

Unfortunately it wasn’t ONLY the MAN known as Jesus, although he’s my model since I grew up in the environment of these American states. The concept of INCARANTION though is the CORE or central teaching of almost all ancient belief systems. If Christianity was so taught, how many millions of lives could have been spared? Granted, it’s not just Christianity that’s played the EXCLUSIVITY CARD; however, it from that religion that I write.

We find the incarnation painted on the tomb of  Pharoah Tuthmosis III in 1425BCE as an example.

Tom Harpur writes, “Ancients cults  focused all their efforts upon the cultivation of the God WITHIN man. It was true of the Sumerians and the Chaldeans; it was true of the Egyptian dynasties for untold  millennia; it was true for the authors of the Old Testament (the psalmist prayed, ‘take not thy holy Spirit from me’), for Pythagoras and Plato, and for all the varied Mystery Religions of the Greco-Roman world in the four centuries B.C.E. and beyond.”

This in no way takes away the beauty, the mystery, and sacredness of Christianity.

What it does do is remove the arrogance and self righteousness of priests who would try to force their beliefs upon others claiming them to be UNIQUE and superior to all others. God, how we  who call ourselves Christians, need to embrace the entire world in LOVE. Isn’t that what Jesus did- what Jesus was all about?

It is for me!

Namaste! The God in me recognizes the God in you- and in everyone, regardless of how deeply covered over, or how small that CORE might be! Until I let me LIGHT SHINE, I will be hard pressed to discover yours.