The Lure of God's Whisper. Gods have no material or comprehensible form; lie beyond existence, but influence existence through silent whispers active in our minds. Our Christian God does not exist as a being, but has the nature of Love. Our God's purpose is for Creation to become something loving and lovable. Our God lures Creation towards that purpose with intimate whispering. Humanity has emerged as the latest step on that journey. Creation is free to accept or reject that guidance. |
We are Free to Decide As we are free to make decisions, there is always an alternative. The suffering of Creation is a bye-product of wrong decisions. The Bible exposes our alternatives as "The Temptations", describing vividly the options available to man. Freedom in creation denies the reality of divine fore-knowledge the future is completely indeterminate until it arrives, until all relevant decisions have been made. God may predict but never fully know what is over the horizon of time. |
The Teaching of Jesus. The life and teaching of Jesus exposed new divine possibilities. Jesus showed what life could, and should, be like in the next stage of Creation's emergence. We have misconstrued and lost his example and message; turned from following to worship. It is time to revise our pathway to focus on the salvation of creation through the message of Jesus rather than on our own through his demise. |
Prayer Prayer is a time for humanity to listen for divine direction, not for God to listen to man as many seem to imagine. Human prayer can have no effect on the decisions of divinity, neither that which demands obedience of divinity to our whim nor that which pleads for Godly intervention in some crisis. For it presumes that an all-knowing God needs a reminder, or that an all-loving God does not care. However prayer does remind us of another's need; inform each other of our deepest concerns; open the way for caring action; remind us of our loving duty, as the hands of divinity. |
The Message of Scripture The Bible is a form of national history from a religious perspective. It is a mix of myth, poetry, opinion, parable and factuality. It is compiled with an agenda to fit ancient theology and the religious agenda of the Roman church. It can be a tool to speak a divine message, but is more often misused by man, to make his own point. The Bible is useful as a common source for discussion over spiritual matters, but should never be taken as authoritive. Too many hands have been dipped into the pot of original truth to leave it unsullied. |
The Church
The church is a human organisation focussed on its survival, finances, hierarchies, exclusiveness and self-worth. Its theology is tailored to fit those purposes. It needs a massive, and basic, renewal before it can become fit for purpose and reflect the reality of God; yet it is all we have to take us onward. |
So we may see many false myths in present truths.
Angels and archangels,hierachies in heaven, to justify earthly power structures. Salvatory crucifixion or even saving grace, to ensure our compliance to clerical agenda. Eternal physical existence in heaven or hell, to comfort the dying and those left behind. Prophetic utterance of the non-existent future a reality yet to become real. Satan and his Demons said to tempt and divert as concealment for our given nature. Immaculate conception, virgin birth abiding shepherds,wise men and their gifts. All the legends of an unknown childhood and the elevation of untimely death All the priestly enspiriting of a time of revolutionary fervour. |
We need courage to rethink what is called truth. The message of Jesus, the life and death of Jesus had little to do with any after-death fate or experience For he was firmly focussed on life as lived on earth, today; On bringing hope to a poverty-stricken, dominated people. Jesus showed how we should, could, relate to God as Father Not presenting himself as an intermediary, but as an example Showing us how we should do it, behave, listen, obey Yet much written of him is pure invention the product of the author's agenda or of the copyist's invention. Through a focus on ancient scripture, that we still call "New" we camouflage the history of the power-driven church hide massacre, execution, Inquisition and Crusade; deny the divisions that religion instigates in the name of the integrating God of love; God's peace destroyed for our advancements; God's purposes prevented by our piety. We are not called to worship, but to act To expose, in following Jesus, the purposes of God So bringing closer that day when Love will be the norm replacing the individualism that keeps us apart that drives pride, hierarchies, envy and war that drives the concept of eternal life and the striving for its reward. For Jesus said "Follow Me", but, in actual truth, few dare or care to do so. |