A journal of my spiritual journey and my search for the understanding of God. What I post here are my thoughts, revelations, madnesses, rants and raves, praises and platitudes, poetry and songs, and whatever else I am inspired by the Spirit to write.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Rise Christians Rise
The problem with Christianity is not Christianity in of itself. The
problem with Christianity is a proportionally small, but overly vocal
segment of its members who have misinterpreted, and misappropriated the
scripture, and twist it and turn it to their own socio-political
agendas. This has been the problem for 1500 years, and if we don't
police ourselves, all we will ever get is bad press, and the public
opinion of us as a whole will be negative. I don't know exactly how this
should be done, except that if you are a Christian who wants to share
true message of Christ with the world, we need to step up rise up and be
more visible, more vocal, and more Christian than the hacks who are
giving the rest of us a bad name.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Four Compass Points for the Spiritual Life
"Just like our earthly fallings-in-love, falling in love with God is both
indescribably sweet and potentially quite disorienting. Here are four
orienting points for your journey."
Sunday, July 8, 2012
ICON: Jesus the Pancreator, c. 11th Century
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Unorthodox Christianity by Dennis Wheeler
An excerpt from the blog of one Dennis Wheeler. I could not have summed up my feelings on this better myself. Thank you Dennis for your insight.
After years of
thought and pondering, I have come to view my faith as one of what I have
deemed to call "Unorthodox Christianity". To understand, I need to define the
word "Christianity", for I find this moniker to be one much misaligned and
misused in the common culture of my present world.
"Take care not to be
deceived, for many will come in my name saying "I am he..."
The prevalence of the
name/word "CHRIST" as the religious banner of so many institutions, from the
Catholic Church to the Mormon Zionist culture, and the adaption as revelation
of the teachings of Jesus as developed into Mohammedism and Neo-Judaism
(Talmud), the term Christian is often cloudy in definition.
For the purposes of
definition for my own personal belief: Christianity refers to a belief system
based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, son of Mary and Joseph, a
carpenter's son, purported to be the Christ, the saving spiritual son of God,
manifest in the flesh to extend to us the wisdom and teaching of God, represented by him in his teaching as "father".
Jesus was the spiritual son of God, manifest in the physical
son of Joseph and Mary, utilizing that vessel as the medium through which to
teach us the mysteries of our existence that our religions had attempted to
define.
From that broad
definition, my own definition of Christian: One who believes in, and strives to
adhere to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ.
Notice I say: "strives
to adhere to" the teachings of Jesus, all of us fall short of the spiritual
maturity that Jesus attained. One must always be striving to attain to be a
Christian in Jesus' image by this definition.
The basis for any "judgement" of authenticity: striving in adherence to Jesus' most fundamental
teaching:
Love One Another.
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