David,
"Jesus loves us, He is alive, I experience Him every day."
What you have written is all beautiful. You shine light. Thanks. This is always so much more productive and thought provoking than the alternatives.
"........... We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up." (1 Cor 8:1 NIV)"
This very sentiment has become critical to me. I found I was filled with ideas and beliefs of what everything was, and what it was 'not'. One of the things I believed was that it was 'not' God. I realized that this belief in 'not' God was the very reason for my suffering. I saw that all of my 'not' beliefs, all that I thought I knew that was 'not' of God, needed to be (and some still does) removed, and all truth is thereby revealed. All that I thought was Darrin I seek to remove, for it was darkness, and covers the light of the spirit within.
The concept of Jesus is that he was selfless. He succeeded admirably in removing all that was 'not' of God. In this way, he did not 'believe' in Jesus, but in the embodiment of God within the temporary vessel that is the body. Since we all should do the same, in this way, we are all sons. In this way, Jesus is our brother, as all are our brothers. In this way, we are all Christ, of a sort, with a lower case 'c', the christos.
My deemphasis of Christ stems from the belief that the process of being filled with God is what he embodies, not the worship of him himself. If one in loving Christ loves him as an older brother who taught him this process, then to me this is a healing thing. If one sees Christ as God speaking to himself directly, and given him instructions in the process, this is also a healing thing. If one sees only Christ, and not the process, to me, this is unhealthy, a misinterpretation, and leading to righteous condemnation of others who do. My quarrel is not with those who believe in Christ, but with those who do not believe in the process of which he spoke. And, if you are wondering, that is likely because I myself once did not see or understand the process, which is the internal judgement, healing, and transformation necessary for all to truly be of God. I draw the distinction that it is not enough to merely accept the Christ of the Bible if it does not entail the acceptance of his message, and the implied responsibility of change through the internal process, which is the gift of true judgement that was left to us. Its purpose was to judge and heal ourselves.
If others can see the wisdom of the process without calling it Jesus, then I am all for them. Because Jesus was not about himself, he was the embodiment of that process, and others who walk the same path by any other names would be brothers to him.
What troubles me is those who would look upon those who follow the same example as Jesus set, and empty themselves of all but that which is of God, and see them as the antichrist, when they are doing exactly that which Jesus taught.
I experience Jesus everyday myself, but he bears the name of God, David, Mark, Sam, Darrin, Santiago, Emile, and others. We are all filled with much that is not God, and are struggling to awaken and see it for what is it to remove it. It is this one within us who is awake that I call the christos. It is the realization of the process.
In this way, I believe in Christ and God being everywhere, walking in all of us. All are the same. It is any perception which would divide each of these from the other that I would fight. It is the notion that God or Christ is external, rather than internal. We are all of God, we are all walking the same path as Christ, and in that way we all become the christos, when we awaken to it. Those who are reborn through a direct revelation of God are saved, those who are reborn through a direct revelation of Christ are saved, and those who are reborn through a direct revelation that they are also a son of God are also saved, since all are the same thing. The differences perceived in these definitions is what almost all of the fighting and division of our brothers is all about. None of these were intended to divide, that is man's misinterpretation. And if they do divide, it is a sure sign that something is not of God. These things were intended to unify. The secret of the trinity is that all these things, God, Jesus, and man, are destined to be again seen as one, as they always were. It is that which we seek to awaken to within ourselves, and in the world. I have far to go, but in knowing that I knew nothing, I was shown more truth than I had seen in a lifetime. And it is this truth which humbles me, and with which I seek to remake myself, and restore God's image, in which I was originally made, but had fallen asleep and forgotten.
I bit the same apple as Adam, Eve, and Sleeping Beauty. It is the apple of being young, full of ourselves, and not full of God. I worshipped the God narcissus. Now that he is mostly gone, the God who created me is revealed, and it is His essence inside of all that burns the other away.
This is what the passages you posted made me think of. It is my interpretation of them, and maybe it is I who continue to be blinded by and divide with the choice of words. I do not know, but I should like to.
What do you think of the quotes? I am not asking for more quotes, but the picture that these bring about in your spirit.
Peace,
Darrin
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