Very interesting dillemna you have on your hands as I read you JK ....
on the one hand you are defending your faith as being unique and superior to outsiders , intimating that they have only one choice ...and that answer must be found in your Christ and scriptures .
And yet when we go a little farther into the center of the mystic circle , it is not about choice and freewill , but letting go and letting the Christ take over .
Not by any works of your own , but only thru me shall you come to the father ...only when you lose yourself shall you find yourself etc
sounds like very "New Age" transformational cosmic
therapy to me <G>
Of course we know that is exactly what Buddha was teaching so long before . Take care of the human moments in your life , be compassionate and loving above all else
and let God take care of eternity .
Sinse Jesus (and Mohammed ) were not much the men of the science or the arts , and being a humble philosopher/prophet/magician/sophist was every boy and mans dream ....for in their time being one of those was also as common as minstrel bards were in the Middle Ages .
Prophets were everywhere abounding , just everywhere. For they had little else to be or do with their time , and very little access to much education , except their own imaginations and previous prophesies by men very similarly the same .They certainly could not be called scientists.
It is not surprising to me that the easiest thing to do would be to create an invisible God above , having not that much education other than the already existing myths/stories and legends . In fact inside the Old Great Temple in Jerusalem , that is all you would find there , was a massive curtain that hung behind which the invisible God dwelled . Before this curtain was where all the goats and sheep were sacrificed for God's blessings , for a price.<G>
What has changed for all this really ? Nothing except that it has been shown clearly that no-one individual was original or had all the answers , and that one should not ever be willing to cling to any possession in life that he should then lose his love of the great experience called Life . The Jois de Vivre and Elan Vitale which every child is born with , till the original sin is imprinted upon his mind .
It may be you have found "a" answer ...but not the only answer .
But you are here to tell us all it isn't so ? |
