The Bible God -Buying and selling Up - We Can Do Higher
For the last 4000 years, our Western idea of God has been based mostly on the God that evolved out of the Old Testomony theocracy of ancient Israel. That God came into His personal as an evolution from earlier gods, all of whose indivdual traits, the True God Most High was given. It is this God that we have come to "love" in some way, although it appears mostly a a method avenue in sensible human experience. It's this one true God of the OT that we learn is a jealous God, by no means pondering that in that context, He was jealous because there were nonetheless different gods a lingering and it was not that He was the only one, but simply needed to be the top one. Subsequently, "you shall haven't any different gods, BEFORE ME." The others are lesser sorts and don't forget it. "I'm a jealous God." Whilst a child, I puzzled why the one God was jealous of no other gods that existed, till I learned that when the Decalogue was given, they did exist. I assume they've since moved elsewhere.
The Bible God is every little thing from a consuming fire (hmm, the Solar?), to the Vivid and Morning Star, to a loving Father. He created people, then did not realize how nasty they may very well be, so he wiped them out drowning all of them, save eight, like rats and left humanity the endless quest for the orginal ark and a strategy to clarify badly the origins of all the pieces from dinosaurs to the Grand Canyon. That one story has slowed the progress of human vital thinking most likely as much as any. A number of weeks in the past headlines asked "Has Noah's Ark Been Discovered," (once more) however it turned out to be a pile of rocks.
This one true Bible God scattered humanity so that they could not talk too much to one another in one language and advance the reason for science too quickly. They constructed a tall mud building which scared the Bible God into considering man thought he might ascend to heaven. No scientific understanding that mud bricks could solely take a lot stress and go so high. They clearly haven't seen the Sears Tower from the air. Laborious to spot down there on the method to O'Hare. The Bible God lived in an obscure land, in obscure mountains and choose to wander around within the desert with an obscure people for a time in an effort to get them to worship him and Him only. He obtained the group out of Egypt by an Exodus of lots of of thousands, which neither historical past nor archaeology can discover, but non-the-much less, it happened. When you have ever seen the start of the Boston Marathon, you'll get an thought of what which may have been like with those in the back jogging in place for days till the mass of people moved. In change for this, and at the exclusion of everyone else on the planet, He would make them the greatest and their type as the sand of the ocean and the celebrities of heaven. Oi...if this is the best people will be, we need another plan. So for a couple thousand years, this Bible God threatened, punished, exiled, warned, spanked, abused and gave up a couple instances, save for that one man that was price saving. Appears the Bible God had flawed plans.
Along the way, this Bible God, the identical God who is the loving Father now of Jesus and the Christian Faith, however of whom there's precious little recognized since Jesus has taken all the eye away from Him for the final 2000 years, this Bible God slew the plenty for the good thing about His people. Any nation that resulted in "ite", like Amalekites, Hittites, Jebusites...received slaughtered in the event that they received in the way in which of the people of the Bible God. I assume if you wore "tites" you have been history again then. Ok, the Stone Tablets mentioned "Thou Shalt Not Kill" but that solely meant "Every Other." It was not binding on the "ites" that acquired in the way in which, including the born and unborn youngsters of girls who simply occurred to be not born of the true Bible God people. Those poor souls got their heads smashed, bellies ripped , burned and customarily routed in varied and hideous ways.
The Bible God liked meat throughout this time and thousands and thousands of animals ended up on the alters and in the pots of a Priesthood working the Temple shifts day and evening for a thousand years. That's a hell of loads of valuable wildlife going up in smoke to appease the Bible God. Between Roman arenas and the BG's love of animal flesh, it's no marvel there are few impressive animals left in the Middle East. The Turtle Doves went to Rumania simply to recover their numbers since the Romans, at the least, didn't send Turtle Doves into the arena.
The BG loved blood in addition to the smell of burning flesh. The extra blood the higher and even the Christians found out that "without the shedding of blood, there isn't any forgiveness of sins." All the time blood...blood, blood, blood. The life could be within the blood because the Bible God tells us, but getting it from the body onto the ground seemed to be extra of the goal. From redemption by blood sacrfices we went to redemption by execution of the Lamb and the shedding of human blood as soon as and for all. Whew..at least that stopped all of the slaughter...well okay , it didn't, but we will say it did in Church and feel better. Truly, history has proven us that after Jesus shed his blood as soon as and for all, a whole lot of human blood was going to be spilled over the following couple thousand years by those who love Jesus and want everybody to see and experience the love of Jesus as they do, and come underneath his as soon as and for all blood sacrifice. Go figure.
So up up to now, we have a Bible God that's pretty scary, vengeful, jealous, bloodthirsty, clannish, has no spouse or consort, surrounds himself with male angels by the millions and appears to suppose and teach that ladies are just one rung above animals and different family possessions. Ever ask why ALL Bible Angels are MALE and ALL reward store angels are FEMALE? Oh nicely, nuther story. This BG has tons of laws about human sexuality and the consequences of not abiding by the principles, but appears to Himself only be a God from the waist up, although we're advised he has arms and feet.
So in time, the BG gives up on a individuals of his own with these strategies and sends His Son, for a few 12 months of human historical past, to inform us all the pieces we need to be and do or not do. After the Romans, sure it was the Romans and never the Jews, sent him back to heaven, it has been pretty much an enormous mess of complicated and conflicting beliefs and "isms" that have introduced us to near extinction. Whilst a child I puzzled in Sunday college why The BG giving His Son was such an enormous factor for him to do. He knew he would get him again in three short days, so it is not like Jesus would never come home. I have buried a lot of youngsters that by no means bought to go home and see mom and pop again. I acquired to attempt to encourage parents who had lost them, however had no immediate hope of return. I additionally questioned why it was such a big sacrifice of Jesus for me, when he additionally knew his loss of life was simply roughly an inconvenience to him personally. He didnt have be afraid because he knew he'd be resurrected. He additionally solely spent, in response to the account, about six hours on the cross designed to kill one slowly over days as tens of hundreds earlier than him and after discovered out. So it was fairly fast compared to what others had occur to them who had no hope of a quick flip round time. Maybe I believe too much. I do know it's not inspired in church or some wouldn't say, "You don't pray in my faculty, and I will not think in your church." I like that one!
At any charge, I feel we need a new type of God. I know that god's evolve slowly over time, however we do not have a lot time on the price we're going. I'd prefer to make a couple of ideas as to the type we evolve to next with the hope it actually does make us religious over religious and extra unversally tolerant as a substitute of tribal and cultic.
1. We need a God that teaches all of us are one and similar save for a bit more or less melanin and spot on the planet of origin. This manner we would not be so freaky about borders, incursions and "the enemy." I say genetically take a look at all individuals in the Middle East to prove it is a household feud they usually all the same people. Then test in the Far East and West, put the darn genome thingy on TV and point out what a real human is and the way they relate.
2. We have to evolve a God that is non-judgmental so people cannot come up with all His laws and wring the life out of humanity with them to their personal gain. This is able to stop the proliferation of 1000's of sects, denominations, organizations, cults, "isms" and One True Church buildings that suck the soul out of individuals by separating them from the world of actual people. We gotta stop majoring in the minors...
3. We have to evolve a God that endorses equality across the board for humans. There are no higher humans on the planet than others. No better colors, sorts, sizes, appears to be like or ways of being. We're what we're and since humans appear to divide up into 16 fundamental temperaments, we need to recongnize that as a part of our spirituality and worth. Humans have 16 basic methods of being wired and it's not a non secular drawback to not be wired like another person! The rich simply have extra and a responsibility to share and train whereas the poor have much less for causes that usally relate directly to their authorities, alternatives and whether they reside in sand or soil.
4. We have to evolve a God that appreciates sensual and sexuality. Whoa...la la la la la, I'm not listening to this. Bible sex often get's you killed for it. Couples rammed through together with a spear. Women stoned to death. Or mostly just not spoken of. Whoever sneaked the Track of Solomon in must have gotten himself put outside the camp. The Church took the apparent intent and turned it into an earthly story with a heavenly which means about Jesus...but whew. I think not. BG has no sexuality. Jesus could have, but we do not communicate of it and deny it or burn people who suggest it. The disciples have been just a group of disconnected men with no ladies allowed. Authentic "He Man, Lady Haters Club" I guess. They had the "power to guide round a wife" however that is not very romantic or intimate.
"Energy" and "Lead" are not words most girls respond to nowadays on the earth of the open hearted and enlightened...few as they comparatively be. The Apostles have been womanless save for getting their feet washed and supper cooked for them by women. Some girls gave them cash, so it's not a foul set up. But no sex. Uh uh....no no no. And of Paul..properly overlook it. He thought all needs to be like him, which was celebate. I believe this hides the fact that he was a troll of some sort, or just not the form of guy any girl would wish to live with romantically. One might suspect other orientation for Paul, which is what he wrestled with in that Hellenistic/Hebraic world, however who knows. I simply know a person that "beats himself and retains himself in subjection" feels like a troubled guy. We'd like a God that might help him relax and never be so difficult on this topic. For higher or worse, Paul's concepts have made tens of millions assume they were the identical as God's ideas. They weren't. Jesus said to marry and Paul mentioned, higher not to. Somebody is wrong.
5. We have to evolve a God that does not must be adored, worshipped, tithed to, sacrificed for and feared. We have had enough of that and all it does is develop abusive organizations and church buildings that use that to worry, shame and guilt the gullible into submission. We want a God that doesn't need cash to build temples and homes to Himself. Like the denomination I came from. They taught that "God liveth not in homes product of stone...." after which got down to make, and dedicate one to Him, fabricated from marble from some godawful costly place, where He may live if He wanted to, which He didn't. They later evicted Him and sold the House for God to a different Church that invited Him again, but He'd already left town by then.
6. We need to evolve a God that we now lies in every one among us and expresses Itself/Himself/Herself, the real Holy Trinity, in the particular person who is appreciated for that... totally different but equal and ok. We don't have all be little yellow pencils for God, Jesus or The Trinity Broadcasting Network. We want a God the place actually there may be neither male or female, bond or free, black or white, from Yale or the Tech Faculty down the street. Every human is who they're, where they're, being what they're and it is ok. He actually doesn't require the one true of us to slay the untrue or non-compliant ones.
7. We have to evolve a God that respects the reality of Science and inquiry. No more repressing scientific actuality by some church, group or mind set that's bogus and primarily based on myth and deceit. You keep your God out of my stem cells and I will keep my God out of your face...we would say. We'd like a God and spirituality that allows for humans to appreciate their long journey from Africa to Consciousness and understanding the character of actuality shouldn't be what we would think it's based on our restricted five senses.
In short, we have to grow up and develop into this stuff ourselves and a new God will emerge in our souls and we will do higher than what we see going on as we speak with the misery one individuals brings upon one other, day in and day out...world with out end.
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