What I Wish

 I said yesterday I didnt want to sermonize.  But it's Sunday and I'm throwing cautiin ti the wind, so to speak.  I wish for one world religion with God being as simple as we can make Him.  God simply is not very complicated.  Love always wins.  This is why I've avoided all organized religion and why I am a religion of one.  My beliefs are too simple.  My God is too simple.  But my Guides did that on purpose.  They knew I wanted a simple belief.  So, they simplified it all for me.  And for most anyone it can't be that simple.  

My theology is so simple a five-year-old can understand it.  I can reduce it to simple paragraph.  So, if it is so simple why has so much been written?  I have no idea.  I really don't.  It's because life is so complex and so, belief is very complex.  In Mark 4:13 Jesus says all His parables say the same thing.  Maybe all books and every book in the Bible say the same thing.  Maybe every book ever written about Jesus says the same thing.  Maybe every theologian says the same thing.

I can reduce it all to a paragraph.  But how?  My Guides showed me how.  I had to learn how.  I just kept at it until I got it right.  I worked hard at simplification.  It's the one thing I've wanted all my life.  God and theology was too complicated.  It had to be made simple for a five-year-old.  But I had training in the greatest understanding.  But how many could have that understanding?  It would take years to teach what I knew just to one congregation.  

So, my Guides simplified it in two and half hours.  And when they finished my thought immediately was that no one can accept what I just learned.  The experience could never be explained ley alone the theology.  I was elated beyond words, but I knew what they said would be rejected by most anyone.  It was too simple.  It took years to keep it simple.  Maybe three decades, but I think I have it. 

Humanity seeks to know as much as possible.  So, every year more and more books are added to our understanding and knowledge about God, Jesus, heaven and hell.  But do they add or clutter?  I think it's the latter.  We have cluttered thoughts about religion.  Let me see if I can write my paragraph:

All sins lead to death.  Jesus was sinless, yet He died.  But yet He lives.  He died for every sin except for murder and suicide.  So, God's Grace covers every sin.  But anger and hatred, even hatred of the self can lead to the unforgivable sins.  Our task is to love as Jesus did.  If we do that all our lives we avoid the Judgment.  

That's it in a nutshell.  That is all there is to it.  Just a simple theology a five year old can understand.  All sin leads to the possibility of either murder or suicide, which are the two sins Jesus didn't die for.  One doesn't even have to believe in my theological thinking.  Just don't take a human life including your own.  Avoid anger and hate and seek love and Peace.  I can't make it more simple.  Jesus says to seek and you will find.  In my case it found me.  I smoke a pipe to remember.  This morning it is my Angel pipe with some Old Professor and my coffee is Pablo's Pride from Guatamala.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave  

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