Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
It is sad and frustrating when people become fixated with seeing God in one way only. Using one model, I could see why some would decide that God and all his aspects are one Deity. Using another, more literal model one could see that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are three beings, though I have not settled on a model for the Holy Spirit. Then humans form various factions, and losing emotional control become all shouty about it.
Perhaps we are innately fearful of uncertainty, so we attempt to rigidly define things like the identity of the Creator. I am sad that humans think they have progressed as they gave up the personal relationship with the Creator or his representatives, like Abraham, the friend of God, had in favor of someone that levels ridiculous things like Original Sin, the need for Atonement, and attempts to over define the purpose of Jesus the Christ at us.
How can we then begin to build a relationship pleasing to our Creator when we so readily show our disdain for the thoughts of others. How can we be deceitful about our own beliefs, yet insist that our own thoughts are superior, and those who think differently are less than or even evil?
In my own experience, I have actually seen, some Muslims referring to non-Muslims as Kafir and worthy only of death by beheading. Then there were the Baptists and others who insist that the Catholics are evil. Then there are those who take pot shots at Mormons. It is especially angering and distasteful to me when people of another belief lie to me about what they believe.
Myself, I entertain many of the ideas that Muslims have, with the exception of how they view Jesus the Christ. I loved the modesty and concealment of a Muslim woman. Yet, I sit in a Christian Church that is Pentecostal on Sunday, where they get a lot right, yet do things that feel silly to me too. I go there to worship the Creator, and to receive the sacrament, the rest just passes by. And yes, my view of the Creator is fluid, and to me is as it should be.
Perhaps we are innately fearful of uncertainty, so we attempt to rigidly define things like the identity of the Creator. I am sad that humans think they have progressed as they gave up the personal relationship with the Creator or his representatives, like Abraham, the friend of God, had in favor of someone that levels ridiculous things like Original Sin, the need for Atonement, and attempts to over define the purpose of Jesus the Christ at us.
How can we then begin to build a relationship pleasing to our Creator when we so readily show our disdain for the thoughts of others. How can we be deceitful about our own beliefs, yet insist that our own thoughts are superior, and those who think differently are less than or even evil?
In my own experience, I have actually seen, some Muslims referring to non-Muslims as Kafir and worthy only of death by beheading. Then there were the Baptists and others who insist that the Catholics are evil. Then there are those who take pot shots at Mormons. It is especially angering and distasteful to me when people of another belief lie to me about what they believe.
Myself, I entertain many of the ideas that Muslims have, with the exception of how they view Jesus the Christ. I loved the modesty and concealment of a Muslim woman. Yet, I sit in a Christian Church that is Pentecostal on Sunday, where they get a lot right, yet do things that feel silly to me too. I go there to worship the Creator, and to receive the sacrament, the rest just passes by. And yes, my view of the Creator is fluid, and to me is as it should be.
