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Christians and new converts are being captivated by television evangelists throughout the world. With rising crime, marriages and relationships failing, an imminent global recession, world famines, epidemics, hunger, wars, fear, etc, there is little wonder people are turning to religion for comfort.
But within Christianity there are serious behavioural patterns that are surfacing. Many Christians become disillusioned within their particular brand of faith because of double standards and hypocrisy they often see. The reason many evangelists and priests stumble is because they use 'sin' as an excuse. They fail to see that 'sin' is not the problem.
Unfortunately, Jesus' teachings regarding the sovereignty man has over sin was deliberately distorted over the centuries because the 'powers that be' know full well that the truth does set one free. The plain and simple truth: We are not born with inherent sin.
Discover for yourself that you are in fact a special creation with unique gifts and talents, an individual child of this universe that will exist forever and ever, not in a fictional utopia, but in the real world where we share in one body, yet as individuals within our own eternal cycle of consciousness and unconsciousness. Nature teaches us that nothing lives unless it dies. Everything animate has a 'seed within'. The 'seed within itself' was planted long before sin was introduced. Procreation will always be the vehicle that ensures life eternal.
The book of Genesis is the foundation for the understanding of life and death within the realm of 'good and evil' while the gospel message unveils the mystery of 'Christ' and 'Christ within' humanity. 'Knowledge' gives 'faith' its substance. The bottom line for those who have 'ears to hear' is that 'love', agape love, is the only pre-requisite we need for being born again into a secure place within this world. The law of love has no boundaries. It supersedes all beliefs and doctrines. It is the only definition we find of God in the entire bible.
To love one another is the fundamental nature of the 'image and likeness' of God and essence of 'Christ within'
For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may
put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. (I Peter 2:15)
According to fundamentalist Christians; love is not quite enough. They contend that even if a person has risked his or her life to save a neighbour or friend, regardless of how much love he or she has in the heart, they are condemned to hell if they don't believe.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us.
And we also ought to lay down our lives for our friends.
(1 John 3:17)
Beloved, let us love one another,
for love is of God; and everyone
who loves is born of God and
knows God. (1 John:4:7)
Humanity is one body with one mind and one heart living as one. Whenever or wherever there is an emergency or crisis, the majority of individuals naturally respond and rise to the occasion. If we are divided by hatred, envy, resentment, or jealousy, we don't have to go to war to resolve the problem, rather, we need knowledge and understanding of why we have natural tendencies towards good and evil. The knowledge of good and evil and reason for our behaviour has nothing to do with religion. Christ within is not about religion-it is a quantum term that explains the essence of the image and likeness of God within the human spirit. The resurrection of our own lives and our personal incarnations is what the core of Genesis and the New testament teaches.
Teachers of religion should realise that people who risk their lives to save a neighbour or friend can only do so because of their natural tendency to love and care for one another. We are born with a natural capacity to love. We are sinners by choice - not by inheritance.
Where is the body of Christ? The resurrected body of Christ is the collective body within this world made up of ordinary everyday people who willingly use their gifts and talents to serve humanity. There are many amongst us who are more than willing to lay their lives on the line to save a neighbour, friend, or stranger. Ordinary everyday people, doctors, nurses, ambulance men and women, police, teachers, believers and unbelievers, any one with the capacity to simply love, cannot do so without the image and likeness of God. The time is coming when the law that is written on everyone's heart will be universal quantum knowledge, not through religion, but through the unlocking of what the apostle Paul referred to as the mystery of Christ within.
No longer will a man teach his neighbour, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 31:34)
The Genesis Debates
The following non-traditional references form the basis of the Genesis debates.
Statement of beliefs
Adam and Mankind were separate creations. (Gen 1:26-28) (Gen 2: 5,6,7,8)
Adam became like God and bore the image and likeness of God by choice. (Gen3:22)
Adam was created on the 3rd day before the sun, moon, and stars. (Gen 2: 5,6,7,8)
Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God on the 6th day, and told to immediately procreate. (Gen 1:28)
Adam and his companion began to procreate only after the couple knew of their nakedness- and only after they were banished from the garden into the earth. (Gen 3:10,11) (Gen 3:23,24) (Gen 4: 1,2)
Adam did not sin. (2 Timothy 13,14,15)
We do not die because of Adam's sin. (Rom 5:13,14) (Rom 5:19)
The beginning and fullness of the creation of Christ within humanity was once the word became flesh through the creation of the first Adam, then finally the last Adam, the only begotten Son of God. (Luke 3:38) (John 1:1,2,3) (1 Corinthians 15:45,46,47,48,49)
The resurrected body of Christ is a spiritual body with individual members having gifts and talents that share in the one spiritual faith and knowledge of Christ. The body of Christ is referred to in the New Testament as the church. (Col 1:24) The resurrected body of Christ strives for peace, love, and harmony between nations, races, neighbours, and friends. The teachings of Jesus is the nexus for the body's one faith.
The Christ of God is the creative logos. (John 1:1,2,3,4,5. (John 1:14)
The incarnation of our own souls was the core of Jesus' message. (Mat 18:8,9)
Heaven and hell exist side by side here on earth. (Rev 22:14,15))
Jesus does not have to return. The kingdom of God is within this world. (Luke 13: 18,19,20) (Luke 17:20).
Paul warned that the truth of the teachings of Jesus and Christianity would eventually become a fabricated and deliberate lie. (Rev 17: 1-18).
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