If I knew what love was about, free from the influences of previous historical claims, no matter how poetic, wise, and authoritative, so that I understood what love looked like honestly; if I allowed God, reasoning, and my heart to guide me to understand truth, and God opened the door, what would that understanding unveil; could it involve an unfathomable plan of love so great and mysterious that no mortal person alive has ever come close to comprehending the hidden realities waiting behind this world.
In the six books I've written, and in past blog entry's, I recorded conversations I had with God where he revealed insights into his plan of love and universal fairness he has for all people in all places.
The clear thoughts I receive from God are not irrational, like many of the religious ideas in our present world handed down from the ancient past, but reveal an inclusive and compassionate plan of universal love and hope for all people everywhere, not merely a few among the many; it is a plan of love already finished with Jesus that doesn't abandon any lonely imperfect person lost to this worlds many ideas struggling to understand what truth is.
The love God has for people is universal; it involves his immeasurable compassion and great plan for our future; it is both powerful and eternal and doesn't require us to think the right thoughts to be ok. The love God has for us doesn't condemn souls to an endless horrific eternity just because cruel men reasoning in the ancient past believed it would be a reasonable claim to make about God and his justice.
The clear thoughts I experience are real which I know are God the father and Jesus speaking to me. I speak to Jesus almost every day, and God the father more frequently now. These clear thoughts have guided me to understand that God's plan of love is intended for us all.
Although I believe in God completely, I don't understand all of reality well, so I research philosophically, and pay attention for revealed insights through faith, to try and understand what is reasonably expected of people from the Bible's myths and moralizing. I can relate to the teachings of Jesus, but I can't relate to everything found in the Bible's pages, yet through my friendship and conversations with God I'm given almost daily reassurances that God does exist. I consider both Jesus and God the father my dearest, closest, and thankfully my greatest friends.
I believe now that a lot of the frightening and threatening ideas from the past were reasoned into existence because of ignorance and uncertainty about life. Such cruel thought, like the terrifying idea of hell and its endless punishment, I suspect, came about through men's moralizing, as they reasoned about God, good and evil, and moral rightness, from the perspective of a person in thought living in an ancient culture. I believe such reasoning has led to a lot of inaccurate beliefs about God and what his nature is about.
To belong here and not understand ultimate reality, in this mysterious place in the sky, surrounded by the great unknown, has motivated me to inquire as to who exactly God is. The scripture verses that I take seriously I think reveal the partial truth of God's nature, but I question their accuracy and completeness, and I wonder why certain moral commands were introduced by imperfect thinking people living in an ancient culture.
What group of people anywhere in any time period in their religious views has ever understood the complete overarching truth about God's nature to understand his design for life perfectly. Is it possible that God's plan for our future extends far beyond what any of us now hope for. Perhaps God's ways transcend the irrationality we've produced that's often so cruel.
Who among us can unquestionably love and accept all peaceful people in this world who are struggling to make sense of the truth. Don't we look at people unlike ourselves, who have different beliefs, suspiciously, and instead of accepting them, cling secretively to our religious views losing sight of the worth that God places on billions of other lives.
We should know on this confusing planet, that when we make a decision about life's meaning, we are faced with a thousand persuasive belief systems and influences, each of them saying with questionable authority what the truth is. What that means for people faced with so many different paths in life, reasonably speaking, is that all of us don't have a fair chance to choose God's supposed only saving way. To have to direct our will to choose a saving path to salvation means most people won't be fortunate enough to find it, and this seems a little unfair. Yet I've witnessed people cling to their saved identity almost greedily thankful at least that their own future is now secure. I can't help but think our imperfect hearts and minds, when confronted by ideas of hell and judgment, resign far to easily ideologically to the terrible fate and demise of billions of other people.
Might our indifferent and cold religious thinking actually be an irrational response to the terrifying ideas of hell written in stone, supposedly by God, in the ancient Bible.
What do the ideas of hell mean for us when we face death and its uncertainty. In the very least the idea of eternal and endless punishment causes us severe anxiety, and lingering worry about life beyond this world; terrorized by these angry minds and imaginations from an ancient culture we respond naturally enough with desperation wanting desperately to escape this unending punishment they speak of with such authority.
Is it possible that divine revelation, originating from the mind of God, might reveal instead that there is no hell for imperfect people who are not diabolically evil, and that God not only loves all people but has in store for us an unparalleled plan of immeasurable good regardless whether or not we get the ideas about him right found in the Bible. Is it conceivable that the historical Bible's claims in this area are just wrong and that these specific claims in the scriptures are part of what scholars believe was written into the Bible by later human authorship, not by God, meaning that not only is there no hell for most people, but that God loves eternally every person in every hamlet and corner of this world, all people everywhere, who I believe personally Jesus died on the cross for, meaning that regardless what ideas people believe about truth and reality there is a great hope from God for the human person everywhere.
In a divine future home beyond this world is it possible God might ask us why the love he gave us wasn't directed farther and fairer towards all people everywhere. Might God not ask us why we accepted so easily the idea of destruction for so many other human lives and decided to do so almost happily while feeling secure in the idea of our own salvation.
What might God's heart be like compared to our human hearts that are often dark, in error, and struggling in ideological confusion. We're directed in our beliefs about God from ancient religious thinking. Why doesn't this old reasoning, and us who follow it, cross ancient modern divides and try and look fairly at all people everywhere. Why did so many Christian religious leaders hand select a President who coldly withdrew large amounts of medication for sick and poor people in Africa. If they are so wise why did they choose someone who despises other cultures, and races, a leader of the free world who spews hate toward disadvantaged people with mentally illness blaming us for the ill's of society.
When I wonder about God's love my heart tells me to question ideas from authority figures ruthlessly especially when they don't care about people universally everywhere in this world.
Look up Donald, and look around you. Look into the thicket, into the hollow, up into the milky way. Ask if I really care. Do I love you. Does my reach extend far beyond your present grasp. Do I care about the others you speak of. Do my ways care about the fears of billions of other people living in uncertainty. Do I understand all people's worth.
Look out into the deep, stare at the outer stations, look beyond the interstellar lines, past hidden dimensions, into other multiverses, where hidden corridors wait. Search your heart for potential explanations of life in the open-ended unknown. Look for what's possible, and bring to fruition what good ultimately is about.
You are part of unknowns you haven't seen yet that you long to one day be a part of. Open your heart and dare to love others. Trust that my ways are good, that my creation extends without end, that I offer possibilities greater then your minds capacity to understand. I offer a far spanning plan of great mystery. I give reasons of hope for all who know unfairness no matter how tragic. Remember Donald that all human hearts can be healed. Your lives will be given more then merely an illusion of hope on the day that your hearts are opened.
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