If I knew what love looked like, free from the influences of previous historical claims, no matter how poetic, wise, and supposedly authoritative, so I could understand what love looks like honestly; if I allowed my heart, and God to guide me to discern life's meaning, what would the truth about God and his love reveal; might it be a love that perhaps no mortal person has neared completely while alive in this world.
I can tell you what I'd hope for when looking for love, and I can tell you what my heart tells me I'd see. I believe I'd see what love is really about which I know from talking to God is his universal fairness towards all people in all places.
This is not an irrational version of supposed fairness, like religious dogma produced in the past, but an inclusive kind of fairness, devised not only for a few of us, among the many, but a plan of love that doesn't leave out ordinary people struggling all over the world with life's problems. This is a love that sees all human worth universally; it's a love that has compassion because of God's great planning; this is a love that doesn't require us to think the right thoughts to be ok with God; it is a love that won't condemn souls to endless abandonment filled with horrific torment cruelly.
Paying attention to the clear thoughts I recognize are from God has revealed to me God's plan of love for all people in this world. I know God the father, and Jesus are real. I speak to Jesus almost every day, and God the father frequently now. These clear thoughts have guided me to understand God's universal fairness, and plan of love, that is unlike rigid dogmatic belief. I don't understand intellectually what is completely true about God the father and Jesus when reading the ancient myths of the Bible; I don't understand the occasionally cruel unfair moral teachings of ancient times, but I am given real understanding that God the father and Jesus are very real.
I suspect that our frequently cruel humanly created thought, a lot of it invented in ignorance, and uncertainty, has lead to inaccurate beliefs about the full nature of how the world works. The uncertainty we face in understanding ultimate reality, here in this mysterious place in the sky surrounded on all sides by the unknown, has lead me to question who God is. God's ways, according to the ancient scriptures we created I believe are partly fair, but I question the complete accuracy of these ideas created by ancient minds searching for the truth. I doubt now the ideas found in these pages describe God's complete planning with total accuracy.
What group of people's religious views about God see the complete underlying truth about Gods nature. Is it possible that God's planning for our futures extends far beyond what we now know. Perhaps God's ways transcend the irrationality we invent that's often so cruel. Who among us loves unquestionably people lost to this worlds differing ideas or do they cling suspiciously instead to their own religious claims that have the effect of making them lose sight of the worth and future fate of billions of other imperfect thinking people.
We should know in the confusion of our world that us making a decision about what the truth supposedly is, while faced with a thousand other claims and beliefs that say alternatively what other people think the truth is, doesn't give people universally everywhere a fair chance to choose fairly God's supposed only path. To have to direct our will to choose the only saving path to salvation supposedly therefore seems unfair. Yet I've witnessed people clinging to their saved identity almost greedily thankful about their own future. I think our imperfect hearts and minds resign far to easily to the fate and demise of billions of other people's lives.
Does our indifferent cold religious thinking come about from human irrationality, or maybe from the fear mongering written into the pages of the ancient Bible, or perhaps because of our desperation to escape deaths uncertainty. Might divine revelation, if given to us directly from the mind of God, show us instead that God loves all people. Is it possible God loves every person in every hamlet and corner of this world regardless of the ideas they have about reality and about him. In a divine place beyond this world is it possible God will ask us why the love he gave us was not directed farther and fairer towards all people everywhere. Could God ask us why we accepted so easily the idea of the destruction of so many human lives and decided to do so almost happily while feeling secure in the idea of our own salvation.
What is God's heart like compared to our human heart that is often dark, in error, and struggling in ideological confusion. We're directed in our beliefs about God by an ancient religious book filled with old logic. Why doesn't this old reasoning cross modern divides and look fairly at all people everywhere. Why do Christian religious leaders choose leaders who coldly deny giving poor sick people medications. If they are so wise why do they choose racist leaders that spew hatred toward disadvantaged people who are mentally ill, other cultures, and people with differing religious beliefs. When I question what love is really about with God my heart tells me to question ideas ruthlessly that don't care about people universally 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 offer reasons of hope for all that 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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