Among the joys afforded me in my place of primary employment is the opportunity to try to ease particular young people out of their sometimes toxic conceptions of God, themselves, and others.
David: Some very deep and wonderful insights here. Thank you! I believe we MAY be on the edge of a New Christianity, where living inside of our Father is basic, where seeing others as actually being us, where knowing the future never can come and only NOW ever exists, where knowing that Father’s Love has always been unconditional, where God has never been offended and is beyond taking offense, where Jesus’ LIFE was the example of who we each really are, and NOT some exception to be worshiped, where it is common knowledge that Jesus had and has not interest in being worshiped, but rejoices when his brothers and sisters once again are deeply intimate with our FATHER, where we all know for sure that our Father NEVER needed anyone’s blood to be shed for any reason and has never needed anything at all, not even justice. That LOVE can only be balanced with MORE LOVE, that “it’s never not now,’ that we already live in the burning layers of heaven now, but our MINDS have been mostly “out to lunch,”. I could go on for hours, but, at this point, no one is reading:).
Lie! I read all the way to the end. And yes, to almost all of it and thank YOU. I feel less alone in my feeling that God does not require the shedding of anyone's blood and that Jesus isn't interested in anyone worshiping him.
Thanks! As the Holy Spirit in us slowly leads us into all truth, as Jesus said She would, He is probably teaching many thousands of us the same lessons. For instance, I have learned for sure that Abraham is “the father of faith,” NOT because he was willing to murder his first born son, but because he was UNWILLING TO KILL HIS SON. “You two stay here at the bottom of the mountain. I and the boy will return,” or something like that, is what he said to his two servants. Abraham was no fool!
I found myself rewatching Bono in conversation with Jon Meacham at Washington National Cathedral in 2022, because Resurrection Song's line about going to hell together reminded me of how he waxed poetic about AC/DC's Highway to Hell on that occasion.
David: Some very deep and wonderful insights here. Thank you! I believe we MAY be on the edge of a New Christianity, where living inside of our Father is basic, where seeing others as actually being us, where knowing the future never can come and only NOW ever exists, where knowing that Father’s Love has always been unconditional, where God has never been offended and is beyond taking offense, where Jesus’ LIFE was the example of who we each really are, and NOT some exception to be worshiped, where it is common knowledge that Jesus had and has not interest in being worshiped, but rejoices when his brothers and sisters once again are deeply intimate with our FATHER, where we all know for sure that our Father NEVER needed anyone’s blood to be shed for any reason and has never needed anything at all, not even justice. That LOVE can only be balanced with MORE LOVE, that “it’s never not now,’ that we already live in the burning layers of heaven now, but our MINDS have been mostly “out to lunch,”. I could go on for hours, but, at this point, no one is reading:).
Lie! I read all the way to the end. And yes, to almost all of it and thank YOU. I feel less alone in my feeling that God does not require the shedding of anyone's blood and that Jesus isn't interested in anyone worshiping him.
Thanks! As the Holy Spirit in us slowly leads us into all truth, as Jesus said She would, He is probably teaching many thousands of us the same lessons. For instance, I have learned for sure that Abraham is “the father of faith,” NOT because he was willing to murder his first born son, but because he was UNWILLING TO KILL HIS SON. “You two stay here at the bottom of the mountain. I and the boy will return,” or something like that, is what he said to his two servants. Abraham was no fool!
I found myself rewatching Bono in conversation with Jon Meacham at Washington National Cathedral in 2022, because Resurrection Song's line about going to hell together reminded me of how he waxed poetic about AC/DC's Highway to Hell on that occasion.
What did he say?
May I direct you to what I wrote about it? https://apancella.substack.com/p/u2s-easter-lily?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2k7sg
You may! And thank you!