Jesus never intended that we worship Him.
He came to show us how we might become more like him,
more fully human.
He even said, “Greater things than I have done you will do.”
He came to remind us that greatness is found in every one of us
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
Jesus’ Consciousness is seeing God or Spirit in everything,
in everyone that is.
Christian theology has focused on men and woman as sinners,
We are to grovel before God, hoping and praying for forgiveness.
In Christian services we say
“Lord, have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.”
Not once but three times.
We've been conditioned
to look upon God as either a punishing parent
or a hanging judge.
“Lord have mercy”.
That's the attitude of a slave toward a master,
not of a child to a loving God.
It makes no sense.
We are not children speaking to an abusive parent.
We are not accused criminals standing before a hanging judge.
Those words make no sense
coming from a child toward a loving God.
Much of even present day theology depicts us as sinners
in need of redemption by someone outside ourselves,
someone who will pay the price for our sins by his death.
It pictures God as demanding the death of Jesus as that savior.
Jesus was not crucified because
God demanded he pay that price for our sins.
He was crucified because men found his message too challenging,
too at odds with the prevailing consciousness of His time.
The Jesus story is never the story of a savior of the sinful
but always the account of a community of people
who experienced in Jesus a fully alive human being.
Jesus was a God infused human being.
The Jesus story is less about God taking on flesh
but more about the human realizing its divinity.
"I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly."
An excerpted and reformatted piece
by Paul Feldman of Hamilton, Montana, priest for 18 years.
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