Epochalypsis: The Age of Unveiling
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Matthew 6
5. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
6. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
God willed that creation, the Law, society, human nature, and even life would be “futile”.
The Law cannot be accomplished of our own human volition.
Society always decays under the weight of empire and greed.
Human nature always succumbs to the evil fruits of fear and hate. (“Freedom Fries”, anyone?)
The curtain of life is drawn into the final act of death for every living creature. Death is the ultimate futility.
Jesus was not baptized by water. He was baptized by the Breath of God, the Holy Spirit. The water is only a symbol.
The Holy Spirit is vitally important, because the Word of God cannot be formed without the Breath of God. God’s creative will cannot be enacted without Breath.
Can you imagine if Christianity actually took the Beatitudes to heart? It would change our world as we know it. Humble, peaceful people filled with empathy and mourning with the sufferers around the world, who strove everyday for the Great Commandments no matter the cost?
A great goal. And it starts with me.
1 John 4
18. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
19. We love because he first loved us.
I am saddened by how many Christians are subject to a false brand of Christianity: one which promotes obedience through threat of death or Hell.
God never once speaks of how important the Self is. God’s ultimate concern is with the whole, the “congregation”, the “nation”, “all peoples”. All of Jesus’ teachings are steps on the path to minimizing or even destroying the Self.
The Way of Christ is the way of the cross, where the Self is crucified for the sake of the many.
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