| For the last 4000 years, our Western concept of God | | | | encourage parents who had lost them, but had no |
| has been based on the God that evolved out of the | | | | immediate hope of return. I also wondered why it was |
| Old Testament theocracy of ancient Israel. That God | | | | such a big sacrifice of Jesus for me, when he also |
| came into His own as an evolution from earlier gods, all | | | | knew his death was just more or less an |
| of whose indivdual traits, the True God Most High was | | | | inconvenience to him personally. He didnt have be |
| given. It is this God that we have come to "love" in | | | | afraid because he knew he'd be resurrected. He also |
| some way, though it seems mostly a one way street | | | | only spent, according to the account, about six hours |
| in practical human experience. It is this one true God of | | | | on the cross designed to kill one slowly over days as |
| the OT that we read is a jealous God, never thinking | | | | tens of thousands before him and after found out. So |
| that in that context, He was jealous because there | | | | it was pretty quick compared to what others had |
| were still other gods a lingering and it was not that He | | | | happen to them who had no hope of a quick turn |
| was the only one, but just needed to be the top one. | | | | around time. Maybe I think too much. I know it's not |
| Therefore, "you shall have no other gods, BEFORE | | | | encouraged in church or some would not say, "You |
| ME." The others are lesser types and don't forget it. "I | | | | don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your |
| am a jealous God." Even as a kid, I wondered why the | | | | church." I like that one!At any rate, I think we need a |
| only God was jealous of no other gods that existed, | | | | new kind of God. I know that god's evolve slowly over |
| until I learned that when the Decalogue was given, they | | | | time, but we don't have much time at the rate we are |
| did exist. I guess they have since moved | | | | going. I'd like to make a few suggestions as to the kind |
| elsewhere.The Bible God is everything from a | | | | we evolve to next with the hope it really does make |
| consuming fire (hmm, the Sun?), to the Bright and | | | | us spiritual over religious and more unversally tolerant |
| Morning Star, to a loving Father. He created humans, | | | | instead of tribal and cultic.1. We need a God that |
| then didn't realize how nasty they could be, so he | | | | teaches all of us are one and same save for a bit |
| wiped them out drowning them all, save 8, like rats and | | | | more or less melanin and spot on the planet of origin. |
| left humanity the unending quest for the orginal ark and | | | | This way we might not be so freaky about borders, |
| a way to explain badly the origins of everything from | | | | incursions and "the enemy." I say genetically test all |
| dinosaurs to the Grand Canyon. That one story has | | | | people in the Middle East to prove it's a family feud |
| slowed the progress of human critical thinking probably | | | | and they all the same people. Then test in the Far East |
| as much as any. A few weeks ago headlines asked | | | | and West, put the darn genome thingy on TV and |
| "Has Noah's Ark Been Found," (again) but it turned out | | | | point out what a real human is and how they relate.2. |
| to be a pile of rocks.This one true Bible God scattered | | | | We need to evolve a God that is non-judgmental so |
| humanity so they couldn't talk too much to each other | | | | humans can't get a hold of all His laws and wring the |
| in one language and advance the cause of science | | | | life out of humanity with them to their personal gain. |
| too quickly. They built a tall mud building which scared | | | | This would stop the proliferation of thousands of sects, |
| the Bible God into thinking man thought he could | | | | denominations, organizations, cults, "isms" and One |
| ascend to heaven. No scientific understanding that mud | | | | True Churches that suck the soul out of people by |
| bricks could only take so much pressure and go so | | | | separating them from the world of real people. We |
| high. They obviously haven't seen the Sears Tower | | | | gotta stop majoring in the minors...3. We need to |
| from the air. Hard to spot down there on the approach | | | | evolve a God that endorses equality across the board |
| to O'Hare. The Bible God lived in an obscure land, in | | | | for humans. There are no better humans on the planet |
| obscure mountains and choose to wander around in | | | | than others. No better colors, types, sizes, looks or |
| the desert with an obscure people for a time in an | | | | ways of being. We are what we are and since |
| effort to get them to worship him and Him only. He got | | | | humans seem to divide up into 16 basic temperaments, |
| the group out of Egypt by an Exodus of hundreds of | | | | we need to recongnize that as part of our spirituality |
| thousands, which neither history nor archaeology can | | | | and worth. Humans have 16 basic ways of being |
| find, but non-the-less, it happened. If you have ever | | | | wired and it's not a spiritual problem to not be wired like |
| seen the start of the Boston Marathon, you would get | | | | someone else! The wealthy just have more and a |
| an idea of what that might have been like with those in | | | | responsibility to share and teach while the poor have |
| the back jogging in place for days until the mass of | | | | less for reasons that usally relate directly to their |
| humans moved. In exchange for this, and at the | | | | government, opportunities and whether they live in |
| exclusion of everyone else on the planet, He would | | | | sand or soil.4. We need to evolve a God that |
| make them the greatest and their kind as the sand of | | | | appreciates sensual and sexuality. Whoa...la la la la la, |
| the sea and the stars of heaven. Oi...if this is the | | | | I'm not hearing this. Bible sex usually get's you killed for |
| greatest humans can be, we need another plan. So for | | | | it. Couples rammed thru together with a spear. |
| a couple thousand years, this Bible God threatened, | | | | Women stoned to death. Or mostly just not spoken of. |
| punished, exiled, warned, spanked, abused and gave up | | | | Whoever sneaked the Song of Solomon in must have |
| a couple times, save for that one guy that was worth | | | | gotten himself put outside the camp. The Church took |
| saving. Seems the Bible God had flawed plans.Along | | | | the obvious intent and turned it into an earthly story |
| the way, this Bible God, the same God who is the | | | | with a heavenly meaning about Jesus...but whew. I think |
| loving Father now of Jesus and the Christian Faith, but | | | | not. BG has no sexuality. Jesus may have, but we |
| of whom there is precious little known since Jesus has | | | | don't speak of it and deny it or burn those that suggest |
| taken all the attention away from Him for the last 2000 | | | | it. The disciples were just a group of disconnected |
| years, this Bible God slew the masses for the benefit | | | | men with no women allowed. Original "He Man, |
| of His people. Any nation that ended in "ite", like | | | | Woman Haters Club" I guess. They had the "power to |
| Amalekites, Hittites, Jebusites...got slaughtered if they | | | | lead around a wife" but that is not very romantic or |
| got in the way of the people of the Bible God. I guess | | | | intimate."Power" and "Lead" are not words most |
| if you wore "tites" you were history back then. Ok, the | | | | women respond to these days in the world of the |
| Stone Tablets said "Thou Shalt Not Kill" but that only | | | | open hearted and enlightened...few as they relatively |
| meant "Each Other." It was not binding on the "ites" | | | | be. The Apostles were womanless save for getting |
| that got in the way, including the born and unborn | | | | their feet washed and supper cooked for them by |
| children of women who just happened to be not born | | | | women. Some women gave them money, so it's not a |
| of the true Bible God people. Those poor souls got | | | | bad set up. But no sex. Uh uh....no no no. And of |
| their heads smashed, bellies ripped , burned and | | | | Paul..well forget it. He thought all should be like him, |
| generally routed in various and hideous ways.The Bible | | | | which was celebate. I think this hides the fact that he |
| God loved meat during this time and millions of animals | | | | was a troll of some kind, or just not the kind of guy |
| ended up on the alters and in the pots of a Priesthood | | | | any woman would want to live with romantically. One |
| working the Temple shifts day and night for a | | | | could suspect other orientation for Paul, which is what |
| thousand years. That's a hell of a lot of precious | | | | he wrestled with in that Hellenistic/Hebraic world, but |
| wildlife going up in smoke to appease the Bible God. | | | | who knows. I just know a man that "beats himself and |
| Between Roman arenas and the BG's love of animal | | | | keeps himself in subjection" sounds like a troubled guy. |
| flesh, it's no wonder there are few impressive animals | | | | We need a God that would help him relax and not be |
| left in the Middle East. The Turtle Doves went to | | | | so difficult on this topic. For better or worse, Paul's |
| Rumania just to recover their numbers since the | | | | ideas have made millions think they were the same as |
| Romans, at least, didn't send Turtle Doves into the | | | | God's ideas. They weren't. Jesus said to marry and |
| arena.The BG loved blood as well as the smell of | | | | Paul said, better not to. Someone is wrong.5. We need |
| burning flesh. The more blood the better and even the | | | | to evolve a God that doesn't need to be adored, |
| Christians figured out that "without the shedding of | | | | worshipped, tithed to, sacrificed for and feared. We've |
| blood, there is no forgiveness of sins." Always | | | | had enough of that and all it does is grow abusive |
| blood...blood, blood, blood. The life might be in the blood | | | | organizations and churches that use that to fear, |
| as the Bible God tells us, but getting it from the body | | | | shame and guilt the gullible into submission. We need a |
| onto the ground seemed to be more of the goal. From | | | | God that doesn't need money to build temples and |
| redemption by blood sacrfices we went to redemption | | | | houses to Himself. Like the denomination I came from. |
| by execution of the Lamb and the shedding of human | | | | They taught that "God liveth not in houses made of |
| blood once and for all. Whew..at least that stopped all | | | | stone...." and then set out to make, and dedicate one to |
| the slaughter...well ok , it didn't, but we can say it did in | | | | Him, made of marble from some godawful expensive |
| Church and feel better. Actually, history has shown us | | | | place, where He could live if He wanted to, which He |
| that after Jesus shed his blood once and for all, a | | | | didn't. They later evicted Him and sold the House for |
| whole lot of human blood was going to be spilled over | | | | God to another Church that invited Him back, but He'd |
| the next couple thousand years by those that love | | | | already left town by then.6. We need to evolve a God |
| Jesus and want everyone to see and experience the | | | | that we now lies in each one of us and expresses |
| love of Jesus as they do, and come under his once | | | | Itself/Himself/Herself, the real Holy Trinity, in the |
| and for all blood sacrifice. Go figure.So up to this point, | | | | individual who is appreciated for that... different but |
| we have a Bible God that is pretty scary, vengeful, | | | | equal and ok. We don't have all be little yellow pencils |
| jealous, bloodthirsty, clannish, has no wife or consort, | | | | for God, Jesus or The Trinity Broadcasting Network. |
| surrounds himself with male angels by the millions and | | | | We need a God where truly there is neither male or |
| seems to think and teach that women are just one | | | | female, bond or free, black or white, from Yale or the |
| rung above animals and other household possessions. | | | | Tech College down the street. Each human is who |
| Ever ask why ALL Bible Angels are MALE and ALL | | | | they are, where they are, being what they are and it's |
| gift shop angels are FEMALE? Oh well, nuther story. | | | | ok. He certainly doesn't require the one true folks to |
| This BG has tons of laws about human sexuality and | | | | slay the untrue or non-compliant ones.7. We need to |
| the consequences of not abiding by the rules, but | | | | evolve a God that respects the truth of Science and |
| seems to Himself only be a God from the waist up, | | | | inquiry. No more repressing scientific reality by some |
| even though we are told he has hands and feet.So in | | | | church, organization or mind set that is bogus and |
| time, the BG gives up on a people of his own with | | | | based on myth and deceit. You keep your God out of |
| those methods and sends His Son, for about a year of | | | | my stem cells and I'll keep my God out of your |
| human history, to tell us everything we need to be and | | | | face...we might say. We need a God and spirituality |
| do or not do. After the Romans, yes it was the | | | | that allows for humans to appreciate their long journey |
| Romans and not the Jews, sent him back to heaven, | | | | from Africa to Consciousness and understanding the |
| it's been pretty much a big mess of confusing and | | | | nature of reality is not what we might think it is based |
| conflicting beliefs and "isms" that have brought us to | | | | on our limited five senses.In short, we need to grow up |
| near extinction. Even as a kid I wondered in Sunday | | | | and become these things ourselves and a new God |
| school why The BG giving His Son was such a big | | | | will emerge in our souls and we can do better than |
| thing for him to do. He knew he would get him back in | | | | what we see going on today with the misery one |
| three short days, so it's not like Jesus would never | | | | people brings upon another, day in and day out...world |
| come home. I have buried lots of kids that never got to | | | | without end. |
| go home and see mom and dad again. I got to try to | | | | |