January 31, 2007

Am I Misguided? #33

These are the things that helped me discern the teachings of Jesus for myself.

1. God is everywhere, in everything.
2. The kingdom of god is within.
3. You cannot enter the kingdom of god unless you have the mind, and heart of a child.
4. God the father and I are one.
5. You can do as I do, and more.
6. Love and care for others as you would yourself.

So what do these six things mean to you? Is this nonsense, or misdirection, or is this the heart and the essence of his epiphany after fasting for forty days and forty nights in the desert?

Accordingly there is more than one path to reach heaven, there are billions, and billions, as there are people on this planet. If the kingdom of god is within, then it depends on what is in people's hearts. So what is in peoples hearts? Is it love, or is it hate? Isn't this what creates a state of heaven or hell?

If people are followers of Jesus in a church are they misguided, in a state of non sense? So how do they achieve a state of common sense, and knowing the truth?

We can each come to this belief by following different paths, different messiahs, to realize we all can be masters of our destiny, as I like to say it depends on one's thought singularly (individually as one), and universally (collectively as one), realizing it is only about Love, Gratitude, and Compassion. Aren't we all trying to get to the same place? Bryce Courtney writes it so well in his book 'The Power of One'!

We have to realize that it is a battle for kingdoms. There are those in power that don't want us in the inner kingdom (heaven), in a state of common sense, but want us stuck in the outer kingdom (hell), and a state non-sense, unknowing that god is in everyone, and we don't have to go looking for him anywhere else, that we can talk to god by going within, by making our connection with our heart, unknowingly we are all one with god, a part of god's divided soul.