Monday 6 May 2013

Ideation.

The bane of Christianity has been negative ideation.

The notion that sex is a sin creates the most unpleasant feelings: it is cold, it is hard, it is bad, there is fear, there is shame.....

Another negative notion is suffering.
This, unfortunately, is associated with the sacred heart of Jesus.
If you look closely at the depictions the heart is surrounded by thorns and pierced by daggers.

These notions actually create pain and suffering in the unsuspecting practitioner.

So it is important to practice positive ideation.
Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones.

Original blessing.
Sex is natural.

Life is a combination of pleasure and pain, joy and suffering, good and bad experiences.  Pain and suffering are bad, they are not a means to a reward in heaven.  They can develop compassion in the sufferer but that does not make them good or desirable.
Excessive pain and suffering should be alleviated so that everyone can live happy lives here on earth.

Guilt serves no positive purpose.
Shame is self-destructive.

The theology which grew up around the suffering and death of Jesus is a perversion of the truth.  It seeks to make of a failure a victory.  And makes of something which is inherently bad something good (Good Friday).

Therefore, because it is not facing the failure of Jesus' mission it creates aberrant theology.

Original Sin, Substitution Theology, The Blood of the Lamb, Universal Condemnation, Penance, and Atonement are all false doctrines because they do not face the failure of Jesus' mission on earth.

Can God fail?

Yes.

Pentecost is the aftermath but it never reaches the heights of Jesus' ministry.

The interpretations and beliefs of Peter and Paul are never quite as accurate as Jesus'.  The disciples did not have Jesus' experience of God.  They were always making mistakes, misunderstanding what Jesus said.  And they continued to make mistakes after Pentecost.

Mainly Peter sought to encourage people to believe that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, the fulfillment of the prophecies.

But Jesus does not always resemble the Jewish messiah - which is a military ruler and conqueror in some prophecies, a suffering servant in others.

Jesus was the tutelary spirit of the Age of Pisces rather than the savior for all time.

Look at the Piscean symbolism in the New Testament: fishermen, (shoes), fish, nets, water, lake Galilee, washing feet, spirits, the Holy Spirit, prayer, healing, forgiveness, dreams, vines, wine, vineyards, compassion, washing away sins, a House of Prayer, Jerusalem, faith.....

But it is Jesus' teachings - the teachings of love and compassion - that count.

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