Trading Addictions

Trading Addictions

The divorce rate and the child abuse rate is essentially the same between those who call themselves born again Christians and those who espouse no religious affiliation. What can one say about those statistics? Worst of all espousal abuse (men to women) is greater among Christians than non Christians. So, what’s up with what appears to be the opposite of what should be happening?   <

The easiest broad-base answer is that people who become Christians simply trade one addiction for another.

The goal of humanhood should be to bring the nature of God into visible expression through how we live our lives. But that becomes rather difficult to do when people are taught that God killed his enemies and even killed tens of thousands for the sins of one other. So, if God kills and is angry why can’t we? But, if we look at the Creator that Jesus told us about, the paradigm changes.

We have this massive misunderstanding of why we have come to earth.

We have this identity crisis. We think there are two identities. And there is but the false one that we have created is just that- FALSE! God is ALL IN ALL! But we have created this “sin nature” and we believe that we must be punished because of it. We are one with God. Michelle O’Donnell put it this way, “Man has identified himself as being a part of his sin nature. And by doing so we miss the ability to manifest who we really are and why we have come here. By doing so we also attract the suffering we believe we deserve because of our sin nature.”

Manipulation at church is the same as manipulation in the work place.

Insecurity, self centeredness, greed, and passive-aggressive behaviors have the same stench in church as they do outside the church. As Luther faound out when he became a monk, the “monk Luther” was the same as the “pre monk Luther”. When we begin to heal the false beliefs within our own lives and when we refuse to give in to the appearances and forms that do not exist in reality, we can then begin to show forth the truth and reality of who God is.

Most importantly, we are then on that “WAY” that Jesus said He was. Jesus is the WAY, but speaking his name or using his name as a substitute for simply loving people and BEING, is just trading the egoic addictions of the world for an egoic religious traditions- regardless of denomination. Can you indentify some of the addictions that you brought with you into your “Jesus world” from which you need deliverance?

If so, THEN you are demonstrating that Jesus is the WAY!

As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.