Jesus Was Controversial Too!


The former led, to religious people, among them Priests, going to a non-believer, Pilate, to ask that Jesus be put to death.  We are headed back to the future,it would seem, in many of our religious circles.


Similar to Jesus Christ, I make no bones about the fact that I am controversial. I make it my practice to warn people in religious circles, up front, that I am controversial. For example, I do not believe that Constantine's Canon, is the unadulterated word of God. I don't believe that Jesus, would have presented it as such himself. Many of his comments, about what had been recorded in the purportedly, 'unadulterated word of God'', supports my position, that Jesus did not believe in everything, 'that people of old times, said or wrote', and I am certain that he would not have agreed with everything that was written following his departure.

Whoever started that, and spake solely based on his or her limitations, especially, given the short period of time that they spent on earth, has done the people a disservice, if not an injustice. I suspect that what we refer to as God, could not have informed us Which religious leader, of any religious organization is 100% correct, informed or misinformed? The answer is in the question, on any given day, it could be any one of us, albeit we would likely never admit it. We often substitute our understanding of a sacred text, to be what God meant or said. To answer the previous question, which of the 2 categories, the answer is, typically the one that you are hearing from at the moment. How pervasive is, 'my understanding is correct', syndrome.

The fact of the matter is that the interpretation of a text, within similar organizations is not always one and the same. And that is why we should always adhere to 2 principles. 1). We walk by faith, and not by sight (and that includes sight-reading), we still don't know. 2). Common sense should inform anyone, that each of us could read the same text, and walk away with a different understanding. Will you ever know which sacred text or teacher, preacher … is absolutely the correct one? What you can know is that you walk by faith, and that is what apparently matters the most in most any faith!of everything. Ergo, we got as much as we could digest.

I appreciate a wise old Bishop, who is now deceased, who told his ministers this: Tell them, where you are preaching, "this is what I believe and why", and then, leave it like that. Hopefully, wheat won't be uprooted, when some of God's ministers believe that they are uprooting a tare. God is love

I Do Not Go Good With Nails

Solomon