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Pamela Fidler's avatar

I’m still working on it too Jeff. I met Christ at 14. I still believe in Jesus and God. Incoming what some call as blasphemous but I don’t think so: What if all gods are the same.

Hear me out. If God is a loving God then it stands to reason that He wants the people He created to join Him in heaven. So what if different religions are ways to meet God?

Maybe the human exsistence is culturally and spiritually different depending on location. Oh wait it is. So why wouldn’t an all knowing all powerful being who longs to have a relationship with us only provide one way to get to Him. That seems counterintuitive. Not to mention if the Bible is the utter true words of god why did kings and councils make changes to it? There are way too many questions and no satisfying answers. The too often spoken Christian phrase response is that is when faith comes in. I have faith. But I have 0 faith in my fellow men.

So I’ve decided if the greatest commandment Jesus gave me Is love your neighbor then I’m going to love everyone very hard. Other then that I’ll find out when I die.

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Rob M.'s avatar

Thanks for sharing this journey, Jeff. It has been a long while since we chatted (Ragnar, maybe?), and in that time I have and am walking a very similar path. It can't be easy, especially when the people around us, coming from the places we have travelled, are still in that starting square of 'well this is truth (or Truth?) and there's nothing else that matters... except "The Truth". I am leaning heavy on experience, and when one sees that the mysterious is UTTERLY veiled in mystery, and the answers to questions like this are likely never found in the head, but rather in the heart... it's a tough movement. I have found some comfort in some 'practices' and 'approaches', as well as some great heart-led analogies of the various 'god-flavors' in our world, which sort of put me in a place of peace, yet are darn near heretical to certain folks, even though what I have felt allows for everyone and everything, but it makes doctrine of any kind slightly... overbearing(?). I say all this to say that I still consider myself a 'work in progress'. I should post this to Facebook, but I am afraid of what will happen when some of our common friends from 'the school', get ahold of it. So props to you for bearing this, and I look forward to reading the next few installments to see where the journey goes. Peace!

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