Archive Home Page Subj: Re:The Sin Of Sodom 94-09-11 14:04:58 EDT
From: Joe Uhrig
>>A lawyer in one who pleads your case before a judge. That's exactly what Jesus promises to do for you before God the final Judge. His fee? Your faith in Him. Can't think of a better deal, especially when he'll guarantee to keep you off of death row! <<
Nothing saddens me more than this. Christianity was blessed to be given one of the most powerful messages of love and hope in the world and why it has evolved into these current forms of fear and oppression and this slavery of the mind known as literal interpretation is something that perhaps only God knows. But blind faith doesn't even allow you to ask...
The restriction of questions is the beginning of tyranny, the asking of questions is the beginning of freedom.
I have no interest in debating the terms of the contract (scripture) because as far as I'm concerned it's null and void. The hierarchies of priestly doctors defaulted on it a long long time ago. Yet I believe even they, the enforcers of the rules of select behavior and conditional salvation, deep down know that God's covenant with mankind was not for tyranny, but freedom.
I understand the roots of this inner human need to defend HIM even as you prostrate yourself before your lord and master. After all it's been around as long as religious control systems have. It may be that the so called Swedish syndrome is at play here, or as any recovering battered wife can tell you, I knew he loved me by the way he humiliated me. Sooner or later on the road to freedom, we all must have a little talk with this lord of power and might (inner or outer, whatever form he has taken). And the bottom line is to accept nothing less than total freedom and full respect at the table of life. Only then can you talk about love, and what it is, and what it isn't. Only then, free of guilt and blame, can you make choices.
Jesus was not a lawyer before the priestly court or even the altar of God, but a revolutionary whose fundamental calling, now hidden behind all the priestly garbage, was to set men free. Should we accept anything less?