My Hope is Strong

If you can not get past first impressions, and you don't even have the common courtesy to offer me some of your time for a conversation; then I don't care about you, honestly I don't. But I still want you to be blessed and successful because my happiness depends on you, it really does. I want to have the opportunity to meet absolutely everyone and have a friendly conversation, nothing would bring me more joy. I want to hear you share the stories of your life, I want to get to know you personally, I want a relationship. And this relationship is truely inevitable because we are all companions within the eternal kingdom; In fact some kind of relationship exists between us wether we would choose it or not. Absolutely everybody in the world bears some kind of family relationship to absolutely everybody else. For any two living persons that we can point to, there will always always be some common ancester. This will be true wether you believe in evolutionary science, or the genesis story of creation - both stories draw to the same conclusion. And while the matter has become undenialble fact, its the hardest thing in the world to get other people to agree with; people are living thier lives in denial. And since this is true we hate the people who are different from ourselves, we love the people who are most like us. We will always share certain interests with others, and there will always be other people with whom we want no personal involvement. Some people there will always be in the world to behave in opposition to my own personal interests, because of the behaviour of some people life can be made so much more risky. But I beleive that we all share a common desire for our own comfort at least if not peace, life on Earth does not need to be so much of a struggle! Human life is played very much like a big competitive game, everybody is keeping score, we are constantly comparing ourselves to the people around us. It is not good enough to have some personal accomplishments, our accomplishments need to be as good or better than the accomplishments of our peers. And after all has been said or done, we are all equals; no one person is more or less important than another person. Clearly we can be un-equal in so many different ways. Some people are more or less educated; some people are more or less intelligent; some people have more or less physical endurance; some people are faster or stronger; and some people are more or less wealthy. Its very easy to see how we are all different, and its clear that each person is defined by certain personal accomplishments, and we do not all have the same accomplishments in life. Even though we can be un-equal in so many different ways, its still not possible that one person can be more or less important than another, in this respect we are absolutely equal.

My hope that every human being is capable of becomeing mature and wise is the only reason that I have to exercise patience and tollerance. And I do honestly believe that even insanity can be overcome in due course of time. Our world is in dire need of maturity; intellectual maturity and more importantly, emotional maturity. And I would qualify that need in one word, "Civility." The people need to learn civility, and good manors have much to do with civility. Without some measure of civility we are not civilized; it is not good enough to observe that we are city dwellers, living in a city is no gaurentee of civilization. And Human Nature being what it is, we all share a common and fundamental need for companionship. Modern society is suffering for a lack of social sensibility, every person needs to be socialized. No person should be deprived of a good friendship. It is absolutely detrimental to human developement and physical well-being to go un-socialized within the community. None-the-less certain people will fail to compete in the venue of friendship, and become shunned. And so long as people play life as a competitive game, there will always be some people who are unable to compete on our terms.

It is easy to see how the honorable man is deserving of our respect, but what is respect if not dignified treatment? And if you want to believe in 'Basic Human Dignity' as any kind of principle that elevates us above the animal kingdom, then you must must must be willing to show that dignity to absolutely everyone. The criminal is clearly undeserving, they have shown the community some behaviour which is not justifiable. We must somehow be brought into the agreement that all human behaviour is somehow justifiable, truely a fair argument can be made in support of that statement. Killing is Murder, irregaurdless of your cause; it is either justifiable under every condition or else it may never be considered justifiable, you absolutely can not have the matter both ways just as it pleases you. Killing in self-defense is often viewed as justifiable in our modern world, and such views are well supported by Old Testament Biblical philosophy. Revenge is a fair motivation for us to act upon, the victims of a crime deserve closure we say. But the only thing that will ever make a difference is for the perpetrator of a crime to see the victim as another human being. And for that cause to be best served, simple conversation is all that should be required.

Therefore I am desireing of the promise of a ressurection. The promise of a ressurection to our immortality is the ultimate good IMHO. When you are made to live upon this Earth again; and as one human being among 14 billion or so people, you will finally come to appreciate your true importance. When there is never again the possibility of excuseing ourselves from having a conversation by saying that, "We don't have the time," the people can not fail to grow wise. Jesus taught the world a principle of forgiveness, and I do believe that its possible to be forgiven, but we may not be given to forget. We must be able to admit to the things we have done in life, you must tell your story and be judged 14 billion times over. Yes forgiveness is a possibility but judgement is a certainty! And our forgiveness can never be complete unless we are able to forgive ourselves; and we may only be able to forgive ourselves by learning to forgive others as well.

But my HOPE is strong, maturity is a possibility.

Deception to End All Deception

If Heaven will provide me with the miracles that I desire, or even just a portion thereof, then I will work to deceive a great many people in the world today. Just as the story is supposed to go. But the truth is that all of these great many people are already the victims of a deception, and I will attempt to fight deception with deception. In the same sense that a forest fire may be fought with a fire to consume all it's fuel. The people will be faced with a dilema, they will be forced to examine all of thier long held beliefs and reconsider thier feelings about those beliefs. Until every lie has been consumed and there is no longer any fuel remaining in the world for fear and hatred to cling to, I will do battle.

Of course I do not possess some strange mental power that can produce the effects that I have described. My power is exactly the same as anyone else's, the power to imagine a possibility coupled with desire. But I have a personal advantage that most people don't enjoy, I know that there is a God in Heaven and that it's paying attention to events here on Earth. And I know that that God is aware of my plans and schemes my desires and my dreams. I have never recieved any kind of instructions from God, no advice or directions. I never heard of a single person who was born with an instruction manual and thats just the way it is for all of us. Everything I had to figure out on my own, I had to exercise my own judgement to best of my ability. Although I have received no direct guidance, I have experienced a number of vivid and interesting dreams. I will never claim to be God or A God, I am just a simple human being trying to realize his own potential. And I believe that our individual potential will be best expressed through a partnership with Heaven.

In the hour that the Nations of the World will be judged, it has been suggested that the mysteries of God would be revealed. And it is my intention in this mortal lifetime to provide that judgement. At this time no lasting judegement will be made against an individual person, I will only address how we interact with one another as national groups. And as the nations have delt with one another, they shall also be delt with in the same vein. The power to destroy or the verifiable threat therof, is the only consideration that the nations and the leaders of this world will ever respect. It is unfortunately true that only the threat of destruction will lend enough weight to my arguments to be seriously considered.

You will however still be judged individually according to the things that you have done or said but not according to the things that you merely believed in. And you will not be judged entirely by one judgement, but you will be judged 14 billion times over. All that you have done will stand revealed and there will be no more secrets, the light will remove every shadowy corner of your life. In the end, after we have obtained a full comprehension and understanding of how we have been a cause in the world, and how we have been a victim, we must be able to forgive ourselves. In order for a person to be completely redeemed by love, they must be able to love themselves. No matter what the outcome of my judgement may be, you will be made to live again on this Earth, and to live long enough for the task of judement to be completed. The resurrection is guarenteed, and even though I don't know exactly how it will work, I know that its true. Because whether or not you realize this at the moment, this Universe that we live in is a very strange and wonderful place. It still holds some surprises for us to discover I think. And if I have my way with the world you will soon discover that there is real power in Heaven.

What Does Christianity Require?

Personally I do not believe that Jesus ever was or is God, I'm right with the Moslems in saying that there is only one God and not three. It is a grevious error to think our great teacher of forgivness was anything other than a human being. If Jesus was himself a divinity then it is only natural that he would be able to overcome the world; we can never be like him, we could never accomplish what he did. Obviously he walked into the crucifiction knowing full well what might happen to him, but he believed it was neccessary for some reason. It was even neccessary for one of his own disciples to betray him. But there is evidence that he suffered from a severe case of anxiety in the Garden of Gethsemane[sp?] when he was seen to shed blood from every pore of his body. Jesus even described himself as the, "Son of Man" in addition to the, "Son of God." I believe that it is perfectly in accord with the principles of Christianity that we are all Sons and Daughters of God, so it is not particularly remarkable or significant that Jesus may have refered to himself as such. Whatever the precise conditions of his conception may have been; even if it was an immaculate conception, every male child has one biological father. For a male child to be born there MUST be a biological father; we simply do not know who it was, or how insemination occured. Heaven may very well have intervened within the womb of Mary, but we don't know exactly what was done.

It was the labor of Jesus's life to bring Forgiveness to the world, and particularly to teach forgiveness. And Jesus appeared among the people who were most in need to learn forgiveness, the Jewish people.

So what exactly is required for a person to believe in, in order to be considered a Christian. Must we beleive that Jesus was and is God? Must we believe in the immaculate conception? Perhaps it is enough to believe that by his example, Jesus saved the whole world of humanity from Sin? And he really is our saviour; he is everybody's saviour, even the people who never heard of him or believed in him. Because upon the cross, with his dieing breath he uttered a prayer to our Heavenly Father. "The people do not understand what it is they are doing," he proclaimed. And to this day, two-thousand and some odd years later that prayer has been heard. And he's perfectly correct; the people do lack understanding, its as true today as it ever was back then.

The Christian community has long expected a great villan to arise to power in the world. An Anti-Christ, but I think this person may not be exactly what they are expecting. The world has been promised a day of Judgement, therefore there must be a Judge of all the Nations. If one man fulfills the mission of Judgement with his life; if a man comes into the world to teach Judgement, then in a sense he would be the anti-thesis of Jesus. Jesus fulfilled the role of the ideal First-Born Son, it is an archetype in human society of particular importance to the Jewish traditions. Now history will require one man to appear and fulfill the role of the ideal Patriarch, which is another great archetype from human society.

I still believe that there is one and only one true and most high God. To the best of my own personal knowledge this God is not Angry with us, he might not even be dissappointed with us. It may not be possible for God himself to judge us, it may be required for one of us to come forward and do the job. And it is a job, it is something that we all do each and every moment of the day. Judgement is a part of human nature, to exercise it only comes naturally to us. Judgement is a basic and common human talent in the same sense that flight is a natural talent to all bird life. And perhaps it is even possible for one person to excell in judgement in the same sense that the popular fictional character, Johnathan Livingston Seagull excelled at flight.

Even though Jesus was never recognized as the expected Messiah by his own people; or at least not all of them, in a sense he did deliver them from the Roman power over the world. The rise and spread of Christianity reached Rome, and in some respects was instrumental in its downfall. Jesus has been described as the, "Prince of Peace," and this has always been one of my favorite titles for him. He was a human being like us, and a true king with the power of Heaven behind him. He was titled, "King of the Jews," and I believe thats a true title. But he was not the King of Kings, who I believe is yet to come. The true General of the Armies of Heaven, the man who will make a pillar of flame fall from heaven and strike the Earth in the presence of men.