Love 🤍

What is love but the leading and binding force of God in nature

God’s Message has everything to do with everyone
…not just Christians

Humans made lots of divisional rules
God made one rule

Perhaps we should follow God for God and read John for John. Maybe you already see this… in your heart. Jesus is a unifying figure… not a divisive one. God created Satan to test us with division. We’re all subject to encounter Satan’s influence. Especially in weak spirited moments.

Jesus loves everyone, not JUST the ones who know Him. Satan loves power over us and tries his hardest to confuse and distract us from God’s goodness and love.

Read the Good Book for spiritual healing… God’s words when seeking spiritual guidance. The rest of the Bible, with a friend, when seeking spiritual human comfort. 🥰

Read my work when you want a wacky doodle mutt’s opinion. 🐶

our heart matters…
our opinion counts…
🤍
truth clears the air

I love common sense. That’s where God is most clearly spiritually visible and in focus. Common sense is God’s town hall and it’s always in session. The Devil’s town hall is eventually recognizably BS.

God doesn’t hide heaven and hell from us

We physically see and emotionally feel them in our world of words, art, music, and nature

We may get a glimpse of heaven in a sunset
or experience hell in a storm

We can also learn something about heaven and hell from relationships… Especially in the brevity of strangers. We may fall in love or experience the insanity of hate from an aggressor.

The measure of our soul is in how we enjoy or overcome who and what we encounter

We of the Earth are one human race made up of billions of INDIVIDUALS. We each have unique thoughts.

I believe that one day we will be of “one” spiritual (emotional) mindset.

We can gently question the “only Christians make it to Heaven” as self-centered thinking.

People can love each other without the Bible. Not everyone is exposed to Christianity. Even if they are exposed, many do not believe it’s truth. I believe that’s because Devine attributes have been projected onto certain humans. That creates doubt in a discerning mind.

I also know that the Devil works hard at intrusion. The messages from Satan typically spawn confusion. Satan is aggressively after us all.

The Message from Jesus is that we should follow God’s one simple command. Following God’s simple directive defeats Satan!

The mainstream Christian foundation: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”  John 3:16-18 NIV

John wrote in literal terms that we will not enter Heaven unless we believe that Jesus is our Savior. But is that what Jesus exactly meant by his words?

John was a man… a fully human man. John and Jesus were best friends. Jesus’s death and the way he died would have hurt John especially deeply.

Understandably, there’s a great deal of emotion in John’s writing. He had just cause to be hurt and angry about his best friend being taken from him as if a criminal. 

John’s personal writing reflects his pain along with his love. Jesus’s words do not reflect pain, only love. Yet we know Jesus endured great pain. And not just on the cross.

I believe that John wrote Truth. I also understand that he was subject to his own emotions, like we all are. I don’t see conflict in John’s writings. I see love, beautiful fully human love, for us and his dear friend Jesus.

When we focus on the simple Devine messages from God… starting with the book of Job and finishing with Jesus’s words. We can feel with our spirit and see with our heart God’s good and perfect plan.

The focus at Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross is morbidly selfish. When we think of Jesus, God wants us to focus on Jesus’s life, his ministry… where he loved and healed us. God showed us a glimpse of the reward for following Jesus’s example with the resurrection. It appears we’ve been celebrating Jesus’s death with the cross symbol.

The early Christians celebrated Jesus with the fish symbol. Jesus was a fisher of us. The cross was a deadly and cruel torture device.

A misguided church peddles eternal life and uses John’s words as its foundation.

God’s Spiritual church reflects Jesus’s ministry and uses those and God’s “words”, especially in the natural world, as its foundation.

The symbol of the cross is a sad one. The fish is a happy one. We mourn Jesus’s death and celebrate his life and resurrection.

Jesus taught in parables… not in literal terms. He used examples of compassion to teach us. He “spoke” that we would not enter Heaven except through him… referring to his thoughtful behavioral examples, not whether or not we accept or believe in Jesus as the Christ.

Through Jesus, God taught us how to love one another. When we live aspiring to achieve Jesus’s example, we are approaching God’s will for us here on earth.

Being a good “Christian” means accepting others’ beliefs when they too love God (Nature), love others and love themselves. Jesus does not teach us to condemn and divide ourselves from one another. We do that on our own. With a little “help” from the Devil. Satan’s influence is deadly. We’re most vulnerable when under the stresses that can lead to mental illnesses.

Many think that their particular belief in God or their belief that there is no God, is the only correct thinking. That’s not what Jesus taught. That’s what Satan wants us to do… fight each other over power. Jesus taught us to love and respect each other, Jesus did not teach us to divide and conquer in the name of our own personal religious doctrine. 

We can learn from and appreciate John’s writings same as we do with all the inspired writers of the Bible. Their beautiful work frames God’s message. But our direction should only come from God which is to…

…Love 🤍

Love is always in His words. Jesus didn’t teach us doctrines. He told us to love God the Father and Creation. He told us to love others. He told us to love ourselves. He showed us how.

Thankfully, God Spirit graciously helps when we ask and are able to listen.

Even agnostics and atheists are following God’s rule when they love themselves, others, and realize Nature as a mysterious source of Sustenance to Love.

Our BEHAVIOR and THOUGHTS are what matters most. Hate, pride, and judging others will get us closer to Hell. Love will get us closer to God.

In summary

Choosing to be a Christian is not the ONLY way to Heaven. John’s condemning emotionally ill words are misleading.

Love is the only way to Heaven, according to God. When we love, we are as One. No matter what the religion or “non-religion”. Don’t you feel it when you meet a stranger and become friends? Your new friend could be any “religion” or “religious denomination”. Love is what matters.

We only get into trouble when we stray from love with divisive rhetoric.

None of us own the rights to LOVE nor do we own the right to tell others what and how to think and believe.

LOVE is the foundation that God’s Heaven is built on… not man’s religious doctrines.

Seeing is believing… God’s Love is reflected in Nature. We can “see” God in a hummingbird, a twig, the stars, maybe especially the stars. God is in everything. God’s lives and breathes in our heart.

We find God’s Love watching and waiting there 💟

Did this bring you a moment of peace today?
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