Portal – Introduction
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under a tree
wondering to be
beyond the lee
amid the sea
outside of me
untethered and free
Many of us are drawn to the heavens. I imagine we’re the only species on the planet that dreams of outer space adventure!
What created this outer notion in my inner bipolar brain? Perhaps it’s my love for notional outer space adventure. Perhaps it’s the delusional nature of my cerebral cortex. Or perhaps I’ve developed an inner space notion of an outer understanding… God knows!
God knows everything… Even the reason for this website. I, myself, am often wandering in ponderous yonder wonder. I have an inkling that Ed’s Art Net’s purpose is to push pause on our current sociocultural path’s Christian perspective. Perhaps breaking a destructive spiritual cycle… God knows!
Before writing was invented… rocks, plants and animals roamed the planet having been created by the uncaused Cause of the universe, who is infinitely more than a pronoun. In “His” infinite Devine designing wisdom He knew the complete life cycle of all Creation… to the smallest detail… start to finish, even before He “spoke” the universe into existence. Which is just a wee bit beyond human comprehension. So none of us can know God fully, but thankfully, He knows each one of us inside and out. That truth alone, is reason for inner peace… when love is dominant at our core.
God bestowed spirit along with self-awareness to “His” creatures providing us with instinct, reason and purpose. Humans stand out from the other animals only because we were made with an awareness of the Creator. We have His “image” built in. We can emotionally ‘see’ God in everything. Perhaps “seeing” most obviously in the heavens. Our “image” of our Designer begins to come into focus when we look beyond ourselves towards others. At birth, we get our first closeup glimpse of God in our parent’s eyes. As we grow, so does our inner and outer horizon.
Renderings
Here in the USA, native Americans worshipped God in a natural way. The European settlers worshipped God in their way and the founding fathers politically made religious freedom a guaranteed reality. But the Devil’s been pursuing us. We’re faced with choices between what’s good and bad every day. God helps us to make more good choices than bad when we listen to Him and dismiss the Devil. The challenge is knowing who you’re listening to. The reward is love and healing when we fully understand the feeling in the spiritual messaging.
Us and our planet are intrinsically attached. Satan has been after the world since his beginning. The Devil is closer than ever to success with many of us. But it’s not the Devil’s fault. God set the stage. We are merely actors playing out our self-governed roles. When we listen for the Stage Master’s reassuring voice and dismiss the heckler in the audience we are better able to enjoy the show.
Satan’s strength
is focused by our hate
Earth started out as God’s creation. It still is. Humans are free-willed ‘gardeners’ of the planet. We connect spiritually with the Creator in many different ways. One is through God’s etherial creation, Satan. Another is through God’s supernatural creation, the Son. We connect physically through the obvious myriad of everything that makes up the universe. Love is practiced by many. Hate can be overcome because at the heart of everything is Love. God is everything. God is Love.
Casting Light
Mainstream Christianity follows a writing in the Bible book of John wherein he writes that only believers in Christ will go to heaven. I did not get that same message from Jesus Christ’s words.
God’s strength
is focused by our love
The Bible contains God’s Messaging and is also a catalog of human stories. The heart of the Bible is the supernatural recordings of God and ‘God with us’. Those supernatural aspects of the Bible are Divinely Holy. Much of the Bible writings are inspired or inspiring, but not Divine. We’re old enough now to discern the difference. That’s the message God has given me. He says it’s time to grow up and know how much He loves us ALL… not just a select few. God is the Great Healer. Satan is the ‘self’ inflammatory used car wheeler dealer.
In mainstream Christian philosophy, we’ve been placing other fellow human beings along side Jesus Christ spiritually elevating them above the rest of us. That complicated God’s messaging by adding our own bunch of diversionary rules. As a significant example, we Christians put too much emphasis on John’s own personal, but not Divinely Holy, writing. See Love.♥️ John’s recordings of Jesus Christ’s Words are Divine in nature, but some of his writing is John being John, the long living disciple who was a fisherman caught in Jesus’s cast net of loving and following Christ.
We should be living and loving by God’s one simple uniting RULE which was clarified repeatedly for us by Christ… many people do live and love by that Rule, some without knowing or else believing in Jesus Christ. Bible contributing naturally occurring human beings, such as the prophets, Paul and some of Jesus’s disciples wrote by that Rule, but they were not Divinity. They were loving followers of God… like John, Jesus’s best friend when He was walking the earth.
By making the entire Bible writings Divine, we mixed the will of God with our own human emotionally charged will. Of course that happens naturally, but we went beyond natural spiritual intimacy with our Father and Savior, by philosophically endowing some of the naturally occurring human’s writings with Divine Holiness. Which was an inadvertent “child’s vantage” mistake.
That human mistake, over time, has developed some serious negative consequences. But there’s nothing that can’t be overcome… except God and God’s messaging. God’s message can never be thwarted. His message lives in the hearts and minds of everyone that love Him. God’s Message lives in the Bible, in Nature (many have worshipped God through the natural world), AND especially in our human hearts. Satan’s influence will ultimately vanish in God’s time.
One thing I know about God is that He’s very patient. But not forever patient. God’s image is living in our heart, watching and waiting. We realize an eternity of love’s reward when we love God and Creation back with all we have to muster. God planted a seed in our heart, together we water it.
The Bible doesn’t need to change, in fact, it shouldn’t. Naturally occurring humans frame God’s Message… simple as that. But it does need to be read with more “grownup” conscientious discernment. Supernaturally occurring Jesus Christ, fulfilled God’s promise. No one else.
The Holy Spirit is watching and waiting inside our hearts.
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