Revisioning the Sacred, the Problem of Mormonism

[msnobody]

I’ve heard it said that man has an innate sense to appease God. Although I am far from being an historian, from what I can tell, there is evidence for this throughout history.

Biblically speaking, there is nothing hidden from the eyes of God. We have a consciousness of sin/guilt before a holy God to whom we will give account. To put it another way, from previous ways I’ve said it; God gave a means of appeasing his wrath upon sin. He came to this earth in the person of Jesus Christ to save us from Himself. He gave us Himself to save us from Himself (ultimate judgement upon sin). Like Adam and Eve, we try to hide ourselves from God, justify our sin, and blame others; even God for our sin. Our own efforts, regardless of how sincere they are, never truly relieve our consciousness of guilt. There is only one mediator between God and man and He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through the Son. This is why endowments, temple marriage, tithing settlement, eternal progression, etc. never relieves the guilt or consciousness of sin.

Okay, so don’t blame Philo for waking the evangelical. She was already stirring. Carry on. 

[Shulem]

The relativity of the religions will be replaced by the over-arching totality of spirituality from ages past to ours all within ourselves as knowledge of who we are, because that is what the religions have been trying to answer, but have gotten sidetracked into making themselves God and losing sight of the fact that it is in fact, our own selves who are gods, a part of the Divine One, “Everything that lives is holy...

I think that everyone of us are like pixels (a little dot) that are part of a vast collective of many pixels that make up the entire picture. Every single dot is a part of God, every dot is God. The whole picture is God and all its parts make up the whole picture. Every dot is just important as the whole picture and the whole picture is just as important as a single dot.

I think that was a main teaching of Jesus and I believe it.