An addition to the BHT, about the problems with religious authorities.
Tag: Christ
“If Evolution is True, The Church is False”?
President Joseph Fielding Smith, as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who later became the tenth President and "Prophet, Seer, and Revelator" of the LDS Church, wrote the following that was published in 1954: "IF EVOLUTION IS TRUE, THE CHURCH IS FALSE."
Didn’t the First Vision Reveal the True Nature of God?
A kind reader reached out to me and asked me to elaborate how my writings about the nature of God work with Joseph Smith's First Vision, since it seems that his vision was meant to "clear up the confusion" surrounding the nature of God, the prevailing idea that God "was not made with body, parts or passions." Wasn't "the point" of his vision to "define for the world who/what God was"?
John 13:35 BHT, Love
This is how all people will know that you are of Me—if you Love each other.
Psalm 23 BHT, the Anointed One
An addition to the BHT, a poem by David about his realization of anointing.
The Ego & the True Human
The human ego, this psychological self, is entrenched in division, in separation, in me versus you, ingroup vs outgroup, my religion or no religion.
Is Christianity not Literally True?
I don't think so. But I think it is deeply, absolutely, universally Real. Let me explain.
Colossians 1:25-28 BHT, the Great Mystery
Regarding the Mystery of the Gospel since the beginning.
We Awaken in Christ’s Body, by Symeon
We awaken in Christ’s body
as Christ awakens our bodies,
and my poor hand is Christ, He enters
my foot, and is infinitely me.
Is God a Person?
The only God that we can find and perceive and know directly as such, I believe, is the one that can be found in the very center and heart of our own Self and Being and Consciousness. That is where God is. That is where God lives. That is God, in humanity.