A Practical Theology

A THEOLOGY TO CHANGE OUR WORLD

Theology should be practical. Practicality is what salvation and 

healing are all about. Theology is eminently practical for these 

if you have the right perspective, less so if you do not.

For how can one call upon a god in whom they have not believed?

Oh, they may "believe in God" greatly, but in a false god, a god

who is separate, distant, and thus unreal. The real God is present,

incarnate, powerful, and includes us. God is advaita -- without

division.

We suffer greatly from misunderstanding what scripture means. I 

mean real suffering: pain, sickness, poverty, death, divorce. Life 

-- the force for healing and salvation -- is here, but we cannot 

take advantage of the force because we are thinking incorrectly. 

We pray to a false god.

For one thing, we think things are separate when they, that is, 

we, are actually a unified whole. Because of this misconception, 

we pray to God whom we think is far off, distant and separate. We 

beg and plead and supplicate and rationalize to our distant Lord 

hoping that he will hear and respond, or that some angel will 

carry our message up to him and then zoom back down with the 

authority to act on our behalf. But "up there" there is nothing. 

We can wait forever before "God" separate and apart from ourselves 

answers. 

Oh, God is up there, all right. But there is no separate God. God 

does hear us, because he is us. He knows everything, because he is 

playing all the parts. But God knows we are praying to some 

distant "God" we believe is real, and he, looking "up there" says, 

"No, no one there. Nobody there to save you, to heal you. I AM the 

only real God: there is no other. Pray to Me!" 

Let's get our act together. 

The Most High God is continuous, omnipresent -- an unbroken, 

unsegmented, transcendent being who stretches from the 

incomprehensible, ineffable supra-spirit source of life to the 

God-we-can-know to our thoughts to our quantum makeup. The real 

God is not "immanent" to us; he is us. 

We think of things in the scriptures as separate entities because 

we read them in the nominative case. They are actually verbs. 

God is spirit in action. Creation is something the Ineffable is 

doing. Jesus Christ is the action of the Ineffable shepherding 

its flock of manifestation-actions. There is only one nominative 

being: the Ineffable. 

It would help us immensely if we could see each "thing" as part 

of an organic whole of immense movements. Every thing is a motion 

in the overall action.  

The concept of continuous movement is important. God did not just 

say, "Booglie-booglie . . . exist!" and pop us into existence out 

of nothing. God also did not cause us and then send us on our way 

separate and apart from himself. God is continuously becoming in 

and through us. We are his present, moment-by-moment action of 

achieving experience, the beloved Son -- the Ineffable's form in 

this dimension. Our experience is its form, because we are one.


AWAKE AND AWARE

Jesus Christ, the Ineffable's connection to us within us, "died" 

for us when the consciousness of God, the Holy Spirit, "flipped" 

in descending into being our consciousness in this carnal world. 

He gave up all awareness of what he is . . . on our side. Thus 

he is "nailed" -- affixed -- onto this "cross" of death, our 

bodies. 

On the Ineffable's side of the connection, he is still fully 

aware of what he is, what we are, and what he is doing.

Now, what could be more practical than the awareness that, 

inside, we are the creator of the world -- and its savior -

- and its healer? What could be more practical than knowing that 

we are the living, life-giving actor of the Ineffable giving 

birth to our beloved experience? What could be more practical 

than knowing that our faith -- our imaginal action of believing -

- is our touch point with the effective agency of the Ineffable's 

becoming into existence according to his desires? 

"Ye are God" (Psalm 82: 6). If God says that we are God, why would 

we doubt? Our being God is the thrust of scripture: "Wherefore 

criest thou unto Me? . . . Lift thou up THY rod, and stretch out 

THINE hand over the sea, and divide it" (Exodus 14: 15-16). Our 

"hand" is manifestation of the "hand" of the Ineffable . . . 

and being the hand of the Ineffable, its power to create is 

omnipotent. 

Wow, that hardly seems humble, but Jesus Christ is the power and 

wisdom of God in us; he is our connection with the Ineffable, 

and faith with this knowledge cranks up the amperage of the 

connection. "How fully can you surrender, and not be afraid?" 

(Frank C. Laubach, Open Windows, Swinging Doors/Letters from a 

Modern Mystic).

We are not becoming gods, we are THE God -- the Big Kahuna. There 

is only one God, "One" made up of multitudes (Deuteronomy 6:4),

all sinuously connected within. 

Consider, please, Victor Alexander's understanding of the ancient 

biblical languages and his opinion that the Hebrew word 'elohim' 

is actually 'al-lo-hiem', which means "over the flames" 

(http://www.v-a.com/bible/bible.html). It is the flames which are 

plural, not the spirit who is over them. As in Genesis 1: 1, where 

(in my opinion) "the Ineffable" is an expected/understood proform 

in the Hebrew 'bara', "created", (thus: "With a beginning, (the 

Ineffable) created God, the Heavens and the Earth"); so also the 

word 'Elohim' says: "(The Ineffable) over the flames." 

The Ineffable is singular, the flames are plural, and the whole 

"package" is One: limitless in potential, but in its most compact 

form packaged for expansion, us.

I believe Moses meant for his Gospel to be eminently practical. 

Moses wrote his Gospel in the form of illustrations which are 

instructions for personal development. The Pentateuch is a manual 

on How to Think Correctly. We have misread these instructions as 

history for centuries -- for millennia -- but they were meant as

illustrations to be taken to heart and mind for regeneration. 

Moses published his manual as an open door to a new and more 

meaningful life for everybody. No politics before one could have 

a life of power and understanding. I believe he intended for 

whomever wanted to go through the door to be free to do so 

without impediment. These things were never secret (you do have 

a Bible, don't you?), we have just been to stupid from our 

ignorancing (from the spirit's flip to our carnal consciousness)

to read them properly. 

I think one of the first items in Moses' manual is about adjusting 

our perspective. I wrote above about our actually being God. We 

usually see ourselves as separate, finite beings and God as a 

separate, howbeit infinite entity -- somewhere else. Big mistake. 

Take it from J. B. Philips, who wrote the book Your God is Too 

Small, we need to greatly expand our concept of the Infinite. 

The Most High God is inconceivable, incomprehensible, ineffable. 

THAT being, which was before the beginning, "created God, the 

Heavens, and the Earth." That is code for its plan for Man. 

Man is an extension of the Most High God. Jesus Christ is the 

pattern we are progressing to, but we are just in process now.