Forgiveness and the Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit: Christianity as Jewish Refined Buddhism
I am sorry I couldn't post this earlier; I was on a short trip to Taiwan in the Republic of China. While there I witnessed the phenomenon of unforgiveness between a number of sisters in a family we visited. Quite disturbing. The ones incapable or forgiving are the Christians in that particular family. It made me think, what is their church teaching?
The feature of Judaism that caused Mark to refine his Buddhism into Christianity was its forgiveness. Mark's Eternal Buddha, Jesus Christ, is God, and It has become everything. Yes, we sin and offend both man and God, but everything is God, so it is God who offends and God who is offended. It is a wash -- everything is forgiven -- there is no punishment. Not so in original Buddhism, where karma merits advance or punishment. In Judaism you either grow or continue, mature or not. Not maturing to advancement, we recycle ourselves here over and over and over until we perceive the oneness we are part and parcel to and break through to a higher grasp of imagination's -- God's -- our -- power.
Mark got it and taught it through his new version of Buddha's teachings: Jesus Christ. His "we are all one," though, became read by the church as "we all -- Christians -- are 'we', and you guys are not." It doesn't work that way, but the Christian church has divided itself from the world, which I suspect is why the Christian sisters in that family have gone on their own tangent apart from the rest of the family and are especially grieved against their Buddhist sister. Go figure.
The forgiveness of God's oneness was a revelation to Mark. I hope it will be a revelation to you as well. The Holy Spirit, the consciousness of God, speaks continuously to our hearts testifying to the unconditional acceptance the Father has for his body, our imaginations. It is the rejection and putting off of God's unconditional forgiveness of us for our imaginations being in and of the oneness of God that is the "blaspheme of the Holy Spirit." By dividing itself from the rest of God's beloved world the church denies God's unconditional forgiveness it was designed to preach and condemns its members, who neither know it nor can perform it, to continued restoration in this refining fire of death.
It isn't punishment; the lesson just goes on and on. Please, forgive.
The feature of Judaism that caused Mark to refine his Buddhism into Christianity was its forgiveness. Mark's Eternal Buddha, Jesus Christ, is God, and It has become everything. Yes, we sin and offend both man and God, but everything is God, so it is God who offends and God who is offended. It is a wash -- everything is forgiven -- there is no punishment. Not so in original Buddhism, where karma merits advance or punishment. In Judaism you either grow or continue, mature or not. Not maturing to advancement, we recycle ourselves here over and over and over until we perceive the oneness we are part and parcel to and break through to a higher grasp of imagination's -- God's -- our -- power.
Mark got it and taught it through his new version of Buddha's teachings: Jesus Christ. His "we are all one," though, became read by the church as "we all -- Christians -- are 'we', and you guys are not." It doesn't work that way, but the Christian church has divided itself from the world, which I suspect is why the Christian sisters in that family have gone on their own tangent apart from the rest of the family and are especially grieved against their Buddhist sister. Go figure.
The forgiveness of God's oneness was a revelation to Mark. I hope it will be a revelation to you as well. The Holy Spirit, the consciousness of God, speaks continuously to our hearts testifying to the unconditional acceptance the Father has for his body, our imaginations. It is the rejection and putting off of God's unconditional forgiveness of us for our imaginations being in and of the oneness of God that is the "blaspheme of the Holy Spirit." By dividing itself from the rest of God's beloved world the church denies God's unconditional forgiveness it was designed to preach and condemns its members, who neither know it nor can perform it, to continued restoration in this refining fire of death.
It isn't punishment; the lesson just goes on and on. Please, forgive.
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