NOTE: This post is shared here with permission of my friend, Lee O’Hare, who originally shared this in response to the question of universal reconciliation. “And when I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all [men] to myself.” John 12:32 Did you know that the word translated here as “draw” is the Greek word HELKYSO which literally means “to drag along, to draw or pull, to persuade or induce”. In other places it is used to describe... Read more
Saying 29 Jesus said: “If the flesh came into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel. But if the spirit (came into existence) because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. But as for me, I wonder at this, how this great
Saying 28: Jesus said, “I stood at rest in the midst of the world. And unto them I was shown forth incarnate; I found them all intoxicated. And I found none of them thirsty. And my soul was pained for the children of humankind, for
Out of all the beliefs I have reconsidered over the last few years as part of my ongoing deconstruction/reconstruction process, this may be one of the most puzzling. Honestly, I’m not even sure what to call it. It’s not merely the Incarnation of Christ or the nature of the Trinity, or the Deity of Jesus, or the definition of God. It’s sort of all of that wrapped up into one confusing lump. I can remember reading Alister McGrath’s book on... Read more
Saying 27: Jesus said, “If you do not abstain from the world, you will not find the Kingdom. If you do not observe the sabbath as a [true] sabbath, you will not see the father.” Abstaining – or fasting – from the world is
I spent over 10 years working for an in-house marketing agency creating advertising campaigns for top technology companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft and HP, so I am very familiar with the power of marketing and the importance of good branding. That’s why I think God needs a new image because, right now, His brand is way off the mark from the original reset He received roughly 2,000 years ago from Jesus. As part of my previous job in marketing, it... Read more
Saying 26: Jesus said: “You see the mote which is in your brother’s eye; but you do not see the beam which is in your own eye. When you cast out the beam from your own eye, then you will see (clearly) to cast out
Saying 25: Jesus said, “Love your brother like your own soul; protect him like the pupil of your eye.” Simply put, you and your brother are the same. If you realize that you are in the Father, and Christ is in you, and in the
Saying 24: His disciples said: “Teach us about the place where you are, for it is necessary for us to seek it.” He said to them: “He who has ears, let him hear! There is light within a man of light, and he lights the
SAYING 23: Jesus said: “I shall choose you, one out of a thousand and two out of ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single one.” Here we have the same non-duality nugget of truth as every other saying we’ve looked at thus far,
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