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I received a message today from a Christian…

…that needed to express there truths after being offended or needing to justify a video I posted on my Facebook page about Christians burning witches at the stake because they SWORE that’s what God wanted.

This is a very close topic to me being that I WAS a radical christian for 6 years – to the point of raising thousands of dollars as a 12 year old to go and preach the gospel to the struggling, starving nations of Trinidad, Kenya, China and Thailand.

To say that I have been knee deep in the christian faith is an understatement. People close to me straight up avoided me due to fear of being preached my bible thumping verses (which I could quote all of them – I read the bible cover to cover 2 times)

I like most people that find Jesus thought I was doing the right thing, thought I had found the truth; and indeed I had found SOME truth, a heck of a lot of truth even. But, spirituality doesn’t stop at a closed box religious way of being.

The infinite God that I know cannot be contained by any small religion or one way of thinking – God is EVERYTHING, all thoughts, all ways, both order and chaos, both passive and active, both space and time, both everything and nothing, both light and dark, both good and bad, and everything in between.

So, with this in mind here are the bullets of what this christian and most christians claim as the bible’s truth and of course there truth also.

- Belief the Bible is the literal word of God

- Belief that only Jesus performed miracles and that Buddha, Mohamed, Krishna, ect, ect, taught some truth, but were not God on earth

- Belief that only through a relationship with Jesus and belief in his death and resurrection are sinful human souls saved

- Belief in the enemy/satan as something outside/seperate from them like God

- Belief that when you go to heaven God will only see your good stuff/good deeds and you are exempt from all the bad stuff/sin

- Belief that the bible is the only true book and has all the answers

If you see this as christian bashing or negative that is your own interpretation. I see sharing information as empowering and neutral – each person is allowed to make up there own positive or negative feelings and judgments.

Here is my response to this Christians letter…

hello beautiful soul. I appreciate you being open and honest and committed to the current truth that you have found. I am very familiar with non-denominational churches I went to one of the biggest churches in the world called Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, IL. i am very familiar with the holy ghost, with healing, with spirit filled worship music, with speaking in tongues, with vineyard, with charismatic, with lifting of hands, – I witnessed a healing when I was 12 years old after praying for a man that god lead me too. There are many things that I love about Christianity, about church, about jesus.

Everything comes down to beliefs.

The deal is that every religion believes they have the right holy book, every religion believes everyone else needs to know what they know, every religion believes that all people need to be converted to there way of seeing, interpreting and believing.

So what do you, who is right? we end up killing and fighting and arguing with each other to prove that we are right. when we are all saying the same thing – what is contemplation in Christianity, is mediation in Buddhism, what is reaping and sowing in christianity, is karma in buddhism. there is also a bible verse that says “do everything without complaining or arguing”

Many verses in the bible are mistranslated and can be interpreted in many ways. What jesus was saying when he said no one enters the father except through me (john 14:6) means that no one can get to god through anyone but themselves – because christ is withIN each of us. we are all christ, we are all gods offspring. jesus was showing that the god we are looking for is not far off in the sky judging our “sins” – that god/jesus is within each of us and the only person that ever judges us is ourselves for eternity. basically we have to deal/live with ourselves for infinity – thats far more painful and rewarding than someone else (god or satan) holding control over us. That makes us responsible for everything that happens in our lives good and bad. Therefore we want to do “good” or in other words choose things that “feel good” because we have deal with our actions to ourselves and others. and since we are all one, whatever we do to another we are really doing to ourselves since we are all connected and everything comes back to us.

when jesus says “i am” what he means is that each of us is the I am. each of us is the only one who can save ourselves from the hell we create here on earth. we are not separate from god, we choose to come to earth to feel the contrast between what we call dark and light, good and evil, heaven and hell and to be granted the blessed right of free will to choose to go back into alignment with the light that always was and always will be. we come to earth to grow our souls, to evolve in our infinite journeys.

there is no guilt and no shame expect for the emotions of such that we choose to take on. there is only love, only grace, only good feelings. negative emotions are a prison that keep the soul under control. people do the best they know how with the level of awareness that they currently have. people dont know what they dont know.

Christianity holds you under the belief that you are bad, unworthy, sinful, dirty, disgusting but, but, but if you belief in this one man that you are by grace saved and no longer bad, unworthy, sinful, dirty or disgusting. and by the way pay me for that interpretation on the way out.

we each create our own truths.

nothing is broken, no one needs to be saved, the only person that can save themselves is themselves because within themselves is god. the only hell there is – is the one we create on earth through this repetitive process –> thoughts, feelings, attraction of inner beliefs, actions taken in your life to match beliefs, your external reality (james 1:14-15). we are all god/christ that came from our perfect state in heaven to an imperfect earth to choose the light again, because how much do we learn in pure perfection? – nothing.

sin put another way is anything that makes you feel bad or negative, which of course is up to ones own judgment/perception – what feels bad to one feels good to another.

jesus spoke in metaphors, symbolism, and parables because its easier for us to understand simple stories than it is to understand that each human being is really an all knowing, eternal, infinite spirit that humbled themselves and came into an imperfect male or female human form to remember and return to our perfect, god/goddess form. (philippians 2:5)

letting go of our labels and identities takes a heck of a lot of courage – think back to when you first accepted jesus into your heart how much courage it took to take on the new belief and path of Christianity and how all the people around you (family, friends, neighbors, etc) reacted to your new found truth. its the same courage it takes to admit and reach into new truths and let go of old labels, old levels and less developed ways of understanding. (1 corinthians 13:11-12)

Christianity is absolutely beautiful and I am so happy for the hundreds of beautiful things I learned and took from it and still take from it – I still read the bible, I still listen to worship music and other christian music, I still pray like a warrior, I still receive incredible insights from father/mother god, I still respect Christians that are reaching for the god within and that are reaching for service towards others and towards the planet.

Sharing the whole truth is what I am into – so sharing about Christianity’s beautiful side as well as its not so beautiful side is telling the truth. each person has the spiritual gift the bible calls discernment to choose what they feel is right for them. to take in the good and bad feelings and interpretations they receive from any information they hear and to make there own decisions and to talk/pray to the god within and consult with the jesus within and move forward from there.

concerning the bible – it is a book written by those that felt the god within speaking to them and therefore wrote down what they heard and felt, and they found it to work for them so they told other people that’s what they should do to because they assumed there way would work for others too – which mind you was 2,000 years ago – humanity’s awareness has increased 2,000 fold since then. we are given the opportunity to come down to earth and create our own laws, our own rules, based on each persons understanding of what life means, it’s up to them to figure out and choose. That’s what free will is – the will to choose freely. we all write our own bibles, our own truths, our own god given insights – we all have the same access to the truth within that those that wrote the bible or any other holy book did. And no one stands in judgment of how we live our lives except ourselves.

when I say god loves you – I am saying the god within me recognizes the god within you and I love you since you are me and I am you. I accept all the good and bad within me and I accept all the good and bad within you – thats true unconditional love. seeing the good and bad as one and not as separate from each other is real love – since we choose to come to earth with an ego that will always be with us while we live in these human flesh suits. (the book of romans 7:14-25 in the bible talks about that – wanting to do what the god within you wishes to do, but not being able to do it because of your flesh and ego)

I think you are a fantastic soul – I have so much respect that you are diving into faith, spirituality, entrepreneurship, marketing and being a leader. I love and admire all those qualities about you. I admire that you stand up for what you believe in, that you can claim what you feel to be right. that you wish to love and serve others – that truly is the perfect light within you shinning bright and strong.

like you I am very excited that the christ consciousness is growing on earth faster and faster these days as the world is preparing for the world wide shift to the golden age.

love, light, blessings, and i’m so proud you and I love you

KD