Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Bible

Everyone that reads the Bible has an interpretation of it. Many Christians believe it to be the Word, or the laws of life. What I find interesting is in conversation with Christians many have been taught or believe modern man is to refer to the New Testament. Many say the Old Testament refers to life as it was prior to Jesus only. Now it's different and so the New Testament is for Jews and Gentiles alike. I find that interesting how division and separation is created even in reading the Bible. Laws of reality apply all the time and is completely equal to all for all is equally existing.

The first thing I read in the Bible, "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth" lead me to conclude to an interpretation of my own as it has for everyone else who reads this line. My life has crossed people that are Christians, Protestants, Church of Christ and so on, all of which tried teaching me to be a Christian in order to help me be saved or born again. To this day I am not Christian. Another man around me might claim to be an atheist while another calls himself agnostic. Life also has Muslims, Catholic and Buddhists just to name a few. All of these ways are ways of a commitment to a specific means of life through an interpretation based on relativity. Today I am all of those religions. How is that possible that I am all of those religions and and atheist too? My answer is, "I believe all of you!" How is it that a man believes all religions? If you are asking that or stating to yourself that I cannot be all of those religions then you do not understand the possibility of it being so. Should I categorize you for thinking indifferently? Should I start my own religion that includes all religion? How did these different religions come about? Those answers are explained in story and in history is it not? To you I say, "All things exist and are different." Prior to today I believed in infinity and in the finite yet did not include them in all understanding at all times. I found myself embedded in the same traps or my own thought that subjected me to believe "If I am one then I cannot be the other!" Prior to today I thought existence was defined as possible because of change. Today I realize that existence is here because creation exists. Creation is not complete. It continues. Creating is creating as we speak. It is and keeps going. I kept thinking on the lines of science. That was inside the box.

Let us move outside the box for just a moment. I read the Bible. The Bible says God created this and that, and this and that. In the end he rested. Some may have already known that God's creating didn't stop. Things continue to create. The creations of life is continuous. If life is continuously creating then that is creating differences and changes. The creation is beautiful. Life and creation is beautiful. Is God's work done? Christians might conclude that he isn't done because there is going to be a rapture. There is an end and everyone will be judged and some will go to Heaven and others Hell. What is Heaven and Hell? Where are they? No one can answer that with the understanding of having been there unless they have been there. Man is trapped in his own mind, but that is creation. Creation is beautiful and it is a never ending bloom.

For those that believe only the Bible I say to you, "If the Old Testament was for then and the New Testament is for now, what book is for the tomorrow that is on it's way to be Now? When that now comes, you will say, That is not true for it is not what I read in my Bible. Is creation over?"