Theocentric Musings

I've noticed that human nature is all about exclusion. It's "us against them", it's my state against the next state, my city against the next city, my neighborhood, against the next neighborhood. It's in sports, extracurricular activities, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, car brands, cars vs. trucks, cars vs. motorcycles, social media sites, political parties, skin color, etc. The list would be quite exhausting if I continued to provide examples, but one huge problem is that exclusion has become a major part, a poisonous part, of a group that should be completely focused on inclusion. Exclusion has corrupted the minds of many whose hearts should be drawing them to being open and loving, reaching out to those that they think are different. Exclusion has caused a love to go cold. Exclusion has caused a man to despise his neighbors, every neighbor around the world. That group that exclusion has become such a major part of is... ...Christians. When we study these tr...

The greatest trick satan ever pulled was getting people to look at the bible as a "how to" guide for living their life, with every word on equal footing with Jesus Himself, rather than seeing scripture as the greatest story ever told showing man's ignorance of God and pointing people away from a false separated view of God, and towards an illumination of the Abba, God truly is, in the form of relationship with Jesus. This has caused man to not look at the founding relationship God had with Adam . They don't see the real truth of what God desired. How God did not sit on a throne with Adam prostrate like a worm before Him. God instead chose to travel down from the heavens and walk side by side with Adam enjoying the companionship of the creation He loves.   But due to this "trick", these men look at the separated status the Israelites were born into and try to emulate that mixed in with what they now know of Jesus, or their interpretation of who Jesu...