The Dalai Lama told me he doesn't want to convert me, though I think that Buddhism is a fine faith. No, he says, I should become a better example of a practitioner of the faith I was born into. Well, that faith is exclusionary, or non-syncretic, which means that it doesn't acknowledge the validity of any other faith. "There is no way to the Father but through me"
So when a student asked me, "Are you a christian?" I hear, "Are you (what I concieve to be) a christian?" I said I wasn't a Nicenean Christian, which is a term I made up on the spot. What I meant was that, yeah, I'm a Christian, but I have issues with the faith that was given me. Several year ago I discovered that there were about 100 Gospels at one time and the Church Fathers of early Christianity excluded all but 4. I wanted to know what they wanted to hide. The Gospel of Thomas, for example, has Jesus sounding more like a Buddhist or a Taoist. "Go into the abyss [the bottom of the ocean], and you find me there; split open the log, and there you will find the Kingdom of God."
Fundamentalist Christianity, will meet its end in the coming decades. If our culture is to survive, it must more closely align itself with the True, which is also close to God. It is time to re-examine the Lost Gospels and question the motives of early Church Fathers.
So when a student asked me, "Are you a christian?" I hear, "Are you (what I concieve to be) a christian?" I said I wasn't a Nicenean Christian, which is a term I made up on the spot. What I meant was that, yeah, I'm a Christian, but I have issues with the faith that was given me. Several year ago I discovered that there were about 100 Gospels at one time and the Church Fathers of early Christianity excluded all but 4. I wanted to know what they wanted to hide. The Gospel of Thomas, for example, has Jesus sounding more like a Buddhist or a Taoist. "Go into the abyss [the bottom of the ocean], and you find me there; split open the log, and there you will find the Kingdom of God."
Fundamentalist Christianity, will meet its end in the coming decades. If our culture is to survive, it must more closely align itself with the True, which is also close to God. It is time to re-examine the Lost Gospels and question the motives of early Church Fathers.
