Jonathots Daily Blog
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The average man sitting in the audience listening to Jesus of Nazareth believed the following:
1. God was angry and manifested His displeasure through disasters, afflictions and plagues.
2. Nature was beyond comprehension, and to be feared because demons caused illness.
3. People were evil unless they were related to you or were part of your village. Any strangers who lived outside your enclosure were dangerous and needed to be killed.
How do you address such superstition and ignorance?
Here’s one thing we know for certain: Jesus did not cater to their bigotries, wave their flags or agree to their religious lunacy.
Jesus told them that God was our Father. As our Father, He is at least as nice as we are as parents.
Jesus told them that Nature was meant to be understood and discerned, and we can apply what we learn from that study to improve the quality of our lives.
And Jesus told them that we are judged by how we treat our enemies or those who are adversarial to our point of view.
It was an enlightened way of thinking, containing one solid eternal truth:
Where the Spirit of God is, there is freedom.
Every time we try to remove freedom from people, governments, spirituality or relationships, we place ourselves in a Dark Ages of misunderstanding, setting us back generations.
Unfortunately, those who followed Jesus did not remain enlightened.
- They went on Crusades.
- They bought human beings and used them as slaves.
- They attacked their brothers and sisters who had different lifestyles, calling them abominations.
I don’t know where the Spirit will take us in the years to come, but I do know that the true gift of God’s presence will be granted to those who are enlightened.
And to be enlightened, you must believe in freedom instead of legalism.
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