Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Spiritual Technology

Skepticism and debates about the value and validity of biblical scripture are prevalent and seem to be becoming increasingly popular.  Our hope is that we can cause a fresh perspective of the Bible to reveal a universal relevance without compromise of the Christ message.

Just like scientific theory that is based on studies and historical human accounts, it's time for mankind to tap into the Bible's accounts of the potential for "spiritual technology".  More than mysticism, magic and mystery; the isness of God exists to be known, related with and connected too.  But according to the account in scripture, if God is the same as in the beginning, His primary goal is the provision for His children - you and me.  Like every parent created in the image of God, the parental instinct is a reflection of what spiritual technology should produce: NATURAL and SUPERNATURAL PROVISION for every need in the human experience.

Peace for fear, healing for sickness, hope of despair, joy for sorrow, eternal life for death...etc

But the process of developing the spiritual technology necessary to produce these results seems to require: humility, hunger and confidence in a promise from God.   

The following is a great example of a scriptural precedent for tapping into supernatural provision.  

Deuteronomy 8:3-4 (New International Version, ©2011)

3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

Matthew 4:4 (New International Version, ©2011)

 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’[a]

Friday, March 25, 2011

Do you value the eternal?

Everything we see fades. Everything that we see is subject to decay... corrosion and the destruction of time.  But the invisible can live forever... love, hate, affirmations, encouragement discouragement, and faith are concepts that live beyond us as a human legacy.

 How often do material and unimportant urgencies keep you from investing in eternal things?  What kind of legacy are you building?

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

A Huemanity 1st!!!

Huemanity Unlimited is excited, humbled and honored to receive our FIRST donation!  Thank you KASOUL MUSIC!

Your GENEROUS gift was an awesome demonstration of  COURAGE and COMMITMENT to take a stand for UNITY, PEACE and LOVE against misguided faith and toxic religion.

We will respect your donation with a commitment to echo the Christ Concept - God's invitation to a love connection.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Christian does NOT EQUAL Christ-like

If you've met more than a few Christians and you know the story of the man who inspired the root word "christ" you probably have noticed at least the following two things:

1.  Not all "christians" are equal.

2. Most don't resemble the nature of the person whose name they claim.

We challenge you not to be discouraged in finding the truth in the gospel of Christ and benefits of the wisdom truths that the Bible offers.  The Bible was not intended to be worshiped NOR FEARED.  But rather it is a divine tool to empower more than inspire with the Christ Concept as articulated in the life of the man called Jesus.

Check out the Christ Concept as a means of connecting with God, yourself and others in a love connection that you will find to be unparalleled.  Fully Human yet ONE in harmony with GOD.  This is the Christ Concept... this is Connectionism, what it means to be spiritually connected... this is Huemanity Unlimited.

Christianity for all or Christ for all?

Has Christianity become a graven image of God?  Is "Christianity"now a social class, title or group rather than a identity or movement?

Our society has taught us to put things into titles like categorial boxes that are rarely accurate and always divisive.  Titles like Black, White, Straight, Gay, Democrat, and Republican. Titles that do not adequately or accurately define identity, purpose or cause.

If a believer does not claim the title Christian would that void the power of believing the gospel?

What would it look like if a Muslim or Buddhist believed the gospel of Jesus Christ but maintained their cultural traditions?  What would a "Christian" Muslim look like... or a Buddhist "Christian"? If your first thought is, "that's impossible" ask yourself why and then go study scripture and history.  After you get past cliches like "you can't serve to masters"(which is not addressing this issue), reconcile the fact that the practice of Christianity has been influenced by heathen traditions and pagan kings.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ was given to fulfill the law, re-establish our love connection with the father, others and ourselves.  Is this still the purpose, or does God just want us to promote a brand called Christianity?

Doesn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet?

Why has terminology become sacred rather than the mission.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Humanity You Have A Father!

Darwinism is amazing.  The thought that chaos can randomly produce a system of order which would spontaneously combust into humanity isn't realistic even by scientific statistics, yet many choose to believe that we don't have a father.

Then there are those who devalue diversity so much that the distinctive male reference of "father" is offensive.  They miss the message not realizing that male does NOT inherently devalue female any more than Ying devalues Yang.  The reference of God as father is a reference honoring the process of procreation and gives us reference of our spiritual genetics.

We were all created to be God's SONs.  Not because God devalues the female gender, but because we possess the potency of our father when (and if) we mature.  

Humanity, God is our father. Huemans, Our Father is God.    

Sunday, March 13, 2011

what's important?

Galatians 5:1-6 

 1 So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.
 2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 I’ll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses. 4 For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.
 5 But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us. 6 For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Courage for Contradiction

One of the problems people have with believing in God is the contradiction of an ALL POWERFUL God that is CONSTRAINED or the concept of a God who IS LOVE allowing the capacity for evil that is in the world.  That thought process seems founded on the lofty assumption that mankind has the capacity to understand what it means to be "God".   A true in-dept understanding of GOD or Godness seems highly allusive if that understanding is based on the comparison to the things that humanity typically "worships" as God.

Why do we so desperately long to worship what we are not... or what we don't have... or what we can't keep?  Why is a God who is like us, who loves us and actually gets us so unappealing to the masses.

An anthropomorphic God is more than an attempt to relate to what we can't possibly understand beyond a personal experience or the capacity to believe without experience.  If God is real, there MUST be a part of God in us and a part of us in God.  But God must be more.  More than a intangible, invisible person...but WHAT?

This is the true challenge of faith; to believe in God without needing to reconcile the contradictions of our existence in the world that "God made".  Why is the concept of an entity that is absent of contradiction so alluring?  Would any all "good" being  be able understand us?  How could we EVER understand it?

The only way we can explore the God around us and in us is when we have the courage for contradiction.  And there is no place with any greater contradiction than the human soul.  Our soul, the result of an eternal spirit being intertwined and muddled with a mortal body, a limited perspective and a finite experience of an infinite existence... what a contradiction.

Considering this, maybe acknowledging God inside your heart is a great place to begin the expedition of seeking God.

Take courage.

Monday, March 7, 2011

the Controversy of Connection

The Bible presents the human body as the image of how those who believe in Christ should be connected.

The interesting thing about the body is that it is comprised of distinctively different parts.  Each member of  the body is like a distinctive community of cells and tissue that has few if any equals.  Every member, though different, has a role to play and something to contribute to the body.

Considering how the human body is composed, how beneficial to the body would it be if each member had the power to judge the other and bully another body part into becoming homogeneous? What happen if the eye could force the heart to look and behave like an eye.  Or if an ear had the power to make your nose hear at the expense of the sense of smell.  And on, and on... each member declaring the superiority of their function while devaluing the distinctive uniqueness of the other parts.  

A body could not survive under these conditions, yet so many who claim to be part of the body of Christ support this practice proudly.  This is why Huemanity Unilimited exists, to promote Connectionism, a movement towards unity within the body of Christ (aka the communities of believers). Until we all come into the unity of the faith ("connect").

Yes, there are MANY good reason to argue and fight.... but BLESSED are the peace makers for THEY shall be called the children of GOD.

Currently, one of the greatest challenges to "the unity of the faith" is the issue of homosexuality.  Could it be that some communities within the body are legitimately called to embrace people living out the GBL experience while some others are legitimately called to reject it WHILE both being legitimately part of the body?

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Morality vs Humanity

Have recently noticed attacks on the Bible as a "moral" authority and they inspired this thought:

Does the Bible claim that it's purpose is to set standards of "morality" or does it present itself as simply a tool to help us fulfill the purpose of our humanity?

We Fall Down but we Wake Up

The Bible's account of "the Fall" of mankind presents the origin of the innate perspective by which humans judge the legitimacy of our connections. After eating the fruit of the tree of the "knowledge of good and evil" it seems that all human perspective was tainted with an artificial intelligence causing us to make judgments, accept truths and create rules that weren't given by God.

Christ was born with the mindset that God intend for all of humanity and offered his life to share the awakening to our connection to God and one another.

It is easy to FALL into the mindset that we are on our own in life and that we are alone in the world.  But if you are reading this, this is your alarm to WAKE you to the truth. Please don't hit the snooze button.

Heart of Connectionism

At the heart of Connectionism is the belief that God is (and has always been) in connection to all mankind and is a part of EVERYthing that exists in our conscious and unconscious experience as well as known and unknown reality.

We also believe that mankind was created for connection with God and to others.  Humanity can only reach its greatest potential CONNECTED in COMMUNITY.

The commandment to love God and our neighbor as our self is a commandment of connection.  If this is the greatest commandment, isn't connection the point?