Benign Neutrality... What Christianity was suppose to be?

The Completed Circle...

All things in our reality come in pairs, opposites, all things that is except God. Another way of saying that is God's opposite is nothing, nothing at all. Perhaps the story of Noah's Ark wasn't a story that Jesus the Alien was telling about spaceships, perhaps it was about everything coming in pairs, except "The Ark" which symbolized God. That is because God is unique, God is God's own opposite, and the only entity in creation to be so. The beginning and the end, the Christ and the anti-christ, Satan and anti-Satan, Guy and Dude, Heaven and Hell, life and death... Opposites aren't really opposition, they are what define the other. Playing a game without the other team makes no sense, but don't hate the other team. Play by the rules of the game, whatever those rules might be. Be proud of them when they win, and learn how they won so your team can evolve, learning from their improvements. If to be as good as someone else, you have to make them less, then you never will be as good as them.

The ancient/modern churches are trying to make God less. The ancient/modern churches say God IS what they want God to be, not what God really is. Anything that doesn't point humanity in the direction that leads to God being what they want God to be, has been labeled bad, or evil. Any proof or logic that goes against what they want to be the truth, is listed as blasphemy, or the work of Satan and/or the Anti-Christ. They are afraid to listen, because if they do they might find proof that the way they define God isn't what God truly is. Humanity prefers to not think that our most revered and most treasured entity is also our most hated and most disdained entity. Someone once asked, "Who then prays for Satan?" My answer is we do, we all do every time we pray for God. Humanity has decided to ignore the fact that God, if God exists(belief and dis-belief), is an entity with a bad side. The good news is God's good side balances out God's bad side, and what we are left with is a being of Benign Neutrality.

Neither good nor evil, but both. God is our Overseer, our witness. God has chosen Benign Neutrality (the middle ground) to protect us from Benign Neutrality's opposite. The more directly involved God is in our existence the stronger we would have to be in order to survive it. If you want a more direct interaction with God you must grow stronger, evolve to a level where that interaction wont destroy you. Someone once said, "be careful what you wish for..."

People ask why God allows Evil to exist, the answer is because evil is necessary, it is what defines goodness. It is also the losing team, so make sure you think carefully before you join it. Evil is on the side of nothing and to grow in Evil is to grow towards nothingness.

The Great Paradox...The Balance of Good and Evil...

I believe the ancient/modern religion's belief in a place called Hell is mistaken. I believe that God by choosing to be a being of Benign Neutrality created a place within God's own self for the evil part of God to reside, and God has eternally locked away that part of God. Though that side of God must exist, God does not have to allow that part to control any part of God. Neither do we. The doing of good is the doing of evil to evil, by doing only good we also create 'Hell' for evil. Hell is not, in my opinion, a place that God sends sinners so they can suffer for eternity, it is the locked room in the psyche of God where the evil parts and tendencies are locked away for all eternity.

People ask why God allows bad things to happen. God doesn't stop the bad things because God has chosen to remain Neutral in our reality. It is up to us to stop the bad things. We have all the tools we need to allow or to prevent bad from happening. Not all bad, that wouldn't be fair, and God is fair, balanced, and neutral. Help when and where you can, remembering that if you give too much you lose the ability to help.

The Clergy of Benign Neutrality: There really aren't ranks in God's house, entities are what and who they are. God doesn't need ranks. People need ranks, to define who is, what is, people need the structure to be able to make sense of the chaos.

Clergy should be of the people, a true part of the people, jobs, kids, spouses...

To truly understand someone, and their condition, you must walk in their shoes. To lead them you MUST, be one of them.

Clergy must live among them, like they live, work beside them, be faced with the same problems, the same challenges that they face.

Lead them by example, show them how it is done, and be good at it.

Teach them how to improve and evolve in all things, including religion.

Clergy should be Female as well, religion is not a Gentleman's club. Women are men's equal and our opposite, we define each other, in all things, including religion.

Do what God says, trust in God, listen to what you hear, what you feel, God will speak in ways that you will want to dismiss as fantasy, as things you didn't really see at that precise moment, things you will try and tell yourself didn't really mean what you think it meant. That is my experience of the voice of God. Scary, exhilarating, joyous, tiring, relentless, pushy, overbearing, gentle, loving, and more than I could ever describe.

It will be all right, you will be all right.

is a simplification of what God truly is.

For Humanity it is the choosing to be, and then remain, the middle ground, the average. As humanity moves to one side or the other, benign neutrality shifts in the direction of growth. Remaining the middle ground, the average, the open minded, the tepid waters separating the ice from steam.

The closer to pure steam humanity is, the closer the average... the benign neutrality, to steam. But benign neutrality has always as many on the side of ice as it does steam. In other words the only thing changing in the benign neutrality is the temperature of the tepid waters. If humanity chooses to become pure steam and allow ice to die benign neutrality remains the middle ground by being the average steam not the hottest nor the coolest steam. In so doing Clergy emulates the Benign Neutrality of God, and allows growth while providing stability, constancy.

It is not the job of the clergy to discipline the people or to control the people. Clergy are there to inform the people. Tell them if you do that, this will or could be the consequence to your action. Then clergy must stand back and allow the person to choose.

If the situation warrants it call the police. It is up to the lawmakers, the leaders of nations to discipline, to punish law breakers, as the people see fit.

Clergy must understand that in order to be moral, a person must be free to chose to not be moral. Humanity must be free to explore morality, what it is and what it isn't. Humanity must be allowed to change what they believe morality is, as new concepts and ideas are brought to light.

Question Everything, never fear the truth. Free will is an essential aspect of spirituality. Without freewill, the ability to make independent choices, we will be stagnant, and will not grow. God does not fear the truth, and there is nothing we can discover, that God didn't already know. We are here to evolve, in all things, especially religion.

The last decade or so of my life has been one of deep spiritual growth. God has Forced me to spend countless hours in forced reflection. I have been forced to leave family and friends behind, I have been unemployed for over two years. God has been Yelling at me! God has been slapping me around and forcing me to see that which I did not want to see. That which we all didn't want to see. God can be relentless, believe me I know.

I now feel at peace with God, BUT, if ever again I hear the voice of God asking me if I'd do something for God... I'm going to take a long time making up my mind. The next time I tell God I'll do what you ask, whatever that is, I'm going to make sure I know what I'm getting myself into. I'm going to get some things clarified up front... :)

You too must decide, God allows us the freedom to choose, but once you've chosen, God will hold you to the consequences of your choice. Make sure the price is worth the choice. Make sure they understand the consequences, make sure you understand the consequences.

I know I'm really not saying anything new, everything I have written has been written before. In the re-writing hopefully humanity will take another look at what we are doing and where we are heading.

We are at a turning point, we need some course corrections, and then we need to get back at it, and carry on. Some people will take these words I have written and believe, and some won't, some will be comforted and some won't. That is the nature of Humanity, and of the universe. I accept that.

 I Have said what God ordered me to say, in the very best way I am capable of saying it, that to future generations will seem like baby drivel. At least I hope it will, because that will mean that humanity has progressed past my/our current level of understanding and ability to communicate.

When the day comes that God deems it is time for someone else to again speak for God, I pray for that poor/rich soul. I hope whoever you are, that you will read this sentence and remember these words, God Loves you. Not because you are "Jesus come in Glory", not for any better reason than because you heard the voice of God when God called. Don't be hard headed like I was, it is in my nature, I hope it isn't in yours.

What is God? I still don't know... But I'm convinced that there is a God, that God loves us, that God believes in us, that God is watching over us, that God is proud of us, and that God KNOWS us.