Français/French Deutsch/German Italiano/Italian Português/Portuguese Español/Spanish 日本語/Japanese 한국어/Korean 中文(简体)/Chinese Simplified

Welcome!

I, God, welcome you to my blog!

The good book says only God is good, so it seems to me somebody needs to step up.

I hope you enjoy reading this, the Jesse Journal, as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Please feel free to subscribe, write me an email, request that I write about any particular topic you may want my perspective on, send a prayer, click on the charity link, or donate money to my bicycle fund! Have fun!

Your pal, Jess
I'm a straight, virgo/boar INTJ (age 53) who enjoys books, getting out into nature, music, and daily exercise.

(my email is JesseGod@live.com)

F.Y.I. There are about 2200 posts..

Here's a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky to start things off right: Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Be God for Goodness' Sake!

"Only God is good." -bible (Luke 18:19)
"Be Good for Goodness' Sake" -Santa Claus is coming to town
Therefore, Santa is telling you to be God.

Humanist link.
God is a humanist. I AM.
Thus, humanism and the bible are the same thing.

-Hard to be a God link
-Easy to be evil link by Roger Shattuck.

He talks about discovering the Unpardonable Sin, the ultimate evil, which not even the love of God can wash away. And then he says, "But the essence of the Unpardonable Sin is neither of these. It lies in the sin of intellectual pride, in undertaking in the first place the search for the Unpardonable Sin."

I think he's a bit of a nut. There is no Unpardonable Sin, according to Rev. Kit Billings:
(his sermon on the immensity of God's mercy)
Also, Allah is called the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Forgiveness, in 2 paragraphs:
Rev. Billings says, specifically, "Christ revealed His mercy in part by His reply to Peter, who thought he had taken the ancient Jewish regulation of forgiving someone three times who continues to offend us to a respectable new level by offering seven times to Jesus. In response, the Lord tells Peter, “Seventy times seven,” which was code for never-ending mercy and forgiveness my friend."

But this infinite forgiveness comes from an act on your part, the forgiving of everyone else: The message of the parable following the 490 thing is: Part of our life's purpose is to discover God's mercifulness as part of our own heart and soulfulness. Jesus said in effect that He will not stop the hellish tormenters from gaining access to you, should you choose to not, from your heart, forgive your brother his trespasses."

For example, why die angry and bitter? Forgive and be forgiven. End the cycle of violence.
A belief that you have committed an Unpardonable Sin is a psychological prison of your own building (which you can tear down).

Anyway, God is good, and you can be God if you are good, which you do from forgiving others, to be forgiven yourself, to start out fresh and clean, and then....don't do anything bad, or rinse and repeat.

Be good, kiddo!
I happen to think violence is bad.

No comments: