Why when we see Jesus, we see God.
There's a continuing disagreement about Jesus.
Yet all these religions say Jesus is from God. One of the righteous.
Is Jesus God? Is Jesus 'just' a prophet. 'Just' the Messiah?
The Quran says,
"The angels said, "O Mary, God has chosen you, and has purified you. He has chosen you over all the women of the world. "O Mary, be devoted to your Lord, and bow down, and kneel with those who kneel." These are accounts from the Unseen, which We reveal to you. You were not with them when they cast their lots as to which of them would take charge of Mary; nor were you with them as they quarrelled. The Angels said, "O Mary, God gives you good news of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, well-esteemed in this world and the next, and one of the nearest. He will speak to the people from the crib, and in adulthood, and will be one of the righteous." She said, "My Lord, how can I have a child, when no man has touched me?" He said, "It will be so. God creates whatever He wills. To have anything done, He only says to it, 'Be,' and it is." And He will teach him the Scripture and wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel. A messenger to the Children of Israel: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I make for you out of clay the figure of a bird, then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind and the leprous, and I revive the dead, by God's leave. And I inform you concerning what you eat, and what you store in your homes. In that is a sign for you, if you are believers." "And verifying what lies before me of the Torah, and to make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so fear God, and obey me." "God is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a straight path." When Jesus sensed disbelief on their part, he said, "Who are my allies towards God?" The disciples said, "We are God's allies; we have believed in God, and bear witness that we submit." "Our Lord, we have believed in what You have revealed, and we have followed the Messenger, so count us among the witnesses." They planned, and God planned; but God is the Best of planners. God said, "O Jesus, I am terminating your life, and raising you to Me, and clearing you of those who disbelieve. And I will make those who follow you superior to those who disbelieve, until the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me is your return; then I will judge between you regarding what you were disputing. As for those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe punishment, in this world and the next, and they will have no helpers. And as for those who believe and do good works, He will give them their rewards in full. God does not love the unjust." This is what We recite to you of the Verses and the Wise Reminder. The likeness of Jesus in God's sight is that of Adam: He created him from dust, then said to him, "Be," and he was. The truth is from your Lord, so do not be of those who doubt. And if anyone disputes with you about him, after the knowledge that has come to you, say, "Come, let us call our children and your children, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, and let us invoke God's curse on the liars." This is the narrative of truth: there is no god but God. God is the Mighty, the Wise. But if they turn away - God knows the corrupt. Say, "O People of the Book, come to terms common between us and you: that we worship none but God, and that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us takes others as lords besides God." And if they turn away, say, "Bear witness that we have submitted." O People of the Book! Why do you argue about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Will you not reason? Here you are - you argue about things you know, but why do you argue about things you do not know? God knows, and you do not know. Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a Monotheist, a Muslim."
The Quran talks of Jesus having extraordinary powers, never attributed to anybody else ever, not even close.
The Quran says:
"The Angels said, "O Mary, God gives you good news of
a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus, son
of Mary, well-esteemed in this world and the next, and
one of the nearest. He will speak to the people from
the crib, and in adulthood, and will be one of the
righteous." She said, "My Lord, how can I have a
child, when no man has touched me?" He said, "It will
be so. God creates whatever He wills. To have anything
done, He only says to it, 'Be,' and it is."
So Mary here had no sinful man to impregnate her. God
said 'Be,' and it is. Jesus is from God, not from man, as no other. God generated Jesus, not a sinful man like you or I, but God. Is God good? Yes. Does God have
sin? No. And the product, Jesus the man had no sin. Jesus the man was
the incarnation of God's Will. Jesus the man had no sin. Jesus the man was
the incarnation of God's Word.
Jesus the man had no sin. Jesus the man was not born of sin but of God. Jesus
the man had no illusion. Jesus the man was not tricked
by Satan. Jesus the man was fully of God's Plan and
Will. Jesus the man was fully in accord to God's Will. Jesus the man had no lie within Him. Jesus the
man did not deviate one iota from God's Plan and Will.
But what is God? God is Love and Truth. Not a separate entity but
All of what is.
God can't be separated. God is
God's Will, and there is only one Will of God. And if
anything created acts without any deviation from God's
Will, it is of God's Will and therefore one with God.
No. There is no separation or division of God.
Something of the same Will has no separation or
division or deviation. Love is God's Will.
The Quran tells me that Jesus was born of God and that Jesus, also born of Mary, had no sin. But God is not a 'thing', God is not 'another thing', God is All, and All is God. God is the Truth of Life, His Divine Purpose, His Will is True and His Will is Love. If we see God's Will, His Truth, His Love, we see God.
As Jesus had no sin and was of God and as Jesus's purpose did not deviate from God's Purpose, and as Jesus's will did not deviate from God's Will, and as Jesus's Love did not deviate from God's Love, how can it be wrong to say that when we see God's Will, His Truth, His Love, we see God, so when we see Jesus we see God because we see the same Will, Purpose and Love.
God is not a 'thing', God is not 'another thing', God is All, and All is God. God is the Truth of Life, His Divine Purpose, His Will is True and His Will is Love.
And so any manifestation of God that has no sin, no separation from God, no deviance from God, is where we see God, and we can rightly call that God. To those who think of God as just another thing to compare yet other things with, they might think that this means there is more than one God, or that God is divided, or that there is separation in God. It is Satan that causes separation, Satan that deceives those who believe that they are apart from God. This is a lie. We are all from God. All is from God. All will return to God when we rid ourselves of the 'lie of separation', when we die to self and only live in God. We rid ourselves of the lie of separation when we choose not to see ourselves as separate, when we sacrifice our will to God's Will and become One with God as is the truth of our calling which is a calling back to God.
God sent Jesus. In Jesus we see God. God sent Jesus to show us the way to God. Jesus is the way to God. Follow Jesus, follow God. There is no separation.
To say that there are three Gods is wrong. But to say Christianity claims that there are three Gods is also wrong.
Do you wish to follow dogma and teachings of men or would you rather follow God. Jesus shows us how to follow God.
As a Muslim I would not feel obliged to join a 'Christian' church. So many 'Christian churches' do not seem to know God. But I would turn to Jesus to see God. But neither does this mean that I would never join a 'Christian church'. It really doesn't matter. The True Church are those who truly turn and follow Jesus. For this is to do the Will of God. And this can be done within the Islamic culture. Following Truth and Love can be done in any culture. It is a choice to choose Love over hate, it is a choice to choose Life over death, wherever we live. Can not the God of Abraham manifest His Glory anywhere?
The Quran says that Jesus did not die but was taken up into Heaven. So does Christianity. Christianity says Jesus the Messiah, in whom there is no deviation from God's Will, Purpose, Truth and Love, God from God, Light from Light, did not and cannot die but defeated Satan and was raised to God. But Jesus the Messiah, in history, became man from Mary, in a human body which suffered death and was buried. That human pain we need to acknowledge for it shows us the way to God. It is the way of sacrificing our selfish wants and pleasures for the Good. The Good is God's Will. Only God is good. This does not mean that we then do not attend to our needs, for what God gives us we should look after as good stewards. And God gave us a body and the earth and all that is within to look after. Nor does it mean that we sacrifice all pleasures. Pleasure and Pain are inescapable gifts from God. It means that we are grateful for the pleasures that come are way but that we are not selfish, possessive, greedy, obsessed, needy and covertness for them, making them our goal, but rather we let them go before selfish indulgence sets in.
So the passion of Jesus is important. He gave up worldly goals for God's goal, a worldly will for God's Will, a worldly purpose for God's Purpose. This is Love. Not to possess anything, be it a belief or an object. To acknowledge that all is from God and to have that gratitude that reflects this Truth; and so, to be ready to give back to God what God has given to our stewardship when it is asked for.
When is it asked for? It is asked for every day, throughout every day, every time we make a choice to do or say, or not to do or say something. Do we make the Loving choice, which is God's choice, God's Will, or do we make the self-gratifying choice at the expense of Love.
Jesus the Messiah did not and cannot die. Jesus the man died as all men do.
The Quran says in the thirty ninth chapter, az-Zumar, Mohammed knows that nothing is beyond the abilities of Our God;
"If God wanted to have a son, He could have selected from His creation at will."
Nothing is too much for God. God has chosen us all to be his children, not just one son. We are all called to be children of God. Not servants although we serve. And it is false humility to say we are not worthy. Of course, we are not worthy - as if you or I were. It is pride to think we can earn this by our own efforts. It is all gift from God, and humility will accept help, humility will accept the gift, and humility will respond with appropriate gratitude.
And Jesus the man, being fully in
accord with God's Will is God.
This is what it is
meant to have no sin.
So
many faiths since the time of Jesus have claimed that
Jesus is not God.
They claim that only God is God and that there is only
one God.
But Christian doctrine knows that there is only one
God.
God is not 'another thing'.
By thinking that God is an 'entity', and outside of God
there are other things, such as creation, is wrong. It is the lie that chooses to see creation as separate, it is the lie that wants to see creation as separate because men love the darkness and prefer the darkness over the light. The lie pretends we own creation, but the Truth is that we are stewards of creation. The lie pretends that we can do what we want apart from God's Will, but the Truth is that outside of God's Will is death, outside of God's Will is nothingness. It is all to do with choice. This is the true gift from God to us, and this gift is God's Love to us, that we can choose. We can choose Life and we can choose death. We can choose Love and we can choose hate. What will we choose? What will I choose? What will you choose?
All is God, and God is all.
The "outside of God" is an illusion driven by Satan to
separate. An illusion is not real. It is a lie. There
is no "outside of God".
God is Love and Creation, God is Truth and Joy.
Sin is that which separates us from God.
Jesus is God because Jesus the man had no sin. Jesus
the man had no illusion. Jesus the man was not tricked
by Satan. Jesus the man was fully of God's Plan and
Will. Jesus the man had no lie within Him. Jesus the
man did not deviate one iota from God's Plan and Will.
What is God? Love and Truth. Not a separate entity but
All of what is. And Jesus the man, being fully in
accord with God's Will is God.
The argument that if God can be separated God will be
divided, is a lie. God can't be separated. God is
God's Will, and there is only one Will of God. And if
anything created acts without any deviation from God's
Will, it is of God's Will and therefore one with God.
No. There is no separation or division of God.
Something of the same Will has no separation or
division. Love is God's Will.
Now to be one with God is our calling. It is not
enough to be servants, or hired help, for that is
separation from God, and that is the religion of those
who do not see Jesus as God.
We are called to be one with God. As family. The same.
This means the same Will of God. To live in God's Love
without any deviation. Anything less is not "Good".
God alone is Good, and this is why we must be of God
to be with God. We cannot be with God and have sin. To be with God is Life. This is essential to life. This is
Life.
Jesus the man came from God. Let us take a scripture:
"The Angels said, "O Mary, God gives you good news of
a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus, son
of Mary, well-esteemed in this world and the next, and
one of the nearest. He will speak to the people from
the crib, and in adulthood, and will be one of the
righteous." She said, "My Lord, how can I have a
child, when no man has touched me?" He said, "It will
be so. God creates whatever He wills. To have anything
done, He only says to it, 'Be,' and it is."
So Mary here had no sinful man to impregnate her. God
said 'Be,' and it is. Is God good? Yes. Does God have
sin? No. Jesus the man had no sin. Jesus the man was
the incarnation of God's Will. This is what it is
meant to have no sin.
Do you think you can fully be in God's presence with
sin still in your heart? To stand and face God with
sin in your heart is to be burnt. And one way or
another we will be burnt. Let the burning lead us to give
our lives to God's and be purged of the illusion of
separateness. To give up our petty wills to the Will
of God. To die to self and rise with God. To be
without sin is to be Good. Only God is Good. So, to be
without sin is to be God. Remember not to think of God
as an entity. As 'another thing'. God is All. God is His
Will. Without sin you are of God's Will, you are God's
Will. With sin you are not God's Will but your own
will. Your own will is pride saying you can stand
without God. Apart from God. Separate from God. This
is Satan's sin that banished him from God. This is the
illusion. We are nothing without God. What will we
choose? Nothingness or God? Death or Life?
You who have false humility say that we are not
called to be one with God. Yes, we are called to be
one with God.
You who reject Jesus the man's
suffering and death because you say that such
greatness cannot be put to death. It is you who do not
recognise that Jesus the man's suffering and death is
what gave that man greatness. To reject Jesus the
man's suffering and death is to reject God's Love for
us. True humility accepts Love. Pride rejects it.
We are not called to be servants. We are called to be
sons and daughters. We are called to be one with God.
Are you a servant? A plant is a better servant of God
than you. A plant has no sin. To be a son you must
die. Die to yourself for the Will of God. Happily, not
sadly, though the ripping away of what we cling to on
earth hurts. Jesus showed the way and to reject Jesus
the man's passion is to reject the Way to God. We
cannot have sin and be one with God. To be without sin
is Good. Only God is Good. Separation is Satan's
trick. In Truth and Reality there is no separation.
Don't shortchange yourself. Jesus is the Way, a Gift
of God from God. Know what God is. God is that that is
without sin. Full union with God. There is no conflict
or separation or difference of Will in full union.
There is only oneness of purpose.
There is always choice. Why wouldn't there always be choice? God is Love and Truth and Reality. God is not a human doctrine. So not with our words but with our lives, our hearts are we judged. Love first and all will be well. God's Will is to Love. Love hallows God's Name, Love brings God's Kingdom, Love is God's Will. With God's Love we can do on earth what is done in Heaven. Without God's Love we obstruct the Work of God.
It has been asked, who would like a scripture from God, more conductive to guidance? Read the Gospels. Here is that scripture. Read the Gospels with God. Ask Love and Truth to teach you Love and Truth. Do not anybody say that people are not allowed to read the Gospels. Read them and ask God.
So how do you feel after reading this? Anger? No institution on earth has got it right. It is not a simple as that. It is individuals, it is people, that get it right or wrong. You stand alone with God amongst others who stand alone with God. If you Love with that total sacrifice, then you are of God no matter what religion or culture you find yourself in. Do you choose to be with Love and Truth, to be with God, or do you prefer to be with a tribe, or a group, that pits itself against other groups. That separates itself and so causes separation. If you had faith in God's Love, would you need to have faith in your group to feel safe? The Love of God is raw. The raw power of creation.
God, give us the grace to turn willingly to Your raw power and have sin burnt from us, rather than hide in 'safe' and comfortable falseness.
This pearl is the pearl to give everything up for. It is the Love of God. And with this Love of God, we will not want to possess, lord it over others, be greedy, lustful, slothful, envious in our actions, proud in our actions, angry in our actions. We will rather forgive, have pity, give of our surplus to the needy and serve others for a better civilization. We will forgive but not accept that to sin is OK. I would not want people who think that sin is OK to have positions of authority.
One day I will die and be burnt. I will come face to face with God and be burnt. But let this burning be purifying and joyful, and not hateful, angry, or resentful. For the time being I must turn to God. God sent His servants and then sent His Son. For all of us. For all of us. For all of us. I pray for the Power of God to Love. For Love is Gods' Power. With this Love I can and must serve and always be grateful. I do want to go back to God and be fully cleansed, and I am sorry for my sins. I must focus on God. On God's Love and Truth. I rely on mercy and Love. I hope in mercy and Love. I choose mercy and Love. May God's Kingdom come. Amen. Thanks be to God.