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 not from the seed of
Man, but from God. The Gospels say the same thing. God
'generated' Jesus the man, not a sinful man like you
or I, but without sin. 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? But we can never know God as God. We
can only know God as how God is revealed to us. So
what is God? God is Love and Truth. Not a separate
entity but All of what is.
God can't be separated. God does God's Will
(tautological), 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. What does this mean? Everything and
anything; did it not come from 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 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 of God or Good
or Godly. 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. For
Jesus shows us God's Will untarnished.
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 Godly.
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. But what does this mean? If we
turn to Jesus and see God's Will and Purpose, fully
and untarnished and eternally, for all intent a
purpose, we see God. This is how God reveals God. So,
is this untarnished Jesus, God? I put it to you that
all we can see and understand of God is God's chosen
way to reveal Himself. So what difference is it to us?
We who are not God can only "see" God, know God and be
one with God, but never be 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. What you see; is it not from God. What you see;
is it not sustained by God. If God ceased to sustain
what you see; would it not cease. 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" except our choice to act a lie.
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's Way.
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,
from our perspective, 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 recognize that Jesus the
man's suffering and death is what gave that man
greatness. 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 among
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.