These are MY thoughts, nothing more, nothing less.
God is the Creator.
As such He imbues each of his creations with a part of Himself, as an artist transmits a part of him/herself into their work.
As His creations,within each of us is that part which has an inherent need to seek the Creator.
I believe in the Trinity: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
My personal instinct is that the Holy Spirit has female qualities, and is our individual Guide, Comforter, and Protector.
Jesus is the Son of God, the WORD of God, come to hug us in person, so to speak, and tell us in plain human words a thing or two. He represents the connection between God and humanity.
It is up to us, each and all, to choose if/how we embrace the gift of spirituality.
The Bible is a Book through which the Spirit guides us if we're searching for something. It was written, translated, edited, and interpreted by men. (If it had been women, would it be the same Book? Maybe not, but the message, the bottom line WORD of God, would be the same.) Men, products of their cultures and educations, also decided what to put in and what to leave out of it.
I believe that the WORD of God, the message, will get through to us if we want it to, no matter HOW we choose to seek it. The Spirit part of the Trinity sees to it.
From the get-go, LONG before Jesus walked the earth, humans recognized and acknowledged that we are not the be-all and end-all. There's Someone or Something more than just us that we can't understand, control, or even really define. A Mystery.
From the get-go humans have wanted to define, understand, and control EVERYTHING.
I believe that humans have an instinctive need to seek the Mystery, to reach to the Creator, to connect with God.
Rome was not the first or only to recognize and take advantage of that need to forge individuals into a unified and organized force to be reckoned with.
And that's about it for now.
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