In close analysis of ancient and modern modes of religion, I often wonder about the bold proclamations of truth. Ancient truths, modern truths, and who really possess it. Or, do they?
"Divine truth is a spirit-discerned and living reality. Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God. You can know the truth, and you can live the truth; you can experience the growth of truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of its enlightenment in the mind, but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes, creeds, or intellectual patterns of human conduct. When you undertake the human formulation of divine truth, it speedily dies. The post-mortem salvage of imprisoned truth, even at best, can eventuate only in the realization of a peculiar form of intellectualized glorified wisdom. Static truth is dead truth, and only dead truth can be held as a theory. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind."
Perhaps in the perpetual quest to "know" it, truth that is, we find ourselves lost amid the clamor and claim of our religions and deaf to the truth. An insightful friend poignantly illuminated a flaw in the religion that surrounds me. She compared it to the best of theories, they work beautifully on paper, but never in reality. And why is that? Because, we are human, and we are fallible. A wonder compilation of imperfect wonder.
We would all like to believe that our religious choice is THE religious choice. The one true religion on the earth. But, it can't be. Each has something special and unique. But none is so perfect that any and all flock to it. Our resistance to do so leads me to believe that no what the mecca, the history, divine restoration, revelation or the keys one claims to posses, your personal revelation is not my prophetic epiphany. Your religious leader does not hold the divine answer to all that is. Religion is, at the end of the day, a choice. If you choose to believe it is your personal reality. I respect and honor that. I just wonder, why is the respect never returned?
"Divine truth is a spirit-discerned and living reality. Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God. You can know the truth, and you can live the truth; you can experience the growth of truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of its enlightenment in the mind, but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes, creeds, or intellectual patterns of human conduct. When you undertake the human formulation of divine truth, it speedily dies. The post-mortem salvage of imprisoned truth, even at best, can eventuate only in the realization of a peculiar form of intellectualized glorified wisdom. Static truth is dead truth, and only dead truth can be held as a theory. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind."
Perhaps in the perpetual quest to "know" it, truth that is, we find ourselves lost amid the clamor and claim of our religions and deaf to the truth. An insightful friend poignantly illuminated a flaw in the religion that surrounds me. She compared it to the best of theories, they work beautifully on paper, but never in reality. And why is that? Because, we are human, and we are fallible. A wonder compilation of imperfect wonder.
We would all like to believe that our religious choice is THE religious choice. The one true religion on the earth. But, it can't be. Each has something special and unique. But none is so perfect that any and all flock to it. Our resistance to do so leads me to believe that no what the mecca, the history, divine restoration, revelation or the keys one claims to posses, your personal revelation is not my prophetic epiphany. Your religious leader does not hold the divine answer to all that is. Religion is, at the end of the day, a choice. If you choose to believe it is your personal reality. I respect and honor that. I just wonder, why is the respect never returned?
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