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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

What if there were no hell?

What if Jesus died for everyone, really? Like he really did and no matter what you did or said or what religion you were or where you were born or how you were raised? What if? What would church mean if he just died for everyone? If he just died for everyone. period. What if that was his gift and he gave it - he didn't expect anything in return. A true gift.

What if Jesus said, "I am a way, a truth and a life?" What if Jesus said things that were transcribed in a slightly different way than the way he actually said them? What if we asked questions about how the bible became the bible? Who picked what's in there? What did they leave out? What could happen?

What if Jesus is a savior, a prophet, a messiah? Does he have to be the only one? Does he have to be the only way? What if he weren't? What if his message of love and inclusion is for you, whether you believe it or not? What does that mean to people who believe? Is that a threat? Why?

What if we have a creator who loves his creation? What if we are the collective creators and the creation? What if we can't really understand what that all means? Is it worth killing for, When we may not really understand it?

What does it mean to believe without fear? What would it mean to just have faith for today and nothing else happens - no hell, no heaven? Or what if heaven is a sleeping child in the crook of his parents' arms? What if it's just peace? Would that be ok?

What if Jesus doesn't need your belief? What if he just gave a gift and he doesn't need something back? What if we all get to be one with creation in death? What could that mean? What if all the things that matter now fell away? Deeds, misdeeds, loves, failures, crimes great and small? Is that bad?

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