Date: 2009-04-03 12:25 Subject: More seriously on Incarnation Security: Public

Well, I imagine that most folks who read my flippant post on Incarnation had the same reaction my father did, so let me treat this without the sarcasm and the flippant wit.

Starting with Jesus is no more the son of God than me or you. Men, you are all sons of God, ladies, you are all daughters of God. Look and read your Torah.

What Jesus was was aware of what humanity is: God within creation, and fully aware of what this means and how to live it out. We are the incarnation of God within the world. This is what we were created to be.

The rest of us are more like Rama, trying to do what is right and sometimes doing exactly the opposite, especially when it counts the most.

Unfortunately when we do screw it up, there is no one to come to us and yell at us, don't do that, you're God incarnate. And our language of describing Jesus as "God's only" would get in the way of Christians believing anyway.

Thankfully, many of us have those who love us, and like Sita, go through the fire for us.

There is not a word I can ever write about God which is True. Every word I write about God contains Truth. The Truth of my reaching for an understanding of God, the Truth of my sharing of that journey. The same may be said of the Gospel authors, the authors of Torah, Qoran, all the Sutras, Vedas, etc. All we write about God contains the Truth of our search for an understanding of God, the Truth of our sharing that search, and no more.

Jesus, Krshna, Siddhartha, all tried to tell us: we ARE. Live. Love. Give. Jesus, Sita both teach us that suffering is not a punishment from God and by enduring it out of Love we sanctify it. Krshna teaches us that God is accepting of our anger at God for not stopping the senseless wars, pain and suffering.

These were people who were accepting in the core of their being that they and all of us are God within creation. We need to be like Rama and Sita and let our lives be lived in our accepting belief.