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Copyright 2010 Greg Baenziger
There is a natural tendency for all creatures to find their own moral
center behind their basis for existence and behavior. We do this with every choice we make, with every action we carry out, and with every word we utter. Thus, all ideas, beliefs, speech
and actions resulting from individual creatures represent their moral
center, spirit and soul. Religious beliefs are naturally evolving and personal,
whether or not an individual is constrained by others. Religion should remain the sole domain of an individual and not of a church.
Each of us forms our own basic core beliefs and we should hold true to
what we believe. By our ideas, speech and actions we project what we
believe people, God and our soul are, and what they represent. God is alive in each of us. There is not one of us that God did not create.
Do you believe there is just one god?
Do you believe that God created the heavens and the earth and all the creatures that populated the heavens and the earth?
Do you believe that God is all-knowing and all-powerful?
Do you believe that God is still present?
Then
none of us can exist without God’s acceptance, none of us can act
without God’s approval, and we thereby act out God's will and live in
God’s heaven, purgatory or hell. The
fate of each of us lies first in our own hands, in the hands of others,
in the forces of nature, and through all of these in the hands of God. God is with us every moment of every day. We are part of God. Each of our lives is intertwined with the rest of the universe and with God. Each of our actions affects everyone. We participate in creating our own heaven or hell, HERE and NOW!
Natural Christian relates to the beliefs, which include the following
basic premises:
God is pervasive throughout nature and each of us, and is NOT a separate entity;
God is everything, there is nothing but God!
God is all powerful, all power comes from and is God’s power.
God is all knowing, all that exists does so in harmony with God.
God is spirit, meaning, order, substance and the basis of ALL.
God is perfection. There is no imperfection.
Know
God as all that is, revere all that surrounds you, as part of God, and especially learn that you also are part of God. Each creature, each
rock and tree, each motion, and each thought is part of God and the
manifestation of God. Nature and all universes are part of God. To believe
otherwise is to discount the power of God.
each of us through our spirit or soul represents our part of God;
Seek and find your own beliefs and relationship with
God, so that you will believe strongly in those beliefs, live by them,
and be responsible for your own actions or inaction. Do not rely on the
stated beliefs of others as your own.Seek a way of life that
reflects your beliefs and behave according to your beliefs, because
your behavior represents your beliefs, your soul, and what you believe
God is. Create your own destiny – it is your own Heaven, purgatory or Hell.
a Natural Christian chooses to represent the more loving behavior and teachings of Jesus
Christ, consistent with the natural nurturing behavior of animals
rather than the harsher autocratic or jungle survival behavior that seems
to dominate the world;
Leviticus {19:18} "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Love thy neighbor as thy would thyself, for thy neighbor is as thyself part of God.
Mathew {5:39} "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Turn the other
cheek, so that you are not tempted to do evil, to avoid the "eye for an eye" evil of revenge, to return good will for ill, and to dose the fire with water rather than to fan the flames of anger and violence.
Mathew {7:12} "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." Do unto to others as you would have them do unto you. Or the corollary: Do not do unto others that which you would not have them do unto you.
Exodus {20:13} "Thou shalt not kill." Thou shall not
kill! Many associate this only with the killing of humans, but why not all of God's creatures? All creatures are part of God!
a Natural Christian seeks to find and preserve harmony and balance in our world, to learn of nature and God, and to find God within oneself and outside oneself in every other being and thing;
Seek truth and
understanding of God’s Creation, so that we can exist in harmony with
God. Harmony with God is the coexistence with Nature, a stewardship
over God’s bounty, neither destroying, hording or wasting what is
provided, preserving the beauty, the renewable and the non-renewable resources, making resources available
equitably and freely to all, finding ways to renew resources to support
life without damaging or polluting, and to protect life and Nature.
Harmony is maintaining a peaceful and enlightened civilization, where
no creature does without the basic necessities of life, where freedom
and rights are maintained, where security is maintained against
intimidation, crime and violence, and where all can live their own way
of life.
Nature is God’s church and our existence is God’s
religion;
Seek only to learn for yourself how to recognize and live
within God's church and God's religion. There is no need for man’s churches or organized religion
beyond providing the framework for making the choices known, for people
to find their own way.
and
a Natural Christian seeks to promote peace, love and our part of God through our words,
actions and behavior to the world, thereby seeking to eliminate violence,
war, discrimination, hatred and the greed that causes these and other
evils in our world.
God, as we see in heaven about us, is all that
exists and is all that is important, existing over ALL and within ALL.
Through God all that
can happen will happen, as we can see unfolding before us.
Within God we are born, we live, we die,
and we are born again, receiving all knowledge and sustenance through God.
We endeavor to see God, to know God, and to know God's will,
through understanding; to seek God's heaven on earth; to learn to see with our minds and
our hearts in order to find the best way to live and exist within God's greatness, in
harmony with the spirit of God; to see the
truth around us and in all things; to learn to use God's great strength to face the
forces that confront us and to use that strength to support us in facing God's truth; to sustain ourselves and to
pass sustenance on to others; to avoid trespass and offense against others and
to understand and to forgive the trespasses and offenses against us; to light the way for others to follow; and to recognize the difference between good and evil, and to choose good, seizing
all opportunities for good and avoiding evil.
God is truly magnificent, existing in the past, in our present,
and for all time.
Through God's grace, God exists in each of us, in our bodies, in our minds, and in our hearts.