What if I told you that Jesus did not create Christianity?

What if I told you that Jesus said that He came to show us His Father? John 14:7-11

What if I told you that Jesus said that He came to create division, to have even families challenging each other’s thoughts about the way to be? Matthew 10:34-36; Luke 12:49-53

What if I told you that I love the Bible as a book of history and hope, compiled by people, each author’s contribution a recording of their experience and understanding of God in their world?

What if I told you that God did not write the Bible and did not ask humanity to let the Bible be our perpetual ultimate cultural or moral guide?

What if I told you that people chose the writings that would be a part of the compilation called the Bible?

What if I told you that the Spirit, the Comforter, the Essence of Love is living with us as Jesus promised?

What if I told you that the Spirit wants to personally interact with each one of us?

What if I told you that every person, young and old, of all abilities, skills, and knowledge, can depend on the Spirit as our one and only final Source of inspiration and wisdom?

What if I told you that humans have created many religions from many revelations, because the Spirit can speak to all who wish to listen?

What if I told you that humans in all religions and all traditions got some things right and some things wrong?

What if I told you that the advice to study for ourselves means that we are not to follow any leader blindly?

What if I told you that we are each responsible for what we know and learn?

What if I told you that we are each responsible for what we create with what we learn?

What if you hold all these things in your mind?

What happens in your heart?

“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”