Throughout the world, there is one inherent visible truth: Everything dissolves. Nothing in the terrestrial world is beyond the power of degradation. At some point, no matter the strength of an item, it will cease to exist. Also, in order for something to exist, it must have been birthed from something prior. All of the conveniences that man surrounds himself with is a testament to this statement. Every modern thing around you, wherever you are located at present, is a contemporary iteration of a prior form. If perchance it is a new development, that item is the result of thinking born out of an elevated position. In other words, if prior items didn’t exist, the thought regarding the creation of this new one could not have been achieved. This practice can be considered as evolutionary achievement.
A great example of evolutionary achievement is the light bulb. In an effort to create more efficient lighting, Humphry Davy in 1802 created a short living incandescent light that burned out quickly but still yet showed evidence of promise. After another 75 years of effort, Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan created light bulbs that were capable of lasting for lengthier periods and could be utilized for public consumption in a more economical manner. Over the years since then, light bulbs have evolved multiple times over in order to become more efficient, last longer, and provide more stable lighting. For over 200 years the light bulb has evolved and it is still moving forward. With each major leap, the old iteration loses relevance slowly until it lacks all utility and loses its grasp on production, falling into historic record. These old versions dissolve away, just like everything else in the world around them.
Throughout history everything made by man has evolved and dissolved.
The items that have evolved were created by thoughts that were accumulated over time. In order for the item to become better it stood on the shoulders of prior reasoning. From this jumping point it could find a way of perpetuating itself into the future as technology grows and provides more inclination for change. Everything around you has been made better, stronger, and more capable. It has all arrived at this point from a very humble and rough beginning. The first generation of many contemporary items is now laughable devices that children scoff at and parents reminisce about as time progresses. Nothing made by man has ever been created so well that it does not need to get better over time.
Science itself is the product of hundreds of years of thought. So are institutions of higher learning, automobiles, weaponry, politics, etc. Religion, one of the oldest man made products, is the result of a cumulative effort that spans millennia. That’s an impressive thing to ponder. It’s easy to understand the power that religion has over people when you realize that it’s been through thousands of years of honing and sharpening in order to make itself as efficient as it is today. This makes it one of the oldest surviving creations of man to exist. Yet even religion is still evolving, adapting, forming new belief systems, and attempting to remain relevant throughout every generation in order to survive.
If religion doesn’t adapt in the same manner as everything else, it will dissolve. This is evidence of its solubility. For if any religion were the one true word of God, then, by the nature of its authority, it would be a truth so powerful that time would not degrade it. Also it would not need to absorb into other beliefs, adapt to contemporary thought, or find a new means of survival. The Insoluble Divine does not require the efforts of dying men in order to propel itself into the future. The truth of the universal God is not subject to man’s corrupt desires; its relevance will remain no matter how man tries to dissolve it away through the complexities of control. Jesus does not need denominations, but their very survival requires him.
Man, unbound, is controlled by the desires of contemplative thought.
He subjects God to his own reasoning and defective deductions, rendering such a god as false. He has taken dominion over true discernment and dwells upon an insight that harbors the faculties of insurgency. Man corresponds with God as if his emotions are enslaved by the actions that arouse them; something taught by the very belief system that nurtured him. Praise and supplication should not be a request for reimbursement, but an access to the experience of security in that which is intangible; perhaps a cry for censure and a judicious answer to so many fragmentary and abstruse questions.
We must reprimand that within us which states that sound judgment need be the reciprocal action between man and God. For how can we in our admissibly limited comprehension calculate that which is greater than us and control it…that which is inconceivable to our impotent and destitute resources? God is not our God, bound to our subjectivity, moving us and changing us upon our request whilst we, in reality, are forcibly stimulating ourselves to change of our own exploit. God, as many have been trained to believe, is a non-resonant addendum to our lonely individual; an individual that sought to abstractly fabricate a personal Savior that we would suppose is separate, more intelligent and tenable than us, but in reality is yet another apparatus of our villainous mind. If we should pray for anything, we must pray for deterrence. We should pray that we retain the knowledge that God is not subject to our thoughts or our requests, and in prayer, that we not be as well.
Once we realize that God is not a chameleonic force that morphs into a different master for each individual who interprets him, then we can better understand that there is still but one core truth that all just beliefs stem from. Consider the words of Jesus. His words alone are unbending and just as relevant today as they were 2000 years ago. They were a leap in the evolution of mind and Soul. There was no defined prior text for Jesus to expound on that would have helped paint him as a normal man. From the moment of his birth to the manner of his death, he stood on universal principles that would change the outlook of the world forever.
Jesus’ words, even today, are not just relevant, but provide a universal logic that when applied, supplies a liberty that is unequalled. The words of Jesus aren’t simply philosophical statements but are the DNA of peace and eternality provided in a manner available for audible and visual consumption. The teachings of Jesus are insoluble provisions from the Creator of life himself; they do not degrade over time and never lose their power. Just to know that God found a way to translate the divine into a human form uncomplicated enough for us to grasp it is amazing. Even so, we have tried our best to humanize it and consume it in the most selfish manner possible. The Divine Source knows that this is what man does and also obviously knows that such vain human applications won’t work either way.
In summation, we must consider what the truth must be.
- Is it the myriad complexities of a system that provides various protocols for the achievement of salvation, or the simple words of universal truth, exposited through the mouth of a perfect revolutionary?
- Is the path to truth hidden within the thousands of variables provided by a man made institution?
- Could the truth entire actually be contained within the walls of a belief system that has evolved an untold amount of times in order to remain solvent, or is it actually in the pure and straightforward teachings of Jesus and other illuminated Souls that were gifted with the power of truth?
The institutions of man will always be born out of desire, burn hot and rot away as a remnant of history, but the words of universal truth will last forever. Any establishment that claims sole proprietorship over the path to immortality is a usurper of the truth and a thief of the image of God.
To all who read this, tread with caution when entering any place that claims to possess the truth. Just because the name of Jesus is written above the door, does not mean that he’s chosen to dwell there.
