Greetings, I'm Andy Johnson. This is the Church
of Transpersonal Christianity. Think about the
expanse of the universe and the edge of space
that keeps expanding outward and what's on the
other side. Imagine the time before time. With
our puny human minds, it's a bit like putting
an air hose up your right nostril and turning
it on. Now, let us try to understand God. The
dirty cup. If you had a cup that was half filled
with stale, bitter wine and you poured sweet
wine into it, that sweet wine would be contaminated.
When you drank from it, you would taste only
the stale, bitter wine. To taste the new, you
must first empty the cup. and clean it. You must
pour out the stale, bitter wine so that the sweet
wine is pure and unpolluted. So it is with our
understanding of God. We must first empty our
cups in order to move our understanding forward.
First, we must divest ourselves of the old ideas
that cling to us and slow our spiritual progress
like barnacles on a ship. We must free ourselves
from the limitations of preconceived notions
so that we can enter the holy of holies and encounter
God unfettered and unencumbered. suitably unencumbered,
let us find a point of agreement upon which to
start. God exists. We cannot be people of faith
without this very basic premise. As well, God
is the most powerful force in the universe. God
is the universe. All that is, was, and will be
And most who choose to be people of faith would
agree with these three premises thus far. So
let's take it a step further. God is pure energy.
God is pure love. God knows you intimately. The
Rorschach test. We humans have a nasty habit
of using God as a great cosmic Rorschach inkblot
test projecting onto him that which we wish to
see. Thus one's description of God tells you
more about the describer than the described.
And think about that the next time you see an
angry preacher man pointing fingers at you and
condemning whole categories of people to eternal
damnation. Think about what's dancing about in
his or her unconscious mind.