Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The strongest base for ecumenism and moving forward
The summons to ecumenical wholeness among the Revealed Religions is one of the strongest elements of the Evolutionary Christian Church.
Theological squabbles which have hypertrophied into religious wars are not theologically reputable in light of the fact that all the Revealed Religions are devoted, without exception, to the Involutionary Inward Path to the God-Within.
For example, battles between Christians and Jews over the oral traditions versus the actual text of the Bible, or Hinduism and Islam over prophet-hood, or Buddhist and Christian over morality, are all battles over the same Inward Path God-Within.
With the Twofold Path of the Evolutionary Christian Church we can move beyond these theological battles, by way of the Evolutionary Outward Path to the God first seen in the Inward Path of all the world's religions. The Inward Path is included in the Outward Path.
This is the strongest basis for ecumenism and moving forward, while certainly affirming the separation and variety of religions and people as vital to evolutionary advancement. Knowledge gained in positive selection and useful mutations from all separations can then be shared through the Church, as we are all evolving to Godhood, the God first seen in the Inward Path of all the religions.
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