In the 21st century, most people now believe
that Jesus was a great prophet. Not a God.
What if you believe that the concept of god starts in the mind, stays in the mind, and does not exist outside the mind?
What if you believe god is not a supernatural being but a symbol, a metaphor for all that is good, all that is loving, all that is true and beautiful?
There are millions like you who believe that god is not a supernatural being. They believe god is the life force of the universe. But these believers have not organized into a cohesive group. Until now. Borromeo Faith is the religion for our time.
This force, this God, manifests itself thru human beings in the spirit of goodwill, tolerance and cooperation. This force, this God, is in you and within you.
This force, this God, works thru groups of people in bringing about social justice in our society — not by violent means but by civic action as citizens of their country.
Philosophers and thinkers have talked about this for centuries. The philosopher Spinoza is right: God manifests itself itself thru nature and nature’s forces. Thomas Jefferson is right, when he removed from the gospels the supernatural references to Jesus — in what is now known as the Jefferson Bible — thus portraying Jesus as a humanist teacher.
In our time, Forrest Church of the Unitarian Universalist Church says that theology is a human construct. It begins with the miracle of our existence. “The principal challenge of theology therefore is to provide symbols and metaphors that will bring us into closer kinship with one another as sons and daughters of life and death.”
Several years later, in the 21st century…
Centuries from now, religions will no longer preach a god who is some supernatural being but, in the words of William James, in his book Varieties of Religious Experience — “feelings and experiences of individuals in their solitude….” Feelings and experiences — things internal in the human breast, not relationship to an external mystical spirit.
For Albert Einstein, religion is also a feeling, the awe and wonder of nature of the universe, not a personal god who answers the prayers of supplicants in their ordinary everyday living.
The holy scriptures will serve as our moral guide. The scriptures are not our only guide but our main source of inspiration on how to live.
Here is my Statement of Belief:
I believe in God as the life force of the universe.
I believe that this force expresses itself thru human beings in the spirit of goodwill, tolerance and cooperation.
I believe that God is the symbol of all that is good, loving and divine in humankind.
I renounce violence against myself and others as an expression of my belief.
I believe that one day, all people can gather together in the worship and meditation of their god or non-god. Amen.
Write me at adolfo.borromeo@gmail.com. State your full name, phone number and postal/email address where we can reach you. And tell me why you, living in the 21st century, believe Jesus was and is a great moral teacher for all time. He was a prophet, not a god.
Remember, you are not alone. There are millions of us like-minded individuals. We are only organized in the sense that we believe in Jesus as a great prophet.
Join Borromeo Faith for Jesus Assembly and let a million voices be heard!
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