Introduction

This treatise is an epistemological study which presents knowledge concerning our human spirituality while defining and using the words God and Christ within the context of our available nonfictional scientific reasoning.   This allows us to understand Christianity as well as any religion in today’s world by providing us the opportunity to connect and integrate our rapidly expanding base of scientific knowledge with the spiritual wisdom and truths from our historical religious material that has accumulated over the course of thousands of years of our evolutionary human history.   We are continuously provided with a tremendous amount of knowledge and it is up to each one of us to respond to our available knowledge in a manner that is consistent with God through time.   With determination and sagacity we find answers to fundamental questions of Life including what God and Christ are and perhaps the more important question as being who we are within our human spiritual context.

Christianity consists of and involves thousands of denominations that utilize a functional and interactive fictional format based on myths and stories that use metaphors and allegories to relay valued behavioral characteristics of our spiritual nature and being.    The purpose or goal of our religions is to try and help people live by justifying our lives and existence here on earth as part of the singular Divine Principle of all existence or “God.”   Through the necessary and critical process of asking and raising questions and then seeking to find answers to those questions our scientific reasoning process forms the fundamental nonfictional foundation or basis upon which we can understand and explain both our spiritual nature and our existence on earth.   The mission and ministry of the WWCEC is to provide knowledge,  understanding,  wisdom,  and truths of Christianity within the context and framework of the Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology.   This prepares each of us with the ability to realize within ourselves our living evolved Christ creating a balanced and right spirit.

 

Faith & Belief

Both faith and belief are common elements of every religion and of all scientific reasoning.   They serve to unite people in structured systems of knowledge and understanding that share common truths and values which function to increase our ability to exist and survive as a viable and valuable species here on earth.   Our faith and belief comes from God and exists as:  our faith and belief in God and in us and our evolved humanity which is characterized by our indomitable human spirit and the innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity of every human being.   Our responsibility,  obligation,  and authority are necessarily based upon this one faith and belief providing us with the hope for eternal life we all need.   By people sharing this one universal faith and belief we can “know God” which helps form our foundation of understanding,  wisdom,  truth,  and trust.   All religions as well as our scientific reasoning are capable of coexistence with this one universal faith and belief and this is how we can all connect to each other with a common,  shared,  and right spirit.   It is our indomitable human spirit that resonates throughout the course of our history and commands the attention of those who have ears to listen:  that we exist because of the divine living process of evolution that began 3.8 billion years ago on earth allowing us to bring ourselves here to this point in time because of our evolved body,  mind,  and spirit,  our true trinity of life.   It is our human spirit which has faith and believes so what we need to do is to know God and place our trust in the source of all evolved life and have faith and belief as well as hope that human life will continue to survive and endure until the end of Life on Earth.

 

God

We know and understand God as one very small and simple word that refers to the infinite source and realities of existence of all…….all that was,  all that is,  and all that will be.   More specifically the ALL refers to all forces,  energy,  matter,  and mass in and of every form including dark matter and dark energy as well as all evolved Life and creative thought and consciousness throughout the universe whether known or unknown relative to spacetime resulting from the big bang and the emergence of all space,  time,  and matter from a singularity fourteen billion years ago.  This is a good,  concise,  and workable nonfictional definition of God that helps us to understand our existence on earth and how we should relate to the known universe itself and is referenced in material by the WWCEC as the meaning of the word God showing “God” as real,  true,  and absolute.

As we struggle and strive to learn and to understand it is up to us to use our available scientific reasoning as well as wisdom from our existing religions to provide us with the knowledge and truths of the Cosmos we can use to connect with and know the “all of existence” or God.   There are just as many ways to know God as there are stars in the universe which creates the necessary value of respect for each person’s unique understanding of God.   To help unlock the mysteries of the universe and of Life itself we use our scientific reasoning process to explore,  study,  and discover the amazing history of how everything around us has formed,  why it exists,  and what future physical and evolutionary changes may or may not occur on earth.   We are able to use our extensive array of social networks (including our families and friends) to connect with each other and to help us support,  empower,  and enable each of us through all of life’s experiences and challenges.   With the creative energy of our mind and our experiences from living we can know the “living inner light of God” incarnate within each of us making us a most unique species capable of surviving on our amazing planet earth.

 

Defining Religion

Historically speaking,  religions are very simply spiritual art forms created and designed to showcase our human spirituality with an interactive fictional flair that can help us understand,  connect with,  and relate to each other and the surrounding environment in which we live.   All religions use language,  symbols,  music,  myths and storytelling from oral traditions as well as written material from vast supplies of texts and scriptures.   These help to form and relay thoughts and important learned concepts about human spirituality,  life,  and our existence that provide us with knowledge,  wisdom,  and some eternal truths for us to live by.   Evolved with our uniquely human theory of mind and our enhanced cognitive reasoning ability to cooperate with others we have developed and expanded the platforms of our social and spiritual behavior patterns that allow people to connect and harmonize with each other in a manner that is literally breathtaking.   Our willingness to cooperate and coexist with each other depends on recognizing,  honoring,  and respecting all people as having equal inherent worth and dignity in our shared world.   When we refer to religious or spiritual understanding it is the individual human spirit that is the most important not the religion itself for within every human heart lies the source or “temple” in which all truth resides.   Religions simply serve as common ground using a fictional template with symbolic behavior patterns that are easily understood upon which eternal truths can be taught and through which supportive individual and social relationships can develop,  interact,  and flourish.

Religions commonly use anthropomorphic images of god(s) created and designed to try and help people understand our existence here on earth and to also show meaningful and appropriate ways to live and function with each other.   The images or “visions” of god typically involve forming collective identities of freedom and autonomy helping to create communities and societies where cooperation and support are provided and through which moral and ethical standards are developed upon which human behavior may be judged.   When anthropomorphic images of god are being used they have been created from within the human mind and are therefore at the mercy of and subject to the ego and applications of the theory of mind which will interpret and either use or potentially misuse the “created images of god.”   Whatever kind of images of god(s) are created remember that they are only images and that we use them to represent what is important to us.   Images help to create a sense of permanence and of something solid and concrete or real and viable,  in other words something that we can “take to the bank.”   With our religious or spiritual thinking it is sometimes easier to develop belief systems if we utilize something that has familiarity and so our fictional images and stories may help us understand the nonfictional “facts of Life.”   We see the same thing with our scientific reasoning.   Many times it is easier to understand an idea,  concept,  or theory by using metaphors,  analogies,  or other representational thinking to convey what is being discussed because we sometimes need a representational relationship to help us “grasp the thought.”

For many individuals the love of life begins with reading the Bible and other religious material with the stories of life’s challenges and the struggles to survive,  the heroes and villains with their joys and pleasures of living as well as their pain and suffering,  the internal and external conflicts and their resolutions,  the wisdom and truths of being human.   These available religious stories and myths can be very important because the eternal truths that they contain for us are always perfectly true providing us with knowledge and wisdom that has accumulated and been passed down through the ages.   As with all fiction the amount of knowledge and truth that is available through any religion is relatively limited.   Fortunately with our nonfictional scientific reasoning process there is simply and literally no end to the extent of knowledge,  understanding,  wisdom,  and truth that we can realize.   Only with our scientific reasoning process can we connect with all of the realities of life,  nature,  and our existence within our environment here on earth in a manner that is absolute and consistent with God through time.

By definition the most conservative means of understanding our spiritual essence and being is with our fundamental and secular nonfictional scientific reasoning process and the fictional forms of every religion including every Christian denomination are what characterize the liberal approach to understanding our human spirituality.  What is important for us to do is to work with both our nonfiction and fiction and then integrate the truths that are present within our religions with our expanding knowledge and understanding that we currently employ from our scientific reasoning process.   In other words we should view and understand our historical religions as creative spiritual art forms that express eternal truths about our world and ourselves utilizing interactive functional fiction and then apply these truths within the context of our nonfictional scientific reasoning process to expand our knowledge and understanding of Life that will help provide us with meaning and purpose to our existence here on earth.

After all it has always been about God and us,  but it is not only about us!   This statement expresses both a feeling or a sense of human pride as well as a deeper and wiser sense of humility.   We have so much to be proud of but none of it will have any meaning or value without thankfulness and humility,  both being necessary common core values of every religion and the foundation for all of our scientific reasoning and understanding.   All of us should be very thankful and grateful that we have the opportunity to be here courtesy of the grace and true miracle of evolved life.   A thankful and humble heart will more easily find peace,  joy,  and happiness,  will be more loving and compassionate,  will be more willing to make sacrifices in order to serve others,  will be more understanding,  forgiving,  and kind towards others and will be better prepared to use our available scientific knowledge to help unlock the mysteries of the universe and of Life itself for the benefit of all humankind.

 

Christ

One of the most valuable defining processes or events in our human history is when our living,  collective,  self-reflective,  reasoning spiritual consciousness characterized by our innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity evolved within our early ancestors.    For Christianity our evolved,  reasoning,  spiritual consciousness or being is termed and known as our living evolved Christ Spirit,  our Christ Constant,  or Christ.  This was a distinct evolutionary and psychological developmental process that has helped to define and characterize our species as unique and different from any other primate.   Our Christ Constant is present and “hard wired” within all of us as part of the nature and genetic fabric of our being.   Even though each of us dies our living Christ Spirit within us does not perish because Christ always resurrects and is reincarnated living collectively in the hearts and minds of those we leave behind and survives by being passed forward to those who follow after us.   This is an honest,  true,  and applicable nonfictional definition of what our eternally living Christ is.   An even simpler and easier to remember definition we may always use is that Christ is our evolved spiritual goodness of God within us.   Since our goodness never dies our Christ Spirit lives eternally even past the grave.

So what are the evolved and valued characteristics of our innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity that comprise our individual and collective spiritual consciousness,  essence,  or being we call Christ?   Having a core foundation of both humility and thankfulness is the basis we need to have.   Next is to live and function with these five tenets as immanent and therefore characteristic of our being:   unconditional loving kindness;   compassionate understanding;   a sacrificial nature;   service above self;   forgiveness and reconciliation.   Collectively these seven “good” characteristics of our evolved spiritual essence and being are the seven steps of our eternal light of life incarnate within all of us.  This is the essence and nature of our evolved,  living,  resurrected,  and reincarnated Christ and when we realize Christ within,  recognize our same Christ Spirit in others,  and then assume the responsibilities that follow we are “Christian” and will know God as being spiritually revealed and manifest within us.   Christ is therefore our collective good karma and the light of life within each of us.   Christ is also our heart and soul providing our human spirit with the perfect ingredient that complements and helps to unify our body and mind with our spirit.   Profound and yet so simple in the message and application of hope,  peace,  and promise which was the intent of the people who created the spiritual art form of Christianity over the previous several thousand years.   Keeping it simple and understandable was always the plan and it should still be viewed and honored with that in mind because a simple soul is a happy soul and one that can easily carry faith and belief with you no matter where you go,  what you do,  or who you are with.  The development and extensive use of language and the stories told through oral traditions,  written texts and scriptures,  music,  dance,  and many other expressive art forms as necessary communicative skills our early ancestors needed to flourish have been used to pass forward the knowledge and essence or being of our living evolved Christ Spirit.

So Christ is understood as being genetically determined (our nature) and therefore available to be realized within each individual through the people we have contacts and personal relationships with (our nurture).   The fictional metaphorical character jesus christ of the New Testament that was created and fashioned around the historical Jesus of Nazareth to represent and symbolize our living,  evolved,  resurrected,  and reincarnated Christ Spirit within each of us has been and still is a very valuable means of understanding Christ.   The goodness of God or our living evolved Christ Spirit is described and understood by people throughout our world’s varying cultures and religions showing us that “Christ” has existed as being innate and incarnate within all humans since our very early ancestors.   Thus it is this universal constant,  our Christ Constant,  that characterizes the purest divine spiritual essence and being of our evolutionary process and by realizing our Christ Spirit within each of us we are provided with a significant life saving experience.   Since our species exists with feelings,  emotions,  attitudes,  hopes,  and desires,  we can say that we live and function with Christ because of the love of God.   Wherever there is love so to is the eternal beauty of heaven where the goodness of our consciousness exists without space or time for the unconditional love present within our living evolved Christ Spirit is an aspect of our human existence and reality that transcends the dimensions of both space and time.   Surrounded by “perfect love and grace” every human being is provided with the same reason,  purpose,  promise,  and hope to live together as one extended family of God.

 

The Paradigm Shift

Evolution is Divine Grace in Action!   The beautiful and truthful reality is that our living Christ Spirit evolved from grace within our early ancestors literally thousands of years ago which perfectly sanctifies and justifies our existence as modern human beings.   As a result of the evolution of our Christ Spirit our early human ancestors were able to realize their individual goodness,  worth,  and dignity within and then apply knowledge gained from their reasoning ability for the continued benefit and common good of the members of the communities and societies in which they lived.   This honest and truthful understanding of the evolutionary history of our living and eternally resurrecting and reincarnating Christ Spirit is termed the Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology.   That we evolved our ability to reason and therefore know the difference between good and evil from which we wisely learned to value only the good is perhaps one of the finest defining moments in human history.  The Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology effectively focuses our joint attention on the goodness in others providing a realistic,  truthful,  and practical understanding of our living Christ and therefore what it means to be Christian.  We believe Christ evolved in our females in Africa before the migration of Homo sapiens out of Africa and is honored and respected as such.   Unfortunately the evolution of Christ and the resulting gain of knowledge of good and evil is erroneously construed in Genesis as original sin and a fall from grace resulting in the artificial creation of a male personal savior to “reconcile mankind” simply because our living Christ Spirit evolved first in females who became “knowledgeable” and therefore “wise” and smart before the male.   Talk about arrogance,  hubris,  and vanity of a few prejudiced and misguided males!   This is the Great Deception which is sinful and the individuals who have propagated this deceitful myth are known as deceivers who are individuals that have abused our evolved theory of mind.   But deceivers need not worry for within the Paradigm Shift is the generous and eternally available tenet of forgiveness and reconciliation so therefore they may be forgiven!   We did not fall from grace rather it was from grace that we evolved our living Christ Spirit.   The Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology effectively eliminates the Great Deception with its ignorance and foolishness replacing it with this doctrine of truth about our humanity which is:  that we evolved our living,  collective,  self-reflective,  reasoning spiritual consciousness characterized by our innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity within called our Christ Constant,  Christ Spirit,  or Christ.

With the Paradigm Shift established as truth Christianity is understood as being based on the relationships people have and how we treat each other providing us with reason to hold each other close with a thankful heart.   The Bible is able to be understood and used correctly and as intended which is as a guide for helping people with realizing our living evolved Christ within themselves,  in being able to recognize our same Christ in others,  and in understanding how to assume the responsibilities that follow.   This is consistent with God through time and our one true faith and belief in us through God.   Our matrix of human understanding should not include a disruptive force within the spiritual context from which the creators of our religions manifested their work.   The intent and purpose of all religions as spiritual art forms is to respect and honor each individual’s unique spiritual essence and to direct our joint attention towards the goodness of God (or Christ) within each and every person so that when we concern ourselves with our life within the family,  our social networks including places of worship,  our educational and governmental institutions,  our workplaces,  or anywhere involving social interactions we can focus on the perfect inner light of life within each of us.  This gives us the true understanding of the nature and strength of our being as having a worth and value that is timeless,  honorable,  dignified,  and free because of the evolutionary process of Life from grace and the love of God through Christ.

We can only imagine what the words of Genesis would look like if a few females would have written them.   We know that the language would be considerably wiser and more appropriate indeed.   And god said (god being female):   “Thank you eve for eating the fruit of my favorite tree,  the tree of knowledge of good and evil.   I placed that tree there specifically for you so that you would gain knowledge and an understanding of good and evil and therefore use your reasoning,  wisdom,  and good judgement throughout the course of human history for the benefit of all.   But please be wise and keep one eye on adam for he is male and often needs help and special attention so that his ego and foolish pride won’t get in the way!   Also remember to be patient,  understanding,  and always prepared to forgive for he is only human!”

 

Christian Faith & the Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology

Christian faith and belief exist within this doctrine of the Paradigm Shift:  that all faith and belief comes from God and is in us and our indomitable human spirit comprised of our living evolved Christ Constant within each and every human being.   Inherent in this statement is the individual freedom of our human spirit,  a spirit that cannot be controlled or manipulated,  a spirit that should always be free to express itself,  a spirit that is destined to live in peace and harmony and that shows honor and respect for the equality of all people.   Since worship is defined and understood as the act of creating and shaping our thoughts,  words,  and actions out of respect and reverence we can worship by taking care of each other and all life on our home planet earth through understanding and fully appreciating the evolutionary process of Life the true “miracle of God.”   This begins with humility,  thankfulness,  and a hopeful supplication of our evolved spiritual nature and being.

As all life on earth must die while new life is created and formed to continue the process of living,  we too will die as new human life begins and is characterized by the presence of our Christ Constant within each and every child born where it always has the opportunity to be realized within.   We pass forward to those that follow our knowledge,  wisdom,  and truths recognizing that our living evolved Christ Spirit is an important component of our spirituality and a reference point in our evolutionary history showing us that we are here because of Christ.  This results in Christ being understood as organic,  natural,  and clear connecting us with our entire history as modern humans in a fundamentally pure and true light.   Functioning with the seven steps of our eternal light of life in our everyday lives becomes a natural occurrence and harmonizes our soul and spirit with the realities of living together in our shared world.   We may enjoy the spiritual practices of meditation expressing pure appreciation,  thankfulness,  and gratitude for what we have as life at a set or specific moment in time.   Music and the arts are appreciated as helping us connect and unify our body,  mind,  and spirit with ourselves,  others,  and God.   Rituals like baptism and communion are understood as simple celebrations of the eternal goodness and light of life we all share and have in common with each other resulting from the evolution and perpetual resurrection and reincarnation of our living Christ.   The Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology represents a welcomed reformation and reformatting of Christianity revealing the wisdom and truths of our living evolved Christ which reconciles all understanding and faith to one faith and belief in us through God.

 

The Balanced Spirit

All forms of life struggle and strive to survive and evolution is the process through which this is accomplished representing life’s ability to adapt and to continue evolving every time our planet reinvents itself.   As modern Homo sapiens we have the ability to adapt to environmental changes and to make use of our environment better than most any other species on our planet.   Our living evolved Christ Spirit provides us with the innate and natural way or “key” we need to offset and balance our raw,  instinctive,  animal-like nature characterized by competitive acts of self-preservation which had developed first in our evolutionary process.   Our evolved Christ Spirit can be understood as the way to save or “redeem” us from our instinctive and competitive animal nature which gives us new meaning to the phrase  “Christ the redeemer” through the “saving grace of God.”   This is not to downplay nor negate the importance and value of our instinctive and competitive animal-like nature but meant to show that we need a balance of our two equally important evolved spiritual natures in order for us to survive.   This is the yin and yang of our human spiritual essence and being and using our reasoning ability to balance our two evolved spiritual natures is what helps people to be civil minded and socially adapted to cooperate and work with each other towards a peaceful and harmonious society.

When our spirit is in balance it is healthy and serene which prevents our individual self or ego from becoming self-centered and vain.   A balanced spirit prepares us to “know God” by unifying our body and mind with our spirit unlocking our potential for living and our natural ability to seek knowledge,  wisdom,  and truth.  This gives us the strength and fortitude as well as the temperance we all need to survive and provides us with freedom from any fear or guilt resulting from the judgements of others.   A balanced spirit removes personal doubts concerning faith and belief in our evolved and shared humanity.   A balanced spirit also prepares us to be one with nature and our environment creating within us the obligation and responsibilities of caring for our home planet earth.   With a balanced spirit peace and harmony develop and manifest with a deep spiritual sense of self and reverence for the Divine Principle incarnate within.   A truth forms which holds that “all Life is precious” and that we are never alone because of this truth.   We understand and know that we have evolved here to survive as a viable species capable of generating social conditions that enhance our ability to connect with each other in a manner that is cooperative,  supportive,  and empowering for all because of the nature of our balanced human spirit.

This knowledge shows us just how interconnected all people on earth are and commands us to have a very humble and thankful heart in order for us to appreciate and effectively apply what we know,  understand,  and believe in for our continued survival here on earth.   This gives us hope and the reason and purpose to help create and sustain the conditions that will allow for a good or better life for all.   Obtaining knowledge and wisdom of how to balance our two spiritual natures may come from using the liberal fictional formats from any of our religions or from our conservative nonfictional scientific reasoning process.   We can also gain the knowledge and understanding of how to create and maintain our spiritual balance from wisely using a combination or “blend” of our nonfiction and fiction which creates respect and an appreciation for all of us living in our shared world in an environment that is cooperative,  supportive,  dignified,  and free.   Through our participation in and enjoyment of music and the arts we appreciate that our artistic creativity is the expression,  connection,  and communication of our two evolved spiritual natures that resonates with the harmonies of the universe and the Divine Principle incarnate within every person providing reason for singing praises and giving us felicity of our soul.

 

Christianity

Christianity is a religion characterized by the belief and understanding that our living evolved Christ which is innate and incarnate within all people is what “resurrects” and “reincarnates” after death within the hearts and minds of us who remain and also passes forward for those who will follow.   It is a spiritual art form that uses many human figures to portray different characteristics of our evolved human nature.   Some of the characters used in the stories are fictional,  some figures are historical people of record,  and some are historical people that have been used as a template for expressing eternal truths about our evolved human existence in a mythological and symbolic referencing context.   In the New Testament the metaphorical character jesus christ,  for example,  was created to symbolize and represent our living evolved Christ Constant and was based upon the historical Jesus of Nazareth and also a long history of oral traditions and storytelling,  myths,  and allegories.   One of the more interesting,  relevant,  and fun aspects concerning jesus christ is that it took literally thousands of years of creative thought from many inspired individuals across many cultures to be passed forward through oral traditions from BCE then into our CE that eventually developed into the character that represents our living evolved Christ presented in the New Testament.   The wonderful Christmas story about conceiving a child and giving birth involving Mary and Jesus where the myth about immaculate conception was introduced was very cleverly and specifically created to show us that our living Christ evolved within our females represented by Mary and then “born” meaning being passed forward to all the rest of humanity which is represented by Jesus.   This shows that our living Christ Spirit evolved very early in our human history and predates historical people whether of record or not including Jesus of Nazareth that were used in any oral tradition or written text and scripture of antiquity.   This also means that our living Christ Spirit evolved within us before people began creating and using fictional anthropomorphic images of god(s) such as in the Abrahamic religions of Judaism,  Islam,  and Christianity.

Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified when he was only about thirty three years old approximately 2,000 years ago for religious and socio political reasons and was used as a template around which the fictional character jesus christ was designed and formatted.   It is important to know who Jesus of Nazareth was and what he represented to the people around him.   The Paradigm Shift provides us with the opportunity to understand Jesus in a manner that characterizes many notable individuals which is as an intelligent and caring mentor who taught people how to treat and care for others with compassion,  loving kindness,  mercy,  and respect.   Jesus was a good person who witnessed social,  political,  and religious injustices and acted nonviolently to try and effect change in the world around him in the same manner that Mahatma Gandhi,  Martin Luther King Jr.,  and Nelson Mandela have done.    All four of these men lived with reason and purpose by making self sacrifices from their altruistic behavior pattern in order to benefit others.  There is no doubt that if one were to have asked any of these four guys what Christ looks like they would have directed attention outside of themselves and told you that when you see people caring for and helping one another unconditionally you are in the presence of and will witness the goodness of God or Christ.   These four men were not born with greatness,  it was their courage,  fortitude,  faith,  and determination to effect needed social changes with nonviolent action that ultimately determined who they became.   We should respect and honor all four of the above mentioned gentlemen and we can choose to live with the same ideals,  purpose,  and hope as they did to effect needed social changes right at home within our own communities realizing that sometimes the most important people who have the most profound influence and effect on our own lives are the individuals and mentors that are closest to us right where we live.

Jesus of Nazareth was an important historical individual because he caused people around him to feel special and good inside while treating them with compassion and loving kindness the same way that mothers will do for their children.   His messages of humility,  loving your enemies and turning the other cheek when others hurt you,  forgiveness,  kindness and mercy towards others,  all reflect the importance and need for us to recognize in all people our common and shared evolved goodness of God or Christ and then to assume the responsibilities that follow.   Jesus’s prophetic messages of the coming kingdom of god were his interpretations and understandings of our existence and our evolved goodness of God using anthropomorphic images of god(s) created from his own theory of mind which was a very commonly used fictional based spiritual art form used throughout the history of people living before and during that period of time.   He was an individual whose determination and ideals touched the hearts of those around him causing his followers to realize the same goodness,  hope,  and spiritual essence within their hearts and minds after his execution.   In other words our living evolved Christ Spirit characterized by the innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity of his spiritual essence and being was resurrected and reincarnated within the hearts and minds of those who remained and also passed forward for those who followed after his death.   The resulting drama and passion of jesus christ that was created because of the torture and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth and which is told through the Easter story about suffering,  dying,  and resurrecting to new life is one of our best symbolic references of our indomitable and eternal Christ Spirit.   The Easter story shows the innate and natural ability of our evolved Christ Spirit to live through pain,  suffering,  and death to be resurrected and reincarnated within the hearts and minds of us who remain and in those who will follow while also existing in heaven where the collective goodness of our consciousness lives and exists without any physical form and transcends the dimensions of both space and time.   The fictional character of jesus christ is therefore a metaphorical symbol of our Christ Constant or Christ that has evolved within us and which continues to be reincarnated or “born again” within every child where it always has the opportunity to be realized within.   For this reason we can freely associate with the character of jesus christ and apply what we learn about our evolved Christ Spirit for ourselves and others understanding that Christianity is not about what kind of a person Jesus of Nazareth was rather it is about who we are!

Since the historical Jesus of Nazareth was male it makes sense that the authors of the New Testament used a male figure as jesus christ to represent our living evolved Christ Spirit.   But in reality since our living evolved Christ is innate and incarnate within all people then the character of jesus christ can easily be male or female,  be of any color,  be of any sexual orientation,  and have any physical or mental ability or special need.   For example,  for a large number of people Christ is first known and realized through mother who typically lives and functions with the seven steps of our eternal light of life and is often the first person who passes Christ forward to her children.   Since many of the characters of the New Testament stories are fictional or a blend of historical people placed within a mythological and symbolic referencing context,  the stories that are presented within the texts are designed to be interactive.   In other words we can find many different aspects of each character that we can relate to and connect with in our own lives.   Remember,  there is a reason why much of the narrative mode of the New Testament canonical gospels is third-person omniscient.   When read correctly we are in essence the protagonist of the New Testament gospel stories.   In other words we are jesus christ!   We “walk on water” and do great things when we have faith and conquer our fears,  doubts,  and other obstacles that prevent us from accomplishing our goals.   We “heal” when we forgive and treat each other with compassion and unconditional loving kindness and by helping others to realize our living Christ Spirit within themselves.   We learn to resist temptations that might place our being at risk by being strong,  true,  and pure of body,  mind,  and spirit.   We “rise” and are “born again”  after being forgiven and reconciled back to our innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity.   We endure through pain and suffering and will survive after death when we realize our living,  evolved,  and resurrected Christ as an integral part of our indomitable and eternal human spirit knowing that our Christ within us always reincarnates being passed forward within the hearts and minds of us who remain and in those who will follow.   As the good shepherd we “carry on our shoulders” those that need help through acts of goodwill and philanthropy.   We “feed the multitudes” with very simple messages of hope and eternal life by treating others as we would like to have them treat us with unconditional loving kindness,  compassionate understanding,  dignity,  and respect.  These messages and more represent the true “miracles” that we perform when we realize our living evolved Christ within.   This has always been the intent and purpose from the people who designed and created the stories in the New Testament and this is why every person can know that we are all “people of God” with one faith and belief in us.   To paraphrase the “I AM” sayings in John:   We are the way,  the truth,  and the life;   We are the light of the world;   We are the resurrection and the life;   We are the true vine.   All of these things and more are possible when the heart has the dignified foundation of humility and thankfulness creating the opportunity to grow from the source and core of all Life which is “God.”   This is accomplished when we realize our living,  evolved,  resurrected,  and reincarnated Christ Spirit within ourselves,  recognize our same Christ Spirit in others,  and then assume the responsibilities that follow.   This is exactly what the historical Jesus of Nazareth and millions upon millions of good people throughout our evolved human history have done and has been our heritage characterized by our innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity which is of and from God.   It is easy to love the saying of John 3:16  because it references us,  our evolutionary history,  our indomitable human spirit,  and our one true faith and belief in us.   To paraphrase:   For god so loved the world that she/he gave her/his only daughters and sons so that anyone who believes in us shall not perish but have eternal life!

 

Connecting with Reason

It is important to stay connected with reality by having a solid basis or platform of  knowledge and understanding from our available nonfictional scientific reasoning while we are involving ourselves in any fictional religious spiritual art form.   Some people become so wrapped up in the fiction of a religion they may become disconnected from the realities of life and of living.   If individuals cannot separate their fiction from fact their attitude towards life can be affected in a manner that may lead to fear,  anger,  and mistrust towards others and of all reason and common sense.   Maintaining reason and common sense provide us with honesty and integrity of thought,  word,  and deed so we can exist and cooperate with each other in our shared world.   Remember that the creative thoughts used in forming the ideas and concepts in the myths and allegories were based on solid truths about our indomitable human spirit and life’s challenges to survive in the world in which we live.   The individuals who created the stories we enjoy formed valued ideals that can still be applied in today’s world with an accurate focus on civil and social behavior that encourages people to be helpful and kind towards one another in a manner that is supportive,  empowering,  and enabling.   Without respect,  thankfulness,   kindness,  and a reasoned understanding towards one another we stand the risk of losing what precious gifts we have in knowing and honoring each other as true brothers and sisters.   It is actually not hard to be a positive,  reasoning,  helpful,  and kind person but it does require focus and attention to the realities of living in today’s societies and what we need to do to work together in a cooperative manner that is supportive of all people.

 

Pain,  Suffering,  & the Cross

It is inevitable that we will personally experience and also recognize in others some manner or form of physical pain and suffering,  injury or illness,  mental anguish,  or other personal stress as we journey through life.   These can cause us to suffer,  feel hurt or lost,  maybe give us a sense of despair or perhaps cause us to lose focus and hope.   Crucifixes and crosses often are used as symbols for the pain,  anguish,  and suffering that we experience personally or recognize in others and for many people are also symbolic of the hope and promise of every person’s spirit to survive even past death.  Our ability to have compassion,  understanding,  and empathy for the suffering of others is something that we have inherited as evolved human beings as an integral genetic component of our living Christ Spirit.   It is important for us to look for ways to help those who suffer and to provide the knowledge and understanding that our living evolved Christ within us will resurrect and reincarnate living eternally past pain,  suffering,  and death.   What we can do to help others that are suffering involves an approach that utilizes many aspects of civilized societies to achieve healing and to provide support as well as hope.   Our healthcare systems and the care provided,  our educational institutions and the knowledge that they provide,  support from local communities including our governments,  spiritual guidance and personal support from family,  friends,  and our social networks are all available to help create for each of us the best opportunities for healing,  health,  and console.

It is important to be prepared for what life may have in store for us for anything can occur at anytime to change or alter what we have and hold as precious and dear.  Placing value on preventive health care and then striving to attain and also maintain a healthy body,  mind,  and spirit provides us a welcomed opportunity for us to hopefully be able to have and enjoy some level of personal health and well being.   Creating and maintaining supportive personal relationships with those that we trust and love will form a very strong and positive force that can help anyone cope with and survive the challenges of trying to live a healthy life placed before us.   Spiritual practices of prayer and meditation can soothe anxiety and fears and may actually help to ease pain forming a healing and healthy presence of mind.

Mistreatment and abuse,  humiliation,  social injustices,  acts of hatred,  and human rights violations can also contribute to personal suffering by the hands of others creating a sense of despair and hopelessness.   In these situations the crucifix or cross is a symbol of social injustices and is a call for action against human rights violations and harmful or violent acts against humanity.   We need to focus attention on the civil and social rights of all individuals in all societies helping to prepare paths of living that are tolerant and compassionately free from harm.

**Even though crucifixes and crosses are often used to symbolize the promise of every person’s spirit to survive past death,  Jews consider the crucifix or cross a visible sign of their oppression,  persecution,  and fear.   People who somehow feel comforted by the sign or symbol of a crucifix or cross do so at the expense of those crucified on one!   So,  do not be deceived into thinking or believing that it is necessary,  important,  reasonable,  or appropriate to utilize the crucifix or cross as a symbol for anyone’s faith or belief!   Out of respect for the millions of Jewish people (including Jesus of Nazareth and the people who lived during that period of time) who have been needlessly persecuted,  crucified,  and murdered throughout history,  the WWCEC does not recommend using a cross or crucifix as a symbol except as our “call for action” to protect the civil and social rights of people who are abused,  oppressed,  persecuted,  and humiliated!

Instead know and understand what the WWCEC teaches about the cross.   We teach that our “true cross of Christ” has nothing to do with pain and suffering or mistreatment and abuse but is rather a very simple but important symbol for the evolutionary history of our species as modern Homo sapiens.   The cross we speak of is an equal sided cross with the horizontal member representing our evolutionary process from mineral to vegetative to animal,  and the vertical member that intersects or bisects the horizontal represents the evolution of our living,  collective,  self-reflective,  reasoning spiritual consciousness characterized by our innate goodness and inherent worth and dignity within called “Christ.”   This evolutionary event immediately provided our species with the saving spiritual balance from grace that we live with today!

         

Hope

Hope is one of the best things that living has to offer and since good things in life never die we can always depend on it.   Truly beautiful things like hope do not seek or desire attention so we can find comfort and joy in quiet,  peaceful,  wise,  and hopeful meditative thoughts and actions eliminating the distractions present in modern societies.   Balancing our instinctive and competitive human nature by realizing our collective Christ Spirit within provides us with our hope for using reason and good judgement in developing cooperative behavior and in maintaining civil social relationships that build the good will that benefits all concerned.   Forgiveness provides us with hope as it restores our individual worth and dignity reconciling us with our innate goodness of God.   With a little hope and a little effort we can usually find something that we can do to be successful and to find some measure of happiness in each of our lives.   Thoughts or prayers of hope and concern for the well being of others provide us with the support and strength each one of us needs as we journey through life.   While our own individual circles of life are complete when we die,  new circles of life are continually being formed with the birth of each child which gives all of us hope and promise for everlasting life.

              

Our Home                                                 

If a created image of god could be used correctly then god should be shown as mother earth and father time.   This would probably be the wisest and most appropriate manner to understand “God” in fictional form.   From a mother’s perspective we should listen to her when it comes to our manner of taking care of our home planet earth.   We have a home that is without equal to anything in our known universe and we had better start to both fully appreciate it and take care of it a whole lot better than we have up to this point in time!   We know that if we don’t take care of ourselves and our home then mother will not be very happy,  and if mother isn’t happy then NO ONE is happy!!   From environmental issues such as global warming and pollution to how we treat and take care of not only members of our own species but of all life we need to have and to share the responsibility,  obligation,  and authority to respect and honor mother earth.

Father time represents the time that each of us has here on earth to do what we believe is the very best way to spend and utilize the time that we have.   Father time together with mother earth represents the entire evolutionary process of all life including that of our own species which should cause us to appreciate and respect just how intricately connected all life is on our planet.   Tough,  strong,  and capable to survive with an indomitable spirit yet sensitive to the touch of sickness and death,  we owe our existence and survival to father time and the evolutionary process which began with the creation or “birth” of life from mother earth.   This allows us to be where we are today and we should appreciate it.

We are now connecting the dots with our awareness and understanding of this perfect miracle of all evolved life on earth.   So strong and so vibrant yet at the same time so delicate and fragile,  life can exist here only because of the current and necessary physical,  chemical,  mineral,  and material balances that grace our home.  This translates into how and in what manner we can invest our time here.   We should best invest it into something that gives us purpose and meaning such as taking care of our shared home and passing forward this very important task to those who will follow us.   Balancing our instinctive and competitive animal-like nature with Christ provides us with the ability to act cooperatively and collectively for the benefit of all concerned giving us the purpose,  reason,  and hope to care for our planet and to live together in peace and harmony here with mother earth.   This is the beauty of life and characteristic of the better side of our time spent being human showing our humanity for each other especially when our hearts are beating with the core foundation of humility and thankfulness.

 

Summary

***This treatise defines Christianity and explains the reasoned understanding of what God and Christ are in a pure light that reflects faith,  belief,  and truths concerning our evolved spiritual nature,  essence,  and being without the “magic” of fiction representing adherence to the ideology of secular spirituality.   Since all truths found throughout our religious stories and myths are also present within our scientific reasoning and understanding we can use them to help us worship anywhere and anytime we create and shape our thoughts,  words,  and actions out of respect and reverence.   This can occur in our homes,  in our schools and educational institutions,  at work including when we serve and care for each other,  as part of our connection and experiences with nature and our environment,  within our own personal inner space or self,  and also in “places of worship” wherever two or more are gathered in peace and harmony with thankfulness and unconditional loving kindness.

***If you practice any religion then learn to use the “magic” of your fiction to help you live rather than trying to live for your fiction,  and whether you use a fictional based religious format or our nonfictional scientific reasoning or a blend of both to help with realizing Christ and in knowing God look for and focus on the goodness and dignity in others as well as within yourself.   This will help you in appreciating people and also prepares you to treat others with respect and loving kindness even if they might not be kind towards you.   Remember that when our joint attention is directed upon the goodness in others we are creating the necessary platform for all understanding,  wisdom,  truth,  and trust.   As a result,  having faith and belief in us and our evolved humanity as a valuable and viable species capable of surviving on our amazing planet earth will become a reality of living.

***Learn to live and function with the seven steps of our eternal light of life incarnate within us:    1- humility     2- thankfulness     3- unconditional loving kindness     4- compassionate understanding     5- a sacrificial nature     6- service above self     7- forgiveness and reconciliation.   Realize them within yourself,  recognize them in others,  and then assume the responsibilities that follow which include supporting and caring for one another through all of life’s challenges and any pain or suffering that we may have to endure.   When we think,  speak,  and act this way we will have a good heart and good karma preparing us to serve others with our collective force of good.

***Respect and be tolerant of people’s spiritual practices if you are attending any place of worship and while there be aware of the way people are treated in thought,  word,  and deed.  If you do not observe tolerance,  respect,  and unconditional loving kindness at a religious institution or place of worship it could be from misuse or abuse of an applied fictional format so say something and take the necessary action to protect the civil rights of all concerned.

***Be thankful for the opportunities to have a good work ethic towards attaining and hopefully maintaining a healthy body,  mind,  and spirit,  our true trinity of life.   Responsibly use good health for the benefit of all concerned and to help us in maintaining a healthy home planet earth.   Encourage and support others to do the same and have the compassion and understanding to provide help and support when good health is not possible or attainable.

***Very little was mentioned here about our instinctive and competitive animal-like nature.   This was done for a reason in that most individuals and our societies in general are very competitive and people have a natural competitive streak within themselves that should be obvious and which only needs to be tempered and balanced.   The purpose and ministry of the WWCEC is to provide knowledge and understanding that helps people balance our two equally important evolved spiritual natures (yin and yang).   The lesson being taught is that our living evolved Christ is the saving spiritual balance from grace we need within our lives.

***Whether we deal with our own personal pain and suffering or we help others to deal with theirs,  our thoughts or prayers of concern and hope provide valuable support that help us cope with sickness,  suffering,  and death.

***You and every living person has music and a song inside of them that no one can touch or take away.   The expression of our spiritual essence and being through music and the arts is a gift that we may use to give thanks and praise,  to express personal joy within ourselves,  and to harmonize and connect with those we love.   Learn to respect and appreciate this gift within yourself and in others as well.

***Share with people the value of what you know of our Paradigm Shift in Christian Theology by realizing within yourself then recognizing in others and passing forward to those that follow our living evolved Christ Spirit.   Know that when you do this our evolved Christ is always here to stay and you are an active member of our WWCEC.

***Finally,  learn to know Love.   “An inspired form of giving,  love breathes life into the heart and brings grace to the soul.”

 

                                      knowledge is our gift to share,   thanks for reading!

 in memory of “mom” & “dad” and in honor of every person with a good,  kind,  & thankful heart

                                    NAMASTE & AMEN

         THE WORLD WIDE CHURCH OF OUR EVOLVED CHRIST

 

“It is gratifying to provide people with valuable knowledge and truths of our amazing evolved and indomitable human spirit.   

As in the parable of the mustard seed,  the tiniest drops of humility and thankfulness blossom and grow within to help us live and to love.”

Jeff,   WWCEC pastor