Galilean Gospel 1: Revelation Theology

I posted this on r/ChristianUniversalism:

"A Christian is just one that does what the Lord Jesus tells him. Neither more nor less than that makes a Christian." — George MacDonald

"MacDonald's Theology is deeply Trinitarian. It became so after immersing himself in the Gospels after university, where his theology evolved from strict Calvinism to a theology centered on Jesus Christ as the revelation of the Father's love, not the purchase price for that love."

As George MacDonald said, “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

https://www.worksofmacdonald.com/

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This is a short piece, the first in the Galilean Gospel series which will be highly focused on HIM.  Whatever types of podcasts, all will be based only on the doings of The Galilean.

Why "The Galilean" instead of just "Jesus Christ" or "Christianity?"

Too many antiChrists and Christofascists have made the word "Christianity" emblematic of hate, bigotry, power and violence—the exact opposite of Jesus and His teaching. 

So, back to the name He was called and His followers were before the Resurrection. They had a variety of names after, including "the Nazarenes." 

But to be in the moment with our Lord, THIS IS GALILEAN REVELATION. Which is what He did, reveal Eternal Truth and change the very essence of reality. You might call that "quantum physics." By following the Divine Will ands eschewing His human proclivities, by doing this right through the Crucifixion, the barrier between Creation and Eternity dissolved, the lintel split, the curtain torn into two. 

The Kingdom of God is right here. This is what He gave us, the unbreakable connection to the Presence of God.

THIS PODCAST IS NOT MONETIZED. LINKS:
Contact: kyriedicentis@gmail.com
CLOUD OF UNKNOWING Evelyn Underhill edition - free
HERETIC'S REDDIT HOME
Revelations of Divine Love [free PDF] Julian of Norwich
What the Gehenna?
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross

Transcript

Galilean's Gospel: 0:00

I have a new image that I am using with a new title, Galilean Gospel. That means the focus is entirely on Jesus Christ. I read something today, something that I have actually said myself so many times, but listening to someone else, or rather reading someone else say it, I didn't even know who George MacDonald was when I read this. Then I found out that George MacDonald was a 19th century British mystic, pastor, theologian, wrote a lot of books. On a webpage that I have a link here to, McDonald's theology is deeply Trinitarian. It became so after immersing himself in the Gospels after university, where his theology evolved from strict Calvinism to a theology centered on Jesus Christ as the revelation of the Father's love, not the purchase price for that love. An important point to deal with today. This is the thing that Lent is about, being the purchase price for love or salvation or whatever it is that Jesus was supposed to be purchasing for us on the cross. That's called atonement theology. It is a latecomer. It isn't something that comes from the apostolic era. Certainly it doesn't come from Jesus himself. I came to this when I was trying to figure out what a soul was. Teresa of Avila compares the soul to a crystal palace, and none of this makes a damn bit of sense to me. So I googled it, and Google uses AI now all the time, which gives you really terrible results, or sometimes it gives you quite good results, depending on if AI has any idea what you're asking. This is the quote that caught my eye. You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. Divine Mercy Chaplet Faustina talks about offering the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ to the Father in the chaplet. How the hell are we supposed to do that? How do we offer? So, I love the chaplet. I've said the chaplet. I also don't say that part. I am completely nonplussed and suddenly realized I don't have a clue what a soul is, except that I'm supposed to understand, because I believe this is the part Teresa said, how that this experience of God is of him letting you know in this connection with him How completely and deeply and totally you are loved. Your soul is loved. God loves your soul. And my first thought on reading Teresa say that was, well, he might love my soul because he made it, but I suck. So I'm having my little crisis, and I wanted mostly to immerse myself in in Christ because I've been thinking for a while nobody talks about how are people supposed to follow him and be someone who follows does what Jesus tells him if nobody knows what Jesus says so I'm focusing on Jesus and the Trinity and the Father and the Holy Spirit but mostly Jesus because that's how we find out all that stuff Jesus said his followers would do two things embrace his word, and obey his commands. It's about feeding hungry people, valuing people more than things, putting others first, not judging, welcoming strangers. Now, if I'm going to make this about Jesus, guys, do I need to put every reference, every scripture? Do you guys know all this? Of course you do. He immediately started to call people to himself, people he made apostles. He sought people out. Was there a moment when he was not in complete mystical union with the Father? I say no. I also say he was truly human. And this is a dogma all through the church, all through all the churches, I think. There were actual arguments about it early on. Jesus was truly human in The incarnation is not about paying for our sins. It is not about saving us from a death that no one had ever suffered. It was not about not going to a hell he didn't preach. Jesus came as teacher. He showed us by actions and taught us through words the way things work and always have happened. The gospel is eternal truth, his gospel. Jesus is the only one, the only human being who ever knew the Father. And he told us as much as God wanted us to know. He showed us how to live the life. Because it is Lent, the question has come up again and again. Why did he have to die on the cross? Because it isn't 1935 and we don't have an electric chair. We're in the first century and we had crosses. And that's why he died on a cross. And because he died on a cross, whatever they believed about the afterlife, that's not what happens anyway. At the gate to the afterlife. At the gate to death. At the moment of death, you prevail. That's what he told Peter afterwards. At the moment of death, you prevail. There's no death. There was never any death. He didn't bring us that kind of salvation. We already had it. He brought us the salvation of truth.

Galilean's Gospel: 6:47

You have a soul. And if all you do is things that don't feed and strengthen and grow you, if you don't come back to me, if you don't follow your need and desire, if you don't recognize it, what... What's going to happen to you? Well, you're not going to die. You're going to go to the kingdom and you're going to have to stop. You can't just go be with the Father where you're going to really want to be when you're that close to him. You're going to have to go *over there* for a while. And he doesn't really tell us what happens to us.

Galilean's Gospel: 7:28

Jesus, what he showed us, He brought some apostles with him on the mountain and said, stay awake. But in the end, He was a man, alone and frightened. And He said this thing, we must know this thing. **Take this cup from me, but not my will, but thine.** That's the moment. He isn't a martyr, whatever happened after that, was accepting the will of God. And the will of God was to allow all these things to happen that happened to Him in His condemnation, in His torment and torture and beating and humiliation, carrying that cross in front of all those people. And apparently there were a lot of people, thousands of people wanting to stop it, wanting to see it. It was a spectacle, this beautiful soul and this spectacle of his death where they .

Galilean's Gospel: 8:41

In the Gospel of Peter He describes it and one of the things he says is that Jesus didn't act as if He were suffering. It brings to mind a woman who was a contemplative she was very much in touch with . She had some pretty bad cancer. And she went into the hospice to die. And she didn't, I don't believe, take any kind of pain medication because she wanted to be awake. The description of the people that took care of her is she didn't moan, she didn't complain, she didn't cry, she didn't say anything. That she lay there for three days with her eyes wide open looking at something no one else could see. And then she was gone. Then she passed.

Galilean's Gospel: 9:39

SOULS HAVE BODIES. We don't have souls; we are souls. That is the thing that allows us to connect with our need, desire, and belonging to something so much more than what's going on around us. And that's what He came to tell us, and that's what He came to show us. He isn't a sacrificial lamb. It's not what happened. This is Revelation theology. They called him the Galilean. He didn't go into Judea for a long time. He did all this ministry in all these other places. Because Judea is where it ends. He went to Samaria. He went across the river. He left Israel entirely. He went everywhere but Judea. And He told everyone the truth. His gospel.

Galilean's Gospel: 10:34

He was the Galilean and the people that followed him were called Galileans, whether they came from Galilee or not. What are you, a Galilean now? Can you imagine? Really, just stick Him in your mind in today's world and imagine people rolling their eyes and telling everybody it's a trick. Those people were faking being blind. Nobody wants to hear the truth because it's too hard to follow. A Christian isn't a church-going person who is basing their life on books and pastors and dogmas and rules. A Christian is a person who is doing what Jesus told them to. Ask George MacDonald. And Lent is about the wrong thing. It's not about the lamb. It's about the teacher and the sacrifice that He made was coming here, was giving up total perfection and joy to be trapped inside a body, which He overcame. And He showed us how to do it too. Take care of each other. Take care of people you don't even know.

Galilean's Gospel: 11:51

It's going to get rough.