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BISEXUAL UNITY
CHRISTIANS The gospel differs from the remainder of Christian
scripture where pre-gospel patriarchal norms return in the latter, for
example silent women and (monogamous) male leaders. Our particular charisma celebrates
sex, sexuality and relationship freed from ecclesial power and control. * We celebrate humanity equally created in the image of
God.
* We celebrate sexuality as God-given.
* We celebrate all relationship configurations which
originate in, and manifest, an unlimitable God.
Mindful that some will continue to have visions and that
the Spirit will teach everything, the Bisexual Unity Collective (BUC) pursues
a more complete understanding of the Recreation-event centred around the
earthly life of One Infinite Love-Embodied in Nazareth. The embodied Spirit of God in Nazareth, God-with-us,
resurrected from patriarchy. The body became the site of revelation and the
erotic an indication of the Divine spark, within relationships of mutuality
and justice. The bird-word (1) had become flesh to enable flesh to speak,
especially in situations of war, poverty and injustice. Divine salvation from non-love was demonstrated by
self-deprecation and universal servitude. Non-love's attempt to kill the
expression of love was met with repentance and forgiveness to resurrect to
new life within the Reign of God. 'Christian marriage' exposed Inheritance of eternal life within the Reign of God was a
key question the gospel addressed. This was as problematic for the wealthy as
a camel passing through the eye of a needle. Monogamy secured inherited
wealth (2); enshrined within the then slavery known as patriarchal marriage
(3). In continued efforts to overturn patriarchy, the good news was that
marriage was terminated in the presence of one identifying as The
Resurrection (4). Patriarchy could not affect the relationship
configurations of the family of God (5). Jesus' immediate relationship was
quarine (6). Incarnation, a church doctrine, stated God, or love (7), could
be present in the unity of body and spirit. The good news promoted excessive
life (8) found where the Reign of God could be detected within self (9). Despite some retrograde steps found within the Pauline
tradition, the church contradicted binary thinking by formulating a threefold
unity of equality, a relationship of love; the Trinity. Despite a Latin
attempt to override Aramaic by male-sexing the Spirit, the Virgin Mother of
God quickly assumed her heavenly position to preserve balance. Her twentieth
century juxta-positioning witnessed a Quarinity. Loving God and neighbour, involving repentance and
forgiveness, was central. Relationship configurations of seven husbands, six
husbands or five virgins were immaterial. Instead, paradoxically, Love's
characteristic was of one plurality. Salvation equated with at-one-ment with
others. The gospel of God-with-us reflected a loving relationship of four; on
earth as in heaven. Unlimitable configurations-of-love have reflected the
infinite power of one Divine Love; one multiple relationship held to be
unlimitable. The recent twelfth-century sanctifying of "marriage",
the relationship-limiting triple-lock of wedlock, exposed
sacrament-construction. It seemed God's ways were not those of humans who
preferred human traditions, disobeyed God's commands, and neither understood
scripture nor the power of God. Hard-heartedness paralleled the inequality exposed in
Moses' law, where divorce/adultery was simply financial dis/possession of
woman; who was commanded to be another item of property alongside a man’s servants
and beasts-of-burden. What God (love) joined was 'equality'. The plea was not
to interrupt those who had left parents for such a non-traditional
arrangement. Christianity's structures questioned The task of announcing the Resurrection rendered the
twelve males of no greater significance than the thirty-six pairs of
disciples, other fe/male disciples of the Nazarene and Mary of Magdala, the
Apostle to the Apostles. A crowing cock destabilized the satanic rock; Simon,
son of John, later required reprogramming as a loving shepherd. Pauline
presiding elders, monogamy, male heads and silent females, opposed the
Servant of All's overturning of patriarchy. Breaking from Roman Petrine and
Pauline patriarchy, as at the Reformation, was not the same as breaking with
patriarchy itself. 1. the Holy
Spirit will come upon you (Luk 1:35),
the Spirit of God descending like a dove (Mat 3:16) 2. Engels 3. Ken Stone,
2015, The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender. OUP 4. Joh 11:25, Mar
12:25, Mat 22:30, Luk 20:35 5. Mar 3:33 6. Joh 11:5 7. 1Jo 4:8, 16 8. Gk. 'perisson',
Joh 10:10 9. Gk. 'entos',
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