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THE CHURCH OF
ONE INFINITE LOVE Mindful that some will continue to have visions and that the Spirit will teach everything, the Church of One Infinite Love pursues a more complete understanding of the Recreation-event centred around the earthly life of One Infinite Love-Embodied in Nazareth. Our faith understands : * God
unconditionally loves all creation, including humanity who were fashioned,
and born perfectly,
in God's image. * Human
inheritance of distress, from others similarly affected, impacts love of God,
neighbour
and stranger. * A God-given
ability to discharge distress, heals. * Three gospels advised " the end of marriage
" at the occurrence of the Resurrection. (1) * An earthly presence of One whom declared " I am
the Resurrection " both occurred and continues.
(2) * Numbers of partners, and their sex, recorded in the
Fourth Gospel's celebration at Cana were,
and was, unlimited. The Good News addressed the patriarchal society which constructed the Christian church. (3) Some Christian scriptures used to found it promoted bishops and marriage. (4) Those scriptures were and are quite different to the overall ethos of the gospel as above, which also characterised members of God's family and Jesus of Nazareth's specific fourfold loving relationship, alongside love of all. (5) Faithful human experience of God who was and is Love, and inhabited human form in a natural unified way (6), was inhibited by the subsequent trend to guard purity during eating and relationship. This involved separating discipleship of Jesus of Nazareth into a binary 'spirit' and 'flesh'. Yet even where scripture is quoted in support, adjacent verses direct that providing physical hospitality to God allowed Divine inward dwelling. (7) We celebrate 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, God as un-limitable. 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 (9) 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 (9). Any attempt to defeat the expression and power of love was met with forgiveness to resurrect to new life within the Reign of God. 'Christian marriage' exposed Hard-heartedness described the inequality exposed in Moses' law, where marriage was another name for the purchase and possession of woman, who was commanded to be another item of property alongside a man’s servants and beasts-of-burden. (10) Divorce dispossessed the woman of her owner and adultery saw her (temporary) possession by a non-owner. Instead, what God (love) joined was 'equality', as at creation, and the plea was not to interrupt those who had left parents for such a non-traditional arrangement. Relationship configurations of seven husbands, six husbands or five virgins were immaterial. (11) Un-limitable configurations-of-love have reflected the infinite power of one Divine Love; one multiple relationship held to be un-limitable. Paradoxically, Love's characteristic was of one plurality. A threefold relationship of love became fourfold after the Virgin Mother of God assumed her heavenly position; which the twentieth century confirmed as a Quarinity. The good news promoted excessive life (12) found where the Reign of God could be detected within self (13). Loving God and neighbour was central and involved repentance and forgiveness. Salvation equated with at-one-ment between God and humanity after the Divine sacrifice, due to non-Godness, manifested power over death. The gospel questioned how eternal life within the Reign of God was inherited. Wealth, secured by marriage and monogamy (14), would be as problematic as a camel passing through the eye of a needle for eternal life within the Reign of God to be inherited (15). 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. Christianity's structures questioned The gospel portrays followers not bishops. The ungodly 'rock', who thought as his peers, was also destabilised by a crowing cock and later reprogrammed to assist according to love (8). 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. Breaking from Roman Petrine and Pauline patriarchy, as at the Reformation, was not the same as breaking with patriarchy itself. 1. Joh 11:25, Mar 12:25, Mat 22:30, Luk 20:35 2. Joh 11:25, Mat 28:20 3. Exo 20:17 4. 1Ti 3:2 5. Mar 10:14, Mar 3:35, Joh 11:5 6. Mar 6:3 7. Joh 6:63, 54-5 8. Joh 21:15 9. the Holy Spirit will come upon you (Luk 1:35), the Spirit of God descending like a dove (Mat 3:16) 10. as 3. 11. Mar 12:20, Joh 4:18, Mat 25:10 12. Gk. 'perisson', Joh 10:10 13. Gk. 'entos', Luk 10:9 14. Engels 15. Mar 10:25 |
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