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Polychristic Monotheism: .. is what we need as a framework for planetary religion. Monotheism - i.e ONE GOD - meaning belief in one absolute reality and thus one morality. - also reflecting that we live on one planet where actions in one place can easily affect lives in other places. Thus 'God's will' can be equated to 'what is beneficial to life on earth overall'. Polychristic - Many Christs (or many forms of Christ) Christ is the bridge between the ONE UNIVERSAL UNCHANGEABLE GOD and individual souls embodied in the world at a particular time and place when particular things are going on. While GOD doesn't change, people and their situations do. Thus Christ must also adapt so that He/It can act as the best bridge between where people are and where they need to be to serve GOD. It a nation is the largest human group which has a common culture and can act as one - then Christ must be able to speak with one voice to a whole nation at once. Thus each nation should have its own form of Christ - but there will be many forms of Christ in the world - i.e. the world will be polychristic. However all these national Christs need to accept the ONE GOD (i.e. the common good of life on earth) so that conflicts between them can be resolved in a way that all parties can accept as legitimate. -If Polychristic then also Polysatanic As well as each nation having its own cultural understanding of Christ it will also have its own cultural understanding of Satan. -What about the idea that people should speak to God direct without Christ as an intermediary? We believe that GOD is not directly knowable and thus there will always be a 'Christ' - a bridge - between Man and God. Those who say they have been contacted by GOD direct are incorrectly imputing to GOD what belongs rightfully to Christ. Thus we might say that the Islamic Koran is a part of the Arabo- Christ. (i.e. what Arabs believe to be the word of God to the Arabs at a particular time in history. However it is not the unchallengeable word of God to all people everywhere for ever). Similarly the Jewish Torah and covenant would be considered part of the Judo-Christ and thus a part of Jewish religious culture (Jewish attempts to make contact with GOD). However it is not something that all people everywhere should be expected to accept without challenge. Similarly the new testament scriptures would be seen as historic part of the Euro-Christ because they are part of the European religious tradition. However Christ would be seen as something dynamic who is not completely revealed in the New Testament - but who is revealed in other ways as well. -Are you saying that all religion is relative? No. GOD remains unchangeable. Although human situations change, human character stays much the same over time so similar situations are likely to re-occur. God's word is considered absolutely true as a comment on the particular situation it was originally trying to address. However it may not reflect God's will to other people in other situations. (Thus we might believe that the 'Laws of Moses' were truly the word of God at the time they were uttered - i.e. they were the best laws available for the people they were uttered to - and anybody else living under exactly the same conditions. However the Laws of Moses are not universally applicable - i.e. they are not necessarily what God would set down for people living under other conditions). -What is the Anglo-Christ (July 2006: or Christodin)? The Anglo-Christ is the English (or wider Anglo-Saxon) Christ. It is the bridge between the Anglo-Saxons and God - showing them how best to serve God. It is composed of all the religious culture which has been developed or accepted as Good by the English through history and which remains accessible. The Anglo-Christ is something dynamic and thus today we can continue to strive to discover what character of bridge we need for the situations which confront us. ONE GOD - MANY FORMS OF CHRIST One mountain top - many paths up the mountain. 5th March 2006 |
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