When Christ, the perfect manifestation of the Father appeared, he set the individual back on the throne that religion had stolen, and cast out religion to the pit in which it belonged. There were no boundaries, or religion, or lack of religion that prevented his attention. When asked “but who is my neighbor” he pointed to the Jews’ enemies–those they considered filthy apostates. When he summed up the final judgement, it had nothing to do with belief systems, or testimonies, only the way we treated the broken individual who came across our path or sought out to relieve their burdens. Religion must protect itself at all costs, even to the casting away family, than to tarnish their chosen system. Christ’s religion for all mankind was “I will suffer anything for you.”
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I have been betrayed by enough “Christlike” people, that I know, at least on earth, what is real and what isn’t. I’ve also, on rare occasions felt true love from others and it has, basically nothing, in my experience, to do with religion.
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Sometimes it’s non-religious people, maybe athiests that are the most God-like. Here’s a line from a silly movie I watched tonight that struck me:
“These mountains are the most beautiful on earth. Most church charity types talk about God…how they walk with God, how they found God…They talk at you instead of to you. And they never ask your opinion. And that’s all you do.”
The man he was talking to in this fictional movie was doing something to ease the suffering of for his fellow humans, the most God-like thing I can think of. And when such a person, even an athiest were to come to the gates of heaven, he would be admitted on the basis on Matthew 25:31-46.
Breathings 