In the first 300 years of its existence, Christianity spread like wildfire for two reasons: People were healed of all kinds of problems and diseases and everyone was welcomed and loved regardless of race, religion, creed, ethnicity, health or class. Christianity expressed unconditional love, forgiveness, and equality.
The word gospel actually means good news. And the good news was that everyone deserved to be loved and no one ever was outside of the Infinity of Divine Love.
And then Christianity became the “official religion” of the Holy Roman Empire. The politicization of Christianity began and unconditional everything went out the window.
But remnants of the fundamental unconditional healing of Love remain in some of what we hear in Christianity every day in every church everywhere in the world. And one of those things is the Lord’s Prayer. The one that begins Our Father. . .
Let me say that again: One of the most famous and widely-used prayers in the world — and the most famous Christian prayer — said to have been given to the world by Jesus, begins OUR FATHER.
It goes on from there only using the pronouns our and us n relation to the one praying it. Not once does it use the words I or me.
It does not say My Father, Give me this day my daily bread. Forgive me, as I forgive others. Lead me not into temptation. But deliver me from evil. It does not say me or I once.
The only pronouns it uses are our or us. We are meant to pray and live in the collective for the collective benefit and healing of all.
Jesus said that there were only two commandments anyone had to obey: To love God and to love each other. And then he said that God is Love.
And then he gave the world this prayer. This prayer that exemplifies and expresses living Love. The Love of God toward us and our love toward one another.
Let me say that another way: Basically Jesus said to love Love and to love each other and to pray to Love, in Love, as Love as we not me.
Nowhere ever did he justify hate or killing or any form of violence or discrimination in his name. Ever.
Nowhere ever did he say that we should do anything but lean on Love, listen to Love, learn from Love and live Love. And everywhere he said love one another.
So the primitive Christianity taught by Jesus basically says live Love as we.
Boom.
(That was the sound of Jesus dropping his mic. In Love.)