A Heretical Follower

Friedrich Schleiermacher posits that all humans have a certain level of "God-consciousness." At some level, we are all connected to God in a very special way. Jesus was the only human being to exhibit a perfect level of God-consciousness. We have flashes of this God-consciousness when we feel closest to God, when we truly love only God and our neighbor as ourselves. Other humans, like Mother Teresa and Gandhi, have displayed vast amounts of God-consciousness, but most of us just reach this level occasionally. Jesus lived in this state of complete God-consciousness all the time. He was so intimately connected with God that he could do nothing else but display that love and character of God at all times through his words and deeds.
It was this intimate connection with God that made Jesus so compelling, and so puzzling. It was this intimate connection with God that made him so dangerous to the rule-keeping Pharisees of his day. It's this intimate connection with God that compels our modern-day Pharisees to domesticate Jesus - taking the subversive edge off of his message so they can control him through doctrines and dogma.

Candice Chellew
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