I can never know for certain if my endless study of the essential gospel versus is helping me to know a man that lived 2000 years ago. I think that it is. https://www.jesianity.info/2026/06/my-essential-gospel-jesus-verses.html
But I am experiencing the process and the work as getting to know the mind and intention of those that wrote the gospels, whoever they were.
The theory that I continue to pursue and get Affirmed is that they thought they had found something through practice worth their lives to communicate to others. A way of being, a way of understanding life and the world that led to the most joyful individual and on a small scale Collective results that could be desired or conceived.
I'm testing the theory that every word choice was in their view crucial, extremely careful, deeply thoughtful, by way of telling us the best way they had found for us to be as human beings. The most personally gratifying, the most durable in any storm, and the most promising for people around one.
The Divine gift to humanity in my experience so far. I'm willing to conclude otherwise in my next breath, but my experience lifelong and recent is moving me only in the direction I've just articulated.
In the movie contact people believed they had received an endlessly detailed set of instructions for creating something, from an unknown species in outer space. We can imagine their endless attention to detail in decoding that, and implementing it. Among other things, doing so took an enormous amount of faith . That movie by way of analogy comes to mind in what I've just articulated.
It is the greatest mistake, tragedy, disaster, in human history, that no one seems to have thought that the gospel was an specific, detailed, brilliantly conceived and articulated, operating system, the most perfect guidance system for individual and communal life. If you know of an exception, even an individual, or that saw it as I just articulated please let me know. I see no one in history that has considered what I've just said, and been drawn into making of their life a test. Not one. Please tell me what I'm not seeing. Please consider joining me in the pursuit.
The above States more clearly what has been drawing me forward, more clearly than i have articulated so far.
A verse that sparked this post that I was studying is the one in the picture below. The verse is: he shall make him ruler over all his goods. This is not a unique thought in the gospels but it hit me with particular clarity just now, in my 10,000th reading of it over my lifetime. Smh.. It does not say he gave him all his Goods as a reward. He did not transfer ownership. The owner did not make the person in question a king. He did not transfer his Goods for the enjoyment of the servant . But a servant with enormous responsibilities and duties to the king.
And who do you know that lives as though that is the case, what christian? I don't know of one. Please tell me.
My lifelong revulsion at the notion of being a servant evaporated some months or years ago. A servant of Jesus's father? What could be more wonderful than that? Understanding the mind of that boss, as articulated in the gospels, the perfect understanding of how things can best be, and trying to make of one self an implementation and implementer of that. What could be more joyful, endlessly fascinating, endlessly challenging?
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