It is like I am standing on the waters edge having only dipped my toes into the river. I have experience evangelicalism for 17 years. In the first couple years I was open to a god that was involved in all cultures and all faiths but slowly that perspective was brow beat from my system of beliefs. To believe such a thing, evangelicals taught, was to deny Christ and his sacrifice. And only now over the past couple of years have I been moving back to and forward to the embracing of a god who is found everywhere that is not exclusive to Christianity. Thus, I am moving from the edge of the river and dipping my toes into a world that lifts the burden from my shoulders to defend and proseltyze a religious system that is archaic, illogical, arrogant, and that which causes dissension in the world.
I am now free to examine and search for answers and to love without false intent, or alterior motives. I am free to love for the sake of love. To love because forefathers such as Christ, Buddha, Ghandi, etc. learned that love is the answer and displayed that it really is something that can change the world.
I no longer have to believe that the evangelical canon is somehow the only legitimate canon. I no longer have to read any canon to find enlightenment. I can reflect, think, meditate, converse and if I choose I can read whatever I choose to read. I can read the Pali Canon and see if I can find truth within its pages. I can read books on Hinduism and seek out the truth of our universe in its pages. I can compile, rip apart, meditate and conclude that which differs from evangelicalism without spiritual recourse.
I am free to love. I am free to think. And now the journey begins to discovering further insights into a universe that contains many 'I''s or that I think contains many "I"'s. I am ready to go neck deep into the river.
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