Church last Sunday: Love and Law (and my response.)

Last Sunday (yesterday) I went to my wife's church. It's a nice enough place, but theologically I tend to disagree with their teachings.

Last Sunday the pastor was reading from Romans 13 - the sermon being about the need for Jesus as the only way to God.

One thing I take as a mistake on the pastor's part, was his logic that God can not nullify a law of His own creation. While that may be true, his error was in saying, "Because God Loves you doesn't nullify the fact we must be judged! Judgement must happen!" I could use his same premise (that God's law can not nullify another law) and say, "Because God believes in judgement, that doesn't nullify the Law of Love."

With his statement of faith firmly placed in his teaching, the pastor then leads the congregation down the path of saying "Ok yes we need Jesus only, as that fullfills the law of Love and the law of judgement."

To his viewpoint, he has made the equation work.

However, we could easily flip this and say that Ernest Holmes has it more right... that the Law of Love can not be mooted. To believe that Jesus (the physical embodiment only) is the only way, is saying that God basically came up with a Divine plan to save a few thousand people, while millions not being born in the Middle East would burn in hell. That would in deed violate the law of love. If the pastor is right that one law can not violate another. Then this couldn't be possible as it would violate the Law of Love.

True balance then would be, in my viewpoint, that God loves us, and wants us to avoid the karmic return we sow for yourselves. To free ourselves from reincarnation and return to the world of cause and effect. So God, sent many examples - Jesus being one of many - to help guide humanity.

I don't argue these points. I note it in this journal, to note my state of mind and philosophy. I respect the ideas and beliefs of others.