Socially Sustainable Christian Doctrines

Any new Christian religion that comes into existence in this era of highly educated believers must be able to hold up under examination and scrutiny to provide a system of beliefs that offer the hope of being everlasting. To do that, it must be wholly consistent, reflecting the wholeness and Oneness of The Creator. Its theology, fundamental beliefs, doctrines, and all related instructional materials must have their very beginnings in the roots of the One, beginning before creation. Any contradiction must be resolved. Yet, unresolved issues will always exist that provide the frontier of belief for an evolving religion.

To sustain themselves, God-centered religions must evolve to serve the evolving, growing spiritual needs of believers. To evolve this year, next year, or four centuries from now, it must have a set of values that will permeate its history and carry it into its future. That does not mean the underlying theology and God’s relationship to the believer changes, but that the interpretation of the basic values evolves to serve the evolving social, political, economic, and spiritual needs of their audiences.

While the values that are organic to our species provide for a socially sustaining Christian morality to sustain a loving relationship between the individual believer and God, and with all others, it is helpful to also come to some common understandings or doctrines. Consider the following:

  1. The Doctrine of Innocence: All children are born morally perfect and without humanly defined sin.
  1. The Doctrine of Fallibility: All human children grow from the perfect state of innocence to the point where they will make their first moral decision. It is eventual that children who have reached this age will make a fallible moral decision.
  1. The Doctrine of Perfection: Having made a fallible moral decision, it is our option to decide and then take action to strive to become perfect once again. Having made this decision and taken action, our Divine Fragment will do what we allow it to do to help. God's Divine Fragment will give us options so we may choose the right action for us individually for our growth.
  1. The Doctrine of Separation: God, being perfectly loving and having given sovereignty to the will-decisions of human beings, has provided that those who do not wish to participate in their plan of life and spiritual ascendancy are allowed to pass out of existence as though they never were.
  1. The Doctrine of Wholeness: The universe and its function are whole and unified. All aspects of universe-function operate in oneness where any one aspect affects the rest, and the whole has an effect upon the single aspect. (The universe does not exhibit "fracturing," where parts operate distinctly from the whole. Only beings with self-will who choose to live outside of wholeness exhibit "fracturing.")
  1. The Doctrine of Flow: All aspects that exist in alignment with the greater universe "flow" in agreement with the universe. "Good" (divine order, divine timing, divine serendipity, and coincidence) is evidence of being in the flow of the universe. The greater our alignment, the greater we are in agreement with the flow of the universe.
  1. The Doctrine of Conscious Participation: The rate of development and evolution of our ascendant spiritual career is immensely increased when we consciously participate by making appropriate and timely conscious decisions and taking similar action that are in alignment with the nature of God. Our rate of growth is further augmented when we consciously choose to establish and maintain a co-creative relationship with our Divine Fragment.