What Does God Expect From Us?

Does God expect us to do anything for Him? Christians believe that God wants us to accept a certain canon. If we believe this canon, we will be given eternal life. If we do not believe it, we shall ultimately perish. Nothing could be further from the truth. God does not care what we believe. The atheist will walk through the gates of heaven at the same time and at the same pace as the most believing Christian. God is not about saving your soul. Like God, your soul is immortal. It is part of God, has always been so and always will be so. God does not require that you believe anything. What then does God require? There are three rules. The first rule I have talked about frequently. This is the rule that requires you to love your neighbor with the same intensity that you love yourself. We are all the same, although we have differences. Those differences do not go to the essence of who we are. For this reason, we are forbidden to judge one another. God is our judge. The second rule is one that I have discussed as well. This is commonly called the law of Karma. In reality, it is the brother and sister of the first rule. If we give love to one another, we get love back. If we harm, persecute, murder, or abuse one another, we will equally get the same thing back. God wants us to use the law of Karma to good effect; give love and get love back. In this manner the law of Karma becomes a way to reform our world and make it immeasurably better. The third rule is where the gnostic comes in. In this rule, God wants us to grow and mature. He does not want us to hate knowledge and to disparage those who seek it. Put another way, He does not want us to be satisfied with the status quo. There is much to learn, and we have the capacity to learn it. The Hubble Telescope has expanded our knowledge of the universe. We built it, put it in space, and have maintained it over the years, even improving it as we go along. God favors such activities. The more we learn about the world we live in, the closer we get to the day when we can see God face to face. This means that our faith must be an open one; open to change and open to new revelations of the truth. These three rules present us with a pathway. That pathway is upward and outward, leading us away from ignorance, war, crime, and the abuse of ourselves and the planet we live on. It is a pathway that will ultimately lead us to knowledge of God. If we are willing to walk on that pathway, and are equally willing to do so together, rather than apart from one another, there is no limit to what we will be capable of achieving. If I could will it so, I would have every human being now living form a chain, hand in hand, that circles the globe. Such a chain would signal to ourselves and our God, our willingness to learn and listen to what He has to say. It is not a question of belief. It is a affirmation of understanding of our true selves. It is the gnostic way.