Sunday, January 1, 2012

Tao Bible - Jeremiah 21:5-6

And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
~ King James version ~

The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
The way of nature is unchanging.
~ from Verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching ~
From the standpoint of a Taoist, "the way of nature is unchanging." The laws of the cosmos play out in an impartial manner.

The God of Christianity, however, is ever changing. One minute he is pleased and the next he is angry. One minute he is blessing people and the next he pledges to destroy them. Like humans, he seems a prisoner to his own emotions!

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