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Carlton D'metrius Pearson: Many People only know Jesus as the mythical fleshly Person; they don’t know Jesus by Spirit or in the Spirit or as Spirit and so they fight for the Idol [Icon in Greek].
United Church of Christ: Describe your Gospel of Inclusion.
Carlton D'metrius Pearson: Well, it's really Basic Universalism, but I couldn't have called it that. I needed another name. I am an Evangelical Pentecostal Fundamentalist and we'd always believed Universalism was wrong, but the Gospel of Inclusion says that the whole world is already Saved; they just don't know that. If Salvation is a Reality and People have been Saved, the question becomes "Have they been Saved from God or for each other?"
Carlton D'metrius Pearson: I don’t believe that Jesus came to start a new Religion but only to Reform His own. He was a Jew; He remained fundamentally a Jew, but He extended the Love Factor... He moved from the Literal to the Logical; the Bible says that the Letter kills, but the Spirit gives light:
Journey of the Magi by Thomas Stearns Eliot OM
‘A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.’And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,Lying down in the melting snow.There were times we regrettedThe summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,And the silken girls bringing sherbet.Then the camel men cursing and grumblingand running away, and wanting their liquor and women,And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendlyAnd the villages dirty and charging high prices:A hard time we had of it.At the end we preferred to travel all night,Sleeping in snatches,With the voices singing in our ears, sayingThat this was all folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,And three trees on the low sky,And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.But there was no information, and so we continuedAnd arrived at evening, not a moment too soonFinding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago, I remember,And I would do it again, but set downThis set downThis: were we led all that way forBirth or Death? There was a Birth, certainlyWe had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,But had thought they were different; this Birth wasHard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,With an alien people clutching their gods.I should be glad of another death.
Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen: Torah teaches that the human being was placed in the Garden of Eden to serve as its caretaker (Genesis 2:15). According to our tradition, this Divine mandate is the prototype for all the mitzvos of the Torah, as the serving of the Garden represents all the mitzvos of action, and the guarding of the Garden represents all the mitzvos which call upon us to refrain from certain actions (Tikunei Zohar 55).
The responsibility to "serve" the Garden is a prototype for all the mitzvos of the Torah which enable us to nurture and elevate the world – including ourselves. And the Divine call to "preserve" the Garden is a prototype for all the mitzvos of the Torah which prevent us from damaging and degrading the world – including ourselves.
The first human couple lost the Garden when they became moral relativists.
As we discussed in this series, the path of the Torah is to lead us back to the Garden, but in order to walk on this path in a dark world, the Torah gives us mitzvos which serve as lamps of the Divine light: (Proverbs 6:23).
Our tradition therefore encourages us to learn from the example of the rooster, who distinguishes between the light and the darkness. In this way, we can find our way back to the Garden and experience the fulfillment of the following prophecy. (Isaiah 51:3). In the age when Zion will become like the Garden of Hashem, the rest of humanity will be inspired by Zion’s example.
