The Sin of "Sin" Consciousness!
How often do you feel a sense, false or otherwise, of sin, error and angering your god or God, or just offending those who embrace the same theology you do? Is personal shame one of your most challenging person issues?
Confidence in your own worth or abilities is part of your divine essence and indeed a divine birthright! Awakening to this powerful reality is part of being regenerated. It is being born again.
What you fear most, you ultimately experience, express and expose. If you fear an angry God, you experience, express and expose that aspect of yourself and soul. And what you think about, you bring about in your life.
I am always both amused and confused (bewildered) even ashamed of the vitriolic responses I receive from the "religious right" to some of my more progressive posts regarding loving and affirming marginalized people considered sinners by the most Pharisaic fundamentalists among my readers. Their explanation is that they love the sinner but hate the "sin", something they say is the heart of God towards those considered sinners. I used to use that same line hoping to soften the blow of condemning the "sin" without demeaning the so called sinner.
To people like that, Jesus is recorded to have said:
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. (Matt 23:13)
Often well-meaning fundamentalists slam the door in the faces of hurting people already demeaned and feeling "unworthy" by their own issues of self-worth and low self-esteem often based on pre and ill-conceived notions about God, Jesus, heaven and hell, sin, devils, demons and many other superstitious aspects of the mythological roots of and within the Christian faith.
For the more studious and interested inquirers, the data and documentation is there to prove that much of what we have been taught over the last 2000 years of entrenched indoctrination is false, contrived and unreliable.
Sin consciousness is one of the most damaging elements of cultural human consciousness. It is evident in most of the major world religions and is the source of some of the most horrible inflictions of pain and suffering on the human race throughout history.
Carlton Pearson
After college at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma he served for 15 years on its Board of Regents, and two years as Associate Evangelist of The Oral Roberts Association, (ORA).
In 1977, Pearson founded Higher Dimensions Ministries (now New Dimensions ), in Tulsa, which grew to over 5,000.
Bishop Pearson was consecrated to the office of Bishop in 1996 thru a College of Bishops headed by Bishop Charles E Blake, presently the Presiding Bishop of the Churches of God In Christ, the denomination he was raised in and through whom he was ordained in 1971.
In 1993, Carlton married the former Gina Marie Gauthier who is a professional Life Coach and Yoga teacher.
More recently, he has felt a passion to proclaim the "Gospel Of Inclusion" and has written a widely acclaimed book by that name, published by Simon and Schuster. It confronts the Christian church's exclusivism as being inconsistent, in spirit with the teachings of Jesus.
Pearson's frank and often controversial take on a number of different subjects has earned him appearances on television programs such as NBC and MSNBC's Dateline, ABC's Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, The Edge with Paula Zahn and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, The Monique Show on BET, and a number of other television, radio and print media outlets. Bishop Pearson was recognized as one of America's 10 Most Influential Black Ministers by Gospel Today and Belief.net. He has received several honorary doctoral degrees.
Bishop Pearson recently served as the Interim Senior Minister at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago. He and Gina now host New Dimensions of Chicago, building a local multi-cultural and radically Inclusive spiritual community that emphasizes expanded consciousness and Self Actualization. His newest book, God Is Not A Christian, Nor A Jew, Muslim, Hindu...God Dwells With Us, In Us, Around Us, As Us was published by Simon and Schuster and released in the spring of 2010.
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