Thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts and even painful experiences with the church.

No church is perfect and especially the people within the churches aren’t perfect.

They are judging you, which is sinful. Yet, you are only hurting yourself by holding the pain inside towards them.

This is what Jesus’ atonement is all about. He died so we can repent and also forgive those who sin against us.

I pray that the Lord touches your soul this Easter season and that your pain you feel and hurt towards those who have offended you will leave and be replaced with love and understanding.

I’m not religious, but I found that there are some spiritual truths embedded deeply in Michael’s songs. When you first hear them, they might strike you as naiive. But in fact, they are pretty much the same things as what spiritual teachers like the Buddha teach… or like today’s Eckhart Tolle or Byron Katie.

I’ve put together some examples in my blog from Michael’s song “Heal the World”.

Here’s one example:

There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place…

Tolle differenciates “space” from “content”: Every content in the real world — things, relationships, the weather — arises within space. Most people only see the content. And, what’s worse, they tie their happiness to specific content. This inevitably leads to a sense of unfulfillment, because content is bound to dissolve. Content always comes and goes — and the only thing static in the entire universe is the space in which content arises. Becoming aware of space, according to Tolle, is therefore the only path to fulfillment.

Michael might not have been a “spiritual teacher”, but deep inside he must have been very evolved and enlightened.

Maybe that is why so many people saw him as “strange” or “childish”…

The story start from that everyone of us is born Blind….
and one day, someone want to know about the color, since he also blind since he was born, he doesn’t know what green color is like…
so he ask to “one man” that is already regain his vision….
“Sir, can you describe me about Green Color?”
and the man reply “Oh, Green is like beautiful sound of music…”
So the blind man feels happy cause finally he knows what green is like. He go to his hometown of blind people to tell the whole town about what he knows….

The next day, another blind man ask to this “one man” who can see…. “Sir, can you explain to me about green color?”
this time the man reply “Green is like the morning wind blows softly to your skin…”
the second blind man feels great cause now he has knowledge about the green color and he goes home telling his family about this.

one day their blind children is fighting, both side is defending their believe about Green Color and they both accused that the other side have it all wrong….

they fight to the death and kill many people along the way to spread their believe because they think they can save humanity and many lives by telling other what they thought is the truth…

heh heh….. funny isn’t it…?

Nobody can tell you what Green Color (truth) is….
You must see it for yourself…. cause there are no human words can contain it…..

“It’s strange that God doesn’t mind expressing Himself/Herself in all the religions of the world, while people still cling to the notion that their way is the only right way. Whatever you try to say about God, someone will take offense, even if you say everyone’s love of God is right for them.
For me the form God takes is not the most important thing. What’s most important is the essence. My songs and dances are outlines for Him to come and fill. I hold out the form. She puts in the sweetness.
I’ve looked up at the night sky and beheld the stars so intimately close, it was as if my grandmother had made them for me. “How rich, how sumptuous,” I thought.
In that moment I saw God in His creation. I could as easily have seen Her in the beauty of a rainbow, the grace of a deer bounding through a meadow, the truth of a father’s kiss. But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me. We are one.”
-Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream

http://doodiepants.com/2009/08/27/michael-jackson-is-alive-and-well/

Thanks for stopping by. From your comments it appears you haven’t read all the comments in this thread. There is one that has a link that goes to a description of MJ accepting Jesus.

Furthermore, I personally don’t believe MJ is going to hell or anything like that. You’re right. I don’t have a clue exactly what happened with him and I’m pretty sure you don’t either. You are also right. We’re not supposed to judge others…including you judging me.

Personally I feel everyone will get a fair chance to accept God in this life or the next so I’m not condemning MJ at all. We’ll all get rewarded for our good works and MJ definitely had a lot of good works as you mention.

Before you bristle up and get defensive, read through all the comments on the post and see the point I was really trying to make. Then come back and I’ll be happy to talk.