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God Exists · The Reading Instruction Show

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  Greetings, I'm Andy Johnson. This is the Church
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  of Transpersonal Christianity. Think about the
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  expanse of the universe and the edge of space
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  that keeps expanding outward and what's on the
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  other side. Imagine the time before time. With
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  our puny human minds, it's a bit like putting
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  an air hose up your right nostril and turning
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  it on. Now, let us try to understand God. The
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  dirty cup. If you had a cup that was half filled
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  with stale, bitter wine and you poured sweet
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  wine into it, that sweet wine would be contaminated.
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  When you drank from it, you would taste only
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  the stale, bitter wine. To taste the new, you
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  must first empty the cup. and clean it. You must
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  pour out the stale, bitter wine so that the sweet
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  wine is pure and unpolluted. So it is with our
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  understanding of God. We must first empty our
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  cups in order to move our understanding forward.
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  First, we must divest ourselves of the old ideas
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  that cling to us and slow our spiritual progress
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  like barnacles on a ship. We must free ourselves
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  from the limitations of preconceived notions
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  so that we can enter the holy of holies and encounter
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  God unfettered and unencumbered. suitably unencumbered,
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  let us find a point of agreement upon which to
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  start. God exists. We cannot be people of faith
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  without this very basic premise. As well, God
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  is the most powerful force in the universe. God
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  is the universe. All that is, was, and will be
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  And most who choose to be people of faith would
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  agree with these three premises thus far. So
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  let's take it a step further. God is pure energy.
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  God is pure love. God knows you intimately. The
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  Rorschach test. We humans have a nasty habit
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  of using God as a great cosmic Rorschach inkblot
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  test projecting onto him that which we wish to
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  see. Thus one's description of God tells you
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  more about the describer than the described.
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  And think about that the next time you see an
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  angry preacher man pointing fingers at you and
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  condemning whole categories of people to eternal
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  damnation. Think about what's dancing about in
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  his or her unconscious mind.