There are untruths, false concepts, warn-out views circling through generation after generation of people and various church leaders. Some of these myths keep us from growing in our rightful Divinity.

Others have helped humanity at some time, then a master teacher, an enlightened person comes along and snuffs out the old fading myth. Jesus was a myth breaker and reviser.

For one, he believed all people deserve love and respect no matter what. He shook up the pecking order of the Jewish family in the Prodigal Son Bible Story. With the younger son receiving his inheritance before the parents retired and/or were deceased. 

The younger son quite extraordinarily received his portion of the family savings ahead of his older brother. And he goes off from the farm and withdraws his support and help as an integral part of his Jewish family. This broke with the tradition and myth of children receiving their inheritance (if any) after the parents have passed on.

How about the angry sometimes harsh God in the First (Old) Testament. God was to be feared and not angered. As if God could be angered. The Divine image was more about the human concept rather than understood through divine insight, enlightenment or inner-knowing. 

Most religions taught  —  we are to fear God. Also, to this day some denominations of Christianity feel only the elect can be saved or go to heaven. Jesus taught and asserted life is eternal and not limited by time, space or position.  

God is not to be feared. The teaching to be afraid of the Divine Presence is a myth of old.  Way-showers such as Jesus, the mystics, saints, and those spiritual greats like Saint Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Martin Luther revealed a God of love.

Mystic after mystic, divinely inspired person after person describe being healed because of God’s love and forgiveness. 

Likewise, in Jesus’ teachings it is written, We All Deserve Forgiveness. The ingredient is to open and receive, then offer and show forgiveness to others and everyone. ‘Forgive and you are forgiven.’

It is better to be poor than rich is another myth. I understand why this myth came into being. People have a tendency to forget their inner treasure and Divine Source and may become overly centered on acquiring money, status and things. 

However, such a way of living does not bring lasting happiness or the peace Jesus spoke of, a peace so demonstrative it calms stormy waters. And a peace ‘that passes all human understanding’ — a peace greater than the human concept; yet lifts a human beyond the limitations of mortal understanding into the realm of spiritual revelation.

In the New Testament writings, there is a time when the disciples ask Jesus why was this person born with a health challenge. They questioned whether it was a consequence of the parents. Jesus took the question and turned it into a time to reveal great truth. The person was born with an abnormality to reveal God’s nature and love more. 

In other words, the person who could not see had an opportunity to show forth more of God. There is great capacity within each human being regardless of the physical or mental condition. 

We each have an opportunity while on earth to rise above our short-comings. Let the Divine Spirit that indwells us shine through the uneven or broken places and live to the glory and by grace in expressing God’s love, beauty, and innate power beyond human power and ability alone. 

Whatever our perceived or actual deficits, we are to use them for good and to express the transformational nature of God forever in us, as we are and where we are, regardless of appearances or short-falls.  

For the fact we can heal, recover or have operations putting something back together or replace something, in addition to the great spiritual healings throughout the ages and our own healings — all these outstanding human over-comings reveal our innate God image, likeness and Divine perfection nestled within and as every human being.

This is not a myth; it is a Divine Truth about humankind. We are remarkable Spiritual Creations.