Across the globe we have conflicting expressions of God based on descriptions that come from a multitude of obscure testimonies..

A common perception through the ages has been that only the literate elite, the crafters of law, qualify to be priests of authority/God. Another common perception is that only the descendants of a priestly Abraham or a King belong to God, the rest are kafir ‘outside the rule of belief of both Jew and Muslim’. It is a perception carried by many types of egotistical monsters occupying powerful posts in States today who award themselves with an array of titles that suggest heavenly proximity, superiority of religious rank and a God-given right to rule over others, wearing esoteric symbols with dark ‘spiritual meanings’.

Along comes Jesus Christ and attacks this imagined superiority of rank. No wonder he was hated, and still is, by those who make meaning out of images they create for themselves that promote their identity above others based on a relationship with the divine. Jesus trashed these man-made images of identity and superiority when he said, ‘No-one comes to God except through me’. By saying ‘me’, he meant the son of man, a servant of all. An equal. When one explores who the ‘me’ is in the story and how ‘God’ was portrayed by those around him as ‘me’ and ‘God’, the all powerful ‘us’, it becomes clear why he also said the door is narrow that leads to eternal life.

The roots of human identity, and therefore human purpose, is based entirely on fantasy, an imagined reality. People imagine they are great, superior, a cut above the rest, either as individuals, or as a class, or as a nation. This arrogance of status puts into perpetual motion the revolving doors of economic conflict, of social exclusion, of transitory human value and of epic blood baths.