Humanity and Spirituality

I’m having a baby shower! Please visit:

http://www.webbabyshower.com/mullen/

Here is part of an email I sent to that gal today:

It had occurred to me…HOW do you get 2000 years of
history from a "myth?" Either he lived or he didn’t,
but how does a myth of that proportion get perpetuated
for two THOUSAND years? Is it even possible? It
would be the biggest con of all time… um, lol.
However, the parallels between Jesus and previous
deities is remarkable. Spooky even, if the video I
watched is to be believed. For me, further research
is definitely needed. And, except for my own internal
dialog with God, which in its own right, convinces me
of a LOT, 2000 years of very little communication from
God…seems like a LOT of time to pass without a
"Hello" even. How many generations have passed
wondering if theirs was the generation that would see
the second coming? WHY no big communications? Up to
the point of Jesus, it seemed God ALWAYS had something
to say to people… or was it just certain people?
There isn’t a real "feel" for the time line, is there?
There was a pretty good joke I read not too long
ago. A man asks God "God, how much is a million
dollars?" God answers "To me, a million dollars is
but a penny."
The man responds "God, how long is a million years?"
God answers "To me, a million years is but a minute."
The man asks "God, may I have a penny?" God answers
"Yes, in a minute."
Pretty funny, huh? Is this how children must feel?
Like time drags out forever? Perhaps to God, 2000
years is but a milisecond, and of course, to us, it’s
been 2 millenia, a VERY long time. I have often
thought, and certain passages in the Bible make me
think I might be right, if every single one of us is
not a "spiritual child" of God. We have NO sense of
God’s timeline… time seems to drag on forever, but
in the meantime, we struggle to make sense of the
world, and why we are in it. And we have Christ,
through John (I assume!) telling us "Do not love the
world or anything in it." and WHY is that? WHY are we
in the world, if we are not to love it or anything in
it? It’s a very curious thing. It makes so little
sense, except perhaps if you substituted attachment
for love. "Do not attach yourself to the world, or
anything in it." Which would make a whole LOT more
sense, since our time is really only very temporary
here, AND attaching oneself to worldly "things"
usually leads to inflicting pain on ourselves and
others in pursuit of those things.
Still… to me, there is an element of why are we
here?
To be human MEANS SOMETHING. We are flesh, not just
spirit. There is an order to things in being flesh
and blood. And Jesus… even HE made a fairly big
deal that HE was the flesh and blood of which we
were… are to consume, and therefore live off of.
Still, you really cannot live forever on faith and
spirit alone, at some point, one must consume a
physical piece of food in order to survive… in order
to remain a physical being. And human nature CLINGS
to the physical… attachment is a natural thing.
Even spiritual children must grow into spiritual
adults. And do our perspectives not change as we
grow? Does God expect us to remain children forever?
How long does it take to become a spiritual adult?
What is the time line on that? We must not assume
it’s the same as becoming a physical adult. It too,
make take millenia.
Another thing is… eternal life is the promise God
has made. Yes? Does he mean physical, or spiritual?

Deep questions I know. Even John’s words… Little
Children. He refers to US, his reader, as little
children… though he also speaks to the "Fathers"
amongst us. I do not believe John meant little
children literally, no, I do not think he meant little
children PHYSICALLY. He literally meant "little
spiritual children." So what will we learn when we
"grow up?" What will we think of our "childish
selves?"

My question to myself is How do I find the answers to
my questions? How do I interpret the bible, assuming
that’s what I am to do? People want to take the bible
so very literally, but they’re STILL looking at it
from a very physical standpoint, aren’t they? They
aren’t looking at it from a spiritual standpoint,
which I don’t know if we even can completely
comprehend.

I posted this here for a point of reference for myself.  I think it’s going to be important to answer these questions.  I have been trying for awhile now, to figure out how we meld human with spirit… well, that’s NOT exactly it.  I mean, HOW do we be spiritual AND human, all at the same time?  We separate the two, and it leads to a dichotomy, a feeling of being separate from ourselves, each other, and more importantly, GOD.  We have to learn to be IN the world without being really attached TO the world.  IF I am reading John (the general Epistle of) correctly.

Okay, I’m going to go lie down for a bit.