Nothing is explicitly commanded by God for the whole of humanity.
If God did have an explicit command, our creator possesses the
intelligence and capability to do a lot more than go to a tiny
portion of the Earth and say, “Hey, you small group of people, make
sure you let everyone in the 197 million square miles around you know
specifically what I want. Also even though I created you and know
you're fallible, I have total faith that everyone will get it right
and there will be zero miscommunication.”
There is never an ordained “Way to
be.” Just because one way provides benefits that are not provided
by another does not mean that the second way is wrong. In most cases,
there is no black and white answer. Humanity craves structure, but is
large and diverse enough that no one structure, law, or ruleset can
fit all of it. We are also always growing and changing, so the
rulesets and laws we keep in place must grow and change with us. That
includes anything written here except the statement above, unless God
personally comes to the world and gives a commandment. In that case,
mea culpa.
The implicit command of God is to love,
as it it sewn into the core of our being.
We should all live to better humanity.
Without it, your life is nothing. As humanity improves, so do the
lives of us and our progeny.
There is no one person or small group
of people that is greater than the whole.
Do your your best to ensure that your
individual desires cause do not cause harm to others.
Seek to forgive those who wrong you.
Seek to forgive those who wrong others. Understand their motives and
reasons. Know that understanding is not a pardon of sin, but the
first brick on the path away from it.
In trivial matters, it is better to
show love and be meek than insist on your correctness. No matter how
right you may be, if the only benefit of establishing your
correctness is to hurt someone, then you are wrong, no matter how
right you may be
God doesn't need glory. It is not
necessary to Worship, build monuments or holy houses, or call out
God's greatness as a testament to the glory of God. God built the
Earth, and everything on it, including humanity. I'm fairly sure that
those things are self evident of God's glory. Do these things, and
they can and will lift your heart, but know that they are not
commanded,
Always strive to make all creation
shine. Keep it beautiful, make it better. This includes yourself,
but less yourself the individual, and more yourself the sibling of
humanity. “The best person who does nothing to make their siblings
better is no good person at all.”
A nonbeliever who works to benefit the
lives of humanity is better than a score of believers who do nothing
but bask in their righteousness.
Sexuality on its own is not a sin. It
is not vile, or dirty, it is the way God made you. It is also a
powerful thing, and should be handled delicately. If there must be a
rule for it, it would be “Do your your best to ensure that your
individual desires cause do not cause harm to others.” Though I
suppose that might chart higher on the list somewhere
You were made a beast, a creature of
the Earth. and such, contain the beasts primal survival desires that
are destructive to the whole of humanity. You also possess the
greatest gift gifts of all - knowledge and understanding. Without
those things, you simply become a beast again. As auch, always strive
for them. You cannot have Understanding without Knowledge, and you
cannot truly know things without being able to understand.
Always strive for the truth. No matter
how much truth you possess, never be afraid to consider that you may
be wrong. Many things cannot remain true forever. Relish the
adventure of change.
Any religion that does not welcome
themselves to be questioned lacks the faith that the words it speaks
are the truth.
Any God who provides no hard proof of
existence and would punish those who do not believe is petty. Any God
who would condemn you to an eternity of suffering based on a single
sin is petty. Any God who would consider condemning you for
eternity that would judge you for your actions without thoroughly
considering the context of those actions is petty.
Any God who is petty is not worth
following, because even after judgment, you must either remain ever
vigilant of it's pettiness, or lose all free will to conform with its
desire.
