The Scripture News and Times

By Christine Rose

copyright 2010

Every once in a while I receive messages for people.  Sometimes they are messages that are happily received, sometimes they are guiding words of wisdom from the Office of the Afterlife, where the ancestors, guides, saints and angels hover like the birds on a windy day, though not as visible....usually.

Recently, I was told in my sleep (NOT the same as a dream.  These are the voices of the ancestors, my teachers and guides, the tall thin ones whose weary work it is to keep me on track.  I sometimes see them in my sleeping state...not the same as a dream) that I should tell my daughter what scripture is.  The details were lengthy.  When I woke up in the morning, I ran downstairs and quickly wrote out what I had been told.  I then went upstairs to show her, and she told me a few days later that what I had written were the answers to her last prayers before bed, prayers I had never heard her speak.

I have always associated “scripture” with Christianity, but apparently there is way more to it than that.  I will tell you what I remember, because after I showed her the paper, I took it downstairs to file it, but I never saw it again.  It disappeared, and I only remember half of what was written.

Scripture is the fountain of knowledge that springs forth from the

 divine into all cultures of the world.  

Each culture has scripture, and it is all equally valid, and equally not valid.  It is all true and it is all not true.  And believe it or not, this makes sense and is important and necessary.  

When respect is not paid to the scripture of all cultures, wars are waged over religion, and some cultures/religions hold themselves above the others. (I am sure this is common knowledge to many, but as always, I am Master of the Obvious, and writing keeps me off the streets. Those folks who work in the Office of the Afterlife know it is best to keep me busy, so this was just something else they gave me to do.)  There is more!

Scripture belongs to ALL peoples, and God gives each culture what they need to know, in the way they can best know and relate to it.  Simple.  God speaks to Christians through the Bible stories that reflects Western civilzation.  Tunkashila gave the Lakota the White Buffalo Calf Woman.  All Indigenous peoples honor a life of integrity, respect and love through their creation stories.  God gave Christians Jesus and gave Hindus Krishna, and Buddhists got Buddha. And let's not forget Mary, although so many have.

I am sure this will upset some people, even some people that I love dearly, who claim that their way, and their savior, is the only way.  It is not.  Each culture gets their own instructions, and they all spring from the same divine fountain.  The divine scripture followed, no matter the culture, is the True Savior. The allegories in scripture suit the time, the culture, and the place of the receiver and the recipients.

All scripture gets messed with.  Man cannot help it. In Hindu, you will find throughout their scripture  references to the Caste System, including untouchables.  Do you think God would stand for a person to be declared Untouchable?  And support slavery as is seen in the Bible? Not on your life.  

Scripture comes in music, art, stories, every possible method of communicating.   When God calls on people to create scripture, it it is very hard for a person to only see God without also including the culture they are immersed in.  One would have to withdraw from the world to separate themselves from their culture, because culture permeates everything.  This is why scripture is all right and all wrong.  This is why one way of living will never satisfy the religion or culture of another. The word of God (or whatever anyone wants to call the Great It.) is passed time and again through individuals everywhere, and consistently has the same undertones and nuggets of truth.  

So it is easy to see that it isn't about owning the one and only scripture, It's About Following It.  And the message in all scripture remains the same...Love your neighbor, take care of your neighbor, pray for your neighbor, and forgive your neighbor.  Anything less than that, in any culture or religion, is simply a failure of ourselves.  We must all be saviors, through our own belief system, or the world will never be the place it could be.