Omega Love Rapsody
Paul Kinlock
The Scandal of God
Copyright © Paul Kinlock 2015
Dedicated to Jane, Georgie. Cathy, Jean, Erica, Sheila, Jessica, Lizzie, Rochelle, Sharon, Emma, Mary, Linda, Karen, Steph, Sarah, Sian, Shirley, Sue, Joanna, Ceara, Janet, Louise, Hayley, Carolyn, Gina and Rachel
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
From the first letter of John, chapter 4, verses 7and 8
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets
From Amos chapter 3, verse 7
Note: The contents pages are repeated at the end of the book with full Bible references
Omega Love Rapsody: The Scandal of God
CONTENTS
Preface
The suffering of the people is over! 16
Part One
Introduction (The future is rap) 19
Scandal rap 20
The Feminine Attributes of God
The sixteen feminine attributes of God: introduction 21
Supportive 22
Cooperative 23
Communicative 24
Listening 25
Having a sense of humour 26
Caring 27
Understanding 28
Responsive 29
A calming influence 30
Considerate 31
God the Father incarnate (Genesis chapter 16, verses 6 to16) (Genesis chapter 21, verses 17 to 20) the promise to multiply Hagar’s descendents 32
Humility 33
Appreciative of others 34
Polite 35
Approachable 36
Patient 37
Kind 38
God’s feminine Omega love: The mixed signals of St. Paul on females 39
God’s feminine Omega love: The age of the Father’s influence 41
God’s feminine Omega love: Jesus has transformed all of our cultures and subcultures 43
God’s feminine Omega love: Pure and holy cathartic communities. 45
God’s feminine Omega love: Representative church leadership 46
God’s feminine Omega love: All ordained and lay people are equipped to be holy 47
God the Father incarnate (Judges Chapter 13, verses 1-25) the promise to Manoah’s wife of Sampson 48
Omega relationships, love and judgement
Omega love’s affinity with others 49
Complete relationships: introduction 50
Treating all people as Jesus 51
For me or to me dilemma 52
To me: Jesus has been here all along 54
Omega lets us share in God’s love and judgement 56
Omega lets us share in the nature of God 57
Crossover of the nature and mind of God 58
The angel of the Lord is God the Father 59
The angel of the Lord appears different to God at times 60
Two Omega examples of how we can see God and live 62
God the Father incarnate (Genesis chapter 22, verses 11-18) Stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac 63
The pure in heart will see God 65
We can go straight from the scriptures to Omega love 66
Omega love: leadership by Generation Y
The grace of Omega love is God’s plan 67
Leadership by Generation Y: writing new chapters 68
Leadership by Generation Y: new lyrics 69
Leadership by Generation Y: new creeds 70
Leadership by Generation Y: the impossible made possible 71
The Plight of Generation Y in Europe 72
The exclusion of Generation Y 74
God the Father incarnate (Genesis chapter 32, verses 22-32) wrestled with Jacob 75
Omega love
The veil: The liberation of revelation 77
The veil: Alpha and Omega 78
The veil: Liberation 79
The veil: We embrace the fullness of God 80
The ‘Ever closer union’ of all humanity 81
The tangible dream 83
The silence of God: Everything is meaningless 85
The silence of God: Loneliness 86
The silence of God: Seeing the Father in us 87
Inner beauty is free of charge 88
The perfect body 90
God the Father incarnate (Genesis chapter 31, verses 11-13) appeared in Jacob’s dream 92
We are all Omega love superstars 93
The greatest love of all 95
Lawful and Lawless part 1 (radical love) 97
Lawful and Lawless part 2 (mentoring prisoners) 99
Why Jesus wept 102
The last will be first and the first will be last 105
Prioritising compassionate care 107
Turning our thinking upside down 109
The delicacy of minds, bodies and spirits 112
Washing each other’s feet 115
The community of love and holiness 117
The most enigmatic act 118
God the Father incarnate (Exodus chapter 3, verses 2-6) appeared to Moses in a burning bush 119
North, South, East and West of the globe 120
From memory, scrolls or just smitten 122
Drug abuse made redundant 123
Interpreting dreams 126
The thirteen commandments 130
Individual and corporate love and holiness 133
The end of modern slavery 135
Spreading Omega love
Sheep without a shepherd (harvest) 137
Wolves and lambs (harvest) 139
Jesus the Lamb of God (baptism) 140
Communication creates community 141
God the Father incarnate (Judges chapter 2, verses 1-5) Israel rebuked for not conquering the Promised Land 142
Rich and poor peoples and nations
Showing Omega love 143
Sharing social capital 145
Rich and poor 149
Real wealth 152
Evolution, ecosystems and climate change
Science, revelation, evolution and biblical interpretation 154
Religious and scientific humility 156
The climate change debate 158
Embrace the environment like a brother 160
Justice through Jesus the Word 161
Jesus compared to constructed systems 164
The earth and its ecosystems 166
God the Father incarnate (Judges Chapter 6, verses 11-27) the selection of Gideon 168
Part Two
Romantic love
Falling in love and staying in love 172
Homosexual relationships part 1 (reasoning) 175
Homosexual relationships part 2 (theology) 179
Homosexual relationships part 3 (application) 182
Arranged marriages part 1 (the present) 185
Arranged marriages part 2 (the past) 189
Arranged marriages part 3 (the future) 192
Ending promiscuity 194
Complete commerce
Introduction part 1 (communities) 197
Introduction part 2 (ten underpinning factors) 200
Introduction part 3: (the gambles that fail) 205
About capitalism
Unsustainable 210
A corpse 211
An illusion 212
Enforces rationing 213
Self absorbed 214
Worships shareholders 215
Building an Omega vision
Altruistic, selfless and pure 218
God the Father incarnate (the first book of Kings Chapter 19, verses 5-8) provided food for Elijah 220
All need is met 221
Bliss 222
The core part 1 (the community of earth and heaven) 223
The core part 2 (the prospects for Omega love) 228
Omega economics
Provision for all 230
Bread of life 232
God the Marxist 234
The meek will now inherit the earth 236
Omega insights
Stepping into and out of righteousness 238
Collective action 241
Transformation
The power of prayer 244
Political revolution
The end of history 247
The end of Machiavellian politics 249
The start of political revolution 251
Truly participatory democracy 253
Revolution is absolutely necessary AND distinctly achievable 255
David and Goliath 256
God the Father incarnate (Exodus chapter 3, verse 2 to chapter 4, verse 28) appointed Moses 257
Part Three
Teresa of Avila
The humanity of God 265
Sacred and secular with Omega love
God aims to sweep you off your feet 266
The surprising people of God 268
Cyrus, the pagan servant of God 270
The uniting power of Omega love 273
Cornelius people part 1 (vision and census) 276
Cornelius people part 2 (responsive to God’s vision) 281
Cornelius people part 3 (the vision becomes reality) 283
Cornelius people part 4 (acceptance of the work of God) 286
Enlightenment 288
Rituals (no substitute for Omega love) 290
Rituals (stillness in the hubbub of life) 294
Rituals (subliminal involvement) 296
Rituals (the wellbeing of people) 298
Rituals (God’s enlightenment) 301
The philosophy of James 302
The torrent of God’s Omega love 304
The new narrative of God 306
The routes to Omega love 307
An Omega narrative of the Trinity 308
Einstein was wrong 313
Is everybody happy? 315
God the Father incarnate (Exodus chapter 14, verse 19) protection from the Egyptian pursuit 316
Sikhism and Omega love
God the ultimate, eternal and merciful Guru 317
The ten gurus 319
The Guru Granth Sahib 321
The Guru Panth 322
The beliefs of Sikhism 323
The ideals of Sikhism 325
Saints and scholars in Sikhism 327
Buddhism and Omega love
Siddharta Gautama to Buddha 329
Buddha’s enlightenment 331
Buddha’s inclusive community 332
Beliefs of Buddhism 333
Buddhism and suffering 340
The Noble Eightfold Path 342
Morality, spiritual discipline and insight 349
Nirvana 350
Nirvana: The suffering of the people is over! 352
Hinduism and Omega love
The religion with no founder 398
Historical formation 400
The Upanishads 405
The epics 410
The great interpreters 415
Diversity in Hinduism 420
Many gods and goddesses but a monotheistic religion 422
Core beliefs and practices 425
Chinese religions and Omega love
Introduction part 1 (Yin and Yang) 431
Introduction part 2 (The Will of Heaven) 433
Introduction part 3 (Consciousness of concern) 434
Introduction part 4 (Chia and chiao) 436
Confucianism and Omega love
The ethics of heaven 438
True integrity 442
The power of ritual action 445
The mystical ideal of world unity 447
God the Father incarnate (Zechariah chapter 12, verse 8) Future protection of Jerusalem 449
The mind of heaven 450
Honour in life and in death 456
Taoism and Omega love
Historical development 459
The Tao 460
In tune with nature 467
Mediation and stilling the mind 477
Art and emptying the mind 482
Ethics 486
Cross fertilization 487
Magic and immortality 490
Personal deities 494
Rituals and temple 496
New influences but distinctly Chinese 498
Japanese religions and Omega love
Introduction part 1 (Religion and religions) 500
Introduction part 2 (A nation of islands) 503
Introduction part 3 (The use of mountains) 506
Shinto and Omega love
The religion of kami 509
Religious and political collaboration 514
Affinity with Buddhism 519
Life on earth is of primary importance 522
Value system 526
Deities 530
God the Father incarnate (Psalm 35, verses 5-7) A prayer of protection
533
Shrines 534
Festivals 543
Japanese Buddhism and Omega love
The development of Japanese Buddhism 545
Domestic Buddhism 551
Popular Buddhism 556
New forms of Buddhism 560
Religious and secular Japan 563
Part Four
Primal religions and Omega love
From tribal to primal 569
We are not alone 576
Honouring ancestors 582
Myths and dreams 589
Rituals and ceremonies 596
Servants and resilience 603
Part Five
Judaism and Omega love
Moshiach and Messiah 610
The rule of law 619
God the Father incarnate (The second book of Kings chapter 1, verses 2-15) Judged Ahaziah’s worship of Baal 669
Islam and Omega love
Muhammad 672
Right analysis, wrong solution 674
Christianity and Omega love
God the Father on His throne 677
Pragmatism, prophecy and the supernatural 678
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit 681
The Kingdom of God the Father incarnate 683
Part Six
Omega
Nothing has gone to waste! 689
Show not tell 690
Einstein was right 691
Keep on walking! 692
God the Father incarnate (Judges chapter 5, verse 23) The Song of Deborah and Barak and the curse of Meroz 693
CONTENTS WITH BIBLE REFERENCES 694
Bibliography 1032
Preface
The suffering of the people is over!
From the start of Lent 2014, God began to reveal things to me in order to shape the state that my writing had led to. The revelations were new and powerful but also included the concepts of the book I had then written titled Complete Love. Lent 2014 was thus a period of listening, organising, writing and rewriting my work. This culminated on Easter Sunday 2014 with God revealing to me the new title of the book which was Omega Love Rapsody. As soon as I heard this title I knew it was perfect for a book of rap poetry incorporating the revelations from God. The play on the word rhapsody is perfect.
God’s revelations to me have not stopped since then and on 21st October 2014 God prompted me to write this Preface, which is the only part of the book that is not in the form of rap. Omega Love Rapsody is about the Omega love of God that can have many consequences including the following:
An outcome of the book will be the end of all forms of human suffering, as well as the end of suffering to the earth and its ecosystems.
The book proves the existence of God, even to secularists and atheists.
There will be profound peace and harmony between the peoples of the world, including between Israelis and Palestinians.
The book shows how social tensions can be healed with cathartic unity between peoples; engages people who are politically powerless with a vision of hope and deep revolutionary substance; and highlights God’s economic alternatives that can transform the material circumstances of the meek, the vulnerable and those in all forms of poverty.
It will lead to such an outpouring of immense joy that people will be dancing in the streets all over the world.
Generation Y (people born between 1980 and 2000) have been chosen by God to lead humanity in the ways of love and holiness. This is a reflection of the concept in Genesis chapter 25, verse 23 that the older will serve the younger.
God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have been planning, preparing and praying for this for 13.8 billion years; which is the deepest meaning of Jesus saying; “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” This concept includes the point that God’s ‘RULE OF LAW’ based on His Omega love is 13.8 billion years old and thus supersedes the 800 year old Magna Carta’s ‘rule of law’ and all the laws, systems and treaties of humanity based on its principles. In this respect, Omega Love Rapsody is God’s new ‘People’s Charter’ for humanity in the 21st century and is the ‘fresh moral vision’ for all humanity that the Church of England’s bishops have been calling for.
The book is a gracious intervention by God in the affairs of humanity before the second coming of Jesus Christ.
It is a book that speaks to, addresses and answers the individual circumstances, with complete satisfaction, of every person on earth.
The penultimate issue that I will highlight to give you a flavour of the book is that death and dying are over. The reason that death and dying are over is because God, the ultimate judge, is allowing us, through His abundant grace, to share in His love and His judgement. This means we have the power to decide whether people will be with God, in life and in death or without God in life and in death. Of course, there may be disagreements about certain people or peoples, BUT that is Alpha love. God, who is the Alpha and the Omega, trusts that His Omega love washing in and through the hearts of the peoples of the world will lead to the unity of heaven and earth in our hearts that Jesus taught us to pray for. This unity is a reflection of the ‘Ever closer union’ of all humanity that is the logical outcome of Omega love. There will no longer be a small proportion of the peoples of the world dictating to the masses of the peoples of the world and telling us that poverty and austerity are the only options. Instead, all needs will be met without reference to financial or economic costs. In other words, we will do things for each other because, through the Omega love of God, we will actually want to.