Many will look to the Commandments to find their purpose upon this earth.

For the "Christian" Jesus the Christ in his referencing the first and greatest Commandment sums these Commandments. "Love thy God with all thy soul and thy mind and all thy heart, and Love thy neighbor as thyself".

This is a truth. It is the Way to live one's life. No offense intended to any Christian, however, this is not the "purpose" of your life, nor is it followed by those who prefer to follow the words of the church leaders. Jesus also warned of this following of that which put above the first and greatest Commandment.

Jesus tells us that all other Commandments fall from this, the first and greatest Commandment. This is truth.

Each person upon this earth has a purpose. This purpose does include a following of the Commandments for living life. However, it is not the purpose itself, for each individual has her/his own purpose. However, all have the same culmination.

There is a difference between the Commandments, which are Universal, and the "Purpose" of the individual life on earth. Do we not see that the poorest amongst us has the same "Purpose" as the richest amongst us?

Why is it said that it is easier to pass a camel through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to go to heaven? For a rich man getting to Heaven is not impossible, but the "Purpose" of the greedy is much harder to follow than seeing the poor. This is not to say that all rich are greedy persons.

You see. The more one has the harder to give of it. For the poor man with little food it is easier, for he understands that a giving of his food to the starving has great meaning in his "Purpose".

What is the "Purpose" in life for each individual? Do we read in the Bible, before the Bible before changed to a written history of scribes and Pharisees (hypocrites) as told us by Jesus the Christ? That the history of the Bible changed, for the ego of these Pharisees and scribes.

In the beginning, we told that the "Purpose" of humankind is to "tend the earth", not destroy it. That we are to tend our brethren, not to destroy them for the differences we see in them.

Did not he Lord Jesus walk with the prostitute, whereas the Jewish (Hebrew, again no offense meant here), demand that they be stoned for their perceived inequity? However, is not one of the Commandments of the Lord God not to kill? Do the people follow their leaders and not the Word?

We must face out own iniquities, for without doing so, we cannot repent from them.

Whom do we today persecute? Is it right to do so in the teaching and parables for those who will, hear listen?

Are we not told by God in the beginning of the Bible before it is changed for the egotistical history of humankind that we are here to "tend the earth" as told by Jesus that we are also to tend our brethren of the earth?

Be it our neighbor next door or across the world?

What is Biblical "Love", it is "Acceptance", not bedding with another, not a giving of a gift for a birthday or Christmastime (though these can be physical manifestations of Love. All Love has its base in "Acceptance".

Moreover, our "Purpose" in life is not just to follow the Commandments (which all lead to none judgmental understanding of others) but to "Accept thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul and Accept our neighbor as our self". Which well lead us to tending, rather than destroying others and the world we are told intended to tend?

This is the truth of each individual "Purpose" of life in Christ.

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