I think the gospel appears complex because there are so many ways to think about anything. I believe the gospel is very simple, it often says the same things in many different ways in symbolism, but it seems to really only comes down to one thing, such that all else passes away, and that is God is Love, and that every effort, trial, teaching is to first show us that we are loved, and second to give us opportunities to have that same mind be in us. If we have a hope for glory, it is because we have changed, our perspective has changed, such that our mind burns with love and we radiate love. How much love we possess is the degree of our glory. It is love that draws all, eventually, to Christ. Christ himself said that upon this principle hangs all the law, and the prophets.

His ire? His ire is only drawn upon those who stifle the individual. Those who substitute themselves for God and say come unto me, and for your money you shall be forgiven of your sins.

When he came to the sinner, he said "neither do I condemn you," and by saying "go and sin no more," he challenged them to see. He offered his love freely at the great cost of himself, so that the sinner might see that in their own deeds they lacked this love and sight. For in the "least" God declared was God himself. We cannot offend others without taking a wound to our own soul, because we are our brother's keeper. In one of the most profound messages he told Noah "For a commandment I give, that every man's brother shall preserve the life of man, for in mine own image have I made man."

Love requires intelligence, for how can we persuade intelligent beings who have been disfigured by the fall, by offenses, by life's circumstances to search deeper, to ponder longer, to search into who, what and where God is. To discover what great unspeakable things the Lord has in store for those who also love Him? It requires intelligence because man is intelligent and is always devising new ways to profit from and obtain monetary ease from what we perceive that we lack. They turn God into their craft and set themselves up for a light. The glory of God is intelligence because we are intelligence. He glories in us. His desire is to give us this same glory also, as is symbolized in John's revelation as "sitting with him on his throne," or as a "pillar in his temple" upon whom he writes his name. (Rev 3)

Often we read the word of God with a faulty perspective. What the writers meant can be very different from what we take out. If we read and search from a new perspective, great treasures can be unfolded to our view, our weak faith in God's promises can become strong and unshaken. Search and see what God has in store for you. Search diligently for he desires to be known as well as He knows you.

 

Some see what they perceive as what must be achieved in this life and begin to act in haste to accomplish for themselves and those they care about and begin to act in controlling ways. In all cases when greater light is shed on the true meaning of the scriptures we find God to be more liberal in his views that we are prepared to accept. On the other side of the coin, are those who neglect this opportunity in favor of something less worthy. They will miss an opportunity and it will be extraordinarily painful to come to that realization, but they are not lost.