Last Updated: 7/11/2026
“Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason… I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God.”
— Martin Luther, 1521
In the 16th century, the Western world experienced a seismic shift known as the Reformation. In 1517, Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses as a protest against abuses within it. What began as an internal dispute quickly ignited a movement that fractured the Western world.
He wasn’t fueled by mere opinion; Luther and others were practicing Ad Fontes, or “back to the sources.” When the Greek New Testament and scholars like Erasmus bypassed centuries of Latin tradition to look at the original Greek manuscripts, the old structures, dictated by the Roman Catholic Church, couldn’t hold the weight of the new/old truth.
Ad fontes would also birth the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
Christianity has been deconstructing from within its imperial forms ever since it was absorbed into Roman power.
Today, a second Ad Fontes and real Awakening is underway: it’s driving the searching, trembling beneath the surface, and the silence haunting from behind the chaos. The Roman Empire corrupted and co-opted the Gospel. Then, the Western World colonized Earth’s four corners. Simultaneously, the Gospel kept spreading.
Now, we’re realizing the “Western” God we built was a shadow of the historical Christ.
It’s a delicious irony: the West, having exhausted its reductive, rationalist experiments, is finally being forced East, back to the holistic, mystic, and relational reality that has been there all along, so “God may be all in all.“
Here are 3 sets of 7 theses for 2026 & following:
21 Theses
The First 7
Deconstruction
“The languages are the scabbard in which this sword of the Spirit is sheathed; they are the casket in which this jewel is enshrined; they are the vessel in which this wine is held… If we, through our neglect, let the languages go, we shall eventually lose the Gospel.“
— Martin Luther
God is not a domestic product of any Institution. God is not predetermined, managed, or “gated” by human authority.
Salvation is not a transaction; it is a gift. It is not conditional upon your performance, but unconditional by God’s nature.
Ego and Shadow, toxic humanity, are the consistent sources of our suffering. We are the most common denominator of all our problems.
Repentance is not a performance of “feeling bad.” It’s Metanoia: a structural change of mind and a total shift in the posture of the person.
Scripture is the inspired record of the awakening, but it is distinct from “The Word of God” (the Logos), which holds all reality together.
The Next 7
Reconstruction
“The Gospel is not actually that which is contained in books and composed in letters, but rather an oral proclamation and a living word… It is not a law, but a gift.“
— Martin Luther
God created all humanity in His image (Imago Dei). This is our fundamental hardware.
Humanity didn’t lose the Image; we lost sight of it. The “Fall” was an eclipse of consciousness.
History is the record of the struggle between our true Design and our false Desires. We created an ego-based world.
Sin is not just a “moral failure”; it is a systemic error in our perception of self, others, reality, and meaning.
Salvation is not “legal pardon”; it is At-One-Ment—the enlightenment and integration of the fragmented self back into the Divine Whole.
Heaven and Earth are not destinations in a timeline; they are dimensions of reality meant to be one here and now, not then and there.
Freedom and change are always possible because God is always willing and working. The door to the “room” of Reality is never locked from the outside.
A Final 7
Resurrection of the Human Soul
History follows the call of consciousness, the weight of the shadow, and the persistent pull of the Teleological Attractor (the Spirit). History doesn’t repeat: it rhythms.
Read a free research paper on Constantine’s Censorship &
Consolidation of Control through the Church.
There is something rather than nothing. The emergence of the “I AM.” Holonic human reality begins.
The Girardian “Scapegoat” phase. Ego and Shadow are born; mimetic rivalry turns neighbors into enemies.
The attempt to solve the chaos of the Shadow through top-down power, status, and violence.
The “Son of Man” is non-rivalrous humanity that exposes “Caesars” by absorbing violence without returning it. Christ is something we can all be, and what a disciple is trying to become.
The Body of Christ, the first-century “Agape” community experiment. Spreading horizontal, non-performance community and radical equality.
The Body was co-opted by Roman Caesars, just as pagan kingdoms assimilated others. Over time, the Church becomes one with the power and ego structures it was meant to heal. The Christ-pattern is inverted to preserve the old thrones.
A Parousia, not by military might or political maneuvering, but the total surrender of false selves and allusions to Ultimate Reality. An “un-Babeling” and a final awakening (Pentecost) of the “son of man.” In this era, Christ becomes King, and every ego will bend. This is when Death and Ego, Empires and Sin are finally conquered.
A new human world is coming. The “second coming” of “the son of man” (of humanity) is imminent and unfolding, as Mortality is being conquered, so “that God may be all in all” (1 Cor 15:28). One day, they’ll be great-grand-baby Christs… imagine!
“The New Testament is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, 1854–1855
And one telos one…
Already mentioned in Children of God, but to double down since this thesis alone is enough to arrive at the rest: The “son of man” is a shared title for humanity, not an exclusive one for divinity.
