Monotheism is a religious doctrine that admits a single God to its people and country; this God is transcendent, who lies beyond sensible reality by its content of perfection and unquestionable power; absent from the world and present in heaven; therefore, monotheism is a dualistic conception, which is the vision that separates the Creator from its creatures; the Creator in heaven and the creatures on earth. With that, the deceitful battle of man in reaching God, ascending to heaven!
Although Jesus adopted this analogy of the Father and his sons, who appear to be separate entities (dualism), he himself explains that in fact “I and the Father are one,” that is, it is only in the external appearance, in the given form of existence, that we look like two separate beings, but in essence, we are not two, we are one entity (monism). In abstract language, it could be said: I and Infinite are one; the Infinite is in me, and I am in the Infinite - but the Infinite is greater than me.
It can be understood that Jesus adopted this dualistic stance as a pedagogical strategy because he admitted that the state of consciousness of man of the time (and even today) cannot discover the kingdom of heaven within himself. Unfortunately, the ignorant theology induces man to aspire to this kingdom.
On the other hand, monism proclaims a unique God to the whole world, universalist; and this God, though transcendent in essence, is at the same time immanent in his existences, inseparably part of the essence of being.
If monism admitted no transcendence but only immanence, it would be pantheistic; and if it only admitted transcendence and not immanence, it would be dualistic, like that of the synagogue of Israel and the ecclesiastical theologies of the west. But true monism, especially in the form of the Gospel of Jesus, is transcendent-immanent, well expressed in his words. Jesus' view was monistic, universal, that all that exists is the manifestation of the Creator, from the unique essence.
At the beginning of the fourth century, the monism of the Gospel was contaminated and partially eclipsed by the monotheism of the synagogue in Israel. And even today, the monism of the Gospel appears in the form of the monotheism of our ecclesiastical theologies. Humanity lives a Jewish Christianity, not a Christian-evangelical Christianity. The Theological Summa of Thomas Aquinas and the official decisions of the Council of Trent definitively consolidated the dualistic monotheism of the church against the evangelical monism of Jesus, accusing this monism of pantheism. The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), opened by John XXIII and concluded by Paul VI, did not return to the monist doctrine of the Gospel but was limited to minor modifications within the traditional scheme of dualistic monotheism of the Israeli synagogue and the theology.
Thus, the church continues without advancing, stagnant in its concepts, and far from the steps taken by Jesus, from the awareness that the kingdom of heaven is within man, and cannot be found externally to him. Equally as dazed and confused as the synagogue, where Jews still await the arrival of the Messiah!
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