The true message of Christ
Paul predicted that "a falling away” from the truth would begin to erode and distort the teachings of Jesus and power of the gospel message. (2 Thessalonians 2:3,4) Paul further warned that Christianity would eventually become a fabricated and deliberate lie. (Rev 17: 1-18).
This finally came to fruition when religion and politics formed a power base during the 4th century. To this day, it wields authority in all ecclesiastical matters and is looked upon within political arenas as the authority in all ecclesiastical matters - although one of the most corrupt institutions on earth.
Almost all the fundamental beliefs such as original sin, the 2nd coming, the end of the world, eternal hellfire and punishment, and any other doctrine that alienates the believer by the use of fear instead of faith that works by love, was purposely instigated by this power to avoid at all costs the true message of the 1st and 2nd century's Gnostic thought.
The apostles, especially John and Paul advocated the Gnostic thought in its purest form. The only remnant we have of its purity are the letters in the New Testament. Both Paul and John make it abundantly clear that the world will never end. The Gnostics held that we may belong to the body of Christ throughout eternity through our own incarnations, born again within the body of Christ. Heaven and hell will always exist side by side until Christ is fully revealed within humanity.
Unfortunately, Gnosticism in its purest form was almost totally eradicated by a power that was fearful of its message. They failed to see that what Paul and John cleverly guarded and purposely disguised was the Gnostic revelation that within the universe is a quantum law of love as tangible and as powerful as the law of gravity. The law of love has eternal consequences for better or for worse. For example: Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. (Mat 7:1,2)
The resurrected body of Christ
According to the apostle Paul, the resurrected body of Christ is the church, a collective body made up of many members. The members are ordinary everyday people with different gifts and talents who love and serve humanity to the point where they are willing to put their life on the line for the good of humanity. Ordinary everyday people: family and friends, doctors, nurses, ambulance men and women, police, teachers, etc. Any one within the body of humanity who love and serve one another for the common good belongs to the body of Christ. No longer will a man teach his neighbour, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 31:34)
Who is Christ?
In simple terms: The name Christ is a derivative from the name of the expected "anointed one” that was first mentioned in mythology throughout Egypt thousands of years before Christianity. Christ is the "I AM" and quintessence of the logos. The first Adam was created separate and distinct from mankind because he was the beginning of the creation of Christ within humanity. The last Adam was the incarnation of the first through the seed of Abraham, then in turn, David. Finally, the expected messiah was born in the fullness of time through the natural process of procreation bearing the fullness of Christ.
Who is Jesus?
The only historical evidence we have of Jesus’ existence (apart from a brief mention from Josephus) is the New Testament. Either a person, or persons, has compiled notes of Jesus’ sayings that have left a legacy of profound sayings that begs the question: Was it a single sage with knowledge and wisdom beyond his thirty years, or was the New Testament written by a body of initiates?
Because the New Testament sayings of Jesus hold an obvious dislike of religious leaders with their unashamed hypocrisy, it is hard to imagine the sayings are of Jewish origin. Obviously religious belief is not the prerequisite for faith.
Regardless of the origins, Jesus is not the man that Christianity, Judaism, or Moslems portray him to be. The gospels depict the character of an ordinary man who encouraged us to enjoy all the good pleasures of life, but at the same time; simply love one another, don’t desire or be envious of your neighbours wife or goods, don’t steal, don’t lie, don’t kill, etc. Mathew 5 sums up Jesus’ simple down to earth rules for enjoying the abundance of life.
It appears that ordinary everyday people who don’t have any religion may live a life that reflects the image of Christ within. According to the gospels and the apostolic writings; the prerequisite to finding God is to first discover Christ. The apostle Paul devotes much of his writings to the origins of Christ Jesus, and puts forth a rational explanation as to the origins of Jesus and his incarnation as the last Adam.
The relevance of Jesus' teachings in today’s world
It is difficult to find anything in Jesus’ sayings that points to him as a religious teacher. It is interesting to note that while his focus was on encouraging the poor, the hungry, the destitute, with the promise of inheriting a better world, he took every opportunity to point out the hypocrisy of the religious teachers of the day.
In fact, his view was one of condemnation of institutionalised religion. Jesus likened the clergymen of the day as the yeast of the Pharisees’. The same is true today of priests, religious teachers, television evangelists, etc, who use fear and intimidation that leads to much money changing, and in many cases, personal wealth.
His teaching was simple: Life, temporal or eternal, is not about religious beliefs; it is about our attitude towards our neighbour and community in time of grief and hardships- when catastrophe strikes, do we have love and compassion?
The Sermon on the Mount is a timeless message for all walks of life but discarded because it is difficult to love one’s enemies and pray for those who are spiteful and unkind towards us. Christians and Moslems, nations, and people, will continue to fight and argue and kill each other unless we realise the only way to lasting peace is to have no enemies at all. It’s really not that difficult. It’s about knowledge and understanding of how and why the world was conceived and brought into existence in the first place.
How can we possibly have a peaceful world if we first cannot understand why the earth, sea, sky, sun, moon and stars, then in turn, plants, minerals and animals were brought into existence? Not to mention the miraculous birth of thinking, reasoning, intelligent beings capable of unimaginable progress, ultimately working out their own salvation and beginning a journey of self discovery within the vast sea of humanity where the logos, would forever dwell within each physical being. In other words, the logos, a thinking quantum, non-physical intelligent energy purposely breathed its thinking intelligence into human clay and produced sons and daughters in the likeness and image of itself.
"I AM" became humanity for the purpose of multiplying and growing into one conscious body so that millions upon millions of embryos with individual unique and complex talents working together, would, through the ages, come to the realisation that there is one faith, one baptism, one single body that will bring glory and honour and praise to the existence of the logos, not in a grand cathedral, but in a personal appreciation of the beauty and awe of the creation that we are all a unique part of.
Although the apostle Paul warned of damnable heresies that would creep in and eventually erode the deeper meaning of his letters, he nevertheless veiled a simple message that even the Church of Rome’s scholars couldn’t ignore. Although they destroyed much of the esoteric works of Paul’s contemporaries; for fear of giving the believers too much freedom and expression of faith, Paul especially, has given us the best insight into the nature and meaning of Christ within. Paul’s terminology and use of words such as resurrection, awakening, coming of Christ, heaven, immortality, have nothing to do with a physical appearing of Jesus at the end of the world but more to do with the individual’s revelation of the quantum Christ. The mystery Paul refers to is not so much the argument of the nature of Christ or questions relating to how one is saved be it by faith alone or other wise, rather, it is the mystery as to how and why the logos got to dwell within humanity in the first place.
The knowledge and understanding of Jesus’ speaking of himself as "I AM" was his acknowledgement that humanity as a collective body possesses the spirit and power to love one another as intended by a natural law that is stamped in each heart. Jesus taught that we can choose to make life heaven or hell. To discover heaven on earth and a lasting world that would eventually discover peace and security without fear or prejudice was to first discover the power within that would enable us to do it. Jesus simply came to bear this message, a so simple that a child could understand. Where in the annals of history do we find words of encouragement and comfort as we do from the words of Jesus of Nazareth. Not one single religious overtone, condemnation, or words of discouragement, but rather a universal message of the celebration of life in any way you choose providing you do no injury to others and that we simply love one another and provide for each other. The greatest threat to world peace is religion itself. Christian and Moslem fundamentalists obviously have no understanding at all about the nature of love when one considers their lack of tolerance towards each other through the ages. But that is understandable when we examine the doctrines and universal church creed that have blinded humanity from discovering a simple truth. First we have to re-examine the book of Genesis to find a fundamental error about the nature of Adam.
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