It is difficult to know what actually
happened historically at the time of the birth of Christianity.
But my interpretation of the lessons
that we were intended to take away are different from mainstream
beliefs, these 2000 years later.
My understanding of the main teaching
of Christianity today is that God the Father sent his Son Jesus
Christ to earth to die so our sins could be forgiven.
My version of the lessons from the
Jesus story is much different. I believe that the intended lessons
are that there is no death and there are no sins.
The point of the story of Jesus' death
is that he did not die. He came back.
And I believe that he did not die to
save us from our sins. I believe that the lesson for us is that there
were no sins to begin with.
The ideas that death is final and that
man is basically flawed were invented by us.
The concepts of good and evil were
invented by us.
Any guilt we are carrying around from
sins we may have committed is pointless. The ones who have not
forgiven us for our failures are ourselves.
It appears to me that as a culture, we
are slowly and subconsciously releasing our fear of death. When I was young, I
remember that funerals were awful events. The mourners dressed in
black and wept bitterly. But now it often happens that the family and
friends hold services that are more like celebrations of the loved
one's life. They remember the fun and happy times together.
We have far to go to understand that
death is just a changing of seasons. But it appears that we have
taken the first few steps.
I do not see the same movement toward
releasing our rigid concepts of good and evil. We still have terrible
fears of evil and try to contain it in prisons and control it in our
own behaviors.
Evil cannot touch us because it is an
illusion. Death is an illusion.
We are like children who fear the
monsters in the closet. They are imaginary.
We are safe.
