Thursday, February 6, 2014

The Jesus Story

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.

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