Religious Teachings Not
from Jesus
Christian Teachings That Did Not
Come from Jesus
The Christian religion that was named after Jesus was first established by the Romans three hundred years after Jesus’s death in a series of ecumenical Councils beginning with First Nicaea in the year 325, and it carries from Jesus little more than His name. What is amazing is that the two-thousand-year-old teachings of Jesus were incorporated in the Christian Bible that First Nicaea established, since they are carried in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but they have been almost entirely ignored in establishing the teachings of the Christian church. Where Christianity itself is concerned, it is almost as if Jesus had never spoken a word during His entire life on earth!
God is a Human Like
Individual on a Throne
With a scepter. And perhaps a beard. But Jesus told us none of this! He said that “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (JN 4:24). God has no human failings, and God never takes a body. My preferred definition after a lifetime of study is that God is “an infinitely powerful energy-like potentiality without size or form, alive in the sense that your mind is alive, highly emotional and therefore probably self-aware.” Mikey Morgan, who is the highest-level recently-dead being of whom I am aware, insists simply that God is “the unity of pure love and all that exists.” Quantum physicist Max Planck said that what we experience as human consciousness – he called it “mind” – is the source of everything. But no matter how we might end up defining the Source, it is clear that God is not just a bigger and more powerful version of fallible us!
Sin is Based in Old
Testament Rules
Sin is a human word. It has nothing to do with God, and we know now that after our deaths we will judge ourselves based upon whether what we have done in life was loving or unloving. In any event, Jesus made a point of replacing the entire Old Testament, including its human notion of Sin, with God’s new Law of Love. He said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets” (MT 22:37-40). “The Law and the Prophets” was what the Jews of Jesus’s day called all the Old Testament books with their laws and rules. Jesus also specifically told His followers not to package His teachings in their old religion. He said, “But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved” (MT 9:16-17). Jesus has much to say about “sin,” but little of what He says jibes with the Christian black-and-white notion of sinning. If you have a pair of scissors handy, you can vastly improve your Christian Bible by cutting away the entire wineskin of the Old and most of the New Testaments, and from now on you can read just the true Gospels wine of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
God Judges us
The insistence among Christians on believing that God judges us is especially ridiculous, when Jesus tells us flat-out in the Christian Gospels that simply is not true! Of course, He had to hedge the way He said it because those Temple guards were always listening. To preach against Jewish beliefs was a capital crime, so one of the things that He sometimes did was to give His followers truths over days of time. One day He said, “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father” (JN 5:22-23). Then after He got that revelation past the guards, on a different day and with different guards present He said, “If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world” (JN 12:47). Of course, since He has already told us that God never judges us, Jesus could not have come to save us from God’s judgment. What He came to save us from was the desperate spiritual ignorance that is still the greatest threat that humankind faces.
Jesus Died for Our Sins
When there is in fact no such thing as divinely-described sin, and when anyway God never judges us, the core Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement has long since gone out the window. Jesus never anywhere in any of the four Christian Gospels makes mention of such a preposterous idea, and if in fact He had come to earth to die for our sins you would think that He would at some point have made some mention of that notion. Indeed, in all my years of looking for it, in my more than fifty years of doing afterlife research I never have found a single instance where the death of Jesus on the cross has ever made an afterlife difference for a single human being.
Christianity Helps You to Grow Spiritually
Reality is entirely consciousness-based. Consciousness exists in a range of vibrations from the lowest, which is fear, to the highest, which is perfect love. Since Christianity, like all religions, is based in fear of God and the devil, fear of hell, and fear of adverse outcomes if we don’t toe the religious line, so Christianity as it is now practiced makes your spiritual growth much more difficult, if not outright impossible. Fortunately, however, the genuine teachings of Jesus which are contained (but ignored) in the Christian Bible are the easiest and most effective plan for achieving rapid spiritual growth that ever have been given to us. If you will simply ignore all the false Christian dogmas and instead closely follow the teachings of Jesus, you are doing the best that you can do to grow spiritually during this lifetime.
God Might Condemn You to Spend Eternity in a Fiery Hell
In all my years of looking for it, I have found no evidence whatsoever for either a fiery hell or permanent damnation. The lowest vibratory level of the afterlife is what Jesus called “the outer darkness,” and it is indeed cold, dark, and smelly and populated by demon-like people who have let their spiritual vibratory rate sink so low that now they cannot go above that level. It is a punishment level of sorts, but researchers have found no evidence that we are put there by anyone but ourselves.
The Old Testament Rules Still Apply
No they don’t. Not only are they sin-based and therefore of human and not divine origin, but Jesus in the Gospels specifically threw out the entire Old Testament rules and replaced them with God’s law of love. He said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets” (MT 22:37-40). “The Law and the Prophets” was what the Jews of His day called all the Old Testament books. Jesus also specifically told His followers not to package His teachings in their old religion! He said, “But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved” (MT 9:16-17). If you have a pair of scissors handy, you can vastly improve your Christian Bible by cutting away the entire wineskin of the Old and most of the New Testaments, and then from now on you can read just the true Gospels wine.
Only Christians Get into
Heaven
According to nearly two hundred years of abundant and consistent afterlife evidence, everybody gets into heaven. In fact, the evidence indicates that some of those who have the most trouble with their afterlife transitions are closed-minded Christians who might put themselves into what are called “hollow heavens” created by their own beliefs, darkish places in the astral plane that are outside the general afterlife process, where nothing exists but their own religious practice. Being in a hollow heaven is boring, but fortunately sooner or later all these off-track people will be rescued.
The Christians Bible is The
Inspired Word of God
What eventually became your Christian Bible was first assembled by the First Council of Nicaea in 325, using books chosen from an array of possibilities. They claimed that what they were assembling was the Inspired Word of God, but in fact it is the result of a lot of politicking and back-room dealing. In the same way that if you like hot dogs you are warned not to watch them being made, so if you want to love the Bible you must never study the First Council of Nicaea! The result of the Council’s work is so full of frank inconsistencies that it is impossible for it to have been the work of the genuine, perfectly loving and all-powerful and all-knowing eternal God.
Satan is a Powerful Evil
Entity
Those that we used to think were dead consistently tell us that no powerful evil entity exists in opposition to God. There are for sure low-vibration (and therefore weak) nasties not in bodies who can give us trouble if we allow ourselves to be weakened spiritually, and these were the beings that Jesus was casting out of people throughout the Biblical Gospels; but unless we encourage them, they cannot do much to harm us. This is of course entirely consistent with what we know about consciousness. The higher its vibratory rate – the closer it is to perfect love – the more powerful it is; but the lower it vibrates – the closer it is to abject fear and negativity – the weaker it is. We believe that the most evil entities of all are the shadow men, dark wraiths who often wear top hats and long capes, and they are so weak that they disappear in anything but very dim light. Their only way to maintain enough power to even very barely exist is to feed on more negativity, so they often lurk in closets of susceptible people and pop out to scare them. Some pathetic evil that is! Just keeping a nightlight on will banish them altogether.
Jesus will Return in An End
Times War
The centuries following the death and resurrection of Jesus were a time of Christian persecution that gave rise to the belief that Jesus was about to come back and save His followers; and that belief in turn gave rise to a genre of end-times revenge literature. As the First Council of Nicaea assembled what became the Christian Bible in 325, they chose to include one of the worst of these screeds as the Biblical Book of Revelation. The whole thing defies common sense! Are we to believe that the eternal Son of God entered a lifetime on earth so He could teach us how to raise our spiritual vibrations, and then less than a century after His death, He said, “Oops! Never mind,” and He promised to come right back and fight an end-times war? The whole idea makes Jesus look ridiculous! He would know that such a war would drastically lower the spiritual vibration of the planet, and thereby negate whatever good effect His teachings might have had. So you won’t be surprised to learn that those that we used to think were dead insist that the whole end-times war thing is a manmade construct. They tell us that it never is going to happen, but just a little knowledge of the Biblical Gospels, consciousness physics, and the afterlife evidence combined with simple common sense would assure us of that fact in any event.
“SAVED” People will be Raptured Before Armageddon
Of course, without an end-times war there won’t be a Rapture either, but the origin of this predicted event is entirely human, anyway. The term “Rapture” does not appear in the Bible, and even the few touted Biblical references to what is assumed to be a rapture-like event seem to be that only in retrospect. The popularization of the idea of a Rapture of the “saved” in order to protect them from the end-times tribulations seems to have begun in the 1830s, and reportedly it had its origins in a dream that a teenage girl shared with her pastor.
Jesus Founded Christianity
There is no doubt that Jesus came to start a movement, but nothing about His Gospel words suggests that what He meant to start would be anything like the Christianity that was begun three centuries after His death. He explicitly told us not to package His teachings with other ideas and beliefs, and certainly not with Judaism, which is precisely what Paul and then the early church councils later chose to do! No, the movement that Jesus began was highly varied, deeply spiritual, and millions strong when the Roman Emperor Constantine destroyed most of it in the process of creating his rigidly formal Christian religion.
God will be giving Us no Further Information
Devout Christians are appallingly closed-minded about the possibility that God might ever want to give us new revelation. Over the past two thousand years we have seen major advancements in every area of human life and culture, but still we require that God remain stuck two millennia into the past? Who are we to deny God the right to continue to reveal greater truths to His people as our understanding progresses? As Jesus says, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened” (MT 7:7-8).
What Christian Beliefs are left Standing Now?
Not many. Actually, none at all. The Christian church has nothing left except the genuine teachings of Jesus as they are preserved in the Biblical Gospels. Fortunately, though, if Christianity will open itself to begin at last to learn from Jesus, it will find that those teachings are enough.