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DO YOU CLAIM TO BE “A CHRIST FOLLOWER?” YOU’RE NOT. IN FACT, YOU’RE NOT EVEN CLOSE
To continue with the list of some of the non-dual pointers attributed to Yeshu’a:
15.
“I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword.”
Yeshu’a is making clear that peace cannot come until the sword does its job, not to kill off humans literally but to kill off their faulty beliefs, their erroneous concepts, and their false identifications that block them from knowing the Oneness and the authentic. Only then can peace come.
16.
“I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
So does Yeshu’a literally mean that he wants to break up families? No, he means that all roles and role-playing and false identities must end if one is to be in touch with Reality.
A man wrote to say he was suicidal because his wife left him. He felt as if he were dying, so the conclusion was that he might as well hasten the process to end the suffering.
Not understanding the authenticity that Yeshu’a referred to, the man had accepted the limited identification that had been assigned by his culture.
The fact is that if persons cling to any false identity - in this case, the false identity of “The Husband,” they shall never find truth.
As a result, peace will never happen consistently. If they find the truth, then “husbanding” or “not husbanding” can happen . . . and consistent peace can happen either way.
All conflict results when one assumes an ego-state (false identity) because that assumption triggers the use of ego-defense mechanisms to defend the role.
One such mechanism is egotism, so conflict will be generated. Assuming the roles of “a man,” “a father,” “a daughter,” “a mother,” “a daughter-in-law,” and “a mother-in-law,” etc. will set the stage for people to try to control, to resist control, and to argue.
Chaos will result, followed by more effort to control, and the control / chaos cycles will continue unless all false roles and identities are rejected via the realization process.
Again, the non-dual point that Yeshu’a was trying to make was that peace can only come when persons are not being driven by the agendas of their false identities.
17.
“A man’s enemies will be the members of his household.”
See the explanation to quote #16 because this quotation is merely reinforcing the same point.
18.
“A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
Once more Yeshu’a offers a non-duality-based pointer that drives to the very core of the teachings, namely, that all duality is false and that belief in false concepts can only result in instability in the long run.
19.
“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.”
This quote reiterates the points offered in quotes #16 and #17.
Next,
How the Original “Bible” Was Lost Forever
It
can now be seen that, during the final three years of his life, Yeshu’a was
sharing:
(a) the non-duality teachings rather than
(b) any teachings that were “unique to him” and rather than
(c) any teachings from the Jewish writings that he would have been exposed to in his youth.
Where did Yeshu’a learn those pointers that he was sharing?
Recently, a man inquired about documents found in the Far East that showed that the man called Yeshu’a has visited there during his lifetime.
Some claim that “if it is not reported in the Bible, it’s not true,” but as noted earlier, there is no mention of Yeshu’a in the Bible from the age of twelve to the age of thirty when so much happened during “The Missing Eighteen Years” or “His Lost Years.”
While much obviously happened during the near-two decades that are not referenced in the Bible, what happened cannot be known by studying “The Bible” alone.
Too, there was originally far more in the Bible - up to 1000 more “books” according to some reports - that is not available today, but certain documents have been uncovered that do reference Yeshu’a though they are not a part of the Bible.
For those that might be interested, it is reported in the book “Spiritual Sobriety” that “the Christians adopted Jewish teachings, focused for a time on the teachings of “Yeshu’a,” later abandoned the original message of Christ at the Council of Nicea, rewrote a totally new version of the Bible, and burned all of the original copies they could confiscate; from that point, Paul’s version of “Christ’s message” became the dominate version.
Not counting all of the various translations, two entirely different versions of the Bible exist. There was The Bible before 325 A.D.; then, the Nicean Council created a new version and ordered the burning of all copies of the original.
Roman Emperor Constantine the Great convened the Council of Nicea (Nice) in 325 A.D. to make drastic changes to the Bible as it existed at the time. The agenda for the council also included creating a new Christian dogma as well.
Constantine at that council endorsed continuing the worship of the sun alongside the worship of Christ. In truth, his motives for embracing Christianity in 325 A.D. were political, and he did not convert to Christianity until twelve years later on his death bed in May of 337 A.D.
But the biggest news for Christians is that at the Councils of Nicea, Christianity was so altered that the religion that was taken into those meetings was totally different from the religion that came out and that is practiced today. Christianity as it exists today - which began to take its present form in 325 A.D. - is not even close to the original.
For example, at that 325 A.D. convention . . .
1. leaders ended the debates about the nature of Christ and discounted all references to his humanity;
2. they removed women from positions of authority in the church, banned their future participation in leadership roles, and created an all-male priesthood;
3. they removed evidence that Christ’s female disciples (Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and others) traveled with Christ and paid for his ministry from their own funds;
4. they destroyed documents that reported that Christ usually had up to five women traveling with Him on the road, one of whom was always Mary Magdalene;
5. The Gospel of Philip was also banned because it too reported that Mary Magdalene was Christ’s travel companion throughout the country, that she was the “apostle to the apostles,” that Yeshu’a preferred her to the Twelve, and that he kissed her often;
6. they set forth the claim that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute;
7. they affirmed that she was not pregnant with the child of Christ at the time of the crucifixion; and
8. they declared that Yeshu’a was God incarnate, not just a mortal prophet as the scriptures taught prior to the revisions at Nicea.
More on that tomorrow.
To be continued.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
