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Christ
 Christianity vs Christ
Bill Donohue
http://hiddenmeanings.com
AND THE WINNER IS...
CONTENTS:
 Two thousand and two years laterA preacher said, "you're not following Jesus, you're following George W."The Christmas story The rebel JesusA heathen who follows Jesus And a pagan who does too!So how do you get saved, really?Christian salvation is not what Jesus taughtThere is a catch and here it isJesus has a very serious problem with the Christian approachWhat about President George W. Bush ??Salvation from Jesus, what is required of you ?Christianity, Jesus and George W.Religion and our survival The answer is really very simpleThe answer to the whole mess is entering withinMeditation is the way You must separate from thoughtThe watching meditation But what about your traditions ?We only know what we are told by the churchThe Born Again way He said, no one comes to the father but by meThe man with the pitcher of water, guess whoTWO THOUSAND AND TWO YEARS LATER
Two thousand and two years came the one we know as Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace.
Two thousand and two years since the coming of the Prince of Peace and in all of those two thousand and two years the planet earth has been a violent mess.
Rev. Jerry Falwell was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the attack against Iraq. To drop bombs and kill. So much of what is called Christianity supports the idea of going to war.
To most of the Christian world, it is the country and not the Christ which is more important. The country and not the Christ. In this country it is not I am a follower of Christ but I am a follower of George.
A PREACHER FROM MARYLAND
I do not often listen any longer to Christian preachers. I did that all my life and came away with a totally different interpretation of God and the scriptures. However, I listened to one preacher recently who had a church in Maryland .
He was speaking as a follower of Jesus about the concern that this country, the USA, brought extreme violence and killing against Iraq. Violence that killed several thousand innocent people in Iraq and numerous American military personnel.
And what this preacher was astounded about, was the fact that so many Christians who claim Jesus Christ as their Lord were in favor of this attack. This killing.
His conclusion was that Christians who feel this way are not following the will of God but the will of government. Not following the will of Jesus but the will of W.
Not following the will of the higher but the will of the lower.
I was particularly struck by that statement, and I wondered, if the people who call themselves Christians actually followed the will of the Jesus Christ, what a wonderfully different world this would have been for 2000 years .
But they have not.
CHRISTMAS
Christmas has been turned into shopping malls, office parties, and gifts that place many people into desperate debt. On the other hand so much of Christmas is wonderful. The decorations, the family gatherings, the songs and the good feeling.
But Christmas as we are supposed to understand it, centers on Jesus Christ. The Prince of Peace. The one who is least understood by the people that claim his name, Christians.
THE REBEL JESUS
There is a song composed and sung by Jackson Browne which sums up so beautifully just how totally opposed to the true concept of Jesus Christ, is this country in general, and Christianity in particular.
It is called The Rebel Jesus.
It says:
The streets are filled with laughter and light and the music of the season
And the merchants windows are all bright with the faces of the children
And the families hurrying to their homes as the sky darkens and freezes
Will be gathering around their hearths and tables giving thanks for Gods graces
And the birth of the rebel Jesus.
They call him by the Prince of Peace and they call him by the Saviour
And they pray to him upon the sea and in every bold endeavour
And they fill his churches with their pride and gold as their faith in him increases
But they've turned the nature that I worship in from a temple to a robber's den
In the words of the rebel Jesus
We guard our world with locks and guns and we guard our fine possessions
And once a year when Christmas comes we give to our relations
And perhaps we give a little to the poor If the generosity should seize us
But if anyone of us should interfere in the business of why there are poor
They get the same as the rebel Jesus
But pardon me if I have seemed to take the tone of judgment
For I've no wish to come between this day of your enjoyment
In a life of hardship and of earthly toil there's a need for anything that frees us
So I bid you pleasure and I bid you cheer from a heathen and a pagan
On the side of the rebel Jesus.
Wonderful words from Jackson Browne. Particulary the last line I bid you pleasure from a heathen and a pagan on the side of the rebel Jesus.
A HEATHEN WHO FOLLOWS JESUS ?
In the conclusion of the Jackson Browne song we just looked at above, he said I bid you pleasure and I bid you cheer from a heathen and a pagan on the side of the rebel Jesus.
The question then is how can he be a heathen and a pagan and be on the side of Jesus ?
Let's go to the dictionary and look up that word heathen.
hea·then (h¶"th…n) n., pl. hea·thens or heathen. 1.a. One who adheres to the religion of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. b. Such persons considered as a group; the unconverted. 2.a. One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened. b. Such persons considered as a group. [Middle English hethen, from Old English hÆthen. See kaito- below.] --hea"then adj. --hea"then·dom or hea"then·ism or hea"then·ry n.
Isn't that interesting ? A heathen is a person who does not follow the God of the traditional religious cults. In other words a person who follows Jesus and walks with God but outside of traditional religion is a heathen.
BUT WHAT ABOUT BEING A PAGAN ?
We turn back to the dictionary and define the word pagan.
pa·gan (p³"g…n) n. 1. One who is not a Christian, Moslem, or Jew; a heathen. 2. One who has no religion. 3. A non-Christian. 4. A hedonist. --pa·gan adj. 1. Not Christian, Moslem, or Jewish. 2. Professing no religion; heathen. [Middle English, from Late Latin p³g³nus, from Latin, country-dweller, civilian, from p³gus, country, rural district. See pag- below.] --pa"gan·dom (-d…m) n. --pa"gan·ish adj. --pa"gan·ism n.
So you see, a heathen and a pagan is not one who does not follow God. It is one who does not follow religion. Now do you see what a wonderful world this would be if it was filled with heathens and pagans. Peace, love, and God. But instead we have religion , war and the devil.
In both descriptions notice that the emphasis is that a heathen or pagan is one who does not acknowledge the God of Judaism, Christianity,or Islam.
It does not mean one is not a follower of Jesus Christ or a follower of God. It means that one is not a follower of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
And so Jackson Browne properly ends his song with the words from a heathen and a pagan, on the side of the rebel Jesus.
So what was Jesus. A follower of Christianity, there was no such a thing. A follower of Judaism, obviously not. A follower of Islam , obviously not. Thus Jesus himself would be considered a heathen or a pagan, because he did not follow an accepted religion.
He did not follow a religion. He followed a God. One God. That God that Jesus could find within himself.
SALVATION
Christians insist that no one can be saved out of hell unless they come to Jesus Christ. When questioned about this on a program I watched recently, Jerry Falwell quoted this scripture.
KJV John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Now that is quite clear, isn't it? No one can find God except by Jesus. I totally agree with that. Jesus is the only way to God. There is no other way.
But once Jerry Falwell and I agree that one must follow Jesus to get to God, then the road forks and off, I go in a different direction. I am convinced that Christianity has totally failed to understand this statement of Jesus and the result is the world condition, and the Christian community supporting war after war.
CHRISTIAN SALVATION IS NOT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT !!!
Christianity has taken the statement of Jesus and instructs their followers that you must come to Jesus to find this salvation. But their method of coming to Jesus is coming to them. Come to church, give 10% of your money, bow your head and ask Jesus to come into your heart, claim Jesus is Lord.
So you can see Christians driving down the road with bumper stickers that say Jesus is Lord. I saw one car with a bumper sticker that said, my boss is a Jewish Carpenter.
All I could think of was why does your Jewish carpenter have a Greek name? If the bumper sticker was to be literally accurate it would read, my boss is a Greek carpenter.
But back to basics and that is what is needed here.
Let us look once again at what Jesus said about salvation and himself.
KJV John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
What does this scripture mean to you?
I am the way. In other words follow me. Do what I say to do, go where I say to go.
I am the truth. You will find by the changes in your life that what I say to do, and where I say to go is true.
I am the life. Your life will change. Your life will be made new.
All of this if you follow Jesus. There is no other way.
BUT HERE'S THE CATCH
Yes, here is the catch. The only way you can truly follow Jesus is not to be a Christian. You must follow Jesus as a Jew, as a Hindu, as a Buddhist, as a Muslim. Yes you can be a Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and follow Jesus, because Jesus was not a Jew, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist or Muslim.
Jesus was a heathen, Jesus was a pagan, he did not follow religion. He followed the light which was within him , the light that he said we also could find within us.
A Biblical precept upon which much of Christianity rests is the one that is found in Romans 10:9 and says if you confess Jesus as Lord and believe God raised him from the dead you shall be saved.
But therein lies the problem with this world. The scripture does not say that you simply say Jesus is Lord. That's what Christianity teaches, confess Jesus is Lord and you will be saves.
Jesus has a serious problem with that.
JESUS HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE CHRISTIAN APPROACH
Yes, Jesus has a big problem with their approach for he says.
Luke 6:46 Why do you call me Lord and not do what I tell you to do.
In other words, if Christians were really following Jesus as Lord, they would do what he said to do, and they would find the way, the truth and a new life.
Therein lies the catch. They (Christians) would have to do what Jesus says to do in order for Jesus to be their Lord. Big problem.
WHAT ABOUT PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH ?
George Bush in his campaign for President answered a question on television by saying that the person in history that has impacted his life more then any other is Jesus Christ. That would mean President Bush considers Jesus as Lord, yet he personally ordered the execution of around 200 people in Texas. As governor you can do that, as a follower of Jesus you can't.
He has conducted a violent attack on Iraq, what would Jesus say, what would Jesus do ?
Would the one that George Bush says means more to his life then anyone else in history, approve of his actions ?
And so our society which claims to be Christian backs it up, not with the power of Christ, but with the power of missiles and soldiers.
JESUS WAS VERY VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT WHAT WAS REQUIRED FOR HIM TO BE LORD OF ONES LIFE
Jesus was very specific about this so there is no way to squirm out.
Matthew 7:24 Whoever hears these saying of mine and does them is wise.
Matthew 7:26 Whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them not is foolish and his house will fall.
It,s not a question of saying something. Its not a question of bumper stickers, or going to church. It's a question of hearing the instructions of Jesus Christ and following them.
That is what Christianity fails to do. It says Jesus is Lord, but it never attempts to answer the scripture that says, why do you call me Lord and not do the things I say.
CHRISTIANITY, JESUS AND GEORGE
Christianity supports war on the part of its country when it knows full well that Jesus forbids it. It's ok to support a position of war. You have a perfect legal right to do that, but don't say you are a follower of Jesus, or as George Bush, claim Jesus as Lord and execute people. You cant do that.
RELIGION AND OUR SURVIVAL
The world trade center has been demolished in a religious attack. Bombs have dropped in Afghanistan ,and Iraq, and people are getting small pox vaccinations to protect them from religious lunatics. And there is a plague sweeping the world called Sars.
Recently the US Government instructed people to get masking tape and plastic to put over their windows to protect them from God knows what. It's really running down hill folks.
THE ANSWER TO ALL THIS IS SO SIMPLE
All that is required to avoid this is for the world to follow Jesus. And the good part is that it is perfectly acceptable to follow Jesus without getting involved in any kind of religion and without even mentioning Jesus name. Isn't that great. To follow Jesus you don't have to become a Christian.
What is the way to salvation that Jesus has shown us and that Christianity has rejected much to its own shame. Well let's look
Matthew 6:33 Seek first the Kingdom of God.
Very specific. Before you do anything, don't go looking for a church , or a Bible, or a teacher. The very first thing you must do is seek the Kingdom of God.
So you say. How do I do that ?
Luke 17:21 The Kingdom of God is within you.
So what are we doing here. Jesus said he was the way. In other words if we followed him we would find the way. Here is your chance to follow him. He just told you that the first thing you must do is look within yourself for the kingdom of God. That's the way.
This is not something that religion is comfortable with. Christians have told me that I would open my mind to devils if I looked within myself for the kingdom of God. Yet Jesus said that is exactly what you must do.
And the same trouble you will have with religious people today Jesus had with them then when he taught his way.
YOU DO NOT ENTER WITHIN YOURSELF, THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM AND THAT IS THE WORLDS PROBLEM
He speaks to the lawyers who in those days were the Bible teachers, the priests, ministers etc.
Luke 11:52, Woe unto you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.
You did not seek within yourself, you did not go into meditation. And yet those who were doing this you stopped. You told them lies about devils and demons, and therefore you have turned away from the teachings of Jesus Christ. That is the reason for the trouble upon the earth, and the guilty party for keeping the teachings of Jesus away from people is religion, Christianity.
MEDITATION IS THE WAY AND FEW FIND IT
Jesus told us that is the way. Jesus told us that that is the truth, and that truth would set us free. He promised that his way would take us to the father, to God.
GOD IS LIGHT
We know God is light because the says in the book of Numbers, that God is not a man, and then it says in 1 John that God is light. So we are looking to receive the supreme light, and Jesus has said this is accomplished by seeking within ourselves. But how, and Jesus again is very specific.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the Body is the eye. If your eye be single your body will fill with light.
Here are the teachings of Jesus that your must do what he says to do. He told you to look first within yourself. To practice the single eye, which means to stimulate the pineal gland of the brain.
SEPARATE FROM THOUGHT
That is the second part of the meditation process. First look within yourself and practice the single eye and then separate from the thoughts of the mind.
In Matthew 6:25 Jesus tells us to take no thought.
To practice the single eye, to take no thought, to look within ourselves means to meditate. To practice meditation. To watch. To be the shepherds within ourselves watching the sheep and being the first to see the child born of virgin consciousness in the midst of the animal nature of our mind.
THE WATCHING MEDITATION
Mark 13:37 And what I say to you I say to all watch.
That directs you to what I have shared with you over and over, the watching meditation.
When you watch within yourself, when you make an observation within yourself , you cause the electro magnetic wave to collapse to a particle and the photon particle which is the angle or light or angel of light enters via the pineal gland and the way begins to open.
Those are the things that Jesus specifically said you must do if he is to be your Lord and you are to find salvation. What is amazing is that the people that do these things for the most part are not Christians.
They're Buddhists.
BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY TRADITIONS
A Christian will say that they follow the traditions of those who went before them. They cannot turn their back on that.
So we do all of these traditional things and yet the world becomes more and more violent, more and more turned away from those who have less, more and more turned away from those who are sick ,unless they have enough money to pay to get healed.
Tradition
In Matthew 15:3 Jesus asks why do you transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
The whole failure of life upon the earth to be lived in disease free ,and violence free longevity is based on religious traditions ,and lack of knowledge concerning what is right and what each of us must do that our mind might be changed from the violent behavior of the earth tribes, to the healing behavior of the light tribes.
ALL WE KNOW IS WHAT WE ARE TOLD BY RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge I will reject you .
Strong stuff isn't it. The knowledge that we have comes from religious leaders who are the very ones who have caused the violence and hate upon the earth. That knowledge comes from the lower mind of ordinary people. Wearing robes maybe, but still ordinary people.
There is only one place where you will find the knowledge that will set you free and protect you from the violent kings of the earth.
Jesus made it very clear where that place is.
Luke 11:52 You have taken away the key of knowledge, You entered not in yourselves and them that were entering in you hindered.
Jesus himself who told you that Gods kingdom is within you, now says that you do not have the knowledge needed for salvation because you have not gone within yourselves to listen to invisible one.
That is the way, that is the truth and by following those instructions you will find new life.
THE BORN AGAIN WAY
We have been told that the way to be born again is to claim Jesus as lord and believe God raised him from the dead.
That's always been strange to me because in John 3:3 Nicodemus asked Jesus what he must do to find life and Jesus told him that he must be born again.
Could Nicodemus claim Jesus as Lord ? Of course not because Jesus at that time said, of my own self I can do nothing. (John 5:30)
How could Nicodemus believe that God raised Jesus from the dead when Jesus wasn't dead yet?
So obviously being born again has nothing to do with what traditional Christianity teaches.
It is to be reborn within of the light. The spirit if you will. That is only possible by doing what Jesus said, what Buddha said, what Krishna said, finding the light within yourself.
NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME
That's what Jesus said, but what did he mean ?
What he meant was no one can find God unless they follow what he was saying and seek within themselves. They must separate from thought, watch within ,and practice the single eye. They must go into meditation and separate from the thoughts of the mind.
The very things that Christians do not do.
THE MAN WITH THE PITCHER OF WATER
No only did Jesus tell us how, he also told us when. When could we Passover from the violence of the kings of the earth to the wonders of the King of Light.
In Luke 22:10 Jesus said when you see the man with the pitcher of water follow him into the house and go to the upper room.
In this age of Aquarius, the man with the pitcher of water, we enter within ourselves and ascend to the higher realms of the mind and there we will experience the Passover to the higher realm of light and life.
And look what this Aquarian age has shown us via Hubble.
The single eye Jesus spoke of in the Hour Glass Nebula
And so now the choice is ours. We may follow Jesus and leave religion, (including Christianity), or we may stay with religion and follow men.
I know its hard to turn your back on your traditional religion. But it is so much worse to turn your back on the light of the world. Look around, see the world, the evidence is for all to see.
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