WHO IS JESUS ?
Before you say "Jesus didn't exist", a lot of stuff we believe and we "know" hangs on assumptions. Instead of arguing over who's right, let's try to understand each other. Let us make the assumption that our different beliefs are all true, in some sense. And let us use that faith to synthesize new knowledge that makes sense of this world.
As it were, every faith has been like a scientist looking through a microscope. At different slides from different ponds. One scientist sees one world and one scientist sees another. Both of them vehemently insist they have seen the truth.
As it were, every faith has been like an artist looking at a sunset over a lake. Each artist capturing a unique reflection of the light. Each insisting, because of ignorance of the law of parallax, that they have seen and depicted the true reflexion on their canvas.
Even saying "Let God be true and every man a liar", acting like they aren't a man too. In essence, their faith says "the spirit is the closest thing to the truth, and this law is written on your heart."
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In Matthew 23 Jesus says of the jews that they were the children of the ones who killed the prophets. So, he asked them why they were waiting to kill him? In other words, he believed the Jews had no free will. This is why Jesus never once tried to convince anyone of anything. When he first found his 12 disciples he simply walked up to them and said "Follow me." Imagine the kind of man Jesus was to be able to sense who would follow him before he ever asked them to. He didn't predict the future, he interpreted the present with precision. Something the Jews couldn't do because they weren't spiritual, they were legalistic and literal. Yet in their literalism of the law, they became delusional in this ever changing world. The truth will set you free, but the nature of the truth is that it isn't fixed.
Like Socrates, when he met a rich man in the market, he asked the man for all kinds of instructions on where to find basic necessities. When the rich man had answered, Socrates then asked "And where can you find knowledge?" The rich man then became a disciple of Socrates at that moment. You can find people everywhere who believe they know right from wrong. Socrates was making a point that no one inquires into the nature of things. They simply believe in ideas they have been told are true. Schopenhauer said that everyone wants an opinion but few people can think. And what's left for them to do but to repeat ideas? And call those ideas "the truth", to give a certainty to their delusion. And to believe they are "freed" by that "truth" because they no longer need to think, and to feel the nervous energy of life flowing through them as a result of THINKING.
If heaven exists, it would require people to change how they think. To change how they think, they'd have to think to begin with. How can you change someone's mind in one of these fake "debates" that are so common nowadays when they aren't even thinking? They're just believing in ideas and defending them with "logic".
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I dont want to argue. I want to understand.
One of the most controversial verses in the Bible is that the love of money is the root of all evil.
The man who wrote this said to compare ths spiritual with the spiritual. In Genesis, it says the root of all evil was Eve falling for Satan. Who was "the most beautiful creature." Or who wanted to be. In reality, God is the most beautiful "creature ". The serpent quite obviously represents a penis, and hence represents Eve's sexual relationship with Satan.
Eve fell for Satan because she wanted to be like the most high God. Is Jesus not the most high God? And that same man who said the love of money is the root of all evil, said that Jesus was the Second Adam (Romans 5). Meaning Adam was the most high God. And Eve represents mankind as a whole. Not a woman. Mankind was deceived into prioritizing the wealth of Satan over the beauty of Adam. And in fact, the Bible records how the Second Adam was tempted by Satan. Satan tried to give all the wealth into the world to the Second Adam. And he refused him.
Jesus prioritized beauty over all else. To prioritize money is the very essence of true Satanism. It is the reason humans have steadily devolved since the beginning of civilization, since the rise of knowledge and vanity over instinct and passion.
And who would argue that beauty doesn't seem to be the very meaning of life?
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