Christ
I am unsure what to think. I feel like I dragged a corpse out of the grave and now it has stunk up my home. Grabbed a Religious Science book from Barnes and Noble and thought it said Jesus was God, but that was merely an ensnaring titular coincidence. The book is about our oneness with God. Christ is the husband of the church, do the two become one? If Jesus is God, does that mean that we are to join in the personhood of God?
Regardless of the answer to this question, which is likely beyond us, the motive of the book is queer and it sees Jesus as only one manifestation of “the Christ” of which we can be another. It quotes him selectively, avoiding references to his substitutionary atonement. It highlights the times where he bestows power on his followers, and that betrays the motive of the whole book: power. It is why I picked it up and it is what I crave too often. Power of this sort is beyond what I can understand, and it is playing with fire. True and lasting power is found only in Jesus Christ, who is God and Savior, king of the world. It is in submission to him that we are brought up to be seated with him, not in arrogating his claims about his followers as belonging to possessors of some secret knowledge and new understanding of scripture.
Is Jesus the only Christ? Why do they split his name in two?
You can always tell a religion by what is says about Jesus. Jesus himself says that false christs will come in the future, but he himself will return in the end, distinctively.
Am I like a Pharisee, waiting for what I expect Jesus to be?
Are Buddha, Mohammed, etc. other manifestations of Christ?
This is the source of Unitarian Universalism, and I've finally come to the point where I can intellectually parry with the esoteric anglo-saxon congregationalists who invented these religions, which are “Christian” but nevertheless deny the explicit divinity of Christ.
The ultimate problem with these faiths is that they fall into the same category of idiocy that any “lesser” thought-out cult such as Jehovah's Witnesses fall into. It is a worship of the mind over the truth of Christ. Why is it necessary for them to reinvent Jesus? They are causing him to cater to their philosophical quandaries.
The reason I entertain these heretical notions is because of four verses which have been plaguing me:
x1.
John 14:12
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
If others are to do greater things than Christ Jesus, are they too, Christs?
x2.
Rev. 2:26-28
The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star.
It seems that Christ is bestowing Christlike offices on “the one who conquers.”
x3.
Mat 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence,[1]and theviolenttake it by force.
Who are these “violent?” Are they the go-getters who make their own way in the world by pursuing God?
x4.
Mark 10:17-18
And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”18And Jesus said to him,“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
Is Jesus saying that he is not God? Followers of Christian Science use this verse to state that Jesus was implicitly denying his own divinity.
I want to raise every possible spiritual quandary up against my own faith in the absolute divinity of Christ. These are strong arguments, which appeal to my natural hunger for my own greatness and power, which is a common craving for all humans. I believe Jesus made it clear in scripture that:
1.He is the only Christ and Messiah.
2.He is the only way to the Father.
3.Many false Christs will appear and lead many astray.
I would quote verses to back up these three claims, but they vastly outnumber the instances similar to the four verses I mentioned above.
I can answer all four of these verses very simply:
x1. These who do things which are greater than Christ's works are continuing in his mission, not a mission of their own.
x2. Christ conquered through obedience to the Father to the point of death on a cross, therefore he has been given this “rod” which was mentioned way back in Psalms. He will in turn raise those up who are obedient to him. The saints will reign eternally, having conquered through obedience and martyrdom (not jihad).
x3. Christ violently took back heaven when he threw down Satan from the sky, and now is seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. He will one day return violently to usher in the New World. We follow in his footsteps, not in our own pathway.
x4. This is the most interesting. Jesus was not implying that he was not divine, but was using double irony, as he often did. Another example of double irony is when he says “a kingdom divided against itself will not stand” in reference to the pharisees' accusations that he was driving out demons by Beelzebub, the king of demons. The truth is, the kingdom of Satan is divided against itself, as shown in Revelation's reference to the Kings of the Earth turning on the Whore Babylon. Different false religions fight against each other. A sign of evil is always discord. Jesus was not saying that he was a part of this evil, but using double irony in speaking to the Pharisees in their own language of doubt and stupidity.
The various cults which sprung out of the Puritan tradition are unusually well-thought out, but their motive remains the same as the motive behind all cults: selfish power and rampant individuality. Such is the plague of Americanism, Theism, and many sects of Freemasonry.
These embody the true spirit of Antichrist, and many false prophets have risen up and claimed to be Jesus. Crazy Kooks.
Regardless of the answer to this question, which is likely beyond us, the motive of the book is queer and it sees Jesus as only one manifestation of “the Christ” of which we can be another. It quotes him selectively, avoiding references to his substitutionary atonement. It highlights the times where he bestows power on his followers, and that betrays the motive of the whole book: power. It is why I picked it up and it is what I crave too often. Power of this sort is beyond what I can understand, and it is playing with fire. True and lasting power is found only in Jesus Christ, who is God and Savior, king of the world. It is in submission to him that we are brought up to be seated with him, not in arrogating his claims about his followers as belonging to possessors of some secret knowledge and new understanding of scripture.
Is Jesus the only Christ? Why do they split his name in two?
You can always tell a religion by what is says about Jesus. Jesus himself says that false christs will come in the future, but he himself will return in the end, distinctively.
Am I like a Pharisee, waiting for what I expect Jesus to be?
Are Buddha, Mohammed, etc. other manifestations of Christ?
This is the source of Unitarian Universalism, and I've finally come to the point where I can intellectually parry with the esoteric anglo-saxon congregationalists who invented these religions, which are “Christian” but nevertheless deny the explicit divinity of Christ.
The ultimate problem with these faiths is that they fall into the same category of idiocy that any “lesser” thought-out cult such as Jehovah's Witnesses fall into. It is a worship of the mind over the truth of Christ. Why is it necessary for them to reinvent Jesus? They are causing him to cater to their philosophical quandaries.
The reason I entertain these heretical notions is because of four verses which have been plaguing me:
x1.
John 14:12
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
If others are to do greater things than Christ Jesus, are they too, Christs?
x2.
Rev. 2:26-28
The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star.
It seems that Christ is bestowing Christlike offices on “the one who conquers.”
x3.
Mat 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence,[1]and theviolenttake it by force.
Who are these “violent?” Are they the go-getters who make their own way in the world by pursuing God?
x4.
Mark 10:17-18
And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”18And Jesus said to him,“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
Is Jesus saying that he is not God? Followers of Christian Science use this verse to state that Jesus was implicitly denying his own divinity.
I want to raise every possible spiritual quandary up against my own faith in the absolute divinity of Christ. These are strong arguments, which appeal to my natural hunger for my own greatness and power, which is a common craving for all humans. I believe Jesus made it clear in scripture that:
1.He is the only Christ and Messiah.
2.He is the only way to the Father.
3.Many false Christs will appear and lead many astray.
I would quote verses to back up these three claims, but they vastly outnumber the instances similar to the four verses I mentioned above.
I can answer all four of these verses very simply:
x1. These who do things which are greater than Christ's works are continuing in his mission, not a mission of their own.
x2. Christ conquered through obedience to the Father to the point of death on a cross, therefore he has been given this “rod” which was mentioned way back in Psalms. He will in turn raise those up who are obedient to him. The saints will reign eternally, having conquered through obedience and martyrdom (not jihad).
x3. Christ violently took back heaven when he threw down Satan from the sky, and now is seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. He will one day return violently to usher in the New World. We follow in his footsteps, not in our own pathway.
x4. This is the most interesting. Jesus was not implying that he was not divine, but was using double irony, as he often did. Another example of double irony is when he says “a kingdom divided against itself will not stand” in reference to the pharisees' accusations that he was driving out demons by Beelzebub, the king of demons. The truth is, the kingdom of Satan is divided against itself, as shown in Revelation's reference to the Kings of the Earth turning on the Whore Babylon. Different false religions fight against each other. A sign of evil is always discord. Jesus was not saying that he was a part of this evil, but using double irony in speaking to the Pharisees in their own language of doubt and stupidity.
The various cults which sprung out of the Puritan tradition are unusually well-thought out, but their motive remains the same as the motive behind all cults: selfish power and rampant individuality. Such is the plague of Americanism, Theism, and many sects of Freemasonry.
These embody the true spirit of Antichrist, and many false prophets have risen up and claimed to be Jesus. Crazy Kooks.
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