It seems rather obvious to me that, when Jesus began his public ministry, he was already prepared to accept an ignominious death for his traitorous teachings. Otherwise, he would not have stayed on the periphery of Israeli society during his early endeavors. He knew he must educate his followers and fellow countrymen alike in sufficient numbers about his new concepts of God and God’s perfect love so that after his death they would be able and willing to spread the ‘good news’ despite resistance from the Jewish hierarchy. His plan entailed a vigorous education of his closest associates, the twelve apostles so that after his death they would be equipped with both the understanding and determination to continue his mission — converting the Israeli populous to an understanding that God is all Love rather than the oppressive vengeful God of the Jews who demanded sacrificial offerings as appeasement.
That ‘sacrificial religion’ of the Jews had become a money-making sham scheme for the hierarchy, while simultaneously, created a double whammy of oppression of the poor peasant populous — bilking them of their hard-earned money by virtue of having to pay the High Priest an exorbitant fee for his ‘perfect offerings’, plus oppression from the Roman Empire for whom they were forced to labor.
Likewise, it is clear to me that Jesus had a genius mind. He knew nothing about particle physics (Quantum Mechanics), but he did understand that the Spirit of God resides in every existence — otherwise, nothing could be. For me, that understanding is borne out by his last-ditch effort at enhancing their understanding by telling them at his last supper that the bread he held in his hands was the same as his body. The Gospel of Thomas relentlessly reinforces the idea that not only is the Spirit of God in Jesus’ person but also in everything in existence, and I accept that concept without reservation.
Three hundred years after Jesus’ death, so-called Christianity had spread to all the civilized world most of which was under control of the Roman Empire. There were 1800 Bishops in the Empire and each Bishop was the ultimate dictator in his domain of all things pertaining to Jesus and his teachings. The problem was that literally no two of them seemed to have identical understanding of Jesus, what he said and what he did. There was a great need for copies of the original writings about Jesus and those copies were made by people who were not always either capable or honest about their work. There was much squabbling between various jurisdictions. Consequently, those copies were frequently altered to suit the whims of the bishop. Other times, honest mistakes were made by the transcribers. The net result was (is), we have no way of knowing exactly what Jesus said and did.
What we do know is this; by the year 325 AD, productivity by the squabbling Christians was at a low ebb. Additionally, both the Roman army and treasury had become depleted by the expense of all the foreign wars they had been waging. The official religion of the Empire was called Mithraism which was accepted very well by the populous. However, Emperor Constantine reasoned it would be much wiser to make Christianity the official religion of the Empire rather than further deplete his army and treasury by attempting to coerce the Christians into productivity. Accordingly, he called a Council at Nicaea of the 1800 bishops. He offered to pay for all their travel and lodging expenses. Despite that, only a mere 300 or so attended — Constantine presided. The council lasted from May till August when a consensus was finally established. During the Council some twenty to thirty were excommunicated. The remainder chose to relent to the most vocal and numerous and the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formed and made the official religion of the Roman Empire.
As a direct ‘slap in the face’ of Jesus, they totally ignored his teaching of an ‘All-loving God’ and reverted right back to the sacrificial religion of the Jews which Jesus despised. Just as the King, the High Priest and Sanhedrin had done, they set themselves up in positions of power with Pope, Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops. The lowly priests and deacons did the ‘scut-work’. So, just as any house built on a rotten foundation, it began slowly crumbling. Seven hundred years later a big power split occurred with the Great Greek Schism, the final blow came a few hundred years later when Martin Luther and others has seen enough of the corruption and bolted the Roman Catholic Church — the Protestant Reformation began and continues incessantly.
The net result of all that activity is this; as of last accounting, there are currently over 45,000 so-called Christian religions and sects in the world — each claims authenticity and righteousness. The larger ones are continuously attempting to ‘steal’ the other’s constituents through the process of ‘missionary’ work — build the empire and power base at all costs. So, what we have today is 2.2 billion Christians in the world each of whom believes in a ‘mythical god’ just as the Egyptians and others did thousands of years ago —not one of them can tell you ‘Who God is’ — I can, and I did.
At this point, I will digress and apologize for being repetitious but, even though many, many of you have seen and heard this before, there are also many ‘new readers’ who have not. So, for their sake, I ask for your forbearance.
Through the process of understanding the fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics (particle physics), I was able to understand that there is a Perfect Rationality in this universe. That Perfect Rationality exhibits a Perfect Truth System outside of which ‘there is no truth’. That recognition and understanding mandated my mission and permission to define the essence of God— God is a Perfect Rational Being. ‘It should be noted again that no one can prove the existence of God — neither can anyone disprove it. However, observing this Perfect Rationality mandates me to accept the presence of God in all existences.
I am aware of no person nor religion who shares this similar understanding. So, for the benefit of new readers and as reinforcement of understanding among previous readers, I will describe a graphic of Trinity God: a perfect Rational Being, God the Father, with his Perfect Intellect reflects upon himself and sees a mirror image of himself. That mirror image, being in the supernatural, is a living being, God the Son. Two Perfect Identical Rational Beings perpetually viewing each other have no choice except to love, choose, will accept each other. That perpetual loving, choosing, willing, accepting each other carries the image of its generators and is The Holy Spirit, the Will of God, the third person of the Trinity — one Godhead, three identical Persons.
In the real world, God the Father’s reflection is registered in all the perfect particles of energy (quanta) which exist in eternity, but which form the substrate of all gravid existences which, themselves are temporal. And what does that mean? It means that those particles of energy which are the Son are Eternal but the gravid objects they make (protons and neutrons) are temporal and will one day (75 billion years hence is best estimate of our most noted scientists) return to the singularity of God from whence they emanated. Who knows how many trillions of times that cycle has repeated itself? Nobody but God himself.
You might ask just how does Jesus fit into that equation? And I would say nowhere except in the imagination and scheming of the Jewish Christians who were determined to have a Vengeful God who demanded sacrifice for appeasement. Those scheming Christians were the three hundred or so Bishops who formed the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They and their predecessors are the ones who dreamed up all the fairy tale stories and ideas about Jesus.
Jesus was a traitor to the Jewish religion. He knew from the beginning that he would be killed for his treason, but his zeal, compassion and love for his fellow man drove him to be my hero. As for his endeavor, he was, in fact, a total failure. He has been totally misrepresented to billions and billions of unsuspecting followers.
All of that means little — God, our Creator has Perfect Love for each of us — none more so than another. We can hurt each other, but we can’t hurt or please God — he is Perfect.
Many of you are aware that I have written extensively about this subject with near four hundred blog post and three books, Wilderness Cry, Peace in Spirituality, and Provocative Catholic. If your interest leads you there, you should read Wilderness Cry – a scientific and philosophical approach to understanding God and the universe, first. Then you will likely want to read the others. In addition I have written an historical and humorous little book, Growing Up In Fancy Farm Kentucky. all are available both paperback and digital from Amazon-Kindle and from me (handg@comcast.net).
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WILDERNESS CRY by Hilary L Hunt MD 