TruthBombs: profound truths Jesus taught that the religion of Christianity does not teach (Part 006)

Truth Bombs

Holy Spirit Truths

Man’s Religious Lies

1] GOD GAVE MANKIND INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY/AUTHORITY.

We are created in the image of God (the ultimate sovereign authority with total free will) and this image is transferred to man. 

Jesus Christ taught that each person is ultimately responsible for their own beliefs and actions and that each individual, being the ultimate authority regarding those actions, will one day stand before God to give an account. 

Jesus never taught a single precept indicating the church should be the ultimate authority as to what men believe and do.

1] THE CHURCH DENIED INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY/AUTHORITY BY PROCLAIMING ITSELF TO BE THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY.

Beginning in 325 A.D. we see the development of an unholy alliance between Church and State. The Church, now a surrogate extension of the State’s power to destroy life, freely murders all who stand in the way of their absolute authority over every aspect of human life. 

Every facet of the denominational church structures we have today, including what scriptural letters were approved (from among the hundreds in circulation at the time, including some that were considered inspired for over 3 centuries but banned and burned by these so-called men of God) has come down to us through this unholy alliance and by the hands of the Catholic and Orthodox Bishops who attended these councils. 

Emperor Constantine, who called this council into existence and paid for the Bishops to attend, did so for the furtherance of his own ruthless empire.   Both Rome and the Catholic/Orthodox Church (which was not divided at the time) created and sustained this alliance for their own empowerment destroyed individual liberty, politically and spiritually for the next 1,300 years.

2] JESUS SAID HE GAVE US THE HOLY SPIRIT TO PROVIDE DIRECT FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF “THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD”. 

A direct knowing of God is received in stillness, in quietness and in secret (meditative prayer) and thereby each individual is empowered by God to decide what they believe.  The apostles reinforced this, stating “You need not that any man teach you [the things of God]” (I John 2:27). 

Our ability to abide in Christ is dependant upon our ability to receive this direct, Living spirit-word of God.  Those without spiritual ears must rely on, and emphasize the importance of, what is written ABOUT God and are never able to truly KNOW God.

2] THE CHURCH DID AN END-RUN AROUND CHRIST’S TEACHING ON PERSONAL SPIRIT-CENTERED COMMUNICATION WITH GOD, BECAUSE IT EMPOWERED THE INDIVIDUAL AND THEIR COMMUNITY RATHER THAN THE CHURCH.

The “Church” and Bible centered model created by the 4^th century Catholic/Orthodox Church was for their own empowerment and placed the emphasis on external religious forms. 

This was accomplished through emphasis on public prayers & scripture readings, ceremonies, and endless repetitive preaching on a few basic doctrines: repentance, faith, baptisms, laying on of hands (healing), resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.  The result of this has been a dumbing down of Christians, who are to this day kept in a permanent state of spiritual infancy.   

To further solidify their empowerment, each denomination created its own teaching institutions in order to produce Church approved and ordained graduates with the authority to maintain the status quo and enforce denominational doctrines. 

The adverse effects of this movement away from individual revelation and authority can not be overstated.  Today, Christianity has become a friend to the world and therefore an enemy of God.  Worse, today’s adherents, who are “ever learning [the same basic doctrines] but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth”, are forced by their worldly lifestyles into a permanent state of hypocrisy.  Christians talk of their deep love for one another, yet they only meet to share that love superficially for a few hours each week.  This blatant hypocrisy is “the leaven of the Pharisees” and continues to corrupt every new convert to Christianity.  

What Jesus said to the Pharisees 2000 years ago is just as applicable to today’s pastors and priests.  In Mt. 23:13 we read, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.” 

If, as Jesus has said, “the Kingdom of God is within you”, and today’s so-called spiritual leaders are likewise shutting up that kingdom in order to protect their own positions of power and authority, it behooves us to throw off those shackles and seek after liberty. 

As it says in II Cor. 3:17, “Where the Spirit of Christ is, there is liberty”.  It is time we learn how to abide in Christ and become one in purpose and intent with both God and Christ, as promised by Jesus in John 17:  “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth... I pray for them... That they all may be one; as you Father are in me, and I am in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.  And the glory which you gave me, I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.  Father, I will that they also, who you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me... that the love wherewith you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

3] THE SPLITTING OF THE TEMPLE VAIL SEPARATING THE PEOPLE FROM THE HOLY OF HOLIES, WHICH HAPPENED WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS, WAS A SYMBOL OF THE NEW COVENANT, WHEREIN EVERY TRUE BELIEVER IS A MEMBER OF “THE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD”. 

Priests have knowledge and authority to speak to God.  Once a year, the High Priest would pass through that vail into the holy of holies and ask God’s forgiveness for others.  When the vail was rent in two by the earthquake it was a powerful symbol of God’s intent.

Each believer now has equal authority to access God directly and receive God’s knowledge (the Living Spirit-WORD), give and receive God’s forgiveness and partake in the manifestation of God’s supernatural power.  Through these means we are enabled to overcome the many obstacles of this world, even having the ability to overcome our own nature and to some degree, nature’s laws.

3] THE CHURCH, CONTRARY TO GOD’S CLEAR INTENT TO EMPOWER EACH INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WITH THE ABILITY TO RECEIVE THE LIVING WORD DIRECTLY FROM GOD, REPLACED THE VAIL ONCE REMOVED WITH THE CHURCH, SO AS TO EMPOWER ITSELF. 

To the furtherance of this end the Church created a “priestly” and ministerial class, those ordained and empowered by the Church to be above the people and maintain the Church’s position of superior authority.

Even among the original Christians, during the life of the Apostles, we see the gradual undermining of Christ’s teachings.  While Peter was emphasizing universal priesthood (“you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” I Peter 2:9) Paul was busy developing the hierarchical, top-down, authoritarian management style common among today’s denominations.  

Of course, a certain amount of hierarchy is a fact of life, and I have no problem with lines of authority that include skilled leaders.  But by establishing Apostles, elders and bishops to take on priestly duties Paul  undermined what the birth of Jesus Christ heralded, universal access to God by all believers, universal priesthood.

4] JESUS TAUGHT THAT WORSHIP IS FOR ANYWHERE, ANYTIME.

Man is directly connected to God at all times because as Jesus taught, “The kingdom of God is within you”.  Therefore, “where 2 or 3 are gathered in his name, there am I in the midst of them”. 

When Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well (see John 4:4-26; speaking to a woman alone was forbidden by his culture) Jesus told here that we no longer need a sacred place like Jerusalem or some special mountain (or any other place on earth that produces superior natural energy) in order to worship God.  We can worship God anywhere, anytime.

4] THE CHURCH, CONTRARY TO THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST, RE-INSTATED THE PRE-CHRIST PAGAN TRADITION OF WORSHIPPING GOD IN SPECIFIC EXTERNAL SACRED PLACES.  THE CHURCH REPLACED THE PAGAN’S SACRED GROVES AND SANCTIFIED TEMPLES WITH SANCTIFIED/SACRED CHURCH BUILDINGS.  

The reason for this is clear.  Emphasizing the “Church” building as the place to gather and worship puts a damper on non-church approved worship activities, and maintains institutional power. 

But wherever people are gathered in committed communities of faith, worship arises spontaneously and is much more powerful then traditional worship services where people are only committed to sharing a few hours of their busy worldly lifestyles each week.

5] JESUS TAUGHT THAT WE SHOULD FOCUS ON THE INVISIBLE. 

It is not enough to think about or read about, the invisible.  We must embrace it, immerse ourselves in it, and take it by force of our will. 

Jesus told us, “The Kingdom of God is within you”.  Those who rely upon the reading of scriptures, without meditating upon what they have read, are spiritually poor indeed.

Jesus was our example as to how we should go about knowing God.  He told us he received the words of his Father God and those are the words he spoke to us.  Should we not likewise be able to receive God’s word directly from God?   The answer is YES!!

Jesus commanded us to abide in him so that through our unity with him and with God, we would be enabled to receive God’s word directly into our heart and mind. 

This kingdom of God within each individual is where God’s power, peace, prosperity, joy, love and unity are unleashed for service towards others.  But it requires a humble and thankful attitude if we are to meditatively abide in Christ, if we are to KNOW the mysteries of God and enter God’s kingdom. 

Meditation requires self-discipline and commitment to practice for any extended period of time.  Meditation is a form of prayer and it is the most important prayer form because it is primarily a listening prayer. 

Meditation is the number one essential ingredient for knowing God intimately.  Meditation helps us develop our spiritual ears, so we can hear God’s “still small voice” and receive God’s Living Spirit-WORD. 

Meditation allows us to understand what God’s ultimate purpose is for our life.  Because meditation brings increased spiritual understanding of the “Mysteries of the Kingdom of God”, it enables each individual practitioner to discern what is good and what is evil.  Meditation is the most potent weapon in our arsenal, in our battle against unbalanced self-indulgence and worldliness. 

It is meditation that allows us to ABIDE in the peace, joy, love and unity of God’s presence.  It truly is the key that unlocks the gates to the Kingdom of God. 

Without meditation, we can have moments of clarity and a sense of God’s presence but it is muted and fleeting and without the overwhelming power and glory that accompanies regular daily entrance into God’s presence.  This is the KNOWING that sustains and motivates and transforms, and it is enjoyed daily by those who listen meditatively to hear God’s “still small voice”. 

Those who do not take the time to practice daily meditation do not put the kingdom of God first. 

Attending denomination’s church services faithfully, reading the bible regularly (without meditating upon what is read), serving on committees in a congregation and contributing money to building a new and bigger church building have nothing whatsoever to do with KNOWING God.  They are but religious forms that more often than not, keep us from receiving God’s power.  

And so it is that today the vast majority of Christians do not meditate daily and for sufficiently long to quiet this world’s thoughts (a minimum of one hour).  They remain outside the kingdom of God, unable to enter in.

5] THE CHURCH TODAY TEACHES PEOPLE TO FOCUS ON WHAT IS VISIBLE AND EXTERNAL.

Meditation is almost universally not practiced by, nor taught to, church congregants today. 

Today, the vast majority of Christians are content to offer up quickie prayers and read or hear the same shallow interpretations of scripture passed down from generation to generation.  

It is our “Church” leaders, schooled with much knowledge ABOUT God, who know not God.  They, like the Pharisees of old, “shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in”.

Meditating with an open mind is thus a threat to any institutionalized traditional Christian church system that emphasizes “sola scriptura” (scripture only) and/or focuses on what is external and visible.  Such external emphasis gives rise to the following forms of godliness, invariably preventing access to the fullness of God’s power:

[a] Public prayers instead of following Christ’s command to go into one’s closet to pray (they only had one room back then and a dark closet would be a great place to meditate!);

[b] The visible, written word of God (the word about the WORD, since God’s WORD is spirit, not letter) becomes more important than the Holy Spirit’s deliverance of God’s Living Spirit-WORD.  The end result is a people without spiritual ears to hear what the Holy Spirit would say regarding today’s need for guidance and problem resolution. 

[c] An external Church building replaces the original intent of the word “Church”, that being God’s people gathered permanently as a community so they could exhort one another daily, bear one another’s burdens daily, and by this love manifest the power to BE the Church, BE the Body of Christ;

[d] The New Testament covenant was intended to represent this change from visible scripture (the letter) to God’s invisible WORD written upon the heart, which is stated clearly in the Bible.  In II Cor. 3 we read, “You are.. the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart... God has made us able ministers of the NEW TESTAMENT; not of the letter, but of the spirit, the letter kills, but the spirit gives life”.  

For the first 300 years of our faith’s existence Christianity had no agreed upon collection of 27 books called the New Testament and the words “New Testament” had this original meaning.  But as a result of the Roman empowerment of the orthodox, worldly and institutional branch of Christianity, via numerous State sanctioned and paid Church councils (beginning with the Council of Nicea in 325 AD) this original II Corinthians chapter 3 definition for New Testament (or New “Covenant” in some translations) was replaced by our present understanding of the words New Testament, the 27 letters or “books” officially approved by the Catholic/Orthodox Church.

6] JESUS ALWAYS CLAIMED THAT HE WAS THE SON OF GOD AND WAS NOT EQUAL WITH THE FATHER.

Jesus consistently taught that his words were received from God the Father, his power came from God the Father, the glory Jesus manifested was from the Father, only God the Father knew the time of his second coming and only God the Father was truly good.  How anyone could then believe Jesus was God in the flesh can only be explained as the result of institutional brain washing aimed at a few key texts.

For instance, in John 10:22-38 Jesus proclaims to the Jews who were questioning him, “I and my Father are one”.  It is often stated that because they took up stones to stone him, Jesus was proclaiming himself to be God, an offense that called for stoning.  That may be the way the Jews saw it but such an interpretation conveniently ignores four separate passages in John 17, such as this one in verse 22, “And the glory which you [God] have given me, I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one”. 

I am certain I am not God, how about you?  So Jesus could not have meant, when he said “I and my Father are one” that he was God.  Rather, he was stating he was one with God in purpose, always seeking to do God’s will.

6] THE CHURCH CLAIMS THAT JESUS IS BOTH THE SON OF GOD AND GOD. 

The Catholic and Orthodox Church invented the trinity in opposition to Arianism, which was taught by the majority of Christians for over 300 years. Arians believed that Jesus was God’s son, was created by God and therefore had a beginning and an end (a concept reinforced by this utterance of Christ in Revelations, “I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” Rev. 22:13).  Therefore, Jesus, the Son of God, is NOT God. 

The trinity was first put forth in opposition to Arianism at the Nicean Council in 325 AD and later formalized in the Nicean Creed.  Trinitarians believe that Jesus was not created but always existed and that he was “God in the flesh”.  This belief fulfilled two purposes for the fallen church.  

First, God was no longer an invisible mystery, requiring dedicated, disciplined effort on the part of followers to hear God’s “still small voice”.  Thus one would not need to heed the scriptural admonition to “be still and know God”.  Since the trinity states that Jesus is God, one could simply read the story of Jesus and “know” God (in truth, scriptures can only reveal information ABOUT God).  This physical fleshing out of God is further reinforced in the Nicean Creed when it states that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are “persons”.  Such an anthropomorphic view of God is not only antiquated, it is downright stupid. 

Second, the invention of an unfathomable conundrum like the trinity gives the church more control over those outside the priest class.  The church and its priests, by the very act of proclaiming the Trinity to be true, infer that they understand what cannot be understood.  

The Church’s authority was maintained by forcing everyone to blindly believe the Trinity as stated in the Nicean Creed, under threat of punishment (excommunication or death).

7] JESUS TAUGHT BY HIS LIFESTYLE THAT COMMUNITY IS A NECCESSITY, NOT AN OPTION, REQUIRED TO FULFILL HIS COMMAND TO “LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU”. 

Jesus, to reveal the depth and breadth of his love for his disciples, called them and gathered them unto himself.  They lived together, worked together, ministered together, broke bread together and shared a common purse. 

Jesus likened this community life to sheep and a hen and her chicks.  Unlike goats, which are very individualistic and stubborn, sheep graze together for protection from predators.  At the first whiff of danger the sheep immediately close ranks and become as one body, able to turn and move out of danger as if they had one mind. 

A hen gathers her chicks under her wings for warmth and protection.  Jesus warned that those who refuse his call to gather unto him, like a hen gathers her chicks, would suffer the consequence of a desolate home life.  We can see clearly that today, among the majority of Christians, what Jesus warned has come to pass.

7] CHRIST-FOLLOWERS LIVING TOGETHER IN COMMUNITY IS SEEN AS A THREAT TO THE CHURCH’S POWER.  IT IS NOT ONLY NOT PROMOTED, IT IS FEARED.

The church excommunicated, tortured, drowned and burned at the stake all those who chose to live in community as the original Christians lived.

It is a little known historical fact that both Catholics and Protestants (during the Reformation) murdered Anabaptists and other communitarian sects that lived in community.  Most of these reformation era Christian communities believed Jesus taught community as a necessity.  They believed that if one truly wanted to be spiritually fruitful and love the brethren as Christ loved us, then there was no better example then the one Jesus Christ provided in gathering his disciples and living with them.

Denominations all across this nation fear community, even in the innocuous programmatic form called cell-groups (which are just another form of pretend community).  History is rife with examples of traditional Christians trying to destroy those who believed in community as the best way to obey Christ’s command to “Love one another as I have loved you”.  But those who have lived in a Christian or other spiritual, faith-based community, understand what others can never understand, that we within a community are given power from on high to overcome what we as individuals struggled with for years.  Those who live in an intentional faith-based community are blessed beyond measure, in comparison to any other human lifestyle.