Misunderstanding Jesus: looking forward to the church instead of backward to the prophets. He frequently warned against what would happen in the future after him, and frequently referred to what had come before him.

Surely I experience myself as this sort of thing. James

 https://archive.org/details/prophets00abra/mode/2up

I gave you all detailed instructions for making Heaven on earth. You all reinvented me as the eternal life Celestial condo guy. The rest is history.

 

Am I a Christian? What in the hell does that word even mean? Am I of....

Am I a Christian? What in the hell does that word even mean? Am I of Westboro Baptist that hates gays? Do I want to kill abortion doctors? Am I a Christian that for the first 1950 years had no thoughts about abortion, never breathed a word about abortion, as Jesus never breathed a word about abortion, or of the last 50 years where it's the only thing that matters ever since some evil folks in the Republican party and the fundamentalists realized it would be politically advantageous? Am I focused on getting a condo in the sky and avoiding burning in hell for eternity, two things about which Jesus never breathed a word and never conceived of? Am I a Christian United for Israel, a country Jesus and all the prophets he revered would have condemned, because they want to see a war between the Jews and the Muslims to bring about Armageddon so that these Christians get raptured into heaven while the rest of us are slaughtered? Am I a millionaire pastor with less chance of pleasing Jesus then a camel has of getting through the eye of a needle? Do I go into some church building, something that Jesus never spoke of, never did, never advocated? Do I profess Jesus as my Lord and Savior, something that Jesus never called for never advocated and condemned as lip service? Am I of all hundreds of denominations, or which particular one, virtually all claiming to be the only true one? I could go on. Am I of a cult that systemically abuses children women and boys sexually? My God, I'm absolutely not a Christian, nor should you be, and neither was Jesus ever or would he be today. They are the scribes and Pharisees under his brand, which he condemned then and would condemn now. James

My religion is the 250 verses where I talk about and show how to live in this world. All the rest is your Christianity.

http://www.lsgiabeing.com/2018/03/jesus-moral-ethical-teachings-according.html
 

Jesus religion was his actual words and example. Christianity is the teachings of Christians and John. Opposites.

 

I don't remember when Jesus said that we needed to wait for the apostles, John, Paul, Peter, Pentecost, Calvin, Luther, Pastor, priest, Bishop, Pope...CHURCH.... CHRISTIANITY... To be able to follow the path he showed us. I do remember when he said call no man Rabbi except for one, Christ.

 I don't remember when Jesus said that we needed to wait for the apostles, John, Paul, Peter, Pentecost, Calvin, Luther, Pastor, priest, Bishop, Pope... To be able to follow the path he showed us. I do remember when he said call no man Rabbi except for one, Christ.

I find nothing of Jesus in the church. Just a twisted Antichrist imposter, hideous.

Whatever you might think, you do not love the fetus that you cannot see, when you did not love the woman who you do see.

Jessica, I found my choice was to embrace the church and reject Jesus, or Embrace Jesus and reject the church. Sept 4

 

Inerrancy of the Bible? It has been a Top Again to crack Rewritten in real-time from the very beginning. Bulshit.

When evangelical snowflakes censor
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/10/when-evangelical-snowflakes-censor-the-bible-the-english-standard-version-goes-pc/

CULTS, ALL... "Christianity is based on one singular belief: Jesus raised from the dead. Once you believe in one miracle, the pathway is paved to believe in the next. Not all branches of faith go as far as handling snakes, but they’re all rooted in the one miracle that overrides our intellect....

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/evangelical-christians-covid-19-pandemic_n_5f5b9875c5b6b48507ffc791
 

I never called you to be Christian, something of which I never conceived. I called you to be christ-like, like me.

 https://www.salon.com/2021/08/21/staunch-atheists-show-higher-morals-than-the-proudly-pious-from-the-pandemic-to-climate-change/

Daniel every one of the Godly Souls obviously saved by Jesus were obviously saved by his example and teaching and if anything just disgusted and horrified by all the attributions of magic and mysticism.

 

Most insightful important article in a long long time.

https://www.salon.com/2021/08/06/neuroscientist-explains-how-fanatical-trump-followers-could-lead-us-to-societal-collapse_partner/

James plants seeds maybe not seen for 2000 years. Chuck, John....

 Oh, and the completion of the thought ending this video is, John, a church man, mentioned mid interchange he'd like to make a contribution and I said gladly to the mission. After James further controversial thoughts John had not changed his mind and made a very generous contribution.

Which seems more likely? That the life and teachings of Jesus we're not sufficiently revolutionary to save humankind, or that not one in a million starting with his so-called disciples understood his example and teachings? To me the answer is obvious, the latter. But James, he started a religion! Had Einstein's similarly find a religion there would be no nuclear power and no nuclear weapons.

 Which seems more likely? That the life and teachings of Jesus we're not sufficiently revolutionary to save humankind, or that not one in a million starting with his so-called disciples understood his example and teachings? To me the answer is obvious, the latter. But James, he started a religion! Had Einstein's similarly find a religion there would be no nuclear power and no nuclear weapons.

Two sacred encounters, two gentlemen my age.

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/LmbpXsS2QfhAHCQn8

And then in a Flash I was driving through Detroit....

 Oh what Jesus would do to these rich white mcmansion blue-eyed West Michigan Folk. The money changers in the temple in his day were just a warm-up.

The business of the church is to sell us not what Jesus said, but what its owners, and we, want him to say.

Every preacher, every Pastor, every priest, every denomination will tell you the same, Jesus did not mean what he said about how to live and find heaven, a life of Joy, in this life, let us explain it to you what he really meant.