It is obvious that Jesus saw the corruption that came from the belief in the God of Abraham, a idea of God that is tyrannical which unscrupulous people use to intimidate and enslave people with keeping them trapped in a paradigm that was and is unhealthy for them.
The God of Abraham was the Creator and Ruler of the world, “out there” or up in the sky some place; distant from people, separate from people. This God of Abraham, being the Creator and RULER of the world could therefore dictate to the people what HE wanted (God had to be a he because that protects the patriarchal privilege of men). IN ADDITION, and more importantly, God could assign certain ‘special’ men to tell the people what He, God, wanted. Of course, this gave those special men great power and privilege in the world. In so doing, this God of Abraham was justification for all the forms of slavery, most of which still exist today. The appointed leaders are to be the masters and everyone else is to be the slaves. Of course, these so-called appointed leaders who create the rules and tell the world they are appointed by God to be the master over the rest of humanity.
Today we can still see that the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are violent, abusive to themselves and others and the planet or environment as a whole.
Obviously, Jesus could see this long ago and that is why he felt the need for a more democratic vision of God, a new idea of God, a gentler, kinder more loving vision of God. Jesus could see a truth that lesser men could not see, a truth would set people free to love ALL that life offered, a truth that WE are all gods, part of and not separate from the Universal Consciousness or Spirit that primitive people call God. We are the ones who can choose not to give our power away to other people. We are judges who decide what is good and what is evil, what is right and what is wrong. We are the ones that define what sin is and what sin is not. We are the ones who define what is God. Even though the religious people of Jesus’ time saw him as a massive sinner, Jesus did not see himself as a sinner or separate from God. He saw himself as one with God, which he called his Father. And Jesus said that he saw us all as one with God, that God is within us and we are within God, we are not separate from God.
This “we are all one, we are all part of God” idea is a more democratic idea of God than the autocratic God of Abraham. No one person or group of people would have dominion over another. Jesus’ idea of God would do away with the lording of parents over their children, clergy over their congregations and kings or political rulers over the masses. No longer are the rulers “out there” some place, but WE are the real rulers.
Of course, the ruling classes would not want to see an idea of a more democratic god prevail in society, for they would lose their power and privilege. So they had to stop Jesus by whatever means became necessary. That is why they had him arrested, tortured and killed, not just to stop Jesus but also to discourage anyone from following in his example.
Jesus tried to bring about a paradigm shift, one that the ruling classes did not want to happen, and that is why that had to kill him. However, the ideas that Jesus talked about did not die with him; they started to spread. Because of this, the ruling classes hired Saul of Taurus to find a way to destroy the movement that Jesus had started.
Saul tried everything he could, he killed and persecuted the followers of Jesus but that only seem to strengthen them. Then, one day, on the road to Damascus Saul got a brilliant idea, it was so brilliant that it almost blinded him. He envisioned that he would change his name to Paul, join the follows of Jesus and call himself an ‘apostle’ or leader of them. Then he would bring those gullible enough to follow him back to “sound doctrine” by which they could be controlled, manipulated and enslaved. His plan was near perfect, for it worked brilliantly.
Paul got people, including the other apostles, to worship Jesus as someone special, as God incarnate. In so doing, they were pushing Jesus up on a pedestal so high that people could no longer see Jesus as an example of what they could be but only as an idol worthy of worship. The people learned to say that Jesus’ teaching were ok for him, he was God, but we are not; thus rendering Jesus teachings no longer valid.
The spirit of the Antichrist wanted to create a movement to ensure that people would never follow Jesus or examples like him. They were calling Jesus the Christ so when Paul created his movement or religion became known as Christ-anti or Christianity, which is what it is called today. However, as Jesus said, nothing is hidden that shall not later be revealed. It is time to expose this Antichrist movement for what it is, there to support the ruling classes and to keep people slaved. The last thing this antichrist movement wants is for people to think and act like Jesus, to be the part of God that they are.
Remember what Jesus said, “It is not those who say lord, lord to me, but those who do the will of their Father in heaven”; the kingdom of heaven being within us. Today, Christians will honor Jesus with their mouth but their heart is far from him, they think so differently than he did.
The ruling classes want us to think that God is out there and we are here to serve God. Jesus said that if you have known him you also know his Father, and then he said, I come to serve and not be served. When a person identifies as being part of God then they realize that all the rest of humanity and even all life is part of them. Therefore, they will do unto others as they would want done unto themselves, for they ARE the others, just as Jesus pointed out when he said, as you do unto the least of them you do unto me.
You will never hear any Abrahamic tradition followers say anything like that. For them, the God of Abraham is the master and we are to be the slaves. That is what we get from Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
It is time for humanity to take it power back and to awaken and realize that WE are that democratic God that Jesus was pointing out and he demonstrated for us the freedom to love that being God brings to anyone open enough and courageous enough embrace.