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Five Myths of Christianity

He died “for us”? To take away “our sins”?                   

He came to be a “sacrifice” for humanity?       

He will “return” to be the eternal mediator and judge The World?

He was “resurrected” in his physical body?

His “virgin birth” and “immaculate conception”?

  1. He died “for us”? To take away “our sins”?

There is obviously no doubt that Jesus died because of us! But the unshakeable belief of many that He died “for us” being sufficient to secure “a place in heaven” for ‘them’, logically ensures that the perfect and inviolable outworking of The Law of Sowing and Reaping cannot possibly extend its Grace and Blessings to such believers – if – it is works that are demanded by Jesus, and thus by The Divine Laws!

“By their works you shall know them.”

It is correct, to say that for the sake of ‘the sin’ which led to mankind’s ‘fall’, Jesus came, suffered and was crucified, but that irrefutable fact is not a blessing for Christians or mankind in any shape or form. Those who had the chance to save Him from a terrible end – the once-chosen and blessed Jewish race – agitated for Barabbas over The Son of God. To Pilate, they shouted: ‘Crucify Him’. Standing as an indictment against all of mankind from that singularly-dark moment of far-reaching portent, it was and still is an especially damning indictment against the Jewish race. For even today, they still refuse to recognise that The One sent to them at their petition, really was their Awaited One at that time.

The evil happening two thousand years ago was a most unfortunate outcome for all of mankind. Christ was killed because of the jealousy, fear and hatred of the priests of that time. Most Christians, however, would like to see in this a higher guiding Hand driving those events in order to provide for mankind a propitiatory sacrifice for the forgiveness of all sins. However, such beliefs contradict the natural Law of Sowing and Reaping, “What a man sows, that shall he reap”, which is also the Law of Love and strictest Justice. Therefore, it is illogical and foolish to believe such a thing.

Even the words of The Bible – that especial Work which you hold up to the world as The Living Word Of God – condemns that terrible act in no uncertain terms. Peter, the Apostle designated by Jesus as “the rock” upon which His Teachings could be built, “tells it like it is”. After receiving “Power from On High” at Pentecost and speaking in the various dialects of the region, the crowd that had gathered accused the Apostles of being drunk. Peter countered with the following:

“Men of Israel! Listen to these statements: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man pointed out as from God by powers, and wonders, and signs, which God did through Him amongst you, as you yourselves know; having betrayed, you murdered Him by crucifixion through lawless hands...”  

(Acts 2:22-23, Fenton. All emphases mine.)

The very words of the following prayer – His prayer – For us – stands in rightful accusation against such an evil distortion of the great and incomprehensible Love of The Creator.

“Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!”

 

  1. He came to be a “sacrifice” for humanity? 

The final act of the crucifixion that played out both on Golgotha [the crucifixion site] and also for those in the Sanhedrin [assembly of rabbi] who actively plotted to bring about His death, was wrought by a powerful earthquake.  Sufficiently strong to shatter the floor of the Temple of Jerusalem, the convulsive transfer of energy from the Earth to the great building also tore asunder the heavy curtain that protected The Holy of Holies [the Arc of The Covenant containing the tablets on which Moses inscribed The Ten Commandments].

The odds of that particular earth-tremor occurring with such precise convergence to, ostensibly, ‘coincide’ with the exact moment Jesus died, would surely be in the order of millions to one. That natural event should be proof enough of how terribly wrong His execution was, for even the Forces of Nature vented their anger and fury at the murder of The Son Of God: He Who once Commanded the same Forces of Nature to cease their ‘storm-work’ activity on the Sea of Galilee with the admonition: “Peace. Be still!”

As we have often stressed, such an injustice is not even accepted in earthly courts of law. If it were, imagine the outcry – from all of you especially. So why and how can human beings who proudly call themselves Christians [i.e., followers of, and believers in, Christ] accept a notion that such a thing would be acceptable to The Creator Himself: He Who is Perfect Love — but also Perfect Justice?

If you yet still seriously believe such a thing, then do not hide behind 2,000 years of Earth-time to shield you from that most insidiously-evil event. Instead, have the inner courage to put yourselves in the place of the small group of executioners at His Crucifixion and actively take part in the murder of The One Whom you profess to believe in. Be part of that Roman squad on that terrible day that you nauseously commemorate so wrongly: Black Friday.

Help to lay the cruelly-tortured and bleeding body of The Son of God on that rough and splintered “cross of death”. Feel His blood spattering on your skin – for there are no niceties such as rubber gloves to protect your delicate hands. Next, take up the hammer. And with it, drive the nails through His hands into the wood of the crossbeam. Ensure, however, that you do it correctly so that the weight of His especial body will not tear His once-healing hands away from those terrible spikes when that dark, death-cross is raised.

And as you ‘drive those nails home’, remember to look into His dying, pain-wracked eyes and say to Him:

“I nail you to this cross because in my deed I prove my great Christian love for you because you came to die for me and my sins. Even though you have already suffered so much, I offer you yet more pain and torture. I know you will understand and will one day welcome me into your Kingdom because I have now proved my faith to you by helping you to die on this cross.”

How foolish a belief. How utterly absurd.

Such a belief is tantamount to idolatry of the worst kind, but self-idolatry – of human beings – and not of reverence and worship of The Most High or of He Who was and is a Part out of Him.

JESUS: The SON OF GOD; designated as both The Word Of God and The Love Of God; that is who you symbolically murder each time you tremulously “…thank ‘Him’ for dying for your sins”.

In necessary reinforcement it should be pointed out once again that the words of The Bible condemn that terrible act in no uncertain terms. Peter, the Apostle “tells it like it is”:

“Men of Israel! Listen to these statements: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man pointed out as from God by powers, and wonders, and signs, which God did through Him amongst you, as you yourselves know; having betrayed, you murdered Him by crucifixion through lawless hands...”  

(Acts 2:22-23, Fenton. All emphases mine.)

Jesus himself gave the clearest and simplest indication of how this event should be viewed.  His noble prayer thus stands as an indictment against those who murdered Him then, and against those today who still very wrongly believe that His painful and brutal death on that Cross could somehow be sanctified and Divinely Blessed by An Almighty God as some kind of loving act of propitiatory sacrifice to cleanse the evil and sin of an undeserving humanity.

 “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!”

Thus: They did the wrong thing.

  1. He will “return” to be the eternal mediator and judge The World?

The quandary for the global Christian community of if/should/when of the return of Jesus and not any thought for the Coming of The Other, presupposes the probability that Christianity/humankind, in general disbelief, will ignore it and continue to embrace, instead, totally different and therefore wrong concepts. The end result will surely not then be as Christians, particularly, might hope or imagine.

The answer to that quandary lies in the following Scriptures given by Jesus in reply to questions from His Disciples regarding the end-time. The singularly-strong aspect here is the clear statement that The One to come would instruct in all the Truth, meaning that Jesus had not done so. In other words, what He was able to give for that particular point in human spiritual evolution and have it at least basically understood, was just a part of the whole, not the complete thing.

This is so stated in John 16:12:

“I have still much more to tell you; but you are not able to bear it.”

In other words, even though instructed by The Son of God Himself to a far deeper level of knowledge than certainly any other human beings to that time, the greater degree of understanding that humankind still required could not be imparted to the Disciples then. It was simply too much for them to understand or assimilate.

Therefore another, The Other, would have to come and bring all The Truth.

“…because if I do not depart, the Helper will certainly not come to you; but when I depart, I will send Him to you. He, on His coming, will bring conviction to the world…”

— — And also:

“When, however, the Spirit of Truth Himself comes, He will instruct you in all the truth … He Himself will honour Me…”

(John 16:7-8 & 13-14, Fenton. Emphases mine.)

The clear inference in all of these Scriptures is that the use of the personal pronoun, He, denotes an actual person in the same way that Jesus was an actual person. And, moreover, would be The One Whom Jesus would send, but only after His [Jesus’s] own departure.

Matthew describes the key sign which will reveal the fact that The Eternal Mediator is – or has already been – on Earth. The following Scriptures not only add more Biblical weight to our premise, but they further illustrate the fact that Jesus does not refer to Himself in the first person but clearly infers that there really is Another.

“…and then will appear the signal of the Son of Man in the sky. And He will send out His messengers – and they will collect all His chosen…”

(Matthew 24:30-31, Fenton.)

Matthew, in 25:31, offers another powerful statement from Jesus in support of the Other. Again, He does not say “I” will do this or that, but that the Other One – He, The Son of Man – will fulfil it!

“But when the Son of Man appears in His Majesty, and all His angels with Him, then He will take His seat upon the throne of His Majesty; and collect all nations before Himself.”

In that particular Scripture, as in many others, we would at least expect Jesus to say, “I will collect all Nations before Me.”  – if He Himself was to fulfil that role at the End-time. Yet that is not what He says, even though instructing and enlightening His Disciples as to what to expect then! Further Scriptural quotes clarify our premise:

“…but the helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send… He will teach you Everything”.

(John 14:26)

“When the Son of Man comes, however, will He find this faith upon the earth?”

(Luke 18:8)

Further examples from The Jerusalem Bible provide more anchorage for our premise: “…proved by my going to the Father and your seeing Me no more”.

“I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I leave the world to go to the Father.”

(John 16:10 and 16:28)

“Blessing and peace to you from the One Who Is, Who Was and Who comes; and

from the seven Spirits which are before His throne; — and from Jesus Christ.”

(Revelation 1:4-5, Fenton. Emphases mine.)

It is patently clear from the above Scripture that there is more than just one “One”. Moreover, the strongly denoted separative-conjunction “and” draws a clear line of demarcation between Jesus and — The Other – The One — “Who Is, Who Was and Who Comes”!

 

  1. He was “resurrected” in his physical body?

“Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have not come to abolish but to complete them.”

(Matthew 5:17, Fenton. All emphases mine.)

The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus must surely rank as one of the most religiously contentious issues ever. Science, by virtue of its empiricist base, would quite rightly reject notions of the physical resurrection of a very dead body. Science would probably also reject the whole idea of Ascension, physical or otherwise. In bygone days, any opposition to the once all-powerful Church position that Jesus was resurrected physically, would certainly have bought an immediate death sentence and execution. Yet the very Scripture we use as the introduction to this particular Chapter clearly states that precise rules hold unequivocal sway for all, including The Son of God Himself Whose words we accept they are.

An event such as a physical resurrection and ascension, which radically departs from “natural” processes, cannot be held up as being logical in any way whatsoever. Correct clarification, therefore, must inherently rely on the truth and outworking of the very Laws that Jesus Himself stated could not be overthrown. And which He, according to the lawful parameters thus contained within them, also had to submit to at His death.

We must now seriously question and challenge the second crucial part of this particular essay i.e., the strong, entrenched belief within probably most Christian communities that a physical resurrection and ascension is somehow valid. To this end a key question needs to be asked with regard to the “resurrection” of Jesus. Can a man, any man, in a flesh and blood physical body weighing somewhere around 70 to 80 kilograms and very surely pronounced dead, realistically rise from that dead state to then live some kind of physical reality, eternally?

Whilst we certainly accept that Jesus was able to call the dead to life, it was done so under the strictest aegis of the Living Law, of Which He Himself Was and Is a Living Part. If we therefore employ the knowledge of Spiritual Law to apply the processes of death to the fate of Jesus, we are left with His irrefutable statement – that we must often reiterate – that He had not come “to overthrow The Law, but to fulfil it”. Not just to fulfil it to a somehow convenient earthly-belief level, but to fulfil it completely. He, therefore, was also subject to all the natural and lawful processes that mark earthly death. As it must be in every single case, those processes for Him, too, called for the normal exit of His “inner animating core” from the mortal cloak He was obliged to take upon being born of a woman on Earth.

So, if we now track to the end of Jesus’ life, the extremely tenuous rationale offered to ostensibly support a “physical resurrection” has always been that He had to have risen in a physical body simply because His own was not in the tomb in which He was placed. In its supposed “reasoning” such a one-dimensional view is akin to medieval superstition. Quite clearly, Jesus had no choice but to vacate His tortured, bleeding and dying body on that “cross of death” when His time of exit thereupon arrived. Jesus died a physical death, as all who are born onto the Earth must.

The Perfection of The Laws of God simply cannot allow for anything other than complete naturalness in all things, so a death-process for Jesus different from the norm is simply out of the question. Perfect Laws represent the ultimate level of naturalness, so aberrant scenarios are impossible.

We know that after His death Jesus was taken down from the cross and buried in a tomb owned by Joseph of Arimathea. What do we read post-Crucifixion, however? That even those closest to Him did not recognise Him when He appeared before them. Mary did not recognise Him to begin with. Mary Magdalene, too, did not recognise Him immediately. Even two of His Disciples on their way to Emmaus did not recognise Him for hours even though He walked and spoke with them for that length of time. How could it be possible that after a short interval of just days, those closest to Him did not recognise Him immediately? What does this clearly infer?

It unequivocally infers that had He been in His physical body, recognition would have been immediate. Therefore, and in concert with the lawful outworking of the earthly death process, it is obvious that it must have been another and different body they saw.

The theological idea that it was His “transmuted physical body” they saw does not hold water, for The Laws of Creation do not permit the “transmutation” of a physical body for anyone; not even in a “one-off” situation for The Son of God. “The Laws” are quite clear on this. The exit of the “inner being” from the “physical-body part” means that that part is then irrevocably subject to the normal and natural disintegrating process.

Spiritual Law informs us that a less dense envelope or body is able to penetrate denser objects. His sudden appearances inside locked rooms in which the Disciples regularly gathered thus testifies to the fact that He could not have been in a physical body. It is not lawfully possible to “rarefy” a physical body. Physical bodies cannot penetrate material doors or walls. Not His physical body, therefore, but one that we all possess too.

A non-physical Ethereal body of the consistency of that Realm through which we journeyed to incarnate on Earth. And, unless through our own aspiritual deeds we remain trapped in “the world”, the same Realm through which we all must journey again – ‘if we wish to return home’. It is a body, moreover, that can exist on the Earth – hence the millions of Earth-bound souls.

This “other-body” reality thus answers the question of how Thomas could feel the wounds of Jesus. It is simply a matter of the same kind of body within Thomas i.e., of the same consistency, bearing witness to the world of this lawful event. Thomas was invited to “touch” and “feel” purely because he was “Thomas the doubter”.

An obvious question begs an answer here. ‘What really did happen to the physical body of Jesus?’ We know that guards were posted outside the tomb to prevent the theft of it. Therefore, the story goes, it could not possibly have been stolen, for thieves would have been seen. So, the only possibility left is that we all meekly submit to the belief that Jesus did rise from the dead in His physical body. And that apparently seems to satisfy the majority of Christians in their various Churches.

Of course, the other logical possibility must not ever be entertained lest the whole, carefully nurtured structure totters and comes crashing down. For the reality is that soldiers on sentry duty do fall asleep, or they can be bribed to turn a blind eye. Or perhaps the sentries, in strict concert with The Law under The Will of The Almighty, were rendered unconscious for a time to thereby graciously permit a few especially chosen ones to quietly remove the earthly body of Jesus so that it might be placed where it would never ever fall into unbelieving hands.

Thankfully a small but steadily growing body of religious scholars now subscribe to this “probability”, and that His resurrection and ascension was thus a “spiritual” event, not a physical one. Deriving their ideas from historical narrative and ancient texts quite recently discovered but ignored by mainstream Christian Churches, this newly-emerging and correct view is exactly that which we state in the previous paragraph – that Jesus was moved from His temporary burial chamber and placed in a secret, permanent vault.

For if that particular scenario is regarded as impossible, as blasphemy or heresy even, then we have a major and insurmountable problem with the fact that Jesus had to subsequently return to The Father. To thus levitate and ascend in that same supposedly physical body to a Realm that is obviously non-physical. To a level, therefore, immeasurably higher and thus far beyond the incomprehensible reaches of the farthest universes even. Such an idea simply beggars description, for it is implausible in the extreme. In fact, it is patently impossible!

 

  1. His “virgin birth” and “immaculate conception”?

Just as the physical death of Jesus at the end of His life marked His exit from earthly life, so did His birth as a baby herald His physical arrival onto the Earth and into earthly existence. For in accordance with the inviolability of The Divine Laws He came to fulfil, The Son of God could not circumvent The Law that to be born of woman on Earth, the seed must first be placed within the womb by a natural procreative event. Subsequent to impregnation, a lawful gestation period of nine months in that especially-chosen and thus especial womb.

Here, however, a singularly contentious question arises with the inescapable truth that in the twin realities of physical birth and physical death, one must obviously always follow the other. Yet for a large number of people, that reality is conveniently discarded in the case of Jesus.

Since we cannot deny the fact of Mary’s earthly pregnancy or the earthly birth of Jesus as a baby, should we dare to believe that those earthly processes might just have been preceded by an earthly conception too? Or is that going too far? Or is it simply a matter of religious fear masquerading as “the ostensible guardian of religious righteousness” standing ready to condemn any attempt to delve logically into what was clearly a completely natural event? For Jesus issued, and was thus delivered, from Mary’s womb. Even though a perfectly natural birth, it was, nonetheless, one of stupendous import; an incarnation ordained and sanctified by Divinity Itself.

Now, because every human spirit incarnating on Earth requires a physical vessel in which to dwell and through which to work, Jesus, too, needed a physical body to carry out His Work. However, all such bodies must come on to the Earth in the form of a baby from a birth-mother. This is only possible with an earthly conception to begin with.

Does the idea of an earthly conception, then, denigrate the greatness or purity of the person of Jesus or His inherent Divinity? No, of course not. What about the purity of Mary herself, or her especial Calling? Would we regard her as being somehow soiled or impure if a conception was necessary before Jesus could be born onto the Earth? Here, again, of course not. If we did, it would be very difficult, indeed, to reconcile the birth of The Son of God from out of a woman of the Earth whose necessary purity for that purpose was somehow compromised through a natural act of copulation.

So, would a possible father for the purposes of a necessary conception debase the body of Mary who would carry to full term the earthly vessel that Jesus, in His Divine reality, would inhabit and work through? For such a high and purely ordained purpose, moreover, might not such a man/father be similarly chosen from Above? And would such a union for that highest possible purpose not therefore constitute an “immaculate conception” in the truest sense? If not, why not? If not, would it be because The Bible appears to state otherwise?

A clue to the reason for the wide Christian acceptance of the “virgin birth” as truth may lie in the interpretation by Matthew of the title, the “Holy Spirit”. For he reports:

“…the origin of Jesus the Messiah was thus: Mary, His mother, was promised in marriage to Joseph; but before their union, she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, however, was a righteous man; and not wishing to degrade her, felt inclined to divorce her privately. But while reflecting about it, he saw a messenger from the Lord appear to him during a vision, saying”: “Joseph, son of David, you need not be afraid to accept your wife Mary; for what is conceived in her was produced by the Holy Spirit:”

(Matthew 1:20, Fenton. Emphases mine.)

Because it was so stated by one of the Disciples, it is now forever regarded as sacrosanct in its apparent meaning. That is; that the egg – from which the physical foetus would grow to become the physical vessel, the body, of Jesus inside the womb of Mary – was somehow literally impregnated by “The Holy Spirit” simply to produce just the mortal or physical cloak.

What needs to be fully understood here once more is that the mortal cloak of Jesus was not Him solely and completely. It was simply the body that housed His Divine Core. We should further understand that the ordained path of every physical cloak is to return to the Earth out of which it is ultimately constituted.

“And man goes to the earth that he was,

And his Soul will return to the GOD Who gave it!”

(Ecclesiastes 12:6-7, Fenton. Emphases mine.)

It was His Divine Core – which at the same time was He personally – which returned to become One With the Father. The forming of His physical body did not require the Power of The Holy Spirit to produce it. Physical bodies by the score are produced every day of week on Earth.

If we now revisit Matthew’s narration, we have the phrase, “conceived from The Holy Spirit”; and a second, “produced by The Holy Spirit”. Yes, it could be seen to be “playing with words”. But what actually was conceived from and produced by The Holy Spirit here? Other Bibles use slightly different phrasing, but all must ultimately mean the same thing, simply because Jesus was born to Mary – under the aegis of the Grace of The Almighty and His Inviolable Laws!

Thus, to form in the mind, to formulate, to devise, to conceive – a plan, whereby Jesus, The Son of God, would incarnate on Earth in a human body. That was what was conceived from, and produced by, The Holy Spirit.

It was an Immaculate Conception, conceived in Plan and Ordination, and thus

produced by The Holy Spirit!

 

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Crucifixion of The Son Of God

Let us put aside all selfish notions of how  wonderful it all was that The Son of God Himself was sent down to this Earth in an act of Noble Love on the part of The Almighty to save us from our sins. Instead, and from a scientific/medical perspective, let us really and closely examine the whole process of the Crucifixion of Jesus in a probing, ‘blow-by-blow’, assessment of His ‘journey of terrible suffering’.

While doing so, we should very seriously understand that the incredible pain He suffered throughout never let up. It was constant. It was not at any time relieved by ‘first-aid’ or convenient pain-killers such as we would immediately grasp for at the onset of even very mild, ‘inconvenient’, pain.

From childhood, Christians are conditioned with a mindset which superficially and incomprehensibly says that Jesus suffered and died on The Cross to save them from their sins. Nothing, however, about what that suffering really meant for Him. Not, however, for the ‘believing Christian’ who will never ever experience such a thing, but who nonetheless preens himself with sickening false piety in the truly strange belief that he is ‘absolved’ from all his sins and ‘thereby saved’.

That being the perverse and pervading belief in Christendom, let us all journey with Jesus to His agonizing death. Whilst on that grievous walk to His place of execution, we should put aside every shred of ‘religious’ thought, and – objectively and logically – try to fathom how and why around two billion otherwise well meaning humans on Earth can accept and even strongly promote a belief whereby the excruciatingly-painful torture that The Son Of God was cruelly subjected to can somehow be the ‘right thing’.

Even the words of The Bible – that exalted Work which you hold up to the world as The Living Word Of God – condemns that terrible act in no uncertain terms. Peter, the Apostle designated by Jesus as “the rock” upon which His Teachings could be built, “tells it like it is”. After receiving “Power from On High” at Pentecost and speaking in the various dialects of the region, the Apostles were accused of being drunk by the crowd that had gathered there. Peter countered with the following:

“Men of Israel! Listen to these statements: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man pointed out as from God by powers, and wonders, and signs, which God did through Him amongst you, as you yourselves know; having betrayed, you murdered Him by crucifixion through lawless hands…”

The words are certainly clear enough; betrayed, murdered, through lawless hands! Was there great cheering that they were saved by His “death on the Cross”? That is certainly the seemingly unbreakable belief amongst latter-day Christians.  A very blasphemous belief.  Jesus himself gave the clearest and simplest indication of how this event should be viewed.

 “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!”

Thus, they did the wrong thing.

(from chapter 5)

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A very different perspective isn’t it.  Ask yourself this:  Honestly, knowing human nature as you do, have we made a serious effort to grasp and “truly” understand the words of The Son of God and change accordingly or, have we let ourselves off the hook with a characteristically human and all to convenient, self-serving, self-pardoning interpretation of the words of The Son of God?

The answer is so obvious, yet who has the courage to question it?  Reader, what do you really think? – email – info.crystalbooks@gmail.com

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Global Societal Collapse

Reader, you are probably well aware that the direction humanity is heading in can only lead to a disastrous final outcome.  Despite all the efforts by concerned nations and organisations our global society is heading for collapse.

In recent times it has even become clear that many of those nations who once appeared to be at least trying to resolve some of the numerous afflictions and problems facing humanity are no longer doing so.  These nations are now quite openly and even aggressively just serving their national interests alone.  No wise intent or even humanitarian intent to put aside national interests or business interests for the benefit of global humanity.  No, just a self-serving scramble for the remaining resources of the earth and an astonishingly foolish geopolitical struggle for dominance and wealth which is completely devoid of any wisdom.

It may come as surprise for some that despite all our technological advances and firmly established well intentioned global organisations, we are still on a path to collapse.  Why?  Simply put, our inner state, whether genuinely spiritually mature and wise or emotionally charged, intellectual and short sighted directs our actions.  This is the case for our actions as individuals, nations and as a global society.  None of this should be a surprise however, because it has long been predicted.  Yes, clearly predicted and forewarned.  So, who said it first?

From the 8th century BC:

“Ten Men Will Take Counsel And It Will Come To Nought.”

 (Isaiah 8:10.)

Thus, spoke the Great Prophet thousands of years ago in one of his warnings to humankind of just one of the sure signs of the end-time demise of human institutions. A time when it would become glaringly-obvious that unworkable human law, ideas, opinions, national self-interest, greed – and fear – would finally herald the impending complete collapse of human societies right across the globe.

The spectacle of riots and protests outside the venue of the UN “Climate Change Summit” in Copenhagen, December, 2009, gave clear voice to Isaiah’s sure prophecy. And that was only outside the venue. Inside – where key discussions took place amongst numerous international officials – the human temperature was just as heated; where genuine consensus for nurturing the planet which nurtures us collapsed into recrimination, blame and self-interest. Headlines: ‘Confusion and anger at Climate Change Summit’.

The largest ever gathering of international leaders [192 Nations] “…failed to reach a binding agreement”!

The most necessary attribute of wisdom seems not to exist in the mentality of negotiators such as those at the Copenhagen conference representing the various countries and peoples of the world. Not any kind of far-seeing spiritual wisdom encompassing the very life-essence of Creation-Law; but, as in the past, always the short-term ‘consensual-fix’ ostensibly designed to overcome any and all objections. In the case of the “Copenhagen Summit”, 2009, however, [universally accepted as a ‘failure’], serious polarising rifts clearly emphasised the power of Isaiah’s Calling to warn humanity — even from the long-distant past!

The “Earth” also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have

transgressed the “Laws”,

changed the decrees,

broken the everlasting covenant.

(Isaiah 24:5, Emphases mine.)

These predictions and warnings from Isaiah were also confirmed with further warnings 800 years later.

“there shall then be wide-spread affliction, such as has not been known since the beginning of the world until now, no, nor will ever be known again. And if those times were not cut short, not a man would be saved”

(Matthew 24:19-22)

There are very many such warnings.   How then could these predictions have been made about our times, the end times, all the way back then?  Because they could see the direction we were heading, away from a spiritual goal with spiritual progress and spiritual maturity, which produces wisdom and foresight.  The fall of man.  Treading a path for thousands of years away from this noble spiritual goal and instead caring more for earthly wealth, power, pleasure and possessions has taken its toll on our spiritual state, our maturity and is now clearly evident in the state of our global society.

Ask yourself this:  Honestly, knowing human nature as you do, have we made a serious effort to grasp and “truly” understand the words of The Son of God and change accordingly or, have we let ourselves off the hook with a characteristically human and all to convenient, self-serving, self-pardoning interpretation of the words of The Son of God?

The answer is so obvious, yet who has the courage to question it?  Reader, what do you really think? – email – info.crystalbooks@gmail.com

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He died for us

There is obviously no doubt that Jesus died because of us! But the unshakeable belief of many that He died “for us” being sufficient to secure “a place in heaven” for ‘them’, logically ensures that the perfect and inviolable outworking of The Law of Sowing and Reaping cannot possibly extend its Grace and Blessings to such believers – if – it is works that are demanded by Jesus, and thus by The Divine Laws!

“By their works you shall know them.”

It is correct, to say that for the sake of ‘the sin’ which led to mankind’s ‘fall’, Jesus came, suffered and was crucified, but that irrefutable fact is not a blessing for Christians or mankind in any shape or form. Those who had the chance to save Him from a terrible end – the once-chosen and blessed Jewish race – agitated for Barabbas over The Son of God. To Pilate, they shouted: ‘Crucify Him’. Standing as an indictment against all of mankind from that singularly-dark moment of far-reaching portent, it was and still is an especially damning indictment against the Jewish race. For even today, they still refuse to recognise that The One sent to them at their petition, really was their Awaited One at that time.

The evil happening two thousand years ago was a most unfortunate outcome for all of mankind. Christ was killed because of the jealousy, fear and hatred of the priests of that time. Most Christians, however, would like to see in this a higher guiding Hand driving those events in order to provide for mankind a propitiatory sacrifice for the forgiveness of all sins. However, such beliefs contradict the natural Law of Sowing and Reaping – “What a man sows, that shall he reap” – which is also the Law of Love and strictest Justice. Therefore it is illogical and foolish to believe such a thing.

The very words of the following prayer – His prayer – For us – stands in rightful accusation against such an evil distortion of the great and incomprehensible Love of The Creator.

“Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!”

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Will all Christians be saved ?

Let us restate the answer of Jesus to His Disciples when asked what the end-time would be like. His reply is chilling.  From Matthew 24:21-22:

“…for there shall then be wide-spread affliction, such as has not been known since the beginning of the world until now, no, nor will ever be known again. And if those times were not cut short, not a man would be saved”.

The Great Prophet, Isaiah, in brutal visionary prophecy, describes the what, how and why of the complete cleansing of Earth of the very many humans who refuse to heed The Eternal Laws as they actually are.

‘The “Earth” is utterly broken down, the “Earth” is clean dissolved, the “Earth” is moved exceedingly.

The “Earth” shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed from her place.’

(Isaiah 24: 19-20.)

The “Earth” also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the “Laws”, changed the decrees, broken the everlasting covenant.

Therefore has the curse devoured the “Earth”, and those that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the “Earth” are burned, and few men left.’

(Isaiah 24: 4-6.)

Now you, Christian believer, and perhaps even you, “Bible scholar”; but certainly all who live tremulously in piety in the belief that The Son of God, sent down to Earth by The Creator of all that is good to bring The Living Word to a base and evil humanity: where in His admonition or that of the great Prophet, Isaiah, do you find the sure salvation of two billion Christians? It is arrant nonsense. It is, in truth, a dangerous death-delusion.

 

 

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The ‘Rapture’? A Distortion of Bible Truth!

The expected return of Jesus by one very large, mainly American, group of Christians involves, for them, the interesting notion that they, and they alone as a group from all humankind, will be “saved” by being “raptured”. The concept of “The Rapture” as applied in this case takes the form of an event or process more fully formulated from earlier ideas mooted by an evangelical preacher, John Nelson Darby, who arrived in the U.S. in 1862. His minister, Cyrus Scofield, expanded the evangelist’s ideas in the prominent Scofield Reference Bible.

   Drawn from the Apostle Paul’s seeming assertion that believers could or would be “lifted up to Christ in heaven”, the idea of being “raptured to heaven” must presuppose that it is in the physical body since it all happens in an instant. That at least seems to be the general conviction of believers. However, we have already correctly concluded that according to The Almighty’s Perfect and thus Unchangeable Laws – which accord with Perfect, natural, Laws derived from the higher Spiritual paradigm – human physical bodies cannot be suddenly transformed and/or whisked away to sit on clouds or something similar.

  Even The Son of God Himself could not circumvent The Perfect Laws that He came to fulfil:   “I come not to overthrow the Laws…”

  Do Christians really believe that the non-material and therefore Eternal ‘Realm’ of what is so loosely designated as ‘heaven’ is some kind of jaunt ‘just up there’ ? Jesus told Pilate that His Kingdom was not of this world. And to His Disciples that He would return to The Father and they would see Him ‘no more’. How can it be that many millions will accept an idea that is an absolute impossibility according to the Perfect Laws of He Whose teachings of Perfect Truth those same millions profess to believe in and follow?

Phenomenal sales of the “Left Behind” series which promote the “rapture” concept and
which have apparently sold somewhere around 50 million copies, clearly point to at least that many believers. Yet the sage observation of key Scriptures of warning should be made by all who wish to be “raptured”:

  “I tell you indeed that you shall not depart until all has been fulfilled,” – “Not one
farthing shall be remitted you until you have paid fully.”

  And for the authors who have made millions of dollars but in the process of growing rich already led millions astray now:

  “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?”

  Should we designate the so-called “rapture” to be some kind of “Bible mystery”? After all, men prefer a mystery to Truth! No, it is not any kind of “Bible mystery” simply because the concept of “rapture”, as taught and believed by people in the Christian Church, is completely wrong.

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Physical Resurrection

The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus must surely rank as one of the most religiously contentious issues ever. Science, by virtue of its empiricist base, would quite rightly reject notions of the physical resurrection of a very dead body. Science would probably also reject the whole idea of Ascension, physical or otherwise. In bygone days, any opposition to the once all-powerful Church position that Jesus was resurrected physically, would certainly have bought an immediate death sentence and execution. Yet the very Scripture we use as the introduction to this particular Chapter clearly states that precise rules hold unequivocal sway for all, including The Son of God Himself Whose words we accept they are.

  Physical resurrection and ascension! What should reason and objective logic tell us about it? We are surely enjoined by the Living Law Itself to employ what all humans are gifted with, the attribute to think and weigh with intelligence, logic and reason. If forcibly locked into either an earthly-empirical or a fundamentalist-religious framework, the issue under discussion here might appear to be satisfactorily validated for some, perhaps even for many.

  In the final analysis, however, an event such as a physical resurrection and ascension, which radically departs from “natural” processes, cannot be held up as being logical in any way whatsoever. Correct clarification, therefore, must inherently rely on the truth and outworking of the very Laws that Jesus Himself stated could not be overthrown. And which He, according to the lawful parameters thus contained within them, also had to submit to at His death.

  Because our mandate derives from the Perfection of The Spiritual Laws, we can also now seriously question and challenge the second crucial part of this particular essay i.e., the strong, entrenched belief within probably most Christian communities that a physical resurrection and ascension is somehow valid. To this end a key question needs to be asked with regard to the “resurrection” of Jesus. Can a man, any man, in a flesh and blood physical body weighing somewhere around 70 to 80 kilograms and very surely pronounced dead, realistically rise from that dead state to then live some kind of physical reality, eternally?

  Whilst we certainly accept that Jesus was able to call the dead to life, it was done so under the strictest aegis of the Living Law, of Which He Himself Was and Is a Living Part. [The full explanation of the processes surrounding earthly death may be read in later Chapters of Bible Mysteries.] If we therefore employ the knowledge of Spiritual Law to apply the processes of death to the fate of Jesus, we are left with His irrefutable statement – that we must often reiterate – that He had not come “to overthrow The Law, but to fulfil it”. Not just to fulfil it to a somehow convenient earthly-belief level, but to fulfil it completely. He, therefore, was also subject to all the natural and lawful processes that mark earthly death. As it must be in every single case, those processes for Him, too, called for the normal exit of His “inner animating core” from the mortal cloak He was obliged to take upon being born of a woman on Earth.

  So if we now track to the end of Jesus’ life, the extremely tenuous rationale offered to ostensibly support a “physical resurrection” has always been that He had to have risen in a physical body simply because His own was not in the tomb in which He was placed. In its supposed “reasoning” such a one-dimensional view is akin to medieval superstition. Quite clearly, Jesus had no choice but to vacate His tortured, bleeding and dying body on that “cross of death” when His time of exit thereupon arrived. Jesus died a physical death, as all who are born onto the Earth must.

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‘Virgin’ Birth and ‘Immaculate’ Conception?

Just as the physical death of Jesus at the end of His life marked His exit from earthly life, so did His birth as a baby herald His physical arrival onto the Earth and into earthly existence. For in accordance with the inviolability of The Divine Laws He came to fulfil, The Son of God could not circumvent The Law that to be born of woman on Earth, the seed must first be placed within the womb by a natural procreative event. Subsequent to impregnation, a lawful gestation period of nine months in that especially-chosen and thus especial womb.

Since we cannot deny the fact of Mary’s earthly pregnancy or the earthly birth of Jesus as a baby, should we dare to believe that those earthly processes might just have been preceded by an earthly conception too? Or is that going too far? Or is it simply a matter of religious fear masquerading as “the ostensible guardian of religious righteousness” standing ready to condemn any attempt to delve logically into what was clearly a completely natural event? For Jesus issued, and was thus delivered, from Mary’s womb. Even though a perfectly natural birth, it was, nonetheless, one of stupendous import; an incarnation ordained and sanctified by Divinity Itself.

Now, because every human spirit incarnating on Earth requires a physical vessel in which to dwell and through which to work, Jesus, too, needed a physical body to carry out His Work. However, all such bodies must come onto the Earth as a baby from a birth-mother. This is only possible with an earthly conception to begin with.

Does the idea of an earthly conception, then, denigrate the greatness or purity of the person of Jesus or His inherent Divinity? No, of course not. What about the purity of Mary herself, or her especial Calling? Would we regard her as being somehow soiled or impure if a conception was necessary before Jesus could be born onto the Earth? Here, again, of course not. If we did, it would be very difficult, indeed, to reconcile the birth of The Son of God from out of a woman of the Earth whose necessary purity for that purpose was somehow compromised through a natural act of copulation Divinely-sanctified for The very One from The Divine.

This subject is discussed in greater depth in:

BIBLE “MYSTERIES” EXPLAINED
Understanding “Global Societal Collapse” from The “Science” in The Bible
What Every Scientist, Bible Scholar and Ordinary Man Needs to Know!

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Destruction by Fire!

The question of “Destruction by Fire”, long mulled over theologically, has now also been assessed from the scientific standpoint. From the earth-science perspective – and perhaps to a large degree from the theological side with regard to an Apocalyptic scenario – destruction by fire for global humanity tends towards such things as intense and widespread volcanic activity, a meteor impact, extreme drought, and perhaps prolonged solar activity.

Yet the real answer, whilst simple and straightforward, is ultimately far more profound for we human beings of Planet Earth than any notion which might suggest catastrophic events as being the primary driver for destruction by fire, and humanity thereby being physically burned. Though, of course, with certain natural phenomena, that is not just possible but very likely for some. Moreover, even for very many when such phenomena finally gives vent to its full power at its time of ordination. Now, whilst that will one day be a problematic reality for humankind, the distilled meaning of ‘destruction by fire’ here means something very, very different. So even though the word fire usually means flames, burning and heat, does it actually mean that here? From The Apocrypha, The Book of Esdras, Chapter 13, Verse 2, the prophet Ezra recounts a dream which is afterwards interpreted for him by the “Messenger of Light”. The key to understanding the meaning of the “fire” that Peter alludes to – and would no doubt have understood – lies in the following relevant excerpts. Initially featuring the sea wherefrom a wind arose and stirred up the waves, Ezra’s dream then showed the wind make something like the figure of a man emerge from the heart of the sea. That man then:

“…flew with the clouds of heaven…”, and wherever he turned his face to look, “…everything under his gaze trembled, and whenever his voice issued from his mouth…”,

all who heard it “…melted as wax melts when it feels the fire…”.

After this Ezra beheld an “…innumerable multitude of men gathered together from the four winds of heaven…” to make war against the man who came up out of the sea. Ezra saw the “man” carve out for himself a great mountain and fly up onto it. But he was unable to see or recognise the region or place where it was. After that he saw that all who had gathered to fight him were “…much afraid, yet dared to fight”. When the multitude rushed at him, “…he neither lifted his hand nor held a spear or weapon of war”. But Ezra observed how he:

“…sent forth from his mouth as it were a stream of fire, and from his lips a flaming breath, and from his tongue he shot forth a storm of sparks”.

Ezra saw that all three were mingled together – “the stream of fire”, “the flaming breath” and “the great storm”. These fell on the attacking multitude and burned them all up. Nothing was left but the dust of ashes and the smell of smoke. After this Ezra saw the same “man” come down from the mountain and call to another multitude which was peaceable. In great fear Ezra awoke and besought an interpretation from the Most High. His petition was answered, and the key elements of the vision follow. The Messenger then spoke:

“This is the interpretation of the vision. As for your seeing a man come up from out of the heart of the sea, this is he whom the Most High has been keeping for many ages, who will himself deliver his creation, and he will direct those who are left. And as for your seeing wind and fire and a storm coming out of his mouth, and as for his not holding a spear or weapon of war, yet destroying the onrushing multitude which came to destroy him, this is the interpretation.”

The “interpreter” then tells Ezra that the time would come when:

“…bewilderment of mind…” would come over those “…who dwell on the earth”. And they would make war against one another, “…city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom”. “And when these things come to pass and the signs occur which I showed you before, then my Son will be revealed, whom you saw as a man coming up from out of the sea.”

 

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Did Jesus’ death on the Cross really absolve humankind of their Sin?

The final act played out both on Golgotha and for those in the Sanhedrin who actively plotted to bring about His death, was wrought by a powerful earthquake. Sufficiently strong to shatter the floor of the Temple of Jerusalem, the convulsive transfer of energy from the Earth to the great building tore asunder the heavy curtain that protected The Holy of Holies.

The odds of that particular earth-tremor occurring with such precise convergence to, ostensibly, ‘coincide’ with the exact moment Jesus died, would surely be in the order of millions to one. That natural event should be proof enough of how terribly wrong His execution was, for even the Forces of Nature vented their anger and fury at the murder of The Son Of God: He Who once Commanded the same Forces of Nature to cease their ‘storm-work’ activity on the Sea of Galilee with the admonition: “Peace. Be still!”

As we have often stressed, such an injustice is not even accepted in earthly courts of law. If it were, imagine the outcry – from all of you especially. So why and how can human beings who proudly call themselves Christians [i.e., followers of, and believers in, Christ] accept a notion that such a thing would be acceptable to The Creator Himself : He Who is Perfect Love — but also Perfect Justice?

If you truly believe that such an aberrant tenet would be acceptable to The Almighty, then you must also logically accept the notion that the group of Roman soldiers who actually carried out His Crucifixion were blessed for all time, and would follow Jesus into heaven upon their death. And what about Judas? Why has sainthood not been conferred upon him? Surely he, too, must be included among the especially blessed – even before that particular group of Roman soldiers – for is he not the key player in this ridiculous and infantile scenario? 

If you yet still seriously believe such a thing, then do not hide behind 2,000 years of Earth-time to shield you from that most insidiously-evil event. Instead, have the inner courage to put yourselves in the place of the small group of executioners at His Crucifixion and actively take part in the murder of The One Whom you profess to believe in. Be part of that Roman squad on that terrible day that you nauseously commemorate so wrongly: Black Friday.

Help to lay the cruelly-tortured and bleeding body of The Son of God on that rough and splintered “cross of death”. Feel His blood spattering on your skin – for there are no niceties such as rubber gloves to protect your delicate hands. Next, take up the hammer. And with it, drive the nails through His hands into the wood of the crossbeam. Ensure, however, that you do it correctly so that the weight of His especial body will not tear His once-healing hands away from those terrible spikes when that dark, death-cross is raised.

And as you ‘drive those nails home’, remember to look into His dying, pain-wracked eyes and say to Him:

“I nail you to this cross because in my deed I prove my great Christian love for you because you came to die for me and my sins. Even though you have already suffered so much, I offer you yet more pain and torture. I know you will understand and will one day welcome me into your Kingdom because I have now proved my faith to you by helping you to die on this cross.”

How foolish a belief. How utterly absurd.

Such a belief is tantamount to idolatry of the worst kind, but self-idolatry – of human beings – and not of reverence and worship of The Most High or of He Who was and is a Part out of Him.

JESUS: The SON OF GOD; designated as both The Word Of God and The Love Of God; that is who you symbolically murder each time you tremulously “…thank ‘Him’ for dying for your sins”.

Even the words of The Bible – that especial Work which you hold up to the world as The Living Word Of God – condemns that terrible act in no uncertain terms. Peter, the Apostle designated by Jesus as “the rock” upon which His Teachings could be built, “tells it like it is”. After receiving “Power from On High” at Pentecost and speaking in the various dialects of the region, the crowd that had gathered accused the Apostles of being drunk. Peter countered with the following:

“Men of Israel! Listen to these statements: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man pointed out as from God by powers, and wonders, and signs, which God did through Him amongst you, as you yourselves know; having betrayed, you murdered Him by crucifixion through lawless hands...”   (Acts 2:22-23, Fenton. All emphases mine.)

Jesus himself gave the clearest and simplest indication of how this event should be viewed.  His noble prayer thus stands as an indictment against those who murdered Him then, and against those today who still very wrongly believe that His painful and brutal death on that Cross could somehow be sanctified and Divinely Blessed by An Almighty God as some kind of loving act of propitiatory sacrifice to cleanse the evil and sin of an undeserving humanity

The very words of the prayer itself stand in rightful accusation against such an evil distortion of the great and incomprehensible Love of The Creator.

“Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!”

Thus: They did the wrong thing.

 

BIBLE “MYSTERIES” EXPLAINED
Understanding “Global Societal Collapse” from The “Science” in The Bible
What Every Scientist, Bible Scholar and Ordinary Man Needs to Know!

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