Finding Jesus w/o Christianity
He is The Christ. What does that mean?
He is the Annointed One, God incarnate - He is God offering up Himself as a Sacrifice that atones for all of Humankind, forgives all sin and breaks every barrier between the Humans and Creator. All humans. No if's and but's. Are you a human? You're included, regardless of any other characteristic attached to you.
Many people talk of "salvation for all" but there's all fine print in the contract. Jesus never stopped anyone from coming to Him with fine print. He saw every human soul as the object of His love. "For God so loved the world..."
He is not Christian.
Ok, but is He Jewish, then? (We desperately try to label Him so we can fit Him into a man-made box).
He was raised as Jewish (one of it's many brands found around Canaan back 2000 years ago, born in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, raised in another Palestinian town of Nazareth.)
And while He was raised Jewish, He was also Jew - being Jewish and a Jew are not the same. The former speaks of a religion; the latter a subset of the Israelite ethnicity, the tribe of Judah.
But Jesus was not Teaching Judaism, nor did He teach Christianity. In fact, He did not come to install any religion. (Nor did He ever favor one race or nation above another, for that matter!)
One of His sayings that people use to erroneously think He does, is one where He says He came to fulfill the Hebrew Scriptures, not abolish its teachings. (Undoubtedly, numerous Hebrew Scriptures prophetically depict Jesus and His Sacrifice on the Cross so amazingly).
The reason He had to specifically say that He didn't intend to abolish the Hebrew Scriptures was because His teachings were so alien to the Jewish (religious) mindset. Few of His contemporaries had ever been able to understand from their own Scriptures that God wanted to enter into a Covenant not just exclusively with the sons of Israel, but all human kind, that Righteousness was something Jesus' sacrifice would make available to all (regardless of whether they followed Jewish or other religious laws and edicts).
So no. He was neither Christian, neither Jewish, nor any other religion.
And that brings us to whether we can find Jesus in other religions. My answer: Jesus can be found in EVERY religion. You just have to look. It's not the laws, but the heart of any one; those who seek, will find.
In this blog, I speak about the Aum, the 786 and hidden things in the Aum that pertain to Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Islam also echoes the Gospel's words in calling Jesus "the Word of God" (in Arabic Kalamat Allah كلمة الله ). Not even many Christians of our times understand this; they think the Bible Scriptures, the written word is Supreme - at least they behave that way - and the One Word of God, Jesus - is secondary or subsequent to the Bible.
Dispersed throughout every religion, the ancient and forgotten alike, are echoes of God becoming Man (I.e. Humankind, female and male, all peoples, all colors). For example, the Brahmans, a priestly Hindu caste, have Vedic Scriptures that speak of this (God becoming Man and Sacrifice for all Mankind) which adds to the theory that the Brahmans are descendants of Abraham's other sons from Keturah (who I think is really Hagar) his second wife.
But the specifics are not so important and are going to be debatable, if not massively controversial.
So let me get personal. It doesn't matter what religion or denomination YOU find yourself referring to yourself at this moment. It might be any, it doesn't matter.
Jesus does not belong to any religion. Religions all stake their claim to the Creator. Instead, we all belong to Him. And those who seek Him, find Him.
Are you here because you seek Him?
Then go and find Him. In your heart, within your being, beyond just your intellectual arguments or the religious beliefs you were taught and/or embraced, beyond your atheistic precepts, or woke neo-religious ideals...
Beyond all that you already know. So why bother yourself with this blog if you already know? ; )
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