Mainstream image of Jesus presented by the churches

Jesus is residing in a remote heaven, and he apparently has had nothing to say to humankind for 2,000 years. No new revelation has been forthcoming (or at least hasn't been accepted by any mainstream church).

Jesus is portrayed as being perfect, which actually means that he is pictured as a non-entity with no personality or human characteristics. This is peculiar because Jesus went out of his way to portray himself as a human being like us, generally calling himself the "son of man" to establish a connection between himself and all people. He also said that "The kingdom of God is within you," meaning that we do not need an external church and its hierarchy in order to establish a personal connection to Christ. And most importantly, he said that we can do the works that he did, even greater works.

Jesus talked about the "broad way that leads to destruction" and the "straight and narrow way that leads to eternal life." He also said that most people follow the former and few find the latter.

Most Christians believe that they follow the "straight and narrow," but this is a superficial viewpoint, because in practice they follow the outer way, the way, the world.

The true requirement for entering the kingdom of God, Jesus said is within, but what is that which is within? It is one’s state of consciousness. Thus, the true key to entering the kingdom is to raise ones consciousness and transcend the lower state which Jesus called "death" and be reborn of the Spirit (Jesus told Nicodemus that a man can't enter into the kingdom of God without being born of the spirit). Thereby, our sense of identity as a body, mind beings needs to be replaced with the realization that we are spiritual beings, or to become Christ like.

Jesus repeatedly calls people on the external path hypocrites, and might it be possible that he would call most modern Christians hypocrites as well? Might it be possible that Jesus would call most Christian leaders, blind leaders leading the blind? After all, most Christian churches do in fact teach only an external path to a guaranteed salvation. Just follow the outer requirements and you don't have to look at the beam in your own eye and change your consciousness.

Why do so many people even some who call themselves Christians and think they are guaranteed to be saved, reject Christ?

Christ is first and foremost the principle of change, a demonstration of the need for change. Yet what is it that needs to change? It is one’s state of consciousness.

Most people on this planet have sunk into a state of consciousness that is far below their true potential. Jesus and the Living Christ in manifestations comes into embodiment in order to demonstrate that all human beings have a much higher potential than by what they are living now. Jesus referred to not living up the potential, a state of spiritual death (separation of the soul from God) which leads to a tendency of a downward spiral from which it can be very difficult to break out. The reason is simple. If one has grown up around people who are all in this lower state of consciousness, how can one know, that there is anything beyond it? That is precisely why the Living Christ comes to earth—to demonstrate that there is something beyond the "normal" human state of consciousness.

The state of spiritual death has a tendency to become comfortable, because it is possible to see oneself as a victim who does not have the power to take responsibility for life, nor does he have the power to change society for the better, so why not just follow the blind leaders of the power elite.

Most people are so comfortable in their state of spiritual death that they do not want to be disturbed. When Jesus was put on trial, the mob was asked whether they wanted to free the Living Christ or a confessed murderer. They chose Barabbas because he was in the same state of consciousness as they themselves were and Jesus was in such a higher state of consciousness that was a threat to their sense of comfort and equilibrium. People and churches need to get out of their comfort zone and renew their understanding of the teachings of the Universal Christ, the intelligence in all of matter.

The core of Jesus' universal teaching is that membership of an outer religion or any outer actions is NOT sufficient to secure entry into a higher world (call it what you will). The ONLY way to rise to a higher world is to raise one’s own consciousness.

When Jesus said "no man cometh to the father but by me" he did not refer to his historical person, nor did he refer to an exclusivist religion that claims to represent him. He was referring directly to a state of consciousness that one might call higher consciousness, enlightenment, cosmic consciousness, God or Christ consciousness.

This universal state of consciousness is what the Gospel of John refers to as the Word, but the correct translation is the LOGOS. This Logos is the basic state of consciousness that God created before God started to create the world of form. Therefore, everything is created out of the Christ consciousness. The purpose of the Christ consciousness is to ensure oneness between the Creator and its creation.

“The Christian concept of the Logos is derived from the first chapter of the Gospel of John.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

(It could be argued, that the translation ‘he’ from Creek to English is not correct. Creek has masculine, feminine and neuter. Word correctly translated would be ‘it’. Since English does not have genders, Word was translated to ‘he’.

John also explicitly identifies the Logos with Jesus:

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'"

 (Christians who profess belief in the Trinity often consider John 1:1 to be a central text in their belief that Jesus is God, in connection with the idea that the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are equals. As theologian Frank Stagg writes:

As the Logos, Jesus Christ is God in self-revelation (Light) and redemption (Life). He is God to the extent that he can be present to man and knowable to man. The Logos is God,[John 1:1] ... Yet the Logos is in some sense distinguishable from God, for "the Logos was with God."[John 1:1] God and the Logos are not two beings, and yet they are also not simply identical. ... The Logos is God active in creation, revelation, and redemption”.

God had planned to create self-aware extensions of itself. Human beings with free will are some of them. God knew that this made it possible for man to descend into a state of consciousness in which he could forget his origin as extensions of God's own Being. Man could come to see himself as separated from God instead of seeing God within himself.

Once one has descended into this state of "spiritual death, or separation from God," his only way out is the Christ consciousness. Jesus and all other true spiritual teachers came as an example to show us our true potential. Yet it is only when we individually put on the mind of Christ that we will escape the consciousness of separation and secure our access to the kingdom of God that is within us.

 

The real message of Jesus is that we too have the potential, an inherent potential given to us by God, a potential that no power on earth can take away from us (unless we let it) to manifest the Christ consciousness.