Bigger Than Jesus of Nazareth!

While I am bent on following Jesus, the man from Nazareth, I also realize that what He was pointing to was a WAY (John 14:6) that was much bigger than even His mortal life here on earth. He was properly proclaimed the CHRIST! My Jesus (as this web site is partially called) became who He said I could become, if I would but FOLLOW HIM. And it’s such a tragedy that the church isn’t teaching us that as well. Here’s what I’m saying, or trying to.

There’s a cosmic background here, a cosmology, much like Matthew Fox spoke of (which got him ex-communicated from the Catholic church), that we’re all a part of. We are ONE with the Spirit of God, the Creator of ALL whether we understand that or not. We don’t even have to believe it. It is what it is regardless of your personal belief system.

So much for your ego!

I grew up with the stories about how Satan entered this world and did bad things, but God sent His Son from heaven to come down here on earth to save us, redeem us, and offer us eternal life- IF! You fill in the blanks on what all those IF’S might be, even if there’s only one. What this does is give to the world outside of church life (and for many struggling with it all within church life), a false and misleading concept of a supernatural invasion. This parody that I grew up with (much akin to Batman and Robin) wherein God takes this space-trip, dressed up as a man, known as Jesus, that we might see the “Godhead”.

I’ve seen Jesus, so I’ve seen God’s true representative!

More realistic is that we see in a MAN (Jesus) the true reality of who WE are to BE. And, that puts a lot of the responsibility for living life on US. Who the hell wants that! Who? No one. Who wants the responsibility to have a relationship with God, the Father? Let’s just set up some moral laws, throw in a few creeds, and add some denominational beliefs and there you have it. Just BELIEVE in those things and you ARE IN BABY!

The early phrase that was attested to was “totus in nostris” or wholly one of us”; which meant in his origin as well as his nature. And what that means is that I really do have someone I can follow- all the way to eternal bliss. Jesus, who became bigger than life- the Christ!