THE BIBLE: NOT A "MYSTERY," JUST COMMON SENSE

My recent award-winning book, The Christian Right... or Wrong?, presents a thorough and evenhanded exposition of the false teachings of instutionalized, or "corporate" Christianity. All the revelations of the Bible's Message of the Spirit are exhaustively proven through Scripture. For the sake of simplicity, the following commentary offers the "meat" of the Bible's Message without the scriptural references.
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THE BIBLE: NOT A "MYSTERY," JUST COMMON SENSE

The only "leap of faith" you need to make concerning the Bible is that God exists. It is not as easy as it sounds. "Believing" in God is not some mental construct that is made more "real" through candles or prayers or preachers or churches. God is the Invisible Spirit of Selfless Love that lives within the hearts, minds and souls of those who live to personify His Spirit.

True "belief" in God is living as a conduit of Selfless Love, especially in times of troubles. You can say you "believe" in God till your tongue falls out, but your "belief" shall mean nothing if have not lived to exemplify God's Spirit. Talk is cheap!

Jesus reveals that "all the law and the prophets" boils down to the First Commandment, which instructs us to love God with all our hearts, minds and souls. In order to love God (the Spirit of Selfless Love), we must live by Selfless Love instead of our own selfishness (jealousy, vengeance, intolerance, self-exaltation, blaming, etc.). We are repeatedly instructed to "overcome evil with good," or overcome our selfishness (self) with Selfless Love (God).

One of the few things that the world's Bible-believing Jews, Christians and Muslims all agree upon is "belief" in the Ten Commandments. If they all just followed the First Commandment, peace would reign among them, naturally. Those who follow the First will not break the rest.

Christians who claim that only "faith in Jesus Christ" leads to Heaven have missed the point. "Faith in Christ" is about personifying Selfless Love before all else. "Faith in Christ" is not about being a Christ-believing Christian who has membership somewhere in the worldly system of corporate Christianity.

"Faith in Christ" is a circumcision of the heart that is justified only by treading The Way of God's Spirit. Faith in Christ will never be justified through such worldly things as religious membership, formulaic prayers or idolatrous rituals. Faith in Christ is justified by our devotion to His Father's Spirit, no matter our religiosity (or lack of).

Christians who idolatrously worship Jesus Christ revere one particular Biblcal revelation, where we are told that Jesus Christ is the Savior for all who believe in Him. Christianity upholds this one revelation as the Bible's central truth, but they are deliberately short-sighted. It must be deliberate! After all, Jesus clearly reveals that some will confess belief in Him, but He will not know them, because they have denied God's Spirit. He also tells us that those who speak against Him shall not suffer the consequences of their sins and blasphemies if they remain true to God's Spirit.

Indeed, Salvation comes to those who "believe" in Jesus Christ. When interpreted by the Letter of the Law, "faith in Jesus" simply means being a Christ-believering Christian. Christian leaders are often heard referring to the world's Christians as "God's Children" and the "Kingdom of God" on Earth, and that only God's Children are "saved," or Heavenbound. By this monumentally selfish, incorrect reasoning, the world's non-Christians are all hellbound and collectively represent the "Kingdom of Satan" on Earth. When will this insanity stop?

When you understand Jesus Christ by the Spirit of the Law, you understand that He was the Mind and Spirit of God alive in the flesh, and is the Mind and Spirit of God alive in your flesh when you "believe" in Him, which is not about becoming a Christian and confessing, "I believe in Jesus as my personal Savior," but about personifying Selfless Love.

If the entirety of the Bible boils down to having "faith" in Christ, as many Christian leaders teach, then why does Jesus Himself tell us that it boils down to loving God (the Spirit of Selfless Love) with all your heart, soul and mind?

If being a Christ-believing Christian is the end-all to your Salvation, then why does Jesus Himself tell us that He'd rather we be heretics who exemplify God's Spirit (like the Good Samaritan) rather than "holy" religionists who deny God's Spirit (like many of history's popes and preachers)?

The Message is clear: God and Christ do not care about your worldly, dogmatic religiosity, but that you "walk" The Way of the Selfless, Good Spirit, living as a conduit of the very Power and Substance of God and Christ.

You can "choose" Christ all you want, but it is Christ who does the choosing in the end, and shall choose only those who have chosen His Father's Way of Selfless Love. God doesn't care if you call yourself a "Christ-believer" or define yourself as Catholic or Jew or Mormon or Muslim or whatever, because He knows you by your devotion to His Spirit.

It is extremely easy for people to speak of their love for God, but not live by God's Spirit. As far as Billy Graham is concerned, if you have "faith in Christ" you are already "saved," no matter your past, present or future sins. This commonly accepted, "central truth" of all Christianity is its biggest lie. It is a fundamental denial of scripture to teach that "faith in Christ" supersedes the personal responsibility of LIVING in the Spirit of God. This fundamental lie at the very heart of corporate Christianity makes for fundamentally-unfair religion.

Can we ever know just how many "Christians" have used God for political gain, financial gain and control over others? How many are sitting in prisons right now for terrible crimes? It stands to reason that somewhere around 82% of America's prison population is Christian, as America is reportedly around 82% Christian. Even criminals of most-heinous crimes have no need for such things as guilt, repentance or a Good Consicence, because big-business Christianity promises that they are all "saved" due to their "faith in Jesus."

If you truly "believe" in God, the Bible's revelations are just plain common sense. Life is about overcoming your selfishness with God's Selfless, Good Spirit. "As you sow, so shall you reap," which means that what we "build" in life shall be our "reward" in death. If you "build" Spirit, the Light of the Spirit shall be builded (magnified; glorified) within you, moving your soul towards Oneness with God, or Eternal Light. If you "build" selfishness (anti-Spirit; darkness), the darkness of the anti-Spirit shall "consume" your soul's Light, further separating your soul from God, towards Eternal Darkness.

God has already Judged. He has Judged by His Grace, which is His Righteous Justice ("as you sow, so shall you reap"). Without the Grace of God's Righteous Justice, there would be no way back to His Kingdom. A repentant, selfless life would account for nothing. God has already Judged, by His Righteous Justice. The rest is up to you.

The Bible's Message of the Spirit, or Spirit of the Law, is an instruction that can be summed up in three words: Be Unselfishly Good.