 |
the divinity of Jesus
"Jesus' flesh is the tangible manifestation of God
in and for this world
and the visible way to reach the mystery of God." -
Jon Sobrino Jesus the Liberator One of the biggest problems
with mainstream Christianity is the
insistence on the necessity of believing
that Jesus is God descended so one may
attain heaven.
Many
myths from and before that period of
time that Jesus walked speak of the gods descending
to Earth in the form of a human.
There are also
myths
that speak of virgin birth.
Any one who has any understanding of the Catholic religion should
understand that wherever the Catholics have gone as missionaries they have
taken local gods and added them to their pantheon as saints.
This is a
clever way to get the followers of other gods to also worship your god.
The divinity of Jesus is a
problem in that it takes the emphasis off of the living Christ.
Common
Christian belief is that
Jesus died for all
mankind's sins.
Therefore
Jesus was
selfless.
Jesus lived and died for us, not for
himself.
When the major concern becomes whether or not you
believe that Jesus is a deity, as that
belief is your key to heaven, then you have totally missed the point that
Jesus was trying to make.
If you
are worried about going to
heaven then you are concerned with yourself which
is not selfless.
Jesus asks us
to love our neighbor as
ourselves for two reasons:
1) If we are as concerned with what
happens to our neighbor as much as we are concerned about ourselves then we are
not likely to commit acts of aggression,
2) If we treat others with
respect then that respect will be reflected back to us (by civilized
individuals) making our lives more enjoyable and fulfilling. (This is the intelligent
objective way to live.)
Most people do not realize that the
behavioral disorders - lack of manners or failure to conform to the perceived
social norm - perceived in others is a reflection of the behavioral disorders
others see in them.
Jesus set out
a blueprint for mankind to
create heaven on
Earth.
Of
Jesus' words
and Jesus' life we truly know very
little as anyone who has ever experienced
life will
understand that a
word's definition may change over time, that in the
act of translation words that do not mean what was intended by the author
are substituted (change the word
fear in the King James Version of the Bible
to awe, which it should be, and you have an
entirely different book), that men will corrupt
scripture (try to get someone to write anything without, meaning to or not,
changing the nuance or putting their own spin on it), that men make
mistakes, that men that have
con-vinced themselves that things are a certain way
will be emotionally crushed when they realize they have been mistaken and
that men that have a vested interest in the status quo of
existing institutions are not likely to give up
their position easily (the position of Pope was a purchased position during the
Dark Ages and was, perhaps, the main reason those ages lingered as
wealth corrupts
-remember Matthew 6:24).
Mahavira To liberate one's self,
Mahavira taught the necessity of right
faith (samyak-darshana), right
knowledge (samyak-gyana), and right
conduct (samyak-charitra').
Aneka-ntava-da is one of the most
important and basic doctrines of Jainism - the principle of
pluralism.
According to aneka-ntava-da, truth and reality are
perceived differently from different
points of view, and no single point of view is the complete truth.
Jains compare attempts
to explain absolute truth with adhgajanya-yah, or the maxim of the "blind men
and an elephant".
In this parable,
one man felt the trunk of an elephant, another the tusks, another the ears,
another the tail. All the blind men believed they understood the true entire
appearance of the elephant, and yet, due to their narrow perspectives they only
understood a small portion of the elephant.
This principle is more formally
stated by observing that objects are infinite in their qualities and modes of
existence, so they cannot be completely grasped in all aspects and
manifestations by finite human perception.
The historic origins of
aneka-ntava-da can be traced back to the teachings of Ma-havi-ra, the 24th Jain
Tirthankara.
The dialectical concepts of
sya-dva-da (conditioned
viewpoints) and nayava-da (partial
viewpoints) arose from aneka-ntava-da, providing
it with more detailed logical structure and
expression.
The Sanskrit compound an-eka-anta-va-da literally means
"doctrine of non-exclusivity"; it is translated as "skepticism" or
"non-absolutism".
An-eka-nta "uncertainty, non-exclusivity" is the
opposite of eka-nta (eka+anta) "exclusiveness, absoluteness,
necessity".
Aneka-ntava-da encourages its adherents to consider the
views and beliefs of their rivals and opposing
parties.
Proponents of anekantva-da apply this principle to
religion and philosophy, reminding themselves that any
religion and philosophy, even
Jainism, that clings too
dogmatically to its own tenets, is committing an
error based on its
limited point of view.
The
principle of aneka-ntava-da influenced Mahatma Gandhi's principles of
religious tolerance. |
|
 |
This web site is not a commercial web site and
is presented for educational purposes only.
This website defines a new religious
ideology to which its author adheres. The author feels that the falsification
of reality outside personal experience has created a populace unable to discern
propaganda from reality and that this has been done purposefully by an
international corporate cartel through their agents who wish to foist a corrupt
version of reality on the human race. Religious intolerance occurs when any
group refuses to tolerate religious practices, religious beliefs or persons due
to their religious ideology. This web site marks the founding of the religion
aptly named The Truth of the Way of Life - a rational religion based on reason
which requires no leap of faith, accepts no tithes, has no supreme leader, no
church buildings and in which each and every individual is encouraged to
develop a personal relation with God through the pursuit of the knowledge of
reality in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the
human spirit. The tenets of The Truth of the Way of Life are spelled out in
detail on this web site by the author. Violent acts against individuals due to
their religious beliefs in America is considered a “hate
crime.”
This web site in no way condones violence. To the contrary
the intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the
international corporate cartels desire to control the human race. The
international corporate cartel already controls the world central banking
system, mass media worldwide, the industrial military entertainment complex of
America and is responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of
self-centered behavior and the destruction of global ecosystems. Civilization
is based on cooperation. Cooperation does not occur at the point of a
gun.
American social mores and values have declined precipitously over
the last century as the corrupt international cartel has garnered more and more
power. This power rests in the ability to deceive the populace in general
through mass media by pressing emotional buttons which have been preprogrammed
into the population through prior mass media psychological operations. The
results have been the destruction of the family and the destruction of social
structures that do not adhere to the corrupt international elites vision of a
perfect world. Through distraction and coercion the direction of thought of the
bulk of the population has been directed toward solutions proposed by the
corrupt international elite that further consolidates their power and which
further their purposes.
All views and opinions presented on this web
site are the views and opinions of individual human men and women that, through
their writings, showed the capacity for intelligent, reasonable, rational,
insightful and unpopular thought. All factual information presented on this web
site is believed to be true and accurate and is presented as originally
presented in print media which may or may not have originally presented the
facts truthfully. Opinion and thoughts have been adapted, edited, corrected,
redacted, combined, added to, re-edited and re-corrected as nearly all opinion
and thought has been throughout time but has been done so in the spirit of the
original writer with the intent of making his or her thoughts and opinions
clearer and relevant to the reader in the present time.
Fair Use Notice
This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has
not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making
such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of criminal
justice, human rights, political, economic, democratic, scientific, and social
justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such
copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the United States
Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on
this site is distributed without
profit to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research
and educational purposes. For more information see:
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted
material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you
must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
 Copyright
© Lawrence Turner
All Rights Reserved
|