I just had a rather eye opening conversation with a co-worker, She says that Christianity is the True religion because it is the religion taught in the bible....this is my first time hearing someone say this. I have been reading and studying the bible for a little over a year now (read it through twice) and not once did I see anything about Christianity being given as a religion by the Most High or his son....where did she get this idea from?
What was the Messiah's mission? Was he sent to us to start a new religion in his fathers name? Or was he simply an example like I have come to believe? Does anyone else believe as my co-worker does?
Any and all opinions are welcomed.
The mission of Jesus Christ was not to start a new religion but to inaugurate a new human consciousness. He announced his good news with one statement: the kingdom of God is at hand, repent. It has two aspects: objective and subjective. Objectively it reveals that God is everywhere and everyone and everything is in God. Subjectively it means that ultimately human consciousness is one with the divine consciousness. It does not become another God but it comes from God and returns to God as the piece of ice comes comes from the water and returns to water. It is a spirituality based on God and not on religion. In the spirituality based on religion, first comes religion, second comes God as understood by that religion and third come human beings who have to worship God in that religion. In this sense religion is greater than human beings.
In the spirituality based on the kingdom of God, first comes God who is greater than religions and human beings; second come human beings who are greater than religions and third come religions which are meant to be at the service of human beings. In this sense human beings are greater than religions. Jesus invited people to transcend the spirituality based on religion to the spirituality on God or the kingdom of God.
There are four important principles in the teaching of Christ: first there is only one God(monotheism). Creation and human beings are manifestations of God(not creatures of God). Human beings are manifested in the image and likeness of God and they have possibility to realize their oneness with God. The purpose of human existence is to realize oneness with God and manifest divine attributes of love and compassion in human relationships.
The kingdom of God is growing from the individual consciousness to the divine consciousness. Jesus said:the kingdom of is like a mustard seed.It is smallest of all seeds but when it grows it becomes so big that the birds of the air will come and their make nests in it.
It means we need to grow from the individual consciousness to the collective consciousness, from the collective to the universal,from the universal to the divine. If we use the analogy of a tree: a leaf represents individual consciousness; a branch represents collective consciousness(religions); a trunk represents universal consciousness and the roots represent the divine consciousness. We need to grow from leaf consciousness to the roots and finally realize being the whole tree: there is only one tree, one truth,one life and one way, the way of the tree. This is not a religion but a way of life. Hence the mission of Jesus was not to reform a religion,not to start a new religion but to inaugurate a new human consciousness that is able to say: I am the way, the truth and the life( Let us remember the tree). That 'I' is the whole tree which embraces different levels of truth. Unfortunately and understandably Christians have created another religion(another branch) in the name of Jesus and fragmented the wholeness of Truth that Jesus experienced and invited people to realize or experience it.
