Many modern folks in the Western world are quite done with Christianity but yet many people retain special feelings for the teachings of Jesus.
However, the teachings of Jesus as found in the New Testament are not the teachings of the original Yeshua, but the teachings of the largely mythical Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ in the New Testament is a cleverly constructed projection of Christian beliefs.
Despite the heavy corruption of the original words of Yeshua, their original can somehow still be extracted from the New Testament by carefully looking at the two versions of the gospel stories in gMatthew and gLuke by sifting away the editing done by Christians revealing the original words in their original pre-Christian context.
One of the best illustrations of what happened in the huge shift from the teachings of Yeshua to Christian teachings is what happened to this important saying of Yeshua:
Original words of Yeshua:
Q 17: 20b-21 / Luke 17: 20b-21 = Matthew 24: 26
20b The Rule of God does not come by observation [‘parateresos’]. 21 They should not say: “He can be observed in the wilderness, nor in the inner, secret chambers (of temples) [‘tameiois’]. For the Rule of God is within you! [‘entos humon’].
Christian edited end-products:
Luke 17: 20-37
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the Rule of God should come, he answered them and said, The Rule of God cometh not with observation.
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the Rule of God is within you.
22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see [it].
23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after [them], nor follow [them].
24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one [part] under heaven, shineth unto the other [part] under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two [women] shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body [is], thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Matthew 24: 26, 23, 26-27, 37-39, 40-41, 28
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
37 But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
You can clearly see how the Christian authors made up a lot of stuff which they based loosely on things they read in their Jewish scriptures as well as on some other sayings they may have found in Q-lite (and aLuke also based it on what he read in the version already made in gMatthew).
The central mystic idea in the original saying has been abandoned and exchanged for the Christian obsession with the expected return of Christ Jesus. The Rule of God has been changed from something to be found through mystical practices inside the mind of the individual disciple into to some mythical future rewarding event when Jesus returns to judge everyone collectively at the same time.
So the big shift is from the original esoteric teachings of Yeshua to the largely mythical exoteric teachings of Christianity.
The shift is most clear in this one edited saying but can of course be seen throughout the editing of Q-lite in gLuke and gMatthew.
Once you've seen it, you can no longer 'unsee' it.
However, the teachings of Jesus as found in the New Testament are not the teachings of the original Yeshua, but the teachings of the largely mythical Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ in the New Testament is a cleverly constructed projection of Christian beliefs.
Despite the heavy corruption of the original words of Yeshua, their original can somehow still be extracted from the New Testament by carefully looking at the two versions of the gospel stories in gMatthew and gLuke by sifting away the editing done by Christians revealing the original words in their original pre-Christian context.
One of the best illustrations of what happened in the huge shift from the teachings of Yeshua to Christian teachings is what happened to this important saying of Yeshua:
Original words of Yeshua:
Q 17: 20b-21 / Luke 17: 20b-21 = Matthew 24: 26
20b The Rule of God does not come by observation [‘parateresos’]. 21 They should not say: “He can be observed in the wilderness, nor in the inner, secret chambers (of temples) [‘tameiois’]. For the Rule of God is within you! [‘entos humon’].
Christian edited end-products:
Luke 17: 20-37
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the Rule of God should come, he answered them and said, The Rule of God cometh not with observation.
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the Rule of God is within you.
22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see [it].
23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after [them], nor follow [them].
24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one [part] under heaven, shineth unto the other [part] under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two [women] shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body [is], thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Matthew 24: 26, 23, 26-27, 37-39, 40-41, 28
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
37 But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
You can clearly see how the Christian authors made up a lot of stuff which they based loosely on things they read in their Jewish scriptures as well as on some other sayings they may have found in Q-lite (and aLuke also based it on what he read in the version already made in gMatthew).
The central mystic idea in the original saying has been abandoned and exchanged for the Christian obsession with the expected return of Christ Jesus. The Rule of God has been changed from something to be found through mystical practices inside the mind of the individual disciple into to some mythical future rewarding event when Jesus returns to judge everyone collectively at the same time.
So the big shift is from the original esoteric teachings of Yeshua to the largely mythical exoteric teachings of Christianity.
The shift is most clear in this one edited saying but can of course be seen throughout the editing of Q-lite in gLuke and gMatthew.
Once you've seen it, you can no longer 'unsee' it.
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