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Christians - Metaphorical understanding of Christianity

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posted on Aug, 14 2013 @ 11:32 PM
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The problem and error (imo) with Christian theory is that it excludes others from being God and puts God in one thing, Christ, to the exclusion of others.

That is a fundamental metaphysical error and impossibility, for the Christ archetype is in ALL of us, not just the itinerant preacher running around Jerusalem 2 millennium ago.

God is in everything, of everything, and around everything, Christ or Jesus, Isa, whatever, is one of the spiritual (knowledge’s) or paths to God; it is not the only one.

That’s the basic error of Christianity, its exclusiveness, in my opinion.
Islam is also burdened with the same issue, sectarian exclusiveness, though it is more open than Christianity, doctrinally.

This has happened because of the fact that these religions, like all religions (but these two more than most) have become dominated by the clerics. Present day Islam and Christianity are clerical institutions that have little to do with the founders of these faiths.

Originally Christianity was only a Jewish sect led by Jesus’ brother James until Paul came and created what led to the Catholic version that the Emperor Constantine at the council of Nicea ordered that all other versions of the Jesus sect except the Catholic Pauline version be persecuted.



posted on Aug, 14 2013 @ 11:42 PM
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I respect the op, but it is difficult to change one belief system for another unless it is an inclusion of both rather than excluding one for another.

In other words one can exclude the error filled doctrinal problem with Christian theory with a truer understanding of Christ and then add on what the op is offering, some form of Vedanta science without totally rejecting the Christian theory but altering it to say a more unified message that is closer to what the real Jesus taught.

The teachings of James Jesus’ brother taught a pure esoteric spiritual monotheism that for 2 thousand years the western adepts have been trying to recover.

They won’t accept the dispensation of Islam (the correction of false doctrinal Christianity) because of religious politics, though many have taken rather than Islam the Sufi alternative, which is a viable option.



 
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