The Future For Us

 

We have spent some time now in this space debunking some of the myths promoted by the church for centuries:

The Bible is not the word of God. It has been written by a number of writers, some of whom are still unknown. None of their original writings exist anymore. All we have are copies of copies of copies with or without accidental and deliberate errors.

God is not a supernatural being outside the universe who created it and everything in it and who controls everything going on even today. God is the product of these ancient writers’ collective imagination. Humans are story-telling people. The Bible is their stories.

Jesus is not God. He was a man, a Jew with a new and revolutionary interpretation of the ancient writings. He did not die for our sins. He did not come back from the dead and he is not going to come back again.  There were no shepherds, angels or wise men. There were poor people, though. His birth was good news for them. People with power and wealth, on the other hand, felt threatened by his many followers and had him killed. 

There was no actual resurrection. People do not come back from the dead. Some do tend to live on in the memories of the people they encountered in life. Sometimes their impact is felt well beyond their physical presence. Jesus was such a man. We’re still talking about him today. Some try their best to follow his teachings, but he is not going to come back. The hope we have is that if enough of us were to follow his teaching a real manifestation of the Kingdom of God, the Garden of Eden, will be restored.

There are no miracles. Mary was not a virgin, but a woman who had a child outside of wedlock just like some women today. Miracles do not make the blind see and the lame walk. Proper healthcare does.

Does that mean we are no longer Christians - unbelievers? Lots of people still cling to these old teachings that are no longer relevant. For them, we are heathens and heretics. We may even deserve nothing but hellfire. There may still even be some learned pastors who believe it, but some don’t. They may have believed it once, but no longer. Yet, they continue to teach it. After all, they need the job. One church found it necessary to write “must believe in God” in its job post for a new pastor. Clearly, personal belief in the old concept of God is no longer a given among pastors. 

We are the true believers. In a sense, we have to go back to his original teachings in order to go forward.