Theological Science*and Jesus Christ, III
My study concluded that Jesus is not God. He was just another human being who was murdered because his teachings were too new. But he became a great thinker and communicator of his time. In the thirty years that we have no knowledge of Jesus, I conclude that he lived mostly in Greece where he could study the Greek works of Plato, Aristotle, and others. But many of Jesus' teaching are beyond the works of Plato et al. So, like many other great thinkers, I conclude that the Spirit of Jesus developed abnormally. This development explains his brilliant mental and communication abilities to teach new ideas that the Jews never heard before. At John 14:12, Jesus tells us that his knowledge is not completed. Unfortunately, the new ideas of Jesus led to the belief that Jesus is God. Jesus’ ideas also gave the Mormon, Joseph Smith, the wrong belief that Jesus’ knowledge was completed. The Eastern Christian Church is developing the correct belief about Jesus.
Scriptures are important. The Bible combines the ideas of great thinkers whose thoughts appear in the Old and New Testaments. But the Bible and Qur an do not contain words of God. God can exchanges information with us but cannot communicate with us as we do with each other. Scriptures are only history books that record the ideas of great thinkers. These great thinkers can be called ‘prophets’ or ‘little gods’ because their ideas are predictive or as I say in my book, appear to be of a divine origin.
Western Christians must open their minds to the life of Jesus in Greece. A few ideas might help. At John 10:30, Jesus says, ‘I and my Father are one.’ In his Parmenides, Plato (427-347 BC) shows that ‘one’ without ‘others’ has no existence. If one applies the concept ‘one’ to a monotheistic God, God and his infinite world was never without a lower world. At John 14:20, Jesus says,’At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.’ These words repeat the words of Anaxagoras (500-428 BC): each thing is in each thing.
* Theological science unifies scientific thoughts with people’s thoughts about God.
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