Jesus

The speaker asserts that Christianity is centered on sun worship, with Jesus symbolizing intellectual and spiritual enlightenment.

Jesus is a symbolic representation of the sun, symbolizing intellectual and spiritual enlightenment."

Speaker: "The Bible says Jesus said, 'You have eyes that do not see, and you listen with your ears, but you do not hear, and with your heart, you do not get the sense of it.' This reflects how people reject truth and persecute those who educate, just as Jesus was persecuted."

Speaker: "Jesus said, 'Forgive them, father, for they know not what they do.' This applies today.

The speakers discuss how Jesus’ teachings were misinterpreted due to translation errors, shifting focus from empowerment to obedience.

Paul Wallace: "Jesus’ first sermon, according to the Gospel of Matthew, is, 'Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.' People interpret repent as stopping bad behavior and fear of divine judgment.

Paul Wallace: "In the Gospel of Thomas and Matthew, Jesus says, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' This means the cosmic realm is inside you.

The New Testament story of Jesus is an encoded metaphor, not history, akin to Aesop’s Fables, which teach moral lessons through symbolic stories.

Like the tortoise and hare story teaching humility over arrogance, the Jesus narrative encodes philosophical truths.

Jesus’s teaching, “by their fruits you shall know them,” emphasizes evaluating people by actions, not words.

Jesus embodies the sun in Christian narratives, with symbols like the crown of thorns representing solar rays, as seen on the Statue of Liberty.

Scriptural phrases like “the son of righteousness will arise” (Malachi 4:2) and “God is a consuming fire” (Deuteronomy, Hebrews) equate Jesus with the sun, residing in the heavens and bringing light and truth.

This mirrors Christian teachings of Jesus sacrificing his life, as the sun’s energy depletion ensures earthly existence.

These reflect the 12 zodiac signs or months, with Jesus’s 12 apostles symbolizing this cycle.

Biblical stories of Jesus teaching in the temple at 12 reflect the sun’s peak in the heavenly temple.

The Last Supper painting depicts Jesus with 12 apostles in four groups, symbolizing the 12 zodiac signs or months divided into the four seasons, reinforcing the solar narrative.

Jesus’s death at Golgotha, the “place of the skull,” symbolizes rejecting truth in one’s mind, accompanied by regret and fear.

This myth connects to biblical references, like women weeping for Tamuz (Damuzi) in Ezekiel 8 and the three-day motif in Jonah and Jesus’s resurrection narratives.

"In not understanding Jesus in the full capacity of his expression, then many people who purport to understand him or purport to believe in him actually have no understanding of the fact that he was presenting both a male and a female aspect in the Mary of the Magdalene."

Some born-again Christians reject metaphysical ideas, misunderstanding the teachings of Jesus.

Political alterations to Jesus' words have obscured their original meaning.

Jesus represented a balance of male and female energies, alongside Mary Magdalene, his chief disciple.

He offers the idea that Jesus could be the son of Gabriel and Mary, and says he lost his work with a Catholic publisher after he spoke in public.

He says Jesus could be the son of Gabriel and Mary, and he stresses that this is a possibility only.

He says the New Testament never uses the name Yahweh for God, and that Jesus kept his distance from that figure.

He says Yahweh's acts, such as the 70,000 deaths after David's army count, do not match the God Jesus taught about.

He points out that Jesus and the New Testament writers never call God Yahweh.

Jesus and Yahweh: a deliberate misunderstanding

neither Jesus nor anyone who writes for him ever uses the word Yahweh as a word for God.

Does that sound anything like the character of God as Jesus portrays God?

So how is it that for the best part of 2000 years, Christianity has run with the idea that the Yahweh character in the Hebrew scriptures is a portrayal of God, and that that is the God that Jesus worshiped?

Now let's be honest: does that sound anything like the character of God as Jesus describes God in the Gospels?

That is nothing like the qualities of God revealed by Jesus and those who wrote for him in the New Testament.

And how is it that Christianity, for the best part of 2000 years, has run with the idea that the Yahweh character of the Hebrew scriptures is a portrayal of God, and that that is the God that Jesus worshiped?

And that Yahweh was not a portrayal of God and was certainly not the God whom Jesus called Father.

By the time Jesus came on the scene, Yahweh was being used as the holy name for God; it was the name for the Jewish God.

And yet, when you read the teaching of Jesus in the Gospels and referred to in the New Testament, Jesus never once uses the name Yahweh, and neither does anyone who writes for him.

In fact, Jesus distances himself from the Yahweh character.

Here Jesus is addressing the leaders of the Jewish people.

Jesus answered: "If God were your father, you would love me, since I have my origin in God and have come from him.

On another occasion, Jesus completely mocks the idea that Yahweh could be considered any kind of father.

Now, "father" was the language that Jesus used to address God.

And Jesus addresses Theos as "Abba," as Father.

Here Jesus is describing a scenario that was very familiar to his Jewish hearers.

And Jesus in Matthew 7 and Luke 11 says: "What kind of father would treat his children like that?" He makes a mockery of the Yahweh stories as if they were depictions of the God whom he called Father.

Now, when Jesus spoke disparagingly of Yahweh, he was speaking in the tradition of ancient Judaism.

So when Jesus speaks slightingly of Yahweh and rejects his laws, he is speaking in the tradition of primitive Judaism.

Yet in the early church, it was unclear whether Jesus really had repudiated the laws of Yahweh.

It took a while for the idea to bed down that Jesus really had rejected Yahwism and repudiated Yahweh's laws.

Jesus said: "Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law of the prophets.

But then there's another time frame: "until everything has been fulfilled." And the apostolic writers are very clear that Jesus came to fulfill the law—that means to complete it, and that means completed action.

But you can see why there was a little bit of ambiguity there and why it took a while for the apostolic leaders and the early church fathers to work out that Jesus really had repudiated the law.

Now there are many occasions when this seemed to be the implication, because Jesus was saying: "Moses said this, but I say this.

Could Jesus really be saying that the moment was coming when we can completely forget about Yahweh and all his laws and move on to something better?

Because many people from outside of Judaism, outside of the Jewish faith, were following Jesus, and the apostles had to get their heads around what this meant.

And they came to a decision at the end of this council, chaired by Jesus's brother James.

They could only have reached that conclusion if they'd been absolutely clear that Jesus had put clear blue water between what he was on about and what Yahwism was all about.

But they were clear: Jesus had fulfilled—put an end to—the era of Yahweh.

Acts 15 is a very clear repudiation of Yahweh's law, because the apostles understood: Jesus never spoke in Yahweh's name; he never used the name Yahweh.

But Jesus is now saying: my God and Father—what I'm talking about—is something new to you.

John 14:8: Philip said to Jesus, "Lord, show us the Father, and then we should be satisfied." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and still you do not know me?

Of course, this echoes what Jesus had told the Jewish leaders in John 8, where he said: "You don't know me and you don't know my Father." So there is a dis-equation of Yahweh and the Father of Jesus.

Early church fathers regarded Stoicism and Plato in particular as a useful preparation for Jesus.

Justin Martyr put it very clearly: he said that the Yahwist laws and the prophetic tradition of Judaism was the preparation for the Jewish people for what Jesus was on about.

And that he had been prepared for Jesus through Stoicism and through being a student of Plato.

And I think if the early church had followed the logic of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Marcion, we would have had an Old Testament of Plato and a New Testament of Jesus in the apostolic writings.

The problem with gluing them together is that it sends the signal that this God whom we call Yahweh is the same God whom Jesus worshiped and taught about.

When I go to the teachings of Jesus, I see a great difference.

Yahweh was all about: "You worship me and nobody else because I'm a jealous God." And Jesus said: "I didn't come to be served; I came to help you."

Yahweh believes that he can micromanage us to the point of telling us what we can eat and not eat, whereas in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus declares all foods clean.

Yahweh is unforgiving and will not be reasoned with, and Jesus says: "Your sins are forgiven."

Now contrast that with what Jesus says, because in his first message that he toured with for a year—according to the Gospel of Matthew—Jesus not only encourages us to use our own minds, but he says: "Go beyond the mind"—the root meaning says this: "go beyond the mind because the whole cosmic realm is available to you." That's the Kingdom of Heaven: the whole cosmic realm is available to you.

And Jesus here is saying: "Explore what's possible.

In my book The Eden Conspiracy, I show how Yahwism and what Jesus was on about are two completely different things.

Jesus didn't teach Yahwism; he didn't talk about Yahweh; and he certainly didn't worship him.

And Jesus wanted us to know what it is to be free from that kind of tyrannical leadership, free from that kind of colonization, enjoying our own power and our own ability to explore the cosmos and what that might mean for you and me.

Yahweh came for slaves; Jesus came to set the prisoners free, so that you and I could have a better human experience.

Abke says the teachings of Jesus were changed over the centuries and that the four gospels, read alone, show a Jesus who taught love, mercy and keeping the commandments.

He describes the Nazarenes and Essenes as the movement Jesus came from, and says Mary Magdalene was probably his partner and was written out of the story.

Abke says Jesus never taught that God needs blood to forgive sins, and points to his words on love, mercy and the commandments.

He says the Nazarenes were an Essene type of Jewish group that Jesus belonged to, and that the Gnostics and the Nazarenes were later pushed out.

He says Mary Magdalene was probably Jesus's partner and that Jesus probably had a child, and gives it as his guess.

He cites the Talpiot tomb and a Tibetan scroll quoted by Nicholas Notovich as clues about Jesus's family and the missing years.

He says the Crusades turned Jesus into a symbol of war, and that the second coming means a return to his message.

Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus)

Jesus never taught about God needing blood to forgive people.

He says Jesus asked for mercy and not for sacrifice.

If I had to bet, yeah, I think Jesus probably did have a child.

He answers Sandhu's question about descendants of Jesus.

if anyone's interested in knowing about what Jesus did in the missing years, you absolutely have to read it

I think that Jesus is coming back in the sense of a return to his way and his message.

This culminated in the baptism in the Jordan, when Christ entered into the body of Jesus of Nazareth.