Spirituality
instead of Religion
Why didn't Jesus
of Nazareth write down documents, teachings or gospels or let them write down,
so that it could be delivered really identically onto future generations?
Wasn't it at all times already like that, that one could falsify documents? And
why should one not be able to falsify the teaching statements of the gospels?
One has it to sufficiently done.
And if it is
today maintained that God would have protected the "purity of his
statements", then is that a pious desire, but not fact, because God leaves
also the free will to the counterfeiter.
Because God
respects the free will of each human - humans could make otherwise no errors -
so God new that one could change his revelation and later the recordings. For this
reason God selected a method, which could not be affected by any
counterfeiter.
Jesus himself
did not write down anything for this reason, because he disclosed the chance to
each successor that he will speak directly with him in his Inner Word, if he
joins himself completely with him and accepted him in his inner being.
Jesus pointed
out how he understood the word: "I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me". Therefore it means in John
5:19 "the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his
Father doing, because what ever the Father does the Son also does.
John 5:37
"And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have
never heard his voice nor seen his form,
John 5:38 nor
does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent".
John 14:10
"The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father,
living in me, who is doing his
work".
14:13 "And
I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father".
14:14 „You may
ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it".
14:15 „If you
love me, you will do what I command".
14:16 „I will
ask the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, the Spirit of truth,
to be with you for ever".
14:17 „The world
cannot accept this counsellor, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and
will be in you.
14:18 „I will
not leave you as orphans; I will come to you". (In the Inner word)
14:21 „Whoever
has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me
will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to
him".
14:23 "If
anyone loves me, he will obey my teachings. My Father will love him, and we
will come to him and make our home with him". (By the Inner Word)
14:26 "But
the Counsellor, the holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will
teach you all things and will remind
you of everything I have said to you".
If the Holy
Spirit will thus provide for ("He will teach you all things and will
remind you of everything I have said to you"), than this states clearly
that the successors of his teachings don't need to read in books, because they
are reminded by his Inner Voice of everything what is necessary and important
for them in any situation. Jesus never said: "Did you note everything that
these statements may not get lost?" That is also not necessary, when the
Holy Spirit is reminding his teachers and his further prophets of everything
what Jesus has taught.
From this can be
recognized that it wasn't the will of God that documents are produced because
those ones intellectuals and letters-people want to read only the words and
calm their curiosity and think: "I know it, now therefore I am a
Christian":
With this body
of thoughts, which originated primarily from the church-teachers, very soon two
ways already could be recognized: the inner way of the truth (II Peter) and the
outer way -which from the beginning already didn't get along without ceremonies
and rites - built up an outer "available" church.
John 15:7
"If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and
it will be given you".
John 15:26
"When the Counsellor comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the
Spirit of truth who goes out from the
Father, he will testify about me;
John 15:27 but
you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning."
John 16:12
"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.
John 16:13 But
when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only
what he hears, and he will tell you what jet to come is.
John 16:14 He
will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you."
These passages
are words of Jesus during his teaching activities and the proof why Jesus did
not want a letter-church, but all his disciples and successors should be led by
the Inner Word and experience personally the wisdom of God. They are wonderful
words of the promise that we are not left alone and left to become orphans.
Jesus did surely
not only meant his disciples at that time, because he suggested how he wants to
lead his future communities in the world: by the assistance of the Holy Spirit.
Only on this way
the Holy Spirit took and will take from
the teachings of Jesus and will lead the communities, which are on "His
Way", according to the word Jesus
(John 14:6): "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me." This paragraph "except through me"
means: in the inner being, by the Inner Word, in which he himself acts and is
presented, and not by an outer church.
It was not at
all the will of Christ that his teachings were written down and that the
writings should be considered as source of the truth. If it would have been his
will that his teachings were laid down in writing, then he would have expressed
this clearly.
It became a book
in which everyone looks for the proofs for his teachings and also finds it.
There are today
some hundred Christian religious communities. All differ in any faith
teachings. Nevertheless all rely themselves on the New Testament, to proof
their deviating teachings. Should the omniscient and all-wise God have intended
a book for the pure source of the truth in which everybody finds its
mistakes. It would be a blasphemy also
only to think this.
Mahatma Gandhi
liked to declare himself as a disciple of Jesus but not as Christian.
"Disciple of Jesus is a spiritual matter. To be a Christian is in the
conventional meaning a thing of a religion", he said.
