It must be understood that the most important relationship in a person’s life is their relationship to themselves, not their relationship to God. This sounds blasphemous, but it is true. If a person is not right with him or her self they will project their wrong relationship to self onto everything in their life including their relationship to God. If a person doesn’t learn to control their lower self and negative ego then it will interpret life for the person.
This goes on in all areas of life including religion. The negative ego and lower self has been allowed to interpret the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. As Djwhal Khul has said in the Alice Bailey books, that Christ hasn’t failed, it is the "human element" which has prostituted the truth which he presented.
Djwhal goes on to say, in the Alice Bailey book, "Problems of Humanity", theology, dogma, doctrine, materialism, politics, and money have created a vast dark cloud between the churches and God. The two major factors which are responsible for the failure of the churches, according to Djwhal Khul, are:
1. Narrow theological interpretations of the scripture.
2. Material and political ambitions of clergy.
The teachings of traditional and fundamentalist Christianity are incredibly confused. These are well meaning good people who have accepted a false doctrine made up by ignorant men. Some of the misconceptions are as follows.
The first great misconception is that Jesus is the only son of God, and the rest of us lowly sinful worms. As we all know, every person on earth or any where else, is a son of God just as Jesus is. This is clearly what Jesus taught. There is no such thing as an original sin. Each of us is the eternal self, the Christ. In truth, we are on the earth to realize it.
Jesus, whom the Christian church makes out to be more special than everybody else, in truth was only a third degree initiate when he incarnated into earth and died on the cross as a fourth degree initiate. He did not ascend as the Christian church says.
The traditional Christian church has completely missed the fact that the Lord Maitreya, the planetary Christ, and head of the Great White Brotherhood, was overshadowing Jesus the last three years of his life. It was really Maitreya doing all the miracles. It was Lord Maitreya who ascended, not Jesus. Lord Maitreya was the realized Christ, not Jesus. Jesus was his instrument.
The traditional Christian church believes that Jesus was crucified to redeem man from sin. Man has no sin, only mistakes, and lessons, and his own personal karma that must be balanced. This is another total misconception. The "Course in Miracles" teaches that Jesus was crucified to teach an extreme lesson of love and forgiveness.
Jesus’ crucifixion does not take away our sins because first we have no "eternal stains on our character", secondly every person is responsible for his or her own personal karma and Jesus’ crucifixion did not lift that responsibility.
Traditional Christianity believes that if you accept Jesus as your personal savior, you are saved and will go to heaven and be with Jesus. Every one else will go to hell, which is a place of eternal damnation or actually "physically die" and be obliterated. This is an incredibly confused doctrine.
First off, there are many dimensions in God’s creation and accepting Jesus is not necessarily going to get you anywhere. Where you go when you die is the level of initiation you have obtained through your life on earth.
Accepting Jesus or going to church on Sunday doesn’t mean anything. It is what is in you heart and in your every thought, word and deed throughout your life that will determine your spiritual progress. Salvation is not up to God or Jesus. Your salvation is up to you.
God has given us everything. He always has and always will. It is we, on earth, who have separated ourselves from God through our own thinking. Each of us is the Christ, in truth. We are here on earth to demonstrate this truth.
We do not need a priest to serve as an intermediary to tell us how to interpret God’s word or the Bible. The traditional Christian church tells us that the Bible is written by God. That is completely false. The Bible was written by man. The Bible is mostly man’s interpretation of God, not God’s direct revelation.
It must also be understood that the Bible was written 2000 years ago and is outdated to a certain extent. The Bible is a fantastic book, however the real problem comes in who is "interpreting" it. The interpretation of the Christian church as to what the Bible says are incredibly confused, and distorted. They will come to your door and tell you it is right in the Bible. It is not right in the Bible, it is in their interpretation of the Bible.
It also must be understood that the people who ran the church would actually extract and cut out the things from the Bible that they didn’t like. An example of this is reincarnation. The bible used to be filled with references to reincarnation. In 505 AD. the Ecumenical Council made a decree to extract all references to reincarnation from the Bible. This is an "indisputable fact", for it is in the minutes of the meeting, which can be looked up in the appropriate historical reference book.
The traditional Christian church believes that anyone who disagrees with them is of the devil. First of all, there is no devil, there is only glamour, maya, and illusion.
Secondly, this belief is just a product of their incredible self righteousness. They actually believe that the Bible and teachings of Jesus is the only path to God. All other religions and spiritual Masters, such as Buddha, Krishna, Sai Baba, Hinduism, Judaism, the Islamic faith are all of the devil.
They say they follow the teachings of Jesus who clearly preached unconditional love. Yet this group is one of the most conditionally love, judgmental, intolerant, attacking, self righteous, group of people on planet earth. Their religion is based on fear and guilt. Anything that goes wrong, they believe, is God punishing you.
This, of course, is complete illusion, because God doesn’t create our reality, we do. This is just a convenient tool and weapon of the church higher-ups to control the people. They actually make God out to be judg-mental, attacking, and angry, much like the Old Testament God of ancient Judaism. If you don’t do what the church says you are destined for hell fire and eternal damnation.
They make the spiritual path out to be a path of suffering, and teach people to be martyrs. The spiritual path, in truth, is a path of boundless joy, and one of balance. The church teaches a type of conditional immortality. This means, do what the church says or you will die. This is absurd because all people are immortal. Death is a complete impossibility, regardless of one’s level of evolution. Hell is not a place of eternal damnation. It is a place and state of consciousness that can be evolved out of.
Another abhorrent teaching of the traditional Christian church is how they teach their followers to proselytize. They are taught to lay their trip on other people and not respect the beliefs or space of other people.
They believe in a last judgment where Christ or God judges everyone and decides if you will be obliterated, go to hell, or go to heaven. This is totally absurd. God and Christ are incapable of judgment by definition. The only judgment, or really spiritual discernment, is done by ourselves.
If we haven’t learned our lessons then we will have to reincarnate again and come back to school. The church has no recognition of this fact or the fact that Jesus has had many incarnations which are listed in my first book in the chapter, "Untold Story of Jesus the Christ".
Another thing the Christian church has conveniently failed to mention is the fact that Jesus studied Eastern religion, Buddhism, and was initiated in the great pyramid of Egypt.
They also have purposely hid the manuscripts telling of His life as an "Essene". All these manuscripts are in the Vatican secret libraries, but the general public will never see them because it would destroy the foundation of the entire church if it ever got out.
The fundamentalist Christian church is incredibly judgmental and intolerant. Their views on homosexuality and abortion are two indications of this. On abortion they confuse the physical body with incarnated personality who is just inhabiting the body. On homosexuality, Jesus taught unconditional love and non-judgmentalness, and the fundamentalist Christian church practice neither.
The traditional Christian churches have formulated a body of doctrine which Jesus and the Lord Maitreya know nothing about. They have created an actual tomb, for true Christian teachings.
The Christian church, over the last 200 years, has been militant, fanatical, and grossly materialistic. Look at the crusades, as one striking example. Look at the fanaticism of the pro life group. The churches have been more interested in making beautiful, ornate, glamorous churches than in helping the poor. The money they gather supports a powerful Ecclesiastical hierarchy.
In the Catholic church, the views of the Pope are seen as infallible, which is clearly absurd when you look at some of the bizarre teachings of the Catholic church. Catholics aren’t supposed to use condoms of practice birth control which is one example.
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