Meditation for December 22nd, 2016
Why Jesus?
As we approach Christmas, we focus more on the story of Jesus Christ’s birth in a manger in on gospel, but in Nazareth in three other gospels. Christians are very convinced that Jesus came to guide us to salvation by dying for our sins.
God created man, and ever since Adam and Eve are peaches and understanding right from wrong, or the beginning of sin, and God became confused by man’s actions.
At first God was angry by man’s zany decision making. He began to test them, and if they failed, God would punish them. He killed, maimed and cursed whole family lineages in response to the fearful lives of humans.
Then God realized that it just wasn’t going to get better, so he floods the earth to start over. Minutes after the water recedes God is already upset with Noah and his family.
Then came a long period of God being depressed. He created this world and made man, but he just can’t understand how man keeps fucking everything up.
See the problem with God is he is omnipotent. He is literally perfect. Man is flawed, and God made them that way because he only wanted these animals to look like him.
God came up with a brilliant plan. He would come to earth and become born as a normal human.
Now he walked the earth acting like a know-it-all blow hard trying to correct all the mistakes the religious were committing in his name.
Did God feel loneliness? Did he feel the anguishing uncertainty that he is realizing his true potential? Did he have a hard time grasping what reality is? Did God, as a human, do anything that he regretted and would sometimes not sleep because he kept reliving that mistake? Did he truly understand what it was like to be human?
If the scripture is to believed, Jesus lived pretty clean. He only pointed out other people mistakes and preached love and tolerance. He saw that man was misunderstanding what a relationship should look like between mortals and God.
So the mortals killed him. They didn’t just murder him, they execute him by nailing him to a cross.
Did God learn what he needed? Well, he has left us alone since then. The universe keeps getting bigger and bigger, and our existence keeps getting more and more threatened.
He is just going to let man kill themselves off naturally and he will come back and start over.