The GospelIf a man dies whiles delivering the message of salvation, is it his message that saves, or his death (human sacrifice)?
If a man is martyred for his belief and propagation of truth, has his blood now taken the place of the truth itself?
Man is not born at enmity with God; no man is being punished by God for the sins of another; God is not holding some longstanding grudge with his creation that requires the death of his own son to forgive (how does that help the situation anyway) — the message of Christ must not be lost to error.
You have been told that the Son is in Heaven interceding on your behalf (because the Father gets so angry at our sins, only the Son can calm him down), but I tell you that it is not so. The God in whom all things consists does not throw tantrums or possess any of the childlike qualities that are so readily attributed with him.
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ should make known the extent to which the good shepherd is willing to go to minister mercy to even the most degenerate of his flock — his resurrection should forever make it plain that man is capable of survival in death.
Jesus himself has said that his words are spirit and life, and he must go to the Father so that the Spirit of Truth will come and reveal more truths (the truth that sets you free, freedom from the ignorance that hinders you from having a meaningful relationship with the Father, by which all life’s problems are inherently solved). To cite his blood as the source of your salvation is error. His disciples had been evangelizing and casting out demons long before he shed blood on the cross. He even went ahead to tell them to rejoice for their names were written in the book of life, and he wasn’t dead yet.
Paul in his over-zealousness had made many claims including wishing that all men be like him (celibate, imagine a world where all men were so holy and righteous they refuse to procreate), and further went as far as proclaiming the blood of Christ as that by which mankind is saved — the very reason why Christ admonished him to go back to his first love, salvation by the truth as revealed by Christ, and stop the unnecessary EMBELLISHMENTS which have become the foundation of the modern church.
All men are the sons of God, no man comes into existence except by the will of his father. God dwells in the heart of every man, and only requires their consent to start fathering them to perfection, a process by which their souls are regenerated making them partakers of the spiritual brotherhood of men, and the divine fatherhood of God.
Our journey starts from earth, and ends with God in paradise.
And when God’s will is done in our mortal bodies, then the fatherhood of God is said to be established on earth
— this is the gospel, and it needs to be preached to all men since men die looking for the very God who dwells within them.
Jesus often used “Kingdom” in place of “Fatherhood” since a kingdom was what the Jews were expecting. And this gospel was preached by Jesus himself in his day, but Paul just had to start a new religion based on “One man has sinned and so all men have sinned,” “Jesus is the second Adam,” a scheme which he supports with endless passages and yet makes no sense since God has stated that he detests human sacrifice, none of which is relevant to the gospel.
Christ’s gospel can be preached to men of all faiths and walks of life without having to convert them to Christianity or change their status in life. All that matters is the appeal of the gospel to the spirit of the Father who dwells in them.
There is “truth”, and then there is “scripture”. Your man-made theories no matter how “scripture proof”, are a waste of your own time and weariness to your own soul — seek truth.
References:
Romans 3:21–25
Deuteronomy 12:31; 18:10
Revelations 2
John 10:11
Matthew 6:10
Luke 17:21
John 6:63
Luke 10:20
John 3:16
Matthew 12:50
John 8:31–32
John 16:13
Matthew 18:10
1 Corinthians 7:5–7
Daniel 7:18