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Jesus's teachings vs Christianity, Melissa nails it. [1]

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Date: 2025-03-09

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[M]ost Christians are so obsessed with what happens in the afterlife that they're completely overlooking that Jesus taught about what we do here and now, and that this world is worth saving. We're not just going to get out of here so we don't have to experience the consequences of our actions. Just let the world burn? No. We're supposed to save this world through love. We're responsible for what happens here and we have the ability to create a beautiful loving world and that's what Jesus expects us to do…

The other thing that I want to point out is how modern day Christianity reads the Bible as a flat text. The belief that the Bible is inerrant is what is causing all of this confusion to begin with. … And what happens when you do that is people legitimately cannot see that the message that Jesus preached was very very different than what Paul preached. Because most Christians are not looking at the Bible to say what did Jesus actually say. They cannot divorce the words of Jesus from the words of Paul or the words of Moses or Joshua. It all has to be taken on the same level and so you have to make Jesus's words make sense with Paul's words...

Till Christians can actually come back to the teachings of Christ and be honest about what the teachings of Christ actually were I will not call myself a Christian. .. Let’s get back to the teachings of Jesus about God being a loving father, forgiveness being free, changing the world through keeping the Commandments of Love.

Jesus's teachings vs Christianity, can YOU tell the difference? Melissa Nails it in under 5 minutes:

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Decoding the Lost Sheep

Once again we don't see any sacrifice being needed in order to rescue the lost sheep. We also don't see any question in the parable that the lost sheep will be brought home. I mean it just highlights how ridiculous the teaching of Christianity is that most of the sheep are going to be eternally lost burning in Hell forever. We don't see that anywhere in the Parables of Jesus. Okay so if Jesus didn't say any of these teachings of Christianity that people are going to be tormented in Hell forever, that God needs a blood sacrifice to forgive sin, that God is so holy he can't look upon sin. Keeping the law of God, the Ten Commandments cannot save us. It’s only faith in Jesus's blood sacrifice that can save us. if Jesus never said any of these things then where did they come from? It's a good question. Let's dive in and take a look. Let's start with the idea that God cannot look upon sin. Where did that come from? Well interestingly that comes from the Old Testament.

Is God too Holy to Look Upon Sin?

The main passage where this doctrine emerges is Habakkuk 1:13 where the Prophet says your eyes are too pure to look on evil you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? So this passage is not even close to coming out of the mouth of Jesus. It's an Old Testament passage which doesn't discount its importance, necessarily, but it has to be taken in context. Like are we putting the prophet Habakkuk on the same level as Jesus and modeling to us what the character of God is? And also Habakkuk seems to be asking kind of a rhetorical question. Like he asks why are you tolerating wickedness and evil. I thought that your eyes were too pure to look upon evil, but clearly they're not because you have unending patience with people. All right that was an easy one. Let’s move on. Where did this idea that God needs a blood sacrifice to forgive Sin comes from?

Where the Doctrine of Blood Sacrifice Came From

This actually comes from the book of Hebrews. And we actually don't know, Scholars do not know who wrote the book of Hebrews. But it definitely gives us a college level course on why God needs blood sacrifice to forgive sin. It's all laid out in the book of Hebrews. Some Scholars think that maybe an associate of Paul like Barnabas wrote it. Some Scholars think that Apollo wrote it. Apollo was an early Christian teacher that incorporated Greek thought into his message. But regardless here's the verse: Hebrews 9:22: without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. And this is being said in context of how blood sacrifice was required by the Jewish law, and how Jesus is now come to be the final blood sacrifice for sin, which was the view of the author of Hebrews and we don't even know who this was. So why are we putting the words of the author of Hebrews into the mouth of Jesus when Jesus never said anything like this? What about this idea of Jesus specifically as the final blood sacrifice for sin? Well this theology comes from Paul.

How About JESUS as the Final Blood Sacrifice?

I'm going to read you a few quotations and every single one of them is from Paul Romans 3:25: God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through the shedding of blood to be received by faith. Romans 5:9: since we have now been justified by his blood how much more shall we be saved from God's Wrath through him. 1 Corinthians 57: for Christ Our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed. Ephesians 1:7: in him we have Redemption through his blood the Forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace. Colossians 1:20: and through him to reconcile to himself all things whether things on earth or things in Heaven by making peace through his blood shed on the cross.

To this doctrine of blood sacrifice Jesus as the final blood sacrifice to forgive sin 100% came from Paul. Who most Christians put Paul basically on the same level as Jesus because his words are in the Bible. So they have to be inspired by Jesus right?

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Who Said we Had to Have Faith in Jesus's Sacrifice?

Christians will point to the Gospel of John where Jesus says all throughout the Gospel of John believe in me believe in me believe in me. But what Christians do is they read the blood sacrifice into those passages and they assume that Jesus is saying believe in my blood sacrifice my atoning death and Resurrection for the Forgiveness of your sins even though those words never came out of his mouth. Believe in me means: trust me follow me do what I say, and Jesus says over and over those who believe in me obey my commandments. So I think the phrase believe in me to Jesus, if he actually said that, because John is not accepted as a historically accurate account of Jesus's life, it was just written way too late, and it's also so different from the synoptic gospels. However if Jesus said this phrase believe in me like he does in the Gospel of John it clearly meant something very different to him than it means to modern day Christianity. In the writings of Paul we find the idea of having faith in Jesus's blood sacrifice. Romans 3:22: the righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. Romans 3:28: for we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. I'll just give you a couple because we read all these already. Galatians 2:16: a person is not justified by The Works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And when Paul is talking if you go read his entire books he is talking about faith in Jesus's blood sacrifice. So again this Doctrine came entirely from Paul.

And finally where do we get the idea that we have to confess Jesus as Lord and believe in his resurrection in order to enter eternal life? Well I’ll give you one guess it comes from Paul. There's only one verse in the Bible that I could find and granted I did not do an exhaustive search but the one verse that I could find that talks about this is Romans 10:9-10: if you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are Justified and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Okay that's Paul's version of salvation. But we didn't see any of that in the mouth of Jesus. J was asked what must I do to inherit eternal life. He said keep the Commandments. When Jesus shared what we must do to receive forgiveness from God it was forgive others. So if Jesus never said any of these things that modern day Christianity puts into his mouth. what did he actually say?

The Four Points of Jesus's True Gospel

What was Jesus's actual gospel? Well based on the five parables that we read today and many more that you can find especially throughout the synoptic gospels. I can see four easy elements of Jesus's gospel. Number one God is a loving father who views all of us as his children and all lost Sons lost sheep lost souls with infinite love and mercy and forgiveness and kindness. He comes running to us. He seeks us and he never shuts us out of his heart. Two forgiveness is free. It does not require payment. if it requires payment as a side note that's vengeance not forgiveness. As soon as we repent meaning we recognize that what we did is wrong and we turn our heart away from it and turn our heart back towards the love of God and throw ourselves at God's forgiving nature we are forgiven. No sacrifice no payment necessary. Definitely not a brutal blood sacrifice.

Three, we must forgive others to receive forgiveness. The one thing that can prevent us from receiving the Forgiveness that is offered to us is the refusal to forgive others it's because giving and receiving are the same thing. You can't close off your heart to something and refuse to give it and then expect to be able to receive. It through that barrier giving and receiving must flow freely metaphysically they're the same thing because if we are all one like Jesus seemed to teach in the parable of the sheep and goats. If we see ourselves in everyone else and we refuse to offer forgiveness to our brother who is another version of us, to our sister who is another version of Jesus another version of us then we're literally refusing to give forgiveness to ourselves when we were refuse to give it to others.

And fourth, we must keep the Commandments in order to inherit eternal life or as Christians would say to be saved. Jesus went asked instructed people to keep the Ten Commandments which he summarized as: love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. So he instructed people to keep the law of love to inherit eternal life or as Christians would say to receive salvation. But Salvation from what? Clearly not hell in the afterlife but Salvation from suffering oppression and Injustice. When we treat each other as we want to be treated the world will be a loving place where all people can thrive and suffering will end. It really is very simple.

But most Christians are so obsessed with what happens in the afterlife that they're completely overlooking that Jesus taught about what we do here and now and that this world is worth saving. We're not just going to get out of here so we don't have to experience the consequences of our actions. Just let the world burn? No. We're supposed to save this world through love. We're responsible for what happens here and we have the ability to create a beautiful loving world and that's what Jesus expects us to do.

Two Important Reminders

There are a couple more points I want to make before we go. There is absolutely nothing resembling remotely resembling blood sacrifice in the teachings of Jesus. No matter how you twist it it is not there.. And we've seen how ridiculous and horrible it is to read the modern-day teaching of blood sacrifice Into the Parables of Jesus. In fact Jesus quotes Hosea and says, I desire Mercy not sacrifice. And there is evidence which we've touched on in previous videos, that one of the reasons Jesus came or the reasons he saw for his mission, was to abolish the violent bloody sacrificial system that God had never required. But that's a drill for another day. The point that I want to make today is that blood sacrifice is actually a demonic practice. It is a Dark Twisted horrible demonic practice.

On my podcast over the last couple of years I have interviewed people who were sold into trafficking rings as children and witnessed what these demonic Cults were doing. And one of the main practices that they perform is blood sacrifice whether of animal or human. Most of us today in the modern world would easily say of course blood sacrifice is demonic. you know that's cultish that's disgusting. Who would ever partake in that anymore? like we know it's a very dark twisted thing. And yet in the largest religion in the world Christianity people believe that God requires human sacrifice in order to forgive sin. It's such an old world view that for the most part we've evolved past this idea that blood sacrifice is in any way a good thing. but yet we still believe that that's what God needs in order to forgive us because we're so bad that God has to perform this demonic ritual cult act. I just really truly hope that this video helps to open some people's eyes to how messed up this is. You don't have to continue thinking and believing this way. you can move past this. We need to move past this.

The other thing that I want to point out is how modern day Christianity reads the Bible as a flat text. The belief that the Bible is inerrant is what is causing all of this confusion to begin with. Because when you believe that every word of the Bible is inspired by God, I mean in the circles that I ran in in Christianity they actually belied that Jesus was the Living Word and the Bible was the written word. And what that means is that the Bible's basically Jesus in written form. So every word in the Bible was inspired by Jesus and that means that we put Paul and the author of Hebrews and the author of Habakkuk on the same level as Jesus. And what happens when you do that is people legitimately cannot see that the message that Jesus preached was very very different than what Paul preached. Because most Christians are not looking at the Bible to say what did Jesus actually say. They cannot divorce the words of Jesus from the words of Paul or the words of Moses or Joshua. It all has to be taken on the same level and so you have to make Jesus's words make sense with Paul's words.

And so then when you read Jesus You're basically like for instance let's take any one of these Parables let's say the parable of forgiveness when Peter asked Jesus how many times must you forgive your brother and I read into the Christian idea that God can't forgive sin without a blood sacrifice. But Christians read Paul into that and don't even realize they're doing it because the way that they read it is you can forgive your brother 77 times only because I already gave payment for their sins. But Jesus doesn't say that. and if that was the case don't you think Jesus would have said that how ridiculous for him to just not say that to the people he was talking to because in a few decades here Paul's going to be writing letters and so people will know the truth. Come on guys.

Till Christians can actually come back to the teachings of Christ and be honest about what the teachings of Christ actually were I will not call myself a Christian. I'm a follower of Jesus I'm a follower of the way. I'm a Mystic I'm a Divine Seeker there's many terms that I'm comfortable with but I will not call myself a Christian as long as Christianity is following the blood sacrifice Cult of Paul. Let’s get back to the teachings of Jesus about God being a loving father, forgiveness being free, changing the world through keeping the Commandments of Love.

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