Jesus may have walked the earth. Jesus may have been a teacher. But Jesus did not write the words that you are reading out of that book.
Those words were written well after his death… they were written by people who *may* have (definitely) had something to gain from writing them… then they were transcribed by others who *may* have had something to gain from transcribing them.
Jesus was NOT all sunshine and rainbows. Even in the bible… sometimes, his actions contradicted his words… he definitely JUDGED others…he CURSED others… and was kind of a loose cannon.
The biggest hoax that I think comes from the bible and its interpreters is that Jesus was somehow better than you. …That Jesus was God and you are not.
It’s cool to take the teachings of Jesus seriously. It’s even cool to live your life that way if that’s how you feel it would be best for you. But truth is not just in a book. Truth comes from experience. It comes from flashes of intuition (from god, if that’s what you think). When you try to put truth into words, it gets diluted.
You can experience limitless joy… but to have any kind of “beliefs” is to live in chains. Believing that you have it all figured out is arrogance… even if you dress it up with pseudo-humility. Life is mysterious. Enjoy the experience without any preconceived notions of “truth”.
