Friend - there was no Christian
Posted on: January 14, 2017 at 11:58:49 CT
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Christians are more the creation of Paul than Jesus who was a Jew Charismatic whose discipline led him beyond the confines of material gratification.
He said - if you want what I have - DO THIS. Take your staff and your staff only.
Jesus had NO connection, none, zero, zip to a "church". He tore down the "church", the temple in his case and was highly critical or a temple hierarchy seen in the Pharisees - who were hypocritically connected to the Temple AND conspiring with Roman occupiers.
This isn't about "if every Christian" - what would happen to charity. Jesus WAS charity. If he were around today he would live under an overpass with the homeless. It was about the individual - if YOU individually want what I, Jesus, have achieved do as I have done. Very similar instruction as put forth by Siddartha Gottama, the Buddha taught 600 years prior.
AGAIN - IF you want Spiritual Attainment - you give up material pursuits. Period. Do you think those who attain enlightenment are "poor". They are eternal. As are you, but you don't know it yet - too tied are you and me and nearly all of us to stuff.