7 Bullet points - Xtianity missed the Mark

So far I have found 7 major 'bullet points' where Xtianity has missed the mark.

• Jesus is GOD
• Jesus came to die
• Inferred, from present Christian understanding, that God is a psychopath (made a test - You fail You die)
• Everlasting hell (punishment has no purpose)
• Satan will be destroyed (therefore God cannot be Absolute)
• God can do anything He likes (wrong understanding of AllPowerful/ Almighty)
• God will save us from Satan (we 'mankind' invited Satan in - not God)

Xtianity being shorthand for Crosstianity: my new term for Christians who have missed the fundamental purpose of Christ

This is out of love for my brothers and sisters who are in danger of being told, by Christ, "I never knew You, depart from me you evil doers!" (Matthew 7:21-23)

Xtians also say that Rev Moon declared that Jesus failed his primary mission BUT Jesus did not fail (at all) - the then Chosen People failed to connect with Jesus (as the Word made flesh) Had they really connected with Jesus then how could they have even thought about Jesus having to be killed . . .(as the perfect sacrifice)

Let's get started.

Bullet Point 1:  Jesus is God - misses the Mark

The same could have been said about Adam had he not fallen - Adam is God. After all Adam was created in the image of God. The unfallen Adam who grew to maturity would have been the substantial image of God. The children of the unfallen Adam and Eve who reached maturity would have 'seen' the image of God in their parents. This is why Jesus said, "Believe in me" before he started trying to explain through parables and metaphor. This essentially is what parents should do; become role models for their children; not so much in what they say, but in what they do.

St. Paul was inspired when he equated Jesus with Adam. As by one man all died, so by one man, Jesus, all could be brought back to life. (Rom 5) and called Jesus 'the last Adam' in 1 Cor. 15:45.

So, Jesus is the Adam who got victory whereas the first Adam who fell became the fallen parent. The first Adam became the temple of Satan whereas Jesus became the temple of God. This is why I believe that 1 Corinthians 3:16 sums up Christ, and the purpose of Creation, much more than the usually quoted John 3:16.

Jesus in accomplishing what Adam failed to do became, for the first time, the 'Word' made flesh. The relationship that God (our Heavenly Father) was supposed to have with Humankind is similar to the relationship between the mind and body in a fully mature person like Jesus. Because Jesus became 'Word made Flesh' he could be said to be God. Just as someone could look at You (your body) and say that they've seen you.

But your body is not actually 'You' as you will find out when 'You' die.

Although there are many Bible verses which seem to show that Jesus is God there are two which patently don't. One is the prayer that Jesus made in the Garden of Gethsemane where he entreated God to take away the cup of death, but, then concluded his prayer with, "but, not as I will but as You will." The other is, of course, Jesus' cry from the cross, "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?"

Just as with the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, who needed a proper response and attitude to the commandment that God gave forbidding them to eat of the 'fruit'. That is, whatever clever words the archangel used to entice disobedience, could be shut off by holding fast to that commandment. So also the then chosen people needed a proper response with respect to Jesus who is perfectly aligned with God (Word made Flesh) to believe in him. This is why Jesus' reply to disciples asking, "what they should do to be doing the work of God" was answered by Jesus telling them to, "believe in the one whom God had sent."

Jesus being the true Adam also makes sense of the words of Jesus encouraging us to, "Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt. 5:48) and also when he said that you will do better things than he has done (Jn. 14:12)

If Jesus really is God then it would be like trying to emulate, or copy, Superman, who came from another planet and had superpowers. That doesn't make logical sense.

Nathan Hale, an America patriot, is reported to have said, as he was about to be executed, that he regretted that he had but one life to give for his country. Jesus being the Son of God cannot be any less that any of the great men who have given their lives for the sake of noble causes. The prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane has been misunderstood as Jesus displaying a human weakness and fear of death. This is an affront to Jesus who was looking for a way to fulfill his primary mission of bringing the Kingdom of Heaven by fulfilling his role as true Adam and, by extension, true parent. The then chosen people refusing to believe in Jesus as one sent by God conspired to have him killed and so the restoration was spiritual only. Jesus prayed the way he did as he knew this, and that Christians who followed him would also necessarily have to go the way of death too. This is why the history of Christianity has been one of martyrdom. And why the re-birth from  Jesus and the Holy Spirit to Christian parents cannot be passed on to their progeny.

This is why Christ has to come a 2nd time. And why the 2nd Coming of Christ cannot be in a supernatural way but born on the earth as was Jesus. This is also why it says in the Bible that he will come with a New Name. (Rev. 2:17; 3;12)

Thinking that Jesus is God will lead to an expectation of a supernatural Last Days and to completely missing the real LSA (Lord of the 2nd Advent) All mankind became estranged from God through the terrible event of the Fall of the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, who became false (fallen) parents - it makes a lot of sense, therefore, that our expectations should be focused on a true Adam and Eve as True Parents. The True Adam (LSA) will restore his bride as a reversal of the Fall.

There are 'basic points' towards the bottom of the Home page of this website that are putting a different take on the same Bible content that will open up a whole new understanding of the entire Bible. 

We are living in the time of the veritable Last Days right now and we need to have the right understanding to formulate an appropriate strategy. Bear in mind that we do have a portion of responsibility with which even God cannot interfere as a unavoidable by-product of having been created in the image of God.

Looking forward to hearing your critique and comments. We should be able to reason together, right?

How Bullet point 2 misses the Mark next week

Andrew and Marie Derricutt