Sabbath Sermon: "Frequently Asked Questions about the 'Thomas Immortality Project' ”

Notes to readers: The following is a Sabbath Sermon composed under the inspiration of the Spirit of Truth on February 15, 2016. It is to be meditated upon on God’s Holy Day, before sunset Friday to after Sundown Saturday. All citations are from The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus by Marvin Meyer.

 

1. What’s the big deal about The Gospel of Thomas?

The text’s 114 sayings is the only text in existence of Jesus’ original sayings.

 

2. What about the Gospels?

They are a collection of invented stories combined with true accounts which uses a sayings book like Thomas called “Q.” The church fathers destroyed all the original documents, including Thomas which was rediscovered in 1945.

 

3. What is the central message in Thomas?

Physical Immortality is the union with God and is available as the immortal words of Jesus are read and meditated upon.

 

4. What are some key teachings of Jesus in Thomas ?

 

1. Salvation Is Now! There is no afterlife—either we become immortal now or it’s never going to happen…

 

1. The Shift Into Immortality Is Being Connected To God Alone!  In the present stage, all humans are connected to each other. Through this connection people are told to love each other. This is a teaching of darkness; humans are not to love one another, but are to be connected to God alone at the level of Truth Consciousness.
   
   

5. What is Truth Consciousness?

It is a level of being in which there are deeper openings through the Spirit of Truth to God’s presence: Joy, praise, healing and insights.

6.How might I activate Truth Consciousness?

The seeking is the finding. When we seek God’s Truth we change through the process of seeking. Thomas assures us this process of seeking and finding leads to salvation: “Let one who seeks not stop seeking until one finds. When one finds, one is troubled. When one is troubled, one will marvel and will rule over all” (Gospel of Thomas, sayings 2).

 

7. Is it advisable for people to go to church?

Absolutely Not! The churches accept documents, the Canon Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—which are fraudulent. Because the Christian Churches are based on these false documents, their teachings are also false.

 

8. Does Thomas teach a literal resurrection?

Yes. The Jesus movement was to be led by Jesus’ brother, James, after Jesus’ Resurrection (Gospel of Thomas, sayings 12). Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead on the third day as Paul accurately records in I Corinthians 15. The risen Jesus was seen by about 500 people.

 

9. How should we study Thomas?

Because Thomas is the only text which contains Jesus’ original words, we should prayerfully invite the Spirit of Truth to guide us. As one reads, there are many levels of understanding: Literal, Spiritual, and Union of Word and Spirit. The goal is Physical Immortality—physical and spiritual union with God—so that we can return to our original state before time began.

Sabbath Sermon: “The Resurrection: Victory Over Death!”

Notes to Readers: The following sermon was composed under the inspiration of the Spirit of Truth on February 11, 2016. It is intended to be meditated upon on God’s Holy Day, Friday before sunset until Saturday until after Sundown. All citations come from Marvin Meyer’s translation, The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus.

God told the Devil: “Now that humans know how to return to their original state before creation began, the Kingdom of Heaven—Physical Immortality—will be recreated.” The Devil replied: “No Problem. I’ll just help humans organize the Truth Jesus Revealed!”

Indeed, when we study the original message of Jesus as shared in The Gospel of Thomas we cannot find any of the major church doctrines. Two examples of changes:

1. Changing God’s Holy Day from the 7^th day to the First Day.

 

2. Changing Jesus’ direct message to be born twice—of the physical birth and to be born from above (Gospel of Thomas, sayings 22)---to Paul’s Greek mythology that “Christ died for your sins.”

 

In this sermon, a moment is taken to look at Paul’s atonement doctrine which he exported from Greek myths (“gods dying to save humanity” myth) and introduced it to a loosely connected group of ragtag followers of Jesus, led by his brother, James. Paul, the founder of Christianity, organized this original group into churches by linking Jewish doctrines such as the Passover to the newly created Christian ones; e.g., the lambs sacrificed in Egypt as the “Passover” would now be spiritualized as a Christian doctrine in which Jesus is the Lamb of the world. The invented doctrine is called “atonement.”

Once the church fathers were able to write the Canon by using a sayings book (a sayings book is just a collection of Jesus’ sayings without the invented narratives of the Canon Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) similar to Thomas which New Testament scholars call “Q,” they were set: Now Jesus’ teachings had no importance since they destroyed all sayings books (including Thomas which was rediscovered in 1945) and then made up Gospels which combined true sayings of Jesus, with invented sayings, along with both true and invented stories.  Obviously, it’s impossible to decipher from this procedure what the original message was since they were literally buried!

In addition, the church fathers canonized the books written by Paul (and texts which were likely written by Paul’s associates such as the book of Hebrews) so they could take control over humanity. Thus, they rejected everything Jesus taught and claimed salvation could only occur through going to them. The only way to heaven (a mythical place after death) was by attending the Christian Mass on Sunday and eating a cracker and drinking a glass of wine!  What utter nonsense! Anyone who is even slightly rational would know eating a cracker on Sunday will not save you—but ALL Christians believe this by accepting Paul’s atonement doctrine.

The restored Truth as revealed in Jesus’ Immortal words are:  Physical Immortality—Victory over Death—is now available! My Resurrection on the third day is the start of the Beginning—Paradise Restored—God’s Kingdom on earth is now being established!  I came so that you can have life and have it more abundantly as the Kingdom of Heaven is in your midst!

The “wise of the world” and all the scholars know that when Jesus promises: “Have you discovered the beginning, then, so that you are seeking the end? For where the beginning is, the end will be. Fortunate is one who stands at the beginning: That one will know the end and not taste death” (Gospel of Thomas, sayings 18) that the “death” here refers to a spiritual death. And they are all wrong!

In fact, the message which runs all through Thomas is salvation is NOW! It is here and NOW the transformation into eternal life begins! In parallels to Zen Buddhism, Jesus again and again directs his followers to return to the present. A typical exchange is recorded in Sayings 52: His followers said to him, “Twenty-four prophets have spoken in Israel, and they all spoke of you.” He said to them, “You have disregarded the living one who is in your presence and have spoken of the dead.” The Good News Jesus shares is we can all be like he is—Immortals—NOW! Paradise Lost is NOW restored!

Sabbath Sermon: “Physical Immorality: The Second Fire that Set the World Ablaze in 1945”

Note to readers: The following is a sermon to be meditated upon on the Sabbath: Friday just before sunset until Saturday after sundown, God’s Holy Day. It was composed under to inspiration of the Spirit of Truth on February 4, 2016.

 

Sabbath Sermon: “Physical Immorality: The Second Fire that Set the World Ablaze in 1945”

The introduction of the possibility of world-wide death occurred on August 6, 1945 on Hiroshima, Japan; the introduction of the opening to world-wide life also occurred in 1945: The rediscovery of Jesus’ original message as found in the Gospel of Thomas.

The explosions ignited on Japan is a dark omen which portends a possible dystopian world of everlasting death; the revolutionary message of physical immortality which can be activated through the reading and meditating of the words of Jesus in Thomas is now setting the world on fire. Paradise Restored!

By reading the immortal words of Jesus the shift in consciousness from disease, decay and death is transformed into being connected to God through activating Truth. The Truth is this:

There is no life after death.  We either embrace the 7^th consciousness of Everlasting Life—the Crown of Physical Immorality—or we collectively destroy ourselves by being connected to each other.

The Great Lies of Darkness:
1. There is a conscious existence after physical death.
2. Human beings are to love each other.
3. Death is a necessary part of life.

In contrast, the Great Truth of Light as revealed by Jesus:

 
1. Everlasting Life—Physical Immortality—is now being activated.
2. Human beings are to be connected to God alone through activating the consciousness of Truth.
3. Life is restored when we return to Paradise Lost: Joyous Thanksgiving of Praise of the gift of Life!

If the words which are written resonates with the dear reader the path to living forever in physical form can be initiated by:

1. Obtaining a physical copy of The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus translated by Marvin Meyer.
2. Thomas is now activated for the reader to shift to immortality: gladly receive the words which unite the body with the spirit.
3. By daily meditation on the revolutionary promise in the Prologue: “Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death”—saying 1, the reader can set the world on fire with each of us connected to Truth—Everlasting Life—Physical Immortality. Paradise Lost is now being restored!