Who Is the Real Jesus?

1.  In her insightful text, The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation D. (T &T Clark, 2006), Coptic scholar, April D. DeConick has done a service for serious followers of Jesus: She has identified the kernel of Jesus’ sayings. These are the spoken words of Jesus in Aramaic around 30 A.D. See: Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation — April D. DeConick. Students are encouraged to study her chart on page 10 in which she identifies: 

a) The Kernel Gospel, 30-50, C.E. 





b) Accretions, 50-60 C.E., Relocation and leadership crisis. 





c) Death of eyewitnesses…Continued Eschatological Crisis, 80-120 C.E. 








2. The Kernel Gospel of Thomas is given on pages 25-31. Students will note from previous posts that we identified the Gospel of Q, a saying book used by Matthew and Luke. See: Book Reviews for Gospel of Thomas Students. The Kernel Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Q overlap with the majority of saying being matched up. In the appendix on pages 299-316, DeCornick identifies 70 sayings which match the kernel in Thomas with the Roman Catholic texts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. When we combine these two independent sources with the findings of Stephen J. Patterson’s work, The Lost Way in which he identifies 53 sayings in Thomas which are authentic, I strongly believe we can construct the original teachings of Jesus! Below are a few key observations.





3. The first key insight which DeCornick has—and has been missed by nearly every New Testament student to ever live: Jesus was a practicing Jew! (With the exception of DeCornick and myself.) This is a reasonable assertion since his brother, James, was one of the first to speak to the Resurrected Jesus (see Paul’s account of the 500 brethren who saw the Risen Jesus in I Cor. 15) and started the original Jesus movement in Jerusalem and the original followers of Jesus kept the Sabbath. If Jesus had wanted God’s Holy Day to be changed from the 7^th day (see Genesis 2:1-3) to Sunday, he would have informed his brother about this after his Resurrection. 



4. If the follower of Jesus takes his words seriously, and we know that he was a practicing Jew many deductions can be made such as:


 a. Jesus did not believe in the doctrines of an afterlife such as heaven or hell. These doctrines were imported in the New Testament by the Roman Catholics since Jesus did not teach this since Jews have no such belief.


b. Jesus had no knowledge of the Greek doctrine of atonement which Paul imported into his writings. According to Jesus, the only way to salvation is through doing the will of the Father (Saying 58). Paul came up with this crazy idea that it is not necessary to follow Jesus to be a follower of Jesus; all one needs to do is believe!  Indeed, with the exception of a few scattered groups such as the 7^th Day Adventists, nearly all Christians have rejected God by dishonoring His Holy Day which God “blessed” and “hallowed” (Genesis 2:1-3). Instead, they honor the Roman Catholics and defy God by meeting on Sunday. 


 

c. Jesus taught a literal Kingdom of God is at hand. All followers need to do is start demanding people of the world to honor God by following the “Golden Rule." Sadly, his original followers were never able to move beyond Jerusalem and by 70 A.D. (the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem) the Jesus movement ceased to exist.

5. What students need to fully grasp: The original followers of Jesus incorrectly believed that after his resurrection, Jesus would shortly restore God’s Kingdom on earth. When this restoration did not occur by 100 A.D., the original oral sayings of Jesus were rewritten (or as scholars say, “redacted”) with 100s of Jesus sayings now claiming that God’s Kingdom was a spiritual one.


 

6. The Thomas Immortality Project boldly announces that Jesus words remain truth: The Kingdom of God is at hand! By being a seeker, one can be Immortal like Jesus. To date, not one single person in the world has responded to Jesus’ message: Physical Immortality is available today. Thus, I write this blog, not in the hopes of there being a convert to the Jesus Way, but as a commandment to “go forth into the lands…and heal the sick!” (Saying 14).

Other Notes:

a. Concentrating on the body vibrating at the Immortal Frequency for 1 hour per day is essential to shifting one’s consciousness to an Immortal one. The progressive rule is to start out at 10 minutes, say, and then focus one’s attention on the body for 20 minutes, then a week later as the brain starts to become one-pointed and thoughts stop, an hour of concentrated meditation is possible. I often combine exercise, marijuana, and laying down to go to sleep at night as a useful practice.

b. The King James Version (KJV), dating from 1611, is a lyrical transliteration of the Latin version of the New Testament (the Latin Vulgate) into English. It includes many of the original sayings of Jesus as noted in the above points (see points 1-4). Because of its 400+ years of vibrational use, I strongly recommend the readers to use the Roman Catholic texts, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as a means to activate the words of Jesus to Immortal Frequency! Just as long as you know that these texts narrative accounts are pure inventions, then you can say a prayer before reading Jesus words aloud: “Jesus, please activate your words at the Immortal Frequency so that I can serve God as a Physical Immortal in 2017. Thanks, Jesus.”  See: Readers: Activate the Immortal Words of Jesus and Transform the World!

 c. As a science note, I reference the recent short post by orthopedic surgeon, entitled “Self-inflicted Pain: The Salamander Solution” (see: Self-inflicted pain: The salamander solution - by dr-kevin-r-stone - The ... ). Dr. Stone makes an insightful observation:

Our bodies once knew how to regenerate tissues. We did it in utero then shut off the genes that drive organ growth.

Salamanders, on the other hand, never shut off those genes. They can regrow their lost tails throughout life. One approach to solving the human repair problem may lie in the removal of the gene inhibitors that prevent our own limb regeneration.