The Radical Message of Jesus: Disconnect From the World and Reconnect With God and God Alone

1. “Whoever does not hate father and mother cannot be a follower of me, and whoever does not hate brothers and sisters and bear the cross as I do is not worthy of me”---Jesus, Saying 55, The Gospel According to Thomas.

The entire message of Jesus can be summarized: Break all connections to other people and reconnect with God and God alone.  This radical message means you will nothing to do with the world. It means breaking all ties to your parents. It means to give up all relationships with your mother, your father, your friends, your work associates or any other. It means breaking all ties to the past. It means fasting from the world and having no interest in the affairs of the world.

 

2. “If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the Kingdom”---Jesus, Saying 27, The Gospel According to Thomas.

Fasting from the world here means complete withdrawal from the world. It means cutting the cords: Throw away all screens such as computers, cell phones, and televisions. It means to stop reading newspapers, magazines or any other written material about the events of the world. It means having no interest whatsoever in the affairs of the world.

 

3. “Blessed are those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the Kingdom”---Jesus, Saying 49, The Gospel According to Thomas.

Here Jesus tells us who will enter the Kingdom: Those who are alone and chosen. Alone in this context means to disengage from any sexual interest. This would mean an Immortal will separate himself from females. This would also means breaking any connections with dogs, cats, or any other animals. It means not to attend any social events where there are humans. It will means taking a vow of silence and not talk to humans. It means avoiding any unnecessary eye contact with humans. It will mean having no interest in anything humans have done, are doing, or are going to do.

 

4. “Buyers and merchants will not enter the places of my Father”—Jesus, Saying 64, The Gospel According to Thomas.

Here Jesus tells us to give up any interest in making money. It also means one will not have a job which will involve contact with humans. It means having no interest in becoming rich. It also means owing no property or anything of value which might connect you to humans.

5. “Whoever has come to know the world has found a corpse. And whoever has found this corpse, of him the world is not worthy”---Jesus Saying 56, The Gospel According to Thomas.

A corpse is a dead body. This is what humans are: dead. The discovery that humans are dead will lead you to permanently separate from them. There is no way to awaken a dead body; thus, any interest in saving the world is seen as impossible. Usually, the insight that humans are dead will take hundreds if not thousands of instances in which you are abused by them. Once you know what the world is, then the world is not worthy of you.

6. “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 spoken of the dead”---Jesus, Saying 52, The Gospel According to Thomas.

All ties to the past are broken when one connects to the Living One. There is no interest in the history of humans. There are no authority figures to follow. There are no leaders to follow. Each moment one will be connected to the Living One. The past is dead. Let the dead bury the dead.

 

7. “When you know yourselves, you will be known. And you will realize you are the Sons of the Living Father”---Jesus, Saying 3, The Gospel According to Thomas.

Once the seeker of Immortality has given up on the world, then he is ready to reunite with the Living Father. The first step in this reunion is to know who you are: The Son of the Living Father. You are being sourced by God’s animating energy moment-by-moment. You are spirit made flesh. You are particles made of light which has been “thickened” to create the illusion of a solid form. You are God.

8. “During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it alive. When you are in the light what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?”---Jesus, Saying 11, The Gospel According to Thomas.

To reunite with God, one must first heal the spilt which has occurred in you. When you are connected to humans you are two. When you reconnect to God and God alone, you become one again. The seeker of Immortality will reconnect with God by entering the light. This is activating your transpersonal self which is located above your head. This is the 8^th chakra. It is one’s connection to the light. The only living thing which will connect you to the light is marijuana since God allowed this plant to coevolve with humans to lead them to the light consciousness. So to enter the light, one will consume what is alive—marijuana.

 

9. “Whoever among you becomes a child will know the Kingdom”---Jesus, Saying 46, The Gospel According to Thomas.

By becoming a child again, you will give up control of your life and turn it over to God. One will be as a baby: Completely reliant upon God for your nourishment. This is complete surrender. Any idea that you can save your life outside of being sourced by God is given up. Only by losing your life will you gain eternal life.

10. “When you strip without being ashamed and take your clothes off and put them under your feet like little children and trample on them, then you will see the Son of the Living One”---Jesus, Saying 37, The Gospel According to Thomas.

Here Jesus tells us to take our clothes off, to take off all which would hide us from our true nature. When you can be a child and strip off your clothes without being ashamed, then you will see the Living One. This means giving up any mask which will hide your true nature. It is giving up any attempt to impress others. It is standing before God in one’s natural state: Naked and as a child, ready to be reconnected with God.

 

11. “Whoever is living from the Living One will not see death”—Jesus, Saying 111, The Gospel According to Thomas.

Here Jesus tells us how to achieve physical Immortality: Live from the Living One. Nowhere in The Gospel According to Thomas does Jesus directly or indirectly imply there is life after death. To the contrary: “Adam came from great power and great wealth, but he was not worthy of you. For had he been worthy, he would not have tasted death”---Jesus, Saying 85, The Gospel According to Thomas. Adam disconnected from God and chose to be connected to the female. As his punishment, he received eternal death. There is no understanding here that Adam went to hell to burn forever after his death. No, when Adam died that was the end of him, which is the case for all humans when they die. So not to see death, to live forever in physical form, one will return to the beginning: You will be sourced directly from God as Adam had been before the fall. This is returning home. It is your birthright: To live each moment in joyous union with the Living Father.

12. “His followers said to him, ‘When will the Kingdom come?’  ‘It will not come by watching for it.’ It will be said, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘Look, there it is.’ Rather the Kingdom is spread out upon the earth and people do not see it”---Jesus, Saying 113, The Gospel According to Thomas.

The Kingdom of God is right here, right now, on planet earth. You do not have to look anywhere else. You are already there. By returning to paradise, by returning to the God connection, one will enter the Kingdom of God.

 

Summary: All the nearly 500 sayings of Jesus in The Gospel According to Thomas point to a single message: Disconnect from the world and reconnect with God. This is a radical message as among Christians there is not a single one who will follow Jesus. They will follow Paul and his invention of “Christ,” however. To be a follower of Jesus means giving everything up: Connections to family, friends, to making money, to being wealthy and so on. Once the seeker of Immortality has given up on the world, he will be ready to be a child again: Living moment-by-moment from the Living One. The Kingdom of God is right here, right now, but people do not see it. At some point humans on this planet will be eliminated (see Saying 11, The Gospel According to Thomas) and then the chosen will reign over this planet (see Saying 2, The Gospel According to Thomas). If the reader would like to be one of the chosen all he needs to do is to start now: “Blessed is the man who has worked hard and has found life”---Jesus, Saying 58, The Gospel According to Thomas.