Something Stinks Like a Dead Fish

I have tried to clearly define what is sin, and what is not. We are told that Jesus was sent to helps us with our sins. The Jews were Jesus' intended audience. So, the Jews were sinning? How? By losing a war to the Romans? By corrupt religious practices? How long had this been going on? If the "sins" of the Jews were so bad, why did God wait thirty years for Jesus to grow up to start to do anything about them? The martyrdom and resurrection of Jesus was to be used to drag the Jews back to the "straight and narrow"? Are we to believe that God did not understand the intransigence of the Sanhedrin? God did not understand the iron willed determination of the Sanhedrin to stay in power? God would actually send His Son into such a quagmire? Did God send His Son? Someone clearly underestimated resistance to new ideas by the Sanhedrin.

Was this an error by Jesus? Was this God's error? Was God reconsidering His "pro-active" stance of creating the infant Jesus? Did God ever change His involvement with the Hebrews? Was this claim by the Hebrews false? In error? It is clear that all through Jesus' ministry, He was being spied upon by a skilled internal intelligence network that continually reported to the Sanhedrin. This network was so efficient that the only way to effectively fight against it was to send in a deep cover infiltrator, Jesus, by having Him be born among them, grow up among them, and be beyond suspicion? It didn't work. Jesus was "tested" several times, and passed all the tests until He met with the actual Sanhedrin in Jerusalem.

Jesus did not need to die to "atone" for my sins, or anyone else's sins. Atone means to make amends, expiate, conciliate, reconcile, or harmonize. Is this a case of a problem between God and humans? It seems that there was a big problem, "according to some people". Ask who? Who would benefit from a problem between God and humans? Obviously people invented the problem between humans and God. God had nothing to do with this idea. God has every bit of us that He wants, anytime He wants it. God is going to feel better if we humans do not sin? Ridiculous. Then this idea was simply promoted as a Big Lie. A Big Lie that could be twisted to the advantage of Church leaders on "a mission".

This is another example of religious leaders inventing a way to exercise more control over people's lives. When Jesus speaks of sin, He does not get angry. He simply said that a person should sin no more. Obviously anger is not called for. Anger is not needed. "Let the person without sin, cast the first stone." (John 8:2-11). If "sin" is not important enough to get angry about. If "sin" is not important enough to argue about. If "sin" is not important enough to preach vigorously against. Then "sin" is certainly not important enough for anyone to die over. It is not even important enough to pick up a stone and throw it at "sin."

We humans die for many reasons. Punishment for a social crime is one. That is important, and necessary. Sin is not a crime, except in a theocracy. There "sin" is not doing what the leaders tell you to do. Real "Sin" only has to do with your personal, individual relationship to God.

This extremely abstract construction of a "reason" stinks. Any construction that "required" Jesus to die for our "sins" stinks. It stinks like a fish dead three days under a hot sun. It stinks of human invention, meddling, elaboration and embellishment. Lies.

God was not and is not angry about sin. He may be mildly disappointed, but probably not. God recognizes that when He gives you free will, you will make choices. God knows and expects you to make mistakes when you make your choices. That is exactly why you are here, to make choices and make mistakes, and learn, so God can learn from you.

The whole idea of Jesus dying over "sin" is a tautology. This empty idea keeps religious leaders smiling all the way to the bank.

Jesus had no need to die to save us from our sins.

I think this got added later, late in the First Century, and especially in the Second Century by dour Greek Gnostics, and others trying to delve into "the dark sayings" Jesus mentions in (John 16:25).

The tautology was also useful as part of the terror tactics so popular then, later, and now. The tautology fed into the emphasis on an inescapable miasma of sin. "Do as we say or your soul will roast in Hell."

(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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