End of Gospel: Contradictions in Christian Teaching — Sermon

Victor Porton’s personal theological reading of End of Gospel: Contradictions in Christian Teaching; the views below are the author’s interpretation.

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If we are Christians, we need to accept that in our teachings there
are contradictions. They are not contradictions directly in the Bible,
but in our teachings that we consider founded on the Bible but they are
not.

Here are some most significant of the contradictions:

• We have the commandment “Don’t kill”. But why, if we need to kill
  somebody for saving somebody other? Many Christians say: “This is called
  a ‘war’, in the case of a war we can kill”. But this doesn’t stand
  still: We believe that everything in this world is the spiritual war. Is
  therefore the commandment “Don’t kill” not applicable in
  every situation? Is God stupid that He gave us a
  commandment that is never applicable?

• Another commandment is not to reject Christ. It is usually
  considered by Christians as more important than don’t steal and don’t
  kill. But have you ever wondered why it is so important? It is just
  words: Who would you harm if you’d say “I don’t believe in Christ”? What
  about other, more subtle, words, if you deny Christ not directly but in
  a tricky way. Which commandments are more and which are less important
  relation made a cycle in my mind. I was not able to choose the least
  important one to exit my situation, when my attempts of following Christ
  caused me to be beaten by the head and do wrong.

• Many Christians build anti-narcotic centers where they heal
  narcotic users. Have you ever noticed that this makes no sense for a
  Christian? They believe that thoughts and feelings belong to soul or
  spirit. What the heck narcotic acting on brain (not on the spirit)
  influence thoughts and feelings? Among Christians there is an
  anti-scientific teaching, that narcotics act just by making a pleasure
  for the user. It is not so, instead they integrate into chemistry of
  human body. Christians teach that the brain is just an acceptor for the
  spirit like a radio, not a thinking device like a computer. This is
  completely anti-scientific. The scientific proof is based on a very
  simple idea: damage of a part of the brain damages thoughts and
  feelings.

• If we exercise Jesus’s commandments, we are beaten (literally, or
  for example economically). After having been beaten, our brains may
  degrade, our thoughts and feeling become worse. Does it mean, that
  exercising Jesus’s commandments harm our souls (our thoughts and
  feelings)? Did Jesus plan harm to our souls?

• Why does the Bible say that God loved the world, but we should
  not love the world? Should we, for example, strive against climate
  change to save the world from a catastrophe?

• It is said trough Paul, that (Phil. 2:3) “in humility value
  others above yourselves.” But if I am a great mathematician, how can I
  rate myself less than others? Does God say me to lie to myself, to have
  a wrong opinion?

• (1Tim. 6:5) “between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed
  of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain”.
  Before I note this verse, I thought that godliness is for societal (not
  individual) financial gain, but it isn’t as we see from that verse. So,
  what is the true purpose of godliness?

• Christian teaching requests us to “believe”. But believe in what?
  Every preacher disagrees on this. Below, I give particular explanations
  what we were requested to believe.

• What is the soul? How is it related to the brain?

Jesus intentionally hold back answers to these questions, giving us
commandments how to behave but not explaining why to
behave such and such way. This is not to present us on God’s court with
our own purpose (if Jesus would give us His purpose, it would become our
own purpose), but to put the judgment of purposes in the court onto
Jesus. If we would know the purpose of Jesus before joining Him, we
would not be able to have mercy in God’s court. How so? I will explain.
Jesus also intentionally didn’t explain what is soul. I will explain
that below, too.

The below is a scientific theory explaining why Jesus gave
that commandments. It is not a matter of faith whether this sermon
explains the hidden reasoning of Jesus about His commandments, it is a
scientific truth proven by many “coincidences” between my explanations
and actual Christian commandments, that I show below. It is a matter of
faith, however, that Jesus reached His purpose in God’s court by His
methodology applied to His disciples.

This sermon is God’s harvest. If you hear or read it while being
unsaved, you won’t be able to become saved anymore, because then you
would have responsibility for your own purposes (because you know the
purposes of Jesus after hearing this sermon, purposes of Jesus could
become your purposes, too), not able to put the purposes of your deeds
onto Jesus.

Jesus is called a lawyer in (Jn. 14:16) “…another Helper, to be with
you forever.” Here “Helper” (speaking about Holy Spirit) can also be
translated as “lawyer” and it is implied that Jesus is also a lawyer.
His role is to save us from condemnation at God’s court. Just instruct
us to do good deeds to win in the court would be not enough, because the
primary sin (designed by the devil to harm not only us, people, but even
any creature that tries to interact with us or just look at us) is much
greater than all our good deeds are together, and we all would be
condemned this way.

So, Jesus has designed the following scheme to save us in God’s
court: Make us victims instead of accused. For this Jesus needed to
induce onto us real harm from people doing evil to us: We do good ->
people punish us for it -> we are victims instead of accused in God’s
court. But wait, you can say: Salvation is by faith only, not by deeds.
I will explain how both can be true below.

However, it’s impossible to become a victim willingly: For example,
if you want to become a victim of a thief, you would just give him money
willingly and it would not be a theft. So, in Jesus’s plan we become
victims not by a direct direction to become victims, but by giving us
directions which good deeds to do, to become victims for it. This is
specifically well-foreseen in the commandment not to deny Jesus. We
refused to deny Jesus and became punished. This commandment by itself
has no utility: it changes nothing, whether we say “I believe in Jesus.”
or deny this. But its utility is the punishment by people for following
it. So, Jesus gave us rules (usually called “commandments”) to follow,
but didn’t explain why.

So, Jesus induced us to call harm on ourselves. But when we harm
ourselves, we harm others, too: For example, I was several times beaten
by head with a frying pan, as a punishment for following the Gospel.
With broken head, I raped somebody, set a forest on fire, did a hacker
attack. How does Jesus consider this harm?

First, let me answer the question, how hit by head may have broken my
conscience (until the head healed). Doesn’t, accordingly Watchman Nee
teaching, conscience belong to spirit, not to body? Watchman Nee
mistook: (1Tim. 4:2) “… whose consciences have been seared as with a hot
iron”. This implies, that conscience can be seared as with a hot iron.
When Romans branded slaves, they destroyed their conscience with hot
iron. Conscience is in the brain.

What is the soul then? I thought on this questions (like above
questions) many years. It became clear, that everything matches, if
soul is the electromagnetic activity of the brain. There is
electromagnetic activity inside the brain, and accordingly a recent
Russian scientific research, the brain also radiates microwaves (radio
waves). Thus the soul goes to outer space. This is said in the Bible:
(Eph. 2:6) “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in
the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,” that is when we are on the Earth,
our souls reach heaven and lives there in comic plasma, such as
stars.

(Jn. 12:25) “The one who loves his soul loses it, and the one who
hates his soul in this world will keep it to everlasting life.” So, we
were given the difficult choice, whether to save our soul in the brain
(our psyches) by violating Jesus’s commandments to avoid attacks of evil
people on us or to destroy our psyches. If we made the choice to follow
Jesus’s commandments, our soul in the heaven is rewarded for this,
because we are made victims and He is our lawyer. I once did the right
choice to allow my mother to beat me by the head with a frying pan (not
to kill her first before her attempt to kill me, not to lie her that I
no more believe in Jesus, not to steal money to buy a train ticket and
flee), and it will be rewarded by God in heaven. Rape, setting forest on
fire, etc. will be treated as a part of the harm induced on me (my
damaged brain).

So, harm on other people induced by this harm on my brain is counted
as a part of my harm. Jesus induced more harm onto us than we could
contain, by us also harming other people. For example, as a result of
trying to follow the Gospel, I din’t become a math professor (I only
have professor’s level of knowledge, but no certificate than I am a
professor), therefore my discoveries didn’t reach people and technology.
Who it didn’t reach to passively wait rather than take knowledge from
me, therefore God considers those people my slaves (being fully
dependent on my attempts to distribute my knowledge, rather than
actively participating in it), that makes their souls a part of my
soul.

Now, we have an unexpected answer on Jesus’s question: (Luk. 9:25)
“For what is a man profited gaining the whole world but destroying
himself or suffering loss?” By my broken professor’s carrier I gained
harm on the whole world (and therefore all souls) by harming myself (my
brain). This means, that the answer that we should have tried to gain
the entire world (all souls in the world becoming our slaves) by
suffering harm on our own brains.

So, a question: Should we intentionally harm our brains now? No! Now
we know the Jesus’s plan and harming ourselves would not make us victims
and therefore would not gain for our souls in heaven.

Now, how I promised above, the science of Jesus’s teachings.
Everything in Christianity now fits into my system:

• What Jesus did as a lawyer? He took our guilt onto himself.
• What we did? We suffered together with Jesus.
• What did Jesus require from us? Faith and trust to follow the
  commandments even in worst scenaria, do whatever Jesus said, no matter
  how wrong it seemed.
• What we needed to get the prize? Patience.
• Who receive the biggest reward? Those who have been broken their
  head as a punishment for Christianity (holy fools – we will get a new
  head, better than one broken).
• The soul in this world (brain electricity) needs to be broken by
  blow to the head due to religious discrimination in order to save the
  soul for the eternal life (cosmic electromagnetic waves). Who saves his
  soul in this world, loses it; who damaged it for the commandments of
  Jesus, saves it.
• What the last among Christians (not able even to buy a Bible due to
  discrimination) stand? The first ones. What are the most winning
  Christians (the first)? They stand the last. (Mt. 20:16) “So the last
  shall be first, and the first last…”
• If you count yourself below others, you would allow them to shit you
  (for a plus to your karma).
• What can we boast about? Our weakness and deficiencies.
• (Heb 2:16) “For clearly He does not give help to angels, but He
  gives help to the descendants of Abraham.” That’s because angels are too
  smart to be “hunted” into this Jesus’s scheme.

I shot into the point, didn’t I? The meaning of previously seemingly
illogical Christianity became clear: guilt on Jesus, suffer with Jesus,
faith, patience, holy fools, lose the soul in this world for eternal
life, the first are the last, etc. I “shot” precisely into the true
meaning of Christianity.

The story (BTW, it is a real story, because it’s not marked a proverb
in the Bible) of a rich man and Lazarus says that Lazarus get into
heaven without any mention that Lazarus was righteous or a believer.
Leave comments, whether you think, that God rewards for unfounded
suffering, and then can an unbeliever get to heaven? The story of
Lazarus hints for this, but it is’t explicit.

So, what we should have believed? We should have believed that
following Jesus’s commandments will make things better for us. Not
quotes from the Bible, not Nicene symbol of faith, not the “magic”
formula of being born again. A meaning of the word “believe” is to
trust. That means, that we needed to trust Jesus that He will make
better for our souls, even when following Him would make worse for the
part of the soul in this world. He makes better for soul in the heaven.
If we are pro-heaven, then we consider the soul in heaven at least as
important as our brain on the Earth. So, we consider it as our interest
or even self-interest to grow our soul in heaven. In other words, we
needed to believe that following Jesus commandments is in our
self-interest. This eliminates another Christian paradox: “What if one
believes, but chooses an evil nevertheless, how could he/she be saved?”
The answer is that it’s impossible to choose evil, because our
self-interest is aligned with the interest of God, so while believing in
that our self-interest is always good (never evil). To be saved, it was
no need to believe in all Jesus’s commandments or know all of them, but
just to believe that He is generally right and agree on self-harm for
the purpose of following Him.

• It is said trough Paul, that (Phil. 2:3) “in humility
  value others above yourselves.” But if I am a great mathematician, how
  can I rate myself less than others? Does God say me to lie to myself, to
  have a wrong opinion? The answer is kinda two-fold:

  1. Humility is when all resources are used, switch to a backup program,
     and this backup may be better than what we did before. This failure may
     be not for my carrier as a mathematician but for the entire Galaxy,
     because I was found the worst of the sinners.
  2. A special case of the first item: We reject humility itself, because
     it was a provocation by Paul: If we try to follow that commandment, our
     actions become illogical (we have a contradiction of considering
     ourselves above others and attempt of humility), what really makes us
     below others. So, we should reject humility. (Ps. 147:6) “The LORD
     sustains the humble”. Our time of “sustaining” finished, now LORD will
     raise us.

• Why does the Bible say that God loved the world, but we
  should not love the world? Should we, for example, strive against
  climate change to save the world from a catastrophe? We should
  have not collaborate with the world, because that way we would avoid our
  sufferings. Now this is not actual and we should God in loving the world
  (doing good for all).

• (1Tim. 6:5) “between people of corrupt mind, who have
  been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to
  financial gain”. It’s now clear that godliness was serving for
  suffering.

How about salvation being a free gift of God, as the New Testament
clearly says in several verses? It means that we can’t plan profit from
our deeds to receive salvation (otherwise, salvation would be our
business). We couldn’t in the age of the Gospel and can’t now, in the
post-Gospel age.