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By James Strole, People Unlimited
Through the years there have been all types of interpretation of who Jesus
was. I have heard some people say that he was the greatest social reformer
of all time, others that he was the Messiah, and still others that he never
existed. I have a different perspective on this man.
I can easily imagine from my own experiences in speaking on unlimited life
what he had to face being born into a primitive world, and experiencing
his vision of a new and higher life. I can see him wrestling with himself as
to whether to express himself fully in the dark world he lived in. Would he
speak out all that he felt, knowing that by doing so he risked being ridiculed
and possibly even murdered?
Jesus clearly did not come to strengthen the existing laws that the world
was living under at that time. He said that he came to bring a new order,
but what was that new order? What did he mean when he said: “Believe in
me and you shall have everlasting life”.
Was he just speaking of everlasting spiritual life? That wasn’t new; the
idea of the spirit going on forever and the body dying had been around for
thousands of years already. I think the new order he was speaking of was
the end of death for the human body; I believe he was speaking physical
immortality.
He also very famously said: “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have
eternal life.” Obviously he was not literally speaking of cannibalism. But I
don’t think he was talking about drinking a symbolic sip of wine or eating a
cracker either. Jesus was inviting people to really take him in, to absorb his
enlightenment and inspiration, so they could it experience themselves in a
new, unlimited way.
I believe it was not the death of Jesus that had the potential to save the
world, but sadly enough, this is the way the world interprets him. In fact,
it was his speaking life, his passion for the flesh to end death, which was
his profound contribution to mankind. I feel that Jesus wanted to literally
conquer death. The world at that time found him too threatening to their
belief systems and did away with him. In spite of that he planted a new
seed within the genetics of human kind, which is why he had such an
impact on the human race.
But we have a long way to go. I hear people saying all the time that love can
change the world and bring peace. This has been claimed forever, but it’s
never actually happened. When are we going to get tired of just repeating
these old truisms? As long as we live by an animal order of death, we will
never be able to totally manifest the love and peace that we want on this
planet. We will always be animals putting our survival urges above one
another.
Jesus also prophesied that there would be people who would come along
that would do greater works than him. I believe that conquering the death
in our bodies is that greater work. This is the next quantum leap for human
kind.
