(This author uses “Joshua” instead of the popular “Jesus” in order to refer to the person who is the subject of the first four books of what is referred to as the “new testament.” I do this because Joshua is a better translation of His name, and because of all the religious junk associated with the name “Jesus” or “Jesus Christ” or “Christ”.)
Have you ever heard somebody in the crowd around you say, "Jesus Christ!" loudly, as a curse word? I have... And I've cringed inside each time. It bothers me that so much has been lost in the centuries since God Sent His Son to All of Us...
Even His Birthday has been captured by Santa Claus and an entirely different type of holiday that, yes, includes gifts such as what The Three Kings brought at the time of His birth,
But for many, they have no idea that there is a different
Reason for the Season!
Let's face it--acknowledge it...
We've lost the Holiness of His Coming!
By merging a secular holiday
with the birthday of Our Lord
to me, is just wrong...
but that's me...if you can bring Christ into the Season and not spend much money buying, buying, buying gifts for anybody and everybody, but have not loved as Jesus asked of us...by giving to those in need...
then you have placed money above our Lord...
just my opinion...of course...
Above a month ago, I awoke and heard just two words: Tim Spiess
I knew exactly what I was to do...
I was to start reading diligently and reviewing this book...
Now is the time to rethink your thoughts about...God...
Right now in America, there are those that are using religion as a political tool, even calling themselves Christian Nationalists and claiming that religion (or their religion)
is above government and our constitution...
Comparing religion versus the Constitution is like saying
1 person equals one flea, or worse,
one man's sperm is more important than one female's life
In other words, it is not comparable!
And should not be compared!
Tim Spiess has, throughout all of this, been speaking about
and conducting a quiet revolution that has nothing to do with America
It has to do with...God... and His Son
I have found the title The Peaceful Revolution quite extraordinary. How many times we learn that Jesus, in performing miracles, would tell those he healed not to tell anybody else. But they would be so excited and, since they were healed, would receive questions about what happened... It was a quiet revolution, then, as well... By word of mouth, each individual who was touched by Jesus/Joshua would spread the word about His Love. They would speak His Truth and share about the man who had been there to touch each of those who were, in some way, in need of help... All they did was ask... And, sometimes, based upon faith of the requesting person, they would be automatically healed by their faith... If trouble was heard about, He and His disciples would leave that area and move on to another. There was no attempt to convince anybody of Who He Was... It was, instead, a Quiet Revolution that has spread further and further across the world over thousands of years... In fact, Christ knew He was to die and when. He was on a Mission which ended at The Cross
I believe that, like me--and you(?), many, who are individuals who had been exposed to religion and found they had many questions, Tim Spiess was selected by God to take on a monumental task... much more of an ongoing movement that would lead people back to
The Son of God...
What you will be reading is not new...
What you will be reading forces you to recognize...
What you will be reading allows you to immediately recognize...
What you will be reading is exactly why The Son of God was Born...
What you will be reading, at the same time, is very simple to understand...
What you will be reading is that This Book does nothing but Place the Light of the World's Words Exactly Where
They were always meant to be...
Above All Other Words that were Ever Said
The Words of the Son of God...
Which Said, for instance, that all rules be set aside...
That we were to Follow The Son of Man...
Who Died for Us...
Soon you will realize that the book(s) that have been read for thousands of years, were important, but they were not The Words of Joshua...
Which provided The Truth as to how we should Live...
And we are being told that These Words Were Ours
Because God Loves Each of Us Through His
Amazing Grace...
The purpose of this presentation of the first four books of the New Testament is to try to assist in recovering something extremely valuable that has been lost. What extremely valuable thing has been lost? Before we investigate what extremely valuable thing has been lost, let us first take a small but important digression. Most people are familiar with the expression, “you should not throw the baby out with the bathwater.” It is an effective saying to teach the principle of not dismissing a true or valuable or important thing (the baby) that might be surrounded by, or associated with, false or valueless or unimportant things (the dirty bath water). I would ask the reader to please apply this principle to the person of Jesus (or Joshua) of Nazareth. In other words, before you throw the baby (Jesus of Nazareth) away with the bathwater (bible-christian-messianic beliefs and religion in his name), you ought to take a careful look at the Baby. After all, what do you have to lose by reading Joshua’s words, teaching and life story? It won’t take you long to read, and you will be one of an increasingly few number of people on the earth who actually read his words and teachings.
This author would suggest that it is unfair to throw away ‘the whole jesus religious thing’ as irrelevant to your life or as ‘a bunch of silly or hypocritical rubbish’ without first giving his words and teachings a honest and fair read. It is also irrational to deny that the person known as “jesus christ” has had a very significant impact on both human history as well as countless millions of individuals. You should be curious as to why, and as a person that might be seeking truth, it would be unreasonable to avoid his own words in order to understand the very important ‘why’ question. Even if you are a skeptic or critic, if you don’t read Jesus’ own teachings, then at best you are a lazy and poor quality skeptic or critic who doesn’t bother to go to the source of the object of your skepticism or criticism.
Please, be a diligent skeptic or critic and search Jesus’ teachings YOURSELF for the faults and errors in his person or teachings that you assume account for the mess that covers much of the planet and is known as ‘christianity’ or bible-based religious groups call ‘the church.’ OK, let’s end the first digression.
So, what extremely valuable thing has been lost? Please allow me digress again before answering that question in order to briefly address those reading who have not seriously looked into the life and teachings of Jesus (or Joshua) of Nazareth. (This author will use “Joshua” instead of the popular “Jesus” in order to refer to the person who is the subject of the first four books of what is referred to as the “new testament.” I do this because Joshua is a better translation of his name, and because of all the religious junk associated with the name “Jesus” or “Jesus Christ” or “Christ”.)
Every Person’s Basic Need Every living person has hope in something because it has been proven time and time again that a person without any hope (some self-perceived purpose for their life-existence) will seek to destroy themselves through suicide or other destructive behavior in order to try and end the inner emptiness of life-level hopelessness. The reader should ask why that is. Why is it that human’s alone (not animals) need a future reason for living (known as hope or purpose) or else they seek to dull or to end their existence?
What is your hope in dear reader? Some ‘better’ material tomorrow…a better house, car, or vacation…a more ‘successful’ career? Is your hope in a better education and thus more opportunity to accumulate wealth or influence over other people? Is your hope in some better form of pleasing yourself or entertainment? Is it in the next movie or the newest electronic device that you believe is somehow going to make your life more meaningful? Is it in sporting events, challenges, vacations, hobbies or activities yet to come? Do you find your purpose in life through the primary work that you do? Is your hope in a person, like yourself, or a spouse, friend or partner? Is your hope in your family or children? Is your hope in religious beliefs or practices? Has having your hope in any of these things ever satisfied your soul in a deeply meaningful and permanent way? Or does the pleasure of the pursuit or aurora of the lesser-hope fade as it passes, and you find yourself dissatisfied or somewhat empty until the next time? When you largely accomplish your goals associated with your hope or purpose, what happens then? Do you just pick up a new temporary one without thought to the fact that it too will end? Do you ever take the time to just sit back and ask the import questions of life like why am I here? What is the purpose of my life? What does my existence mean? If you don’t, why do you think that is so? Are those not really important matters that deserve attention? Looking at this important topic from another perspective, have you come to the sad place of believing you are nothing more than a random accumulation of molecules with no soul and little or no meaningful purpose? Or do you realize something fundamental is missing from your life? Have you come to the place of acknowledging that your own efforts to run your life are not working well? Have you come to the place of understanding that what is most important in life is relationships with other people? That whatever pain or stress or anxiety or conflict or frustration or failure you are experiencing normally has to do with how you are relating to other people or even how you are relating to yourself? Is there a right way and a wrong way to relate to people, and if so, where can I find that way or standard? Can I be rightly related to all the people that I know and thus be a nearly perfect person and have a justifiably clear conscience? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Everyone has beliefs about what the purpose of their life is, including atheists (those who believe there is no God) and agnostics (those who believe one cannot know if God exists). Many atheists and agnostics are physicalists, meaning they believe a person’s self-expression (or personality) can be accounted for by physics-chemical reactions alone – this author believes that is an unreasonable belief. By definition, however, a physicalists purpose for their life must end when their life ends, and thus their hope can only be in temporary things listed previously which will undeniably end. They (and we) will die. Their body will decay and return to dust. In their belief, all the events, emotions, friendships, relationships, expressions of love and good in their life, all the special experiences they had and all the good things they accomplished – all will be gone forever, and perish with their death and the death of those who knew them…there will be nothing but the black, dark, void of existential destruction…for to lose something valuable is just like having it destroyed. This is hopelessness – a meaningless-ness to life that is typically denied and buried under daily busyness, noise, entertainment and a denial of most things important – never peering over the edge of the approaching and undeniable event called death.
Most physicalists are relativists, meaning they believe there is no absolute truth. They say each person makes up their own reality. Is that true? No, because the relativist’s clearest statement, like, “No absolute truth exists” is a self-defeating statement. That means that the laws of logic demonstrate that statement to be false. Can you see it? For if the relativist makes the statement, “no absolute truth exists,” one only need ask them, ‘is that statement absolutely true’? If they answer, ‘yes’, then at least one absolute truth exists and thus their statement is false. And if they answer, ‘no’, then they acknowledge the statement to be false. It is undeniable that absolute truths exist, and it is reasonable to deduce that someone (a master Programmer?) created reason and logic to be based on absolute truth. The fact that it is undeniable that absolute truth exists - that everything is not relative according to a person’s (or even a collective culture’s) perspective or experiences - has a very significant implication. That implication is that it is possible (even reasonable) that a Creator of that absolute truth has an absolute standard of truth which human’s will be held accountable to…or from another perspective, will set their after-death destiny by. For if we do have a metaphysical part (beyond being able to sense with our five senses) to our person (often referred to as a soul, spirit or personality), and that part does survive physical death, then what becomes of us?
Dear reader, if you lost both your arms and legs and had your face badly disfigured, would that change who you really are? With medical sciences advancing, it is reasonably conceivable that if all that was left of you was your head, you could be kept alive. Would that change who you are? The reasonable answer is no, it would not. This is yet another proof that humans are more than just our physical bodies.
Is religion the place where I will find answers to these things, or can I find those answers somewhere else? What is the truth regarding these matters? To ignore those critical life questions and not seek answers is to live less than a full life…it is to refuse to take life’s most important journey. And this brings us to a person, not a religion, who said, “I am the Truth.”
No matter what you think about that claim, it is a very important claim that warrants investigation. While anyone (and many have) can make that claim, the same one who said that also defeated death, at least according to the four accounts of his life, and that makes his claim worthy of sincere investigation. No one else in human history defeated death in as genuine, authentic and validated way.
Religion in a general sense is humans attempt to understand the purpose of their existence – the whys of life. More specifically, religion is often people’s attempt to be accepted by their God or god(s) so that when they die, their existence will continue typically in a more favorable manner than their existence has been on the earth. From the student of Joshua’s viewpoint, religion is the things that people believe and do in order to answer the why questions of life or to be accepted by their god(s), by means other than what Joshua has taught. Please re-read that carefully. There are many religions and many people who hold to their religion’s beliefs and practices. But there is only one person who--in a genuine, authentic way--defeated death to prove all He said and did is true, and He is not a religion! While this person has been wrongfully used to create religion, He not only does not support that religion, but he rebukes it and its practices time and time again in His teachings. No, he doesn’t rebuke bible-based christian religion’s failures, hypocrisies, faults and abuses, but rather He rebukes the very essence, beliefs and practices which the religious leaders of the bible-based religious system build their kingdoms (or denominations or churches) on. If this is true, this should impact the reader. You have no doubt heard of the person of Jesus of Nazareth (Joshua is a more accurate translation of his name than “Jesus”), the person that the christian religions claim as their figurehead. But of all the hundreds of millions of people claiming to be some type of ‘christian’ or somehow claiming that ‘Jesus Christ’ is important to them, probably less than two percent have taken seriously the reading of his life and teachings, let alone trying to understand him or do what he says. If this is true, this should also peak your curiosity, for it certainly doesn’t make sense. And perhaps this is one of the reasons for the obvious failures and powerlessness of bible or christian or church religion to change people towards the Standard of Perfection that God has given mankind--the person of Joshua of Nazareth?
So, in your hands you have the Words of Joshua of Nazareth, the one who said, “I am the Way (Home to your Father), I am the (absolute) Truth (that eternally matters), and I am Life (Everlasting).” He not only said that (for anyone can say that), but He performed many miracles, including defeating death, to prove that all He said and did was true, including what was just quoted. No one else in history has done that. Joshua addresses the most important questions of life, directly, head on, and gives clear answers. Can I have a Hope that will last? What is the purpose to my life? If I have a soul and it survives death, what becomes of me? What is true love, and can I experience that and live that out? Can I have proper relationships with all the people in my life? Can I have inner peace and joy in my life on the earth? Where can I get the power to change myself to be the way I know I ought to be? Is there a superior form of love, and if so, how can I experience it? Joshua answers all these questions and point’s people to the source of power to change.
This author can testify to this truth. I was once chasing the American dream and all it entails, and to a large measure, I had attained it. However, that pursuit and it’s ‘success’ only left me more empty, selfish and hopeless. People viewing my life from the outside would say how successful I was, but I knew the truth. One beautiful day, however, as my life was spiraling downward (even while people said I was climbing the ladder of success), I met the Person Joshua of Nazareth. I testify that He has changed my life in a way I could never have done myself, for I had not the wisdom nor the power to fix my broken and hopeless life. Empty and circular psychological beliefs or legally prescribed emotion controlling drugs are not the answer to your problems. Alcohol, drugs, busyness, materialism, entertainment-ism or other means to try and dull or hide the hopelessness are not the answer either. So, dear reader, please don’t be afraid to read and seek to understand Joshua of Nazareth…He is NOT a religion, but rather a person like no other. And the chances are very good that the real Joshua of Nazareth is nothing like you have experienced through most christian or bible religious people…He is not the “Jesus Christ” of the christians/biblians or church people. He is not someone handing out free passes to ‘heaven’ to those who believe certain facts about him. Nor is he the God of wrath eager to punish the imperfect. Rather, he has the solution to your deepest need and is eager to provide it to you…he can clean your soul and bring your spirit alive!
Does YOUR life need fixing? What have you got to lose, and perhaps, you’ve got everything to gain? Do you want true freedom? You can have it, but it does cost something. To gain the Life which you really need, you must be willing to forsake the temporary and that which this world (and yourself) considers valuable. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.” "If you continue in my word, then you are truly disciples of mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." May the Words of the Rescuer, the Freedom and Life Giver in the pages to come do their beautiful work in your life!
I believe this is exactly the time to reconsider our relationship to our god... Is it God Almighty? Do you get excited about Our Awesome God? Or do you get more excited by earthly things such as a job, a football game, a song, a Million Dollars? Consider this question... If you had the chance to go to one of two concerts: Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount or Taylor Swift's latest? Which would you consider the highest priority... And if you had $100, would you buy a lottery ticket for a prize of $10M or give the $100 to a homeless man or women? Ponder this overnight...
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