Post by moviemouth on Dec 20, 2022 0:16:08 GMT
Jesus as a messianic preacher was calling for a Jewish enlightenment as he understood it possibly from Essenes philosophy, as the coming Kingdom of God the later Jewish prophets wrote about in light of Judah’s fall to Babylonia. Once the Jews were enlightened, by example so would the rest of humanity. This was what the Essenes were about also. The truly enlightened give off divine sparks. Enlightenment was a raising oneself to a divinity or sainthood level like the Prophet Elijah.
Jesus was also an anti-war messiah/king, rather than a war messiah/king which pissed off the very large population of Jewish zealots, who were hurtin’ for another Maccabean rebellion against Rome, were desperately hoping for. Per the prophets, there should be one any minute, God had promised.
So Jesus’ mission was to bring all the Jews back to the true righteousness of God’s commandment to love another and not fight over dry toast and divorcing wives, the Kingdom of God was at hand, get right with God before he destroys plant earth. It’s coming he was sure of and he had the correct message, not those other false prophets who want more violence and hatred.
And he was talking to his fellow Jews only, not the gentiles. He did not come to save them. He came to save the Jews. Be a light unto the nations was an old Hebrew commandment. Righteousness was his idea of enlightenment because in true righteousness commandment by the God of Israel was not showy, cruel, punitive, proud, or full of empty gestures and blood offerings, it is the outward expression of God’s own love and mercy humans should aspire to and that will be the Kingdom, that will save you from death and you will join the risen Jews whose God will deliver them from the enemies for all ages to come.
In all likelihood we would not have heard of Jesus if not for another apocalyptic Jew, Paul of Tarsus. He was a genius and hit upon a brand new way to spread his enlightenment cult beyond his fellow Jews who’d gotten tried of listening to him go on and on about “signs and wonders” and the end of the world.
I am not seeing the connection between a shared consciousness as God and a literal monotheistic God that can destroy the universe whether we like it or not. That is generally what Christians understand God as. That isn't how any Christians I have talked to think of the God of the Bible. This monotheistic God that created us and wants us to follow Him. How does that relate to the collective consciousness as God? The latter seems like we are just referring to the collective human consciousness as God. That is what Jung sounded like he was saying, but I didn't really find his idea of God very coherent from what I read.