Gnostic Gospels of Yahshua (Jesus)

Anyone claiming to be a Christian or for that matter a Jew, seems to be struggling for perfection in a way that indeed results in struggle and stress.  Look at the world today; stressed and stretched beyond its natural capabilities; even nature howls at the pain caused by man.  We’ve depleted our natural and our own physical resources in efforts to attain – WHAT?  Christians scream that the “law” is dead, Jews that the “Saviour” has yet to arrive.  We fight, we argue; each to assert his position, to be RIGHT.

All the while, we are walking dead, and don’t even know it!  Humanity is looking for salvation in the form of flesh; looking externally when all the while it has resided, internally, in each and every one of us:  but as a whole it is trapped and needs to be set free.

As a person, born into the Roman Catholic “religion” (ugh one of my least favourite words in the English or any language!), my journey towards Truth has been colourful and, if I might apply the word, eclectic.  At 40 years of youth I had myself baptized in a Pentecostal “church” (ugh, the other of my two least favourite words).  Anyone who has experienced or participated in these two religions will know that their “practices” and their “rules” and “doctrines” are like night and day; and yet both are darkness!  All religions are ruled by the doctrines of man.  Even those who seek to be “godlike” and, in the case of Christians, “Christ like”, fail miserably – because being “humans” and making our efforts from the “flesh” we are doomed to fail before we even start!

Gnosticism; what is it and why have I “added” it to the above title?  Gnosticism is knowledge and not of a material for spiritual realm.  There was a “brand” of Christianity some time around the time of Yahshua known as the Gnostic Christians.  The Gnostics were “people of spirit”.  There were two other “assemblies” of peoples (or as we might call them today “religions”, including “agnostics”).  These were those who were “ignorant” (people whom today we’d label unbelievers and say they weren’t “saved” and we really really need to “save” them…yeah right; like any man can save another!)  and these were “people of the flesh,” and ordinary “Christians” who were “people of the soul.” I think that today we continue to be the “people of the soul” and that that is why we continue to struggle.

Yahshua came to “set us free,” just as YHWH set the people free from slavery to Pharoah in Egypt.  The freedom that Yahshua is about is freedom from the things of the flesh and the rule of the soul; freedom of Spirit!

The “church” continues to this day with the symbolism of Yahshua being the “head” and the “church” being the body and thus we are united with him of one accord.  But even in that, don’t you see, there is a disjointedness; a separation; a difference?  We are told by Yahshua himself that he and the father are one and that just as they are one so shall we be one.  I don’t know about you but I don’t see any “divisiveness” in one; one is a whole integer, cannot be seen as separate, there are no distinguishing lines like you would visiualize between a “head” and a “body”. We are told (if anyone reads the Bible/Torah/Tanakh) by YHWH that He is Spirit and that humankind was made in His “image”.  Thus you and I folks, well we aren’t this skin, bone & blood we see; we are what cannot be seen by the naked eye.  We are Spirit!!!  And, our Spirit needs to be set free from the rule of the flesh.  Yahshua said, “Ask and it shall be done.” and “Anything you ask in my name….” (according to the heart of the Father), well it would be done!

I think we motley crew have failed, because you see we’ve been blind all these years, and didn’t even know it; didn’t even know we had to ASK to be SET FREE; to set our SPIRITS FREE to fly, to rule, to be ONE with the ONE!

What are you waiting for; don’t you want to be set free from the weight of the things of the world that keep you oppressed, keep you “heavy laden.”  Again, Yahshua invited us so lovingly.  I can see his wonderful gentle face (if I must attribute human attributes to get the point across), his gentle eyes entreating all of us as he speaks in the book of Matthew, c. 11 v 28:

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Are you not weary of being weary?  What do you have to lose?  Give it a shot.  Why do you think “heart” disease is so rampant, especially here in North America?  “Hardening of the arteries;” just as the Hebrew children “hardened their hearts,” so too we have “hardened our hearts,” and caused a blockage such that we can no longer see, such that it is as though we have “blocked” the free flowing love of our Creator!  We are walking dead men and don’t even know it!  How our Creator weeps!

I’ve come a ways from my beginnings in the RC church, but have not yet reached that place where my Spirit rules, my Spirit is One and knows without thought that all is One; that I AM.

Hear what Yahshua speaks:

“Our thought was one with their thought, so they understood what I was saying.” … In word and peace they have united in the gnosis of Jesus, and Jesus concludes, “They have come to know fully and completely that the one who is is one, and all are one.  They have been taught about the One and the assembly [note, 'assembly,' not 'church'] and the members of the assembly.  For the father of all is immeasurable and immutable, mind, word, division, jealousy, fire, yet he is simply one, all in all in a single principle, because all are from a single spirit.”

Quoted from: Gnostic Gospels of Jesus, p. 245 - Marvin Meyer