The real meaning of the 1st Commandment

[Kenneth]

The first commandment says that, “I am the LORD your GOD, thou shall not have any other GODS before me.”

What a wonderful instruction from GOD and I beleive that we need to understand the commandment more clearly.

At the time when Moses received the Ten Commandments from GOD and when he went up the hill, the people downhill had forgotten all the favours received from GOD and thought that Moses will not return. So they started merry making indulging in bad acts and created a golden calf to symbolise their new acts, ideas and celebrate their new lifestyle. That was very free and pervert unlike teachings of Moses. So When Moses returned and saw his people indulging in these acts, he then realised why GOD gave him the commandments.

What GOD actually meant by telling “Though shall not have any other GOD’s” is to avoid all the unnatural, pervert, and false acts that are against righteousness and order, that the people of Moses worshiped GOD in the form of a Golden Calf. Here it is not the idol but the ideas that the people of Moses worshiped or followed that GOD condemned.

Some EGOISTIC people for some ulterior motives, have not interpreted GOD’s words rightly to the world. The result is that till today, many of us have shunned, feared and even insulted other religions by a very wrong understanding of this Commandment.

That but that too is GOD’s plan beacuse nothing in this world good or bad happens without his will. So I accept, because certain false things are allowed to be free in this world and at the end they fail and start giving better clarity to truth.

I wish that others especially my Christian friends see spirituality in a more broader sense.

From what I know as a born Christian, Jesus never coined the name Christ or Christian. All he preached was about wisdom, meaning to hear, speak and do good and refrain from sin and hatred and love thy neighbour as thyself and accept GOD and other words of wisdom. Jesus never mentioned anything about Christianity or be Christian. Only people have coined the word Christian.

When man began to interpret his philosophy based on Jesus, his real teachings were side-lined and came out as a religion of Christianity then was further sub-dived into Protestants, Pentecostals, and so on. The religion became more popular than his real teachings.

I am not against Christianity and Jesus. My intention is to express about Jesus in his purest form without any ulterior motives.

The world has to move from Religion to Sprituality and let us accept all the opposites and differences that GOD has created as it is. For e.g. There could be different religions but let us accept that it is the very same GOD whom we believe, created other religions and its people as well. Even atheists are created by GOD for a reason.

There is a saying in Kerala , South-India, which means that standing on the shore of the ocean, we can never really imagine and understand the vastness of ocean. All we know is the waves that sweep through our feet.

We need to look beyond our ego, our religion and our experiences in life, to the people and the world around us to really understand Spirituality in its truest sense.

 

[Amergin]

Jesus did preach wisdom, compassion, and altruism. He believed that he was sent by God to do this work. He never claimed to be God, and as you said, the word Christ or Christian was never used in his time.

After his initial Jewish followers who did not see him as God but as an instrument of God, pagan converts began to paganise Jesus into a subordinate God, the Christ or Anointed. God was still seen as God and Jesus as a man elevated to a subordinate god (Arian Christianity.) Others still clung to Pagan religions and insisted on deifying Jesus thus breaking the 1st Commandment. They elevated Jesus to God himself in an irrational trinity God with Jesus replacing God in worship. That is called apotheosis.

Christians lost their connection to the God invented by Moses. Instead of focusing on the words of the prophet Jesus, they focused on a worship cult in which Jesus replaced JHWH as the universal god.

Deism as expressed by Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, Voltaire, and others agreed to venerate a Universal God called Providence. They rejected the creation of false Gods, like Jesus, but admired the real person, the man Jesus.

The Universal God is not a humanoid person with a personality, human virtues and vices, avarice, jealousy, rage, vindictiveness, cruelty, narcissism, insecurity (demanding worship,) and emotions. My view is that this Universal God is not conscious or cognitive, emotional, or communicative. It (God) is the sum of natural forces of macro and micro physics. It is energy that can form matter or break matter back down into energy. Primitive humans could not focus on such a god beyond human perception. They invented gods based on human characteristics (JHWH, El, Allah, Brahma, Ahura Mazda, Aed Alainn, Dagda, Odin, Zeus, Jupiter, and Baal. Perhaps we should model God as the Hadron Field.

Amergin