Quote from Rearden Metal:
According to the New Testament, Jesus was indisputably NOT killed by his fellow Jews, but rather perished at the hand of Roman soldiers, right?
Technically, I was killed for "sins". By my definition, sins are seriously insane notions taken way too seriously. Sin is the denial of reality. Sin is a false idea about God's Son. Man expresses the idea of mind imprisoned within a body. This is seriously insane. From this disadvantage point, his ideas about the Son of God become more and more distorted, and he must withdraw further and further into insanity. Thus, "man" is synonymous with "sin" and "anti-Christ". The "beast" is
guilt, from which concept rises man:
the number of the beast. The number is simply
legion. The body is the
engine of destruction, threatening to destroy the holy "temple" of the Son's mind, driving him forever mad. Hence, I was killed by a Roman
legion with the encouragement of a race which symbolizes the
denial of reality through it's involvement with an idol, specifically YWHW/Jehovah. This idolotry makes guilt the "truth", making the Truth guilty. According to this idol, the truth is blasphemous. This idol will not abide equality and innocence. This makes for a world in which the Son can be mocked and killed. In such a world, every death is the death of the Son, for if anything can die, the truth of eternal Life itself must be a lie. Thus, this world would *prove* that truth is a lie. This is the insanity of "sin". And this is how Christ seems to *die*. Man *proves* that Christ is dead, replacing reality with himself. For if man is real, the Son must be dead, and His Father killed with him. Resurrection *proves* that only the Truth is true. In accepting this truth is man's salvation. If anyone can Live, then all must Live.
Since man is in the mind of Christ, his existence threatens to destroy the Son's holy mind.
This is what killed me. Rather, this is what
threatened to kill me. As it turns out, the Son of God could not be destroyed. This means man will cease to exist in the mind of the Son, allowing him to wake up from a deep, nightmarish sleep in which he dreamed of separation, exile and death.
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