Jesus Does Not Want Our Worship

Jesus did not feel the solution to the world's deafness and blindness lay in the creation of a koinonia that would make him the center of an other-worldly cult.

He never appears to have regarded worship of himself as necessary to anything, quite the contrary.

It is the entirety of his message that he is concerned with.

It is that he be listened to that Abba cares about.

None is good save Abba, Jesus tells the rich young ruler.

But the young church which remembered him and gave us the record of his ministry after his death and resurrection subtly altered the focus of Jesus to conform with their move from following Abba's way to venerating Jesus. This is reflected in the gospel narratives.

Indeed, there is no easy answer,

it is possible that much of the messianism in the New Testament is an overlay based upon a misinterpretation of all that Jesus said and did.

We face a mixed up text from which I infer from the weight of evidence that Jesus was not a creedal-messianist.

This does not to say that Abba was not in him as I believe he is in all persons.

It is not to deny resurrection.

It is simply to suggest the incredible difference between Christianity as based on the way of Abba and what we ended up with, based on the creation of a religion of the Gate, with the human institution as the gate keeper.

I say that to Jesus this is close to an abomination. It does not parse with his teachings or his actions. Even John's evocative Gospel can be read without a creedal messianist gloss - as Jesus suggesting the realistic philosophy of which he is a progenitor.