Monday, May 5, 2025
ONE WORLD/ONE FAMILY - Part 1
ONE WORLD /
ONE FAMILY!
By
Francis William Bessler
Laramie, Wyoming
Websites: una-bella-vita.com / francisbessler.com
Email: willieb@wyoming.com
8/8/2018
Modified briefly: April/2025
I do believe Jesus tried to teach that nearly 2,000 years ago – one world/one family; and “family” is not race or nation or even humanity. It is everything. Why? Because “everything” is of God. It is as simple as that.
But, in truth, the world has been taught in sundries of ways that the world is not one. It has been taught that there is good over here and bad over there. It has been taught that the good belong to a place called Heaven; and the bad belong to a place called Hell. Christians – such as me – have been taught that at some end of time Jesus will come to “judge the living and the dead” with the living representing those who were living at some end of time – and the dead representing all of those who have lived before.
But what is that? It is not “one world – one family,” is it? It is division with a capital D. Isn’t it? It is the good will end up in some wonderful eternity called Heaven; and the bad will end up in some eternity called Hell. It is not “one world – one family.” Is it?
Some would say what I am claiming is not Christian either. My guess is that it is likely any Christian who is reading this will be agreeing that “it is not Christian” to claim there is no place of Hell. Jesus was all about coming to humanity and rescuing those who believed in him to spend an eternity with him in Heaven while also threatening that those who did not believe in him with an eternity of Hell.
The problem with that “division thing” is that it flies in the face of the idea of Infinity – which I doubt any of the ancient moralists took into account. They simply did not consider it – and consequently, assumed that division is proper because that is all they saw before them. They simply put God in charge of one side of a divided world – and one called Satan in charge of the other side. How convenient!
But that “convenience” has seen fit to keep their ancient divided world divided – in spite of alternate moralists like Jesus attempting to tell a different tale. The Jews of Jesus’s time, for instance, were absolutely horrified that Jesus would offer that their entire history of believing in a “dividing God” could possibly be in error. Absolutely Not! Their Jehovah was the truth – and the truth was that their Jehovah chose them over other races within humanity. They were the “chosen race” of God – and what could that possibly mean but that those who were not chosen must be “divided” from those which were; and that little item of thought necessarily invalidated any notion that all races are the same. The Israelites were chosen. By demand, the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Greeks, the Romans had to be other.
So, Jesus came along and tried to teach a “one world – one family” notion based on an idea that all are “sons of the Living One” – not just Jews. Oops! That could not stand. The Jews were all about being “the chosen race.” How could it possibly be that all are sons of the Living One if not all are chosen? That’s crazy – they told themselves; and so they declared this Jesus a heretic of the first order and directed he be executed by whatever means the ruling Romans saw fit. That means of the time was crucifixion; and thus that is how Jesus would be executed. No one should dare challenge Jewish Law that all Jews must believe in a “Dividing God” they called Jehovah. In general, that is how I see what happened to Jesus.
But, Francis, you are wrong! Jesus came to save us from our sins. How dare you suggest otherwise! Well, that is what the ones who insisted on keeping with the idea of division had to say. If one does not consider the idea of Infinity – like probably most of the Jews of the day did not – then they are left with trying to fit Jesus into their “divided world” of thought. Thus, Jesus became not a liberator from traditional error, but a champion of “divided ways.” In declaring that Jesus came to save us from inherited sin – which separation from God is – Jesus was used only to continue the error of the past that the world is supposed to be divided – the good from the bad, the chosen from the un-chosen.
Oh, how I believed that as a child – as any child or adult would want to believe. How I wanted to believe that one day I would be with Jesus – given that Jesus was someone who could liberate me from a sin I thought I had. But, if, in fact, I have no sin, what then? Naturally I would not need Jesus to liberate me because the sin from which I might be liberated is not a real thing. If, once one takes the liberating idea of Infinity into account, one realizes that a God which is everywhere being equal to Infinity cannot be separated from anything, then sin goes away. No sin, no need for so called “redemption.” Right? No separation from God – as the Adam of the BIBLE would have us believe – no need to “reunify” what has not actually been “torn asunder.” Amazing, huh!
Indeed, I do believe we Christians have been misled. I think we have believed that Jesus was a messiah intent on saving us from our sins because that is what we were told – by the likes of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These four proclaimed from the house tops of their various tales that Jesus did not come to tell us we have no sin, but to serve as some strange grace that would deliver us from sin if we believed. Ah, that’s the rub. We have to believe we need saved in order to belong to the saved. That stands to reason. Of course, one has to believe in a need to be saved in order to step forward and request such an action.
But Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were not the only ones to tell a tale of Jesus. That is what most Christians do not even know. There were others – and from those others, among whom are the Apostle Thomas and the Apostle, Mary Magdalene - there are other tales. I won’t go into those tales much here, but be it known that I do try to cover their tales in a book I wrote about the subject that I called JESUS – ACCORDING TO THOMAS & MARY – AND ME.
Suffice it to say here that other tales were banned in the 4th Century by The Christian Church of the day, upon the cannonization of the BIBLE. Perhaps all unacceptable writings were not only banned by The Church in the 4th Century, but were probably instructed to be destroyed. Some of those banned writings were not destroyed, however, and were stashed in a cave off the Nile River in Egypt. Mostly by accident, those writings were discovered in 1945 by a peasant who just happened to come upon many of the banned writings of the 4th Century in a jar in a cave. Many, of course, will not want to entertain the possibility of a Jesus of a different view, so to speak; but there may be some like yours truly that have long considered such a possibility and have, in fact, committed to an alternate view. If you are one, like me, who suspects that the teaching of sin itself is heretical, then you might want to review such writings as THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS and THE GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE and go on with your life accordingly.