Jesus was a heretic
Jesus was a heretic in his day:
- he outraged the keepers of the law of Moses,
- he did not keep the Sabbath,
- he broke the fasting rules,
- he “criticized” the Scriptures,
- he caused a scandal in the temple;
- therefore, the Heretics Act was applied to him when he was sentenced to death.
Jesus was a scandal to the Jews and a fool to the Greeks (1 Corinthians 1:23). Jesus stepped out of the usual religiosity and brought something radically new. The official guardians of the order considered Jesus to be a disorder.
Yet, Jesus was the most divine where he was a heretic. The traditional order: "worship God, then you get to know yourself, and then you get to your neighbor as well." Jesus reverses this order: "first settle your affairs with your neighbor, in the process you get to know yourself, and you cry out, be merciful to me, Lord, for I am evil" - while your affair with your neighbor reveals how much you need God.
I want to burden you with the Word. There is no point in any kind of religiosity if true human issues are not resolved. The practice of religion, regardless of denomination, is that sick souls worship God with unsolved problems: at least some small malt when I can no longer solve the problems. On the other hand, let us say that God does not tolerate the worship of the sick soul who chooses the easier path of religion instead of the more difficult way of solving problems.
Stop religion, go after people who are tormented, they are tormented by you . Jesus does not call for religiosity, but sends us to people, not calling us to the temple, but calling to settle our unresolved affairs with one another.
Beware of the religious solutions in which you have fled from obedience, for it is easier to worship Jesus and study the Word than to settle our messy things.
That is why the cause of Jesus became a religion, even though He just wanted to dissolve the barren religiosity in people so that it would be a living and effective faith in everyday life.
But man is a damned religious being. The most showy, most refined atheism is religiosity. We circumvent God’s commandments through religious practices. This was revealed by Jesus. He had to die in it.
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Self-realization is not to be taken in today’s individual, selfish sense, but in the biblical sense: I am a “vessel”.
For man is the spiritual being whose sin, that is, his greatest misery, is precisely that he cannot realize himself in his own strength.
But the Holy Spirit helps him/her with this.
