July 18, 2025

The church came before the Bible--specifically the Church of Rome which took the lead in establishing the official version of the Bible in 397 CE. Which gave the Church 397 years to fine-tune the version of the Bible that was declared, by the Church, to be "The Word of God," but which actually was the words the Church declared to be the Word of God.

And who stood to gain the most from the Word the Church declared to be "of God"? Why, the Church of course. The Jesus the Church said was "the way, the truth and the life," was defined as such by the Church which became, in so saying, the way to the way, which, in effect, made the Church The Way. 

The Way proclaiming which way to heaven and life ever lasting, and which way to hell and life forever experiencing the tortures of lakes of lava and agony beyond description.

And, when Jesus was said to have said, "Come to me all who suffer and heavy laden, and I will give you rest," who but the church was there to receive the weak and weighed down with sin and shame, and who but the Church to announce them saved.

And how did the church profit from its position? In all ways great and small! And is still so doing to this very day!

And, to this day, Jesus stands before all the Cosmos, saying, "You have heard it said, but I say unto you!" And what does Jesus say unto us that is not what the Church says that Jesus would say, but the "word that is in our hearts and in our mouths, here, now"? We discover that for ourselves by dropping into the emptiness, stillness and silence, like the Gnostic Christians who gave the Church of Rome such opposition throughout those 397 years the Bible was being perfected and finalized, and waiting in the silence for what arises, emerges, appears as direct and immediate revelation/realization/awareness spoken by Psyche to Psyche, from heart to heart, knowing communing with knowing, without the intrusion of the Church pronouncing what is in the Church's best interest for us to hear. Or, as Jesus would say to us, "You have ears to hear--use them! You have eyes to see--open them!" And so it is from this time forth and forever more. We have eyes, use them! We have ears, use them!

Jesus did not say, "You all are sinful so your eyes are blind and your ears of deaf because of your sin!" But the Church said that--and is still saying it. And what do we say is the question!