How to be a Christian

Believing that Jesus Christ is your savior makes you a Christian is to believe that you can be saved and that Jesus is just the guy to do it even though he has been dead for 2000 years. Well, the truth is that you cannot be saved, you are going to suffer and there is not much you can do about it. And yes you will die, you probably will not have consciousness afterward except for the god consciousness that all things in the universe have. Jesus will not save you from death, he will not save you from suffering. In fact believing that Jesus will save you will cause you more suffering in the long run, mostly because it is a lie and lies always give on a false sense of security and lots of anxiety. So, believing that Jesus is your personal savior is not the way to be a Christian. For that we have to look at what Jesus taught and how he lived.

Jesus never married or had a family except for his disciples and the love of his live, Mary Magdalene. So right away we can say that the family life is not the Christian life and that marriage does not have to be a social contract, he can just be a personal one. Remember what Jesus about his parents when they came looking for him. Something like, they or not my father nor my mother rather you here gathered are my family. Families are constructed for the sole purpose of teaching you the way life isn't so that you can live you life in a cave like everyone else and not really seek what life is about. You will control yourself. You will not shame the family that gave you life (really? Isn't it god that gives you life) and that took care of you when you could not care for yourself (a thank you would be appropriate here) but do we really have to make the family our whole life? Do we have to accept the same beliefs they held? I think Jesus was right, the more I think about it, you family are people who have the same interests and beliefs as you do (the one's you found out for yourself). The people you attract in life and the one's you are attracted to, that is your family. This family does not indoctrinate you with beliefs their parents taught them, they do not use the power of familiarity into controlling your life so that you, in the end, have no free will. Another way to say this is that your life is not your life. This is not against communities, but you must freely choose the communities you belong too.

Another part of being a Christian is that you have to be poor. A rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and entering the kingdom of heaven is just what a Christian wants to do. The kingdom of heaven is spread amongst the earth but men do not see it. Christians should believe this saying that we accredit to Jesus and must try every day to see it. This minister's that have made a lot of money selling Christianity to the poor will not enter the kingdom it is something they over look. But all the poor that they made their money off of will. I could name names but you all know who these ministers and priests are, they have been on TV and are well known Not only the rich ministers and priests but any person that has more than they need to live and live their dream.

I would define the "Kingdom of Heaven" as a state of consciousness whereby all people are seen as similar i. e. sons and daughters of god, and are treated as such. And, further, that all things made and yet unmade come from the force that made and makes all things. This beingness is not an entity separate from us but has its being in all things. When you look out upon the earth and you think about the universe you should be in awe that you live in such a place. A place that gives you air to breath, water to drink, and food to eat. A place where our planet spins without throwing anyone off and there is a sun to keep us warm and to make the stars shine.

Another thiing you must be willing to do if you want to call yourself a Christian is to give the shirt off your back to anyone that asks for it. You must give coins to beggars. This is a sign of your humanity and your knowledge that god the father has provided for you and will provide for you in the future. If someone asks for your coat, give him your shirt also.

To sum up, to be a Christian you must be single but have a companion. You must be poor and you must leave it to god to take care of you. You should not work at anything. You should spend your day doing as you like. If you have ever had periods in your life like this you will remember them with fondness, for you had no stress, you had no hatred of anyone, you had no fear, you had enough food to eat, friends to keep you company, and enough sex to keep you relaxed and happy. You don't have to read the bible, go to a Christian church, hang out with other Christians or worship god or pray. But you could do all those things, as you like. Just don't believe that doing them makes you a Christian., it could actually make you less of a Christian. It is your state of mind (how you thing about the world) and your kind acts that makes you a Christian.