The God of Jesus

Deists value, appreciate and use our gift from The Supreme Intelligence/God of innate reason. We apply it to absolutely everything, including religions. When we apply it to Christianity, we realize Christianity cannot withstand the light of our innate God-given reason. Our reason explodes long held assumptions about Jesus and Christianity and exposes the reality that Christianity is not based on love and peace.

Our innate God-given reason tells us that when we talk or write about Jesus, we should always keep in mind that there is no way of knowing if Jesus really existed as a mere human. There are several reasons for this, with the primary reason being that there are no writings about Jesus by contemporary writers. If half the claims made in the Christian Bible about Jesus were true, claims such as Jesus healing sick people, restoring vision to the blind and hearing to the deaf, bringing dead people back to life, feeding 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, not to mention the dead people who allegedly came back to life when Jesus died and who hung out at their graves until Jesus also came back to life at which time they went into Jerusalem and "appeared onto many", there would have been hundreds, if not more, contemporary writers writing about Jesus. Jesus and his miracles would have become common knowledge throughout the Roman Empire. The fact is, not one contemporary writer wrote about Jesus. Even Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE – 50 CE), who wrote extensively on religious topics, never mentioned Jesus. Add to this the fact that all of the Christian Gospels were written by anonymous authors decades after it is claimed Jesus lived and there is little reason to believe Jesus existed as a real person. (To be more factual and accurate, when we say or write something attributed to Jesus, we shouldn't say or write that Jesus said it, we should say or write, "The anonymous authors of the Christian Gospels claim that Jesus said such and such.")

Assuming that Jesus really did exist, we know based on the Christian Bible that he was a religious Jew who believed the cruel and irrational Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament) was the Word of God. Objectively looking at how the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Torah portrayed The Supreme Intelligence/God, coupled with quotes in the Christian Gospels attributed to Jesus by their anonymous authors, gives us a realistic idea of the God of Jesus.

The Supreme Intelligence/God to the Judaism-riddled mind of Jesus was cruel and brutal. Jesus believed all the sickening stories in the Torah about God, stories such as the story of Noah and the flood which claims God killed all life on Earth, which included unborn babies, infants, toddlers, children, adults and the elderly not to mention all the animals and wildlife, by drowning. The fact that Jesus believed the Torah is the Word of God, means he believed the claim that God commanded Abraham to kill his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice to himself/God because God wanted to know if Abraham feared him enough to actually murder his own and only son as a sacrifice (this ungodly and repulsive Bible story has reached into the 21st century and was motivation for a Bible believing Christian woman to kill two of her three sons and to permanently handicap her third son).

The fact that the God of Jesus was the cruel god of Judaism is evident at Matthew 15:3-6. These verses claim Jesus got angry with the Pharisees for not following the command in the Torah at Exodus 21:17 to kill children who curse their parents. I don't think these verses appear in any children's Bibles!

The Torah and Judaism not only portray The Supreme Intelligence/God as a cruel and brutal genocidal maniac who commanded the Jews to commit genocide against their neighbors and to keep alive the "women children"/virgins for themselves, as is seen in the entire chapter of Numbers 31, they also portray God as suffering from jealously. At Exodus 34:14 God says, "For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."

At Matthew 25:14-30 we see the anonymous author portrays Jesus as having an idea of God as being akin to a cruel and greedy slave owner. In these verses Jesus tells the story of a cruel and greedy slave owner/God giving his slaves one, two and five talents of silver prior to leaving on a long journey. Upon the master's return he discovers that the slaves he left with five and two talents have doubled his money by trading with them. The slave who he left with only one talent knew how unjust, greedy and cruel the slave owner/God was and was afraid to risk losing the one talent he was given so he buried it in the ground and retrieved it when the slave owner/God returned. This angered the slave owner/God because he did not even gain a profit through usury. He orders the one talent to be taken from the slave and given to the slave who had ten talents. Verses 29 and 30 have Jesus saying,

"For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

The God of Jesus as depicted in the Torah is an insult to The Supreme Intelligence/God and to all thinking and caring people. It caused Thomas Paine to ask us in The Age of Reason,

"Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?"

Also in The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine made it clear that he believed,

"It is a duty incumbent on every true Deist, that he vindicate the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

Deism offers us all a rational, natural and refreshing alternative to the cruelty and irrationality of the God of Jesus, as well as to the God of Mohammad and to the God of Joseph Smith. All of these gods have their origins in the pages of man-made "holy" books misrepresented as being the Word of God. Deism proclaims the true Word of God is found in nature and the universe. Thomas Paine beautifully expressed this when he wrote in The Age of Reason,

"It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a Word of God can unite. The Creation speaks a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God."