The Path of Jesus Christ

     Believing the Path of Jesus Christ to be a casual religion or simple creed is to misunderstand and misrepresent everything Jesus Christ and His Apostles taught.

     It is not a matter of believing or doing this or that in order to get into heaven. Jesus Christ has already atoned for the sins of the entire world. Justification is already dealt with whether you are aware of it or not. Simply do not knowingly reject Him. The work of Jesus Christ on the cross makes the Path of Jesus Christ possible for us to follow.

     The Path of Jesus Christ is not about deliverance from the consequences of our errors and malfunctions. This is neither focus nor the goal of this aspect of our salvation. This was already dealt with and is a given. The Path of Jesus Christ is about deliverance in this life, in these physical, biological bodies from our hereditary, human neurological malfunction with which we are all born and which influences and impacts every action, word, and thought we have.

     The Path of Jesus Christ absolutely requires obedience and submission to Jesus Christ. Deliverance from the malfunction itself, rather than its consequences, in this life means doing what He said in the same way deliverance from any illness requires doing what is prescribed by the attending physician. Deliverance from one's own malfunction means disowning yourself, as Jesus did, and submitting to Jesus Christ with whom you have been joined through baptism into His death and resurrection, just as Jesus Himself submitted to the Father in such a way to where He said nothing and did nothing which the Father did not say or do through Him. It means imitating Christ by submitting to Him as He submitted to the Father with whom He is joined. It means learning to recognize when it is your own neurology or psyche in control of your words, thoughts, or actions, when it is that of Jesus Christ, and learning to shut down your own in favor of Christ's.

     The Path of Jesus Christ requires removal from your life any attachments which impede or get in the way of submission to Christ with whom you have been joined. He said as much including family relationships, possessions, property, ideas, and even your own psyche if it got in the way in the list of things His disciples were required to let go of in order to follow Him. Anything which might trigger a reversion to one's self was to be cut out and thrown away. 

     The Path of Jesus Christ is characterized by lovingkindness, compassion, mercy, courtesy, caring for others, and self-sacrifical love for everyone regardless of their relationship to you. It is fundamentally non-judgmental and without a morality imposed on those who have not dedicated themselves to it. For those who have dedicated themselves to it, the focus and goal is the expression of Jesus Christ to all others and those who have dedicated themselves to it are expected to hold one another accountable and help them to return to the path by every means available if they slip into their own neurology and psyche as opposed to Christ's. The Path of Jesus Christ is a commitment one makes at Baptism and is not to be taken lightly.

     The Path of Jesus Christ demands a response. It is all consuming. It impacts everything you are or believe yourself to be. Once you commit yourself to Him at baptism, there is no turning back to ignorance. You either enslave yourself to Him or you enslave yourself unnecessarily to your own biology. If you enslave yourself to Him, you grow closer to Him and joining between you and Him becomes stronger as He is seen and heard more and more through you. If you enslave yourself to your own biology, the joining grows weaker and your own neurology, your own malfunctioning fear, aggression, feeding and sexual responses, as well as likes and dislikes grow stronger and it becomes as though you never knew Him and at what point does it become a knowing rejection or disowning of Him? Do you notice it? Do you care? Treating that joining with Him with contempt is without forgiveness by the Father.

     The Path of Jesus Christ is not a casual, fashionable religious belief. It is not a series of creeds or statements of belief. It is nothing short of a progression of total surrender to Jesus Christ within you.