"In him was life; and the life was the light of men." (John 14: 4)
Since religions are created from the imaginations of men, religion has no life in it because religion is not living; and everything else that is within religion is also not living.
How, then, can anything not living give anything?
How can something not living heal the sick, give sight to the blind, forgive sin, or raise up people from death?
How can something not living give life after death?
How can gods that do not exist abide in a place called Heaven?
Through religion, man has built an artificial reality in the minds of people because of the power of imagination through the power of programmed mind control, which usually begins in the minds of young children.
Even in religious Christianity, an image of Christ can be built in the minds of people, thereby enabling people to believe they are Christians simply because their minds have been programmed to believe in an image of Christ in their own imaginations, which likely happened to them when they were young children.
Consider the success Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny have had in the lives of children, which they believe are real.
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were invented and sent forth to distract the minds of children from thinking about Jesus at Christmas and Jesus at Easter; and adults, who got caught up in this trick on children, went along with it and stopped telling children about the truth of Christ, which means that children began to think of Jesus as an imaginary character in the cast of players: Santa, Bunny, Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and barnyard animals, presented to them in ceramic or plastic images; and when the holiday seasons are over, all of the characters go back in a box until next year: so that Jesus, to them, is not living, after which they turn their attention to toys and candy.
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were invented and sent forth to distract the minds of children from thinking about Jesus at Christmas and Jesus at Easter; and adults, who got caught up in this trick on children, went along with it and stopped telling children about the truth of Christ, which means that children began to think of Jesus as an imaginary character in the cast of players: Santa, Bunny, Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and barnyard animals, presented to them in ceramic or plastic images; and when the holiday seasons are over, all of the characters go back in a box until next year: so that Jesus, to them, is not living, after which they turn their attention to toys and candy.
In like manner, gods and goddesses of religion are built in the minds of children by the same teaching method, which is reinforced by the parents: because their own minds have been deceived, they assist in the deception of their own children. Because parents have been educated in the school of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, they teach their children the same because Christ is a stranger to them, and the Bible is a book of myth.
If Jesus, therefore, is not presented by parents to children as living, neither will the children believe that Jesus is living; for everything that the parents know about Jesus is in their imaginations, and they will transfer their knowledge, which is no more than a image, to the minds of their own children.
"God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." (1st John 4: 16)
Since we know that God is living, and since we know that God is love, the love of God does not abide in religion because religion has no life in it: it is not living, neither has it ever lived: for it is a world of nothingness, an artificial reality.
What, then, should we believe about Christ?
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came into his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." (John 1: 10-12)
If Jesus, therefore, is not presented by parents to children as living, neither will the children believe that Jesus is living; for everything that the parents know about Jesus is in their imaginations, and they will transfer their knowledge, which is no more than a image, to the minds of their own children.
"God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." (1st John 4: 16)
Since we know that God is living, and since we know that God is love, the love of God does not abide in religion because religion has no life in it: it is not living, neither has it ever lived: for it is a world of nothingness, an artificial reality.
What, then, should we believe about Christ?
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came into his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." (John 1: 10-12)
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