Before I start let me focus our topic, most religions are surrounded around a concept of an omnipresent god like the one discussed in this crash course video:

The real issue is divine interventions into our lives. The prophets that shaped most modern monotheisms: Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad, have been deluded by time. When we contrast ancient times to contemporary time, our ability to recognize how hard it would be to do what we “know” these people have done become insurmountable in our current social system.

First, let’s examine how what we hold true was recorded and how are we to interpret it. Let’s focus on the Bible for an example, specifically the New Testament. In this book we learn about Jesus of Nazarene. Now I’ll ask, have you ever played broken telephone? Have you ever listened to your grandfather tell a story after a meal? The stories that encapsulate the life of the Healer, were not written in any sort of real time. They were written after years of being simply oral traditions, then they translated through several languages by hand over centuries until the printing press was invented and published the standard copies which hold the interpretations that people now read in the Bible.

Let’s even note that the most common picture of Jesus is a Caucasian man with blue eyes, even though the same Bible describes him as having wooly hair and being born in, a then Egyptian outpost city. Now this may be a contested point but let’s stick to actual genetic evidence of populations via environmental factors, migration patterns and isolated genetic mutations as they emerged in the human genome. I’m not saying there wasn’t white people, I’m saying they didn’t live in where Jesus was born or where his family came from. I’m also saying that most pictures are overly European. That’s a fair mistake for back in the day before we could travel the world, map our history both contextual and genetic but it’s ignorant now. When the news of the Messiah reached the first people to illustrate him, they didn’t even know what Arab people looked like, because no one in Europe at the time had ever seen one.

Before you get upset reinforcing the ideal that you know, I ask you to do your own research and only open your mouth if you can prove me wrong with information validities by a reputable historian, not your local pastor or preacher. (Be sure to ask about worshipping false idols and using it as a stance to systemically persecute, colonize and subjugate others, while erasing culture and starting what will later develop into a social concept of beauty surrounding that same incorrect image. it’ll be a fun, informative talk on morality!) Chances are, they don’t have degrees in any relevant field to supplement their historical knowledge of human genetics, historical migration and settlement patterns.

Now back to the main points. Many People live their lives believing that at some point, God will intervene in our lives in the form of a prophet or Messiah and lead us down the path to redemption and everlasting life. But what is the difference between a Messiah/ Prophet and the actual concept of God? The separation of Concept and the Tangible. The real manifestation of God and the mortal messenger. A good way to dissect this, is using classical philosophy which fuels much of the theological development on the concept of God, including the ideas presented in the embedded Crash Course video.

We start with the problem of the Universals- this issue is basically broken down to the properties that are exclusive to an object or a thing, like saying God is “____” denotes an attribute to what God is and isn’t. This ambiguity opens up interpretations, differences of opinions and ideas to describe God. To be honest most strife’s in Judeo-Christian monotheism, is from this variance of describing a Universal, or an intangible concept.

When we come to accept Messiah’s like Jesus or Muhammad, as God on earth or his divine creations that he works his will through, we’ve given a tangible Form to God. That in essence becomes an inseparable context in which to view the divine concept, thus limiting it to something and not something. I’m going to break down the idea rather simply, but I’m using classical philosophy, because Judeo- Christian religions have used the same schools of thought to prove their stances on God. So, I might as well drink from the same well, as well. Using the philosophical fix to the Problem of the Universals proposed by Plato, the Theory of Forms: God is perfect because we conceive the idea out of pure thought. So any idea I have about God and what you have about God will be different, but we can settle on one thing: The only form given to God in which tangible characteristics can be drawn from is the human form, his prophets make him a reducible and contrasting quantity we can measure as human, if we are to believe what their respective faiths believe about their divinity. Think of Aristotle’s contrasting viewpoints about Universals, they can be simultaneously occurring things but share the same attributes. The attributes we attach to God are the same attributes we can say about ourselves, but in a limited spectrum. So to assume God as a Form and not a Concept we must start to think of God as a Human. Otherwise God remains only a concept and never a real thing.

Sowhy is this important? Because in our current world, God as a Human would never be accepted. We don’t accept each other, not in the slightest. We surround ourselves with people who like what we like, believe what we believe, live near us and do what we do.

This begs the question, if in a world where God is a human, what makes Him different from the people we don’t like?

The people we pass on the street and don’t give change to, because they “probably deserve being there”?

A member of some other faith, so we can’t believe they’re God?

What if they are from a “Race” other than yours?

What if they were a Gender you don’t accept?Or any undesirable trait that makes us not want to accept they are God?

What would you want then? A miracle?

What could God possibly do to convince you they were God, other than put on a magic show like David Copperfield?

What if they could never reach you because like the homeless person you pass on the street, they didn’t have the tools to reach you?

Sure, you may say that God on earth would be perfect, but if they weren’t your brand of perfect would you feel less human?

What is “perfect” anyway, I’m sure my example would be different than yours, so would perfect be relatable?

Would you feel inadequate for using God’s name to hate? and would your Faith be the determining factor here? because what if you had faith that your Messiah was still coming, while passing the actual Messiah.

Whose responsibility would it be to convince you, theirs or yours? even if they countered your ideal of what God would look like?

There’s also a logistical side to a new “Messiah”, we have institutions surrounding monotheisms, would they be swayed by a new Savior?

Most religious factions would have you believe they serve God and carry out His work on earth, but if God ever came again would he praise them? or call out their flaws and lies, rip the veil from false servants and judge them on the merit of their hearts. How they responded, would ultimately tell truths to their conviction and sincerity of their intent.

Another good question would be; how relatable would this Savior be?

Would they be as educated as the general public, or would they be a scholar imparting wisdom to through status and achievement?

Would these separations make them any easier to understand or harder to love and identify with?

Any Messiah would have to be smarter than the general public, how else would they expect to lead, but would their insight come through comfort or struggle?

Whose responsibility would it be to weigh their mortal suffering against the struggle of anyone else’s?

Would it be the Omnipresent, omnipotent, all powerful God, like in the Video, or would it be up to man to decide?

and in the act of deciding, who would we ultimately be serving, by turning them away?

Our ideal of God in which we worship,

or our Self idealized version of God:

which could only be perfect to any one person?

Isn’t the difference of opinion, why we have so many monotheistic fractions worshipping the same Semitic God?

Atthe end of the day, no Human has universal appeal. No one is loved without question, because we subconsciously question whom we love because of our own inadequacies or shortcomings. And maybe it’s this inability to be truly perfect that killed Jesus, because to the people who followed him, he was perfect, but to those who hated the true Son of God, He was trouble. So in order to understand any intervention into our lives, we have to look at people, not with our ideals superimposed over them.

We have to see what they are saying with clear hearts and what they want for us with open dialogue. This underlies the problem with established religions, and their formula of confroming to a standard ideological practice that lack of flexiblity and does not allow for the adapatation to the constantly evolving human condition. It merely permits interpretations based on the prescription, in Semitic religions, this has segemented the faiths into three popularized sects of essentially the same faith. Along with restricting the development of modern aspects of civilization and stagnating ethical discussions with interpretive perspectives, rather than a clear intent to wholistically improve the lives of people – which all divine interventions sought to do for “the people” and the world. This saviour wouldn’t conform to the prescriptions of most faiths they’d claim to represent. This blocks the shift in ideas and belief to support the need for intervention. we’d expect to hear that we were right, that we are chosen, but in doing so you lack the need for a saviour.

which means we’ll never be saved,

We’ll just kill them….

and keep waiting for eternity without change.

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