“Jesus was not a Christian”
by Kelvin Chin
Jesus was not a Christian. And he did not refer to himself as “Christ.”
Do you know what “Christ” means? “Christos” is Greek for “anointed one.” It’s the Greek translation of the Hebrew word for “Messiah.”
Who started calling him that? Paul did. Paul of Tarsus, the Greek speaking guy who was persecuting (killing) Jesus’s teachers after Jesus was murdered. Paul, who never met Jesus, who never heard him speak, who knew none of Jesus’s teachings. That guy.
Paul, the guy who made up the myth, the very effective “marketing myth,” that Jesus died on the cross to save all so-called believers from their sins and that they would then avoid punishment and skip to the head of the line to enter the pearly gates of heaven. That guy, Paul.
So, who is the more credible source of Jesus’s teachings? People who sat with Jesus, who walked, ate and studied with him, who were with him the day he died and saw him after his resurrection? Or Paul, who was killing Jesus’s teachers for 3-1/2 years after Jesus was murdered?
If any of this surprises you, then you need to read some of the basic history of that time period that religious scholars have agreed on for many decades. Paul started the religion known as Christianity. That religion has little relevance to the life and teachings of Jesus.
Jesus did not view himself as a savior of humanity. Or as the chosen or anointed one. He saw himself as a teacher, a spiritual teacher. He did not come to start a new religion nor to be a political rabble rouser for the Jews versus the Romans.
See my third book “After the Afterlife” for my memories of what his core teachings were.
Kelvin H. Chin is a Meditation Teacher, Life After Life Expert, and Author of “Overcoming the Fear of Death,” “Marcus Aurelius Updated: 21st Century Meditations On Living Life” and “After the Afterlife: Memories of My Past Lives.” He learned to meditate at age 19, and has been teaching Turning Within Meditation and coaching others in their self-growth for 50 years. He helps people understand their life challenges through their individual belief systems, and helps them find their own solutions. His past life memories reach back many centuries, and he accesses those memories in his teaching and his coaching in the same way all coaches draw on their own available experiences for perspective and effective analogies. He can be reached at www.TurningWithin.org.