Ignorance. Does it get any clearer than this? Please make sure that you read the link on page one on the temple sacrifices, so you will know the source of this story, and you will be more certain than ever who wrote it. (If you missed the link, here it is again.) This person was not a true follower of Jesus. We have to remember that the New Testament was not canonized until a few hundred years after the death of Jesus. The names that are on the Synoptic Gospels may not be the real ones, but rather what other people wrote and ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They are, however, based on Pharisaic Judaism, which later split to become Pauline Christianity, not what Jesus believed.

Some might argue saying that pork is not kosher anyway, which is true according to Semitic dietary law, but this still does not excuse imbuing a herd of swine with evil spirits. Even pigs are God's creatures. Again, I challenge you to look beyond the righteousness of the Pharisees, as Jesus did, to see the lie in the above section of the Bible. This is not the face of God, and this is not the face of Jesus. To find out more about what Jesus believed, including animal sacrifices, please click here. This will take you to a menu of articles written by a modern-day Essene church that I consider to be correct in this regard.

The Church teaches that God turned His face from Jesus at the end, right before He took him up to Heaven, because He was so full of sin, that the Lord could not look upon His only begotten son. Do you think for one minute that God cannot see sin? God is not blind. How can He reward or punish if He doesn't know what we're doing? Even so, Christ did not take the sins of the world upon himself. Christ did not die for us in that way. To do so would have meant that he defiled himself and then condemned himself to hell for all eternity for suicide. Jesus was too smart for that. I believe he knew that his self-sacrifice would be misinterpreted, and so he hesitated the night before in the Garden of Gethsemane (for this and other reasons).

(Yes, I also know that the Church teaches that Jesus is ruler over both heaven and hell and this is why he was able to take the world's sins on himself and actually descend into the nether regions without becoming permanently defiled. This is a misinterpretation of how the line of David and the priesthood of Melchizedek functioned, and will be discussed in greater detail in another section. Suffice to say that for now, the Melchizedek, or Michael-Zadok, was the high priest, or Elohim, of that order and functioned as God's representative on earth to judge the "living and the dead," those who were in God (spiritually alive) and those who were in Satan (spiritually dead).)

Therefore, do you want that guilt on your heads, that someone died for your sins? How about sins that you haven't even committed yet? Are you guilty until proven innocent? The Bible says that we are all sinners because of what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden. Do you believe that? Or do you believe the correct version of the Fall, the fall of the Watchers of Heaven who sided with Satan when he wanted God's throne, the truth that has been branded as heresy by the Church?

Do you want the taint of things which you never did and may never do, thinking that Jesus died for the sins of the whole species, or do you believe that each man and woman should be held accountable before the throne of God on an individual basis and be judged accordingly? Do you like to bear the weight of all of mankind upon your shoulders or would you rather learn from history and make sure that you don't repeat those sins, and just deal with your own, between God and yourself? How can you live with yourself if you believe that someone died because you are a sinner? Or are you a coward, afraid to face up to your wrongdoings and to go on your knees before God and beg for forgiveness, so instead you take the easy way out?