SweetBabyCheezits, believe it or not, I have a deeper appreciation for the Bible now than I ever did, after studying the various metaphysical, allegorical, gnostic, kabbalist etc. interpretations that reveal what Jesus' (and the Bible's) true message was before it was changed (literalized) and buried by the Church. They took Paul's meat and gave us milk. But Lo and behold, the Bible is in agreement with almost every spiritual teacher and philosopher who ever lived, from Homer to Socrates to Plato to Buddha to Pythagoras to Samael Aun Weor. I had spent my whole life trying to understand the Bible but it was futile. Why? It's like trying to read a book written in Chinese. How do you interpret it? Ask the Chinese! And once they do, how do you go back to not knowing and guessing?
Jesus came here to show us the way to God WITHIN, and that we could all BE Christs in Oneness with the Father. He never said to worship him, he said to follow him. Like the Watchtower, priests are in the sin business, and it wasn't a good business opportunity for the church of Constantine if everyone knew they had their own direct pipeline to God. So what did they do? Kill all the Gnostics and "heretics", burn their books, and burn down the Library at Alexandria, where we lost millions of volumes and probably 50,000 years worth of priceless human history. Jesus tried to bring the Christ consciousness to mankind 2,000 years ago. The Church wiped it out. They alone are single-handedly responsible for the Dark Piscean Age and all of its murders in the name of Christ.
~PS