Roberta Grimes - Liberating Jesus

Liberating Jesus

By: Roberta Grimes

Liberating Jesus
by: Roberta Grimes

Copyright 2015, 2018 by Roberta Grimes

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Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible,
Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973,
1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Provided by Five Rainbows Cataloging Services
Names: Grimes, Roberta, author.
Title: Liberating Jesus / Roberta Grimes.
Description: Brightwood, VA : Sage Wisdom LLC, 2018.
Identifiers: ISBN 978-0-692-54281-1 (pbk.) | ISBN 978-0-692-26423-2 (Kindle ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Jesus ChristNew Age movement interpretations. | Jesus ChristTeachings. | ChristianityPhilosophy. | New Age movement. | Spiritual healing. | BibleCriticism, interpretation, etc. | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / New Thought. | RELIGION / Spirituality.
Classification: LCC BS2415 .G736 2015 (print) | LCC BS2415 (ebook) | DDC 232.9/54dc23.

Published by
Sage Wisdom Publishing LLC, Madison VA, 22727
sagewisdompublishing.com

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This book is lovingly dedicated
to humanitys greatest Teacher

If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
(JN 8:3132)

Writing this book was not my idea. Telling you how it came to be written was the farthest thing from what I wanted to do, so the fact that I am sharing it with you and also telling you where it came from is testimony to the fact that I am convinced it was written at the Lords direction. I am told that Jesus has chosen this moment, two thousand years after He last walked the earth, to shed what He calls a corrupted Christian wrapper and again reveal His teachings to the world.

If this isnt the Second Coming you were looking for, please understand that I share your confusion. Over decades, I have been dragged away from the Christianity that I loved and made to understand that my religion is so different from what the Lord intended that I would have to make a choice. I could be a Christian or I could follow Jesus. I chose Jesus. That was when things began to get interesting.

To answer what was my biggest question, so you might be wondering about it as well: yes. I have it on good authority that Jesus is related to God in a way that you and I are not, which is why in this book I have capitalized His pronouns. I am told that God chose to incarnate as the physical Jesus in an effort to understand how allowing humankind to have free will could possibly have gone so wrong. God as Jesus told us how to put human life on a better track, and He gave us that wisdom in concepts so simple that even first-century people could understand them. Now Jesus is reiterating His Gospel teachings two thousand years later because the custodians of those teachings have encased them in an easy, but meaningless, shortcut.

The answer to what may be your second biggest question if you are a Christian is: no. This book about freeing the teachings of Jesus from their religious wrapper is not the work of Satan. I am confident of this fact because:

1. In more than a century of looking for it, no afterlife researcher of whom I am aware has found evidence for an actual Satan. Indeed, the consciousness-based physics that governs all of reality and will dominate the second half of this century seems to make it impossible for a powerful evil entity to exist.
2. In April of 2009, I gave my life to God. This is an exercise that I recommend, but I have found that very few will do it for fear that God might want them to do something unpleasant. Happily, that has not been my experience. Earnestly seeking and following Gods guidance is the most fun I have had in my life.
3. If it actually is Satans will that we free Jesus from the Christian wrapper and begin to follow His teachings perfectly, then youve got to think that maybe Satan isnt so awful after all. (Im kidding! There is no Satan.)

Appendix V is the story of how this book came to be written. Here I will just say that apparently the civilization we are watching decline is on a course to disaster. Two hundred years from now, a climactic religious war is slated to be started by people who call themselves Christians (believe it or not). Some of those who believe that the entire Christian Bible is the Inspired Word of God are looking even now for the unblemished red heifer, the Rapture, and the gathering of the End Times armies. Eventually, they will run out of patience and start Armageddon on their own.

I find this prediction unbelievable! For anyone who has read the Gospel words of Jesus to believe that the Biblical Book of Revelation is anything more than the ravings of a man driven insane by persecution defies common sense. The End Times, Armageddon, and the Final Judgment? All of that is anathema to Jesus. Read your Gospels! Jesus is the Prince of Peace. But unless we can move quickly to assist Him in spreading His Gospel teachings to the world, apparently there still will be people two hundred years from now who will think that in destroying Gods creation, they will be fulfilling Gods plan.

I am told that the Lords twenty-first-century project of bringing His teachings to all of humankind is going to be the work of many willing people. He calls His teachings a philosophy. It is His intention to free us from religious superstitions and teach us to relate to God on our own. And His teachings are meant to be followed by every person on the face of the earth. If we can help everyone of every religion to understand that Jesus is not a religious figure, but rather He is our universal Teacher, then I have it on good authority that the predicted end-times war can be averted. Civilization can restore and perfect itself, and our grandchildrens great-great-great-grandchildren will be born into what we are promised will be a heaven on earth. It is those who are born in this century who will determine whether human life will be worth living in the twenty-third century. And even whether there will be a twenty-third century.

If you are not a Christian, you can skip the first four chapters. Simply read the rest of this book as the beautiful teachings of a Prophet who is augmenting whatever you already believe with a philosophy that can help you live your own best life both now and forevermore. And, not incidentally, if sufficient people will follow this philosophy, then your descendants can have descendants of their own.

If you are a Christian, I understand that I am giving you a lot to process. I urge you to do what I have done, and read the Gospel red letters repeatedly. Spend time on your knees with an open heart. The only thing that ever could have induced me to leave the religion I loved was the persistent call of the Lord Himself. If it is His will that you now join Him in His effort to enlighten the world, then I expect that He will call you, too.