TOPIC: “Golgotha; Design Or Treachery?”

Yet again, the nation and indeed Humanity approaches the solemn season of Easter. Thus, again Humanity is afforded another opportunity to resolve the irrevocable question of Golgotha; What indeed truly, occasioned Golgotha? Was it Divine Design or was it a culmination of a series of calculated actions consciously orchestrated to achieve the desired result; Elimination/Assassination of a troublesome bringer of Truth?

It is amazing that for approximately two thousand years hence, at each Easter Festival, the gaze and introspective focus of Mankind appears blurred or diverted from the reality of Golgotha, and as if by mass hypnotism, the majority of Mankind saunters blindfolded through the period of this most crucial of earthly seasons which provides the individual the possibility of true inner awakening and recognition of the TRUTH-despite the compelling body of irrefutable historical factual evidence indictingly steering man virtually in the face with each passing year, decade and century!

It cannot be disputed that, the life and mission of redemption of the Son of God Jesus, the Christ on earth, continues to be of grave and fundamental importance to humanity’s spiritual evolution and salvation. Indeed, in the annals of humanity’s spiritual development and history, the significance of Christ’s life on earth and the necessity for his mission of redemption, [if mankind could perceive the enormity and ramifications of the grace] should indeed be the central focus of every man’s quest for spiritual enlightenment.

Indeed, it could be said that the necessity to become CLEAR as to the real purpose and significance of the life and mission of the Son of God –Jesus is in reality a “sifting prerequisite” to any possibility of attaining spiritual salvation.

Unfortunately today, owing to mankind’s ever declining spirituality and continued attachment to all that is material and to his consequent inability to perceive using the faculty of his spirit, a great WALL of distraction of Man’s spiritual attention and gaze to the Great Work of Redemption of the Son of God, has taken hold on Earth, and this in turn has diverted multitudes of men from the right appreciation of the true essence and mission of the Saviour, and from that which necessitated His coming from the Divine Sphere to this Earth.

This holds grave consequences for Man, and unless each person personally resolves for himself the “Golgotha Question” and with it the great query as to what really constitutes the work of redemption of the Son of God-Jesus, he stands the risk of being held back from the true road to redemption. Such persons also thereby will miss the last opportunity offered them in the present time to free themselves and ascend to the kingdom of God in the spiritual realm of God’s creation.

But what is responsible for this state of affairs on earth today? The answer lies in the widespread erroneous opinions and wrong interpretations linked to the purpose and significance of the life and mission of the Son of God on earth and which is further sustained by widespread ignorance and spiritual indolence of the greater part of humanity and by the rigidity of the dogma of organised religion over the ages. The consequence is that on earth today, there is the widespread erroneous view of the doctrine of atonement: which doctrine postulates that; In the violent death of Christ, in the demeaning form and manner of execution utilized by the Romans at that time, lay the necessary propitiatory sacrifice which reconciled and redeemed the whole of mankind back to God by the cleansing of their sins. This view is canonically reflected in the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England as follows; “Christ was crucified to reconcile his Father to us. To be a sacrifice for the sins of men”: (Article 2). It is also stated in the Confession of Faith that Christ’s death “purchased reconciliation” (Chap. viii) A Christian Website- www.christdeath.org aptly further surmises this widespread misconception as follows;

“In order to redeem fallen man for his purpose, God came in the Son through incarnation to be the Lamb of God offering Himself to the father as our substitute; Christ died on the cross and shed his blood to take away the sin of the world. Christ was foreordained, prepared before the foundation of the world by God to be the redeeming Lamb. This means that the death of Christ was not an afterthought, but rather an integral component of God’s original design”

Indeed it seems this misconception dates far back into human religious history, and strangely enough has indeed been modified from its originally absurd theological basis to the even more confusing refinement of the doctrine as we have it today.. We find for example, that the early Christian Fathers/priests taught erroneously that the death of Christ was a satisfaction to the Devil. The Rev. Scott Porter, in his “History of the Doctrine of Atonement” says: “The doctrine of satisfaction, when it was plainly broached, which was not till two hundred years after the death of Christ, did not represent his blood as satisfying the claims of divine justice, but as a payment made to the devil” In corroboration, this indeed accords with the doctrine recorded to have been advocated by the celebrated Origen who wrote: “It was the Devil who held us in bondage: for to him we had been given over for our sins. Wherefore, he demanded the blood of Christ as the price of our redemption”. Other early recorded Christian writers such St. Ambrose wrote: “we were in pledge to a bad creditor for sin; but Christ came and offered his blood for us” Again Optatus is recorded as haven written; “The souls of men were in the possession of the Devil till they were ransomed by the blood of Christ” Further, according to St. Augustine; “The blood of Christ is given as a price that we might be delivered from the Devil’s bond” He regards the death of Christ, “not as a payment of a debt due to God, but as an act of justice to the Devil in discharge of his fair and lawful claims” .

Thus historically, we can deduce that the original basis of the doctrine of atonement did not underscore the notion of an ‘Original Grand-Design’ by the Godhead to have a part of itself (Jesus) slaughtered in effacement of the sins of mankind. In fact, the aforesaid notions simply underscored instead, a glorification of the Devil to an all important sub-power to God, and with whom the Godhead, in order to ransom/save mankind from his (the Devil’s) grip had condescendingly, to negotiate with by offering a part of himself as blood ransome for humanity’s release.

But we must pose the question; Are all these theories which have hitherto prevailed for thousands of years right and true?

Having become convinced of the emancipating and redeeming knowledge of the Living Word of the Grail Message by Abdrushin, I hold the view that that this generally held doctrine of atonement is FALSE, illogical, supremely unjust and clearly inconsistent with the immutable Laws of God’s Creation and His Adamantine Justice.
Any person who dispassionately reviews the Work-“In the Light of Truth the Grail Message” by Oscar Ernst Bernhardt who wrote under the pen-name-Abdrushin, would come to the same convicted conclusion. Abdrushin declares;

“Surely any person who is inwardly alive would find it very difficult to accept that, of all things, a crime and murder committed on the Messenger Who issued from the Divine should bring about the reconciliation of this Godhead with mankind!
God allowed His Son to come from all Glory on to this gloomy earth, among men who had turned away from Him, in order to show them the way upwards to His Luminous Kingdom through the explanations in His Word, which may also be called Message or Teaching. That this mankind, for whom the Message of God was intended, then rejected the Messenger, persecuted Him with hatred and finally even tortured and murdered Him, was a consequence of their sin or their wrong-doing in having raised the earthly intellect to be their actual ruler in place of God. But instead of later acknowledging this new guilt to be the fruit of the great Fall of Man, they ultimately even exalted this murder and rejection of God’s Messenger to an all-glorifying Festival of Reconciliation between the thus criminal mankind and the Godhead Whom they had outraged through this murder. Really, going rather far. How does this strange mankind picture their Godhead, that they imagine they can treat Him in such a way with impunity? Q& A 15 at pg. 34