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For those who have come to see religion as more a problem than a solution, who pay only lipservice respect if any, to the theological conception of God offered by tradition, one which the modern world finds intellectually vacuous and though not questioning a believers sincerity, little more than self deception; you may be about to have those suspicions confirmed in a way history could never have imagined or anticipated.All traditions, but particularly Christianity would warn us about a 'final' event which they expect, in spite of their history of perpetual theological conflict and contradiction, to confirm their own particular claims to understanding the divine. Yet every example of a cult or sect daring to make any literal prediction, like dating the 'end' has come badly unstuck and humiliated. So great is the cost to their credibility, older traditions, fighting to keep bums in pews throughout Europe, when regarding such matters, usually keep their mouths closed.
If scientific method has taught us anything, it is that competing claims for the same idea are highly suspect until one is able to demonstrate its authenticity above all others by results. Not all can be true, yet all can be false. For that reason among many, civilization has had its difficulties digesting religion. Three competing mono-theisms, hundreds of 'christian' denominations and sects, the uncountable non-theistic others, easily gets the stomach churning and the gas can be explosive. But for anyone who holds to a particular religious or 'spiritual' practice, of course, everyone else is in error. Then there are the Darwinian rapid responders who will declare all existing religion, whatever its name and claim, just so much codswallop and rightly so.
Yet while providing a surer method for testing any new claims of insight, our modern world conception of scientific rationality doesn't necessarily guarantees results. Consider a recent speech made by Prof. David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate and AIDs researcher, that twenty five years on, the AIDs research community is no closer to a vaccine then when it started. Or think further back to when President Nixon declared war on cancer; who would have imagined, so great our confidence in science, that almost seventy years on, with billions of dollars spent, how relatively nominal the progress has been? The promise of a universal cure still far from being unrealized.
This point is this. We have by necessity evolved a method to scrutinize any new claim to understanding, to sift the wheat from the chaff, because our rationality is not always quite as rational as we care to admit. Religion is proof of that. Science has offered much, but not provided the key to all understanding, even while it may posture itself for us to think so. And more and more faces it own limitations.
But that 'event' which religious traditions so hope will one day confirm their faith and practice may not be quite what they were expecting and could even be their final undoing?
For entering the cultures wars comes a challenge to both the religious and secular mind that will without doubt cause a furore so contentious, any clash of civilizations may have to wait. On one side, a manuscript titled: The Final Freedoms, against all the gravitas religious tradition can bring to bear.
The FF, the first wholly new interpretation for 2000 years of the moral teachings of Jesus the Christ is on the web, and it over turns all natural law theory. At stake is the credibility of several thousand years of religious history, all theology and must undoubtably impact other fields of intellectual inquiry.
What first appears an utterly preposterous challenge to the religious status quo rewards close examination, for it carries within its pages ideas both subtle and sublime, what the theological history of religion either ignored, were unable to imagine or dismissed as impossible. An error of presumption which could now leave 'tradition' staring into the abyss.
This teaching represents a new paradigm. It has nothing whatsoever to do with any existing religious tradition, conception or claim known to history. It is unique in every respect.
Using a synthesis of scriptural material drawn from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha , The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Nag Hammadi Library, and some of the worlds great poetry, it describes and teaches a single moral law, a single moral principle and offers the promise of its own absolute proof; one in which the reality of God responds to an act of perfect faith with a direct, individual intervention into the natural world; correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception beyond all natural evolutionary boundaries. Understood metaphorically, this experience of transcendent power and change is the 'Resurrection' and justification of faith.
For the first time a religious tenet exists offering access, by faith, to absolute proof for its belief; the first ever viable religious conception capable of leading reason to observable consequences which can be tested and judged on their own merit; the first ever religious claim of new knowledge that meets the criteria of verifiable, evidence based truth embodied in action. What may go down as one of the greatest historical ironies, what science and religion have agreed is not possible has now become possible.
As an individual, ethical conception. the teaching requires no institutional framework or hierarchy, nor anyones permission, no churches or priest craft, no scholastic theological rational, no dogma or doctrine and 'worship' requires only conviction, faith and the necessary measure of self discipline to accomplish a single moral imperative and the integrity and fidelity to the newly created reality.
When, or some might say if, this material is confirmed in sufficient numbers and there appears to be a concerted effort to test and authenticate it, the greatest unresolved questions of human existence may finally have been untangled. This is undoubtedly a turning point for humanity.
Open trials are well under way in several countries. For those able to think for themselves and imagine outside the cultural box, who are willing to learn something new and stand against the stream of fashionable thought, an intellectual and moral revolution has already started with the most potent NVDA any human being can take for peace, justice, change and progress.
With apologizes to W.Shakespeare, to test or not to test, that is the question?
The Final Freedoms is published free on the web as a [1.4meg] PDF download and available from various sites including the link below.
http://www.energon.org.uk
