Christianity as posited by many of the early church fathers, had a great appeal because it told the onlookers that they could find eternal salvation by just embracing the God-man- Jesus: the second person of the so-called trinity.

Judaism had for centuries proclaimed that all would be and was well with man because God had made covenants with we humans: nine covenants to be exact. And, Jewish prophets such as Elijah had demonstrated on Mount Carmel the superior power of God to defeat Balaam and any of our enemies.

However, Christianity insisted on salvation being only through one person, one man: a God-man.

Your good works didn't matter. No matter how loving you were, no matter how much awe and amazement you have for nature, and no matter how much you sacrificed, none of it was good enough unless you embraced the "external God-man". In other words, the SOURCE of salvation was always WITHOUT and not WITHIN.

The Christos was a "coming" 2,000 years ago instead of an awakening from within NOW!

Jesus was and is for me the "model of Christos living". When I awaken to the divine that lies within, the pilot light of God, the fragment of the divine, I am basically awakening to that which Jesus awoke: "I and the Father are ONE".

Many are coming to agree with Alvin Boyd Kuhn when he wrote,"The greatest crime that can be perpetrated against the mortal on earth is to deceive people with the fairy tale or Santa Claus myth that man was born, lived and died two thousand years ago, whose suffering, death and resurrection have achieved the opening of the gates of Paradise for all men who will mentally be hypnotized with the story."

Mankind has been awakening to their divine nature for tens of thousands of years. Of course awakening and consistently living as such are two different concepts indeed.

We were ALL created "in the image of God" and because we may forget that or not see it as much as we should doesn't deny the truth. I AM- eternally! My salvation and yours is assured (in the mainline Christian paradigm), but that's not the game of life. The art and practice of our BEING is to LOVE- unconditionally