so Jesus killed someone, right?

[Diana]

2 And Jesus, seeing what had happened, said to him, “Your fruit (shall be) without root and your shoot shall be dried up like a branch scorched by a strong wind.”

3 And instantly that child withered.

3 1 While he was going from there with his father Joseph, a child running tore into his shoulder. And Jesus said to him, “You shall no longer go our way.” And instantly he died. At once the people, seeing that he was dead, cried out and said, “Where was this boy born that his word becomes a deed?”

I can't help but to ask, if Jesus was a man who actually existed, and if these stories are historically accurate, what sort of person would Jesus have been? When I was a child I wouldn't have hurt anyone, even to say something mean. We also instinctively know our powers.

I can see the efficacy of Ra talking about how to get off the wheel of karma using Jesus as an example. As I have no emotional attachment to Jesus at all, I don't care whether it's a metaphor or a true story. The substance of the story is the way to get off the wheel of karma.

In discernment, one might first try and clear one's self of need. When we need, we color everything with it. So if one doesn't need the story to be true or false, one might get to the part about how to end karma--something of real use. Whether the story is true or false doesn't seem useful.

Humans tend to "look up to" other individuals (and of course we have taken this to a ridiculous degree by adulating movie stars and celebrities of all kinds). I think this is a great distortion. For one thing, it creates a brick wall, as though that great person is on one side and the average person on the other. Religion or new age philosophy would say differently, and talk about how we can do what he (Jesus) could do, but by setting him apart it effectively does the opposite. So-called living masters set up the same dynamic, saying "been there done that," and I will show you how.

Discernment? Just ask yourself the questions. Your answer is as good as any other out there. I am quite sure that Ra would say the same.