The 'church' represents the unified consciousness. The 'rock' is planet Earth and the time is NOW. It is actually at the end of the second millennium that each incarnate human has the opportunity to bring Jesus Christ's Universal mission to its fulfilment. In other words, WE are destined to create 'Heaven on Earth'!
Many have been confused and alarmed by the glaring contradictions within Christianity over the centuries since the Master first gave this task to his disciple Simon called Peter. With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that attempting to found a church based on a physical structure, initiated by the apostle Paul together with various Roman Emperors and politically rather than spiritually motivated male priests, was NOT at all what the Master had in mind! In fact, the imbalanced and distorted belief system they concocted and called 'Christianity' was light years away from the original teachings of Jesus known as 'The Way'.
He taught the Universal Laws and Ancient Wisdom in the tradition of the Essenes. Had the human race abided by these timeless and immutable truths, it would have been spared the rivers of blood resulting from 'holy' wars, inquisitions and the many other historically factual atrocities perpetrated by this first 'church' - all apparently in the name of the one who came in LOVE! Is it any wonder that Christianity doesn't make sense to most people?
Jesus Christ did not come to impose yet another religion on humanity. He knew as well as any spiritually aware person that TRUTH can never be accessed through emotionally based, second hand belief structures. Truth can only be experienced and known within as a living reality. Jesus the man came as an innocent vessel of redemption. By painstakingly preparing himself through total commitment , discipline and many initiations, he became - during his 3 year mission - the physical vehicle of the Christ or ' that aspect of the Creator that enters into conscious relationship with his/her creation '. At the crucifixion, by mingling his immensely high vibrational blood with the water and earth substance, he anchored the supreme frequency of the Unified or Christ Consciousness on this planet.
In this way and NOT by 'vicarious atonement' through blood sacrifice 'for our sins', he liberated (redeemed) the living consciousness of the Earth Mother and all evolving life forms here (including human) from entrapment through fear within the dense third dimensional realms of matter . The "Fall" or "out breath of God " was caused by our initial doubt and fear and heralded our long experiment with matter. Nonetheless, this process did through the laws of polarity give conscious expression to the overall creative impulse - despite the heavy cost of almost total human spiritual amnesia in the process!
Simon Peter Fuller is author of the book 'Rising out of Chaos' 'Rising out of Chaos' (ISBN 0-9584065-4-5) , incorporating the miraculously restored text of The Third Book of the Apocalypse - Revelations III . He traces the historical, geographical and metaphysical linkage between the 1st and 2nd Coming of the Unified (Christ) consciousness - glorious, universal events beyond the limitations of religions that offer spiritual upliftment to all humanity. The books are available throughout the English-speaking world.