“ Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ The scientist would look at a sphere, measure the surface in great detail, categorize the skin qualities and components, then predict evolving surface tensions and potentials. The use of that sphere,… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ Regardless of type, however, the mechanism of a religion works like this: children, from the time they can communicate, are taught to see reality in a certain way. They are indoctrinated with a pre-de… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ Of course, the original (anonymous) writer of (the Gospel of) John didn’t use quotes – as they didn’t exist in written Greek – but the translator/publisher of the modern Bible does. And that style str… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ The authors of the gospels, like all writers in all time periods, either reference information they have at hand – including things they’ve heard or read – or they make things up. . . For reference ma… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roma… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ However, just as earlier, when Christianity was introduced it didn’t eliminate pagan conceptualizations, but layered new beliefs on top of them, so science simply added to the western mindset. It didn… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ Understand that religion, at least western versions of it, rests on a type of thinking called Revelation. This mode holds that truths concerning the workings of reality are hidden, masked by, through… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ The religious and scholarly alike arrive at conclusions as to Jesus’ nature based on the world-view they hold, the belief structure that shapes their interpretation. Inaccurate views of the function o… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number. Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ But for centuries, since the capitulation of Judah, the Jewish peoples had been almost continuously under foreign control. So, where was Yahweh all this time while his people suffered...? Far from eve… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ Judaism, for example, presents itself as monotheistic and retrofits that claim on its history by revising its lore. But in ancient times, Judaism was much more accurately Henotheism, wherein people (p… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
“ Clouding the exact evolution of El and Yahweh as concepts (and any other aspect of belief, for neither El nor Yahweh ever existed as anything except mind images of fervent believers) is the invariable… Thomas Daniel Nehrer
