On All Debates About Jesus

By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
The Testimonies Of A Living Saint
 Raphael Okechukwu Nweze


The Foundation Of All Arguments
         The life we live has both physical and spiritual dimensions. The physical is transitory state, it is an illusion, just as the waves come and go over the surface of the waters. The reality is the spiritual dimension of life. This is essence of life and it is everlasting.
         Generally, people are spiritually ignorant. They always make the mistake of trying to explain spiritual realities from the physical perspective. This is like trying to catch something by chasing its shadow. The one chasing misses the real object.
         If you want to understand spiritual statements, you must become spiritual and mystic. Unfortunately, majority avoid this duty by shying away from it, by spiritual indolence, giving so many uncountable reasons, which reasons are unacceptable and deceptive.
         What compounds the problem is that most of the ministers of God are still below the Spiritual Level of 20%. It is one thing to be empowered by God through Holy Spirit. It is a different thing to believe in God. Yet, it is entirely a different thing to know and experience God: the very thing that distinguishes a mystic. Consider this example: the blind man who uses sunlight to dry clothe has not seen the sunlight; the person who sees the sunlight has not reached the sun; and the person who reached the sun is not the sun. For you to know the sun, you have to use it, see it, reach it, experience and become it. This explains what 'Being Born Again' is. Anything contrary to this is either false or partial.
         The true knowledge, called Esoteric Knowledge, Spiritual Knowledge or Wisdom of the East, has not been made available to humanity because tyrants, being motivated by the Devil, sought to destroy such precious knowledge, and the few mystic custodians had to conceal the knowledge for so many ages. Now, the Holy Spirit is re-awakening the light of this knowledge. Let him who has ear hear what the Spirit is saying!

Two Worlds Apart
         When you see an object, it never occurs to you that you are actually seeing two different visions. What the right eye sees is quite different from what the left eye sees. However, the two visions merge into one, and you think you are seeing only one vision. So is the world in which we live. It has both physical and spiritual dimensions. The spiritual is quiet separate and different from the physical. The physical seems to exist, but does not exist because it is transitory, just as the waves on the water surface come and go. The spiritual seems not exist because we do not see it with the ordinary eyes. Yet, it animates and dominates the physical world.
         The beautiful girl you see on the road might be an evil spirit, while the ugly girl you look down on is a living saint. Such is the seeming contradictions of life. The straight road you see ahead of you may not be straight, while the bush you dislike to pass through might be a beautiful garden. Only those who have their spiritual eyes open see the reality.
         We live in two worlds at the same time. One is the physical world, which is a World of Illusion. The other is the spiritual world, which is the World of Reality, the Golden City on the Mountain Top. You must learn to separate yourself from the world of illusion, and live in the world of reality. The earlier you do so, the better for you. Otherwise, you become a moving corpse – dead: blind, deaf, dumb, lame and paralyzed. Even so, without knowing it. That is why today majority are stagnant and complacent, without knowing it.

As the waves arise from the water
and return to it,
so all things emanate from spirit
and return to spirit.
The spirit animates and dominates them all.
This is knowledge.
Whosoever that does not know this is ignorant.
He is already dead: blind, deaf, dumb, lame and paralyzed.
Hence, mankind are said to be sleeping Giants.

Claims, Misconceptions And Responses In The Light Of The Holy Spirit
         It is usually easy defending what is false. The worst side is that it is enough to put you into the everlasting hell fire. Truth is what it is, whether you believe it or not. And it is better to investigate all things and choose the right ones, than to remain in the wrong place and perish forever.
  1. Which Perspective Is True, Physical Or Spiritual?
    Understand that the statements of Jesus are not physical. They are not like the everyday statement we make in our life. They are spiritual statements, which can only be fully understood by spiritual knowledge and experience. After several heavenly visits and spiritual encounters with the Almighty, I came to understand the statements. I also discovered that so many interpretations of what Jesus said were wrong. And I have kept myself busy re-writing and correcting them. Besides, human words are not enough to express spiritual truth, for the spiritual world is incomparably better, wider and deeper than the physical world. The human words are just interpretations (translations) of spiritual reality.

  2. God Is One. The Same Is Trinity.
    The one thing that you can use to explain God properly is Fire; and God is called a Consuming Fire.
  3. Jesus Is The Son Of God.
    The way human being beget children is not the way God begets children. Humanity beget children by procreation, but God begets children by Himself becoming His own child. That is why the Father and the Son are one, because it is God that becomes His own child.
    … I, myself, am a Son of God. On the day I saw God face to face, He called me “My Son.” Also, the ubiquitous Holy Spirit was present, bearing witness that God is my Father and I am His Son. Remember that I do not speak as someone who was told. I speak as one who sees, hears, touches, knows and experiences the Spirit, which Spirit is the Way, the Truth and the Life, even the Lord Almighty. Yourself is a child (Son or Daughter) of God. That is why Socrates said, “Man, Know Thyself.”

  4. Some People Argue That Jesus Did Not Claim To Be The Son Of God.
    It is not only Jesus who is Son of God. I, myself, am Son of God.

    We are children of Light.
    We came from the Light,
    and to the Light we shall return.

    34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'? 35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? 37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him." John 10:34-39

    We are God’s children by birth, and not by adoption, naturalization or grafting. “All my fountains are in you,” says the Almighty in Psalm 87:7. Again He says, “You are small Gods.” John10:34

    That was why it was necessary that God as Almighty Love (Jesus) came to save the lost world. For when a wooden object is damaged, wood is used to repair it; when a metallic object becomes spoilt, only metal is good enough to restore it; and so it happens that when the sons of God lost their glory, only God was fit enough to restore them to the former glory through salvation.

  5. Many Muslim Scholars Assert That Jesus Did Not Claim To Be Equal To God.
    You do not need to become equal to God, because it is God who is already in all things and as all things. You only have to realize it. This is knowledge and it is life.

    Gabriel said “Jesus is so highly exalted that Angels prostrate before Him.” Today, I tell you that God so humbled Himself down to the lowest heaven and appeared as Jesus in the midst of humanity. This is the meaning of the statement, "28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father." John 16:28
    Spiritual statements in human words are the physical translations of the correspondences in the spiritual world. That is why every person who has experienced life in spirit will tell you that human words are not enough to describe and narrate what happens in spirit.

    On several occasions, Jesus made it clear that He is one with God:

    So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. 32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately." John 13:31-33 The glory of God is God Himself, and whoever is glorified by God has God fully manifest in him and as him.

    7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." John 14:7 The Father and the Son are one.

    28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father." John 16:28
    You cannot go back to the Father if you are not as the Father. This is called the Universal Law of Homogeneity. Birds of the same feather flock together, and that is why the Angels must transform you before you can encounter the Almighty God. It is not God who is excluding people from Himself. Instead, it is humanity that refuses to accept God's Gift of Himeslf to them.
    On the day Jesus took me to heaven and showed me the Holy Trinity, there and then I realized what I am and I shouted, “My name is Jehovah.” So it was in the presence of God Almighty and before the Holy Trinity. A curb grows into a mature lion. Then and only then can you say it is a mature lion. The Father and I are one. The finger is one with the body, but not equal to the body. The Father is the complete body. I, myself, am His finger. The Father animates and dominates all with Himself. This is the transcendental knowledge. It is the Truth and it is Life. Whoever knows this Truth does not die. He simply passes on from life to life, and what people call ‘death’ simply becomes a door to him. Those who believe there is death do not know this, and therefore, they die. You are what you know. True knowledge is becoming one with the Truth, and Truth is Life.

    5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. John 17:5
    The only way God can glorify Jesus with Himself is to make Jesus the same as the Father. This is the glorious or glorified body you hear or read about in the sacred texts. That is also why God calls this body, “My Glory.” How ignorant mankind have been, even for ages and centuries!

    Then a voice came from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again." John 12:28
    In spirit, the word, ‘Glory of God’ means God. For God to glorify somebody means that God will give the person His own nature.
    Jesus as God humbled himself to save a lost world. At the end, He attained the lofty position again.

    8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." says Jesus. Revelation 1:8

    10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,..." Revelation 1:9-11

    44 Then Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me. 45 And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. John 12:44-46
    Now, you have heard from the horse’s mouth.

    I confirm these sayings of Jesus out experience. When I stood in the presence of God, the Almighty expanded my horizon twice. Twice is a confirmation. On several occasion, God has glorified me with Himself. That is why I say that The Father and I are one! The Father loves the son, and the son loves the Father even as the Father's love. The son does not know how to love. It is the Father that loves for the son, and this love is true and perfect. That is why Jesus said that the son can do nothing by himself, but whatever he sees the Father doing, that the son does. This is true and the Holy Spirit has sealed this love. Hence, the Father and the son are one.

  6. Unbelievers Argue That Jesus Did Not Keep Any Record.
    Jesus was the only person who kept a perfect record. For no record is perfect except that kept by the Holy Spirit, which record is a spiritual video. Mystics, spiritualists, metaphysicians, astrologists, prophets, visioners, etc, call it Akashic Record, Primary Record, Eternity of Record or Universal Mind. The light you see everyday is a spiritual video recording everything you think, do or say. The same light carries the record to the heavenly kingdoms where perfect records are safe kept, even for eternity.

    a. None is more accurate than the Holy Spirit.
    That is why the Holy Spirit is called the spirit of Truth and the spirit of prophecy. That is also the reason why the Holy Spirit is the epitome of innocence (“You must be as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.”) The Dove is the Angelic Form of the Holy Spirit.

    21When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. 22 And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased." Luke 3:21-22

    b. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of Truth.
    15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you (the true believers) know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. John 14:15-18

    c. The Holy Spirit is the one true witness Jesus has, not writings which are sometimes falsified.
    26 "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. John 15:26

    d. Even, the Holy Spirit shall bring more of the teachings of Jesus.
    12 "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth;…” John 16:12-13

    e. The Holy Spirit is the epitome of honesty.
    “…for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you. John 16:13-15

    f. Even, Jesus even made provision for what may be forgotten.
    He said, “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” John 14:25-27

  7. You Should Say 'In The Name Of The Father, Of The Son And Of The Holy Spirit.'
    Jesus taught you to say, "... in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Matthew 28:19-20
    Today, I teach you to as well pray and speak, "... in the name of the Father, Who is the Son and Who is also the Holy Spirit." For God is the Almighty Father, He is the Son as Almighty Love and also the Holy Spirit as the Almighty Presence. By the Son and in the Son, the Father only reproduces Himself. That is why the Father and the Son are one. These statements are spiritual, and should not be understood in the way man begets a son.
    Naturally and generally, the son is always like (exactly as) the Father. The major difference is the Father precedes the Son. But, the Son is exactly like the Father. I, who has seen and experienced the Truth, is now telling you the Truth. This is the truth. Anything contrary, is indeed contrary: the figments of imagination, the fabrications of falsehood and the deceptions of the enemy.

  8. Jesus Was Always Speaking To The Israelites In Parables, Which The Israelites Could Not Understand. He Should Have Spoken To Them In Plain Language.
    The fact that He spoke to them in parables means that they were long overdue to know the Truth. They did not seek God, the Creator of All. Instead, they went after the imaginations of their hearts and refused to accept the Truth which Jesus was teaching. Many of them, especially the religious and civil leaders, were fighting against the truth. They suppose to have welcome Jesus and introduced Him to the general public. They failed to bear good fruits (bear witness) expected from them. It is the duty of the leaders to introduce visiting Superiors to the ordinary people.
    Besides, you should know that Jesus is God Almighty, who has on several occasions corrected and warned the Israelites, but the Israelites would not accept correction. As a last resort, He had to come to offer Himself on the cross for the salvation of all. Jesus lamented over Jerusalem, saying,

    34 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! 35 See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'" Luke 13:34-35

    Again, remember that God is infinite in wisdom. He is surrounded by uncountable counsellors. Yet, He has no need of counsellors.

    Jesus spoke to them in parables because they were not ready and willing to learn the Truth. Even if He spoke plainly to them, they would mock His teachings of the Manfiest but Hidden Truth. And this they did on several occasions, because they were not spiritually awake, enlightened and experienced.

  9. How Can God Command Us Not To Worship Any Other God, And Turn Round To Tell Us To Worship Jesus.
    This is the simple truth: It is the same God Almighty that is the Son (a complete and original copy) and He is also the Holy Spirit. Just as the sun (fire) and its heat, flame and light are one and inseparable. You can call it sun, sunheat, sunflame or sunlight. So it is with Trinity. And this is the knowledge, delight and life of every mystic. For more explanations, details, narrations, descriptions and corrections see:

  10. Who Is The Greatest Messenger Of God? Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna or Buddha?
    This question arises out of ignorance. It is being prompted and encouraged by selfishness and aggression of man. Truth is what it is, whether you believe it or not. To the masses, the simple and correct answer is "Let the religious founders prove who among themselves is the greatest, for you cannot make any of them the greatest just by claim or argument, just as you cannot have what you do not merit. The elites should have known and stated this simple fact, for they are in the position to guide the ignorant masses."
             To those who are more interested in knowing the Truth, the following explanations suffice:

  11. Why Jesus Seems To Be A Christian, A Muslim, A Hinduist, A Buddhist, A Mystic, etc.
    Several religions claim that Jesus was a member of their religion or church. From the viewpoint of separate religions, this appears to be wrong. But, from the standpoint of Truth, this is correct. For every religion highlights some aspects of the Truth, depending on their spiritual levels. But Truth encompasses all religions, just as the parts constitute the whole and the whole includes the parts. So, it happens that when the personification of Truth or light-bearer comes in the midst of humanity, He demonstrates all the true beliefs and practices of all religions, as if he were a member of every religion. That is why it appears as if Jesus was a member of every religion. The religions are far from the Truth, and they should hear again what Jesus said, "23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." John 4:23-24 And Mohammed supports Him, when Mohammed said, "You must worship God to know Him and know Him to worship Him." Hinduism agrees by teaching that God pervades the entire universe, just as Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life." God is Life and Life pervades all: All-In-All.

    Besides,
    1. Truth is all-encompassing.
      3. Every religion focuses on some aspects of the Truth. It presents a part of the Truth. Out of the whole Truth, portions were dished out to various tribes and nations depending on necessity. Hence, Judaism was based in sacrifice and prophecy; Christianity, on salvation; Hinduism, on pure knowledge of God by self-knowledge, selfless service, devotion, meditation, etc; Buddhism, on meditation and moderation; Islam, on submission and charity, etc.
      4. Any person who knows and practices the Truth, like Jesus, would definitely be all-encompassing in his way of life. As such, he would appear to be a Christian, a Muslim, a Hinduist, a Buddhist, etc.
      5. These facts also answer the questions, which religion copied from another. The question should not arise because they all proceed from the same Truth. They are like the different courses in the same university or different sections in the same library. He who knows the Truth is like the student who studies all courses.