Religions were all inspired by enlightened people, and have also generated enlightened people. But the amount of enlightened people they generate, are far less than the amount of ignorant they generate.

I have compared religions to "messages in a bottle". If I was Jesus and wanted to transfer to myself the knowledge I had found through time, I would create a message in a bottle so that I could rediscover it when I was reborn in another time.

Rediscovering it, one is faced with the same knowledge Jesus had, and one may feel like he did and indeed begin to think "Wait a moment, I am as he was. The words coming out of my mouth is his words".

And of course, you are.

In Christianity this line of thought is highly discouraged because the church has been manipulated in such a way as to keep people in the dark and concentrate power. Hence the concept of "the Antichrist" was invented as a gatekeeper which discourages people from accepting the truth, all the while proclaiming to be truth.

Christianity requires of a man that he conquers his own fear. No one fearful will accept that "I am One with Jesus. I and he are one and the same" because doing so would put one in jeopardy of being the Antichrist, according to the church, who according to the same lies has a very unfortunate fate waiting for him or her.

Yet, there is truth in the Bible

'"Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods'?" (John 10:34)

"On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you." (John 14:20)

What, I wonder, would happen in the world if people realized their own power? I expect one day, we will find out. This "finding out" is what the people in power fear and why truth has been subverted for so long.

"Woe to you, experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering." - Luke 11:52

But wait.

There must be a purpose to the deceptions of the church. Even the ignorant, serves God so it cannot be out of pure malice and desire for control. There must be a higher purpose.

I think Christianity today requires that one not only accepts that one is Christ, to reach enlightenment, but also that one is the Antichrist.

One has to conquer and transcend the fear of the darkness.

I know this because I have done it.