Sources of
Jesus Christ’s ethical system
Bogdan Góralski
Library of the
Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw
In my opinion,
Jesus Christ was born as a man and became God for those who worship him because
His pro-social Teaching was perfect. The ethical achievements of the Israelites
were a continuation of the culture of ancient Egypt acquainted by Moses and
developed by his followers who created Jewish law.
Ethical cultures
of Asia migrated to the Middle East along the caravans route and were also
introduced in the philosophy the Middle East after the conquest of Asia by
Alexander the Great, who was accompanied by the scientific staff – a team of
philosophers-scientists. Jesus Christ in his life met with the ethical ideals
of Asian cultures and accepted them and his teaching was a synthesis of the
ethics of the Middle and the Far East. We need to find sources for this
synthesis.
The teaching of
Jesus Christ is not a religion. His teaching is an ideology that leads us to a better
future, better use of our possibilities, to live in harmony with our world. We
need the continuation and development of Jesus Christ’s ideology in our daily
lives so that we become sages, people who love our whole world and his culture.
Whatever we can
say about the doctrine of Jesus Christ, His ideology, we must think of His
teaching as continuing teaching of ancient prophets from our History. Jesus
Christ was the penultimate in a long series of Great Philosophers and
understood that we should not talk only about the behavior of people. Don’t
just talk about how to live, but live according to your teachings. Jesus Christ
shows us the limit of conscious, individual love – sacrificing himself for the
good of others. We have no other choice in our lives because whatever we do, we
follow Jesus Christ and we must understand it. His teaching was full of human
knowledge, nothing more could be added. We must apply His teaching in our daily
lives. But the problem is to show how Jesus Christ used the teaching of ancient
prophets from Europe, Asia, and Africa? I think we should jointly consider the
process of penetrating cultures in antiquity. I believe that the great
challenge for modern science is to show that our thinking tends to synthesize
human knowledge – the science of sacrificing our weaknesses for a shared better
future. The Prophet Muhammad was also a great philosopher who understood the
truthfulness of each religion and taught to worship all religions. Every
teaching, every thought comes from the surrounding world which is the Best
Teacher.
Jesus’ ideology
is simple: if you can love your enemies, you can achieve everything as a human
being by avoiding unnecessary suffering. The long evolution of philosophy has
passed, and Christ has synthesized many philosophies and led to a revolution
that continues today. I am a participant in this revolution. Christ’s ideology
leads to an honest life, to an honest political system with leaders aware of
our goals.
Jesus Christ
transformed the Buddha’s teaching on pain and suffering. Jesus Christ taught
that you should not avoid suffering, you should suffer voluntarily and in this
way, you will achieve happiness. Jesus Christ shows us by his example the way
to earthly and eternal happiness.
Recently, I
think that all the suffering that I have had in my life is due to my ignorance.
I didn’t know what I was doing in my life. In this way, I agree with the
teaching of Socrates, Buddha and Jesus Christ. However, my suffering motivated
me to self-study and develop my spirit and ethics, so my suffering had a
positive effect. My life full of pain was the Best Teacher. This confirms the
truthfulness of the teaching of Jesus Christ.
I didn’t know
what I was doing. I did not know how difficult the path of life I chose. Anyone
can say that. Our history is a long chain of acts of ignorance. The higher is
the ignorant person position in the social hierarchy, the greater the damage
done to society. There is only one way to break ignorance – the development of
knowledge among the whole society, and especially among political elites …
Aeschylus
(525-456 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. He is often described as the
father of tragedy. He claimed that suffering is science. Below is an excerpt
from the Polish version of Wikipedia:
“The model
of Aeschylus’s reality is therefore subordinated to ethical and religious
ideas. This model is based on the belief that the world is ruled by divine
justice, and the main deities that make it up are Zeus, Mojarra, and Dike. God
and human justice are in a close relationship here. They both rely on faith in
the order that can be controlled only through suffering …
Jesus Christ
fulfilled the message of Aeschylus and imitated the figure of Job (in Polish)
from the Hebrew Old Testament.
The system of
laws of the Decalogue of Moses was probably the abbreviation of 42 laws of the
Egyptian goddess Maat (http://maatlaws.blogspot.com/ ). Moses, who was brought up and shaped by
the culture of ancient Egypt, simplified Egyptian law so that an excess of
prohibitions would not prevent Israel from exercising the rights. The law must
be simple and understandable to be universally applicable. Jesus Christ was
shaped by the Decalogue of Moses, whose source was ancient Egypt. In addition,
the society of ancient Israel was organized into small local communities, whose
tradition of the organization came from Babylonian captivity. So we see
Egyptian and Babylonia sources of Christ’s ethics.
During the life
of Christ, the overpopulated Judea suffer a great drought. His ideology was a
reaction to the social needs that were the result of the crisis in agriculture
and society.
Philosophical
and religious systems were created depending on the natural environment and the
tradition of a given country. An example is China, where ideas of Confucianism
and Taoism developed. This is described in the citation:
“Confucius’
thought was born of rather poor land. In his homeland, the small principality
of Lu, located in the central, continental part of today’s Shandong Province,
he was able to observe man’s struggles with hostile nature from an early age,
constant flooding and excess water. The rocky land of the higher parts of
Shandong is not very fertile and is reluctant to produce. Every cultivation
requires harmonization of efforts, social action is common. It is not easy to
rule a country where hunger was not uncommon and people are ready to rebel.
Such thoughts had to direct Confucius’ attention to social life, seek an answer
to the question of what our place in society is, how the ruler should rule and
how much of his subjects should be involved in these governments. “
Taoists claim
that the less a prince rules, the better the state of society. The ideal of
Taoists is the self-governance of small local communities, and Jesus Christ
takes the example of Taoist teaching and creates his small communities, making
life easier for poor people from Judea.
Zoroastrianism
and Jesus Christ beliefs
An excerpt from
Polish Wikipedia:
Zoroastrianism is derived from the original beliefs of Indo-European peoples living in the area of present northern Iran. Muslims call them followers the worshipers of the fire. The Holy Book of Zoroastrian is Avesta, the most important part of which is Gaty, according to the beliefs written by Zoroaster himself. Zoroastrianism was a state religion in the existing Sassanid empire in contemporary Iran and Iraq. He exerted a significant influence on Judaism, and through him also on Christianity and Islam, and according to some religious scholars, there are serious premises to claim that such basic principles of religion as the Last Judgment, the soul wandering after death to hell or heaven, faith in the existence of the devil and the arrival of the messiah arose under the strong influence of Zoroastrianism.
Zoroaster
claimed that if we have good thoughts, good speech, good deeds this gives us a
happy life.
The thoughts
of Confucius and the peace
Józef Marzęcki,
Religious-Philosophical Systems of the East, Scholar, Warszawa 1999, p.140,
quote:
Zeng Shen, the
continuity of Confucius’ thought, considered to be the author of the Great
Science (DAXUE, actually dated at the turn of the third and second centuries
before Christ), is part of the Siddha (Sishu), thus portraying the way a man to
perfection:
“Great
learning path leads to enlightenment. Enlightened virtue consists in the
cordiality to the people and refraining from desires and goods. The wise
refrain leads to having confidence. Confidence leads to calm. Calm leads to
peace. Peace leads to a state of concentration. Focus brings prosperity. Things
have roots and vertices, things have a beginning and an end. Knowing what was
before and after, is a rule close to Tao. The ancients wished enlightenment.
Enlightened virtue desires greatness. The largest ones first rule their own
state. Desiring to govern their own country, they first achieve the prosperity
of their own family. The people who desire the good of the family first fix
themselves. Those who want to fix themselves first improve their own minds.
Those who want to improve their minds first control their own thoughts. Wanting
to control their own thoughts first expand their own knowledge. Enhanced
knowledge consists in recognizing things. Recognition of things leads to the
highest knowledge. The highest knowledge leads to the confidence of the
thought. The confidence thought leads to a reformed mind. Reformed mind leads
to improving ourselves. When we are corrected we bring to the prosperity of the
family. The prosperity of the family leads to the rule of law. A law-governed
state leads to the heavens that bring balance. Starting from the emperor until
down to the ordinary people, minds must take care of the roots. You can not
destroy the roots, but you have to take care that the growing tree is well
cultivated. It can not be so that what is important is neglected, and at the
same time what is not important is being important (taken care of). This is
called learning the roots, it is called the highest knowledge.
Bogdan Góralski
said: “The righteous prince, the righteous king, the elect of the heavens,
should ensure the harmony and co-operation of all communities and all religions
by bringing to Earth the Ordering Law in the pattern of the established law of
the Universe, which will ensure the harmonious development of the earthly
communities for the attainment of the Absolute.
The law of
Christ about love for enemies mainly introduces wise love in every family that
leads to the wise social order.
Love of
enemies and peace in the teaching of Jesus Christus
Love Your
Enemies
Jesus said to
his disciples: You have heard that it was said, You will love your neighbor,
and you will hate your enemy. And I say to you: Love your enemies, and pray for
those who persecute you; So you will be the sons of your Father who is in
heaven; Because He causes His sun to rise above the evil and the good, and He
sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what
reward will you have? Do tax collectors do not do it? And if you only greet
your brethren, what special do you do? Do not the heathen do it? So be perfect,
how perfect is your heavenly Father (Mt 5,43-48).
The text of the
Gospel was too radical for me when I was younger. Love your enemies? … But
after years I believe rightfulness of Christ. Thanks to our enemies we become
better. Why…??? Thanks to our enemies we have the motivation to live and
fight. Enemy means a conflict that forces the preparation for the final battle.
We will know the enemy then, we try to be perfect to face him. If we have to
win we must outdo the enemy. We begin to educate ourselves to understand the
enemy in order to understand the hostile world around us. We collect
information about him and this way we learn about the causes of the conflict.
We begin to understand the behavior of the enemy and start to sympathize with
him. We become more perfect than when we did not have the enemy and were
sluggish in complacency. And as we are better or stronger already than the
enemy then we pity him and we reach for his hand to the consent. We see the
nonsense of victims of the struggle and see the possibility of a peaceful exit
from the conflict. The agreement is still enforced by our advantage. We win the
war without launching it. So did the ancient Chinese. Ancient Chinese thought:
It is wise to win the war without launching it. Let’s love our enemies because
they make us perfect.
Let’s love our
enemies because they make us perfect.
We owe them our
perfection achieved through conflict.
Let us be
grateful and love them for what they did to us.
This was taught
by Christ 2,000 years ago. What would the world be if we listened to Him …
???
God is
perfect but does it mean that He has an enemy too???
Christ and
agricultural order
Christ ordered
to fulfill the obligations to the landowners that were voluntarily accepted by
tenants of agricultural land, which indicates his acceptance of the feudal
farming system based on land rent. His orders resulted from an understanding of
the essence of Palestine’s social problems based on drought and material
poverty of tenants who could not meet their obligations due to reduced yields.
How did Jesus
Christ solve the problem of inheriting property ???
According to the
Apostolic Letters, early Christian communities were accepting new believers
when they offered all their property to the community. Christian communities
were providing members with protection against hunger and lawlessness that
prevailed in Judea at that time. Probably the transfer of all property to the
Christian community was a new solution to the problem of property inheritance,
which causes so many problems today. I think that a global company POL-CAT,
which no one will inherit, will dispel many problems of the modern world and
become a common property of the global community.
POL-CAT can
not be taken over by contemporary mafias
The harmony
between man and woman will occur when we change the mechanisms of inheritance
of property. The POL-CAT Global Enterprise is proposing to change the
inheritance system. POL-CAT can not be taken over.
Global
peaceful revolution
In the text
“Mode of operation of POL-CAT” I write that employees of this company
will have an equal share in profits. Why? Because it will force everyone to
work hard to increase the company’s income. There will be no financial elite in
this enterprise. This is a revolution. Either equal wealth or equal to
poverty…
I follow Jesus
Christ creating the mode of operation of POL-CAT.
Jesus Christ
said, “You know that the rulers oppress the people, and the great ones let
them feel their advantage. It should not be between you. If anyone of you wants
to be great, let him be your servant. If anyone of you wants to be first among
you, let him be your slave. (Matthew 20: 25-27). I follow Jesus Christ creating
the mode of operation of POL-CAT.
Jesus Christ’s
teaching is not a religion, this is an ideology that leads us to a better
future, to better use our abilities, to live in the beauty of our world. We
need the ideology of Jesus Christ in our everyday life to become wise and
loving men, men loving our world.
You have to
follow Jesus Christ now to be happy
Jesus Christ, by
his teaching, restored faith in the perfection of our world and with his
sacrifice showed us the way to happiness, erased the original sin of Adam and
Eve. They reached for fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they
doubted the given world and began to perceive good and bad sides in it.
Meanwhile, good and evil is essential elements of our world and lead us in the
process of evolution to perfection similar to the perfection of the creators of
our living environment. The sacrifice of suffering and the life of Christ is a
commentary of his perfect philosophy – voluntary suffering brings eternal happiness.
His last lesson: Share bread for His memory (Bible 1998: Luke 22:19), contains
the final wisdom of his message because 18 years of my studies led me to the
same conclusion that only the abundance of food allow avoiding wars and
revolutions and ensures harmonious development of societies and their culture.
Other evangelists quote the words of Christ. Share bread and wine for my
remembrance – this is a call to vegetarianism so far overlooked in the teaching
of Christ. Enough of bread means a worthy life, wine means a life full of good
fun. Sharing bread and wine will ensure a dignified and happy life.
The meaning of
our life consists of voluntary suffering for the favor of others and it is full
of the joy of existence. Christ’s teaching and sacrifice showed us unbounded
faith in the perfection of our world against Adam’s doubt. Christ was
indifferent to the threat of death on the cross. He fulfilled his mission and
trusted God completely.
Christ
pointed out that the rabbis are no longer necessary and He has established
His representatives among the simple people – the Apostles of the New News: the
Law is simple and understandable; to love your enemies and share your bread and
wine and to suffer voluntarily to be happy.
Like the idea of vegetarianism, Christ drew from Hinduism and Buddhism, so the idea of voluntary suffering could have been borrowed from Taoism. One of the principles of Taoism is to recommend to creatures voluntarily to belittle itself. Christ has brought this principle to the limits of human possibilities, sacrificing the dignity and inviolability of his person for the good of all beings. He humbly humbled himself and joined with the Absolute by this deed.
Christ was an ideal, a perfect but incomprehensible philosopher and teacher. Because He was the Pharisee’s He raised to the pedestal a despised women, which was almost a sacrilege. The women saved the memory of him and preserved in the memory of generations the worship of the Teacher. The women have been carried their cross and were the strongest supporters of the Church of Christ.
He was with us 2,000 years ago when the climatic crisis impoverished the people of Judea, but He was not understood then, so you have to follow Him nowadays, to be happy when a global crisis will come. Jesus Christ by his teaching was been restoring bases of social order in Judea according to principles of Heaven, which prescribe to save of social energy and all energies. Heaven prescribes to save of social energy and all energies.
Philosophy –
(ancient Greek φιλοσοφία from Ancient Greek φίλος – love and ancient Greek
οοφία – wisdom, translated as “love of wisdom”) – systematic and
critical reflections on basic problems and ideas, the desire to know their
essence, and a comprehensive understanding of the world. The Bogdan Góralski
philosophy is contained in the equation:
WISE LOVE =
ENERGY = LIFE
Wise love will
give us the energy that will provide us with eternal life for us and future
generations.
Warsaw, 8-14
December 2017, 5:27
Bogdan Góralski