What if the bible and particularly Jesus should never have been interpreted literally.
Think about the story of Noah, when the floods came Noah did not just cram the ark full of people, he saved the animals too, all the creatures were important.
So what if the story of Jesus is a warning, passed down through history.
What if Jesus was meant to be seen as a representation of the earth. It isn’t really a massive leap, for if we believe that an almighty being created the earth then we could say the earth is the child of the creator. The bible tells of the miracles that Jesus could do, look closely at your surroundings and you can see nature’s miracles every day.
The bible tells us that Jesus is always with us, well if he represents the earth, he is.
We are the only living thing that does not live in harmony with nature, our arrogance makes us believe we are better and our lives more valuable than any other form of life. We treat the planet the animals and our fellow man appallingly. We act like a spoilt child, we think we can take and destroy without consequence.
In the bible it was the people who were given the choice as to whether Jesus should live or die and the people chose to destroy him. Maybe that is why Jesus is represented in the form of man, perhaps the message is, if we do not change we will destroy ourselves and when we are gone life will thrive again without us. That is the resurrection.
This puts the responsibility for our future purely back on us, we should strive to be better, kinder, honest and considerate we should respect our surroundings and build a better future and if we could do that it would be a proper miracle.
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