The Devil’s Brother
How fascinating.
What is the difference between Jesus Christ,
and the mythological Devil?
In practice, these two figures are the same.
Both Christ and the Devil bring harm and destruction to mankind in his blindness.
Both figures cause strife and contention in our lives, in regards to the way things are, the way we live, the world we live in and were raised in.
Our world, lifestyle, ways, these cumulate to become our culture, and our culture is in a real way the soul of our people, the richness and meaning to our lives. We protect the values of our culture above any other asset, to the point of annihilating any other tribe that might threaten our ways.
Christ and the devil both threaten our culture, both figures take from us everything we have and everything that holds meaning to us.
The holiday Christmas is a great example of sacred meaning in modern culture. Many would defend Christmas at any cost. Others regard Christmas with hatred, these have had the meaning of Christmas stolen, robbed from them, it remains nothing but a reminder of desecrated meaning. Such a holiday is built upon the backs of other meaningful holidays of other cultures that were destroyed. In the present, even the sacred ‘Christian Christmas’ has been destroyed in the face of a culture of modern capitalism.
So what is the primary difference between the Christ and the Devil?
Christ gives this tale,
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
“‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
“Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.
The primary difference between these two figures is that Jesus did what his father wanted. Jesus came to do the will of his father.
The devil rejects the will of his father. The devil does not do as his father asked. The devil is his own father.
Christ actually tells mankind in his blindness that man serves the devil, Satan, here,
“ Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
They had told Christ that their father was God, and he told them that this was not so, saying simply this, “If God was your father, you would have loved me.”
Why would they have loved him? They would have loved him because they would have loved people, as God loves people, and he stood before them as a man.
He continues to explain this truth to them, but they cannot comprehend what he is saying. “If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
What he is saying is simply this, if they knew truth, as he knows truth, they would not be arguing with him. They would just be agreeing with him, there would be no discussion on the matter.
He explains this further, “Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word.”
In this model then, there are two fathers,
The father of man is who we call the Devil, Satan, lies,
The father God is who we call Father, Truth.
The first difference was that Jesus did the will of his Father, not his own personal will, “I honor my Father and you dishonor me. I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.”
“If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.”
The second difference between these two is that Christ follows Truth, the very same God that the religious are seeking to follow.
A third difference is quite simple, but it is a difference!
The devil works with demons.
Christ worked with angels.
This is the dividing line. How to say this, Jesus did not work for the religious God because that is what others did.
He worked for that God because he chose the side of the angels, the force that brings healing, restoration, health to mankind.
He was not associating with the church for the sake of doing what he should do or what his people did.
His reason was one of free will, not one imposed upon him by his world.
He did not follow God because people told him he should, or because he respected the church and nations that had raised flags in the name of God.
He followed God because he understood Truth and chose that which was associated to love, kindness, gentleness, because he loved people, he loved Goodness,
it was because he was loving.
His world rejected him, did not understand him, could not hear him, did not love him, ridiculed him,
they did not feed him, they did not clothe him,
and he still chose to be on the side of humanity.
How is this possible?
He still had compassion. He had compassion for the people who were hurt and rejected and hated, the prostitutes and the drinkers and gamblers.
Surely this man loved. Any rational reject would have chosen a different path. Christ could have taken all of his pride and pain and chosen to join the traveling caravans, the mystics and the gypsies, those who also understood and lived in the shadows of society. He could have called all of the demons and pagan gods down on the evils of the church and enjoyed all of the divine providence and splendor that comes with the understanding of wisdom he possessed.
He could have made them regret having ever crossed him.
He could have sent demons out of the weak and sent them into the oppressive priests instead.
That was not what was in the calling of his heart. His heart was still calling out for his people, the people that were under the influence of the church, he had not forgotten them,
this calling was more important than his mind’s own story.
In every sense, if you examine the character enough, Christ is a destructive force and principle in exposure to this world. In almost all ways, the Christ is a devil! The only difference between Christ and the devil is in which side he chose.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”
Part II: The Twist
There is something almost hilarious about this reflection.
It is that most Christians believe the “antichrist” to be a deceptive figure which perfectly resembles ‘Jesus Christ’.
The perfect resemblance of the actual Jesus Christ, missing his holiness, would just be the Devil!
