I cant help but think that Jesus would be disgusted with this entire religion of Christianity that we created. I dont recall anything ever being written about how Jesus wanted to be worshiped or admired in a bigger than life sense. Did he really expect us to turn his life into a metaphor or was he expecting us to see his life as a very real example of how to live, love, forgive and serve?
Does anyone really want to worship a god that wants to be worshipped? Did we end up creating an image of God that is actually they way WE would want to be treated if we were a god? Isnt the main reason the Jews could not accept Jesus because he didnt fit their view of what God is like?
Maybe the scriptural metaphor of God as a king with a kingdom was based on the world view of a people that were conditioned to be comfortable serving kings chosen for them based on bloodlines and cast systems. Maybe the view of a God we now embrace is a metaphor based on our current worldview that now chooses its leaders and values freedom and individual choice. It is no wonder this new view of God was created and accepted in Greece and Rome (birthplaces for modern government structures) during the following centuries. Did we change our view of God because we no longer could follow a God that represented a leadership model we no longer respected?
Im not sure we are any better off now. I feel like I have spent my whole life so obsessed with this new metaphor that I have missed the larger point of the message. I'm struggling to determine if the answer is another "newer" view of God or if a better answer is an understanding that recognizes all these views as what they are and move on to the larger message.