I Am Christ

[michaelsherlock]

The belief that you, me and everyone else alive or dead is God is more closely linked to hermetic or panentheistic concepts, bordering on pandeism. Its nothing to do with Christianity where you believe in Christ the saviour of fallen mankind, not that you are said saviour.

That's what I've been trying to tell him, but he ignores me. So much for being a "Christ-like" figure, those beliefs match up perfectly with modern Satanism, which was founded by Anton LaVey.

Sorry, I thought I addressed your assertion above. I never claimed to be Christ, or Christ like, I see my self more as a kind of.....human being.

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Throughout that entire post you simply made claims on how beneficial your philosophy is. Not once did you actually explain what the philosophy was or the logical pathways it took to gain these benefits.

This is true. The reason I left out those components is to see how people would import their own beliefs and understandings into the vagaries. I find it very interesting and it is essentially symbolic of what the idea/philosophy is about.

My best attempt at deciphering what this philosophy entails are as follows:
You put yourself in the shoes of a "messiah" or "hero" so you can wonder what you would do in a similar situation and how you would assert your independence in a method beneficial to human society and to yourself.

This is out of line with my understanding and intention, but I find your idea fascinating, yet ultimately flawed and you yourself go into why this approach is flawed, down below.

It also humanizes idols both real and fictional to the point where we no longer look at them in terms of awe and worship but simply lessons to be learned and targets to reach for.

Again, very interesting approach. But, not what I had in mind.

In theory this would cause the individual following the philosophy to make increased efforts to be the best he can be. *However*, it should be noted that even the life stories of "idols" proven to exist are prone to being mixed with a substantial amount of truth stretching and in some cases outright fiction. Should an individual attempt to follow such an idol then they would be setting themselves up to fail and experience a sharp drop in self-esteem when they did.
I conclude that if this philosophy were to be used it could not be used on any idol that is associated with far-fetched tales of the supernatural... like Jesus.

I agree.

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I am Mark.

Cool name.