the gospel of thomas (a gnostic gospel, non-canon) got me re-interested in the bible. i read through the beginning chapters of the new testament several times but always stopped after acts.
i feel like jesus was alluding to the next (or really, continued) evolution of humanity. he shared with us a vision of a new paradigm through which all peoples could live in peace and abundance: societies driven by cooperation internally and externally. society, namely humans working with other humans to achieve things a single human cannot, is what gave us the ultimate evolutionary edge. jesus preached the perfection of that evolution to end all our self-inflicted woe. whether he was sent by god or even existed at all is immaterial and the message -- which was disseminated in various forms throughout the world -- is profound: create a new world built for a new humanity, before this one is suffocated by its own devices. that's how i read it, anyway
