PART 3: Why “Jesus Is God and the Only Way” Breaks His OWN Logic
In Part 1, we saw how Rome, supported by few Jewish priests and commoners killed a Jewish teacher and the Church spent eighteen hundred years blaming the entire Jewish community for it.
In Part 2, we dove into why Judaism and Islam refuse to accept the Christian upgrade that turned their teacher into “God, the Son” and “THE only saviour”.
This upgrade itself needs a deeper dissection and critical analysis:
What exactly happened between a Jewish teacher who prayed to the same ONE God of Judaism and spoke of Spirit as the ‘breath’ of God. And an entire state enforced a doctrine that says he has now become a COMPLETE and EQUIVALENT God or even God Himself, represents the second person of a Trinity, and literally the ONLY valid doorway to the Divine for the whole planet. TO even those races who didn’t ask for this nor were in lack of a new age dimension of God.
For me, this is the point where love for a teacher became a theological monopoly. And where Christian dogma started running perpendicular to Jesus’s own teachings. Worth the read…
The Jesus who actually walks through the gospels
If you lay aside all the commentaries/interpretations for a moment and just read the gospels, the Jesus you meet in there, is not a philosopher selling metaphysics. He is a Jewish teacher speaking to other Jews about a God they already know as the One…the One who brought them out of Egypt and saved them.
The Jesus you see in these gospels – as is – is the one who prays, fasts, calls God as his “Father”, teaches people to pray directly to that same Father that he prays to. He even says things like
“I can do nothing by myself. I judge only as I hear.”
“The Father is greater than I.”
“Not my will, but Yours be done.”
That is not the language of an independent deity issuing commands from a throne. It is the language of a servant of God, a son, a prophet. But at the same time, he does things that make his followers feel something more is going on. He has the capacity and powr to forgive sins. He reinterprets the law with authority. He talks as if his relationship with God is uniquely intimate. He even says mystical sounding lines like “I and the Father are one” and “before Abraham was, I am”.
So, this seems contradictory and the raw material seems mixed. Dependence and intimacy. Servant language and unity language. Prophet energy and something people later call “divine”. This is irreconciliable for the other two Abrahamic faiths. Let me later take you through why this beaitufully reconciles from a Vedic standpoint and why Jesus can be a prophet, divine, godly, powerful, miraculous, independent healer – yet still a son, a servant, a prophet who is never equal to or greater than God
Even more important is this decisive point. Nowhere does he turn to his listeners and say in plain language
“I am the Supreme God, separate from the Father. Worship me as the one Absolute Being.”
That sentence never appears. And if it does, know that it is written later, by others, on top of his story.
The Holy Trinity: What Jesus meant by ‘spirit’ before theology coined the Trinity Concept
When Jesus talked about ‘spirit’, he was standing inside a very old Semitic metaphor:
- The Hebrew word for spirit is ruach
- The Greek word is pneuma
- Both mean wind, breath, spirit
Spirit is the breath of God that animates life and moves in people. In old Vedic literature this is refered to as prana. This is described as the breath of Lord Mahavishnu. Without this pranic energy there is no question of creation. So the principle of spirit as an equivalent to prana is definitely conceivable, logical and real. The overarching presewnce of the Supreme Lord as paramatma is above this. That is the unique domain of God.
In summary, ‘spirit’ means at least three very simple, powerful things.
- God’s own representative, living presence
The spirit is how/through what God acts. It is the presence that spoke through prophets, that now heals and frees people through him, and that will continue to guide his followers after he is gone. - Inner Awakening
The spirit is what makes someone truly alive to God. To be ‘born of the spirit’ is to have your inner life rewired so that you can see truth and live differently. It is like a second birth from inside. - Breath that moves where it will
He compares spirit to wind. You see the effects. You do not control its path. This has a overarching reference architecture of how pancha prana principle works
But the most important observation is that there is no point where Jesus gives a metaphysical sermon that ever said, “God is three persons. I am the second person. The holy spirit is the third person. Together we form one essence.” In his own words, the Father and spirit are the ways of speaking about the one God acting in different modes. And he being the servant messenger carrying the divine message of God for that time, place, and circumstance. Spirit is divine breath, not meant to be some third committee member in a cosmic boardroom.
The Trinity was invented to solve a problem. Did it?
The word “Trinity” does not come from Jesus Christ. It does not appear in the classic New Testament. It was later theorized by a North African writer called Tertullian, around 200 years after Jesus, while trying to express a puzzle in Latin. Let us analyze:
The early church had a genuine contradiction to solve.
- They inherited Jewish strict monotheism. And accepted it as well – God is one.
- They were praying to Jesus as Lord, using language and worship that belongs only to God.
- They experienced “spirit” as God’s power in their communities.
But here was the gap – they could not simply say, “Hey, Jesus is a very good prophet” because their own liturgy had gone much further than that, divinizing him. So, somewhere between the second and the fourth century, the the Christian thinkers slowly built a theological structure:
- God is of one “substance”
- Within that single divine essence there are three ‘persons’ – Father, son, spirit.
- The Son is fully God and fully human. Not a creature. Not a mask the Father puts on.
- Spirit is also fully God.
The word “Trinity” arrives with Tertullian in Carthage. The formal dogma was later doctrinized later in imperial councils at Nicaea and Constantinople. The church bishops met under Roman emperors and voted on which interpretation would be called orthodox. In any case, whatever you believe about inspiration, you cannot pretend this is Jesus in Galilee speaking about Trinity in Aramaic. This is definitely post Jesus, Greek and Latin empire construction that tries to freeze a mystical personalized experience into a rigid metaphysical framework for life and stamp it with Jesus’s name.
You can respect the struggle, but you do not have to accept the final diagram as divine truth.
This runs perpendicular to Jesus’s own teachings
Now look at the angle of Jesus’s own core message. He very clearly told people few immutable principles amongst others.
- Love God with all your heart.
- Love your neighbour as yourself.
- Forgive, again and again.
- Do not judge.
- Do to others what you want them to do to you.
- Be merciful the way your Father is merciful.
Jesus did not give some course or certification on metaphysics. He taught the people of Israel how to live. His energy very clearly is “let me reconnect you to the living God and clean up your ethics”. However, the Trinity and the dogma “Jesus is God and the only way” drag the centre of gravity somewhere else.
The question quietly but radically shifts from
“Are you turning towards the One, and becoming more truthful, compassionate, just”
to
“Do you intellectually accept that this one historical person is fully God, second person of a Trinity, and the only valid mediator”
The first question was about transformation of life. It gradually digressed into a test of doctrine.
Why is it a problem you ask? Because when a doctrinal test is tied to salvation, the direction flips. And this has allowed the church to say, in the name of Jesus Christ, “No one comes to the Father except through me”. And that sounds like, “God will only accept you if you go through my authorised brand”
This is not doing justice to the purpose of Jesus’s life on this planet. It is having built a bottleneck around the same God who sends rain on everyone and answers the cries of any sincere heart, anywhere in the world.
THIS…
This is perpendicular to what Jesus taught. The same Jesus who healed Roman centurions, chatted respectfully with Samaritan women, saved fallen women, and told stories where the hero is a heretic who simply acted with compassion.
I can imagine a Jesus smiling at anyone who loves truth and lives mercy, whatever their religion brand label reads. I cannot imagine a Jesus clapping for an institution that tells billions of sincere seekers from other races or religions, “You are invalid. Your path does not count unless you stamp Jesus on it.”
HERE IS A SIDEBAR: Even AI is arguing with me
A quick confession. Parts of this series are being drafted with help from an AI model that is trained mostly on Western data. Which means its idea of what is “mainstream” or “scholarly” is already decided before I ask my first question. Biblical criticism and German philology are treated as serious. Sanskrit paramparā and Purāṇic chronology are treated as “myth” that must be corrected by those same biased tools.
When I say “Bhaviṣya Purāṇa mentions Jesus as Īśa putra”, the machine immediately cites Western Indologists who date that layer late, then tells me my view could be “shot down in two minutes by a textual historian”. It does not offer the same instinctive deference to traditional Hindu scholars or lineages which have solid referencetial materials
I am still using this AI as a yantra – a consciousness-less machine. It helps me structure arguments and tighten language. But I will not pretend it is neutral. The resistance I get from it is itself very imoprtant data on manipulation. Each time it defaults to Western “consensus” against Sanskrit voices, that dot goes on a larger map of how knowledge and power work in our age.
India will need its own AI stacks, trained on its own civilisational memory and pramāṇa hierarchy, if we want a genuinely plural conversation about God, history and truth. Until then use your human cognition and spiritual awareness to read between the biased lines.
Channel vs Source – The REAL Logical Fault-line
In my heart, and in my firm faith, my disagreement is very simple: seeing God in someone (which is not wrong) does not make that someone a god, the limitless Source. Feeling that one teacher cracked your heart open does not mean every other teacher/guru on earth is now an invalid. Vedic wisdom never condones this line of thought. On the contrary, it says, a soul’s transformation journey is marked by the presence and influence of many gurus at many different levels of maturity.
Jesus as a powerful channel for the Divine is not a problem. Jesus as the only valid Source to God is the challenge. For the record, Christians are not the only ones who risk this mistake. Every tradition that falls in love with their defined one form (or no form), one scripture, one prophet, can possibly slide into the same trap, if it doesn’t allow for plurality.
What can the Gita teach us
When a religion declares without room for thought stuff like “Jesus is God and the only way” it gets branded as a ‘claim; rather than fact. It is not that Jesus was insignificant. or his teachings have no power. I am just saying the monopoly claim contradicts his OWN spirit, his own dependence on God, and his own description of the holy spirit as the breath of a God who blows where It wills.rea
It is clear as the crystal that the Trinity diagram is a late human attempt to force mystery into a neat geometric shape, then police the world with that shape. Any path that turns a channel into a gatekeeper and tells the rest of humanity “you are out” has stepped out of alignment with the very God that it claims to defend through blood that was spilled.
THE MEGA RECONCILIATION – PART 4 PRELUDE
In Part 4, I will step into a verse that does something very different, put things in perspective, and stabilize contextual references. I call it the ‘Mega Reconciliation’.
The Bhagavad Gītā does not deny people who worship different forms and reach different destinations.
It does not pretend all paths are identical. It does not need to. It also does not license any one community to claim a monopoly over the Absolute.
The Supreme Lord Krishna’s voice holds hierarchy and plurality together. He says very calmly that people genuinely reach what they worship, and that those who turn fully towards the Supreme reach the Supreme. There is no cosmic monopoly clause. Rather, a clean law of consciousness where you are allowed to go where your heart and practice are aimed.
REAL FREEDOM! 