Greetings Anons
If I could, I would like to offer my perspective into the nature of Christ. I will use the teachings of Jesus and the early Genesis account directly to support my position.
In the beginning God created both the heavens and the earth.
There is no matter yet. There is clearly a 'higher' and 'lower' aspect/dimension to life which transcends the physical entirely. I call this 'Christ'; the upward ascension from material/physical to spiritual/ethereal.
Adam and Even are one; for Eve was derived from Adam's own rib as with a yang and a yin. They are two parts of one whole. It is so in all things; heavens and Earth, Adam and Eve, Can and Abel, Jesus and Satan etc.
Cain means "tiller of the soil"; he produced an offering of his own mind.
Abel means "herder of the sheep"; he produced an offering of his first of flock.
We all have a balanced Cain/Abel nature, which is denoted by the two trees of the garden of Eden: the tree of the knowledge of good/evil (Cain) and the tree of life (Abel). There are goats, and there are sheep.
The teachings of Jesus healed the blind, as he separated the sheep from the goats.
Jesus taught the kingdom of heaven was within, not without.
It is the right hemisphere of the brain: the Garden planted Eastward containing the tree of life. Jesus thus taught to cast the net to the right when the apostles where fishing from the left side of the "ship" (ship mystically means mind) and when they cast right, they caught 153 fish which is the number for Christ consciousness.
Christ thus dwells within; like a seed planted in the design of the human body. One can choice between two trees: the Cain and Abel problem.
Christ is to transcend the lower nature into the higher nature; just as Abraham could only receive instruction from God after Lot had departed.
The Bible is a keystone/map on how to raise your consciousness from earth, through Noah's cleansing waters, through reunion with Christ in the air, and finally to purge the old in fire. Earth, Water, Fire, Air.
The kingdom of heaven, very truly, is within, and it is the only way to 'the Father because Christ is to be one with 'the Father' as Jesus was, therefor Christ is within.
It is for this reason Jesus said if you knew him, then surely you would know 'the Father', because to be one with 'the Father' is to be in Christ - to enter deep within yourself.
Jesus said very plainly - to enter within yourself is the narrow way and few there be that find it. The religious leaders (scribes / lawmakers) are hypocrites because they ALL take the keys away as they themselves do not enter within and seek the Christ within. Mainstream Christianity and Islam are thus idolatrous and focus on the characters rather than their messages. Very truly, everything Jesus taught is true, but Christ is within and speaks uniquely to each individual based on his/her needs.
To tithe is not to give 10% of your money to churches, it is to give that which is your lower mind (male and female as Noah took them in his own ark) and offer them unto 'the Father' that he might guide you through the storm and deliver you on your own mountaintop above that which you came from. The epic of Moses depicts this, moving from Earth to Water to Air, and Moses delivers from Egypt (bondage) into the promised land after reaching the burning bush denoting fire. Earth, Water, Air, Fire.
Very truly, all life experience ends in Christ; whether you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Atheist, gypsy, transsexual, democrat, republican, nationalist, socialist etc.
Godspeed Anons; may your own Abel nature prevail over Cain as you seek your own inner Christ; very truly it can only be found within, lest any man deny himself and follow Jesus the idol instead thereby taking up their own cross daily.
Jesus is a Greek name which means "sun". 'The Father' is in the sun, the sun is in you. Nobody comes to 'the Father' except through the sun, which contains your own individual Christ.