Does all of Christianity operate under a shared delusion?

[wizanda]

The Apocalypse of Abraham


55. And I looked and saw a Man going out from the left side of the nations and there went out men and women and children, from the side of nations, many hosts, and worshipped Him. And while I still looked, there came many from the right side, and some of these insulted Him, and some of them even struck Him, but others however worshipped Him. And as I watched, I saw Azazel approach Him and he kissed Him on the face and then stood behind Him.
56. And I said, "0 Eternal One! Who is the Man insulted and beaten, who is worshipped by the nations and kissed by Azazel?" And He answered and said, "Hear Abraham! The Man you saw insulted and beaten and yet worshipped by many, He is the 'Relief' granted by the nations to the people who proceed from you, in the last days, in the twelfth hour of the age of ungodliness. But in the twelfth hour of my final age will I set up this Man from your generation, whom you saw issue from among my people, and all who follow will become like this Man, and such as are called by me will join the others, even those who will to change within themselves. And as for those who emerge from the left side of the picture, the meaning is this - there shall be many from the nations who shall set their hopes upon Him, but as for those whom you saw from your seed on the right of the picture who insulted Him and struck Him, many shall be offended in Him, but some shall worship Him. And He shall test those of your seed who have worshipped Him in the twelfth hour at the end, with a view to shortening the age of ungodliness.

Azazel = Fallen Angel = Devil = "The Goats to be removed" = BUTT, But, Butt to everything.....

 

[logician]

Since the Jesus story is myth, don't expect golden gates when death visits your door.

 

[wizanda]

Golden gates = Plastic = Not real....
So will agree on that…….
Yet on Yeshua being real, really hope so, else who was that in heaven (last time visited = 23 NDE) and who was that in visions......
Unless of course heaven wasn’t real either?
Potters field prophecy (Zechariah 11) is to cut off inheritance and grace for 30 pieces of silver and to be placed in the potters field….so why would any Jew write they are to be tortured kicked out of the land and the rest for doing so?
Now that is unreal as no one would do so knowingly and so the logic of being a myth, doesn’t make logical sense….
Also if most Christians follow the complete opposite to that just posted and most of Yeshua own words, yet still they follow, again this makes no sense, unless it is all meant as a test.....

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Not all Christian sects believe in substitutionary atonement... at least I don't believe so...

Not all Christian sects affirm the existence of God, either.

Perhaps the one dillusion that all Christian sects may share is that they all consider themselves to be "Christian."

 

[Wandered Off]

Setting aside for a moment whether the sacrifice was human, self, or otherwise, I think there is at least widespread intrafaith agreement that some kind of sacrifice was necessary, whether it was the incarnation itself or specifically the death. I think the commonality is that we are born with some kind of structural deficit that requires a reconciliation to the divine. I don't want to use the loaded term "delusion" for this, but I see it as a commonality, and not one unique to Christianity.