Jesus the Hacker

It may come as a surprise to some that there are many different accounts and interpretations of Jesus and his message. After his death there were dozens of cults that arose in his name: each with their own holy scriptures to back it up. The largest of these groups called themselves the Orthodox (meaning "right" or "correct") Church and they set out to destroy any other views about Jesus and to kill all those who held these views. Among the sects that they murdered were a lose grouping of cults known as the Gnostics.

The Gnostics believed that Jesus was not the son of the Jewish god (who they called Yaltabaoth which means "the arrogant one," and also Saklas meaning "the fool") but that he was the son of the highest god (who really couldn't be labeled a god on the account of his being huge and indescribable). In there mind, Jesus had come from an eternal dimension (one without decay like our world) know as Barbelo to tell us that we could be free. Not only can we be free, but that in us we posses a piece of Barbelo (which is in itself th highest being the Gnostics called the Autogenes which means "self generated" or at times The Luminous Cloud) inside of us and that eternal part of us is powerful and yearns to be free and infinite again.

If we are, in fact inside of some ultra-complicated computer simulation (which I believe we very well might be), then a more liberal interpretation of the Gnostic belief could lead us to believe that Jesus was not an immortal being at all, but a hacker from outside the computer. Maybe the time period in which he found himself when he entered our simulation made it necessary to dumb down the message - to bring it to a level that the humans of that age could digest. Could his message have really been that we could unplug from the machine and be free in the world beyond?

I will leave you with a quote from Jesus. It can be found in the Coptic Gospel of Thomas.

verse 1:  And He said, "Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death."