Johan Oldenkamp – When you are familiar with my work, then you who that I clearly dare to say that the historical Jesus never existed. By stating this so blunt and straightforward, I behave as the opposite of my mother, as she had the gift to get along with really everyone. That was the reason why yesterday so many extra chairs had to be brought, in order to offer everyone a seat at the thanksgiving service.

Very often I hear that people admire my work and commitment, but that they do not agree with all I say. Almost always they mean that they believe in the historical Jesus, and that they oppose my clear stand against this. They are even almost angry at me because they see it as me trying to take away something that apparently gives them so much strength and love. “Stay away from my beloved Lord Jesus, you infidel Judas”, they then probably think.

I am indeed an unbeliever. Christians get even more upset when I further assert that I did not believe in God. Who knows the Truth does not have to rely on believing what might be true. I know God because I have intensively studied the work of God, and I am still researching this. And all that I understand of this, I share via Wholly Science, in which God is also at the very center.

I strongly oppose against any form of creed. Believing is for people who can not or will not understand the truth. In the New Testament of the Bible, the character named “Jesus” says exactly the same, but much more subtle. He compares a believer with someone who builds his house on sand, or even quicksand in some translations. Only people who absolutely know the truth for sure, only they build their house on rock. The sad thing is that believers also interpret this parable on an unfounded religious manner, and in fact strengthen their conviction that Jesus was talking about blind faith, disconnecting themselves even more from the truth that Jesus stressed the necessity of knowing. Continue reading →