Church vs Anthroposophy

 It's OK for a born-again Christian to do whatever they want. You have to remember that the Bible was originally written to be interpretive. The Church is what enforces dogma and tells you that such-and-such passage means this, such-and-such passage means that.

The point of Christ's teachings were to encourage self-exploration and spiritual discovery. The Church is, ironically, at odds with a number of the things that Christ himself taught.

It could be worth your time to get a copy of the Red Text bible, which outlines all the words that Christ himself spoke. If you summarize his teachings (which, one would assume, should form the foundation of a religion called CHRISTIANITY) you'll find that they're actually in opposition to a lot of what the Church teaches.

In fact, Christ himself often advocated against going to church. There are tons of verses in the Bible that suggest that the Inner Church is the place where the real magic happens.

Acts 17-24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands."

Matthew 6:6 - But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Here the implication is quite obviously to meditate on the inner temple, within which the Holy Spirit dwells - an idea which the Church would consider heretical / occult despite being written into the Bible.

There are also tons of bible verses on meditation, self-exploration, finding the House of the Father, etc. etc. which all implicate self-exploration, free thinking, and the idea of finding Truth for yourself.

Mark 5:19 But Jesus would not allow him. “Go home to your own people, He said, “and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy He has shown you. 20So the man went away and began to proclaim throughout the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.…

Jesus wanted people to praise the Lord, that which can be communed with in the Inner Temple - not praise he himself. Jesus specifically wanted people NOT to worship him, only to understand themselves and their relationship to the Lord. Jesus continually reminded people that they were the same as He was, the only difference being their distance from the Heavenly Father.


The irony here is that Christ himself would have almost certainly been more supportive of Steiner's approach to Christianity rather than the Church's. Steiner encourages people to find the Christ within, through meditation and learning to Know Thyself, which is what Christ himself taught.

The Church instead teaches us that Christ is something distant and separate from ourselves, something inherently different and 'better' than humans. An idol of worship, rather than a state of Being which can be achieved by everyone who lives honorably, honestly, and with discipline.

One also has to remember that the BIBLE was NOT WRITTEN BY JESUS. Anything in the bible is written THROUGH THE LENS of the PERSON WRITING IT, which means we already have dozens of different interpretations of Christ's teachings conflicting with each other in the bible itself. The best way to understand true Christianity is to just study the words of Jesus himself.

TL:DR; Authentic, non-Dogmatized Christianity is one of the purest and valuable sources of wisdom available to humankind. Unfortunately, the Church has misinterpreted a number of Christ's original teachings. This creates a dichotomy where many churchgoers are unwittingly practicing a theology very different from the spiritual tradition that Christ himself taught.

Jesus taught that the Christ and the Holy Spirit lives inside each and everyone one of us, that the Kingdom of Heaven lies within. The Church, on the other hand, tells us that Christ is an idol of worship who represents a wholly unattainable level of consciousness, that attempting to merge with Christ consciousness is blasphemy, and that the Kingdom of Heaven lies far beyond the reach of humans and that the only key to the lock lies in the vehement adherence to Church dogma.

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