Jesus Without Dogma

This week's topic - following that Third Jesus, without getting bogged down in the dogma of the second one that many churches focus on exclusively.

~ Eckhart Tolle
"Dogmas - religious, political, scientific - arise out of the erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or the truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of "I know." Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity that its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others. What is the basic delusion? Identification with thought."

So perhaps the dogma itself is the veil that hides Reality from us?

And this one ...

~ Felix Adler
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."

So someone in history had the inner experience, tried to put it in words and capture it in thought, to create a template for others to match their experience. But maybe we don't need the words, or someone else's thoughts, but just a direct experience of our own.