He was realized that the consequences of living within an interconnected spiritual/social network meant that the Jewish idea of a Kingdom of God on Earth could not arrive as violent apocalypse because that would introduce hate and fear into what was supposed to be heaven on earth.
(July 9, 2022, updated December 2025)
The authentic teachings of Jesus show he was using the Magic Path (witchcraft) concept of living in a network to argue against the whole idea of a violent end-times apocalypse. While a child he witnessed the Roman reconquest of Galilee so he knew the idea in which the kingdom of God was supposed to come about in a similar way, by conquest and violence, was just plain wrong.
The above claim can be demonstrated with a high degree of certainty by using the mathematics of decision theory. That was used to extract twenty-one authentic teachings of Jesus in four main themes. These are:
Jesus would have been exposed to the magic path ideas while he lived at Capernaum. This town had became a customs stop on the new Mesopotamia to Egypt trade route established by Herod the Great by his building of the harbor at Caesarea Maritima. This trade route is how Herod got most of his money for building a new temple in Jerusalem and his palaces.
The apostle Paul, who never actually knew Jesus, was the one who co-opted the fledging Jesus movement by turning Jesus into an apocalyptic figurehead. Prior to this he was a zealous Jewish Pharisee and thus a firm believer in the apocalyptic end times. He was even persecuting some of the early Jesus followers. By turning Jesus into a figurehead he saved this apocalyptic end times idea and spread it to a wider world. Hence Christians are really the followers of Paul and are not followers of Jesus.
Jesus teaching
(July 9, 2022) Mathematics was applied to this historical problem because earlier non-mathematical attempts have failed to produce consistent results. The main problem with previous historical Jesus research has been its completely subjective nature. Authors tend to have some mental model of Jesus then all sayings which fit that model are authentic and all others are not. Some previous quality non-quantitative attempts were:
Then summarizing the subjective nature of previous non-quantitative research is:
(July 9, 2022) A significant problem is determining the authentic teaching of Jesus is whether Jesus really used the word "kingdom" in the phrases “Kingdom of Heaven” (Basileia Ouranos in Greek) as recorded in Matthew, or “Kingdom of God” (Basileia Theos in Greek) as recorded in the other gospels.
The ancient Greek noun role endings are:
Noun Gender Endings (which come after noun role endings)
Consequently, the word basileus is a masculine governing actor and so it means “king, ruler or governor.” The word basilica is a feminine place so it means “home of governing” and was a place where courts and other official government duties were performed in ancient times. The word basileia then is a feminine governing power which is best translated as “home energy.”
The second word in the phrase "Kingdom of Heaven" is ouranos which is also translated in English as uranus and it means “sky-bound” or “divine” or “heavenly” as a masculine adjective. “Sky” or the “heavens” was an epithet for the higher divine powers because they were located in the sky. According to the earliest Greek text describing their gods by Hesiod (500 BCE), Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia (Earth), with whom he fathered the first generation of Titans.
The second word in the phrase “Kingdom of God” is theos which means "God" as a noun or “divine” as an adjective.
Consequently, the two phrases are actually identical if translated as “Divine Home-energy.”
(July 9, 2022) Historical information can be treated as signals traveling through time. So, think of each source document as a noisy communication channel transmitting information from the past. Each channel has a certain probability of correctly transmitting a valid signal.
The source documents with their probabilities of validity are listed below from earliest to latest. The numbers in parenthesis are confidence level percentages which indicate what percentage of the teachings from that source are expected to be valid, that is, which actually go back to the time of Jesus. The closer a source is to the time of Jesus the more valid it tends to be. These validity probability numbers come from the declining exponential curve shown in figure 2:
A perfectly valid signal is one having a 100% confidence level and none of these sources meets that level by itself. This means that in order for a Jesus teaching to valid it has to be found in two or more sources. If the sources confidence levels exceeds 100% then the teaching is considered to be valid, that is, it goes back to the time of Jesus.
In the military, stealthy radio communication methods use spread spectrum techniques because they use several low powered signal transmissions which are spread out over many different radio frequency channels. Individually, each real signal is hidden in the noise but if the receiver knows when and where to look for the real signals then they can be extracted using methods analogous to those used to extract the real Jesus teachings.
For most of its short history, signal engineering was a rather specialized field existing mostly in radar engineering. Signal engineering also comes under the heading of “decision theory” and a good conceptual introduction can be found in the book by Peterson (2009).
In signal engineering, a true signal is different from a valid signal which has met the 100% confidence threshold requirement. A true signal is what is put into the communication channel. A valid detected signal may or may not be true. For example, a perfectly valid but still false signal may have been placed onto the channel by a foe using electronic warfare techniques. Generally valid signals are assumed to be true unless other tests indicate falsity. The same reasoning holds true for historical signals. A valid signal is one which meets the threshold requirement of going back to the time of Jesus. It is assumed to be true unless other tests show it is false. These other tests are “audience relevance” and “coherency of thought.”
The source weigh curve shown in the figure assigns weighting values to each Jesus signal source based upon their date of composition. All curves need three points for their definition.
One point is 32 CE with a validity of 1.0. This is the death date of Jesus which is justified in section ?. All teaching signals dated to when Jesus was alive are defined as authentic with a validity number of 1.0. (yet some few could be false from deliberate lies).
The second point is 150 CE with a validity of 0.0. Teaching signals dated after the death of Jesus have a decreasing probability of validity. The time when all teaching signals are invalid with would be when all possible eye-witnesses are dead along with the people with whom they talked. This would take about 120 years (60 + 60) or 150 BCE. This is confirmed by the apocryphal "Gospel According to the Hebrews" which was written about that time and which all scholars believe is a complete fabrication.
The third (actually 3rd, 4th, 5th) point is found using an iterative optimization process to find the validity of the sources which are associated with the known false saying “take up your cross” discussed in section 1.2 below. By assigning a validity of 1.0 to this teaching the validities of its sources can be determined if we assumed the shape of the curve is a declining exponential.
We can determine the shape of the curve based upon how information is propagated from person to person. Each person is like a link in a chain and each person has a certain probability of correctly passing along a short piece information to the next person. As an example of saying transmission, assume each person in the chain has a 0.9 probability of passing on some piece of information accurately. This person tells another person so the probability of this second person passing on this same piece of information drops to 0.81 (0.9 x 0.9 = 0.81). For a third person the probability drops to 0.729 (0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9) and so on. This sort of repeating procedure produces a declining exponential function. The exponential function is found in all sorts of phenomena which grow or decay at a rate proportional to its value at any given point.
(July 9, 2022) This false teaching is important for defining the validity curve of section 1.1. It is the only teaching signal of Jesus which is valid meaning it goes back to near his lifetime but which has to be false because it lacks audience relevance. If Jesus had actually said this his audience would not know what he was talking about. The symbol of the cross only became relevant after Jesus was crucified.
This historical signal extraction methodology has a time uncertainty of about plus or minus 3 years because that in the average uncertainty in dating its sources. Consequently, this teaching must have originated within 3 years after Jesus was crucified. An early persecution of the Jesus’s followers is attested in Paul's letters:
(Galatians 1:13-14, NIV, Paul speaking) For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. 14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.