My apologies, but Christ is all there is.

It is hard not to feel pity looking at the historical development of orthodoxy in church life; of a community of people so disconnected from the author of their faith and so disjointed in their thinking about the essential character, will and mind of God, that they spend more time ministering to each other’s hurts, suspicions and fears arising from doctrinal oppression through thought control than reaching out to a world that has not experienced the saving grace of God.
What Jesus tried to do was make the experience of God a simple affair but immediately when the Romans got a sniff of free thinking believers ‘following the Holy Spirit in an attitude of love’ they applied the rule of faith, the doctrinal straightjacket of half-wits, the rubber stamp of ecclesiastical authority, on a spiritual Kingdom that has no beginning, no middle and no end and certainly no master other than Jesus Christ.
As a result of fundamental errors in understanding the role and purpose of Christ in the world the life of the church suffered an early imprisonment to the thoughts and traditions of men instead of to the words and teachings of Christ. An imprisonment that expresses itself in the many denominations that have arisen since in which membership of a rigid formulaic system of belief, often at odds with its pioneering origins, is a prerequisite for acceptance. Christ is sidelined, orthodoxy is worshipped.
Not even Brian McLaren, writing in the parlance of next wave orthodoxy, under the title of ‘A Generous Orthodoxy’ could get his head around the source of the problem.
A problem it most certainly is. My contention is that the way the Bible has been presented by the Roman scholars as having contents entirely God breathed is a very serious indictment of all the Christ taught about the supremacy of His words. For example, a book that presents Christ as a product of culture rather than One who brought the law to bear upon human culture, is a book that mixes the humanism of unrenewed men together with the humanity of God that did not require renewal into one homogenous canon called the inerrant word of God. The inference is that the lives of sinners reflect the same truth as the life of One who knew no sin thus creating a testimony of man and of God on equal footing, which is exactly what happened in the Garden of Eden.
The Law, that the Prophets tried to champion, came to us in the flesh as a living testimony of its perfect form who requested politely that we listen to His voice and none other.
By stuffing Jesus in the Bible in the careless way they have, the Romans 1> Disobeyed Christ 2> Then twisted His words to mean something that He never intended.
The root problem of Christian witness has been that the foundation stone upon which the whole building of the Kingdom of God, a spiritual Kingdom, was designed to stand has instead been laid on the rubble of other writings by Roman architects who by their actions demonstrated they didn’t have a clue what Jesus meant about the cornerstone.
The word ‘Roman’ stands for the culture and ideas of a band of lunatics who chucked out the Etruscans, who set up a dynasty in Rome, and who then expanded their economic and ideological hegemony by creating wars with their neighbours (in similar fashion to today's Globalisation of the American Culture) , then by writing laws and canons to which the then known world was forced to obey and to be collectivised into or suffer the label of heretic or enemy. (Sounds like the Bush speech, 'Either you're for us or against us'.) A pattern that repeated itself in the administration of the Christian belief that they hijacked for their own egotistical purposes.
My advice to any believer who is confused about the way the Old Testament presents a testimony of God’s character that is wholly different to the testimony that Christ brought is to read ‘The Bible that dethrones Christ and the Bible that doesn’t’. It is a book that will give you an invigorated view of what the axiom, 'Jesus is Lord over all things', means in reality and it will give you a clue why so many Christians, throughout the history of the church, have erroneously believed there is scriptural basis for embarking on bloody crusades against God's creation. Satan has duped many into forming false religions based on lies, of which perhaps the most extreme manifestation is the Illuminati whose adherents exhort each other to insult Christ by following a man-made orthodoxy that cannot distinguish the difference between Lucifer and God.