If your intuition says no, then approach with caution. I've approached it from a logical philosophical angle. Like I said already, everything is an illusion, this can be known intuitively and is also backed up by evidence, such as prophesy, miracles, and theoretical physics and physics experiments that show that particles' behaviour can be influenced by observation. Everything is just an imagination projected by the Source mind, and that includes you and everything comprising the illusion of 'you'. Your own consciousness is, at its core, just the Source watching the world through your eyes. Your intuitive rejection may be due to the close parallel between the 'any mortal can do it' philosophy and the luciferian transhumanist ideal of becoming your own god. (Like Lucifer tried to do.) The key difference is that in the satanic version, the individual becomes a god, separate from the real God, whereas what Jesus did was become one with the already eternally existing God by denying the Self. I think this concept should be taught with caution, because someone who's not ready could easily misunderstand and go down the transhumanist route, so for the uninitiated it's probably better to just trust in Jesus until they're ready to go deeper. All this doesn't necessarily mean that Jesus won't save you anyway. If you can't achieve self-existence on your own, he could still grant you immortality by simply lifting the curse of death from you. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to follow his example to do what he did. You can fail horribly reaching for the bar he set but you'll still be a better person for trying. Also note that I believe in reincarnation (to put it simply) so I think if you have unlimited lifetimes on Earth and other experiences through the multiverse then eventual transcendence doesn't seem so unattainable. And I think this lesson is paralleled in our contemporary situation. Jesus very well may come back sometime to blast all the clowns away with fire and brimstone and officially establish the Kingdom of Heaven on the Earth, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be taking the initiative to do what we need to to manifest the Kingdom ourselves instead of waiting around for him to do it for us. I think this is the next big lesson we need to learn as a species, to get closer to God by stepping up and taking responsibility for making difficult judgements that we'd rather leave up to him. If Adam had stood up for his household and laid down the law, he would not have been cucked by the Serpent. >>I just don’t know. That's the first step toward knowing, so good job you're on the right path, now take the next few steps wherever they lead you. If simply trusting in Jesus to save you will help you to deny your Self, then sure, that's probably just what you need at this stage of your journey. Ego is a tricky bitch - any effort to escape it is itself an expression of Ego, so I think it's great to just say "I don't know" and just chill with your eyes and ears and inner eye open for whatever helpful hints God throws at you. Basically everything I've said here is just what I've built out of my own collection of these hints. I recommend reading the Gospel of Thomas, it's a lot of cool stuff that Jesus said: http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/books/nhl.pdf#page=75 It was cut because it's too juicy. And there's probably a ton of other good stuff in that pdf but I haven't read most of it myself.