What is so hard to understand about this … when you say bible what you are actually saying is the bible according to you.. You're not the truth. There is you who is not the truth and there is the bible. The two add up to a relationship. Since one of the two parties in the relationship is you who is not the truth then the relationship is not the truth. You are mixing up between the bible and the relationship you have with it . You're the observer, the bible is the observed. You are confusing between the phenomenal thinking it is the nominal. It is not .
Guys the problem has been and has always been eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Man is caught inextricably in a world of dualities and opposites. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Man and woman. The only way to salvation is to fix the world and return it to the way it was before Adam ate from the tree of knowledge. The problem is larger than all of us. We work to save the world then you are saved. Without saving the world there is no saving for anyone .
I will pick one passages in the bible to illustrate that point.. It's not really the best but it is the easiest. But it’s appropriate to the discussion because of this business about sheep which you have raised . .
1Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
28Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Okay now count the dualities /opposites in the passage. Here are a few by me. Lord and son of David. God and man . Lost sheep of Israel and lost gentile woman . Children of god and dogs. . Jesus and a gentile woman. Man and woman. The will of Jesus and the will of the woman. You can if you like add more ….. a gentile woman not baptized and Jesus and disciples baptized . Gentile woman who worshiped baal and jews who worship god . Gentile woman who never heard of Abraham nor read one single line of scripture such our brother mister duckbill keeps hitting me with talking about the bible is the word god and experts of the scripture …etc
First she comes at him with what apparently is an affront to monotheism. She calls him lord and son of David. This is because she worshiped him which is an act reserved to be done only for the benefit of god and at the same time called him son of David who is a man.. As is usually the case with Jesus when you come to him with a show of faith he let you slide even though he knows you don't know what you're talking about . he grants her that show of faith in him. He comes at her from a different angel. She is not one of the lost of the sheep of Israel he says to her. In effect if the woman is denying the duality between him and god ,how about this one , how about Jew and gentile . how about the chosen people and the not chosen people. . she doesn't fall for it . she persists. Frankly I'm not surprised. This is a mother and no opposites are going to stand between her and her daughter getting healed . actually if you note in the bible its women who win over Jesus .so in your life don't argue with the woman because you will not win. Just be happy she lets you watch Sunday sports. Then Jesus hits her with the big one. No bread of the children of god for the dogs. It doesn't work. It never works. This is like me telling my woman this the nway its going to be .she just ignores me . she knows I will give in. but she can't be bothered because at the time she is busy cutting coupons out of the Sunday papers. The woman delivers a TKO. She goes to jesus ..yeah yeah but the dogs eat from the bread too. opps the duality doesn't hold. He makes his son shine on everyone. Infact with god you never can tell.. His will is unfathomable. Eating from the tree of knowledge and good doesn't tell you anything. You save a man from drowning and he goes and murder someone. What have you done? . Then comes the finale . He tells her it will done as she will . Her will was sort of transformed by faith in the Christ from the will of woman to the will of god. St Augustine says blessed is who whose every will is realized.
Just think how many millions of people got killed because of monotheism. They are getting murdered because of that even today. Take the following duality….. Lost sheep of Israel versus gentile. Add Jews and gentile , Christians and Jews and Muslims and Hindus . add all fo them . All of those fall under that duality. This is one of thoe troublesome dualities because of which millions upon million got killed and will get killed .Next duality… The children of god versus the doomed . This duality is about the most troubling of all. The true believers would have people go to hell and be tormented for good on account of it .true believers love to dehumanize people with that duality . . But you see this gentile woman get to have her daughter healed while all the true believers with the long beards and the impressive religious know how their daughters don't get to be healed.
A world without dualities . How can that be? Piece of cake in a way. Judge not. In aaother way it’s difficult . You sort of cut off the head of the snake but he doesn't go anywhere . he grows back inside you. teh wicked is inside you. and so is the good .in yet another way it's beyond your wildest dreams. to go on that road you have to first overcome your fear. its says the beginning of knowledge is fear of god. so you have to overcome that fear to move to the next arena . . it gets far more difficult after that
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okay i think i'm done here . don't kill me please . remember you said you like me. . i"m holding you to that .
hey if you like me then you like everyone. this is the trick to the art of liking .
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