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Emne: Re: Maybe I'm being too much of a purist, but I was only commenting on branches that deviate
Iamon lyme: No, you are not a purist... far from it.
"but finding both God and man in one vessel (a man) would be unique. According to the Bible it only happened once."
No, that's a distortion thanks to some rather old semi pagan conceptualisations that have existed ever since the Nicene creed was made. The RCC used the same speech in order to define who was a heretic or not.
The Bible actually says we, the people, aka the children of God.... ... ALL have God in us, and we are part of the 'Christ'... there is also OT passages that talk of the LORD being visible to the likes of the discoverers that Elohim was ONE. Even Jesus says we can activate that God'ness in us and enjoy the 'kingdom of heaven' while we are still not dead.
God himself at the end of the Eden incident says we can become like God himself, and only after we started to ask one simple question..... """"why?""".
. If you are a purist.. you'd have to recognise God himself has no religion, Jesus was born as a Jew, the Christ in him was a pure virgin soul born with God alive when we guys have to 'purify' ourselves. .... .... even Jesus had to face a period of testing and purification, as denoted by the 40 days and nights he spent in the desert.
40 being a known figure referring to the purification of an object/soul/souls described in the OT.
... If you are a purist then you'll know that all OT text was written told from a knowledge that included PaRDeS, which Christ was of course aware of.
.... back to.....
"I'm not sure what your point is."
I can see that, I can also see that the fight/flight automatic response that interpretates much of the sense information that enters our brain is active in your reply.
ie..... "I don't know, so I'll fear and hate it".. There is no God in this and never can be. Everyone that holds onto such denies his/her God given spirit, just to be 'right' rather than face the inner storm and heal the 'world'.
why?? It's easy to do... blame the world rather than the way you see it.
Which brings us back to philosophy, and relativity. That one can be everything and unique in it's own right.One can understand without knowing no-thing.
If you were a purist, you'd not be looking for people to agree with you on every spiritual question.... But then again, you are here. Part of you wants to be as a child again in the pure form Christ talks of... It's a point we all face and many back down on.