Jesus Christ did not say during his crucifixion, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15: 34)--Second Edition.
Jesus Christ did not say during his crucifixion, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15: 34). God has never forsaken anyone, especially not his son! At a different time and place Jesus Christ said, "My God, my God, this was my destiny," but this was before the beginning!
Two thousand years ago there was a peripheral culture, a people who understood that need is destroyed and replaced with surpassing abundance (jethro/shua, salvation) by the expansion of God (Yah, life), who is within us, as us. This salvation is the action of God's consciousness, the power and wisdom of God. God (Yah, life), are we (yes, God are we [see 3]) who have become the operation of human imagination--Yah Shua; i.e., Jesus Christ. This was the Gospel Moses proclaimed in Exodus 3:14: "I absolutely come by strong imagining his manifestation!"1 We are the operant power.
God bless the man who wrote the Gospel of Mark, the Report of Jesus. The Gospel was a wonderful device for sharing the group's perspective and great faith in a sometimes hostile and violent society. At the end of his report, Mark added a summary overview of what he had been talking about, the passion of Jesus, wherein we presently read the heinous and misleading translation, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Mark never intended that anything like this faithless statement ever be shared. Look at the damage it has done!
God forsaking Christ is a weird doctrine, for sure. It leads us to believe that God turned his back in utter rejection of us--himself! Hello? The whole point of the Bible is the integral unity of the whole. It doesn't say, "God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ" and we chosen in him--all as one being--for nothing.
Victor Alexander (v-a.com/bible) points out that all other translators are like the Jews at Jesus' feet who misheard and thus misunderstood what Jesus said.2 The ancient Aramaic text says, "My God, my God, wherefore have you destined me?" meaning, "this was my destiny!" He was talking about God's ultimate PLAN, not his ultimate rejection.
Jesus Christ is life itself, the active and consciousness power of God that we are. We were with God (and were God) before we became us. We have a plan to become the "End Man," the perfect image of God, which product we have created in design (Genesis) but have not yet finished the production of (Exodus-Deuteronomy). The end Man-as-God needs to be generated, and our Not-There-Yet man needs to be redeemed of all features not like the nature or "Law" of God whom we really are. It is going to take some time for Joshua/Jesus to take us into the Promised Land.
The symbolic measure for perfection and completion is three. It takes three "days" in this sphere of death, this state of ignorant man into which we have come, to attain complete perfection--however long that may take. Before the beginning we looked unto this venture and said, "This was my destiny: I rejoice in the habitable parts of His earth, and my delights--with the sons of men!" (See Proverbs 8: 31.)
"Was," because in our mind it was an already done deal--we had decreed the end of what we would do, and we will not fail. We were known and called "before that the world was."
Who is going to cultivate ignorant man into the perfect likeness of God? We are, of course. The real crucifixion of Jesus Christ is us. We are emanations of the Ineffable's “e’had”3 consciousness, who have affixed ourselves as these bodies. "This was my destiny" was a statement of faith, a good report before our launching into the sphere of death to redeem our love target’s being.
As God's consciousness, we each contemplated a human whom we would become, and by this right attitude, faith, listening to what we “said” (in imagination!), we launched ourselves into a child's animation. We are Eve, the mother of our living, and thus found ourselves with child, twins, in fact: Cain and Abel and Esau and Jacob--a physical us (whom we have always thought we were) and a spiritual us (the consciousness of God who we really are). We become man that the man we become might become God, Israel.
Could we ever turn our backs on ourselves, or on the children we became? No, that is not the kind of God we are. It may take time to attain perfection, but we shall bear every child to the resurrection from the dead--every single one. We shall not return void but shall accomplish that for which we were sent. Our name, our nature, after all, is Jesus Christ.
1 You will probably never know what they really said in the Bible if you do not read Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic texts. And no, he does not pay me anything for my endorsements--not a cent. He may not even want them. I do not think that he agrees with my esoteric views, but you CANNOT get anything like an accurate biblical theology without knowing what the Bible actually says--what it is talking about and what it means. Alexander's books have typos and glosses (he is all of one man plugging away at translating the whole Bible for us, God bless him), but those little faults are nothing in comparison with the huge translation and doctrinal errors in virtually all other Bibles. It really comes down to whether you want a Bible that is pretty and impressive or a Bible that is right. I think that is a real easy choice for seekers.
Two thousand years ago there was a peripheral culture, a people who understood that need is destroyed and replaced with surpassing abundance (jethro/shua, salvation) by the expansion of God (Yah, life), who is within us, as us. This salvation is the action of God's consciousness, the power and wisdom of God. God (Yah, life), are we (yes, God are we [see 3]) who have become the operation of human imagination--Yah Shua; i.e., Jesus Christ. This was the Gospel Moses proclaimed in Exodus 3:14: "I absolutely come by strong imagining his manifestation!"1 We are the operant power.
God bless the man who wrote the Gospel of Mark, the Report of Jesus. The Gospel was a wonderful device for sharing the group's perspective and great faith in a sometimes hostile and violent society. At the end of his report, Mark added a summary overview of what he had been talking about, the passion of Jesus, wherein we presently read the heinous and misleading translation, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Mark never intended that anything like this faithless statement ever be shared. Look at the damage it has done!
God forsaking Christ is a weird doctrine, for sure. It leads us to believe that God turned his back in utter rejection of us--himself! Hello? The whole point of the Bible is the integral unity of the whole. It doesn't say, "God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ" and we chosen in him--all as one being--for nothing.
Victor Alexander (v-a.com/bible) points out that all other translators are like the Jews at Jesus' feet who misheard and thus misunderstood what Jesus said.2 The ancient Aramaic text says, "My God, my God, wherefore have you destined me?" meaning, "this was my destiny!" He was talking about God's ultimate PLAN, not his ultimate rejection.
Jesus Christ is life itself, the active and consciousness power of God that we are. We were with God (and were God) before we became us. We have a plan to become the "End Man," the perfect image of God, which product we have created in design (Genesis) but have not yet finished the production of (Exodus-Deuteronomy). The end Man-as-God needs to be generated, and our Not-There-Yet man needs to be redeemed of all features not like the nature or "Law" of God whom we really are. It is going to take some time for Joshua/Jesus to take us into the Promised Land.
The symbolic measure for perfection and completion is three. It takes three "days" in this sphere of death, this state of ignorant man into which we have come, to attain complete perfection--however long that may take. Before the beginning we looked unto this venture and said, "This was my destiny: I rejoice in the habitable parts of His earth, and my delights--with the sons of men!" (See Proverbs 8: 31.)
"Was," because in our mind it was an already done deal--we had decreed the end of what we would do, and we will not fail. We were known and called "before that the world was."
Who is going to cultivate ignorant man into the perfect likeness of God? We are, of course. The real crucifixion of Jesus Christ is us. We are emanations of the Ineffable's “e’had”3 consciousness, who have affixed ourselves as these bodies. "This was my destiny" was a statement of faith, a good report before our launching into the sphere of death to redeem our love target’s being.
As God's consciousness, we each contemplated a human whom we would become, and by this right attitude, faith, listening to what we “said” (in imagination!), we launched ourselves into a child's animation. We are Eve, the mother of our living, and thus found ourselves with child, twins, in fact: Cain and Abel and Esau and Jacob--a physical us (whom we have always thought we were) and a spiritual us (the consciousness of God who we really are). We become man that the man we become might become God, Israel.
Could we ever turn our backs on ourselves, or on the children we became? No, that is not the kind of God we are. It may take time to attain perfection, but we shall bear every child to the resurrection from the dead--every single one. We shall not return void but shall accomplish that for which we were sent. Our name, our nature, after all, is Jesus Christ.
1 You will probably never know what they really said in the Bible if you do not read Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic texts. And no, he does not pay me anything for my endorsements--not a cent. He may not even want them. I do not think that he agrees with my esoteric views, but you CANNOT get anything like an accurate biblical theology without knowing what the Bible actually says--what it is talking about and what it means. Alexander's books have typos and glosses (he is all of one man plugging away at translating the whole Bible for us, God bless him), but those little faults are nothing in comparison with the huge translation and doctrinal errors in virtually all other Bibles. It really comes down to whether you want a Bible that is pretty and impressive or a Bible that is right. I think that is a real easy choice for seekers.
2 The divine irony: Mark imagined people mishearing and misunderstanding what Jesus said at this point in his story, and so throughout history, they do! Mark inadvertently caused the mishearing by his own imagining. Friends, watch what you imagine and imagine well!
3 Hebrew, e'had: a factual image of God as a single "one" which is made up of many. Think of all your myriad thoughts in your one mind--which one was not you? Or think of God as a force-field of fiery, glorious power, and one of those flames . . . is you!
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