Letters to Stephen, 4: The Biggest Error in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Stephen,
Sorry, I didn’t recognize that the comments on my post “Victor Alexander and the Maryah Controversy: a Matter of Perspective” were also yours. As I have noted to Mr. Alexander in personal correspondence, the Aramaic ‘Maryah’ means more to them than ‘Lord’ does to us. My impression is that they translated up in value, and we down, as ‘lord’ pretty much means supervisor to us. And also, as you yourself note, we cannot judge the pronunciation of the Aramaic Eil according to its BACKWARDS transliteration in English, “Lie.” That is, as they say, a real stretch.
You mentioned in your comment, “about 6 months after Experiencing God in a way that can't be said . . .” Congratulations for having that experience. Remember it well. I believe it was a “Howdy-do” from God in you, saying, “Yes, I am here, and we are one, and this is where we are going.” May I ask, as “experiential” as it was, wasn’t the experience in the imagination? I do not mean imaginary, but that it existed in the mental/emotional/spiritual realm of consciousness.
We are all "schizophrenic" in this one respect: we each have in us a dumb-cluck consciousness as man and Jesus Christ’s consciousness as God. “Be ye (dumb-cluck) reconciled to God (Christ's consciousness)”: “No one comes unto the Father but by me.”
We are not in this making ourselves God. He did that. Or rather, he made himself us (and we are going back!). THAT is the Gospel.
We are not expected to know everything all at once, but I suggest to not judge God by church doctrine, but church doctrine by God. You yourself are able tell the experience of the divine from every other weird experience you might have--your own experience of spiritual reality, the experience you had of “God in a way that can’t be described,” is your personal standard of what the Bible means by what it says.
If you see Jesus Christ in your mind as a separate human person, you have the wrong God: “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13: 4-5 NKJV). As I said elsewhere to another party, “If you think that Jesus Christ is a separate human person somewhere out in outer space, you are NOT a Christian, for a Christian believes in and lives by the power of God that IS Jesus Christ IN the Christian. Otherwise, he or she is deficient. So says Paul!”
Sorry, I didn’t recognize that the comments on my post “Victor Alexander and the Maryah Controversy: a Matter of Perspective” were also yours. As I have noted to Mr. Alexander in personal correspondence, the Aramaic ‘Maryah’ means more to them than ‘Lord’ does to us. My impression is that they translated up in value, and we down, as ‘lord’ pretty much means supervisor to us. And also, as you yourself note, we cannot judge the pronunciation of the Aramaic Eil according to its BACKWARDS transliteration in English, “Lie.” That is, as they say, a real stretch.
You mentioned in your comment, “about 6 months after Experiencing God in a way that can't be said . . .” Congratulations for having that experience. Remember it well. I believe it was a “Howdy-do” from God in you, saying, “Yes, I am here, and we are one, and this is where we are going.” May I ask, as “experiential” as it was, wasn’t the experience in the imagination? I do not mean imaginary, but that it existed in the mental/emotional/spiritual realm of consciousness.
We are all "schizophrenic" in this one respect: we each have in us a dumb-cluck consciousness as man and Jesus Christ’s consciousness as God. “Be ye (dumb-cluck) reconciled to God (Christ's consciousness)”: “No one comes unto the Father but by me.”
We are not in this making ourselves God. He did that. Or rather, he made himself us (and we are going back!). THAT is the Gospel.
We are not expected to know everything all at once, but I suggest to not judge God by church doctrine, but church doctrine by God. You yourself are able tell the experience of the divine from every other weird experience you might have--your own experience of spiritual reality, the experience you had of “God in a way that can’t be described,” is your personal standard of what the Bible means by what it says.
If you see Jesus Christ in your mind as a separate human person, you have the wrong God: “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13: 4-5 NKJV). As I said elsewhere to another party, “If you think that Jesus Christ is a separate human person somewhere out in outer space, you are NOT a Christian, for a Christian believes in and lives by the power of God that IS Jesus Christ IN the Christian. Otherwise, he or she is deficient. So says Paul!”
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