I do not believe in stories that are not there
I do not believe in stories that are not there. I believe in Jesus Christ's death for me on the cross, but not like that. He would not have told me that you cannot do that (one die for another), and then have done it and required belief in it. I believe the kerugma as my life. And your life. Do you believe the kerugma?
The crucifixion was not at the end of historical individual's life; it was at the transition point of my beginning "life" in this sphere of death. In Mark, it is put at the end as a summation of what is going on. Crucifixion is our initiation here. God's desire for our development is the virgin mother. Because we all are Him doing everything in His self-imposed ignorance, all is forgiven.
Adam and Eve a man and a woman? There is only one man there. Man and his imagination a marriage do not make.
Satan the Serpent of Genesis chapter 3? The church is so afraid of the Devil it can't think straight. Somehow the Jews got along without a devil for centuries. You have got to remember that the Jews were under the Persians while in exile. The Persians have an Evil. Paul was brought up among people who had been influenced by the Persian Evil and the expectation of a human Messiah. Somewhere along the line, the priests had so misread the Genesis parallel to the burning bush episode that the Serpent became Evil, and the seed of the woman future, not the present that it was. Is. Paul, when he first heard of Jesus, thought that the expected human savior had come. He did not know the Christ is the spirit that is in man. When he got it straight, he did not worry about the return of Christ but our standing in awareness of Christ--God--in us.
The books of Thessalonians are examples of Paul's errant human Messiah expectation. "Look, guys, if you read the Bible as literal-historical, you wind up with a confused mess like this." We are seated with Christ in the heavenlies--the brain--right now.
The crucifixion was not at the end of historical individual's life; it was at the transition point of my beginning "life" in this sphere of death. In Mark, it is put at the end as a summation of what is going on. Crucifixion is our initiation here. God's desire for our development is the virgin mother. Because we all are Him doing everything in His self-imposed ignorance, all is forgiven.
Adam and Eve a man and a woman? There is only one man there. Man and his imagination a marriage do not make.
Satan the Serpent of Genesis chapter 3? The church is so afraid of the Devil it can't think straight. Somehow the Jews got along without a devil for centuries. You have got to remember that the Jews were under the Persians while in exile. The Persians have an Evil. Paul was brought up among people who had been influenced by the Persian Evil and the expectation of a human Messiah. Somewhere along the line, the priests had so misread the Genesis parallel to the burning bush episode that the Serpent became Evil, and the seed of the woman future, not the present that it was. Is. Paul, when he first heard of Jesus, thought that the expected human savior had come. He did not know the Christ is the spirit that is in man. When he got it straight, he did not worry about the return of Christ but our standing in awareness of Christ--God--in us.
The books of Thessalonians are examples of Paul's errant human Messiah expectation. "Look, guys, if you read the Bible as literal-historical, you wind up with a confused mess like this." We are seated with Christ in the heavenlies--the brain--right now.
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