On the Milta (Miltha), of the Aramaic-Speaking Church of the East
Every Jew and every Christian pastor, every one should review his or her theology in light of the Milta (Miltha). Write the word down. Look it up. Google it. Study it. Contemplate the concept it represents. Do not be afraid; it will not bite. The Milta is the best idea you and I are ever going to have: The Milta IS the Gospel the Jews were to believe when Jesus came preaching, "Repent, and believe in the Gospel." This will be very worthwhile and rewarding research. Our minds need this expansion, because our concepts of God are way, way, way too small.
The Milta is the Person (!) we have called the Logos, the "Word" of God, but He is much, much more than any concept the word Logos allows for. Without dispute, the people of the New Testament Gospels lived their lives speaking the Aramaic language. All direct quotes of Jesus in the New Testament are Aramaic, not Hebrew or Greek. 'Logos' might have been the best Greek translation John could think of for Milta, but it is the ARAMAIC idea of Milta in the then-lived cultural understanding--the concept of the Milta the Apostles of Jesus Christ actually had--that we have to get back to.
The word 'Logos' gives only half the picture; less, actually. OUR CHRISTOLOGY IS MISSING OVER HALF OF GOD!! From The Mystery of Miltha: "However, miltha has meanings not even hinted at in these other terms, and certainly not in the Greek logos. Over the centuries, miltha has been rendered as 'force', 'manifestation', 'emanation', 'substance' as well as 'word', and even all these put together still." Dig, bro, dig.
The Greek word logos means "something said or thought"--a word, speech, utterance, message, or expression. Logos is a communication. Wikipedea notes that Aristotle applied logos as "reasoned discourse." Logos is said to be a symbol of Divine Reason. It is said by some to be best understood as incarnated Torah. I think most will agree that the meaning of logos has to do with the idea of 'idea' itself; that logos is the communication of reason, of an idea.
A study of Milta will show the word logos' shortcomings. DO NOT LET YOUR THEOLOGY CONTINUE WITH THIS TRUNCATED VIEW. DEVELOP A BIGGER, MORE ACCURATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE REALITY OF GOD AS THE MILTA.
When God spoke creating the world (Genesis 1), that speaking was the Milta. In His speaking, the act of creating each thing mentioned was completed. For the act of creation via the Milta is "complete to the concrete."
My point here is that the Milta is not "like" God, the Milta IS God. The Milta IS the Ineffable Being in the form the Ineffable Being has assumed It would be if It were manifest in form. He knows what that would be, and He believes that He IS, now, that Manifestation. The Ineffable has THOUGHT/IMAGINED what it would be, and assumes NOW that He is, NOW, the Milta. He assumes that He IS. The Milta IS to Him. He just, now, has to BECOME as He so assumes that He is. AND HE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THAT. We are that Manifestation's potential, and the report is that He--the Milta--has become a man, the Son of Man, to do it. That Manifestation of the Ineffable Being is Jesus Christ,YHWH, our Lord, Who died for us, and now calls us to become Him (a work He has already DONE; it is up to us to ACCEPT it).
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