Archive for February, 2008

Do we need the original manuscripts?

February 24, 2008 at 9:11 pm · Filed under Spiritual Revelations

I have been giving some thoughts as to why
God would not have preserved the biblical autographs,
(or if he has, then why they are not being released to the general public) and I believe that I have arrived at an opinion.

Let’s consider 2 things.
In the old testament we read that Moses was instructed to make a Bronze serpent – we then read that about 600 years later this same serpent is becoming an object of worship – in fact it got so bad that the reigning king was forced to  destroy it – it had become and idol!

Secondly, consider a water stain on a bridge underpass that seemed to take the shape of Mary. See how many people gathered around it, prayed to it, knelt before it and set up altars
to it.

Human beings have an inate desire to attach spiritual devotion to inanimate objects and as such I believe that if the actual scripture manuscripts were available to the public then they would be venerated to the same degree as in my previous 2 examples. the people would adore the actual object (the paper and ink) as opposed to its message.

I believe that this is contrary to God’s law and may be a good reason why he has allowed it to remain hidden

Just a thought.
Ontologist

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A perspective on Christ’s death

February 20, 2008 at 3:32 am · Filed under 1 ·Tagged , , , ,

Christ didn’t have to die for the sake of dying but to prove loyalty to point of death.
So God creates man and man turns his back on God. Man repeatedly satsifies his own sinful desires showing little regard for love to his fellow man or to his creator. God sees no hope for man … then Christ says … ‘I will go down and become a man … I will walk with them and live among them and I will show you that a man can be pure of heart’
So he goes down and tries to tell his creation about himself and God – all along knowing that they are going to be faithful to their own lusts and reject anything that he says. He also knows that he will face a time of extreme pain and suffering at their hand and through it all he has to show God that a man can persevere and keep love in his heart. And so he does, he faces the mast brutal physical toruture that could be deivsed at the time and never stops loving his fellow man, and then to top it all (here is the spiritual part) we are told that at his weakest most desperate moment, God unleashes all his wrath, all the sins that man has ever and will ever commit are placed into his soul. He experiences darkness like no human has ever endured (all paedophilia, rape, anger, torture etc) is heaped upon him, and at this time – feeling this pain and anguish – he never disobeys God, never rejects man and never stops loving – to the point of death. I don’t think it was the fact that he died (ie: His pulse stopped) but the fact that he willingly suffered and gave up his life in the spirit of love that is the issue.
And once he had managed to accomplish all that he set out to do he alone was given the athority to justify those who adopt his values.
Example: Someone comes to God. God says you are a human – sinful to the core – and the human says ‘But I am with your son, he knows me and has invited me in.’ God goes to Jesus and asks -’Is he with you? Do you know this man?’ and Jesus replies ‘Yes father I know him and I vouch for him.’ Then God says, ‘come on in, I no longer see you as this sin stained filth but as a pure light that has the purity of my son in him.’

Just a thought.
Ontologist

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