“God consents to be pushed out of the world and onto the cross; God is weak and powerless in the world and in precisely this way, and only so, is at our side and helps us.”
Ive been calling this administration the living breathing incarnation of antichrist since they came into power. how the press secretary can wear a cross without it burning into her skin amazes me every time I see it. These are profoundly unserious, uncaring and incompetent people and their presence and actions are killing us.
"When someone uses an association with Jesus to justify their abusive behavior, the word my tradition has for that form of terror is antichrist." This clarified something for me that is both painful and freeing. Thank you.
Jesus was courageous, bold, tender, and loving. He told the truth, but also was a pacifist. He eventually allowed himself to be captured, tortured, and killed because he knew something deep and lovely. It was NOT that our Father had, somehow, been offended by peoples’ actions, thoughts, and words, and that his anger had to be assuaged by the shedding of blood. The old superstition from Ur Of the Chaldees that “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin” was always bogus, even Abraham knew that. Jesus knew that LOVE takes no offense. What Jesus knew was that death does not exist! We, as eternal spirits, do leave our temples, our garments, and go on to our next great adventure, but that is called leaving, not dying. Being meek and gentle takes the greatest character and courage, but it also takes knowing some deep, deep truths. Would that the church had taught all of us Christian’s better. They can be forgiven since the early message was perverted when the Roman Pax Romana embraced and tainted Christianity. The meek still inherit the earth, but often they have to clean-up quit a mess. I suppose they above all others don’t mind their calling.
Ive been calling this administration the living breathing incarnation of antichrist since they came into power. how the press secretary can wear a cross without it burning into her skin amazes me every time I see it. These are profoundly unserious, uncaring and incompetent people and their presence and actions are killing us.
"When someone uses an association with Jesus to justify their abusive behavior, the word my tradition has for that form of terror is antichrist." This clarified something for me that is both painful and freeing. Thank you.
Thanks for telling me!
Jesus was courageous, bold, tender, and loving. He told the truth, but also was a pacifist. He eventually allowed himself to be captured, tortured, and killed because he knew something deep and lovely. It was NOT that our Father had, somehow, been offended by peoples’ actions, thoughts, and words, and that his anger had to be assuaged by the shedding of blood. The old superstition from Ur Of the Chaldees that “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin” was always bogus, even Abraham knew that. Jesus knew that LOVE takes no offense. What Jesus knew was that death does not exist! We, as eternal spirits, do leave our temples, our garments, and go on to our next great adventure, but that is called leaving, not dying. Being meek and gentle takes the greatest character and courage, but it also takes knowing some deep, deep truths. Would that the church had taught all of us Christian’s better. They can be forgiven since the early message was perverted when the Roman Pax Romana embraced and tainted Christianity. The meek still inherit the earth, but often they have to clean-up quit a mess. I suppose they above all others don’t mind their calling.
thanks for saying it
I was reading about Bonhoeffer’s execution earlier today and I could not possible agree with you more. Thank you~
I may borrow this quote. Perhaps power is afterall, in and of itself, evil.
(https://yadontknow.blogspot.com/2020/07/power.html)
Feel free. I don't see a question here, but I'll say....for what it's worth...I do not believe power is evil.
That's the traditional view, and not easily discounted.
Maybe we need John Gray, or someone, to write "The Seven Types of Power."
Second visit to this piece. I find it true and compelling.