The period between 0 AD - 100 AD saw the clash between the authoritative power of the world and a new religion that threatened to destroy that authority through grace and innocence.
Jesus’s body died on a cross. Jesus’s soul travelled over the land and rested in a tree hanging from a branch whence he dropped from to enter a young woman longing for a child. Jesus’s dreaming never died. The dreaming cannot die. We all carry the dreaming with us, though sometimes we forget to observe.
No question that Jesus rebelled against statutory legal rules which amount to nothing more than a castration and a crippling of natural law. Commerce is based on statutory rules. Jesus was not in commerce directly. Though he was not a hunter-gatherer, he did not farm, was not a merchant buying and selling. He was a skilled laborer. Being a skilled laborer can squelch the soul spirit and the dreaming spirit. He was struggling to regain his soul and his dreaming.
Was he despairing? Was his graceful acceptance of his crucifixion some form of suicide by cop? Jesus was caught up in the spirit clash between hunter-gatherers and the settled lives of merchants and farmers. Millions of people in his time and maybe even more people today are caught up in the same clash between the nature and commerce.
Jesus was the first man in written history to commit his life to the strong examination of himself as a Natural man living with Commercial men. In my humble opinion he did commit suicide on the cross. A natural man is singular and living. Commercial men are dead but a multitude. Natural man gets executed in commerce every damn day. Jesus was a natural man. He was not Superman.
The conflict between Nature and Commerce is epic. It stated thousands of years before Christ was born. Are we going to see a consolidation of commercial power into a single satanic pyramid with one all seeing eye that professes omniscience, or are we going to have an network of nodes and trades beyond enumeration and beyond reduction?
One correction to mention - God did not come to earth as a man. Read the account in Matthew. God's spirit supernaturally created a son in Mary. That son - the only son that God fathered, aka "begotten" - Jesus - grew in wisdom and in stature, fully obedient to his Father, all the way to his death - fulfilled the law of the mosaic covenant - and was given a seat at God's right hand, and authority over the Church. He will return to rule as King, and as it says in 1 Corinthians - will one day hand the keys back to the Father, so that God our Father will be all in all. That's truth, that's scripture. The Roman Catholic doctrine of Trinity has deceived and confused all of us since 400 AD. (Yes, that's when that "doctrine" began - never before). I only bring this up to help us study more! I encourage you to research the "origins" of "trinity" - you'll be amazed.
Amazing work. Paints the picture that most pastors fail to over their entire careers. Keep up the good work.
Thank you FREN
Paul was not the author of the Book of Acts, Luke was.
Agreed
Jesus’s body died on a cross. Jesus’s soul travelled over the land and rested in a tree hanging from a branch whence he dropped from to enter a young woman longing for a child. Jesus’s dreaming never died. The dreaming cannot die. We all carry the dreaming with us, though sometimes we forget to observe.
No question that Jesus rebelled against statutory legal rules which amount to nothing more than a castration and a crippling of natural law. Commerce is based on statutory rules. Jesus was not in commerce directly. Though he was not a hunter-gatherer, he did not farm, was not a merchant buying and selling. He was a skilled laborer. Being a skilled laborer can squelch the soul spirit and the dreaming spirit. He was struggling to regain his soul and his dreaming.
Was he despairing? Was his graceful acceptance of his crucifixion some form of suicide by cop? Jesus was caught up in the spirit clash between hunter-gatherers and the settled lives of merchants and farmers. Millions of people in his time and maybe even more people today are caught up in the same clash between the nature and commerce.
Jesus was the first man in written history to commit his life to the strong examination of himself as a Natural man living with Commercial men. In my humble opinion he did commit suicide on the cross. A natural man is singular and living. Commercial men are dead but a multitude. Natural man gets executed in commerce every damn day. Jesus was a natural man. He was not Superman.
The conflict between Nature and Commerce is epic. It stated thousands of years before Christ was born. Are we going to see a consolidation of commercial power into a single satanic pyramid with one all seeing eye that professes omniscience, or are we going to have an network of nodes and trades beyond enumeration and beyond reduction?
Time will tell.
One correction to mention - God did not come to earth as a man. Read the account in Matthew. God's spirit supernaturally created a son in Mary. That son - the only son that God fathered, aka "begotten" - Jesus - grew in wisdom and in stature, fully obedient to his Father, all the way to his death - fulfilled the law of the mosaic covenant - and was given a seat at God's right hand, and authority over the Church. He will return to rule as King, and as it says in 1 Corinthians - will one day hand the keys back to the Father, so that God our Father will be all in all. That's truth, that's scripture. The Roman Catholic doctrine of Trinity has deceived and confused all of us since 400 AD. (Yes, that's when that "doctrine" began - never before). I only bring this up to help us study more! I encourage you to research the "origins" of "trinity" - you'll be amazed.