
NOBODY is ready for what
I'm going to say.AV Jn 7:14 . Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. AV Jn 7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? AV Jn 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. AV Jn 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself. AV Jn 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. | Obviously 17-18 are continuous. Here Jesus proclaims the natural source of intelligence and warns that it can be easily corrupted. How completely typical of that are the churches and their fancy pastors? |
AV Jn 6:42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? AV Jn 6:43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. AV Jn 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. AV Jn 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. AV Jn 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. AV Jn 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. AV Jn 6:48 I am that bread of life. AV Jn 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. AV Jn 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. AV Jn 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. AV Jn 6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat? AV Jn 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. AV Jn 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. AV Jn 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. AV Jn 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. AV Jn 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. AV Jn 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. AV Jn 6:59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. AV Jn 6:60 . Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? AV Jn 6:61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? AV Jn 6:62 [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? AV Jn 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. AV Jn 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. AV Jn 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. AV Jn 6:66 From that [time] many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. AV Jn 6:67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? AV Jn 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. AV Jn 6:69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. AV Jn 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? AV Jn 6:71 He spake of Judas Iscariot [the son] of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. AV Jn 7:1 . After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. | So let me explain this to you. Jesus is very much aware of his role as a sacrifice. I conjecture that this sacrifice is more than a symbolic offering -- but literally accomplishes for us today what the sacrefices of animals (and humans) accomplished in former days -- and perfected it. This sacrifice is conditioned on the reality that when an animal dies -- a literal portal opens and the power of God is / can be directed into the world. Fair enough? It is the meaning of the tenth dimension, the close and beginning of cycles: it is the exact juncture of that -- and a literal event-horizon associated with it. This is typical of all such experience, dealing with 'the white light' and its mysterious source. All of this talk then, is directed from that perspective that links to the supremely demanding spiritual life of self-sacrefice (found most strong in the Gospel of Matthew) and that culminates in the crucification. But St. John focuses on the metaphysics of it. |
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am, as you may have guessed, a pretty good writer. But i am also my own
best editor. In fact my only editor. Did i mention that i am the
advanced technical developer? The designer and artist of first and last
resort? The business guru? And did you notice that i actually am the
creator (disciple-mother-avatar)
of UUNIS? This combination leaves open the certainty of finding my foot
in my mouth on occasion until all the kinks are ironed out.
Under heavy construction: I have to have a production schedule for literally hundreds of landing sites and thousands of pages & hours of audio and multi-media. And though i do not intend to delay building out to a fully staffed commons -- a certain blunder rate, and incomplete pages, are inevitable and even a necessity: after all it's proof that we're not just more polished crap! 8^o I find myself doing my heart's true love -- and it makes all the difference. And as a result -- you wouldn't believe how well things are going. So please bear with the flesh, as i try to maintain -- 99.8% less crap. JC, Dec 31, 2008 |