david@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood) (12/08/84)
Yirmiyahu Ben-David, "Even as face answers face reflected in the water, so one man's heart answers another's." If you were truly the brother of Y'shua, then you would have seen God face to face, and your heart would be circumscribed by His Name. Jesus said to Pilate, "My work is to bear witness to the truth, and for this I came into the world, and all who are not deaf to the truth listen to my voice." But Pilate said, "What is truth?", and turned away. Well, I am deaf, also somewhat crippled; and blind without my contact lenses. And yet I am not deaf to the truth. But do you, who have ears, do you hear? I have told you the truth, but you will not listen. The truth is that Jesus is the Christ, who has been glorified by the self-revelation of God. If you do not understand this, you do not understand the power of God, so you cannot understand the Scriptures, old or new, no matter your insufferable arrogance. For the Gospels are like parables by Jesus within parables by Christ, which make little sense without the grace of God. For the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord. The power of God is in the Very Name of the Lord, which can only be pronounced by He That Is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. It is like the great flash of lightning in the heavens, before which all Creation thunders, and every heart trembles. Which Name has been given to Christ: On that day when we are called by the Very Name of the Lord, we by our very thoughts are judged, and are made to understand about Jesus, "This is my Beloved Son; listen to Him." Therefore it is said, "The coming of the Son of Man on His day is like the lightning flash which lights the earth from end to end." And, "the Son of Man has been raised up to heaven," and "is seated at the right hand of the power of God." As Christ is glorified by God, therefore Christ has become the Eternal Presence on Earth, even as he is resurrected among the living forever. As the apostle Paul has said, "By the grace of God, I am what I am," and "It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me." So by the glorious Pronouncement of the Lord, as in a great flash of lightning in the human racial consciousness, a hundred generations of mankind, like the thunder, have resounded, "Christ has come." For blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord. David Harwood
yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid) (12/12/84)
If you should ever come out of your dream-state and have a mind to talk sense in a scholarly manner you be sure to let me know. By way of explanation, the reason I don't answer everyone's questions when they could find the answers themselves is primarily because I am one (count 'em) busy person trying my best to answer a bunch of questions each from a bunch of people. That adds up to more time than I can really afford so I hope the readers will understand.