Pete wrote:
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Clipping everything because I have said for a long time "Nothing is as it
seems."
There are questions but they take us into another place.
What was presented here was a conflict between what people believed - and
what they read.
What people believed (and I know this is not you ...) is Trinity and that
JC is G_d.
What people read is "not so."
How do they resolve it?
"I cannot see that this precludes an idea that JC is G_d."
In one case - they presented "you cannot prove it" ... I can "get around
it." I do not have to give up my beliefs.
Again - this is "what it seems" but "nothing is as it seems."
Let us go deeper and at this level, everything we desire, and do - all our
reactions are accepted, declared genuine, and are instinctive.
This is the level I had to work on with my own body to get answers for the
back. I had to work with the instinctive, and then reject the instinctive
to do the counter-intuitive.
And I throw up another observation - what verses do they have that JC is
G_d?
The answer is damned few - and most cannot stand the rigor that they demand
of the many, many, many verses which deny this concept.
So there is a defence of ... something ... which does not really fit and
this thing which does not really fit has a double standard - the way it is
proved .. and the way it is defended.
What is being defended. It "seems" to be trinity but I repeat the
observation - nothing is as it seems.
Let us go deeper. Trinity comes from arguments about deity. Not bible per
se, arguments about deity, concepts about deity.
And trinity taps into a conceptual idea about deity which is instinctive.
I can tell you what they taped into ... because I can tell you the words.
I can examine the intuitive, instinctive power of these words within me ...
because I can see the effect of the words.
I can also see two more things ...
One is another word within me defining G_d ... which all Jews have.
The word written upon the soul of every Jew. And JC sure isn't our deity.
The other is plain logic. The NT was not written in the language or
thoughts or ideas of trinity and this conceptual idea of deity.
So I am examining things which are instinctive responses to words written
on my soul ...
and all I can watch is the way these instinctive ideas cause me to respond
- and what the reactions are.
Every reaction we have ... is the way we deal with the conflict to the
words within us which drive us.
Some of the words within us are ... taught. A person abused has a distorted
picture of the world.
A person raised in one culture has a different perspective from those of
another culture.
Some of these things are lingual. These interact with culture in a complex
dance where the culture creates the words of the language and the words of
the language creates the culture.
Some of the words are written upon the soul. Genetic ... and I cannot
differentiate between the "My ancestors have learned ...." genetic passing
down of idea sand "G_d has written" direct revelation. I actually do not
care if we learned it in evolution ... G_d taught is ... or G_d taught it
using this evolution method.
I am just looking at the words which drive us all, and the concepts this
deep are words written within us.
So I will tell you the words which convince everyone on Trinity.
"JC is the son of G_d ... he is the very SUBSTANCE of G_d ... therefore he
IS G_d!"
Don't worry about the logic or the inherent errors ...
Look at the emotions.
The power of the words is ... quite high.
It taps into something.
And I am trying to find what it taps into. The Intuitive, instinctive,
powerful words written upon the soul which cause us to believe in this.
The fact that this "instinctive" bit is wrong is also important.
As idle speculation - I have played with the idea that this is the "earthly
man, the instinctive man, the animal man and G_d seeks those who go, not as
an animal, but that responds to the part of us which is from above.
Ergo the instinctive response of the animal within as opposed to the
instinctive response to the breath of G_d which is also within ...
In this theory, the animal reacts to other animals as potential threat,
potential food, potential competition and even potential co-operation.
And a deity is "instinctively" looked at like another animal.
Idle speculation ... as I can only guess.
But it is an interesting theory.
I have taken you intellectually on a journey into the world of the still
clear voice.
It is ... the way I view the world.
The forces within us. The way we are moved to do the things we do.
And our choices.
It is not about trinity ... that is just the tool I am using to tap into
these forces which we can use to look at these forces.
And trying to deduce the words which drive us is ... impossible unless you
are shown them.
I have seen some of the words within me. "You are my people, I am your G_d"
are only a few of the words. And all I have been shown.
These are words written upon the soul of every Jew. Which can be shown by
the outcome.
The words on the soul are like wells of deep water to the point that the
words on paper in any language (I think in english) fail to convey the
words on the soul.
It is like taking a picture of a panorama from a thousand feet up with a
camera. You can see what is there but there is no clarity or details.
If you have not been shown ... and I suspect that very few are shown - this
can only be the way that mad Jew looks at the world - and you cannot know
if it is truth, delusion or lies.
And I who have seen can only say "I do not know if it is delusion or lies."
It is true ... but not necessarily truth. I believe it does not make it so.
So here is what I have found.
On trinity - we have a bum fight within the church at the council of nicea
and this idea was "decided."
The NT was changed to accommodate it. They added in things.
The translators deliberately mistranslated verses to deceive.
People refuse to read what is before them.
Explanations in "mere logic" have no power when you tap these forces deep
within us.
And people believe despite everything.
I even did (naughty me) an experiment.
I asked the christians what their goals were. Things like explaining,
evangelism, getting people saved, truth, light ... all of them.
I then presented the concept of G_d written upon the soul of every Jew ...
the one in charge, so our language approaches him in terms of power,
authority, strength, reputation, and the like.
And I asked them to explain IN OUR LANGUAGE - telling them in advance that
they could not.
Of course they could not as trinity is predicated upon "true G_d from true
G_d" and you cannot use this in a language of might and power, of love and
compassion.
I then raised the stakes and pointed out that every single goal they
purported to believe in failed ... and this was preventing Jews from
"coming to the light."
Trinity was more important than that ...
They set aside everything they "thought" was their goal for this greater
truth.
So you can see ... the power of these words which drive us all is far
greater than logic.
Far greater than what we "think" are our goals.
We think we are doing one thing. We are doing something else.
And this is all ... instinctive.
I note (as I have pointed out many times but few listen) that JC approached
it this way.
Jews know whom they worship.
Gentiles do not.
Jews are supposed to worship in a mew way, in the knowledge of who he is -
and also in spirit and truth.
Gentiles are supposed to worship him without knowledge of who and what he
is - in spirit and truth.
I am testing this. I can find no evidence to worship in spirit and truth -
but them again - what evidence is there? how can I know?
Ah - the problems of a man who cannot see the spiritual.
Still, I look, think ...and laugh at myself.
Nothing is as it seems. Ever.
And now you all have ... not answers.
I have none.
Nor of a deity.
But a way of looking at the world which may or may not be true.
Yet ... it is the way I look.
Shrug.
Everyone has to deal with me, one way or another.
Mostly by ignoring me.
Now everyone knows what I look for.
And that ... will make things worse.
It is a strange world where you are not in charge of your own mind. Your
thoughts? Yes. Your choices, yes. But ... watch the hand of the one who
directs us.
Nothing is as it seems. NOTHING.
This has never been about trinity, not to me. It is about psychology.
BTW - a slight change of topic.
Try this.
"I am the G_d who took you out of the land of Egypt ..."
If you approach G_d ... you can call upon the one who took ME out of the
land of Egypt" if and only if he did so, if you consider he took "ME" out.
You can approach the G_d who took my ancestors out of the land of Egypt" if
you are a Jew and think he took your ancestors out.
You can approach the G_d who took "the Jews" out of Egypt if you are not a
Jew and yet consider he did so.
By naming him, you define not only who he is, and what he did - but your
own relationship to it.
JC named a new named for G_d.
He called him father.
The relationship he described is as a son.
You can approach G_d as "the one who took me out of the land of Egypt" and
not approach him as father.
You can approach him as Father without the coming out of Egypt bit.
JC did not define the way to salvation with G_d.
JC defined the way to salvation to G_d in ONE specific name, one specific
relationship.
The only way to enter this specific relationship is ... though JC.
There are other ways to G_d.
There is only one way to G_d in the name of father.
Exclusivity was an eighth century idea.
A change of "the way" to "the only way."
This change of topic is called distraction.
Nobody will be able to talk about my way of looking at the world.
Everyone will discuss ... "Only christians are saved."