James teaches that the rich man's wealth will fall away. That it will not count for anything. In the light of the temporal life
on earth, which ends, this much is somewhat true. But only somewhat. It was naïve thinking on James part in certain degrees,
did not concord with much truth in many ways at all. There was a point which James was making, but I think I will let the truth
of James own point in his Christian faith, whatever truth that is, remain with him. For my part I would like to discuss the silliness
and shortcomings of that theological argument. Firstly, and most obviously to any student of life, and I am talking about life, which
the so called Christ attempted to masquerade himself as in his Johanine gospel, life is about development. And aging in years.
We are born, and John again likes to bemoan his lad di da new birth fiasco, which bores people, for indeed it is the wind of the spirit,
a lot of gas, hot air, like Jupiter in its boldness, a big fart of faith, which depresses the fuck out of any serious theological mind.
Yay, the holy rollers get up and pronounce the riches of Christ, yet all the time at the top of their Babel's are the wealthier pastors, who
are sure Jesus doesn't mind if you have a lot of crap. But we are born, and grow, and it is in the birth of life, being born the first time, which
God himself arranges, that we have a decent life reward. You see God formed Jeremiah in the womb, and he did hard work and carefully
planned work. Jeremiah was to plant nations and tear them down, and this took planning and thought by God. He didn't approach his
Jeremiah project as something of a minor consideration. He put some effort into it. The thoughts and words that Jeremiah were to speak
were moulded by the upbringing he received from his parent's education. The spirit of God works in Israel, and God shows his favour in
Israel, to teach them lawfulness and obedience and a decent way of life. And a way of life filled with wisdom. Jeremiah learned from his
parent's teaching and his religious upbringing knowledge of Torah and spirituality which had an impact upon him and taught him to
respect God. He was raised quite properly. When the Jeremiah scroll began being recorded Jeremiah, through his scribe Baruch, had
words of knowledge of Torah ideology which has subsequently influenced and shaped Karaite Judaism, Christian faith, and many others who
read through this book and learn its teachings and instructions. He had insight did Jeremiah to compose words which touched the nerve
centre of Israel in his time, which changed the course of society and build a new level of the Kingdom God had planted at Sinai. Growth,
development, achievement, a further struggle to improve the life of Israel and return it to its legal foundation on points which, in Jeremiah's
theology, he felt that Israel were falling short on. It's a lot of tough rebuke at times, but a lot of language well displayed and skilfully thought
out. It's a great prophetical utterance, and the book is replete with encouragements and discourses which affect people and help them to
think about religious issues and how they can improve their walk with Almighty God. It has its own texture, and its own quality, and stands
on its own merit, as does each of the covenant books of the Tanakh. And that is indeed what each and every book of the Tanakh is.
A covenant book with God for life, faith and spiritual living. Jeremiah encountered the divine. In some way, shape or form he knew of God
and the words of Jeremiah were conveyed just as that. The Word of the Living God. They stemmed forth from the ministry of Moses began
many centuries prior, and came forth from the heart of a civilization which had been groomed by God and sanctified to produce a better
result for the people from generation to generation. You see the heart of the Word of Jeremiah is the writings of Torah which had preceeded
him, and the heart of the Word of Jeremiah had been the works of Israel which had preceded him. And the heart of the Word of Jeremiah
had been the living words of all Israel as a community which had preceded him, and learned from experience how to walk with God and
continue in faith in Almighty God. Their was a seed in Abraham and a Seed in Jacob and a Seed in Moses, and in each generation there
were seed from God planted in the making of his Israelite children. And through all the grooming and sanctification of each generation
In Israel which had preceded him, Jeremiah grew up in a spiritual world which had walked with God a long time and in which the culture
and ideas of Torah were well trained and well grounded. In society's like this the culture produces works of quality and excellence which few
can ever really deny. And when we see that the seed of the Kingdom of Israel at its foundation is a seed planted by God, we know that as
God's spirit educates and teaches his son from generation to generation, that the outflow of wisdom in the heart of Jeremiah was a word of
God which was very wise and knowing. The Lord spoke through Jeremiah. This much is quite apparent. Divine dictation of the utterance of the
holy spirit? I am not sure if that really matters that much. A debate which legalists often like to lumber over in poor intellectual fashion, to deny
the faith and insult God, because it doesn't really matter where the words of Jeremiah were formed, by God himself, or in the prophet's own
imagination and thinking, because it is without any doubt at all that God Almighty is the foundation of the knowledge of Israel, and the book of
Jeremiah is of such exception Israelite styling of theological truths, that it is indeed a classic of Torah, a true and enduring scripture of holiness.
And we see there, in Jeremiah's example, that God creates a soul and births it into a world which he has worked upon for a very long time.
It's the birth into this life, which God created in the beginning, and which we are supposed to enjoy on its own merits, which it is all about.
And that is were the anal stupidity of James, in following through the faith of the new birth lunacy of John, really falls down. He didn't really
see such truths as this life is meant to one in which prosperity of life is achieved, as psalm 112 teaches. He didn't see the point that in gaining
great riches we gain knowledge of them and how they shape the world and are part of the creation of God. Almighty God's creation. Not a fanciful
notion of heaven above which the false messiah Jesus paints himself as having created. We gain living experience in relating to earthly things
and enjoyment from what they offer in the very real world in which we actually EXIST. Judas said it best, in the end, in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Too much frikking heaven on their mind, and, to sum up the opinion of quite a lot of people who live in the real world, no earthly good.
James was a bit daft in the end, following the Jesus love train, and when they give away all they have to follow Christ for their heavenly rewards
all the more fools they are for such gullible stupidity. There is more I could say, and perhaps should, but to quote Stan Lee, Excelsior.