Thursday 3 December 2020

Love that cast out fear

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnswEcn5Qxg

To  @skadi warrior   

Christianity presents itself as trying or intending or wishing to adhere to the New Testament...but....

The Old Testament was Law built on sacrifice as a Covenant under a God of Terror.
The New Testament of Jesus is the Covenant of God as Love that cast out fear.
Other teachings such as Paul's letters, cast the Christian message into teachings that can be used to discern the Holy Spirit - but also became the replacement for such discernment. Follow the science! (sigh).
As a set or system of rules, the institutional structure is set over the living Word.
So the teachings of Jesus are not IN the Bible but in the relationship of the heart's discerning of truth in the Bible and in the lives of all.
Christians may claim proprietary rights, but the heart is the freedom to recognise love.

Once people make an identity of association in the forms and rituals without the living Word, it joins the realm of identity politics - be that tribal, political, priestly or any other one-upmanship that needs another to put down in order to self-validate.
The OT can also be read as about love, but not as applied to the world. The mind of Consciousness from which we perceive is hidden to us, but is revealed in its effects and reflections.
The recognition of all elements of the cast as being within us, is the reversal of the 'casting out' from Heaven.

As for the video, I see the drive for finding the sin and guilt in the feared or hated other, to reveal more about the seeker's condition.
There is pain in the heart seeking vindication as vengeance.

I seek the issues behind the personifications or narrative assertions.
The corruption of power is not particular to any one tribe or race, excepting the human race.
I see this is because we identify in the image and form instead of the truth and essence - and so become at odds with reality in defending our face or self image as our Self.
Control is then equated with power. The idea that all power is of God is not recognisable IN the world of conflicting 'powers' - or makes of God a murderer!
This is beneath the appearances that shift and change across the mind of conflict.
Much that was once held self-evident is completely obscure to us now. The world itself is changing because our idea of our self and our reality changes. Science will deny this as the belief there is only one true 'world' which is (Lord or the) determiner of all and no other reality exists.

When things change, the underlying archetypes are usually recognisable in a new set of clothes.
Narratives are mythic - and as such may point to and represent significance or meaningful qualities of experience.

If we take meanings out of context, they mean something else but pass off as currency. Thus we drift into derivatives that adulterate and corrupt our thought and speech to lose appreciation of the truly Current for a model or map of manipulated meanings associated with competition for control or 'power struggle'.

There are ways in which entanglement with denied fears and masked hates self reinforce in entanglement with those of others.
The urge to destroy the sin may be intense, but the opening of the way for reconciliation is that part of you that can never leave you, because errors do not have the power to override your Creator - excepting we give them priority. And what is sin but giving priority to self-illusions that demand attack or sacrifice of truth to persist in the experience of?



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