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The Crucifixion is indeed a great mystery. But I am not concerned with doctrine, or the enforcing of it. Doctrine, tradition, ritual and moralism are what spring up when an enlightened being's teachings are institutionalized into a religion.
No wonder you are exiled. I truly support the fact that you are following the holy spirit. I quite agree with you here.
I agree, to a point. When Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man, he is speaking of his humanity. When he refers to himself as the Son of God, he is speaking of his divine awareness. But he also says that we can become sons of God, and he lived his life showing us how to do that.
Son of Man means prophet and nothing else. Jesus said he was a prophet. I think there is the posibility that a lot of people try to draw other meanings from this because of the capitalized text which didn't exist in the original Greek texts. Once again I agree. Jesus wanted to teach people to find God for themselves by seeking the holy spirit.
Again, I'm not interested in doctrine, but in Christ consciousness and a relationship with God. As I said before, I don't think the Crucifixion was as simplistic as a human sacrifice. I don't require blood to be shed in order to forgive my children, so I can't imagine that God, who is infinitely more forgiving and loving than me, would find such an act absolutely necessary. I think there was some redemptive element in the Crucifixion, but I don't believe that Christ's blood is the only thing shielding me from God's mighty wrath.
This is the issue I am bringing up in this thread. The mantra reads just like a human sacrifice to cleanse our sins and many people say it is the last sacrifice. What a rationalization. It was more important to justify the fact that Jesus was murdered by the establishment than to accurately portray it for what it was.
Craig