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15.8.10 - 5:38 PM
What am I?
Hi there again people!
I feel like it is necessary for me to discuss this, because this week has been the week of clashing understanding because of stubbonesses.
I will begin with this question: What am I?
I have a vertebrae, and hair, live on land, and can have children (but I dont lay eggs). I know that I am at least a mammal. I am classified as a homohomo sapien, aka a human.
I could easily end this blog here.
I am a human being, and I know I have feelings. I cant quite say the same for others outside of me, because I can only verify my own existance by existing. But in anycase, I am human and there is something inside of me that justified my being here. I call it a soul.
This is an acceptable answer as well.
I am a human with a spirit. There is something powerful with in me capable of great adn wonderful things, and I need only to tap into this power. Though I know it resides inside of me, I know it is not my own, it MUST come from something greater than I. It is also present in others as well...
This is an acceptable answer.
I went from concrete evidence, to faith and spirit. Are all of these right? Actually, We dont really know. We only know all of this from Faith (even science has a certain amount of faithful charm attatched to it). I went from an emprical realm of discussion and explanation, to a rational one. (Empiricism is when you justify something's existance based upon what you see, hear, taste, smell, etc. Rationalism is more so the realm of ideas, justification by reason, like the concept of the number 0, or the belief in an ideal.)
This same concept applies to the Holy Bible, and words and language. Of course, I could easily make this into a linguistics essay, but right now, i want only to show something that others choose not to see. (which is denial on their behalf, but whatever).
Lets take a look at a the bible shall we? I'm going to open it to a book and chapter that the Holy spirit leads me to open it to. Follow my lead please!
Isaiah 9:2 will make an excellent example.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
What does this mean?
I could take what this passage means literally, or metaphorically. Literally, I can say that there is a land of the shadow of death that people actually live in, and then suddenly light some how came forth.
However, this is actually forcasting the coming of the Prince of Peace...AKA the Messaiah AKA Jesus. We all walked through the valley of the shadow of death. Specifically we were condemned to everlasting death because of our sin. However, because of His ultimate sacrifice, we have a choice to live in the light and achieve everlasting life if we Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, that he Died on the cross for all of our sins, and that he became the ultimate sacrifice in which his blood cleansed our inherent sins.
There is a difference between simply reading, and actually reading in the spirit. There is the world of concreteness that we see and enteract with and touch, and there is the world of symbols, ideas, the things you cannot touch, but can understand. We read the bible to obtain a Godly spirit, not simply for knowledge, nor just to memorize words. I think that Elwin R. Roach pretty much summed it up best when he said "there is no life in the letter alone, never has been, and never will be."
We read the bible to deny our carnal masks, the parts of ourselves that society and our desires demand that we have, or you could call it the id. We want to bring forth and accentuate the us that God created us to be, to be free in who we truly are, all in God's reason and understanding. We do not read the bible to justify our actions, only on Sundays. What I am trying to say is that the bible is not just a book, it is a piece of the infinite spirit of THE GOD.
It is a reformatting book. Are you going to become Godlike over the summer if you decide to read a few books a month? Probably not. We all fall short of the glory of God. Furthermore, its not just a matter of reading the bible. Now that you are a reader, you have to understand, you cant just go doing the things that you did and push the bible aside for a later time. You MUST practice and do what you learned. Furthermore, you must understand that right now, you know absolutely nothing compared to even what the bible has for you to adopt.
You cannot Do whatever you want because it justifies it in a single verse. You are missing the entire message and spirit when you do that! Yes it has its place, but not to solidify the deal on every action. When we grasp the spirit of God when we read, we shed the petty aspects of the world.
In general, we are held to a higher level. We dont run away from our problems and our pasts, because we have no fear of them, and we are not afraid to do what is right. Our minds are reconditioned into that of GOD. Our words are our bonds, because God's words are absolute. We are considerate of others, because God also sees to the needs of all.
We have to be conscious doers of the word, or else we become part of the problem in Christianity today.
Posted by Brianka
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