Thank you for that long post, written with such care.
Thank you.
But that is one interpretation....... the reason I see it differently is because I see Jesus differently....... that's why I'm a Deist, I guess.
This is an interpretation yes, but its accuracy is revealed in the path to life. If you take the time to think about what the bible says seriously, you will see that it is written in the way that makes it sound just like a story. What is the difference in reading the bible, and reading a novel with advices? People love shows like Game of Thrones, and will give more time to it, than the bible. Yet the bible is Spiritual, Game of Thrones is just a story made up. But the way the bible was written shows no difference because it was literalised; meaning the Spiritual content in the word was lost due to mistranlsations, mistransmissions, and misinterpretations. So when you read the bible that way, it will tell the reader that Jesus His Pre-Eminence died for your sins (the NT) but that is not exactly what the bible means. If you read in the OT, it speaks of Israel and their journey with GOD, their laws and statutes, their Prophets and so on which is looking like it doesn't have a connection with the NT.Hence, the reason why Jews reject it. However, it is a Spirit book; its not a novel, it is the words of the Law, the Word and the Prophets which were literalised. And that should show that its not the perfect Word of GOD as it is written... That the way it is currently, is in a literal state. Let me give a simple example.
John the beloved called Jesus His Pre-Eminence the Word. Whether you want to debate if the Word was GOD as it was written, thats not what im saying here. Just that, "The Word" was supposed to reveal to the people that HE is the Word of GOD personified. And its not just something that should sound nice, or a title, or link with Genesis 1, but that if GOD's Word which is living and active came into the earth in a physical body, it was revealed how GOD's Word is, in the life and personage of Jesus His Pre-Eminence. Look at all the healing that HE did, to show that GOD's Word heals; and not just heals, but maks whole. While the people preach that you must ask Jesus HIs Pre-Eminence to come into your life, and confess HIM as your Lord, is how to be saved. This is how they literalized the bible. But John the Beloved brought something no one else did. He revealed that Jesus His Pre-Eminence is the Word Personified. Which means what we are suppopsed take in, that we are suppposed open our hearts to, receive, and keep, is GOD's Word. "Hold fast that which you have until I come"...
Because of their literal interpretations, they were not able to see it this way. This also proves that saul paul was not called, sent, or commissioned to preach the Gospel. For he himself preached that itsabout receiving Jesus His Pre-Eminence into your heart. That is delusional; it is a delusional message...It is the kind of message that seems to be true that youjust believe and it is so, rather than having anything tangible or factual to support it, and prove it. It became all faith, which is the opposite of knowledge. And GOD said: My People are d3estroyed for lack of knowledge...
We are supposed to seek the GOD through HIS Word, eat, drink in HIS Word, which is life giving, by transcendental meditations in HIS Word day and night; just as GOD told Joshua that hemust meditate in the Law day and night, so too was that revealed in the Word:
Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood, ye have no life in you. Then HE came again saying: IF a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. And link that with: Man shall not live be bread alone, but by every Word that Prroceeds from the mouth of GOD..
Because of not understanding this, the churches out there, and Christians in general, have not known what "The Path to Life" is. They have not even understood what "life" is. That life can't lead to death.Therefore, what we have is not really defining life well, but is a shadow of it. That Life is everlasting by definition.. It is not something that can cause gradual fading away, aging, sickness and death. And this was revealed where HE said in speaking to a people who were alive, HE told them they have no life in them, to show its a higher system of life; not life after death; but the kind of life that renews, not expires. How is for instance, dying in this earth and calling yourself a Christian, any different to an atheist also growing old and dying? Is it that the GOD Christians serve loved the atheist as HE loves the Christian? Then why even come to GOD and church at all if HE loves everyone with the same measure, and the Christian is not getting anything different from the atheist? The Atheist can live without considering GOD at all, without church, can still raise a family, do his work, make his money, and grow old and die... How is the Christian on a different path?
There is the path to life, which is living without dying at all. Doctors/scienstists, are looking into immortality. If they were to achieve that, then what is standing out that is calling for attention in what Christians are saying? They have preached everlasting life without knowing what it is. If scientists discover the secret of it, and its something that they can affect, then how will christians look to a people that is basing everything on facts? What will their message be then? That every man must die and judgement? They will just laugh even harder than they have been because they can't die anymore. So what about the christians when they are still dying from old age and atheists do not?When they havealready gained and can prove what Christians are claiming that
they have but cannot prove it. When you look at it this way, you will see its not the message GOD sent by the mouth of HIS Prophets. Prophets were martyred in this earth because of the messages they shared to the people. If that message is that you must receive Jesus His Pre-Eminence in your heart, then they died in vain. This should show a true seeker, that it doesn't make sense.
Transfiguration, is putting on the immortal, celestial body in life alive. And there is the path to it, which is by HIS Word, HIS perfect Word, that can only come by the Mouth of HIS Sent one. And HE Prophesied in the bible of a certain person that must come and restore all things before Jesus His Pre-Eminence returns. The bible is a map for the children of the kingdom to follow to locate HIS sent ones. What bible did Noah preach from? What about Enoch? Abraham? Prophets didn't teach from the bible; they wrote it; they wrote the bible in Prophetic language, slealed the interpretations of it for the one GOD will send to restore all things, so that the false would be made manifest for all to see, that what they have been preaching is lies, and what they have been feeding the church is stones. This, interpretation is among that work of restoration that is exposing them.
I understand you are a deist and therefore, you might disagree. But the messages from GOD transcend religious belief systems, boundaries, and faulty foundations. No matter the religion a child of the kingdom was brought up in, no matter the religion they are captives to, HIS Word, when it comes, they hear it, and they follow HIM. This is that message, that is calling the children of life to repentance, to change their mortal raiment for the celestial kind in this earth. That is the very message that Jesus His Pre-Eminence preached in HIS parables.