On Lord Christ

By seannelson

Tue, 18 Sep 2018
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"Truly I say to you that this poor widow has cast in more than all those... For all they cast in out of their surplus, but she, out of her lack, has cast in all she had, her whole living" (Mark 12 : 43) 
 
Passages such as this high-light Christ's egalitarian devotion to the poor. Sadly, many modern Christians and pastors neglect this central aspect of Christ's teaching.
 
I've encountered the spirit of Christ and the feeling was divinely beautiful ,but some what fleeting. I suspect he's searching for a human worthy of merging with him and becoming the promised re-incarnation of Christ...  but that's just my suspicion.
 
To get back to the Christ we know from the New Testament, he over-turned the merchants' tables in the temple, rejecting spiritual capitalism, and taught devotion to the poor as the entrance fee to his Kingdom of Heaven. There's been a lot of misunderstanding when you have American evangelists lining up on the right and supporting programs that devastate the poor.
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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

'I suspect he's searching for a human worthy of merging with him and becoming the promised re-incarnation of Christ.' Rather than searching for someone worthy of merging with him, he said he came to save sinners who realised their sin, and that only he could forgive and change them. Though he works in them to make them more like himself, I don't think they would consider that as becoming a reincarnation of himself, and his promise is that he himself will return before long. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

About your third paragraph I've known people who really believed this, being an incarnation of Christ and logically, ultimately being God. All of them were seriously and acutely mentally ill. This kind of reasoning is very dangerous.

One could always just test the idea. See if you can stop the wind, buy just your word. The are many other experiments. Are you all-knowing? That's easy too, what was my car's registration nr? Or trying the faith healing acts like your American envangelists. Big church is big bucks.

Obviously this all meant not you specifically but any candidate.

One should not have need to resort to this, but in the New Testament it is clear and literally, that Jesus will come on the clouds.

I also agree with all that Rhianon said.

Tom Brown