Wouldn't you think the highest intelligence would use very punctuated demonstrations of his power and would be able to appear in any form anytime he wished, once people recognize that the form is not the whole being?>
No, I don’t believe the higher power is not anthropomorphic in any way and I don’t believe it is personal at all. I don’t believe it is interactive in the sense that it would reach out to humans if you know what I mean. I believe it to be more like something humans have to raise themselves up to or find within. The connection with it is strictly one way - humans to it, not it to humans.
Did you want to look at specific Scriptures Jesus upheld to see if they actually say all the nations that don't serve Israel would be utterly wasted? Seems like the literalist Christians are just fine with them, as if they might not say what you think. I mean, your idea that he called Gentiles dogs and swine as if racial seems just as invalid as others' idea that he called Jews vipers and foxes as if racial. So you may need to work with the text a bit to see if we read texts the same way.>
Jesus upheld ALL of the scriptures. Where He deviated from them he mostly only done so to make them even more restrictive or weakening than they previously were, such as where he declared that adultery is committed if a man even so much as looks at a woman lustfully, or where he encouraged his audience (Jews by the way) to submit themselves to enemies and even to love them.
If we pretend that Jesus was real for a moment then nothing that he said should remotely lead you to believe that he cares for you if you are a non-Jew. The Great Commission is acknowledged to be a centuries later addition to the gospels. Jesus was clear and explicit that he was only there for the Israelites and instructed his disciples to stay away from the gentiles. In the sermon on the Mount he used gentiles as the example to his Jewish audience of what NOT to be like. Jesus did say that it is not appropriate to take the children’s (Jews) bread and cast it to the dogs (gentiles). Only deigning to the woman when she acknowledged her status as a comparative dog.
When Jesus spoke against the Pharisees and Sadducees, this was an intra-Jewish critique, not a critique of Jews at large - because the Jews were his sole interest.
It’s a similar misunderstanding as that which occurs in the book of revelation whereby a lot of people misinterpret the passages about Jews who say they are Jews but are not, and Jews who are Jews in name only, as being about Jews at large. Whereas it is nothing of the sort - it is rebuking only ‘fake’ Jews ie Christian’s
Where did personality come from, from nothing or from the Higher Power? If it came from nothing, wouldn't that make us superior to the Higher Power because we have something that it doesn't have?
Why did Jesus say that he gives his life for the world, that God so loves the world that he gave, etc.? Why did Jesus say he had other sheep to bring into one fold? Why did he say God was building a house of prayer for all nations? Why did Simeon repeat the prophecy that Jesus would be a light to the Gentiles?
Thank you for at least getting Rev. 2:9, 3:9 relatively correct.
No, I don’t believe the higher power is not anthropomorphic in any way and I don’t believe it is personal at all. I don’t believe it is interactive in the sense that it would reach out to humans if you know what I mean. I believe it to be more like something humans have to raise themselves up to or find within. The connection with it is strictly one way - humans to it, not it to humans.
Jesus upheld ALL of the scriptures. Where He deviated from them he mostly only done so to make them even more restrictive or weakening than they previously were, such as where he declared that adultery is committed if a man even so much as looks at a woman lustfully, or where he encouraged his audience (Jews by the way) to submit themselves to enemies and even to love them.
If we pretend that Jesus was real for a moment then nothing that he said should remotely lead you to believe that he cares for you if you are a non-Jew. The Great Commission is acknowledged to be a centuries later addition to the gospels. Jesus was clear and explicit that he was only there for the Israelites and instructed his disciples to stay away from the gentiles. In the sermon on the Mount he used gentiles as the example to his Jewish audience of what NOT to be like. Jesus did say that it is not appropriate to take the children’s (Jews) bread and cast it to the dogs (gentiles). Only deigning to the woman when she acknowledged her status as a comparative dog. When Jesus spoke against the Pharisees and Sadducees, this was an intra-Jewish critique, not a critique of Jews at large - because the Jews were his sole interest.
It’s a similar misunderstanding as that which occurs in the book of revelation whereby a lot of people misinterpret the passages about Jews who say they are Jews but are not, and Jews who are Jews in name only, as being about Jews at large. Whereas it is nothing of the sort - it is rebuking only ‘fake’ Jews ie Christian’s
Where did personality come from, from nothing or from the Higher Power? If it came from nothing, wouldn't that make us superior to the Higher Power because we have something that it doesn't have?
Why did Jesus say that he gives his life for the world, that God so loves the world that he gave, etc.? Why did Jesus say he had other sheep to bring into one fold? Why did he say God was building a house of prayer for all nations? Why did Simeon repeat the prophecy that Jesus would be a light to the Gentiles?
Thank you for at least getting Rev. 2:9, 3:9 relatively correct.