Post by jonbain on Apr 21, 2022 12:46:22 GMT
Of course there are various translations of these two verses.
And much disagreement as to what they mean.
But in Matt 11:14 Christ says that John is Elijah.
However, in John 1:21, John denies this.
But its the subtle implication that is most important.
Nowhere is the metaphysical/paranormal logic of the issue
contested by either of them.
John is the reincarnation of Elijah.
But he does not realize this.
Others have said that John simply takes that role.
But then John would have no reason to deny this if it
is just a role. He knows the role he plays clearly.
The idea of 'only one life' is Paul's, and not the word
of Jesus at all. Paul admits that he 'teaches through foolishness'
and makes many false statements. (Not the least his sexism.)
Moreover Jesus says "before Adam, I am", and he lives
after the crucifixion, giving him at least three quite
distinct lives.
As a mystic Christian, I accept that reincarnation is the
only way to account for how God can justify people
being born into a state of suffering.
It is the same suffering that they caused in previous lives.
To deny this would be to say that God makes innocent
people suffer. And this is one of the chief reasons so
many people turn their backs on Christianity.
What of people who are born hermaphrodite?
Many so-called Christians flatly deny that hermaphrodites
even exist.
But the only hermaphrodite I knowingly have known,
is the only person I ever met who thought incest was ok.
That was no coincidence.
Incest is wrong because it causes such deformity.
And Racism results in incestuous in-breeding.
This is why the soul is a fact, and eugenics causes disaster.
This is why I have said previously that racism and
homosexuality have a tendency to occur in the same
cultures. Of course many cultures with these problems
being rife pretend that they have no such problems at all.
Hermaphrodites and homosexuals are not identical,
but they are the same group socio-politically.
And those societies that more openly admit these problems
actually have less of such problems, even if they
do not APPEAR to do so, out of their own denial.
Lots of ideas intersect here.
What do YOU think of this?
