Tuesday, December 25, 2018

The preincarnate Jesus did judo thousands of years before Jigoro Kano!

The preincarnate Jesus did judo thousands of years before Jigoro Kano!
During their newaza, I wonder if the preincarnate Christ stretched Jacob's leg a certain way and then pushed the hip to dislocate it...

In the Bible (Genesis 32:22-32):
24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”
But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, 'It is because I saw God [preincarnate Jesus] face to face, and yet my life was spared.'.

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Jesus is All Important

In evangelical Christian churches and to many Christians, Jesus is just a gatekeeper who has let us into heaven by his sacrifice. A gatekeeper to the more wonderful things - getting the power gifts of the Holy Spirit, learning the rest of the Bible and deepening one's theology.

Jesus is their admission ticket to the main show. What do you do with your admission ticket after you get in past the door? You simply put it in your back pocket, out of sight. You head in the sanctuary to participate in the main show.

But Jesus is All Important.

Without him we are Nothing.

I realized this one year ago when I had 5X CABG - open heart bypass surgery.
The doctors also made a mistake leaving a bleeding artery inside my chest. I bled for probably 18 hours and had to ask the visiting surgeon to open me up again. They did so and cauterized the bleeder.

During this time, I could have died at several points in the process. I realized that only Jesus mattered and I had to cling to him. Not a picture of him, because I despise the westernized pictures of him, but the person of Jesus. like holding onto him with everything a blackness and in empty space.

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