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[Note: This is one of a series listed under the heading: Wordie Post." It was originally posted on the Word Press blog entitled "Our Daily Bread," found at rtippett97@wordpress.com. The changes at Word Press are similar to those on Twitter and Facebook, where I was posting to an empty space. That was because I began and maintained that blog as one of their free offerings. When their force to change to a paid blog website did not move me, they cancelled their "Reader," so posting on Word Press has become like a caged animal at the zoo, where only workers occasionally toss the animals a bite to eat. Word Press [et al] is like what I imagine life was like in the satellite countries of the Soviet Union: meager, bleak, spiritless. So, I am transferring those forty articles here.]
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In the Baptist minister’s sermon this past Sunday, his focus was on Mary. He told how Mary cherished the things that were shown to her about Jesus, both before he was born and after.
He said Mary knew Jesus was “God incarnate,” even though the pastor said that word was created in Latin many centuries later. Ecclesial Latin says “incarnari” means “to be made flesh.”
The Baptist preacher then said, boldly and clearly, Jesus was “wholly God and wholly man.”
This is misleading, as it implies that God became man, which becomes an extremely limited God. It becomes like the story of Adam and Eve leading to them having Cain and Abel. Children can figure out Adam and Eve as mommy and daddy, but when the Bible Storybook says Cain was banished and had all these other children and grandchildren, the children ask the question: “Who was the mommy of Cain’s children? Eve?”
In the same way, a child hears Jesus was “wholly God and wholly man” and that makes them ask, “While God was Jesus, how did the rest of the world know God?”
For quite some time now, I have preached the truth of Genesis 1 is this: “elohim” did the Creation. In the Hebrew text of Genesis 1 there are thirty-two references to “elohim,” saying “elohim did this and elohim did that.” In EVERY English version of the Holy Bible, the word “elohim” – which is Hebrew for “gods,” in the plural; as opposed to “el,” which is one “god” [lower-case] – has been inconsistently translated as “God did this and God did that” (while at other times they say “the gods,” if it behooves them to speak the truth).
It is after three more references to “elohim” in the first four verses of Genesis 2 that one finds eleven times written “Yahweh elohim,” which is in the story of Yahweh creating His only Son – the guy we call Adam.
What is so hard to grasp is Yahweh is Yahweh. Yahweh is more than God, and much more than “a god.”
The word “god” means an immortal spirit. As such, a soul is an eternal spirit that gives the appearance of life in a body of flesh. This means being “wholly man” is being a living, breathing body of flesh [call it dirt, dust, or clay – nothing but death waiting to return to death]. It means being “wholly man” is not being a corpse. It is, instead, a soul [like “a god”] showing life in that which would otherwise be dead. It means being a temporary existence, called mortal.
A human being is not an “elohim” or an “el,” as those are relative to angels. The “elohim” are immortal creatures created by Yahweh, which are the ones who made “man in their image, male and female they made them.” The men and women created by the “elohim” were the aforementioned “wholly men and wholly women” that were mortals. While the “elohim” had the power to craft them in their likeness, each one made (just like the “elohim”) had to be created [given eternal life] by Yahweh. Yahweh is then the source of all souls; but Yahweh lets the “elohim” of earth be the watchers who keep an invisible eye on those slightly higher than animal creatures.
When Genesis 2 begins to tell of Yahweh getting involved in the making of “man” [Hebrew “adam”], He made his body out of dust and clay [like the “elohim” made “animal-man”], but instead of giving life to death with an ordinary soul, Yahweh placed within that flesh an “elohim.” This did two things.
First, it made “Adam-man” immortal, not mortal. Second, it made “Adam-man” be the Son of Yahweh.
The “elohim” placed in that death was made specially by Yahweh, to be the seed of religion into a world that had no clue who Yahweh was. All the creatures on earth knew about the “gods,” as they had learned to fear them; but none of them knew about Yahweh. That means “Adam-man” was an immortal who lived on earth, exclusive of all the animals who feared the “elohim.” Eden is heaven on earth; thus, Eden is where demigods can live.
Because Yahweh made Adam-man for the purpose of saving the mankind created by the “elohim” whom they feared – the “gods” of the earth – Adam-man, the Son of Yahweh, can be said to be the one who “Yahweh Will Save” the souls of mankind with. That, in Hebrew, becomes “Jesus” [“Yeshua“].
This means physical Jesus was Adam-man, the Son of Yahweh, reborn. Both are the same, as an angel in the flesh that is “wholly elohim and wholly dust and clay [dead flesh without a source of life],” which is immortal.
This is what makes Adam-man and Jesus special. They (as the same with two names) are demigods – immortals – whose flesh will never die … EXCEPT if one chooses to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That magical fruit removes the immortality [the fruit of the Tree of Life], allowing death to separate the flesh from the “elohim” within. Thus, Adam-man lived over nine hundred years, when ordinary animal-man lives only about fifty to a hundred years, before ‘giving up the soul.’
This means when Jesus was born, he was the “elohim” made by Yahweh – His eternal Son – who was placed in the same divine DNA placed in Mary’s womb. So, what made Mary cherish all the things said, making her know her son would be divinely incarnated [before the word was invented], she knew Jesus was “Yahweh elohim.”
That means being “wholly el [one of the elohim, the Son of Yahweh] and wholly man [born of divine flesh that is immortal, as a demigod]” are prototypes. They are made by Yahweh specifically to die and save the world (through death of the flesh). Read the seed metaphor found in Jesus’ parables.
The whole problem with the Baptist minister’s proclamation that Jesus was “wholly God and wholly man” is it gives the impression that Yahweh was making one Christmas toy that He could forever brag about. “Hey world! Look what I made!” It denies the reason Yahweh made Adam-man in the first place. It makes children think, “Jesus gets all the good gifts. I just get this stinking body that is going to die some day.”
Yahweh [being All-Knowing] knew that the souls He breathed into dead clay, which the “elohim” sometimes helped, but most times took advantage of, needed to be saved from all that birth, death, reincarnation that began way back in the Creation, when the “elohim” created animal-man [male and female they made them].
This means Yahweh made one eternal Adam-man Son [aka Jesus] to be infused into souls that listened to the religious principles taught to them by the sons of Adam-man [true priests of Yahweh – Prophets – Saints]. It means one wholly God who is wholly man needed to die and release the “wholly man” part and become the “elohim” Yahweh created [the wholly God part]. That release would be so that eternal soul could become a twin within the souls of animal-men and animal-women.
This means [long story suddenly ended], all the animal-men and animal-women need to die of self-ego [a soul thinking it can control its wayward flesh before the flesh returns to dust] and then [like Adam-man went into a deep sleep when a rib was taken], voila! Animal-man and Animal-woman can be reborn with a wholly God [“elohim”] addition to their soul, making them be saved.
If an animal-man or animal-woman does not sacrifice itself on the altar of religious beliefs and submit to the divine operation that transforms an ordinary mortal soul in flesh into Jesus reborn, then they can only expect eternal reincarnation. Born, sin, die, repeat. Those pesky “elohim” love misleading their creations away from Yahweh and His Son.
Yahweh made His Son to stop that insanity; but just having made His Son stops nothing. The lost souls need to seek and find true faith. Mortal souls need to seek eternal life. Seeking means doing what Yahweh wants a soul to do. It means divine marriage – soul to His Spirit. Divine marriage is only for the purpose of making a baby … the one we call Jesus.
This is not some ‘dog and pony show,’ where souls in dead flesh can tell Yahweh what to do. Thus, waiting for a wholly God wholly man to come save everyone at the end of time is stupidity.