Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jesus. Show all posts

Monday, 7 April 2014

My Interest in Shinto, Bushido and the Hagakuré/Sun Tzu - A modern commentary to go?

In Bushido declaring to choose death in a choice between life and death, I think this must be understood as choosing death in Dying to Reject a Life that Is Deeply Sinful, i.e., a kind of parallel to Rejection of the Cardinal Sins by the Weapon.

It says, Bushido, that this choice arises "in the presence of Death", not in the joyful life, only. Equally so, Jihad stands more clear to the Christian mind in waging the religious life despite the many challenges (of violence, threats, corruption, other crime).

This means that any mentally pathological side to living life needs to be warned against and "fought", also with the weapon in hand, real, unarmed or metaphorically.

The Muslims on the other hand say that Christians are in "(metaphysical) global  Jihad" with the story of Jesus Christ, one that I have deep sympathies too.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagakure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls%27_Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day

Note: I think there is a need to replace any voodoo suspicion in Ko-(Shinto) with a more spirited (Ko-)Shinto, one that's also more "flexible" in seeing a more lively life, afterlife and nature.

In siding with, note on religious symmetry, ecumenism and religious humanism, (Ko-)Shinto, you may want to take note of the "Maria Magdalena"/Mary Magdalene and

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 - Warning Against Idolatry (Idolatry = Failure to the path of Heaven, failure in terms of morality)

14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”[b]

17 Therefore,
“Come out from them
and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you.”[c]

18 And,
“I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”[d]

(I've used the reference from New International Version (NIV) and www.biblegateway.com .)

Note also that, usually, the decent and morally straight are the ones who assaulted in the back so one needs "to sharpen the senses" and be ALERT in order for a dream of Utopia to come true!

(More may be coming...)

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Advise from a Friend to Believers in God - Christianity - Status of Jesus by 2 Interpretations

1. The Metaphorical Jesus:
Over the status of Jesus and how to remove the apparent contradiction and the moral trouble with Jesus being tortured and killed on the cross, it can be worthwhile to consider this thought:
if you consider Jesus to be a kind of symbolism that goes like the following, I think you'll be better off. Alright, Jesus is (now) to be considered "purely symbolic" and it should spark these lines.
1. It might be that God loves humanity so much that he would incarnate on earth as "his Son, Jesus".
2. But this thought is so abruptly wrong because humanity loves God back and can't bear such an experience. Thus God is asked to refrain from this and the humanity to God and vice versa of love is by this affirmed!

Hallelujah! Enjoy your religion!

Just in case it's worth something, it may be that my interpretation as suggestion to Christianity may unite it to Islam and Judaism because it hypothetically can be accepted in all three, yet only has a definite status in one -> Concl: Theology stays the same, but the 3, JCI now with the possibility to share a greater deal of understanding and coming across as honest, cross-religiously with this.

Note: First published on Twitter and blog.t-lea.net.

2. The Jesus Christ as Symbol for Revenge on Sinners:
So on to Jesus Christ: can it be that "Jesus died under _sinners_ (as Pilatus chose the awful criminal to a fine man, Jesus) and that we are to put skulls of sinners under his cross for him (as humanity) so that he can go/fly back home to Heaven?"

The meaning here of course is that Humanity is _set religiously free_ from sins by killing/punishing the sinners over them killing "innocence"/superiority of God impersonated by Jesus!

With both of these interpretations the alleged paradox of Jesus vanishes completely! The latest is though much harder, much more cool!

What is your thought on this? I've now delivered two interpretations on the part of
Jesus and the meaning of his person in the Bible, one is metaphorical!
The meaning here of course is that Humanity is _set religiously free_ from sins by killing/punishing the sinners over them killing "innocence"/superiority of God impersonated by Jesus!

This is in line with my investigation of the Bible as an important cultural document, over its metaphorics and wisdom, if not the facts are found as such, more or less correctly written to the best ability of that time. I'm NOT a Christian, I'm a Scientologist (who respects all other "beliefs and creeds", according to the teachings of Scientology itself and its great tolerance)!

Note: This has first been written to Facebook under my profile, Leonardo F. Olsnes-Lea, some minutes ago!

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Principle (of God): Under truth, perfect justice!

If I utter, I think this is a principle (of God): "Under truth, perfect justice!" will I then have made a version of "by Jesus 2nd coming everyone will be judged by truth", (loosely)?