I have no idea friend…the fact that I cannot answer the question does not lessen the reality that …
Greater does not mean “equal”
Why are you avoiding this reality?
I assure you it does not make you a Muslim…
Friends,
. We accept the words of Jesus Himself that “The Father is greater than I”, right? We all accept this statement from the Lord Jesus Himself.
. and in Mark 10:18, when addressed: “Good teacher, how do I inherit eternal life”, Jesus answered him, saying: “Why callest thou Me good. There is “none” good, save God”
. and on the cross, the Lord says: “Not My will, but Thy will”
. My basic question is this: If Jesus is God, and God is greater than God, then God is also less that God, and that to me is a shell game.
. And if its not God’s will, but God’s will, then you’ve lost me.
. and when Jesus Himself says: “These are not My words, but Him that sent Me” then what I hear you saying is that “These are not God’s words, but God’s words…”
. Give me a break, my friend. In today’s political double-speak, this is acceptable. Back on the Reservation, it was called simply “White man speak with forked tongue” The Indians were considerably more honest before the white folks showed up with their swords, canon, treaties, and Bibles to subjugate the entire population and steal 99.5% of the land in Treaties, all written “In the year of our Lord, 1868…” and all the rest through the process of double-speak.
. I’m callin’ your bluff on this whole thing. I’m stickin’ with the Great Spirit, Wakan Tanka, who taught the Indians (and they learned very well), how to tell the truth. It was only the white man’s laws and devious corruption of their own double-speak and treachery showing the “heathen” who’s who, and now you try to overpower the rest of us with the same double-speak, and when we call you on it plain as day, you can’t explain it other than with three shells in your hand and the words “Trust me!”
. Well my belief in Christ is as strong as anyone elses, and I see through this stuff for what it is. Prior to encountering the Baha’i Faith, I saw through this double-speak which is a primary tactic of “confuse and conquer”. To me, it demeans Jesus Himself to an alleged partner in something He Himself, by the above stated verses, denies repeatedly.
. In the words of Dirty Harry: “Go ahead. Make my day!”
Peace and God blessings upon everyone, and Merry Christmas to all and to all a good nite. (I just pray that I don’t have nightmares about double-speak anymore. Saw far too much of that on the Rez, my friend. Its still going on… but hey! They’re heathen, right? Go tell it on the mountain, but keep your damned Treaties off of Indian property, and bring back the buffalo already. “As long as the grass shall grow and the wind shall blow and the white man will lie…”
Aho! Mitakoye Oyasin You are all my relatives. Lets get this family reunion underway. In the words of Black Elk: ““I looked ahead and saw the mountains there with rocks and forests upon them, and from the mountains flashed all colors upwards to the heavens. Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw, for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit and the shape of all shapes as they must live together in one being. And I saw the sacred hoop of my people was one of many sacred hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty and flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.”
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PS Please watch a short clip on the Lakota Medicine Man Black Elk”
youtube.com/watch?v=FKu-Iv9DlK8
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we are all free to make the choice!
