freelight
Eclectic Theosophist
As above, so below......
As above, so below......
Salutations EE
My commentaries hold,....as different opinions, perspectives and points of view CAN be taken. A commentary is to be considered upon its own contents, interpreted within the contextual understanding of the commentator.
As far as atonement goes, my commentary over the years on 'blood atonement' remains essentially the same, as 'atonement' can be had apart from bloodshed, and the way is genuine repentance,...all else is merely figurative. One can have as many animals slain or men or god-men for that matter, and unless true repentance has begun within the heart/soul,...there can be no atonement, let alone change/transformation, no matter how many souls are SLAIN, which is a barbaric practice to say nothing of the grossest cruelty). As far as 'absolute atonement' goes, well you know thats a rather 'loaded' sentence - there is nothing 'absolute' but what is 'absolute' in essence and being itself, which is DEITY. - all else is relative and subject to distortion, translation, interpretation.
I present no concept of 'self-righteousness' that is not tenable since 'God' still wills and desires for his children TO DO RIGHT. Is this not so? 'Right-doing' CERTAINLY has its place for someone who CLAIMS to love 'God',....for God's sake.
The Unitarians that have shared so far in this thread certainly do not DENY the 'Presence of God', much less the respect of recognizing Jesus as both 'lord' and 'Christ', because God the Father gave him these titles. How do these observations in any way DIMINISH the immeasurable LOVE of God?
Only 'God' (the unborn, undying, imperishable, immortal, infinite BEING, the I AM) is 'God'. - all else are but forms, personifications, representations, offsprings, creations OF this Infinite ONE (as Spirit-Energy-Consciousness).
A wonderful thing to consider is that a fragment of the Infinite I AM indwells our own souls And there is an aspect of this Universal Light known as the 'Christos' that also, is that divine seed in us, wherein our 'sonship with God' is sealed, unfolded and brought into GLORY. "Christ in you, the hope of glory". - 'Man' is the glory of God, in as much as what is of God in man in substance, potential and pattern.....mirrors 'God' himself. - and so we as the Christ-body (the Messiah) are the robe of God revealed in express form, God's own Temple. In occult science and wisdom, we can go even further, since these are but seminal esoteric insights into literal teachings, which are but the outer vestments of truths, principles and concepts of the inner teaching.
As above, so below......
Why is it that you side with the people that deny absolute atonement, the ill of self righteousness and the presence of God that displayed immeasurable Love for all of creation?
Salutations EE
My commentaries hold,....as different opinions, perspectives and points of view CAN be taken. A commentary is to be considered upon its own contents, interpreted within the contextual understanding of the commentator.
As far as atonement goes, my commentary over the years on 'blood atonement' remains essentially the same, as 'atonement' can be had apart from bloodshed, and the way is genuine repentance,...all else is merely figurative. One can have as many animals slain or men or god-men for that matter, and unless true repentance has begun within the heart/soul,...there can be no atonement, let alone change/transformation, no matter how many souls are SLAIN, which is a barbaric practice to say nothing of the grossest cruelty). As far as 'absolute atonement' goes, well you know thats a rather 'loaded' sentence - there is nothing 'absolute' but what is 'absolute' in essence and being itself, which is DEITY. - all else is relative and subject to distortion, translation, interpretation.
I present no concept of 'self-righteousness' that is not tenable since 'God' still wills and desires for his children TO DO RIGHT. Is this not so? 'Right-doing' CERTAINLY has its place for someone who CLAIMS to love 'God',....for God's sake.
The Unitarians that have shared so far in this thread certainly do not DENY the 'Presence of God', much less the respect of recognizing Jesus as both 'lord' and 'Christ', because God the Father gave him these titles. How do these observations in any way DIMINISH the immeasurable LOVE of God?
Only 'God' (the unborn, undying, imperishable, immortal, infinite BEING, the I AM) is 'God'. - all else are but forms, personifications, representations, offsprings, creations OF this Infinite ONE (as Spirit-Energy-Consciousness).
A wonderful thing to consider is that a fragment of the Infinite I AM indwells our own souls And there is an aspect of this Universal Light known as the 'Christos' that also, is that divine seed in us, wherein our 'sonship with God' is sealed, unfolded and brought into GLORY. "Christ in you, the hope of glory". - 'Man' is the glory of God, in as much as what is of God in man in substance, potential and pattern.....mirrors 'God' himself. - and so we as the Christ-body (the Messiah) are the robe of God revealed in express form, God's own Temple. In occult science and wisdom, we can go even further, since these are but seminal esoteric insights into literal teachings, which are but the outer vestments of truths, principles and concepts of the inner teaching.