After the Judgment – Image from Wikimedia The ZEALOTS, a first century theocratic movement which believed that if an armed rebellion were incited against the Romans, a Messiah would arise and lead Israel by force back to the pure Jewish nation it once was, free from Gentile influence. The named disciples of Jesus included at […]
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Photo by Anni Roenkae from Pexels “The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by
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Photo by Marija Rusaka from Pexels If words were fire in print, these pages from the Gospels would burn in your hands: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword. I am come to set a son against his father. A daughter against
Image from Wikimedia The quest to find the historical Jesus is doomed from the start, inasmuch as all sources are founded on essentially the same story, and that story is 2000 years ingrained in the minds and hearts of more than 2 billion believers. It’s like asking Socrates, the day he committed suicide, to reconsider
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Photo from Wikimedia Tao is the Way that cannot be followed faultlessly, nor found precisely in any book or on any map.Tao is the Way of the Earth and not of the Earth.The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao, as no name that can be named is one’s eternal name.Yet its
