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RE: I Cannot Believe in a God of the Few - Original Poetry - My Response (in Part) to @papa-pepper's Spiritual Food 4 Thought Series
Cori, this is soooo good. You echo many of my own concerns about the Christian faith, as well as my unwavering belief that Yeshua is who he says he is, but NOT who most men say he is. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I always loved that he was a peacemaker, and not the warrior messiah that had been foretold . . . to me, peace is more powerful than war, love will always triumph over hate (which is usually fear in disguise), and creation will always win in the end over destruction.
I also love that he treated the women around him with respect, that he repeatedly sought them out despite that being a major taboo in that place and time, and that was one of the major reversals by Saul/Paul, who demanded that women be lesser and subservient to men, which Yeshua never said even once.
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Exactly. He was a people-person, too, surrounded by lots of friends, and they had some good times. They weren't pious and sober they way they're so often depicted. He went into the taverns and "unholy" places and mingled with everyone. Totally different personality than depicted by mainstream dogma.
Precisely.
Not to mention that, since he was called rabbi by his followers, he HAD to be married, since ONLY married men are eligible to become rabbis, and that rule was sacrosanct, as in fact it still is to this day for Orthodox Jews.
And it is pretty clear that, since he was married, he was pretty obviously married to Mary Magdalene, since she was clearly his most trusted confidante, and stated to be such in more than one apocryphal gospel.
Additionally, it was to Mary Magdalene that his body was entrusted, and the only women allowed to touch the body of a dead Jew were his mother or his wife. Unmarried women were not allowed such intimacy with the dead.
Which is one of the first things the church sought to bury, since the last thing they wanted was to foster the Mary cult, which was huge even by the third century . . . in fact, in the fifth century, nearly all female priests and preachers, of which there were many, were summarily rounded up and murdered. An entire generation of women teachers, healers and preachers gone . . . and almost no historians even touch on this.
Which is also, historically, when the church "decided" that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, despite most theologians worth their salt agreeing that she was not only not a prostitute, but a woman of good family and means, who may very well have been the one financing their travels.
I'm one of those inconvenient sorts who has actually studied translations of the earliest known texts, and compared them with the miracle-filled gospels that came to be "approved" by the church, which bear only superficial resemblance to the originals.
To me, the real miracle of Yeshua is that he was a genuinely good and loving man in a truly hard and difficult time, who sought to empower others and lift them above the circumstances in which they found themselves, by reminding them of who they really were . . . "Know ye not that ye are gods?"
Yeshua's real message was not that the only way to God was through him, but that we can ALL do the things he did: "These and even greater things shall ye do."
Sure. miracles are possible, and I've had enough occur in my own life to know that they are real. But I don't need miracles, especially Johnny-come-lately added-on miracles, to know that he was the real deal.
He's my brother, a fellow child of the Divine, in a real and palpable sense.
OOOH! You have no idea how close I came to saying THE SAME THING about Mary Magdalene!!!! My conscience just doesn't hold with him living a lonely and celibate life. Since when is marriage sinful, anyway? The bottom line is that I couldn't care less whether he was or wasn't married, outside of hoping he was for his own sake. But does it factor in my opinion of his Divinity? Not one iota. :-)
Which is, in the end, the entire point - his message was, and is, that we are ALL divine, whether or not we choose to acknowledge it, or to "accept the mission."
(Cue "Mission Impossible" theme)
;-)
Yes!