Any theologians or biblical scholars? What's your worldview?
First post to Steemit and I just want to gauge who's here. I'm a stage builder and videographer in my current project is shooting video for a Messianic Jewish Education group called the Messianic Studies Institute. We think that the Jewish Essence and roots of the faith is some of the most important scholarship going on right now in the field of biblical studies. What's your worldview?
Yahshua is the sum total of all things. Everything points to Yahshua HaMeshiach (Jesus the Christ). Make sure Christ is our life, motivation, desire, character, liberty, provision, shalom, joy, love, and hermeneutic. If you keep Him center, christocentric, I say more power to you. This is the truth that has kept me the last 30 + years from falling into the fringe of having form (religion) but no substance (the person of Christ).
Col. 1:15-17 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: ..."
Blessings.
Too true! Yeshua (we spell it a little differently) it's the expected son of David and King of Israel! I love how His name means salvation/deliverance/rescue Matt 1:21 "She [Mary] will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name [Yeshua], because he will save/deliver/rescue his people from their sins."
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STOPInfinite, Eternal, Omnipresent Consciousness.
Interesting, are you into philosophy or world religions at all?
The answer to the question posed here is a conditional yes.
My answer to to your question in the post was short yet none the less full. It was short because your post gave very little content upon which to base a more nuanced reply.
I find that within many religions, especially in the dominant middle eastern ones, there appears to be little understanding of the actual nature of what is called God. It is there but somewhat hidden. Thus I responded with a concise and expansive indication of the nature of God.
I did take a look at the video you posted and found it to be overly pedantic and intellectual which tends to miss the expansiveness of the mystical Reality of the Divine. Words do little to convey that Reality because words are born from conditions and differences whereas that Reality is unconditional. God is not something to be taught with ideas and history; rather God is to be known by direct experience which stems from the heart far more than the mind; from silence and listening; not from doing. We learn about God by listening to the Presence within us, not from without. God is deeply personal to each one of us since God is our own Being, our own all encompassing Existence and Essence.
Yeshua is one of the pathways to arrive at knowing the Origin of All. Yeshua's teaching focuses on listening to understand God's Will, on Love and loving which is the very nature of God, and forgiveness because we were never condemned. We are saved by loosening the grip of our own condemnations as Yeshua taught in his prayer that he gave to us.
It is important to note that God being Eternal and Omnipresent is also Absolute and Unchanging. We all are the Sons of God and all of the Creation is the Son of the One Creator because there has never been another substance from which to create than the One Creator Itself which fully engulfs all that is. It has always been such since the beginning of what we call time and will always be such for what is called Eternity.