RE: Interpreting Mark 15:34--'eloi 'eloi lama sabachthani
January 4, 2012 at 11:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2012 at 11:44 pm by houseofcantor.)
What is obvious, that the Christian cannot face; is the ritualistic patterning of the words and phrases. This is Psalm 22. Why would a supposedly dying-of-torture human being waste his breath with the words of another?
Ritual. It was expected. It needed to happen to fulfill the prophetic drama.
The Christian is instilled with a literal need to have these words be true, and yet Jesus in the gospel is one necessary prophetic skit after another. even if there was such a man, how can his life have been real? The whole thing is stage direction: stand here, say this, take that.
Christians ask, why wouldn't they question this? What, villagers? An old lady in a shawl, a sick pig, and a brewing thunderstorm; and there all behind locked doors hiding under the bed. Then you get troops of foreigners, talking about dragons and cities of gold in the clouds; these villagers have no baseline to know truth. They're gonna listen to the stories; if they can imagine what is described, next week it will be real as a memory.
The Messianic age, the prophetic times? When prophets and messiahs pontificate from every corner? Hey, did you hear about that Jesus guy, raising the dead? Yeah, but Cyril; has elephants. No Wai! Wai, dude; let's go check him out.
What's the worst part about it? The blaspheme, the willful sin; most often not the Christian, but the priest. A Christian comes, posts a line like this looking for meaning; the priests dance in their graves. Lemme give it to ya in two:
Living Word.
What lives, in word? Use yer fucking skull, read these words; can you not see, HoC? That's what you're supposed to do. You're not supposed to use this text - heck, you ain't even supposed to have this text - but it ain't about the trees, fellas.
Go read Ezekiel. All of it. See what you're missing. Try that Son of Man, that Holy Spirit; see what the New Testament actually testifies.
Ritual. It was expected. It needed to happen to fulfill the prophetic drama.
The Christian is instilled with a literal need to have these words be true, and yet Jesus in the gospel is one necessary prophetic skit after another. even if there was such a man, how can his life have been real? The whole thing is stage direction: stand here, say this, take that.
Christians ask, why wouldn't they question this? What, villagers? An old lady in a shawl, a sick pig, and a brewing thunderstorm; and there all behind locked doors hiding under the bed. Then you get troops of foreigners, talking about dragons and cities of gold in the clouds; these villagers have no baseline to know truth. They're gonna listen to the stories; if they can imagine what is described, next week it will be real as a memory.
The Messianic age, the prophetic times? When prophets and messiahs pontificate from every corner? Hey, did you hear about that Jesus guy, raising the dead? Yeah, but Cyril; has elephants. No Wai! Wai, dude; let's go check him out.
What's the worst part about it? The blaspheme, the willful sin; most often not the Christian, but the priest. A Christian comes, posts a line like this looking for meaning; the priests dance in their graves. Lemme give it to ya in two:
Living Word.
What lives, in word? Use yer fucking skull, read these words; can you not see, HoC? That's what you're supposed to do. You're not supposed to use this text - heck, you ain't even supposed to have this text - but it ain't about the trees, fellas.
Go read Ezekiel. All of it. See what you're missing. Try that Son of Man, that Holy Spirit; see what the New Testament actually testifies.
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