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Re: Jesus and John the Baptist: The Eternal Bond of Guru and Disciple [Re: saintdextro] * 1
    #26492274 - 02/18/20 06:27 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Almah does mean young woman in Hebrew. Betholah is a separate Hebrew word for virgin. The Greek Septuagint that Matthew used only had one word for both 'maiden' and virgin, parthenos. That is how the Jewish prophesy about the Messiah in Isaiah 7:14 was mistranslated. Women do not give birth parthenogenically in Judaism, nor are children fathered by God. That was the Greek myth of demigods, one of the Pagan elements in Christianity.

I cannot comment on the content of your subjective voices other than to suggest taking what you perceive with 'a grain of salt.' You can be hearing random material and it would be a mistake to attribute revelatory meanings to such material, especially if you are experiencing "schizo voices" (audio hallucinations) due to a thought disorder.

I once bounced the notion of transmigration of Elijah into John the Baptizer (e.g., Matthew 11:14, Mark 9:13) off my late theology professor D.G. Leahy who insisted that it referred to a miraculous reappearance as part of God's plan and did not indicate an entire metaphysic of transmigration for everyone. The New Testament teaches a linear progression of time not "the myth of the eternal return." Catholic author Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote about the eventual transubstantiation of the entire universe into the 'Body of Christ' which he referred to as the "Omega Point." Our involvement in space-time is supposed to be one of voluntary participation not some Gnostic prison or a wheel of becoming from which we have to escape. Eastern notions of karma and transmigration are very mechanistic while a personal God acts through grace and providence. We also can change our untoward thoughts and the effects of wrongful deeds through seeking absolution with a sincerely contrite heart. Forgiveness is possible not just an implacable law of karma.


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Re: Jesus and John the Baptist: The Eternal Bond of Guru and Disciple [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #26492326 - 02/18/20 07:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

but why would the commentary lie? now my bubble's popped!:grin: i'm going back to the library when I get back to the city next week, something's not right here, i'm 90% sure I read what I read.


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Re: Jesus and John the Baptist: The Eternal Bond of Guru and Disciple [Re: saintdextro] * 2
    #26492396 - 02/18/20 07:52 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

What commentary? Paramahansa Yogananda's? He was a Hindu laying a Hindu idiom on a religion of the Levant! He was no expert on Judeo-Christian tradition but he was typical of Hindu thinkers who have always tried to subsume other religious figures into their metaphysics. Yogananda had his own agenda. Other than later rabbinic Judaism's gilgul, transmigration of a Jewish soul as a punishment for having not produced offspring, violating the commandment in Genesis 1:28 to "be fruitful and multiply," transmigration either as reincarnation or as rebirth has no place in Judaism or in its offshoot Christianity.

The doctrines of the transmigration and pre-existence of the soul were rejected in The Second Council of Constantinople in 553 AD, mostly in connection with the doctrines taught by the early Christian scholar named Origen. Yogananda mentioned this in his book. Poor Origen was a troubled soul who emasculated himself only to discover that the action did not cause his fantasies of dancing girls to cease. Modern data suggests that the adrenals can produce testosterone in castrate males.

Whereas transmigration serves to explain the inequalities of existence by the working of karma, it is a dismal doctrine suggesting countless rebirths full of the suffering of old age, sickness, and death before one is liberated from the wheel of becoming. And yet, from a Buddhist perspective there is no soul to transmigrate so how is one to resolve this blatant contradiction. At least the Hindu idiom is consistent. The problem is that all of these metaphysics exist simultaneously and it is not a matter of human choice which decides which single concept is the most accurate. What is one to do? :shrug:




POSTSCRIPT:  I just now retrieved my mail at 10:45 PM and a friend who visited recently, someone I haven't seen in 28 years sent my wife a gift and me 2 books. One of those books is entitled Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust, so I had to add on to this post because it is truly synchronistic! I will have to see what the author, Rabbi Yonassan Gershom has to say about this collision of cultures.


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