"Jesus" is somehow an idea for me, an ideal, a representation, that I hope will never be crushed, let go, or contaminated, or bypassed.
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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
Don't you believe JESUS is GOD? There is no contamination in Him. You know that! Are you pulling our legs and just funnin' with us ?
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Jesus said that the kingdom would be like a woman with a measure of meal who put in some leaven and sifted it until the whole thing got leavened (Matt 13:33). I take that to be an idea (that Jesus the Nazarene is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, the foretold Messiah) getting contaminated until you find yourself sitting in a large stone building with gargoyles and candles and stained glass windows and the guy up front in a red robe is waving a smoky censer through the air and chanting something which you guess is Latin, but you're not sure and you wonder how to be saved but the stained glass windows just look down on you silently and you stumble back out onto the street and rub your eyes and wonder what to do with your life.
Or, perhaps, you cut off fellowship with other believers simply because their 'way' is not 'New Testament-ish' enough for your liking.
No, Jesus is not contaminated, but our hearts and especially brains seem to get that way. That was my gist. You have reality (Jesus the Nazarene) and you have people's representations of reality floating in their brains. So I'm just trying to sift through the latter to find the former.
The Bible, by the way, is full of examples of this. For instance, the disciples had to be shed of many ideas, conceptions, and representations of reality, which did not conform to actuality as it was living and breathing before them in the person of Jesus Christ.
You have ideas. I have different ideas. Yet we all believe into the same Lord. I find that interesting, and I may add, rather heartening. There is, indeed, hope.