/lit/ - Literature

Try this: It's the mythology and traditional laws of the Jewish people, best read to provide cultural context for the New Testament. The true events of Creation are mysterious and unknown, and the material was corrupted by material evil soon after. The Jews simply created a mythology to fill in the gaps, then unknowingly merged the figures God and the similarly-powerful Demiurge and treated the resulting character as a sort of patron deity. When God's messenger Christ said he didn't come to overturn Mosaic law, he meant that he didn't come to completely overturn their traditions and uproot their entire culture but rather to teach the truth of God and correct some misconceptions his people had. If Christ were to appear in 19th century Germany, he would have said that he came to teach them some truths rather than to take away their pork sausages, Prussian legal tradition, and various cultural rites. Because Christ was gathering followers like crazy and making them look foolish, the sanhedrin rabbis of the day feared losing their power, influence, and lifestyles. They denounced him and used their influence to manipulate Pilate into having him executed. Pilate begrudgingly obliged, but mainly because he was a veteran and a colonial administrator and was well aware of the carnage that would ensue at the hands of Roman legionaries if the Judaean powers that be kicked up a stink and caused unrest. This is why Pilate was so terse with rabbis who wanted him to add a negation over "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews," and why he later converted and begged God's forgiveness. It all makes sense that way.

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The recipient of the letter led her on during a period of weakness in which her entire immediate family died around her. Her mother passed of old age and the deprivations of the early occupation period. Her brother, who was already depressed and unwell before he was spirited away to fight in the war, has killed himself. Her family's comfortable existence has been ripped out from under them by the war. She was in a period of absolute loneliness and despair and he took advantage of it to fuck her. Out of loneliness and a sense of having no other option, she goes along with him and tries to love him. He doesn't love her, though. To him, she is just a fuck he has a couple times. She abandons the sense that she has been made an unclean woman by these extraordinary events and takes comfort in the fact that she will give birth to a healthy baby who she can pour all of her love and attention into and do her best to raised into a good, happy adult. I am gnostic and believe the material world is an imperfect and corrupted mirror of the immaterial world of the forms in which God dwells. Because it is corrupt and unclean, we are forced to harm and deprive other living beings simply to consume calories. We are separated from God and God weeps for us. God is omniscient and omnibenevolent, but not omnipotent, and is therefore only capable of reaching out into the material through rare miracles, messengers like Jesus and Shakyamuni, at times spiritual guidance of our immaterial souls. When our material bodies die, He is able to save and purify our ascending immaterial souls. He loves all of us as his own children; we are all forgiven and we shall all be purified and guided to what is right in the Pure Land of Heaven. This does not mean that we should kill each other or stop having babies, though. The relationship between Creation and God is the highest filial relationship. To do the right thing is to serve God in this world and to serve God is the highest expression of filial piety. It is our duty to do our best while we are here to make the world a better place, one for which our Father doesn't have to weep for so often. That is the way I see it.