January 21, 2016
Post #27
Dear Readers,
We are dedicated to the absolute co-equality and balance between men and women! Our premise is that God created us this way to be whole, complete, unified – as One, through one another, masculine and feminine. That is what Jesus taught men. We are discussing how the Word of God as taught by Jesus of Nazareth was willfully or inadvertently misrepresented or misunderstood such that men came to believe they were somehow more equal. God is One! We are one! Jesus said,
“Hear O Israel – The Lord our God is One Lord. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
This is the first and great commandment.
The second is like it, namely this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Pages 305 – 306)
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You are reading one in a series on the “Feminine-ist” teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.
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“The Word 2.0“ References are to pages in the book. And our many thanks to Wikipedia!
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We have been talking about the causes of inequality and imbalance between men and women even to this day. To help understand this we juxtaposed our One True God to Greek Hellenism. And more specifically, the events surrounding the Syrian Seleucid invasion and occupation of Judea-Israel some 165 years before Jesus was born. In a deep and meaningful way, indeed as a reflection of God’s own Divine Nature, men and women were created by God as absolutely co-equal in Divine Balance with one another and with all Creation. (Pages 23 – 28.)
We learned that Adam’s poor decisions, his attempt to blame first God and then Havah (Eve) for his choices caused a riff between himself and God, and between himself and Havah. (Page 27.) By the time of Noah this riff had grown into a full-scale chasm (imbalance) as God was in anguish over men’s nature and what men had become. (Pages 28 – 29.) Only the influence of God’s own Divine Feminine trait of mercy stayed God’s Divine Masculine aspect from meeting out justice on all humankind – indeed all life. She preserved life on Earth, male and female, even as the world of men was cleansed. (Page 29; Study Guide) Sadly though men did not learn from that experience for no sooner had the son’s of Noah disembarked from the ark, when they decided to compete with God. (Pages 30 – 31.)
Men it seems are naturally afflicted with a sort of grandiosity, arrogance and yet befuddlement that defies explanation in human terms. As we read Scripture we find in case after case, situation after situation, circumstance after circumstance, men themselves have no real clue what is going on or what they are doing! And they are reluctant to consult women generally – often the woman nearest and dearest to him. Instead men blunder along Forrest Gump-like wondering what happened and why completely out of balance. Yet from Havah to Ruth (Page Pages 34 – 35.) to Esther (Pages 35 – 36.) to Mary, the wives, the lovers, the Matriarchs, and all the magnificent women of Scripture though is revealed the other side of God – calming, soothing, relaxing, teaching, balancing men.
Skipping ahead briefly, it is easiest and perhaps best to try and understand Greek Hellenism and all its permutations as activators of men’s naturally occurring proclivities. Proclivities representing expressions of their typically selfish self-willed and egoic impulses, urges and fear. And as we know, these in turn drive their thoughts, words and especially actions. ‘Activators’ because Hellenism enables, indeed empowers men to behave as they will. And especially as regards promoting their own world-view and the domination of women.
Created as man’s co-equal, the suppression of woman-kind is an abomination before God. Throughout the Law, the Prophets, the Other Writings, and synonymous with Scripture, the Love, as we refer to the teachings of Jesus, we refer to all these Scriptural and Biblical teachings about God’s Divine Balance of masculine and feminine energy as “Feminine-ism“. So much so that Jesus’ ministry is a testament to God’s Divine Feminine aspect, co-equality and balance. As Jesus says:
“I say to you very truly where ever this gospel will be taught throughout the whole world it will also include what this woman has done – it will be told as a memorial of her.” (Page 283.)
Love & Light,
Miguel
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This weblog, our pamphlets, study guides and other materials are inspired by Miguel’s book, The Word 2.0, a new biography of Jesus of Nazareth in his own words, based upon a single, unified timeline.
Find us at Amazon.com or our website: www.whatifjesuswasawoman.com
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God is undifferentiated masculine and feminine energy in perfect balance, whole, complete, unified, and co-equal. God is neither male nor female, and yet both – inseparable! And as a reflection of God’s Divine Balance, God made each of us manifest as male and female, man and woman, in God’s perfect likeness! Truly a state of grace.
How Adam’s actions brought about the fall from this state of grace is something we will discuss elsewhere. Suffice it to say that long before Jesus was born, men and women were already out of balance. In the more immediate sense of events which took place in Israel before Jesus was born, I found the Seleucid Greek invasion critically important because of the belief system we call “Hellenism” the Greeks forced on the children of Israel at that time.
It may not be especially well known today but the Seleucid Greeks from Syria outlawed our One True God! They forbade the worship of God under the penalty of death. Their King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Antíochos D’ ho Epiphanḗs, “God Manifest”), believing he was god, decreed the people would have no other god before him.
Coin depicting King Antiochus IV: “Image of (G)od; bearer of victory”
Hellenism did cause divisions among the people though. On one hand identifying with the Greek empire and culture could enrich certain elite Israelites, but on the other hand their man-worship violated God’s Law. This divided not only those who were “Hellenists”, their supporters and adherents, from those who were “Traditionalists“, but also, apparently, men from women. Why? Because it is also in the nature of Hellenism that women be subordinate to men.
But our One True God was definitely not a Hellenist, right? Given that, Jesus was not a Hellenist – quite the opposite. We might characterize Jesus’ ministry as anti-Hellenist – teaching men in particular about the Divine Balance of God’s Feminine and Masculine aspects, specifically “Feminine-ism“. I briefly outline some basic principles of Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry, as they are revealed in “The Word 2.0”:
1. Jesus was a “Traditional” Hebrew-Jewish teacher and Rabbi – to say the very least!
2. Jesus was not a “Hellenist” in any sense of our understanding the word.
3. Jesus espoused and promoted that our One True God – the God of Israel, is a perfect co-equal balance of both masculine and feminine, as is reflected in all Creation.
4. Jesus said that we must love the Lord our God first and foremost, and then love one another as we love ourselves.
5. Jesus taught that love, beginning with God’s “Ruach HaKodesh” – the Breath of Life and Holy Spirit, as aspects of God’s Divine Feminine, is the only way that men can experience the Kingdom of God.
6. Jesus rejected the kind of egocentric, selfish, self-centered thinking and behavior of men that characterizes “Hellenism”.
We will discuss each of these points in much greater detail as we continue, and, look for my study guides they will soon also be available!
