January 23, 2016
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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Post #29
We always open with the Shema – “Hear O Israel…” because of its importance. Jesus spoke of it twice, the first time saying the Shema is “the first – of all the commandments (mitzvahs)” – the most important (Pages 305 – 306.). It reveals so much about his standing against the Hellenists as a Traditionalist too. Why? Consider just these perspectives:
- From Deuteronomy 6:4-5 in the Law – the Torah, it is perhaps our One True God’s most sacred utterance. Jesus is quoting God in Deuteronomy!
- As a mitzvah in the Law, it actually commands us to love!
- It explains how we are to love, not just that we should.
- As a mitzvah, we should want to love God in all possible ways, and put nothing else before God.
- As a mitzvah-commandment in the Law addressing the Love, it truly reflects Divine Balance.
- Hellenist’s would have found this utterance particularly offensive because it places our One True God before their “man-worship”.
- Jesus followed this quote by adding from Leviticus 19:18b, “And the second is like it, namely this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as your-self.’” (Page 306.) Again Jesus quotes God to putting the Hellenists and Pharisees in their place.
But as a statement of God’s Love – the Love in the Law, don’t you feel Jesus seems to be juxtaposing the Shema to Greek Hellenist “man-worship” for another reason? He has something else important to communicate – that is teach us? Something about the nature of relationships between men and women perhaps? Using God’s model of Divine Balance as opposed to male worship and self-love under Hellenism?
Consider that when Jesus quotes God to remind us we are to Love God with all our “heart… soul… mind… and strength”, it is that perfect blend of masculine and feminine traits in one mitzvah. And follows that immediately with, “…love your neighbor as yourself“, is this not God’s blueprint as it were for how men and women are to love each other? To become one? Yes, there is effort involved here, and sacrifices. A lifetime of it. Co-creating a home, children, a community – life. All of which flows through the feminine, the female – the woman, mother, wife, daughter, sister.
Was does Hellenism have to offer? The man is the boss, the head-of-household, and the woman complies with his every whim – anticipating them as needs be. No effort, no love, no life. Ever wonder what children of such marriages are like? Hellenism legitimizes men’s egoic, selfish self-will, I-am-god worldview. Indeed enables it.
The two occasions when Jesus spoke of the Shema can be seen in context then as a general commentary on men’s relationships. With God, with other men, but most importantly with women. And this is key because God’s plan for us involves the masculine and feminine aspects becoming one and God is One.
Again, we refer to Jesus’ teachings about God’s Divine Balance of masculine and feminine energy as “Feminine-ism“.
Shabatt Shalom!
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!
