Post #36
Dear Readers,
Is the system ‘rigged’ as some people claim? Which system? What rigging? How? By who? Right? Just some amorphous conspiracy? Well one thing we can be sure of it is that there is nothing really new under Heaven!
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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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Much has been said about how “the system is rigged”, without much in the way of specifics. Not surprisingly, when we look beyond the hyperbole, it is fairly obvious to even the casual observer the “system” is rigged! Rigged by men, for men. The difference is that up to now women in particular have just been afraid to hold men accountable for what they do. Jesus was not so shy, however.
Even before the days of Hellenism, before Pharisees, even before Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the famous words etched on stone tablets, God was critical of men because of their lust, their greed, their covetousness. Men’s fragile egos seemed to compel them to try and control women in particular, but all things feminine really. And there was little men wouldn’t do to exercise control including lie, cheat and steal. Our reading of the story of Noah (pages 28 – 29) – which we see as an attempt by God to cleanse the Earth of men’s influence highlights God’s own words that the world men invented is corrupt. Consider this passage wherein Jesus illuminates several aspects of the Hellenist-Pharisee worldview – how men use interpretations of the Law to sustain inequality. We find again and again men’s ego and self-will motivating factors:
“The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat… However do not follow after their example. They do not do what they themselves say.
“They bind heavy burdens too grievous to be carried, and then lay them on other men’s shoulders. But they themselves will not even touch those burdens with one of their fingers.
“All their works they do just for show – to be seen by other men.” (Page 309.)
“Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees – hypocrites! You devour widow’s houses and for a pretense make long prayers.” (Page 310.)
While the Earth herself maintains a natural Divine Balance as best she can, we look around the world of men today and see little has changed since Noah’s own sons built the Tower of Babel. Given that men invented this place we call ‘the world’, it is not in the least be surprising they benefit from it. It is rigged by design. It is rigged to favor the masculine, the male, men, in every conceivable way. On the very most base of levels, men can intimidate, harass, threaten, beat, rape, and murder women virtually without consequence.
On grander more lofty levels, men control decision making, what gets made, where and by whom including issues of pay, terms of employment, health, safety, medical coverage, on and on. A quick survey of most any institution men invented reflects the same masculine-dominant hierarchy designed to keep men in power through control. One can easily see these institutions were seemingly invented and evolved by men for exactly this purpose.
For well over a thousand years women been afraid to call men out on this. Well, yeah, and in many places they still dare not even so much as look up. Men are aggressive, violent, and they love their guns. And in part because most every woman shares a household with a man who shares the same belief in and commitment to her inferiority. Be he her husband, her boyfriend or whatever, he represents men everywhere, and will hold her down any way he can. He is her boss and she better damn well do as he says!
Which brings us back to Greek Hellenism. Men today quote men of the Biblical era unaware that much of the so-called ‘New Testament’ has little to do with what Jesus taught. Jesus ministered to men about the virtues of unity, harmony, oneness – Divine Feminine-ism as we call it. Sadly his message seemingly got lost, or was purposely obscured by the very same Greek and Hebrew Hellenists Jesus criticized! Their “man-worship” set the stage for the continuing domination by men of all things feminine – the opposite of what Jesus taught.
Jesus either introduces us to or comes into contact with many different men. Indeed, many different kinds of men. Wealthy men, middle managers, laborers, professionals, lawyers, religious leaders, and more. Remarkably, yes, many have very similar traits and behave in the same almost predictable ways suggesting men are more the same than they are different. And yes, Jesus was critical of most of them, which we will discuss later, but not just those who were Pharisee-Hellenists. By contrast however, some we might never suspect actually demonstrate the values of Spirit he teaches.
Peace & Equality
Miguel
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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! Consider the Sh’ma (Shema):
“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.
As a Traditionalist Rabbi opposed to Hellenism, Jesus’ teachings are drawn entirely from the Law, the Hebrew-Jewish Scripture and the Traditionalist doctrine of his day. To which he chooses to specifically emphasize God’s Divine Balance – the absolute co-equality, balance, unity, harmony and Oneness of God’s masculine and feminine aspects.
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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 that reveals important new details about his life and ministry! For example that Jesus was not a Hellenist!
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.
Typical Hellenist art depicts the naked male-form as the object of worship – godly.
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!
