100% Human
Whether or not you believe it, you've probably heard about Jesus being fully man, and fully God. Also that he was perfect and sinless.
When we imagine a man like this, I think a lot of us tend to see him as a little bit dull. Sure, he healed people, and drew huge crowds and walked on water and shocked the establishment and drove the crooks out of the temple with a home-made whip. But perfect??? How drab.
I imagine we think this way because we tend to see our foibles, our idiosyncrasies, and, yes, our sins, as the source of our colorfulness. We laugh at each other's stumbles, and in our better moments, we laugh at our own. So how could there be anything funny or interesting about the perfect man?
It's definitely a good thing to celebrate our differences, and come to terms with our faults. But if we take one glance at the word "holiness" and fall asleep, we've probably got some re-orientating to do. Yes! I'll re-orientate myself to holiness! But then I look at all the people who seem obsessed with the H word, and decide I'm not interested in becoming a fellow borg... a mindless conformist, stripped of my individuality and color.
I believe Jesus, in addition to being fully God, was the most human human who ever lived. He was, truly, 100% human. By comparison, I'd say I've never topped 40%, if that. All the things that people are supposed to be, he was (and is.)
So ok, we've established that we're supposed to be "Christ-like". So what? So now we have to break out of that mind-prison that tells us that the result of a whole kingdom of people who are very much like their king, is monotony.
Did Jesus have a personality? Yes. Did he have a unique individuality and creativity? Yes. Otherwise he would have been less than human. Is he calling us to adopt those traits of his, consequently surrendering our own individualities? NO.
To follow Christ, to be found in him, and to become like him, is to simultaneously become your best self--the self that God made you to be. Rather than a church full of a combination of conformists and rebels, I think God envisions a stunningly vibrant and diverse body of fascinating individuals, all bound together for a common purpose.
Because it is not our faults that make us who we are, it is our gifts.
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I've often felt that God's purpose in Jesus was not to make us "gods", but to make us more fully human, like Adam, before the Great Fall. Not human, obviously, as in more fleshly--for flesh and bone are merely one part of what it means to be human--but human as in beings with righteous wills, the capacity to love God and others purely without selfish motive, living as we were designed to live.
Long before the book: “The Da Vinci Code” came out, I knew, through anointed prophecy, that Jesus was completely human and at the same time, he is our Messiah – the Savior of Mankind.
I knew, through anointed prophecy, that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene (actually Mary of Magdala - the town she came from) and they had children. I have known this for approximately 30 years.
Yes Jesus was the Christ and died for our sins and saved us forever, and yes he had sex with his wife Mary; though possibly they did not have a formal marriage ceremony – probably because of Jewish Law, but maybe not.
He was FULLY Man and FULLY the Son of God.
He was the new Adam, in the flesh; or more specifically, the reincarnation of God’s true Son: Adam.
Recall the story from Genesis? God said to Adam and Eve: “Be fruitful and multiply.” This involves “making love” or more specifically - having sex.
Some day, traditional Christians will completely accept this Truth.
The Truth is the Truth forever, and the Truth will set us Free. The Truth will set us Free from the lies and myths that the Catholic Church began and perpetuated. Unfortunately, the Protestant world continued some of those fairytales.
As JFK said:
The enemy of Truth is not always the lie, dishonest and deceitful. The greatest enemy of Truth is very often the myth ~ persuasive, persistent, and not true.
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Interesting side Notes and Thoughts:
1) The Knights Templar did, in fact, blackmail the Catholic Church with this information for approximately two centuries just as “The Da Vinci Code” reports. The Truth, about Jesus the Man, is hidden deep in Vatican Archives, locked away for centuries. Some of the documents remain. Some were destroyed.
Vatican Library and Archive Walls need to be torn down and exposed.
2) The Catholic Church needs to be torn apart and abolished forever because of their past and present sins against humanity --- the latest of which is the child molestation criminal activity the Priests have engaged in for decades upon decades. With few exceptions, we all know that the Priests are in no way “celibate”. They have all broken their vows in one way or another.
The “Holy See”, for the child molestation crime alone, coupled with the lies and myths they have perpetuated, warrants their immediate downfall.
4) Did you know that it is part of Canon Law that the church leaders can lie about criminal activity to protect the Church?
This is not only a travesty against the United States Justice System, they are breaking the law when they attempt to cover-up the crime of child molestation or any other crime.
5) Just as I have said for 31 years: The Catholic Church is the “Great Red Dragon” in Revelation 12: 3.
This was written in the year 2000 ~ originally written in 1976:
REVELATION TWELVE: THREE:
The Great Red Dragon is the Catholic Church. The Seven Heads represent seven worldwide Protestant Institutions that are of the most financially powerful and membership powerful. They are: 1) Baptist 2) Methodist 3) Lutheran 4) Presbyterian 5) Episcopal 6) Church of Christ 7) R L D S. The Seven Crowns on the Dragons seven heads are the leaders of these seven worldwide Protestant denominations. They will fight against the commencement of the Messianic Era and New Israel information (such as this) in a futile attempt to save and perpetuate their institutions.
The ten horns are world-renowned evangelical groups such as the 700 Club. There is only one Evangelical Leader in the world today that is anointed by God. Here I speak of Billy Graham. He has fulfilled his purpose of spreading the message of salvation and his time has passed. He has completed the work that God wanted him to do. His organization, however, is corrupted by worldly considerations, and he knows this. (Reverend Graham speaks of a future life in his recent book. He reveals that in his next reincarnation he will spread the message of Salvation to people of other worlds who have not heard about Christ.)
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In case you think this is all a digression from the topic of: “100% Human” it is not for the following reasons:
Unless we witness the downfall of the Catholic Church, starting with the Pope, we will never be free to know the truth of Jesus, who was 100% Human & our Redeemer.
Without the downfall of the ‘Holy See’ the ‘Body of Christ’ will not be re-unified as God has always willed it.
Therefore, it is mandatory that the Catholic Church goes down so that the ‘Body of Christ’ can rise up.
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