I was just thinking how people have incredibly silly ideas about what it means to be God. Before Jesus, I would actually understand it \u2013 they would expect God\u2019s appearance in this world to be something of supernatural majesty, authority and power, where God appears and everybody drops on their collective arse in fear and obedience. If God appears in human form, they would still expect him to be superhuman, and all the laws of the world to obey him.<\/p>\n
But Jesus showed something different. God needed to be born in a barn among the farm animals because there was no room for his parents at the inn. There were persistent questions about his godhood, to the point where the religious authorities decided to have him crucified for blasphemy.<\/p>\n
Just think about it. Having someone executed for blasphemy means that for some people it was \u201cobvious\u201d that it\u2019s a matter of an ordinary human \u201cpretending to be a God\u201d. This means that all the miracles attributed to Jesus were either generally unknown, or questionable, or apocryphal. It wasn\u2019t obvious, in a sense that Jesus looked the way he\u2019s historically been painted, with light and authority of God radiating from him, making it obvious he\u2019s a person of God.<\/p>\n
If you read the gospels carefully, you\u2019ll understand that he was often starving, and living in abject poverty. He was constantly put into question. He was persecuted. Multiple attempts against his life were made. Does that sound like someone who was \u201cobviously\u201d God? To me, it seems that only the most spiritually intuitive people figured out enough to guess right, but it was far from obvious. Only his resurrection answered this question finally and decisively.<\/p>\n
Apparently, people haven\u2019t learned from this, and they still have the assumption that if God were to be born as a human, he\u2019s be a perfect human with superpowers, everything he\u2019s do would succeed, all the resources, energies and laws of the world would serve him and it would be an obvious thing.<\/p>\n
No, it would not. Those expectations got Jesus crucified. Those exact expectations are why that Lama poisoned Milarepa \u2013 if he\u2019s truly enlightened, I won\u2019t be able to harm him, and if he\u2019s not, I will discredit a fraud. The crucial wrong expectation is that God rules this world, and being one with God basically makes you omnipotent here. But think about it \u2013 if Satan rules here, being God merely makes you a target of great hatred from the one who rules this place, and decides who gets the resources, and who gets crucified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was just thinking how people have incredibly silly ideas about what it means to be God. Before Jesus, I would actually understand it \u2013 they would expect God\u2019s appearance in this world to be something of supernatural majesty, authority … Continue reading