"And chant grew into human flesh through the sacrifice."
From Meditations Through the Rig Veda by Antonio T. de Nicolas, Chapter: the hymn and the sacrifice, page 62
Yes. It's that old. It's in our oldest religious text and comes from a time before there was writing.
What was chanted grew into human flesh through the self-sacrifice.
So the Word became flesh; and He came to dwell among us. (and he made the self-sacrifice / rf)
John 1:14
And they, teachers of lies and SEERS of falsehood,
have schemed against me a devilish scheme,
to exchange the LAW ENGRAVED ON MY HEART by Thee,
for the smooth things (which they speak) to Thy people.
and they withhold from the thirsty the drink of Knowledge,
and assuage their thirst with vinegar...
DSS Thanksgiving Hymn # 12
This self-sacrifice, this circumcision, writing, engraving of the Law on the heart, this setting of God’s Law in your understanding, in your mind, and on the tablet of your memory, is the original pastoral theology of the book of Genesis and the amazing self-discipline to which Jesus Christ “Returned.”
Jesus' argument with the tannaim (developing rabbinical Judaism) was over the retirement of Jewish "seers" who memorized and internalized the Torah, a group of them studied at Qumran and sang Thanksgiving Hymn #12. Jesus was a "seer." His life and death were his demonstrated resistance to this change from "seers" who memorized and internalized the Torah to "portable Torah scrolls" permitting many lesser qualified men to become tannaim / rabbis because there were only a few who had completed the many years of training and self-sacrifice to internalize the Torah.
John's gospel is not anti-Semitic. He is always referring to the word become flesh, which is logically superior to the written Torah, because it is a living Torah = the Word became flesh and dwell amongst us.
It was a sectarian conflict within Judaism over the role of the "seers" in the face of new technology. By definition, not anti-Semitism.
When the letter to the Hebrews compares Jesus favorably to the written Torah, the author is not denigrating the written Torah, he is saying that the circumcision of the heart / The LAW ENGRAVED ON YOUR HEART is "completely profitable." logion 53 GofT
I became firmly convinced of this when reading that Jesus (the person) AND Melchizedek (Jesus' role) were BOTH deprecated in the Talmud.
Jesus in the Talmud by Peter Schafer (the person)
Steven M. Donnelly, The Divine Rites and Rejection of the Priest-King: Melchizedek on the Margins of Early Jewish and Christian
Interpretation, A thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2014, Dept. of Comparative Religion (the role)
"And chant grew into human flesh through the sacrifice."
From Meditations Through the Rig Veda by Antonio T. de Nicolas, Chapter: the hymn and the sacrifice, page 62
Yes. It's that old. It's in our oldest religious text and comes from a time before there was writing.
What was chanted grew into human flesh through the self-sacrifice.
So the Word became flesh; and He came to dwell among us. (and he made the self-sacrifice / rf)
John 1:14
And they, teachers of lies and SEERS of falsehood,
have schemed against me a devilish scheme,
to exchange the LAW ENGRAVED ON MY HEART by Thee,
for the smooth things (which they speak) to Thy people.
and they withhold from the thirsty the drink of Knowledge,
and assuage their thirst with vinegar...
DSS Thanksgiving Hymn # 12
This self-sacrifice, this circumcision, writing, engraving of the Law on the heart, this setting of God’s Law in your understanding, in your mind, and on the tablet of your memory, is the original pastoral theology of the book of Genesis and the amazing self-discipline to which Jesus Christ “Returned.”
Jesus' argument with the tannaim (developing rabbinical Judaism) was over the retirement of Jewish "seers" who memorized and internalized the Torah, a group of them studied at Qumran and sang Thanksgiving Hymn #12. Jesus was a "seer." His life and death were his demonstrated resistance to this change from "seers" who memorized and internalized the Torah to "portable Torah scrolls" permitting many lesser qualified men to become tannaim / rabbis because there were only a few who had completed the many years of training and self-sacrifice to internalize the Torah.
John's gospel is not anti-Semitic. He is always referring to the word become flesh, which is logically superior to the written Torah, because it is a living Torah = the Word became flesh and dwell amongst us.
It was a sectarian conflict within Judaism over the role of the "seers" in the face of new technology. By definition, not anti-Semitism.
When the letter to the Hebrews compares Jesus favorably to the written Torah, the author is not denigrating the written Torah, he is saying that the circumcision of the heart / The LAW ENGRAVED ON YOUR HEART is "completely profitable." logion 53 GofT
I became firmly convinced of this when reading that Jesus (the person) AND Melchizedek (Jesus' role) were BOTH deprecated in the Talmud.
Jesus in the Talmud by Peter Schafer (the person)
Steven M. Donnelly, The Divine Rites and Rejection of the Priest-King: Melchizedek on the Margins of Early Jewish and Christian
Interpretation, A thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2014, Dept. of Comparative Religion (the role)