Comments on: Losing Your Way (2)

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:33:56 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbiPDSxFgd8
Break on through to the Other side

Hi Jan,

This YouTube video doesn’t do justice to the emotional intensity of Jim Morrison

Made the scene week to week
Day to day hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side

M = Water (Mem)
DD = Doors
T = Cross
B = House

I saw the Doors in the 60′s at the Santa Monica auditorium as I recall
And JM electrified the house like no other, with the possible exception
Of Bob Dylan

By: Jan Carver

Jan Carver — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:28:08 +0000

WELL – WHERE IS THE LINK TO THE DOORS SONG – NEVER LISTENED TO THEM OR THEIR WORDS – THAT I RECALL…

By: Graham Vercueil

Graham Vercueil — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:29:46 +0000

Hi Skip, This issue has bothered me a whole lot and I am grateful for all the effort you are putting into shedding light on it. – Graham

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:55:09 +0000

“it cannot be used as doctrinal fodder.”

Ask and receive
Seek and find
Knock and the door opens wide before you

By: Skip Moen

Skip Moen — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:04:25 +0000

As we work our way through this very unusual text in the next 2 days, I will draw out some other implications. They are challenging, especially for those of us who have grown up in the Greek-saturated world of the Christianity.

By: Carol Mattice

Carol Mattice — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:17:17 +0000

Amen.. It may not be a LOUD amen but I do agree but not with the knowledgable background as you have Skip. I am very little in my degree here but I do see what you are saying and to build upon that truth will to me be acceptable in HIS EYES upon JESUS.

By: carl roberts

carl roberts — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:57:30 +0000

~ For my life is The Messiah, and if I shall die, it is gain for me ~ (Philippians 1.21)

Why would “to die” be considered “gain?”

and what is meant by “in this life only?”

~ and if in this life only we hope in The Messiah, so it is that we are more wretched than all people ~
(1 Corinthians 15.19)

and what is meant by..

~ in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began..? ~ (Titus 1.2)

and what is meant by..

~ Christ (The Messiah) in you, the hope of glory? ~ (Colossians 1.27)

~ What does the scripture say? ~ (Romans 4.3)

~ For the word of God (in you) is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart ~ (Hebrews 4.12)

There’s a sweet and blessed story
Of the Christ Who came from glory
Just to rescue me from sin and misery.

He in lovingkindness sought me,
And from and sin shame hath brought me.

Hallelujah! Jesus ransomed me.

Hallelujah, what a Savior,
Who can take a poor lost sinner,
Lift him from the miry clay and set him free!

I will ever tell the story,
Shouting, “Glory, glory, glory!”

Hallelujah! – Jesus ransomed me.

From the depth of sin and sadness
To the heights of joy and gladness

Jesus lifted me, in mercy full and free.

With His precious blood He bought me;
When I knew Him not, He sought me,

And in love divine He ransomed me.

Hallelujah, what a Savior,
Who can take a poor lost sinner,
Lift him from the miry clay and set him free!

I will ever tell the story,
Shouting, “Glory, glory, glory!”

Hallelujah! Jesus ransomed me.

From the throne of heav’nly glory,
O the sweet and blessed story,

Jesus came to lift the lost in sin and woe

Into liberty all glorious,
Trophies of His grace victorious,

Evermore – rejoicing here below.

Hallelujah, what a Savior,
Who can take a poor lost sinner,
Lift him from the miry clay and set him free!

I will ever tell the story,
Shouting, “Glory, glory, glory!”

Hallelujah! Jesus ransomed me.

By and by with joy increasing,
-And with gratitude unceasing,

Lifted up with Christ forevermore to be,

I will join the hosts there singing,
In the Anthem ever ringing,

To the King of Love, who ransomed me.

Hallelujah, what a Savior,
Who can take a poor lost sinner,
Lift him from the miry clay and set him free!

I will ever tell the story,
Shouting, “Glory, glory, glory!”

Hallelujah! – Jesus ransomed me.

~ to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved. ~
(Ephesians 1.6)

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:36:11 +0000

Thank you Rodney! Very clear explanation, you got at the heart of what I was trying to ask. Your explanation also coincides with Skip’s explanation about what it is to be a “human being”. Very fascinating.

By: Skip Moen

Skip Moen — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:00:32 +0000

Interestingly, Hengel has shown that rabbinic Judaism was influenced by Hellenism from about the 4th Century BCE. But the concept is NOT found in the Tanakh “unless you look for it” – as you so eloquently noted. I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that Catholicism was the creation of the rabbis, but it was certainly derived from Parmenides and Plato (with a bit of Aristotle’s syllogism thrown in).

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:00:14 +0000

Quoting Heschel, “to believe is to remember.”

Hmmm

Makes me think of our discussion the other day regarding Memory and the Heart

Remembering is a dynamic process, a kind of dialog with the Other within ourselves

My two favorite letters, besides the Scarlet A, are the Mem and the Da-leth

Mem = water = wisdom and the Da-leth = door; to get to the wisdom, we must open the door

My daughter and I were watching a Jim Carey movie about penguins tonight

And in reference to his father’s death, JC says “he broke on through to the other side”

I laughed and my daughter asked me why that was funny

My favorite song from the 60′s is by the Doors called Break on through to the Other side