Some Anarchic Easter Musings

Not Peace, But a Sword

Some rather anarchic Easter musings: Off the top, I don’t consider myself just a Believer—rather I am a Knower, secure in the power of my souldeep faith and thrilled by the ever-burgeoning, undeniable plentitude of archeological sites and data confirming just about every major Biblical event—the Ark, Tower of Babel, the Red Sea parting and 40 years in the wilderness (to name but a few).

That said, the life, death and resurrection of Christ the Savior is, was and always shall be the single most critical event in human history. I love our Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit to an inexpressible degree and for the past very lucky 13 years my life has been completely transformed, going from a tempest of psychic tumult to a haven of joy and serenity.

THAT said, I also despise organized religion. Anything attributed to or associated with (even at the slightest tangential degree) the crafty, Luciferian criminal Roman emperor Constantine is what we scholarly theologians uniformly classify as "complete and utter bullshit."

Where Torah is the living direct word of Our Father, the Talmud is, in my joygoy opinion, grotesque, worldly trash that, like Roman policy, deliberately intended to set its followers in direct opposition to God. Not the best position to assume.

This conclusion is based on a single truth: both post-Roman Christianity and the Talmud have deliberately perverted observation of the Sabbath, the former with its pagan pleasing worship-on-Sunday switcheroo and the latter with a completely random, self-aggrandizing rabbinical aberrance of a dusk-to-dusk Sabbath. Your day starts at sundown? Dude, wtf?

These are indisputably disqualifying and have opened the door for a multitude of unspeakable religious transgressions, from the Inquisition to Gaza. For me, willfully disobeying the Fourth Commandment 52 times a year is all it takes.

Sabbath has been known from the gift of the Ten Commandments to Moses. #4: Sabbath is to be remembered and kept Holy at the dawn of every 7^th day, Saturday, and we go back to work after dawn of the first day of the week: Sunday. Read all about it here.

So, yeah, fuck those guys.

Moving on to the NT and my atheist friends: the ever popular school of “Christ is a myth” is reliant upon either a woefully generalized dismissal of any non-secular contemporary accounts (there are apostle related verifying documents penned within months of crucifixion—the ancient equivalent of a “we interrupt this program for breaking news” bulletin) or anally micromanaged demands for total documentation—birth record, a census, his trial transcripts, death decree etc.—and hotly trumpeted contradictions in the Gospels, or summary dismissal of subsequent non-secular references. Come to find out, there are no less than 18 of these, several even relating resurrection and far from the least of them being the Talmud’s very lurid passages on Christ’s life, death and and fate) but all are tossed in the hogwash bucket for having appeared “300 years after He lived.”

The biography of Alexander the Great appeared 400 years after he lived, is he, too, just a fairy tale? And, conversely, why don’t we have an arrest record and pardon issuance for Barrabas? The gruesome ends of the 12 Apostles—stoned to death, crucified, speared, sawed in half—and the myriad martyrs in the arena during Nero’s era brings that always annoying riposte: No one dies for a lie.

Christ’s documented historicity, in comparison to almost all of the era’s major figures, is unassailable. As Jeff Childers observed this morning “His existence as a historical figure is widely accepted as fact, and his crucifixion and resurrection are the most well-attested events in the ancient period. So well attested, in fact, that many secular historians prefer speculating about absurd possibilities like Jesus only looked dead but was just comatose rather than trying to deny it actually happened.”

Absurd, yes. Please do check out the widely proposed ‘swoon theory,’ you’ll love it. Or hippity hop down the Holy Blood Holy Grail/ Dan Brown clown trail—talk about fairy tales!

My latest fav-o-rite morsel of Scripture is Isaiah 8:13 “If you fear Him, you need fear nothing else.” For most of my life and until very recently I didn’t ‘get’ exactly what fear of God meant. To my understanding, it is simply fear of the breaking of his Law (which is why I keep Sabbath as best I can). Uphold the law and truly, you will have no worries. Not about money, health, the future, the past nor of death itself. I can’t wait to die (well, I really don’t mind waiting for another 30 or so years) and I hate this world:

“The one who loves his life [eventually] loses it [through death], but the one who hates his life in this world [and is concerned with pleasing God] will keep it for life eternal..” (John 2:25 [Amplified]).

Happy Resurrection Day!