God, the Father
God, the Son
God, the Holy Spirit
God, the father, is the monotheistic God of the Jews. This is the Creator God. This is the God that Moses met at the Burning Bush. The Persian Zoroastrian God was the God of Fire. When Moses asked the Burning Bush who he was, the bush was talking to him. The answers was I am Yahweh.
Yahweh was never to be spoken so the name of God was kept only as constanents. YHWH. This was translated to ‘JEHOVAH” by William Tyndale and in the King James Bible. God was called Adonai or “Lord” by the Jews as well. So the vowels from the name Adonai were placed in YHWH to create the name Jehovah.
YHWEH is translated today to be Yahweh or Yahveh, meaning, “I am , that is who I am.” God the father, is existence itself.
Jesus called god “Eloi” in the most famous line in the suffering on the cross, “Eloi, Eloi lama sbachtani?” “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’
I liked to call God, My Lord.
Jesus also called God, ABBA. ABBA is a child’s name of father, the diminutive, like Papa, or Daddy. Apparently this ‘offended’ the religious of his day as God was perceived as austere and ruling. The hierarchies were rigid in the militaristic societies of conquer or be conquered.
Jesus, the son is the life story of the Christian New Testament of the Holy Bible. Jesus, of the line of King David of the Jews, was prophecized in Isaiah, the prophet of the Old Testament. He was born of Mary. Herod, the King of the Jews, who at the time were under the dominion of the Roman Emperor as a conquered country of the Rome Empire, with Pontius Pilate as the regional administrator, a superstitious tyrant, who’d chop off the head of a prophet to please his daughter so she’d have sex with him, declared that the children under two in the land should be killed. .
Jesus was born in the barn, a manger, in Bethlehem. I’ve visitted there and felt the presence of the holy and sacred like millions of others who have pilgrimaged to Israel before me. The place and the people I met there were glowing as was I with the presence and awareness of the Godly. Suffice it to say, the hair on my neck stood up, my heart expanded and my chest felt like it would explode as my whole being was suffused in a depth of love. Those pilgrims I joined there sang a hymn together in a half dozen different languages and felt as family, like we were one and were ever joined in this moment of worship and presence.
Jesus’s earthly father Joseph, took Mary and Jesus to Egypt to escape Herod’s decree.
When they returned there is an interesting story of teacher as a child teaching the wisest men of his day, his knowledge of God, reality and scripture, being so ahead of his age.
John the Baptist whose head Herod would later take and display, would baptise followers in the Jordan. Jesus was baptised by him but a dove descended from heaven and the words’ This is my son’ came from the skies.
Jesus would gather his disciples, starting with Peter, the fisherman. There were 12 disciples. Jesus would teach and perform miracles. The miracles were recorded as was his story in the 4 gospels of the Holy Bible. Gospel means good news.
The good news was that there was life after death and all men, not just the priests, could know ‘life eternal’ if they believe in Jesus. Jesus was called , Jesus, the Christ, or Jesus the Messiah. The Messiah was a Jewish prophecy of the son of God coming to earth to free the people. The Jews believe that this son of God would be a warrior. Jesus said that his Kingdom was the Kingdom of Heaven. Asked about money, he showed that Caesar’s face was on the coin and said ‘give unto Caesar, Caesar’s due’. It has ever been said that he who has only money is a very poor man indeed.
Jesus taught love. He said that all scripture could be summed up as “Love God and Love thy neighbour as yourself.” He taught many parables, teaching stories that required thought to understand the true meaning. He was a story teller and through stories helped his listeners understand the Kingdom of Heaven, God, and man’s relationship to God.
Jesus was a healer and healed the sick. He taught peace and love. He loved children. He felt all men and women could return to God regardless of where their lives before had lead them. He raised the dead.
The Priests of the Day were threatened by him for his was highly critical of the administration of the church (synagogues) of the day and the leading citizens of the community.
The leaders of the Jewish community arrested him and took him to Pontius Pilate so that he could be killed. Pontius Pilate the Roman representative had the power to declare death as punishment. He declared that Jesus would be crucified.
So Jesus, a true innoscent, except that there is no ‘freedom of speech’ in tyrannies’ and ‘censorship’ is the work of the wicked and teaching love and peace and that there is life after death and that there is a God who loves each and every one of us is the greatest rebellious teaching of all time , was crucified on the cross at Golgotha.
His mother, Mary and John witnessed it, being there at the cross.
He rose from the grave and this was witnessed by his close disciples and hundreds of others. He appeared to them and ST. Thomas touched the wounds on his hands where the spikes had gone through to nail him to the cross. He subsequently ascended into Heaven.
He said that he would send the “Holy Spirit” to comfort his followers. Pentecost was the day when the Holy Spirit descended on the gathering of disciples after the crucifixion. They spoke in tongues and miracles occured. The Holy Spirit was like flames.
This small group of followers then went forth and ‘spread the good news’ establishing churches all over the known world of the day. The ‘good news of Jesus’ spread along the water ways to Spain, France and Ireland, to Rome and Greece and Constantinople/Istanbul, and to Syria and India and to Ethiopia. In a mere hundred years the good news of Jesus, loving God, love and life after death spread throughout civilization.
By 300 years it became the Roman Catholic Church, the state religion of the greatest Roman Empire today.
Today Billions of Christians have testified to the experience of knowing Jesus. Christians continue to be the most persecuted people in the world. In Canada and the United States 70% or more, millions upon millions, identify as Christian. There are Catholic Christians, Orthodox Christians, Protestant Christians, liberal, conservative and evangelical Christians. All share the Love of God and Love of Jesus and love the Holy Bible, the teaching of the faith and history of Christianity.
God, the father
God, the son,
God, the Holy Spirit.
In the Gospel of John, it begins,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
It always amuses me when non scientists think scientists don’t believe in God or Jesus. Most scientists thought the ages have considered themselves Godly man. The Big Bang to anyone who has the capacity for abstraction and metaphor a scientists way of saying ‘the word’. Indeed ‘string theory’ is all about harmonics and vibration and sound, or electromagnetic resonance.
“Holy Spirit, Come” was the prayer of my teacher.
My Sweet Lord.
Hallelujah.
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