Friday, August 06, 2004

Jesus Promises The Counselor:

Jesus Promises The Counselor:
Jesus: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor (like Jesus was a counselor, a person who came), to be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive (if the great majority of people are good and therefore truthful they would have received truth or perhaps this is a world of falsity where people are all acting and being poisonously nice, not good to each other), because it (the world or the great majority) neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you.
"These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit (The counselor is the Holy Spirit), whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things (he will cover a broad range of subjects), and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you (if the church has brought you remembrance of what Jesus taught, it would be redundant).
But when the Counselor comes (he will not come immediately), whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father (Jesus said he came from the Father, just as he says the counselor comes from the Father. Jesus said he was the Son of man, surely not because men are his father but there may be another son who is not of man), he will bear witness to me; and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.
But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (The counselor must bring you advantage as no man has done)
And when he comes, he will convince the world (if the counselor was a voice in the minds of Christians, how can he convince the world instead of just Christians?) concerning sin and righteousness (goodness) and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. (When the counselor comes, it will be time for mankind to be judged)
"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. (Perhaps a consciousness change that the counselor will initiate would be enabling) When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak (if the counselor knows everything, he will not need to hear and then speak) and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you (if the church and Christians have glorified Jesus, there would be no need for a counselor to do so. If What the counselor speaks is similar to the Church, there would be no need for a counselor to speak). All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.


Why Blasphemy Against The Spirit Will Not Be Forgiven:
Jesus: Therefore I tell you, every (not some) sin and blasphemy will (not may) be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against (blasphemes) the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against (blasphemes) the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Blasphemy is profane talk or slander (a malicious or false statement about a person). It is treating what is sacred with irreverence or disregard. It is to violate or corrupt what is entitled to respect. As the Buddha said, the noble ones are worthy of respect, worthy of gifts.
Hence blasphemy is sin performed through speech or thought or attitude against what is sacred.
You can only speak against or blaspheme something or somebody you can perceive, somebody who speaks and is a target. You cannot blaspheme against somebody you do not know or you cannot perceive or did not say or do anything. Hence the Holy Spirit must be someone like Jesus who is visible, who speaks and is a target.
Jesus said the counselor is the Holy Spirit and hence the Spirit is not airy fairy but a person or being who will come (whom the Father will send in my name and he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you).
If what the counselor says is essentially the same as what Jesus said, then it would make no sense or reflect whimsicalness to say that whoever says a word against (blasphemes) the Son of man will be forgiven but not those who speak against (blasphemes) the Holy Spirit. If what the Holy Spirit says is sufficiently distinct from what Jesus said then the statement is understandable.
As Jesus said, "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak.
This indicates that what the Holy Spirit will say that people may speak against are the many things Jesus did not say because you could not bear it then. Jesus said the counselor will take what is his and declare it to you. He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that Jesus said to you. He will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.
People did not or were unable to comprehend fully what Jesus said, they were perhaps living under constraints and they will be forgiven if they said a word against him but if the counselor takes what is Jesus’ and declares it to you, if you speak against the truth after it has been plainly explained to you, then you will not or cannot be forgiven. If what he said should convince the world regarding sin, righteousness and judgment and you are not convinced or refuse to be convinced, you are speaking against him and will not be forgiven. If the counselor brings you advantage and you speak against him, then you may be guilty of being ungrateful and will not be forgiven.
(Suppose people everywhere in this world are in truth not genuine as they delude themselves but they all actors who forcefully, emotionally go against themselves all the time in a controlled manner to exaggerate and fake in the name of deceiving, pleasing, impressing, intimidating, dominating others, for example they smile, stretch their syllables and gesture effusively, falsely to be nice not good, in the process creating insoluble stress leading to restlessness, mad & violent impulses and depression that they can only restrain never eliminate, will exacerbate with time, is harmful to themselves and others. You disagree and speak against what is declared to you. You defiantly scoff and insist you are not acting but being yourself, you are benefiting yourself and your recipients who only act emphatically they are grateful not truly grateful to you for your acting and niceness. Should you or can you be forgiven if you indeed act and harm others?)
If this world is blamelessly scientific, self existent (instead of a creation that can be uncreated), there is nothing intrinsically good or evil, there is no God (The Great Brahma) or Satan (Mara), good is not ascendant but equal or less when compared to evil, good is suffering and evil can be happy & fulfilling, then blasphemy cannot and does not exist.
It is because it is the (true) nature of existence that this world is never blameless but entirely blameworthy (this is a world of sin), all beings here exist not blamelessly but dependant on and at the expense of the death and suffering of others (that they refuse to accept), beings are responsible for each others’ woes and death, they torment each other to death either directly or with sugar laced poison called bittersweet (emotional) ‘love’, there is good and bad, right and wrong, sin is always tormenting, leads to greater torment later and then even hell, the animal or ghost worlds but there is a way out, objective truth exists and it is possible to live in truth that there is blasphemy.
Truth exists but is more exotic, more rarely seen than people think (the Buddha said the truth is hard to see); what ordinary people call truth is fabricated or acted truth. Truth is never suffering, has power over falsehood and is the only way out of suffering.
BLASPHEMY IS SPOKEN AND DIRECTED AGAINST GOOD, TRUTH, GOD AND WHAT HE STANDS FOR. TO PERSECUTE FELLOW SINNERS IS ITSELF SINFUL BUT TO PERSECUTE TRUTH AND THE BLAMELESS IS OUTRAGEOUS AND BLASPHEMOUS.
Sin is the breaking of a divine or moral law. Sin can either be spoken or by bodily deed. You can lie with words or you can lie with your body (eg lie with your face by smiling to say you like someone when you dislike him, cross your leg towards someone to say you like him when you don’t).
Telling lies, stealing, killing, covetousness, jealousy, envy, illicit sex, drinking, pride, anger, foolishness, ill will, malice (wish to harm others, not necessarily kill), hypocrisy, presumption, gossip, idle chatter are all forms of sinful conduct with body or speech.
SIN CAN EITHER BE VERBAL OR BODILY DEEDS DIRECTED AT FELLOW SINNERS. IT IS ALWAYS FORCEFUL, EMOTIONAL AND DISTURBS THE FOOLISH MIND THAT CHOOSES TO DISREGARD IT IN FAVOR OF SENSUAL GRATIFICATION, DISTURBS THE MIND AFTERWARDS AND HARMS SELF AND OTHER.
The Holy Spirit & The Son of Man:
Jesus said the counselor or Holy Spirit comes from the Father and refers to him in masculine.
The Holy Trinity comprises the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Hence, the Holy Spirit and The Son may be the sons of the Powerful One that the Buddha speaks of.
The Buddha in one sutta mentions the Powerful One has two sons (not daughters) thus:
Subrahma and Paramatta Brahma,
together with sons of the Powerful One,
Sanankumara and Tissa:
They too have come to the forest meeting.
Great Brahma (the Father), who stands over 1,000 Brahma worlds,
who arose there spontaneously, effulgent:
Prestigious is he, with a terrifying body.
And ten brahma sovereigns, each the lord of his own realm --
and in their midst has come
Harita Brahma surrounded by his retinue."
Jesus is Isa in Arabic and Yishua in Aramaic, hence Tissa may be Jesus.

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