I’ll pray for you.
I often wondered about the “I am of Jesus” faction... didn’t they have the right chap? What could be the matter with that?
NOW I think I understand what was going on there.
Our dear editor is to all appearances still viewing Jesus “according to the flesh.” Which Paul said he once did, but no longer. That is to be able to brag of a certain degree of supposed allegiance, and anyone who seems to fall short of that HAS to be among the damned. Of course that game works only till someone who has even a better fleshly imitation of Christianity comes along. Then we have a cat fight. And heaven laughs at the presumption of both of them.
And anyhow... the gospels themselves confess that they are sharply limited accounts. If someone could have tagged along with and diaried the Christ in all his earthly moments as Jesus, we’d have a much more detailed picture... but what’s the point? We don’t have a philosopher here to obey in the flesh. What’s already there is enough of a temptation to try to obey in the flesh. The bible gives us enough to get the holy fire going and keep it tended.
Thank You!
I shall return the favor.