What Myth?

[rowens]

The Word is what's important. This is the Word of God, the Jewish God. This God goes around making statements along the lines of "This is how it should be..." And he recognizes other gods and creation myths, only to say, pretty much, "No, that's not true, this is true..." He did this twice, if you're a Christian. The Word of God is the world of the Bible. It's a reflection of our world. The people in the Bible lived by the scientific laws of that world. But that world, that Word, was revised when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Christ tried to make the Word more down to earth, the Holy Spirit is the link between God's flesh and the world's flesh: he tried to transcend the first book. But God being God, he experienced human life and left us the Gospel of a perfectionist. So everything appears to go to shit for nonchristians in Revelations. But the Revelations of John, to be precise; so that Apocalypse is simply relevant to John and his people, along the lines of Jesus' parables but more vivid. The telling lines are these: "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."---To bring about the Kingdom of Heaven, as Jesus alludes to, we have to follow his rules. But listening to Jesus' actions and words and those of others, including Paul's and other Christian reformers, we see how the world changes and needs to be revised. Christ leaves us not with the Old Testament's commandments, but with the living Spirit. The spirit of the message, not the corpse. We're not to follow a dead man through a dead world. But the living spirit, through the living, changing world.