Quote from saxon:
My sense of all this is that Jesus believed that the fulfillment of the messianic prophecies would not take place as they were literally written about in the scriptures, but would unfold in a way that would reveal a deeper glory of God than had previously been imagined.
("New Covenant"..."New Wine"...basically a radical re-interpretation of the Law and the Prophets).
But that's my christian perspective. I can certainly see how a jew who felt that the scriptures were "written in stone" would have a problem with Jesus as messiah.
Am I not radically re-interpreting "the Law and the Prophets"?
Christ is the end of the "law" unto righteousness to them that believe. "The law" is a reference to the *law of separation* which was *established* as the *foundation of the world*. This law is a lie, and so it ends with the truth. While it lies, however, everything appears to be seperate, separated, different and unique. This allows a phenomenon of *specialhood*, otherwise unknown within the Kingdom of God, which operates under the Law of One. The Law of One can never be broken, and never has. The law of separation has also never been broken. But it will pass away as it is replaced by what was before it: the Law of One. That is the Law of Love, and that is also Christ.
Upon a foundation of lies, the death of truth is scripted, from "the beginning" of the life of the lie. The life of the lie is the story of the death of the truth. This is the true "old testament". It accurately "predicts" the crucifixion of the Son of God because that is all that it predicts, in a thousand and one different ways.
In this way, everyone that comes to the world fulfills "the law" and "the prophets". Jesus fulfilled "the law" and "the prophets". Likewise, all who are crucified in 1001 different ways have fulfilled the law of separation, and all that is prescripted for the separated.
The law of separation is an agreement, to secretly give as asked.
So, it is an expression of love.
The law of oneness is an agreement also. It is an open agreement to give as asked.
In this agreement, truth is given and recieved.
In the old agreement, confusion is sown and reaped.
The new agreement is an agreement to love overtly, not covertly.
Overt love does not ask to be hurt or harmed.
This is accomplished by telling the truth.
The truth is, there is no such thing as guilt.
Guilt is a lie since the beginning.
If no guilt, no more self-sabatoge.
The "old testament" is the story of self-sabotage...cruelty, conflict.
The "new testament" is about Self acceptance...mercy, peace.
Christ!