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Phil Beaver
seeks to collaborate on the ineluctable truth. Ineluctable means: Not to be assailed, avoided, broken, changed,
escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, resisted, revoked, or
voided. Some people erroneously imagine limiting the ineluctable truth, for
example, trying to change it.
"Civic"
refers to citizens who collaborate for individual
happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or
society. Civic citizens neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from
anyone. Civic citizens are reliably responsible in connections and
transactions.
Consider
writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens
mutual appreciation: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows: The civic faction, We the People of
the United States, proffer & practice 6 public pursuits —- integrity,
justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility, “in order to” pursue
happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I
want to improve my interpretation by listening-to and considering other
citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787 text,
unless it is amended by the civic-people.
It seems the
Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one with status has challenged
whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this
independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states
deliberately managed by appreciative fellow citizens convinces me the preamble
is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the faction who
collaborate for statutory justice, We the People of the United States.
Every citizen
has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in
the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try
somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the
goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies
grandchildren to both born Americans and legal immigrants. Congressional
freedom of religion, which fellow citizens have no means to constrain,
oppresses freedom to develop integrity. This can be remedied by changing the
First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.
Selected theme from this month
Open mind and open heart
It’s not too late to discover Yeshua’s influence to the civic good.
Civic means reliable responsibility in human connections and transactions, in
order to mutually constrain the bad and aid the good on earth.
As we watch the year 2024 unfold, it seems that European style social democracy
is dominating the United State republic: the proffered rule of law managed by
the civic faction of We the People of the United States.
I voted for Donald Trump 4 times, and am prepared to vote for him
twice more, assuming he remains a viable candidate. If not, I will vote for the
next best option, perhaps the Republican nominee or maybe Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr. The Democrats seem to mimic European political hope.
Meanwhile, I work hard to pay the bills, broadly support my family,
neighbors and friends and maintain my physical and psychological health. I’ve
been doing that in self-interest for almost 7 decades. I always had an open
mind and discovered a couple years ago that I also have an open heart.
Unexpectedly, accepting the open heart prompted me to privately
alert a fellow citizen if I perceive they plan or initiate civic error. It isn’t
easy, yet most experiences have been delightful. Often, expressing my concern
leads to discovery that my perception was in error. Other times, the other person
appreciates my suggestion and makes use of it.
Recently, in one case, a substantial contract was completed rather
than terminated by the contractor. In 2 cases benefits to me were each near one
thousand dollars. In the most rewarding case, I now share a friendship that was
not previously possible. In a few cases, there was no response, and I left responsibility
with the other party. In other words, just as I am empowered and authorized to
alert a fellow citizen, they may and can choose to ignore my concern.
In that case, I am in Part 2 of a process for resolution of
concern. In Part 2, I can either accept the other party’s resistance or
approach another fellow citizen, inform them of my concern, then ask them to go
with me to discuss with the first party. Part 2 is more complicated (the second
party may disagree with me or in agreement face first party refusal to listen
to our presentation), so my concern must be high if I pursue Part 2.
In the one high-concern case I experienced, the second fellow citizen had direct
information and joined with me in approaching the first fellow citizen, writing
a statement of the facts. The first party ignored the collaborative notice,
which invited me to consider Part 3: public disclosure of the dispute.
Part 3, in this case, involved small claims court. The judge
decided in my favor. This process was time consuming and frustrating yet worth
the effort toward civic integrity. I recommend small claims court, but don’t
expect a second experience.
In these incidents I perceive the other party also learned and is
glad for the experience, perhaps excepting the court judgement. I feel that
other party considered it a cost of his business plan.
Yeshua’s message about resolution of civic disputes is briefly presented
in Matthew 18:15-18, Complete Jewish Bible (CJB), 1998. Failure to resolve
issues leaves them to infinity.
Unfortunately, another person, Kefa, confused Yeshua’s “[win]
back your brother” with “forgive him”,
and the church vaguely promotes forgiveness
rather than resolution. However, a civic
people may and can reform the church.
A 5500 year old Sumerian political philosophy, expressed in
Genesis 1:26-28, CJB, makes it clear that humankind is in charge of constraining
the bad and effecting the good on earth. The religion-free 1787 United States
Constitution accommodates Genesis 1:26-28.
#USpreambler
News
The civic faction, We the People of the United States, erred when
the 1789 generation allowed the first congress to restore Anglo-American
religion to itself--Congress. That tyranny may and can be remedied by changing
the First-Amendment-religion-clause from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.
The Internet empowers the modern civic faction to separate
factual-reality from mystery. It takes a quarter-century for an infant to
complete the wisdom-building parts of the brain. Providing time for necessary
experience and observation, an adult ought not parent until age 35 or so,
implying grand parenting at age 70 or so. Human being (verb) is too powerful
and authoritative to be wasted on self-gratification without appreciation for
the laws of physics.
Civic citizens may accept the humility to rule to the good and constrain the
bad on earth. Thereby, adults may at last reform, in order to care for Progeny
more than satisfy personal passions.
The Church emotionally led the abortion debate during the past 7
decades on the erroneous claim that life begins at conception, when human
viability begins when a woman produces a physically and psychologically whole
egg. Psychology is a progeny of physics.
CONTINUED
CONTINUATION
Immediately, Congress may and can initiate legislation to protect
ova from wanton women plus women from wayward men yet upholding an authentic
couple’s opportunity to bond without risking unwanted conception. The civic
faction may end the church-state partnership without compromising individuals’
responsible beliefs.
#USpreambler
https://www.theepochtimes.com/entertainment/the-rock-reveals-why-he-wont-endorse-any-white-house-hopeful-this-year-5622668
@theRock and other legal voters
Genesis 1:26-28 informs us that human beings
may and can rule to the good and constrain the bad on earth. Neither the God
nor government will usurp humankind's responsibility. Vote in your
self-interest. Endorse in your self-interest.
Quoting the Complete Jewish Bible,
"Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image . . . and let them
rule over [other species.] in his own
image . . . male and female he created them. God said to them, “Be fruitful,
multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over . . . the earth.”
The God expressed humility in leaving
it to humankind to rule the earth. Each of us can mirror the God's humility by
accepting the responsibility to effect the good and constrain the bad in our
ways of living.
The religion-free 1787 United States
Constitution accommodates the 5500 year old political philosophy expressed by Semitic-speaking
people in Genesis 1:26-28. It's evident in both the processes for amendment by
the people and in the intentions sentence of the preamble.
#USpreambler
And on X. @theRock
Genesis 1:26-28 informs us that we may and can rule to the
good and constrain the bad on earth. Neither the God nor government will usurp
humankind's responsibility. Vote in your self-interest. Endorse in your
self-interest.
Columns and Opinion
https://news.kehila.org/jesus-yeshua-or-yahshua
"If I find myself in the right context,
I might say Yeshua when I speak English." I encourage you to keep this
practice but lean more toward Yeshua. The other names lose subscribers in their
sectarian pursuits and they never know they are neglecting the precocious 12
year old who knew Genesis 1:26-28 so well that he could astound any rabbi who
gave him the time of day. And when the emperor's emissary queried him, he said,
"I have come to witness to the truth". I think Yeshua was referring
to the ineluctable truth some 1500 years before the word
"ineluctable" was invented. #USpreambler
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-orwellian-assault-on-the-past-continues-5560278?utm_source=commentbtn&utm_medium=email&cmt=1&utm_campaign=cns-2024-03-31&cmt_id=9ea9653e-2367-4bd4-a3b7-731f94b8b4f1
@Hunting
Targ , I appreciate your comments -- especially your fidelity to Yeshua, a
person who is neither the church constructed Jesus nor competitive with Christ.
See my facebook, "Phil Beaver" for more about my
"discovery", at age 81, of a precocious boy born to Yosef and Miryam and
not to be slighted by not using his name.
Based on mitochondrial DNA studies, I feel kin to them. It's impossible
for me to feel kin to either Jesus or to
Christ. (I accept that I could be wrong., but don't think so.)
#USpreambler
Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-name-of-the-law-that-requires-individuals-to-follow-laws-even-if-they-disagree-with-them/, Anon
I know of no law that requires individuals to follow laws even if they disagree with
them. It is a practice that flows from self-interest in statutory justice, which
is the continuous pursuit of flawless law codes and enforcement.
Human being (verb) is so powerful, authoritative, and active
that need for legislation cannot be considered before an injustice is
perceived. Perception is insufficient to establish that legislation is needed
and if so, how it should be crafted. Often, no law is preferred to bad law or
false adjudication.
A famous illustration is Socrates tried and accepting
execution for teaching false Gods when no man knows the God. Plato’s Socrates
acted to defend the law, even though the law was corrupt.
Pursuit of statutory justice is the key to a
republican form of government. In democracy, groups compete to constrain law in
their favor rather than to pursue civic integrity as time unfolds.
In the United States, the civic faction, We the People of
the United States, has not, so far accepted the intentions stated in the
religion-free 1787 U.S. Constitution. The majority, in 1789, allowed Congress
to authorize Congressional divinity under God, ignoring Socrates’ point: No man knows the God.
Aliens to civic integrity under We the People of the United
States are attacking the United States republic with brazen lawlessness.
The civic faction needs to insist on a constitutional
amendment to require a license to vote. Qualifications for the license might
include proof of citizenship, a statement of how and why the U.S. Constitution
guarantees a republican form of government, and demonstration of how the person
has, during the recent 3 years, supported the intentions sentence in the
preamble to the Constitution. That sentence begins “in order to” and ends “to
ourselves and our Posterity”.
#USpreambler
Born in America, I prefer Merriam-Webster usage. For “subjectivity” they have “the quality,
state, or nature of being subjective”, for which I choose to address “of or relating
to the essential being of
that which has substance, qualities, attributes, or relations”. For “essential”
they have “of the utmost importance”.
It
seemed logical to consider the definition of “subject”, and “that of which
a quality, attribute, or relation may be affirmed or in which it may inhere”
seems appropriate. I wanted to find “object” an antonym, but did not. However,
“subject” is listed as an antonym of “object”. Uses of “object” that I would
address include “something material that may be perceived” and “something
mental or physical toward which thought, feeling, or action is directed”.
#USpreambler
Each person may face self-evaluation. Individuals may experience, observe, and
study the laws of physics and progeny, and choose either to accommodate the bad
or aid the good to life on earth. Physics’ progeny includes mathematics,
economics, biology, and psychology.
You consider weighing species: ant, honeybee, cat, dog, human,
rhinoceros, and elephant I listed by typical size. People who avoid, change, or
resist the good choose to live like mineral, vegetable, animal, spirit, or villain.
This actual reality is as old as sex and slavery.
The political solution was suggested at least 5500 years ago
in polytheistic, Sumer civilization. Successive kings led development of codes
of law and rules of enforcement wherein civic citizens constrain slackers and
rebels and execute villains. The last of these codes was published by their Babylonian
conquer, Hammurabi.
Soon, competitive monotheists engaged the political philosophy, and a
competitor modified the Sumerian political philosophy in Genesis 1:26-28. Read
it in the Complete Jewish Bible and in the New International version to receive
the word “rule”. I think Genesis 1:26-28 cites what the laws of physics inform
us: mystery left it to female and male human being to constrain chaos and
pursue the good on earth.
Yes, each of us should re-examine human being (verb). Authentic
human-being is so powerful and authoritative that It takes a quarter century
for a person to acquire comprehension and intention to pursue the practice. It
takes another couple quarter centuries to begin to perceive personal progress.
The religion-free, 1787 United States Constitution
accommodates Genesis 1:26-28’s message.
#USpreambler
Brian Adler:
Thank you for a brilliant answer, Phil. I enjoyed reading it.
Please let me ruminate
on it and reckon just how it serves to address the relative importance of animal
lives.
PRB again,
People don’t realize that the key to
quora-excellence is brilliant questions. Some of my words and phrases can be
found in prior posts. However, the arrangement and new thoughts came from your
question and its presentation. Thank you, Brian.
Extending to your rumination, consider the thoroughbred
horse. As a fold, it stood on 4 legs in 1 hour, found its mare’s tit in 3
hours, received training, and peaked in performance in 3 years. It takes an
informed person 25 years to gain understanding and intention to develop human
being (verb) and another couple decades to mature as a human-being. A few
perfect their unique person just before death arrives.
https://www.quora.com/What-weights-heavier-responsibility-to-protect-the-law-or-to-protect-people, Jeremiah
Sariritan
In evaluating choices, it seems essential to include the key consideration. Justice
seems the key to responsibility regarding law versus people.
Written law should be continually reviewed to discover injustice and reform
to pursue if not attain statutory justice. Unjust law that could kill people or
ruin property can and must be reformed.
Should injustice be upheld while reform is considered? If
there are no actual threats, an injunction can be used to stay injustice while
statutory/legislative deliberation is underway. Delay could have served
Socrates, who was unjustly convicted. Delay could have served Yeshua, who was
unjustly convicted.
However, if people are being killed due to an unjust law, civil resistance is
called for, and the resisters need the power to overcome law enforcement, be it
the police (domestic tyranny) or the military (alien attack). Moreover, the
resisters need alignment with justice.
Consider, for example, the American Revolution against English tyranny. The
British colonists could not have defeated England. However, the signers of the
Declaration of Independence had relationships with Spain and France, neither of
which wanted England to gain control of the Mississippi River. The decisive
battle, at Yorktown, Virginia, was planned and dominantly manned by France and
partially funded by Spain. The Americans’ partnership with France and Spain and
George Washington’s humility were brilliant.
On the other hand, the American Civil War was grounded in
errant Christian opinion that the God had a plan for redeeming blacks from the
sins of their ancestors and that abolitionists were evil for proposing to
accelerate the God’s plan. After initiation in 1854 in Bleeding Kansas, 7
states met in February, 1861, and decided to fire on the United States. The
military ratio was 7 slave states against 27 non-slave states. Abraham Lincoln
knew this overpowering strength and therefore is not my hero. Seven states firing
on Fort Sumter was folly on two counts: insufficient power and unjust cause.
Civic people employ law to pursue statutory justice
according to the ineluctable truth.
#USpreambler
When “truth” is merely opinion, it is better to say “I don’t know” than to
represent your opinion as truth. For example, the statement “God allows if not
causes bad events” is opinion rather than truth.
Actually, “truth” itself seems controversial. Humankind
needs a more specific expression for actual reality. Actual reality does not
respond to human endeavors. The laws of physics and its progeny operate
regardless of human achievement, so human efficiency pursues discovery based on
evidence.
The product of the discovery process is “the ineluctable
truth”. Among the incomparable adjectives, “ineluctable” seems the most
independent of human constructs. Merriam-Webster (MW) reports usage as “not to
be avoided, changed, or resisted”. The “or” implies all 3 modifiers operate. The
modifiers can be used to categorize less specific adjectives.
First, avoidance
is attempted with infallible, immutable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible.
Second, change is
attempted when the object is replaced. For example, reason attributes the cause
of the laws of physics to God and constructs doctrine. The consequence is competitive
constructs without evidence. If researchers eventually discover the cause of
the laws of physics, there’ll be no incentive to call it “the God”: the cause
of the laws of physics is sufficient.
Third, adjectives suggesting resistance include inescapable, inevitable,
#USpreambler
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-freedom-it-this-point-if-everything-build-to-take-your-freedom-and-you-have-to-live-pointlessly-according-to-society-that-already-determine-how-you-should-live, Nāṣir N. H.
(Ren Kazuki)
I don’t know the ineluctable truth yet experience and observe consequences.
I think Genesis 1:26-28, New International Version, reflects
actual reality: the human being may and can perfect order to the good and constraint
to the bad in living his or her life yet is part of humankind. The person who
accepts power and authority to choose the good never repeats a mistake and may
pursue personal perfection before death. Yet they are subject to fellow
citizens’ mistakes and choices to the bad.
Paraphrasing the reference: whatever controls what-is leaves
it to humankind to choose the good and constrain the bad on earth. The laws of
physics prove that choosing the good is in a person’s self-interest, yet many
people invite consequences of the bad. To the extent that a person can avoid
consequences of bad choices, he or she is free. However, the person who
habitually accommodates the bad is a slave to consequences.
(The 1787, religion-free United States Constitution proffers
these principles “to ourselves and our Posterity.)
#USpreambler
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-common-misconceptions-about-Ancient-Greece/answer/Viktor-Couder%C3%A9#comments, PRB comment
I am disappointed that you did not discuss
Plato’s “Symposium”, which analyses both male-male and male-female sexual
action. I favor Agathon’s argument and often paraphrase it.
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem,
April 19, 2024
Property tax made sense when borders were protected and
criminals were apprehended. We still have building codes, utilities regulation,
emergency clean-up, and other services. Taxation of water supply, sewage
disposal, and garbage pickup has also become corrupt.
https://www.facebook.com/bill.beard.984,
April 19, 2024 video
A short story: Anton Chekhov, "Rothscild's
Fiddle". I want to read and could not write a mimic from Marfa's
viewpoint.
https://www.facebook.com/james.finney.9469,
April 19, 2024
The human-being is so powerful and authoritative that it
takes a quarter-century for her or him to complete the wisdom-building parts of
their brain. It takes another couple quarter-centuries for her or him to
accumulate experiences and observations on which to perfect their way of
living. Together, humankind may and can continuously pursue perfection. Humility
and understanding are the wings of perfection, and knowledge undergirds
humility. The human collective may and can be appreciated. It is essential for
every education department to reform so as to practice, facilitate, and
encourage human being (verb).
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman/posts/10231665745401660,
April 16, 2024
I'm reminded of President Ike Eisenhower's warning against
the Industrial-Military Complex -- an unbridled money maker at taxpayer's
expense. Also, it's unsettling that yesterday I worked very hard clearing limbs
to make way for back-yard mowing service the first time this year.
Thank goodness for global relevance from articles like Dan
M. Berger, "Israel's Other War, Against Hezbollah", April 10-16,
2024. The Epoch Times, which seems to reliably share the concerns of people
living the hell in Israel. Interestingly, neither Google nor Edge nor my
subscription allowed me to access Berger's article. I hope you can find it. I
will store my hard copy for awhile.
All this, of necessity, detracts from my current work:
Sharing personal discovery that when the Bible says we need to speak, write,
and share a name, it's authentically Yeshua (Aramaic) rather than Jesus
(competitive English-label). It's wonderful to think the civic influence that
helped me to a good choices in life was expressed by an ancient person of
another name. Also, church can no longer confound me with One, Trinity, Christ,
Satan, and other phantasms intended to distract me from the God -- whatever
constrains the consequences of human choices to act.
Berger reports nearby towns in Israel overlooking Lebanon,
with different ethnic majorities: 100 % Christian, 1/2 Christian and 2/3
Muslim, Jewish, and Druze. I wonder if such people have always been aware of
Yeshua. I am glad that at age 80 I took interest in the Complete Jewish Bible.
Either way, I do not expect a second coming. I think Genesis
1:26-28 makes it clear that humankind is one group whose members may choose the
good, the bad, or apathy in dealing with villainy. The civic citizens may and
can constrain dissidents and rebels and annihilate villains. The sooner most
people accept the God, whatever it may be, and individual power, authority, and
self-interest to constrain the bad so as to choose the good, the better.
Yeshua is alive after 2000 years, because in each generation
(more than 200, so far) there are a few who discover, practice, and further his
civic influence. The chaos the world is suffering might accelerate interest in
promoting the leading edge of political philosophy to the good. Contrary to the
bad in humankind we are taught, I think I'll observe reform developing before
death arrives to me.
https://www.facebook.com/iamnumerouno/posts/10161796182222853,
April 15
Please read the Wikipedia article on "Yeshua" and
follow your curiosity. I am concerned that it was actually, really Yeshua who
said something like this: if you don't pursue my name and thoughts, you can’t
aid the civic good, because I encourage reform when needed.
As I understand it, the ancient Greek translation of the
Torah, 250 years before Josef and Myriam begot Yeshua, required Ἰησοῦς for
Yeshua and Joshua; also, χριστός for prophesied, anointed king. When Yeshua
proved to be precocious, he drew attention, and Greek speaking Jews called him
Isou and other variations of Ἰησοῦς accepting Hebrew speakers calling him
Yeshua. And vice versa.
About 17 years after Jerusalem executed Yeshua, Paul
objected to the Torah requirement of circumcision, because it discouraged pagan
interest in Yeshua. John seemed to prefer Torah adherence, but Peter thought
the pagans should be accommodated. James proposed a compromise for Paul to
carry with him.
However, Paul traveled in Turkey and Greece promoting Yeshua
as savior of souls in afterdeath rather than promoter of civic integrity for
life. Greek was the dominant language in Pauline churches, so Yeshua was spoken
less frequently than Ἰησοῦς. Also, a
title rather than a surname, χριστός, attached to an entity that differs from
Yeshua.
To anyone who has been flummoxed by competitive monotheism,
as I have been for about 80 of my 81 years, it is good to know that the civic
integrity that can be discovered in the Bible probably are endorsed by Yeshua.
I think Yeshua's civic influence facilitates an achievable better future for
humankind.
I think Yeshua is good news for future church.
https://www.facebook.com/CurtisHJones/posts/10225342723542661,
April 13, 2024
Students don't "deserve" Biden's bribe and the
civic faction, We the People of the United States, does not "deserve"
the alien powers that control the Democrat Party.
Once a civic citizen always an appreciator of veterans.
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10,
April 13, 2024
There's no comfort in learning that scholars think the
person who lived, preached, and practiced civic integrity was called Yeshua by
his mom and dad.
True or false, I grew up to think that if I don't appreciate his name, I will
not benefit from his 2000 year old encouragement to resist the bad and choose
the good.
On the other hand, if all this energy was spent on discovery of Yeshua, an
achievable better future might be established.
https://www.facebook.com/iamnumerouno,
April 13, 2024
Shannon, thank you for inspiration.
This daily thought is a wonderful opportunity to illustrate
the impact of Genesis 1:26-28 on human psychology, a progeny of physics.
My paraphrase of Genesis 1:26-28 is this: female and male human being has sole
responsibility to resist the bad and pursue the good on earth. The rest of the
Bible expresses the consequence of personally neglecting duty to human being
(verb).
The human-being is so powerful and authoritative that it takes 25 years for its
body to complete the wisdom parts of its brain (23 years for females). Youth
who are aware/informed take the personal responsibility to acquire the
understanding and intention to pursue adult human being. If so, after a couple
more quarter centuries, that person may perceive pursuit of personal
perfection. Perhaps a few human-beings achieve the happiness of unique
perfection before death arrives.
In contrast, the sheep dog threatens the wolf on instinct. The wolf perceives
that injury could mean death, so instinctively avoids sheep-dog encounters. The
shepherd observed this competition and owns a sheep dog for enterprise.
Reciprocity grounds appreciation between shepherd and dog.
Not every person appreciates Genesis 1:26-28, even though the laws of physics
clarify the message as experiences and observations march on. Some people
accommodate or choose being mineral, vegetable, animal, spirit, or villain
rather than responsible human-being -- civic citizen to the world.
The civic citizen appreciates fellow-citizens and pursues statutory justice, in
order to motivate dissidents and rebels to reform. Fellow citizens cooperate to
annihilate habitual villains, in order to establish that habitual villainy
invites death.
Appreciation of life motivates observance of Genesis 1:26-28, a political
philosophy that is at least 5500 years old and astonishingly neglected and
institutionally repressed.
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10,
April 12, 2024
I was reared in East Tennessee with at least four
competitive brands of Bible thumpin. I came here to practice chemical
engineering and later met a 26 year-old school teacher who is the most serenely
confident person I know. Through her, I have a glimpse of what it means to
be Louisiana-French Catholic, with 2 Canadian grandparents, one Parisian, and
one German.
Somehow, she got the Genesis 1:26-28 message: Mystery left
female and male human being responsible to choose to constrain the bad and
promote the good on earth -- unto perfection.
The rest of the Bible reports the chaos that results when
human-beings assume churches and nations usurp personal responsibility to
constrain chaos in life-style. The part of this I heard directly from her is
this: God and Jesus are the same, and I, Cynthia, cannot explain the mystery.
I've spent many working weeks then weekends with this
wonderful person, enjoying all kinds of music and art, here in Louisiana and
across southern Europe. We met many wonderful people in the dancehalls and
festivals of Louisiana (thank you, Gina and others) and at fire-walking, Kalo
Pascha, and other festivals in Greece. My wife never has to ponder: she just
quietly makes people happy wherever she is.
She taught me that of all the gifts, unpretentious humility
is the best. Happily, I shared that opinion about her with her dad.
In Louisiana, there are many people who pursue perfection to
constrain the bad and practice the good on earth. It took this Tennessee boy 25
years to get the message and as much again to perceive reform.
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10/posts/10229564282844732,
April 6
Clark overcame her first half performance. It seems her
late-game 4-point-play made the difference. I'm glad I watched the game and
know Bueckers is great, too.
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman/posts/10231606424958686,
April 6
Sacks' post reminded me to re-read again Donald Trump's
inaugural speech. Two sentences stand out. First, "What truly matters is
not which party controls our government, but whether our government is
controlled by the people." Second, "I will fight for you with every
breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down."
By surviving the Biden administration's politicization of the United States
Constitution, Trump is fulfilling his promise, and I can think of no other
person in history who has done as much. The question is: are there enough voters
who want government by, of, and for "ourselves and our Posterity",
quoting the preamble?
I think there are, and hope I get to cast my 5th and 6th votes for Trump. Mike
Pence showed again that religious beliefs ought not override integrity to the
people, so I hope for the best in Trump's VP deliberations.
https://www.facebook.com/iamnumerouno/posts/10161778430742853,
April 6
I agree: you live the tattoo's statement. Thank you for
sharing.
What's wonderful is that you're not alone. Yeshua, the precocious son of
ancients Josef and Miryam, comes shinning through each generation's political
and religious barriers and never misleads people who intend to aid the good and
oppose the bad on earth.
We advance Yeshua's impact to humankind when we practice and promote his civic
influence, which begins with affirmation of Genesis 1:26-28, NIV and CJB: rule
the way you live. The mysterious God is humble enough to allow a person to choose
the good and oppose the bad on earth: each person may and can be humble like
the God. Through reliable responsibility, each person may preserve their
opportunity to choose the good.
Yeshua's affirmation is not critical to the individual, as evidenced by the
political and spiritual opposition, especially church competition, each
generation experiences.
Yeshua's contemporaries used Koine Greek interpretations of "Yeshua"
and "messiah". Politics and religion developed Latin, then English
surrogates, "Jesus" and "Christ", to obfuscate if not
eliminate our ancient brother, Yeshua. Some people know about Yeshua yet do not
insist on his name -- accept a substitute. I reformed, yet will talk
"Jesus", avoiding competitive titles such as "Messiah" or
"Christ" and others.
Yeshua, conceived from Miryam's ovum, had mitochondrial DNA like ours: homo
sapiens descended from one woman who lived about 155,000 years ago. Thus, his
family is ancient-kin to subsequent generations. His brother Yaakov has been
compromised to "James" and to history, his sisters aren't even named.
Because they are gods facing death (see John 10:34 and Psalm 82:6-7), some
people practice Genesis 1:26-28, never having learned about Yeshua, his rearing
under Josef and Miryam during typical political and religious turmoil, and his
unique understanding of the Torah and Jewish history. In other words, while
Yeshua affirms Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 1:26-28 does not affirm Yeshua. It is
no burden to me if Yeshua was another god facing death; I don't know.
I'm just glad Yeshua suggested that Phil Beaver can pursue perfection in the
image of the God, mysterious as that entity is (see Matthew 5:48). What's new
for me is that the Internet empowers me to discover the facts and earn my
opinion.
My 2-part opinion is this: it is not too late for humankind to accept the
mystery of the God and adopt Genesis 1:26-28s message: only you may rule the
way you live, and civic citizens affirm Yeshua's encouragement: pursue
perfection of your person.
https://www.facebook.com/sherri.joubert,
March 7
Thank you, Sherri,
It's up to fellow citizens to effect that separation: neither the God nor
government can usurp civic responsibility. "Civic" means reliably
responsible to the good on earth. It takes intentions, perseverance, and
creativity to pursue the good and constrain the bad.
The religion-free, 1787 United States Constitution (minus the Anglo-American
Bill of Rights) affirms what the Sumerians had surmised 5500 years ago and
Semitic-speaking people recorded 3900 years ago in Genesis 1:26-28: the God,
whatever it is, has the humility to leave to humankind the responsibility to
rule to the good and constrain the bad to the earth. Each person may choose
humble reliability to rule their life to the good; or not.
Then 2000 years ago came Miryam and Josef, who bore their son, the precocious
Yeshua. Yeshua studied local law and ceremony and reformed both -- despite
opposition that continues to this moment. His outstanding message is: you can
pursue perfection in living. (I write opinion, because I do not know the
ineluctable truth.)
In Matthew 19:3-8, he said people's hearts had hardened but living persons may
and can reform. Yeshua said a person can, during life, pursue human being
(verb) and mirror the God's perfection (Matthew 5:48). Accordingly, a few
people never repeat a mistake. It would not surprise me if Sherri is like that
and improving. Since Yeshua did not write, it isn't easy.
When a person listens to opinion/doctrine that negates or displaces Yeshua's
civic influence, they risk offending the family who named him Yeshua, the man
himself, and the God. Our civic integrity applies to dead citizens, fellow
citizens, and "our Posterity", quoting the United States
Constitution. Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation" frees fellow
citizens to consider Yeshua's opinion.
To listen to the authentic Yeshua requires separation of the ineluctable truth
from mystery. To appreciate surrogate influence invites risk I do not want. I
did not arrive at this commitment alone and appreciate the continuum of fellow
citizens: past, present, and future.
P.S.: Why does Facebook spell-alert "Yeshua"? Check it on Wikipedia.
#USpreambler
https://www.facebook.com/sherri.joubert,
April 4
I'll vouch for that as a colleague in Sherri's work place
and a civic friend.
I wish I could post a pic of my wife, Cynthia but don't have her permission.
Cynthia and Sherri share serene confidence with all who know them.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/,
April 4
Then came Miryam and Josef, who bore the precocious Yeshua.
Yeshua studied local law and ceremony and reformed them despite opposition.
For example, in Matthew 19:3-8, he said people's hearts had hardened but living
persons may and can reform. He said a person can, during life, pursue human
being (verb) and mirror perfection (Matthew 5:48). A few people never repeat a
mistake.
Alas, institutions co-opted Yeshua's unique stewardship as competitive
divinity, and the consequence is a 2024 world bemused by sex. It's not too late
for reform.
By merely deciding to, humankind can decipher Yeshua's messages that are hidden
in the competitive Bible babel, practice them, and expand them to this
generation's necessities.
For example, find the positive in metaphors like in Matthew 10:38, "And
anyone who does not take up his execution-stake and follow me is not worthy of
me." It speaks to me to say: if you have not mastered my process for
resolution and forgiveness (Matthew 18:15-20), you must change your attitude.
Intentional society can do better than one person.
People may and can accept that civic integrity is a self-interest, Yeshua's
chief message. Rejecting Yeshua's civic inflluence is a risk I cannot take.
"Civic" means reliably responsible to the good and constraining the
bad on earth.
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman/posts/10231595656169473,
April 4
Physics and its progeny (everything including biology and
psychology) is so complicated!
I wonder if someone's idea of breaking up glaciers and dragging them toward the
equator would balance solar energy without unintended harm to humankind's
responsibility to the earth (Genesis 1:26-28).
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10,
April 4 and on my facebook
Then came Miryam and Josef, who bore the precocious Yeshua.
Yeshua studied local law and ceremony and reformed them despite opposition.
For example, in Matthew 19:3-8, he said people's hearts had hardened but living
persons may and can reform. He said a person can, during life, pursue human
being (verb) and mirror perfection (Matthew 5:48). A few people never repeat a
mistake.
Alas, institutions co-opted Yeshua's unique stewardship as competitive
divinity, and the consequence is a 2024 world bemused by sex. It's not too late
for reform.
By merely deciding to, humankind can decipher Yeshua's messages hidden in the
competitive Bible babel, practice them, and expand them to this generation's
necessities.
For example, find the positive in metaphors like in Matthew 10:38, "And anyone
who does not take up his execution-stake and follow me is not worthy of
me." It speaks to me to say: if you have not mastered my process for
resolution and forgiveness (Matthew 18:15-20), you must change your attitude.
Intentional society can do better than one person.
People may and can accept that civic integrity is a self-interest, Yeshua's
chief message.
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman/posts/10231584353286908,
April 3
I suspect vaccines. I had the first 3, and they changed my
life negatively -- have had respiratory problems ever since. I'm now off the
list of vaccine-marketing targets.
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman/posts/10231566235313970,
April 2
"Can you think of any examples of that?"
General R. E. Lee wrote to his wife, 5 years before the Civil War and 2 years
into Bleeding Kansas that abolitionists were evil for trying to accelerate the
Southern Christian's God's millennial plan to redeem the blacks for their
ancestors sins. See
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/letter-from-robert-e-lee-to-mary-randolph-custis-lee-december-27-1856/.
Somebody scream, because this is not common knowledge: The Civil War was caused
by errant Christian preaching in Virginia and other slave states.
Both the Methodist Connexion and the Baptist convention split in the same year,
1845, north vs south, over abolitionism.
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10/posts/10229545443693765,
April 2
I'd like to focus on extreme talent for today.
One of the most tragic features of life is that few people read the New
International Version of the Bible and associate with Yeshua, the person his
parents addressed before he was a teacher on whom people would impose
"Jesus" or the title "Christ". Yeshua's greatest power is
to encourage humility. From Yeshua, people can find civic integrity like
Matthew 19:3-8, which I quote,
"Some Pharisees came to [Yeshua] to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful
for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” “Haven’t you read,” he
replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and
said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to
his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ So they are no longer two, but one
flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” “Why
then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of
divorce and send her away?” [Yeshua] replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce
your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the
beginning. "
The key to the NIV version is "united to his wife", instead of
"united with" or "cleave to". The authentic man is
ineluctably committed to his wife and their spouse hood, her ova, their offspring,
their grandchildren, and beyond. He appreciates the four grandparents who so
cherish their two children. I have observed, in New Orleans, five generations
celebrating the music at a festival at Audubon Park.
Are there any novels about romance under Yeshua's 19:3-8 civic influence? Does
one suggest how men's hearts hardened "from the beginning"?
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/posts/10161145611258599,
Yeshua’s image of me is what I hope to be.
https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem,
March 23
The problem is deeper than Morse suggests.
Humankind fears accepting Genesis 1:26-28 humility: I paraphrase, in the image
of the God, you have the power and authority to constrain chaos in the way you
live.
The rest of the Bible depicts the babel that occurs when humankind looks to the
clergy partnering with politicians to pursue the good and not accommodate the
bad to the earth, leaving management of other worlds to the God.
The God humbly leaves to humankind the responsibility to the earth. It is not
too late for reform.
Yeshua affirmed Genesis 1:26-28, and both "Jesus" and the title
"Christ" lessen Jeshua's civic impact.
I had not posted this message before, because it takes time to discover Yeshua
in our world.
https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem/posts/10227816966301978,
and https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.m.beaver/posts/10228945583097931, March
31
Ongoing reform from competitive monotheism is new to me. His
mom and dad called him Yeshua (English Joshua), which I prefer much as I prefer
people to use my children’s names. For example, when someone calls Rebekah
“Rebecca” it bothers me. When someone-who-knows-her spells Rebekah “Rebecca”,
it offends me. I always report the “Rebecca” mistake when it comes to my
attention, then forget the incident. In other words, I do not recall repetition
in half a century.
This easy reflection reminds me of forgiveness, a demanding
process Matthew attributed to Yeshua in Chapter 18:15-20. I paraphrase:
In private, report perceived offense; if resolved (maybe you
reformed and made amends), all is well; if not, convince a fellow citizen to
join your presentation then approach the accused to debate again; if not – no
sympathizer, no second presentation, or no resolution, present your case to
society. Society may treat the offending party as irresponsible, arrogant, or
evil. The motivation is that whatever harm you tolerate continues to lessen
living, while harms you resolve bring peace.
The importance of this process to Yeshua is evident in his
parting commission to his apostles, reported in John 20:23, “If you forgive
someone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you hold them, they are held.”
Both of the above references exemplify Yeshua’s use of
metaphors that run deep to reliable responsibility to the good on earth. By
accepting responsibility to address offenses when they arise, a person, aware
or not, effects Yeshua’s resistance to the bad on earth. After the metaphors “I
am”, light, the word, fulfill the law, and peace, Yeshua’s commission to
forgive seems ineluctable. It is humankind’s responsibility to interpret the
metaphors to the good rather than to compete.
Interestingly, once again, when a discovery appears in my
life, a little research shows I am late yet not unhappy. I found a 4 minute
introduction to the name, Yeshua. The etymology is explained as
Yehoshua–Yeshua–Iēsous–IESVS–Iesu–Jesus through transliteration rather than
translation. “By the time the New Testament was written, the Septuagint had
already transliterated ישוע (Yeshuaʿ) into Koine Greek as closely as possible
in the 3rd-century BCE [250 years before Yeshua was born], the result being Ἰησοῦς
(Iēsous).” A blunt, modern, heartfelt notice exists. His family history seems
connected to everyone alive.
The “Christ” debate need not dominate humankind. In the
Septuagint , “Christ comes from the Greek word χριστός (chrīstós), meaning
‘anointed one’.” Some Jewish clergy predicted an anointed one would unite the
12 tribes of Israel and grant their kingdom. A faction of contemporary Jews
thought Yeshua was the anointed one, even after the people of Jerusalem
executed him.
Many non-Jews developed Yeshua as the God, usually as the
Trinity. That’s when competitive monotheism kicked in and “Christ” obscured
Yeshua. That’s gotta stop, in my opinion, shocking as it may seem. Humankind is
responsible to pursue the good rather than the bad on earth. Of course, I don’t
know – only pursue the ineluctable truth.
Note: it does not take too long to review the commentary I
found to support the above message:
Online at https://www.dbu.edu/.../christ.../jesus-and-metaphors.html
Online at https://lpb.pbslearningmedia.org/.../origin-of-everything/
Online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_(name)
Online at http://www.cccla.org/about/the-name-yeshua/
Online at https://www.oneforisrael.org/.../how-yeshua-became-jesus.../
Online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_(title)
https://www.facebook.com/douglas.moreman/posts/10231555438604059,
March 29
I may and can have opposing opinion. I think voting should
require a license. And the third licensing requirement should be to own a
personal interpretation of the intentions sentence in the preamble to the
United States Constitution.
https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10/posts/10229526797787629,
March 29
The authentic man thinks he may and can be reliably
responsible for life to his spouse hood and offspring including grandchildren
and beyond. Unfortunately, physics and its progeny -- chemistry, biology, and
psychology -- afford some men excess can and insufficient may.
Happily, I united to the most serenely confident, wittiest woman I ever knew.
She accommodates my hopeful person after 54 years' marriage.
https://www.facebook.com/brenda.rivet,
March 28
There's too much confusion about civic forgiveness.
"Civic" refers to reliably responsible connections and transactions
to the good rather than accommodating the bad. I advocate Yeshua's influence,
which could aid a flummoxed society. It's found in Matthew 18:15-18, CJB:
“Moreover, if your brother commits a sin against you, go and show him his fault
— but privately, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have
won back your brother. If he doesn’t listen, take one or two others with you so
that every accusation can be supported by the testimony of two or three
witnesses. If he refuses to hear them, tell the congregation; and if he refuses
to listen even to the congregation, treat him as you would a pagan or a
tax-collector. Yes! I tell you people that whatever you prohibit on earth will
be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in
heaven."
In private, you may discover that you are at fault and apologize. If you have
not won your friend over, finding someone who agrees with you and wants to join
the discussion may be difficult. Two or three of you deciding to go public
means serious offense, and constraint may be called for. Yeshua addressed the
importance of resolving incidents.
I only recently discovered that the couple we know as Mary and Joseph named their
first son Yeshua, which is Joshua transliterated. The path to "Jesus"
is complex, and I accept it where necessary but prefer the name the family
probably used: Yeshua.
https://www.facebook.com/gregoryfrey1/posts/10231860342707116,
March 27
Download the lyrics for listening to "A Song for
You": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjEILbesQ8
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, March 25
I read agony in Gaza but no plans for peace. Let me share
one: promote Yeshua’s civic influence.
It seems to me a Jewish couple, 2000 years ago, named their
son Yeshua, in Aramaic equivalent to the Hebrew Yeshua; same word. And 200
years before Yeshua was born, through Greek transliteration Yeshua was
also expressed as Jesus or a Greek equivalent.
No Messiah issue in this ancient development. Messiah and chosen people is a
private, religious pursuit by some Hebrews, and poses no issue to my way of
living, born Southern Baptist and born again when I chose to pursue human being
(verb). I attend a Baptist church as a friend.
I feel that every good decision I made in my life was
influenced by Jesus. However, my mom told me to always appreciate the name a
family uses. Recently, I learned it probably is Yeshua. Therefore, I am
grateful to Yesuha and want to learn more about his actions under the name his
mom and dad used.
I am willing to substitute "Jesus" if the other party prefers Jesus.
However, I leave it to the other party's privacy if they want to impose the
title "Christ", because that introduces human division I do not
support. Specifically, Christians assert salvation of soul in the person’s
afterdeath, granted the Trinity’s gift, rather than salvation of the person who
mirror’s thegod’s humility to the good.
Yeshua suggested that each human being may and can pursue
perfect performance to the good, depending upon their intentions. I first read
this suggestion in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address”, 1838 but
now perceive it in Genesis 1:26-28 with no objections in the 1787 United States
Constitution.
In the course of overcoming phantasies grounded in human
sacrifice as a means of bargaining with thegod mystery, writers wrote
condemnation of the descendants of Hagar, not only comparing a donkey, but
enacting brutal war over possession of land.
If I were a descendant of Hagar, I don't think I could ever
appreciate a person who defends that perhaps 3700 year old condemnation. It may
and can be removed from Judeo-Christian affirmation.
The Bible suggests loving your enemy. I think pity is a form of love and vice
versa. However, pity does not foster appreciation. And mutual appreciation is
what descendants of Hagar and descendants of Sarai may and can achieve. They
may and can accept, in thegod’s image, the humility to rule to the good and
constrain the bad on earth.
Order is necessary, because there will always be dissidents,
rebels, and villains.
#USpreambler
PRB comment:
Whatever else may be said about Yeshua, he was a scholar and
advocate of Genesis 1:26-28. He affirmed that we are gods facing death. If we,
the descendants of Abraham adopt the god-like-humility to rule on earth, we can
end human sacrifice once and for all, by ending war.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/posts/10161127977528599,
March 25
Terry and Sackchasa, I appreciate your "likes".
I want to add that Genesis 1 is a Semitic-people's expression of Mesopotamian,
I think Sumerian, political philosophy -- innocently attempting to assess
200,000 years' development of homo sapiens, the current mutation of human being
(verb).
A faction of Semitic people wanted to prevent human sacrifice, so relocated
from Sumer and established blood sacrifices excluding humans. A faction refined
the sacrificial systems so as to include grains and oils, affordable by more
people. From them developed a faction known as Israel, the nation and Hebrews,
a diverse people. A small faction is Christian and another faction thinks Jesus
fulfilled the Torah. Some of them think Jesus will return as the Messiah to
unite Israel.
Non-Jews developed Christ, a title representing salvation of souls by thegod
rather than salvation of people form intentional error (sin). Christ lessens
Jesus' civic influence. We can lessen the impact of Christ by adopting the name
Yeshua, which the boy's mom and dad used to address him. I advocate Yeshua's
civic influence. "Civic" means reliably responsible to the good and
against the bad in human connections and transactions.
I think every human would like to claim they are humble -- may be a god facing
death. I don't know if sacrifice remains a part of political humility but hope
not: acting to the good and constraining the bad seems sufficient. But I don't
know.
God is a mystery, and 5500 years ago Sumerian cities had patron deities
intended to aid citizens in war against invading aliens. Patron deities developed
into competitive monotheism, which is more divisive than polytheism. Think of
language's Babel.
The key to Genesis 1:26-28, especially NIV and CJB, is that it has thegod
mystery saying: let us make humankind in our image so they may rule on earth.
Thus, thegod are humble enough to leave order on earth to humankind. Since
thegod are doing the allowing, humankind can provide order on earth.
The question before history is: will humankind develop the humility to accept
the power and authority to rule the earth?
The religion-free, 1787 United States Constitution proffers the intention to
establish and maintain sufficient humility "to ourselves and our
Posterity".
Thank you both for the motivation to write this. Phil
https://www.facebook.com/john.lee.7370/posts/7514976871875066, March 234
John, I think it is wonderful that you are the person who
wrote, "Sometimes I had chosen to do right things but not to do things
right." The authentic person controls the first part of your statement and
needs civic collaboration for the second part.
The professional who has civic integrity makes the right choice even when
civility demands the wrong choice.
Civic people replace unjust laws with statutory justice.
Comments
on a blog post
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/text-patterns/can-anyone-help-me-understand-ephraim, Alan Jacobs, September 1, 2017 and on my facebook
Radner responded, “My job, one way or the other, is to try
to be clearer for everyone. I wish there were a key to help people
"understand what I write". That's not possible.”
I amplify Radner’s resolve. If a writer to humankind “writes to the audience”,
he or she can pursue neither personal thoughts nor the ineluctable truth.
I think I understand Jacobs’ post and may resolve his angst;
he may say. Radner described mimicable humility an ancient
Semitic-speaking writer suggested in Genesis 1:26-28. I paraphrase, in the
beginning, whatever-is-in-charge of what-is, granted humankind the opportunity
to choose to constrain chaos on earth. In common terms, the God had the
humility to trust humankind to discover they want to pursue the good and
constrain the bad on earth. Each person may choose to mimic the God’s humility.
Radner kindly broke his words down, and I explain his
phrases in my thoughts, as follows.
Although evolution of humankind started perhaps 7 million years ago, DNA shows
that everyone alive is a descendant of one homo sapiens woman who lived perhaps
150 thousand years ago: Today, we are
biologically connected, past, present, and future. So far, only homo sapiens
left “memory” of this “biology of connection”, yet the primitive past is
contained in DNA we may “hope” to discover and understand. Homo sapiens pursues
whatever-is-in-charge of what-is as the "truth of God". We cannot
relate to what our persons “really are” if we misinterpret these biological
connections; connectedly, one person, one generation, one humankind, and one
beginning that may end without constraint. Radner concludes that his book
encourages “faith in accord with the basic convictions of the Christian Gospel
as presented in the Scriptures”.
Radner left to the reader interpretation of “Christian Gospel”.
That could be a hook to persuade the reader to buy the book; I don’t think so.
To me, it’s an invitation to express Yeshua’s civic influence. “Civic” means
reliably responsible to the good (constraining or eliminating the bad) in human
connections and transactions.
I think the scripture is a collection of stories about the consequences
when people do not discover personal humility and accept the power and
authority to constrain chaos in their way of living. I am grateful for
persistence and to my wife and our children and fellow civic citizens for
persuading me that the good is my self-interest and to Yeshua, that precocious
12-year old who was left in the temple court conversing with the rabbis.
I like to honor the best idea of the name his family used,
“Yeshua”, and am comfortable with “Jesus”. I work to persuade every person who
pursues human being (verb) to practice Yeshua’s civic influence. Of
representative commenters about Yeshua’s significance – James, Paul, and
Emerson, I prefer Emerson’s thought that Jesus understood the power and
authority of civic humankind who mirrors the humble God of Genesis 1:26-28.
The religion-free, 1787 United States Constitution seems to
mirror Genesis 1:26-28 humility.
#USpreambler
PRB comment
I overlooked Alan Jacobs's key concern: Radner's phrase "God’s life as our
creator". Jacobs stipulates "God is eternal in himself", I think
traditionally overlooking the God and author of Genesis 1:26-28. If humankind
fails to constrain chaos, the God's image on earth dies.
Neither before nor since Yeshua (some prefer "Jesus") has anyone
informed us that because Genesis 1:26-28 says we may, in the God's image,
pursue the good and constrain the bad to the earth, our individual performance
can be perfect and aid humankind.
The precocious Yeshua was executed in his early 30s. In every generation some
people discover Yeshua. Some intend to mimic Yeshua's civic integrity by
improving applications with fellow human-beings. A faction approaches
perfection before they die. So far, the creation is not dead. Eventually, the
good may dominate if not annihilate the bad on earth.
Another PRB comment
In commenting to Jacobs, Radner wrote, "In the context
of the book, a "biology of connection" is laid out as involving the
fact that we are (biologically) born of a mother and a father, and thereby
connected to a network of other persons, including those that support families;
and we in turn give rise to such networks.
There's more to the God connection.
I don't know the mystery of Yeshua (Jesus to many). The Christian view is that
he was born of Mary's ovum as God incarnate. Consequently, Yeshua was like
everyone alive today -- a homo sapiens descended from one woman who lived
perhaps 150 thousand years ago, as I wrote yesterday.
If this is the ineluctable truth, God's biological connection is a matter of
physics. And Yeshua's affirmation of Genesis 1:26-28 comes full circle.
More yet; PRB comment
Radner’s phrase “the truth of God’s life as our creator” may be read as “the
truth of duration”, where “duration” represents how long humankind survives, in
order to remove the mysteries “God”, “life”, and “our creator”. I think duration accommodates both the doctrine
of eternal God and the God’s humility in leaving humankind responsible to
preserve life on earth (Genesis 1:26-28, NIV and CJB).
If
we assume “our creation” when life began to evolve on earth, some 4.3 billion
years ago, then humankind annihilates life, there’ll be the duration -- one
measure “of God’s life as our creator”. There’ll remain humility to the God –
whatever constrains human choice. Only then may the unavoidable and
unchangeable and irresistible, the ineluctable, truth, be knowable.
Phil
Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to theineluctabletruth, which
can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it
obviously does not work.
Phil is agent
for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit
corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays
from the latest and going back as far as you like. He uses the hashtag
#USpreambler.
