666=Jesus Christ?, page 3

Originally posted by badmedia
reply to post by Christ!

I say hypocrisy because this is exactly what we see in the pharisees, and in many Christians today. They only have a strict and literal understanding of the words, and because of that they do not see their own hypocrisy in breaking the commandments themselves while accusing others of breaking them.

I noticed this when looking at how some Christians and Muslims fight each other. Each side only sees the sin/wrongs of the other side, and not their own wrong doing. The Christians view it as the Muslims attacked us, and they view it as the Christians attacked them. So each side feels it is justified in it's actions not because their actions are good, but based only on the actions of the other side, which is to see only 1 hand.

We are stuck in the realms of perception, there is no doubt at that. How I learned to get past that is to put myself in the other perspective. I learned and seen the previous paragraph because I looked at things from the perspective of the other side(other hand). Once I did that, then I could see the real truth of the situation - both sides are equally wrong, and they are basically exactly alike. Simply because they refused to look at things from both perspectives.

This is the same view that caused the pharisees to do what they did. They thought they were justified because the person they were persecuting was sinning. And as a result, they failed to look at their own actions in response, which was to break the commandments by killing them. Thus why Jesus called them hypocrites and showed a life that was not based on hypocrisy.

To only see 1 side of it, is to only see partial truth. And we can see that not only in history, but also today in our lives. And we can see how this logic based only on 1 side of things is failing. We only focus on what is being done to us, not what we are doing to others.

Am I understanding you correctly?

You are catching on. As a rule of thumb, if one sees someone doing something "wrong", it is almost certain that this one is doing the same thing. By the time a mind manifests as "man", it is so far into denial that it does not know that it thinks and does what it thinks other men are doing that make them "guilty". You can see that the "blame game" is ubiquitous...and this game is just about all that is going on. And that is why forgiveness is the only function in the world that makes any sense.

Forgiveness is a thought process that looks at how things appear to be, only to realize that things are appearances, and nothing is as it appears. In this process, it is not enough to realize that one is thinking [subconsciously] or doing [overtly, hypocritically] what one accuses other's of doing. It is not enough to realize that both are "wrong". Forgiveness simply understands that neither know what they are doing [the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing]. One who forgives does not attempt to know good vs evil, or judge between them. The one who forgives does not attempt to judge between the unreal manifestations of an attempt to combine good and its opposite.

The reason I take your focus back to the genesis of the world is so that you can forgive correctly, efficiently. The entire combination of good and its opposite is entirely false. It is not "bad", "wrong", or "evil". It is simply not true! This is how Jesus' thought. Where the world begins, it also ends.

The world is crucified because it attempts to judge between good and its opposite, shifting guilt [blame game] around one mind. Whether you shift guilt to someone else or shift it back upon yourself, or upon both you and your neighbor...you are attempting to make what is unreal real. This is the basic function of judgement.

Christ!

[edit on 3-12-2008 by Christ!]