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Anti-Christ May Be Pinnacle of Temple Priesthood in Post-Temple Priesthood EraVoted for by GaryCGibson.
On the problem of infinities I believe they remain infinite. Some infinities may be reduced or eliminated through various equations or discoveries, and that highlights the point that some infinities don't exist but are instead hypothetical infinities.
On the subject of cosmology which I like reading about one may find all sorts of interesting theoretical structures, and philosophically meta-physics structures have interesting conjunctions sometimes with that of cosmological researches. Physics uses theoretical structures also to try to find various ways of 'fitting' what is known into more complete structures. Logic and modal logic may create structures that can be inductive models based on necessary consistency. One may apply that principle with theology and Biblical researches too.
On the subject of creationism there is much unclarity about what is meant by that, and what the Bible actual means is different than what one wants it to mean. many examples exist.
In reading Bruce Vawters simultaneous analysis of the four gospels he raised the point about Jesus feeding the five thousand. The Bible doesn't actual say how the bread was multiplied with the fishes, people may assume it does. When Jesus healed the cripple at the pool of Siloam there is a possible scribal interpretation that the pool bubbled at a certain time each day as it was stirred by angels. Vawter believed that point about the bubbling water wasn't written by the apostles but by a later 'enhancer'. You may know that the Gosple according to Judas Iscariot was released recently...perhaps some of the city of Iskar (Iskariot) wanted to regain poltical correctness so they turbo-charged a version of a gospel for their own benefit.
Actually I have a sort of post-creationist view of the Genesis account such that it can include virtually anything cosmologists discover within it. If you have an e-mail address I will send you a pdf version of my book 'Creation and Cosmos; The Literal Values of Genesis' so that you could have an idea of what I thought about it before I read Plotinus and considered the Bible more.
Does a Hierarchical Priesthood of the Temple Sort lead logically to the Anti-Christ in The Temple?Following is a post on end-times and political structures that I wanted to post.In the world today corporatism is a political force making a new world order. In Christian end-times scenarios the anti-Christ will reign in The Temple in Jerusalem, and a sort of new world order perhaps within the global paradigm of a ‘Babylon’ like world trading power will perhaps consolidate religions within its bureaucratic power structure.
The National Geographic’s article on 20th century genocides noted that China under Mao eliminated 30 million to the need for political cleansing. China with communism moving toward corporatism with the cooperation of opportunistic foreign investors such as find favor with the Bush administration may vie with other post-civilization powers to control the thought and will of mankind.
The United States congress has sought to control its borders that have allowed in more than 16 million illegal aliens since the Reagan administration. In a more orderly era legal immigrants arrived in the United States through Ellis Island, while today they protest by the millions to cut lines and demand ‘compromises’ that give them full citizenship rights even if gradually. The Senate considers a compromise in such a way as to decide to give a burglar the jewelry, the gold, or citizenship instead of contemplating law enforcement. The right of sheer force to take over the political deliberations of a foreign nation isn’t new.
Africa has been beset by national and tribal wars, 26 million Africans have HIV and Rwanda had an 800,000 person genocide occurring over three months while the international community turned aside perhaps because of the ‘complexity’ of becoming involved. A ‘minor’ democide is still in progress in Darfur. The Democratic Party of the United States casts aside the 200,000 murders of Saddam Hussein’s government, chemical war on Kurds and elimination through avoidable neglect of 300,000 to 100,000,000 innocent Iraqi ‘vulnerables’ as in Ted Turner’s words something ‘that wasn’t worth it’. Decision’s of what interventions to stop wars are ‘worth it may be another difficult yet problematic aspect of 21st century hierarchical structures with an overweening ambient background of broadcast rave an irrationality that serves corporatists purposes by elimination of the weak and of potential rival forms of government such as democracy.
A Temple priesthood, tithed and closely supporting the Absolute monarch of a nation has been a fact in the world even tough Jesus Christ sought to eliminate it with the ultimate sacrifice of Himself and to establish an egalitarian ‘Priesthood of Believers’. Jesus predicted the temple would be destroyed within a generation (it was), and the Temple priesthood considered Jesus such a threat that they found him ‘blasphemous’ and worthy of crucifixion. The Temple Priesthood lingers on in Christianity simply through tradition, inertia, greed and the technological difficulties through history of creating a non-communistic close association of believers. In pre-industrial era farmers would have found such assembly more difficult than today’s mobile urban generations.A priesthood of believers would become a sort of Special Forces power wresting freedom of thought from too closely associated with politicians and worldly economic powers hierarchical commercial priests. God probably doesn’t perform miracles on a regular time schedule like a Cepheid variable or old faithful geyser during a weekly two-hour entertaining performance of ‘worship’…then again perhaps he does (skeptically). Well meaning Christians working as commercial priests may feel a need for production or sensationalism that would not exist if they were simply elders with circles of Christian associates that had entered into God’s rest and were always in contemplative worship working supportively in the world to meet the needs first of themselves as believers and evangelizing larger social groups.
While it is possible to imagine circles of twelve souls gathered with a five minute timer for each to sermonize, evangelize or discuss meaningful issues once a week, it is also possible to imagine such groups scanning each other for rtv devices implanted within their personal articles or themselves, or consider if biometric cards or rtv devices placed into illegal aliens that would treat them as cattle would be anti-Christian.
The Ottoman Empire was formed by Osmanli tribal shepherds that became shepherds of men and made janissary units of Christian European captives into slave soldiers that were the best fighters in the world. Corporatist powers today may consider people as cattle to be herded, as could a hierarchical priesthood perhaps of any denomination working closely with global corporate board executives begin to seek to ‘herd’ the global population into their cattle stalls of control. A priesthood of believers would oppose such corporatist power with a Green Beret quality instruction in democratic Christianity wherein people associate in modest peer grouping always working to grow in the faith and true knowledge of God and the Bible. The hierarchical priesthood/corporatist neotheocratic market tyranny may place its CEO into the Temple Offices as absolute Dictator, or perhaps it could simply be a Muslim mullah’s move up the Dome of the rock as Super-Duper Mufti in some distant corporatist permutation of global political alignments.
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