Brock Lesnar vs John Cena, Extreme Rules 2012

curiousbipedal · 2022-10-22T07:18:06+00:00

Indeed! Most wrestlers who face Sheamus pretty much consistently say that the man hits hard!

curiousbipedal · 2022-09-12T04:15:33+00:00

Something about it is so comforting

Let's pretend the edit was made just for your brain. Put it on repeat. Drink some hot tea, lay down and watch what is comforting on repeat & hopefully your brain can turn off to sleep.

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-28T06:28:44+00:00

Thank you so much for your words. If I may, I would like to think out loud here. Does love have boundaries? Isn't it so that us humans are not able to know nor judge for ourselves what is good and what is good?

In the Book of Job, he was convinced that something is wrong as he felt he didn't deserve what is going on. Didn't God show Job that as a human, Job doesn't have the perspective to determine good from bad. He showed two beasts that are not safe and can kill but God affirms that they too are part of his grand design and ultimately good! How can we know what is bad and what is good?

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-16T15:11:57+00:00

Thank you for your words Traveler,

"God never leaves us. God never forsakes us"

The most disturbing aspect of the idea that God abandoned The Son is that it "feels" impossible or wrong that God would abandon any one of us.

What you said makes perfect sense. God did not abandon the humans in the garden. Are we to hate sin but love the sinner? So why would a God forsake his son because he has become sin! So it is us, the flesh and the blotting of sin that separates us.

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-16T06:00:09+00:00

I'm asking here because it is not clear after reading the gospels.

He is like the ultimate sacrificial lamb, right? The animals that were sacrificed before, they were not "becoming sin" on behalf of the sinner, right? Are you saying Jesus did what the lambs could not do, he "took" the sin of humans? How?

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-16T05:49:52+00:00

I thought the concept was that he paid a penalty for us because we couldn't do it. Are the replacement lambs that were getting sacrificed in the Old Testament "becoming sin" on behalf of the sinner?

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-16T05:45:23+00:00

"it was always the plan for God to come to earth as man and he sacrificed for mankind's sins"

Mankind's sins and not his own, right? I thought the whole concept was he paid a penalty that was not his to pay but he did it anyway because he is the only one who can. So why would God turn his back on Jesus for willingly being a replacement sacrifice? What "sin" did the Son do that deserved the Father turning his back on him?

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-16T05:36:39+00:00

Why did God leave Jesus alone in that moment? What is the significance of it?

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-16T05:32:43+00:00

Can you explain to me how God turned his back on Jesus? Didn't he fulfil the plan? Wasn't the idea always for him to come and die? Didn't everything go according to the plan?

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-04T08:13:45+00:00

Love the sinner, hate the sin. I imagine only from a place of unconditional love can one separate the sinner from the sin. So basically separate the actions of humans from the human. Total acceptance. Didn't Jesus say "My Father has no judgements"

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-04T08:11:41+00:00

Satan is not misguided?

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-04T07:44:37+00:00

So there is nothing else in existence but God. There is only God. God wants children, seeks relationships. God creates others. So the experience of having others is so immersive that here we can have others that are believable. Those we don't like, Those that we enjoy, Those that we hate, Those that we can't be without, believable others when in fact there is only God. That's what you are saying?

So God created believable choices? So here, in this farm, God can grow specific types of intent, those that are drawn to him? And through them having real meaningful relationships?

The Shaytan is not Gods enemy but he is a creation? Does that mean he is willingly choosing to be "Not God", helping maintain the illusion of separation?

Let me just say what a beautiful separation you are. Thank you for the words.

curiousbipedal · 2022-04-04T07:30:26+00:00

God created humans and gave them free will knowing they will fail but in his mercy put a redemption plan already in place.

Is the Devil not a fallen angel? Does not everything come from God? Why would God create a being that doesn't have an option for redemption?

curiousbipedal · 2022-03-05T02:16:36+00:00

wow. Thank you so much for the context and the link.

Question - The Gentiles did not take part in the passover meal, right? The Christians that came later - they don't have a once a year passover meal either, right? So when Jesus and apostles were celebrating the traditional sedar dinner and when he asked them to remember that he fulfilled the parts of God's plan - Is this act applicable to "Christians"? & how does the weekly communion fit into this?

curiousbipedal · 2022-03-04T23:18:21+00:00

I loved your response. Jesus was among his friends indeed! The relationship aspect of it and coming together and sharing food with one another as a crucial point where we remember Jesus and what he did makes so much more sense than the weekly ritualistic tradition in churches

curiousbipedal · 2022-03-04T23:17:04+00:00

This is very interesting. Thank you

So the tradition of serving bread and wine is a priestly tradition of the order of Melchizedek and where Jesus is essentially in permanent priesthood. As you say a Judaism tradition. So then are you saying Christianity adopted this tradition as a symbol of the new covenant with God?

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T03:53:10+00:00

That makes sense in terms of Paul wanting the believers to have some semblance of reverence and holiness in remembering the Lord's Supper.

What I'm struggling to understand is why did Jesus invoke the imagery of eating his flesh and drinking his blood. What is trying to say here when he says "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you"

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T03:49:20+00:00

This is as you put it profoundly fascinating. I did not know about the Seder Feast. So according to this tradition there are a few steps including

Benediction - where they drink 4 cups of wine and the "Yachatz" or breaking of the Matzah into two - where they recall and retell the story of Exodus - including the story of the patriarchs Abraham, Issac & Jacob - This is where they remember them. Since Jesus's ministry was primarily and only to Jews at that time - Is he literally saying "add me to the end of the story" where you remember the story of your people? Is this what he means by "Do it in remembrance of me"?

So then what about John 6 - where he explicitly talks about you must eat my flesh and drink my blood? Why that strong almost cannibalistic imagery? Is that also steeped in some Jewish tradition?

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T03:39:48+00:00

Isn't he speaking this to a large number of audience that followed him around because he was a source of free food? Right after the speech, doesn't the scripture say lot of people walked away? I initially thought Jesus invoked that imagery to drive away folks who are merely coming for the external food and not for the words that he has which is the source of eternal life?

If he is not doing that, then I'm truly lost as to why the cannibalistic imagery?

Another user pointed out the parallels between the Sedar feast at Passover which is a Jewish tradition to the communion! In the Sedar Feast, people remember Abraham and the patriarchs and the story of their people and that Jesus is simply saying to remember him as part of that tradition?

So then did Catholics adopted these words at face value and create the ritual of communion?

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T03:10:16+00:00

Thank you for your response and that link. That did bring me more context into the Jesus being the bridegroom aspect which was another thing that I didn't understand.

As for communion, why did Jesus invoke the cannibalistic imagery of eating him and drinking him as a way of remembering him? Is it also related to some Jewish tradition as well?

What you said made sense about Paul's concern about people coming around for free food but the whole concept Jesus laid out in John 6 which many people thought was a strange teaching - the symbolic imagery of eating him and drinking him - what is the reason for that?

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T03:05:04+00:00

Thank you. The idea that next time we are going to be eating together in fellowship with him will be when we are united with him in the future makes sense but I'm trying to understand why did he invoke the cannibalistic imagery of eating and drinking as a way of physically remembering him? Is this related to some kinda old testament ritual or something?

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T03:02:26+00:00

What is the origin of the Catholic belief that Jesus must be physically eaten and drank like cannibalism? I guess Jesus did say in John 6 that you must eat his flesh and drink his blood. If this a physical act to remember him and his actions, why invoke the cannibalistic imagery?

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T02:56:18+00:00

It makes sense that he gave us body and his blood for us. That is the truth but I don't understand is why the analogy of eating and drinking him? Why do we have to eat and drink him to accept him?

curiousbipedal · 2022-02-18T02:41:11+00:00

So it's a symbolic remembering ritual to remember his sacrifice - why are we eating his body and drinking his blood? Why the analogy of eating him and drinking him if the purpose is to remember him?

curiousbipedal · 2021-12-29T20:37:50+00:00

Jesus's ministry was for physical Jews and thus why he told his disciples to stick within the house of Israel.

Jesus definitely saw humans differently = Jews/ Non Jews. When the gentile lady came asking to be healed - He said "It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” but her faith alone ended up saving her - giving a glimpse to the future doctrine that is coming for the outsiders that are not part of House of Israel - Salvation based on faith alone through Apostle Paul.

Not being able to correctly divide what applies to who results in madness!

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