By reading the letter He wrote to ALL (the Bible) and stop listening to
tradition of men teachings that stroke your ego of what you want to hear instead of what He wants you to hear.
Not exact matches
You miss the mystics
of all
traditions who are far closer to the
teachings and path
of Christ than anyone who simply follows a book written by
man centuries after he lived.
So it was quite shocking to most Jews when Jesus
taught His followers to violate some
of the Sabbath
traditions (but not the Law itself), and even said that «Sabbath was made for
man; not man for the Sabbath» (Mark 2:27), and that «The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath» (Mark 2:28; Luke 6:
man; not
man for the Sabbath» (Mark 2:27), and that «The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath» (Mark 2:28; Luke 6:
man for the Sabbath» (Mark 2:27), and that «The Son
of Man is Lord of the Sabbath» (Mark 2:28; Luke 6:
Man is Lord
of the Sabbath» (Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5).
It reflects the theology
of those who thought
of Jesus exclusively in apocalyptic terms, and were prepared not only to go through the
tradition and substitute «the Son
of Man» for his simple «I,» but also to insert appropriate quotations or paraphrases
of their favorite apocalyptic texts in order to give his life its appropriate setting — as they assumed — and his
teaching its proper interpretation.
Matthew 10:3 (Jesus instructing to
teach the Jews first to
teach the world His truth, but, most Jews dropped the ball due to unbelief and stayed with their
traditions of man religion
of Judaism).
Sadly the bible warns about
traditions of man, yet that is what a lot
of them
teach.
Biblical understanding, in the
tradition of Calvin,
teaches that the will
of man can not choose God without God first choosing the
man, and neither once chosen by God can the
man ultimately refuse our savior.
Then there are the dangerous questions that challenge the
tradition itself, like why can't women
teach men, why can't I
teach your children in Sunday school if I'm not straight, what's this head
of the household crap, why can't we have marriage equality, why is the church so myopic, and isn't it possible that the whole human race is connected and one and that there is no separation illustrated by the ancient paradigm
of heaven and hell.
Moreover, back
of this primitive
tradition was the life and the
teaching of One who had himself lived
man's life, under the conditions
of growing political oppression and injustice and
of the threatened extinction
of Jewish faith and worship and
of the whole Jewish way
of life.
Yes, this was evidence that God also was upset about what this
man named Jesus was
teaching, and had seen fit to make Him a public spectacle in the sight
of all so that nobody would ever again seek to challenge the
teachings of the religious leaders or the
traditions of the Jewish people.
In your excellent editorial article, you write: «There has been a long -
tradition within Catholic catechesis for making a rational case for the immortal nature
of men... She (the Catholic Church) needs to make a renewed case for her
teaching concerning the human soul.
So while we would certainly see matter as ontologically non-reducible to its parts, and thus support a certain emergence, when we come to
man this involves the direct creation
of the new principle
of the spiritual soul, as
taught in Catholic
tradition.
All in all, the problems are such that we have felt it necessary to ignore the Johannine material altogether, even in the case
of the Son
of man teaching, and the only major reference to be found on the fourth gospel in what follows is one
of the account
of the crucifixion where it does seem apparent that John is referring to a Christian exegetical
tradition.
It is said that you can not
teach anyone what they do not know already; and Jesus, being a good teacher, has reached back into the
tradition that he shares with the young
man and pointed out what both
of them know: If you would be like a tree planted by rivers
of water, learn to know, love, and obey the Law
of God.
We in the U.K. have a fine
tradition of Spirit - led, Word - based preaching and
teaching, with
men and women seeking weekly (not weakly!)
«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act
of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals
teaching what we have made
tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless
of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».
The REAL Church is the heart
of man, receiving our LORD's HOLY SPIRIT, true acceptance
of GOD's saving GRACE would mean turning away from false
teachings,
man's doctrines and
traditions.
Still American Christianity has seldom emphasized the aspect
of the Christian
tradition that stressed the unity rather than the distinction
of divinity and
man so that the oriental
teachings stand out as sharply divergent.
However, while this may be increasingly apparent to those who devote a great deal
of their vocational time to the serious study
of those
teachings, it is not so apparent to the millions
of unsuspecting Christian laity who, having been so taken by the writings
of Lindsey, LaHaye, et al., often dismiss those «centuries
of Christian
teaching» as «
traditions of men.»
For this reason we reject Luke 11.30 as part
of the
teaching of Jesus and regard it as a product
of the developing Christian
tradition, against Tödt, (H. E. Tödt, Son
of Man, pp. 53ff.)
John's embodiment - driven
teaching draws from not only over 30 years
of experience
of his own Buddhist meditative practice but from the deep lineages
of Vajrayana, tantra, and Kundalini yoga, as well as the Taoist
traditions of Iron Shirt Qigong, to create a profound experience for
men and women longing to express their deepest desires with open, fierce, and loving hearts.
As a young
man, Che studied Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, where he was
taught about the Eastern
traditions of painting.
Other topics included an influential 1983 article by Sid Sachs (University
of the Arts)-- who was in the audience — on whether there was such a thing as a Philadelphia Imagist
tradition; a College Art Association conference chaired by curator Judith Stein (also in the audience); the number
of artists who
taught and lived in both Chicago and Philadelphia (particularly Ree Morton and Rafael Ferrer); and the equal representation
of men and women among the Chicago Imagists.