Is there an Elijah in Israel today?
More probably then not, as He seems to have been as eternal as any who has come down through the annals of time.
Not sure who he is, though.
Questions asked by people who say there’s always a buddha/Jesus heh.
Jesus. Did say Elijah … well. See Malachi, Matthew, & Mark on that.
John the B asked if Jesus was the Dude. If he had to ask, what do you think he’s going to answer those who ask if John the B is Elijah?
See also Luke 23:30, Rev 6:16, Luke 24:31-32.
In agreement with that Ish but get this : I found out through my recent exposure of the Buddha through Nichirin’s description , and it parallels the above , for he found Buddha saying that He ( the Buddha) had to say that He died, otherwise the followers could not-would not believe Him.
In fact Jesus Christ did the same thing, over the promise of a return. Which means He is ever present.
His brief appearance after the Crucifixion proved the little faith they had in Him as well, for even though they were blessed, but not on account of belief without seein Him.
Don’t you think hope should be nurtured, since once there was faith in it? It’s a case where what should be overrides what is.
Really
If, God did not exist, then He should be invented, and He was.
( A reinvention is virtually impossible, yet, that is our last hope !)
We would not need to invent God if they did not already exist. Therefore, we don’t need to invent God… because they already exist. We just need to acknowledge it. The need is so that we have a choice.
Those who invent needed truth do so to exploit the need and have you choosing out of their hands. Always ask if where they are leading you recognizes the other as self, or disregards/violates consent. Accept no imitation.
You WANT to be weeded out by a good gardener if you aren’t weeds. We all got ‘em.
The bad gardeners destroy the roses out of spite, and only remember the thorns.
Said what I said.
In the absence of knowledge, anything goes. Faith may be a substitute.People who are satisfied with faith, usually have another agenda. Lust and greed and other temporal pleasures are prime candidates. When those pursuits fail, despair sets in. Faith motivated to avoid despair is bad faith. But, even then there is hope.
Yes but according to Acquines the existence of God is unseen and unseeable, this is why Christ blesses people who can acknowledge God without seeing Him,
The Essence of God includes His Being which necessitates Faith without having to prove His existence, so for people like that , who are the salt of the earth, God’s existence can not be proved as given.
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“In the absence of knowledge, anything goes. Faith may be a substitute.People who are satisfied with faith, usually have another agenda. Lust and greed and other temporal pleasures are prime candidates. When those pursuits fail, despair sets in. Faith motivated to avoid despair is bad faith. But, even then there is hope.
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Felix, although I go along with what is essentially said here, ithe satisfaction with pleasures or faith, should be modified. The coincidence of these two apparent ‘agendas’ does not consist in an exclusion of all pleasure from those of the faithful,
Saint Monica admonished her son, later to be known as Saint Augustine to cease living in his described Confessions, as he did later on.
I think there are variable grey and relative aspects of what consists of pain of alienation from God, through veritable sins of passion, and it takes a more subtle enumeration to truly distinguish the two.
I think such middle aged proportions can directly be attributed to Marcus Aurelius who put it as; an untried virtue is not Virtue. Eros will axiomatically rise to greys more saturated with white light , reflecting more than what’ absorbed and producing darker greys to black.
Nondual awareness involves identification with the unseen seer.
The Upanishads say a person is what their deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come. So let us direct our deepest desires to realize the Self—God within.
Is there a such thing as triune awareness?
Insofar as you can imagine such a thing it is an object. Whereas, we are talking about pure unchanging subjectivity—the one imagining you.
What if such a being is eternally in whole relation?
Like Shiva and Shakti?
That sounds very dual. Just saying.
Like Yin and Yang?
Yin and yang is not dual, actually.
They know they are balanced by/in a whole that is third with them.