Semi-Final post: Radical Protestant Thugs Destroyed in 3 Easy Steps by The Lord’s Prayer
1. “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Uhhh…. This life is our home while we’re living it. We are not in some distasteful purgatory just waiting to get to the end. What a coward’s way out. Nihilistic, vapid, desacralizing.
Jesus and the Father clearly want us concerned with (loving) the life around us and fully engaged in it. We are followers of the Way and ministers of the Gospel. Matthew 25 agrees. Your will be done on Earth! Not just the church. Church doesn’t even have a roll in the Lord’s Prayer aside from the universalizing plural pronouns, “our Father”; “give us today”; “forgive us or sins.”
We’re all together in this project of love and care and seeking the Divine. Judgment of the Deniers won’t be pretty.
No poverty, no homelessness, no sectarianism. All knowledge and love and joy. That’s heaven. Jesus tells us to pray that we work for the same here on Earth.
God’s will is not for the Thugs to disparage humanity, hurt it, and turn away in the and fragility of soulless hate.
This is what makes them thugs.
2. “Give us this day our super-being bread.”
We are not praying for “daily” bread. The Greek for daily isn’t there. What is there is epiousion. Ousian from ousia: being, substance, just like in the creedal affirmations of god as one ousia, one being.
And epi, means above, beyond, super, as in epic, epiphenomenon. Or in epiclesis which refers to the invocation of the Holy Spirit, often during the Eucharistic prayer.
The word, epiousion, doesn’t occur anywhere else - not only missing in the Greek NT manuscripts - but missing in all of Ancient Greek literature.
Clearly we are asking for something extraordinary and asking forgot every day. Give story our super substantial or super being bread? That’s the Eucharist as Jesus institutes it at the last supper: this IS my body.
The rejection of the grace of sacraments and, thus, closing off the nearness, the mystical presence of the godhead in our lives is the ultimate secularizing move by anyone calling themselves Christian.
This is what makes them radically obtuse: they extol the book but don’t know it.
3. “… forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”
I can easily forgive these radical protestant thugs. As I forgave Glenn when, at least in act, he stopped colluding with Marshal’s racist instincts to erase the existence of my wife.
They all are benighted. They all swim in the thick syrup of White Protestantism. It’s really hard to individuate oneself from that ideology. It’s 500 years of claiming god-given superiority in order to make an economy out of other people’s bodies and lives and land.
It will take a couple more generations to erase this hellish killing field of historical epiphenomenon.
The radical protestant thugs know not what they do.
But while they hang on the wooden beams built by enslavement and dispossession, with signs above them proclaiming their secular denial of the presence of god by the power of the Spirit in the sacraments and 2000 years of life in the body of Christ and numberless saintly witness…
… today they can still be in paradise, working the will of the Father on Earth: charity, humility, devotion, self sacrifice, gloriously rich life.
When Protestant means refusing the authority of one Bishop above all others, then I am a Protestant. The Spirit blows where it wills and is free to make revelations in particular places that will need to be learned eventually by the whole. For instance, in Cornelius’ house: unclean to the Apostles and disciples, but the Spirit announced that in their belief, these Gentiles became the center of the world, beyond the Jerusalem church, because they shook the world anew with god’s plan: the promises of Christ are offered to everyone without regard to identity.
When protestant means White ideology of ruling over all others in hateful judgment of god’s creation, which clearly god loves, that’s radical thuggery.
The forgiveness encompasses everyone: forgive us… but forgive us “AS” we forgive all those who sinned against us.
Jesus is always teaching us that we are bound together. No man is an island. In the eyes of heaven there can be no true sectarian protestantism. It violates god’s law of love; radical protestantism violates god’s law that we are all creatures; violates god’s law that we are all sinners; god’s law that we are all loved; god’s law that we are all intended for perfected communion, brought into the whole of creation, all the saints and angels, and headed up by Jesus Christ the Son.
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And unless you guys confess and choose to forgive and love the world or, unlikely, construct some kind of nonanxious, intelligent, scriptural based argument that doesn’t lie or erase the gospel of Jesus Christ or erase one member of the Trinity…
… I think I’m done with blogging. Craig and Marshal claim I need one. But they don’t show up. Way too cowed. So, they lied. For the umpteenth time.
btw - The significance of epiousion did not escape the early church fathers. In his Latin translation of the Greek, the Vulgate, Jerome translated it as, Panem nostrum supersubstantialem, “our supersubstantial bread” but used “daily” in Luke 11.
ReplyDelete]Note that Jerome began his Latin translation in 382 under the commission of the same Pope, Damasus, who signed off on the first agreed list of what books constituted the canon of the NT. A council of bishops at the Council of Rome - an office of the church that the radical protestants cancelled - submitted the list for approval by the Pope - an office that radical protestants cancelled - and thus was brought into being the New Testament, which radical protestants worship as worthier than the Holy Spirit. That’s! tortured thinking]
Almost all of the early fathers agreed with supersubstantial: Augustine, Cyril, Cyprian, John Cassian, and many others.
Martin Luther originally kept the interpretation as “supersubstantial” but retranslated it as “daily” later in life.
It seems Protestantism won out by erasing the easiest simple translation and writing its own ideological agenda into the Bible.
The English translation of the Douey-Rheims Bible, a 1582 French Catholic translation of the Vulgate uses “supersubstantial.”