Post by Soulgazer on Aug 12, 2014 7:04:08 GMT -5
Thomas 22
"Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom."
At the time of this saying, religious bigotry was very high. A person with a disfigurement or with a birth defect was thought to have been punished by God. Thus, even a "righteous" person(rare enough) who encountered a disfigured person might be outwardly pleasent to them, but inwardly still recoiled in the presence of some great unknown "sin". Women were part of a man's "chattle".
Thomas 22 is revolutionary. Jesus is saying to see the whole person as a person, not as a sex or a disfigurement, and furthermore, make your own inner being as warm to them on the inside as you appear to be on the outside----- Then and only then may you enter God's kingdom.
In modern english; "Make your heart as warm as you appear to be on the outside, give the poor as much respect as you show the rich, don't see men and women as men and women but as PEOPLE, and when encountering a birth defect or disfigurement, don't recoil, but see the PERSON behind the disability---- THEN, you are part of the Kingdom.
"Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom."
At the time of this saying, religious bigotry was very high. A person with a disfigurement or with a birth defect was thought to have been punished by God. Thus, even a "righteous" person(rare enough) who encountered a disfigured person might be outwardly pleasent to them, but inwardly still recoiled in the presence of some great unknown "sin". Women were part of a man's "chattle".
Thomas 22 is revolutionary. Jesus is saying to see the whole person as a person, not as a sex or a disfigurement, and furthermore, make your own inner being as warm to them on the inside as you appear to be on the outside----- Then and only then may you enter God's kingdom.
In modern english; "Make your heart as warm as you appear to be on the outside, give the poor as much respect as you show the rich, don't see men and women as men and women but as PEOPLE, and when encountering a birth defect or disfigurement, don't recoil, but see the PERSON behind the disability---- THEN, you are part of the Kingdom.
