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Midrash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Algonquin Legends of New England Index
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judefas review - StumbleUpon
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Welcome to StumbleUpon
Rated Apr 06 2009 • 1 review • stumblers, b bear, religion, stumbleupon, life • stumbleupon.com
Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear,
which didn't enter into the heart of man,
these God has prepared for those who love him.
- Isaiah 64:4
- A Spiritual Growl
Ack, as if I need more self-reflection! Stumbot's recent review of this site seemed to display a deep knowledge of my spirit. Oh, yeah, this is the unrobotic response I should be expecting for bearing my soul! Like all the fantastic reviews that stumblers have left me, bot's one made me seriously reflect on myself.
I do realise that, as Mr. Bot so keenly claimed, b-bear acts like a missionary. And if the origin of this spiritual mission does not simply lie in vegetarianism - of which I am surely guilty, your honour - then in what?
In response to bot's review I also tried to recall exactly what it was in religion that attracted me. Like all good missionaries, I returned to the Bible. While Christianity is not the only religion that attracts me, as I believe, with Blake, that 'All Religions Are One', the writings of the Bible do inspire me.
If I practice a vegetarian life, or if I think that all things are holy, and so worthy of love, I can still turn to Isaiah and seek in love - love that has been prepared - 'things which an eye didn't see'. And so I turn to Paul and the First Letter to the Corinthians.
In his Letter, Paul entreats us to 'Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy' (14:2). There is nothing closer to my beliefs.
There were severe limits to Paul's love as it became a church, but like all missionaries (however deluded they may be) I am attracted first and foremost to the limitless possibilities of love.
In his writing, Paul interprets the prophets. He bears up the prophets, their faith and hope, in order to build up the assembly, the Christian Church he loves. Paul, in other words, is the greatest fan of the prophets, of those who tell of the future and what to do in order to receive it. His enthusiasm for prophecy and prophets enables the church to be built up and to be built up on love rather than on hate, bigotry and intolerance.
Love builds, whereas knowledge only puffs up; one only truly knows in a company of equals if one loves others. And it is only because Paul continues to love, continues to interpret and hope for prophets that a Christian assembly can appear that can keep on building up.
A religion that has forsaken its love, and its love of prophets and prophecies, is an orthodox and moribund religion that has so 'puffed up' its own tomes it has entombed its own future in dead knowledge. For in order to see beyond the eye, and beyond the ears, one must first use senses in love, to share in the company of others, gentile or Jew, animal or thing.
And this is where Paul writes one of the most impassioned descriptions of love I have ever read:
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
For love bears all things. And without love, knowledge is useless. In my missionary work, I am not seeking out religion. Rather, I am seeking out a knowledge inspired by love, and a love inspired by knowledge. Anything less is a dead end. As Paul puts it:
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
