The Debt to the Wise and the Foolish

 Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, and the law itself says: "honor your Father and Mother" and as such, Mary had Jesus ear.  Thus though Jesus is King, the tradition of the ancient kingdom of Israel was that the queen of Israel was not the wife of the King (for the king could have many wives) but rather the mother of the King (the גְּבִירָה‎ i.e. 'Gebirah', translating roughly to 'great lady' and often translatd as: "queen mother") hence Solomon had a throne set up at his right hand for his mother, whose requests he was willing to hear out (1 Kings 2:19-20) and this makes sense in light of how the King of Israel was still subject to the covenant of God with Israel, and so would himself be subject to the commandment of honoring father and mother.  In light of this, if the Kingdom of God is in any way reflected by the Kingdom of Israel (which seems to be, for the new covenant in the blood of Jesus (Luke 22:20) which ...

 Christ was wounded by the nails which pierced his hands and feet, and the spear that pierced his side, the thorns which pierced his holy head, the scourges at the pillar, and perhaps in his heart at gesthemane in the loneliness in seeing his coming death.  Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Christ is the light of the world. Christ is the Word, the Logos, the Son of the Father and who sends the Spirit.  The Way The hands and feet and side of The Way are pierced. The Way wears a crown of thorns.  The Way was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Way suffered at Gesthemane. The Truth The hands and feet and side of The Truth are pierced. The Truth wears a crown of thorns.  The Truth was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Truth suffered at Gesthemane. The Life The hands and feet and side of The Life are pierced. The Life wears a crown of thorns.  The Life was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Life suffered at Gestheman...

 G.K. Chesterton once said this: "Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves." (Heretics, Chapter IV. Mr. Bernard Shaw) which is of course to say, that we have not made reality to suit ourselves, and must rather learn to suit ourselves to reality; and there is some danger in this, but to the extent that we succeed, then what the Joker said surely becomes true: "What doesn't kill you makes you stranger." I suppose then the strangest of fictions are the fictions written by the realist of men.

Here are some quotes from some works of G.K. Chesterton giving some insight on his understanding of the notion of bigotry:  "Bigotry does not consist in a man being convinced he is right; that is not bigotry, but sanity. Bigotry consists in a man being convinced that another man must be wrong in everything, because he is wrong in a particular belief; that he must be wrong, even in thinking that he honestly believes he is right." - G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man, The New Bigotry "In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all [ . . . ] Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; it has made all monstrous and widely pervading persecutions. In this degree it was not t...

So two Muslim gentlemen reviewed a video on the Trinity here , and I wanted to respond to some of the concerns they raised. Also, just to note ahead of time, I'm not an expert theologian or anything, just a laymen (or, if you prefer, hobbyist) who enjoys thinking about these things, so I'm more liable to err than an expert and there are probably those who can put these things more clearly, so take that as you will, but in any case, here's my response:  The Logic of the Trinity The three persons of the Trinity are not three members of one species, where the species is God, because we do not count them as being 3 gods, but only as one God. i.e. we are saying that with respect to the species 'God' the three persons of the Trinity are numerically identical, and are only '3' regarding the species 'person' (I should also note that we don't typically use the word 'species' to talk about these things, since that is related to the ancient genus-di...

You asked me to change my words,  that you might understand, and so I changed my words, that you might understand, and when I wished to speak, that you might understand, you would not speak with me,  that you might understand, I wished to understand you, that you might understand, I wished to make my mind known, that you might understand, I hoped to hear your words too,  that you might understand, I hoped to understand too,  that you might understand, perhaps it was wrong to wish, that you might understand, perhaps it was wrong to think, that you might understand, perhaps it was wrong to hope,  that you might understand, but only if I'd hope twas me,  that you might understand, and perhaps it was sometimes, that you might understand,  me putting me myself forth, that you might understand,  but I hope at times I'd put forth not me, that you might understand,  but rather the truth that I had,  that you might understand,  for truth is ...

 Words were always symbols only part of what they convey but oh great sorrow of sorrows, when unintended, they give pain for though man spends hours and educates himself for days, he still holds a knife in his tongue, and can unwillingly cut in deepest of ways.  And yet those days should still be spent, in learning to master one's words for though words may cut, unknowingly how much more otherwise will the horrors be? In so many way, a tragedy, do my eyes see this world to be, in so many ways, a horror, do my ears hear it's song,  in so many ways, a sad song, are even singular moments of good will, in so many ways, a funeral march, is this life,  in waiting for the words, the words of the world to come.  And yet, and yet, and yet, hope must still there be,  hope against hope, and light against night, and life against pain and suffering.  For rare though it may be, still even in this world, of sorrows and funerals and grave and terrors, still even in th...