Month: February 2015
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Mystery XVIII: Lazarus and the Mystery of Transformation
(Pat suggested putting the class on YouTube. Kiran said he could do it. We might consider just recording Don’s preamble.) Jay: It has been suggested that the transformation promised in Revelation will be our return to the Oneness with god we had before the Fall. We’ve discussed the delayed timing of the Lazarus incident suggesting…
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Mystery XVII: Lazarus and the Mysteries of Pain and Resurrection
Jay: Jesus’s decisions concerning the death and resurrection of Lazarus seem different from the decisions he took in the rest of his ministry. A key verse in the story (John 11:4) tells us that when Jesus got the news that Lazarus was gravely ill, he told the disciples: “This sickness is not to end in…
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Mystery XVI: Mystery of Resurrection
Don: What died in the Garden of Eden was a spiritual death—separation from god, the destruction of Oneness with god. Scripture often describes physical death merely as “sleep”; it marks the end of our separation from god, the return to Oneness with him, and thus physical death is the end of spiritual death. The mystery…
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Mystery XV: Self-Awareness and Death—The Final Mystery
Don: Before the Fall, Wo/Man was not just at one with god, but also at one with nature. Genesis 1:24: Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. This is borne out further in…