Language is my sacrament

I am a Joshua following monolater who prefers to use an atheistic scientific dialect, because my thoughts on theology, mythology, and science seems to scare most. In hopes for conversation, I’m using this as my journal.

I think they call this deconstructing

I have assumed today’s religious and political leaders are different than the ones who killed past voices for good… Now, I cannot unsee how wrong I have been. Religious Nationalism is exposed as the primary identity of the most vocal white American Evangelical churches. Fox News has replaced Jesus’ teaching…Continue reading “I think they call this deconstructing”

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 57 – Day after holiness holiday

Now very early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 56 – Last day of holiness holiday

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. He who believes…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 55 – Fall holiness holiday week (Sukkot/Booths)

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee (for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him). Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 54 – Jesus lists our heart corrupting evils

Then some of the Pharisees and scribes gathered together to Jesus (having come from Jerusalem). Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled (that is unwashed) hands, they…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 53 – Next day, across the sea

On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there (except the one in which his…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 52 – Night after feeding 5000

When evening had come, he was there alone. It was dark. His disciple’s boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, and he was alone on the…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 51 – Jesus feeds 5000

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee (which is also called the Sea of Tiberias). He took them and withdrew apart to…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 50 – “The 12” return

The apostles, when they had returned, gathered themselves together to Jesus and told him all things (whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught). Now Herod the tetrarch…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 49 – Herod kills John (flashback)

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is…

08. The Chosen One (30 AD)

Day 48 – Jesus sends “the 12” (2 by 2)

He called together to himself his twelve disciples and began to send them out two by two. He gave them power and authority over all unclean spirits (to cast them out), heal every disease and cure every…