The I Am

[china]

I think that the I AM of the Hebrew scriptures sets Himself apart from His people by defining Himself in the most exclusive of terms. Since there can't be an "I" without a "you" or "other" - without a disconnection - God punctuates his absence with the self-pronounced title. Further back, there is the exile from the garden of Eden. And, according to the book of Revelation, there is an injury that occurs still earlier: "the Lamb that was slain (in sacrifice) from the foundation of the world" . The Lamb referred to is a messiah, an atonement for the fall, a closing of the gap between man and God. So, even before the gap occurred, it needed healing. In the beginning was simultaneous death and life. Before that was a void, and before anything, apparently, there was God. As soon as the world was founded, when God spoke it into being, according to Revelation, there was also death. The first words brought death - a pattern we are forever repeating and trying to alter. Maybe we are trying to uncreate the wound with all our words, trying to find our way back to the initial word - to God.So,we wander through the tear in the fabric of creation - language.
Your thought ,as usual .

 

[Sal]

I think that the I AM of the Hebrew scriptures sets Himself apart from His people by defining Himself in the most exclusive of terms. Since there can't be an "I" without a "you" or "other" - without a disconnection - God punctuates his absence with the self-pronounced title. Further back, there is the exile from the garden of Eden. And, according to the book of Revelation, there is an injury that occurs still earlier: "the Lamb that was slain (in sacrifice) from the foundation of the world" . The Lamb referred to is a messiah, an atonement for the fall, a closing of the gap between man and God. So, even before the gap occurred, it needed healing. In the beginning was simultaneous death and life. Before that was a void, and before anything, apparently, there was God. As soon as the world was founded, when God spoke it into being, according to Revelation, there was also death. The first words brought death - a pattern we are forever repeating and trying to alter. Maybe we are trying to uncreate the wound with all our words, trying to find our way back to the initial word - to God.So,we wander through the tear in the fabric of creation - language.
Your thought ,as usual .

And, according to the book of Revelation, there is an injury that occurs still earlier: "the Lamb that was slain (in sacrifice) from the foundation of the world" . The Lamb referred to is a messiah, an atonement for the fall, a closing of the gap between man and God. So, even before the gap occurred, it needed healing.

Talk more about this China for I have never been exposed to this in thought before. And obviously you have some thoughts on it.