01/02/2025

I don't think that we can ever "sing a "new" song to the Lord" for it seems to me that all my prayers are always a renewal of belief, praise and petition.

Each one of us who thus sings to IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT is the same person as yesterday but the deeds of this day are never the same as those of yesterday as we all are carried along in the stream of the ever changing time of material reality.

The Jews who were the intended recipients of the Letter to Hebrews were intimately aware that IAMIAM had made a special revelation of himself and his intentions for mankind to their Father Abraham and to them through the Prophets.

In the first century only some of the Chosen People had accepted that there had been an event in their lifetimes that had renewed the face of the earth.

Jesus!

They had been inspired to sing with Simeon the song of praise that is the "new song" of the New Israel, the New Covenant between the now self-revealed to be IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and all the peoples who have lived, are living or who will ever live out their lives in creation.

All we individuals from the time of our births carry with us the burden of our own cultures. The burden, St Paul's "smoked glass, or maybe the shadows of Plato's cave becomes heavier and heavier for we individuals to off-load as the density of our knowledge of the material world becomes ever more greater by the efforts of mankind acting alone in freedom.

The Jews who first refused Jesus are still with us and have been joined by many of the spiritual descendants of the first Christian believers. Although most have now added total atheism to their refusal of Jesus, they still act as the "chosen ones" and burdened by this cultural "superiority" arrogantly kill and slaughter thus denying that non-Jews have a right to live in this world.

Such opinions as these always prompt accusations of "Anti-Semitism". I believe, however, that all actions by mankind are the result of an individual man's freedom and can thus be or not be in accordance with the revealed will of God.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT does not march with any of the world's armies but condemns all killing by both sides in the Middle-East today or in any of the world's conflicts, past, present or to come.

I am sure that Our Father does forbid the use of violence in the corporal existence which is part of our being but I have never had to react to anyone using or threatening to use violence against me or my friends and family.

Many of the Christians who have preceded me in historical time have believed in the concept of a "Just War" but the past  destruction often wreaked in the name of God has never been willed by IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.  

The carnage of Crusaders or the destroyers of Dresden is not the actions of men who live in the  Good News brought by he who sought the forgiveness of Heaven for the Sinners who nailed him to the wood of the cross both by their sins and actual nails, in real-time, through his human flesh.

All sins can be forgiven except for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. We have been warned and yet we have always developed with our knowledge of the material world weapons that are designed to kill more and more of our fellow humans.

Could this be blasphemy against the Holy Spirit ?