03/02/2025

Unlike their contemporary Scribes and Pharisees, the writers of the New Testament are not trying to impress anyone by the extent of their knowledge.

They are trying to fulfill, as best they can, the "Good News" that they have witnessed in person or have had proclaimed to them by those who spent three years of their lives with the person that is "The Good News". The Good News that is the outcome of all the revelations that comprise the Old Testament. 

The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews has been nurtured in and thus acquired the culture favoured by IAMIAM. The lore of  Old Testament is known to him in the detailed Law of Moses which for him had been his reason for being.

The Ancient Israelites had suffered as a people and as individuals for centuries but in the days of Our Lord they still retained both the Temple and the Law and were living in the calm of the first "Pax Romana".

IAMIAM had originally trusted Abraham and then his descendants with the ability of how to know that he is the "Lord, the God of Israel".

No man can know God. No man is without freedom. No man is sinless.

The Incarnation changes everything for humanity. Mary's son, is a man who knows God as his very self. First of all the people of Palestine then the whole world are encouraged to use our freedom to choose the Good News. Jesus, through his death and resurrection  reveals how  that the death of each  can be followed by the new life of resurrection when we walk the sinless path he treads out for us.

The only ones, Scribes and Pharisees, ever condemned by Jesus were not condemned for their learning as such but for the stubborn pride that still refuses the revelation that the  "I" of IAMIAM IS FATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Our God has never encoded anything into our conscious beings but expects us to use our freedom to believe the evidence that is revealed by those who were his prophets from of old and by the Good News that is part of our daily Christian worship whether in a Church or in our hearts.

In our personal freedom we have the ability to know, love and serve thus becoming the image and likeness that we have been created to be.