Unpeel the Onion to find Peace + Thought shall not kill + Jews are potentially fake

After Remembrance Day we have probably had our fill of people promising us peace by fighting. This is clearly nonsense *. The way to Peace is totally different from all this activity. In its simplest form if people stopped fighting then war would end, there is literally nothing to do to end war.

One way to look at the path to Peace is like wrapping up an onion. There are levels to this.

The lowest level is Level A where people operate only for themselves. Psychopaths fit this level. Working in a prison like Broadmoor for example, you will have met many people at this level.

Eventually someone hits our mother, wife or children and we step in to protect them. We are suddenly caring about people beyond our self and we crawl into level B.

Eventually our country is attacked and we sign up to defend it and we enter level C.

While fighting we bayonet an enemy soldier and hear him crying out for his mother we suddenly realise he is human just like us. When this sense of us being the same becomes greater than our training by our leaders to see him as alien and enemy, then we start to see level D.

Levels D/E/F are really, really confused. During Remembrance Day we hear lots of references to Christ when Christ never once said take up arms against anyone. He said "turn the other cheek" [Matthew 5:39] and "he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword." [Matthew 26:52]. People at level D realise that hurting anyone is hurting them self. By the time you enter Level E hurting anyone is hurting God's creation, its quite the opposite of lower behaviours.

So the god/God levels no longer involve violence. It is almost comical how people in the name of God embark on Jihads and Crusades. Surely God is powerful enough to punish wrong doers by himself, our job is simply to make sure we are not among them when punishment comes. Hence another of Jesus' famous lines, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" [John 8:7] Give up condemning others, focus just on making yourself ready for God, there is more than enough work in that alone,. You look at the Jewish, Muslim and Christian worlds and you realise that really these worlds follow the Devil. 

It gets very sophisticated up here beyond level D and anyone who gets here is probably high enough evolved to continue by them self... keep exploring the levels of the onion.

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* So there is the idea of Pax as in Pax Romana, Pax Brittannia and now Pax Americana. When you have a strong mafia in town then there is peace, because everyone is afraid to argue. This is a kind of peace that I have called Pax before in this blog. Periods of Pax in history are associated with growth in trade and culture because there is stability. It's a very practical time. When people say "fight for peace" what they mean is "fight for Pax" which means supporting a mafia so that it becomes so powerful that all other mafia stop fighting. Iraq was an excellent example of this. Once the Pax Hussein was ended the country turned into a violent brawl as all the old mafia starting fighting for power. The US basically turned out to not be powerful enough to enforce Pax. To do this you need deep connections, collaborators and information about a region: what Hussein had but the US did not in the infinite ignorance about the art of Empire. They still need more schooling by the UK who was a lot better at this and has centuries of experience.

Anyway this is Pax. But it is not peace. There is no good will toward Pax, it is simply treading water until opportunity arises for people to fight for power again. Empire's fall, incompetent leaders take over and fighting can resume. Pax and War are brothers. Pax is like drug addicts who have had their drugs confiscated, but will start taking them again as soon as they are available. Peace is drug addicts who understand this is not their best life and want to reform. Even when drugs are present they work to avoid them. Very different things.

Peace is different. Once you understand that fighting is stupid then you no longer do it. A peaceful nation does not fight cos it can't, it doesn't fight cos it doesn't want to. Very different. Differences are not solved by beating up people until they stop arguing, they are diplomatically and intelligently approached looking for mutual agreement. Alexander the Great for all his mythological military prowess actually created his empire through agreements and marriages. The fighting was not so important. Unfortunately he did not have the acumen to maintain an empire.

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So there is a contradiction. At no point does Christ point to violence. When asked what is the most important commandment he says:

'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. [Matthew 22:37–40]

His words are in both verses shall-love or Ἀγαπήσεις/Agapíseis.

This love is translated here  :

To love (25) (agapao - see related study of noun agape) means to love unconditionally and sacrificially as God Himself loves sinful men (John 3:16), the way He loves the Son (John 3:35, 15:9, 17:23, 24).
Note that agapao is a verb and by its verbal nature calls for action. This quality of love is not an emotion but is an action initiated by a volitional choice.
MacArthur writes that agapao "expresses the purest, noblest form of love, which is volitionally driven, not motivated by superficial appearance, emotional attraction, or sentimental relationship. (MacArthur, John: 1 & 2 Thessalonians. Moody Press) In his commentary on 1 Peter MacArthur says it this way "agapaō expresses the ideal kind of love, that which is exercised by the will rather than emotion, not determined by the beauty or desirability of the object, but by the noble intention of the one who loves."

So Jesus always talks in terms of compassion and profound commitment to God and other people. Not a passive nice feeling of support, but a deep drive to associate and nurture.

So we turn to the 6th Commandment:

"Thought shall not kill."

It is an unfortunate translation, and rather confusing because the Old Testament is literally full of people killing. The Greek is Οὐ φονεύσεις which is from the root φονεύω meaning murder. So the proper translation is more narrow than kill, it is illegal killing. Obviously the Old Testament would not condemn war as it is full of it, and extreme war as well. Consider the wiki page analysis.

The Hebrew word is Retzach and this is expanded in the wider Mitzvot commandments:  

The 613 Mitzvot extend the notion of lawful killing to the nations that inhabited the Promised Land, commanding to exterminate them completely. Deuteronomy 20:10–18 establishes rules on killing civilians in warfare:

the population of cities outside of the Promised Land, if they surrender, should be made tributaries and left alive (20:10–11)

those cities outside of the Promised Land that resist should be besieged, and once they fall, the male population should be exterminated, but the women and children should be left alive (20:12–15)

of those cities that were within the Promised Land, however, everybody was to be killed.

So "Not Killing" even includes genocide if done within the context of war.

So how does Jesus who never disagrees with the Old Law but simply revises the writing of it to focus on the true meaning reconcile his teachings of Agapao with Retzach. Even faced with the lawful stoning of the adulteress something clearly stated in the Hebrew Law he asks the accusers to consider their own moral status before executing the law. If people cannot even execute the law of God on this small scale then how would Jesus encourage them to destroy whole cities?

It all points to the Jews having major misunderstandings of their own Laws. Either that or they must discredit the Prophet Jesus.

I do not know the answer. But since God encourages genocide within the Promised Land it did occur to me that the Jews should not be surprised if they experience genocide outside the Promised Land.

And that seems to me to be the failing of Judaism. It is remarkable given the depth of Jewish scholarship like Adorno and Levinas that no one has considered the Dialectic Jew/Gentile. Judaism is a limited concept because it divides the whole into opposing parts, and these parts are always in Hegelian conflict. It is no surprise that Jews massacre people inside the Promised Land and it is no surprise that Gentiles massacre Jews outside the Promised Land. It must in fact logically be like this. But as any dialectic will point out this will eventually lead to transcendence or aufhebung.  Of course this dialectic only exists within Judaism because outside Judaism there is no such thing as a Gentile. Indeed many people outside the Promised Land wonder what all the fuss is about: a storm in a teacup that only makes sense within the Judaic paradigm. That in itself is proof that there is nothing fundamental about Judaism: you cannot experience it, you must learn it! A Gentile is not born a Gentile they must learn they are a Gentile. And through the mirror a Jew is not born a Jew, they must learn they are a Jew. For some reason entire race of Jews seem stuck at Level C above and are unable/unwilling to conceive of a broader Humanity (Level D). How especially ironic as in the schema above you need to get to Level D before even appreciating True God. How can you appreciate the Creator God if you are still hung up on particular aspects of that Creation!

It all points to Judaism being fake. And the problems get deeper. I do not know who the God of Abraham was, but he was not the same God that sent the most famous Jewish prophet Jesus. The God of Abraham was a jealous God while of Father of Jesus is infinitely forgiving to those who have faith. The God of Abraham and Moses spends all his time punishing people. He commands 3000 executed for the transgression of worshipping the Golden Calf. Are we to presume that none of them were repentant of their sin? If any were repentant then we have a God executing those asking for forgiveness. This is not a merciful God. While the God of Jesus places mercy and forgiveness ahead of all things. The sins of the truly repentant are forgiven. This does not make Yahweh Bet a push over. You need be "truly repentant" and God knows what you deepest intentions are, so any sneaky attempts to cheat justice will fail. But for those who have seen the error of their ways Yahweh Bet will kill the fattened calf as the father does to celebrate the return of the prodigal son.

Yahweh Bet and Yahweh Alef are absolutely not the same Gods!

So who knows what God the Jews follow. I'm even prepared to think there was a switch and it is Jacob who breaks the Jewish line.

Genesis 27:
Jacob went in to his father and said, “Father.”
And his father said, “Yes, my son. Who are you?”
Jacob said to him, “I am Esau, your first son. I have done what you told me. Now sit up and eat some meat of the animal I hunted for you. Then bless me.”

So Jacob tricks his father and become the illegitimate lineage that we now call Jews. Obviously God saw all this, God is not tricked, so God leaves the bible at this point. 

Then we pick up "God" (or a god) again in the next chapter. But I don't think spirits that visit you at oasis in the night can be trusted. This is where the desert jinn hang out. I believe that Jacob, the illegitimate heir of Abraham, was tricked by a jinn or demon to follow him.

We have Jesus being tricked and tempted in exactly the same way in the desert and Jesus rejects the temptations of the devil. So it seems quite possible, altho arrogant speculation because this has been studied for 1000s of years and who am I, that the Jewish line to Abraham is broken and Jacob was the liar who fooled his heirs and broke the link . However this does not explain how YaHWeH Alef was a completely different God from YaHWeH Bet that Jesus spoke of. And it does not, as it stands, explain why the Jews are never at peace. Work to do... 

For reference the (possible) tricking of Jacob by a desert jinn. In Genesis 28:10-17:

Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”

So this means that the descendants of Abraham are the Edomites and not the Jews. And it means that a desert Jinn is what promised Moses the Promised Land and he made the mistake of accepting it (unlike Jesus later on). Uh ho you do not accept gifts from a devil! Perhaps this explains the constant grief the Jews have since experienced?