Tuesday, 17 February 2009

• The Age of Accountability

  We all live in an era when… excuse me sir?  Yes; that includes you…  We live in an era when gathering analytical scrutiny designed for hypothesizing extrapolates is increasingly easier.

   

  We can delve into issues and conduct surveys that would have taken the sages years of tedious pursuit.  Because we have electronic surveys, rewind, slow playback, still frames per millisecond, Twitter, and Google.

   

  We’ve got footage.  

   

  So how have the answers changed?

   

  How have our basic instincts of right and wrong changed?

   

  The Jewish Sages concluded that the greatest two principles were “Love Yahweh your God with all your heart, mind, soul, life, and voluntary effort, and to, love your neighbor as yourself.”

   

  How does that shake out today?

   

  I can’t recall a show where the death wasn’t anticipated and accepted by the audience of those who coldly inflicted pain and suffering on the innocent throughout the show.  And if the villain didn’t die, or if he died of old age, we were slightly disappointed.

   

  From my point of view Yahweh and Yahweh’s chosen people drew a fair amount of blood according to the older Judeo Christian writings.  There was the Flood, the Exodus, Canaan’s Invasion, Saul and David and the Philistines, the Exile (only in the Exile the role was reversed).

   

  Jump ahead to “the Salvation” – and hear Yeshua say “Love Your Enemies” – for “God sends rain on the just and the unjust.”

   

  I’m going to take his word for it even though it may seem from history that that rain is blood.  Why the perceived change in a God who says “I do not change?”

   

  “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me,” says Yahweh of hosts. “For I Yahweh do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.”

   

  So which is it; water, blood, water or blood, or, water and blood?

    

  We’re left with a decision where the answer may be undoubtably clear contradiction…

   

  (I'm only half way through my thought at this point but I'd be delighted to know your thoughts thus far...)

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