The Christian Teaching

In the previous post I developed the three possible areas that any teaching can have. In this post, I'll have to translate the notions in question into English, which I shall only do with some loss of elegance. And for that reason I wrote two posts: that I shall have beauty in the first and accessibility in the second.

Every teaching can only consist of

1. a notion of the holy,
2. an exusiastical analysis (or conclusion from the condition),
3. a role of the world,

the veracity of which I have proven in the previous post, though only in the sense that a man who has studied these things for twenty years will find it to be true.

Not really wanting to leave it at that, I'll repeat here that the notion of the holy is the product of mood (not to be confused with temper), the exusiastical analysis the product of insight and the role of the world the product of expectation (or belief, which is the same thing).

Having that it is easy to proceed to the question what the Christian notion of the holy, the Christian exusiastical analysis and the Christian role of the world are, and it so happens that the answer to that is surprisingly easy to give, at least if we don't start splitting hairs.

1. The Christian Notion of the Holy

The life of Jesus of Nazareth exemplifies the Christian notion of the holy.

2. The Christian Exusiastical Analysis of Christianity (The Christian Conclusion from the Condition of Being Christian)

The conditions for the second coming of Christ contain most of the Christian exusiastical analysis of Christianity, and in particular the Book of Revelation.

The latter is not only the fruit of logical consideration, it is furthermore a blessing and a curse that conduct the affairs of those who do and do not believe in Christ, and reveal their concrete implications to them, which, of course, is both remarkable and on the edge of what one can wrap one's head around.

3. The Christian Role of the World

John 1:1-18 contains the Christian role of the world, but it does so in a language that few people have understood and consequentially few people have correctly translated. Not wanting to appear preposterous, I shall quote the relevant verses in the original Greek.

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν

Καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἐθεασάμεθα τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, δόξαν ὡς μονογενοῦς παρὰ πατρός, πλήρης χάριτος καὶ ἀληθείας.

Everything came into being through the notion regarding God that was embodied by Jesus of Nazareth, and in this sense God was that notion. In other words: What has been recognised as holy, holy like Jesus of Nazareth was, will come into being. That is the nature of God: He is the one who gives existence to the holy. First is the understanding of what is holy, then God manifests it as the world.

So in contrast to contemporary thinking, the world didn't come into being through a big bang, but as God's answer to what was recognised as holy.

ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων: καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.

ην τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον.

Life flows from the holy, and life is the awareness of man, his true light, and the unaware, matter, has not seized awareness.

ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἦν, καὶ ὁ κόσμος δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ ὁ κόσμος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἔγνω. εἰς τὰ ἴδια ἦλθεν, καὶ οἱ ἴδιοι αὐτὸν οὐ παρέλαβον. ὅσοι δὲ ἔλαβον αὐτόν, ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν τέκνα θεοῦ γενέσθαι, τοῖς πιστεύουσιν εἰς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ,

Awareness was in the world, and the world came into being through awareness, but the world didn't come to know awareness. Awareness came into its own, but it was not received. But who did receive awareness were in the condition to become children of God, who believed in God.

The notion of the holy has manifested beings who are aware and can thus also be aware of the holy and through its recognition become God's children, who partake in the manifestation of the holy by its recognition.

It is important to understand that recognition is already enough: What has been recognised as holy will be.

And when you expect that, and no sooner, you believe in God, for that is God, that He will manifest the holy.

John really didn't write in riddles, it's the tradition that uses dressed up ghosts, where John was literal and direct: God gave people awareness of the holy and what has become aware through the awareness of the holy didn't understand the grace that it was given.

So, taking all this together, the role of the world in Christianity is to capture holiness,

1. as a starting point to recognise further holiness,
2. as an end point to inherit recognised holiness.

In particular Christ must return, when His return has been recognised as holy, and it is for this that we all know who Christ is, so that we may recognise that, and it is also for this that we sense that eventually He will return. The Christian exusiastical analysis, of course, deduces that a number of things must happen first and then other things must accompany it.

That is the Christian teaching. In contemporary eyes insane. And since nobody wants to be insane, nobody believes.