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(3/22/02 11:46 pm) Reply
The Jewish Golem
It is said that there was a time of great trouble in the city of Jews, and they needed a protector. Several Jewish rabbis' performed a kabbalahistic ritual by creating a Golem.
You may do a web search on the subject for details.
The story roughly goes like this. The rabbia created a humanoid form made of clay, and on its forhead place the name Emet which means-(Truth). In the mouth of the Golem, they place a mini scroll, called the Torah which means (Law).
After, the Golem was made alive, it went into the streets, and started to arrest and kill, those who broke the law(Torah). The citeznes and the rabbis got scared, becasue the Golem was perfectly obeying and enforcing the laws.
The is the part that facinates me, The people could not follow the laws, they kept breaking them, even in minor ways, this included the rabbis'. The people and the rabbis concluded to kill the Golem by changing his name on his forehead by eracing the "E" from Emet into Met ... which means death.
they took him and placed him in an attic, that is said he is still there to this day. The interesting part was that very act the Jews did, admits there guilt of not upholding the laws(Torah).
In a sense, the Golem was God, word for word, based on the Torah. In my perception, the jews or whomever, like using Gods' name to control the people at the sametime they break the laws, in reality they do not wont the presence of God, because it would mean death to them, accordance to the law.
Jesus is the perfect solution to this diluma the jews faced, only becasue his judgement comes from forgiveness and compassion, and not accordance the laws anymore.
I do pray, they who are lost can see, what is being presented ...
Jesus is the messiah, and so was the Golem, those by the Golem is Death, no one can follow the laws.
Those by Jesus is life ...
He who has an ear let him hear ....
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(3/23/02 8:09 am) Reply
Re: The Jewish Golem
Come to think about it, our general Law enforcers breaks the laws too, who can keep the law. The answer is, no man can.
Re: The Jewish Golem
Don't know the story myself, and I'm sure you as most would file it under fiction, but you are correct about one thing, we cannot fulfill the law without Christ.
Re: The Jewish Golem
Rom 7:9-12 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
The Law is good, holy and just, we have to remember that the problem is within in. We have to guard against throwing aside the Law as if it has been destroyed; Athanasius places it into perspective when he says:
"Yet, true though this is, it is not the whole matter. As we have already noted, it was unthinkable that God, the Father of Truth, should go back upon His word regarding death in order to ensure our continued existence. He could not falsify Himself; what, then, was God to do? Was He to demand repentance from men for their transgression? You might say that that was worthy of God, and argue further that, as through the Transgression they became subject to corruption, so through repentance they might return to incorruption again. But repentance would not guard the Divine consistency, for, if death did not hold dominion over men, God would still remain untrue. Nor does repentance recall men from what is according to their nature; all that it does is to make them cease from sinning. Had it been a case of a trespass only, and not of a subsequent corruption, repentance would have been well enough; but when once transgression had begun men came under the power of the corruption proper to their nature and were bereft of the grace which belonged to them as creatures in the Image of God. No, repentance could not meet the case. What--or rather _Who_ was it that was needed for such grace and such recall as we required? Who, save the Word of God Himself, Who also in the beginning had made all things out of nothing? His part it was, and His alone, both to bring again the corruptible to incorruption and to maintain for the Father His consistency of character with all. For He alone, being Word of the Father and above all, was in consequence both able to recreate all, and worthy to suffer on behalf of all and to be an ambassador for all with the Father." _On the Incarnation_, 7.1-5
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