And I don’t see why that’s an impossible prospect. But it also, then, would promise the perfection of things that we have made imperfect, even though they’ve happened in the past. So you definitely still have the pain involved in judgment and punishment. You know, God doesn’t simply judge us just to judge or just to enforce a penalty, but his judgment is to bring about correction and truth and rectitude and reconciliation, as Paul says in Second Corinthians chapter five.Īs we all already kind of know in our own lives, reconciliation is a difficult and painful work. Why does that matter? Because, I think what it does is it opens up the potential or possibility of rectifying, of changing, of making right things which we in the past have made wrong.Īnd I would say that that’s actually one major aspect of what it means to be judged by God. So if becoming more like God means becoming less limited by time, then it’s as if the events which seem past to us are now opened to us like doors that we can walk through, which before we thought were impossible to walk through. Hence the Sermon’s conclusion: “And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority.” Jesus is both: he is Moses the man and mediator, one of the people, their spokesman and intercessor at the same time he is the Lord, the God of Israel, their savior and true king. Jesus on the mountaintop recapitulates the Lord God of Israel on Mt. He speaks his own words, greater than Solomon’s, but also greater than Moses’s. He occupies the topmost spot on the mountain and takes possession of it, so that when he preaches, proclaims, and promulgates, he does so not merely as a mediator of someone else’s words. No, Jesus sits down on the mountain the way a king sits down on his throne. Why does Matthew make a point of saying that Jesus sat down? Not, presumably, because Jesus knew his Sermon was going to be a long one and his legs would give out before he finished. Here’s how Matthew introduces the Sermon on the Mount: “Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.” I do not permit my fics to be fed into machine content generators (“artificial intelligence”) or recursive fics that use them.But at the very same moment, Jesus recapitulates someone else. Permission Statement: I allow (and encourage!) recursive fic, remixes, fanart, cosplay, physical printing and binding for personal or archival use, and other forms of recursive fandom inspired by my fics, as long as my original is linked somewhere easily noticeable. Lu is both a fat character and a self-insert and it hurts me very much to see la skinnywashed. I do not accept submission or tags of fanart or piccrews of the laoft character iolanthe in which lu is not fat. Join my Patreon here - Get guaranteed answers to your questions, vote on future fics, previews, and access to rough drafts Get something off of my redbubble here - Wickhills High School merch, and other art related to my fics Navigation here (to navigate to the various masterlists and the FAQ) Ways to support me, if you so wish!Ĭommission me to write something for you!ĭonate to the current Ko-fi goal here for special fics or art Hey yall! here’s a handy dandy pinned post to help yall get around and find all the important stuff on the blog!
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