Post by aneczyk on Nov 14, 2017 8:37:30 GMT -6
I'm curious about other christopagans' and christian polytheists' relationship to Jesus.
What are your theories on Jesus? Who do you think he was - a prophet, a magic user, the Messiah, something else? Do you worship him? Do you believe he died on the cross and was resurrected?
Personally, I don't think that Jesus was born from the Immaculate Conception or that he was the Son of YHWH or Messiah, but rather that he was a Jewish prophet, revolutionary, truth-seeker, and mystic who was called to be a spiritual leader and that he (along with others) may have eventually become one with YHWH. I don't believe he died on the cross, but that the Roman state attempted to kill him and he was rescued before dying and forced to fake his own death.
As for whether or not I worship him...I don't know. I have a strange relationship with the word worship for a few different reasons. One is that I'm exploring Luciferian philosophy right now and the practice of straight up worshiping anything is discouraged in the left-hand path.
Also, I grew up Catholic and a lot of Catholics treat Mary and the saints and angels largely the same way polytheists treat deities. They have altars, they pray to these deities, they give offerings, they have feast days, they have religious imagery surrounding them, they honor particular entities more than others, they attribute certain domains to saints the way we do to deities. Yet...Catholics don't call this practice worship or consider themselves polytheist.
What are your theories on Jesus? Who do you think he was - a prophet, a magic user, the Messiah, something else? Do you worship him? Do you believe he died on the cross and was resurrected?
Personally, I don't think that Jesus was born from the Immaculate Conception or that he was the Son of YHWH or Messiah, but rather that he was a Jewish prophet, revolutionary, truth-seeker, and mystic who was called to be a spiritual leader and that he (along with others) may have eventually become one with YHWH. I don't believe he died on the cross, but that the Roman state attempted to kill him and he was rescued before dying and forced to fake his own death.
As for whether or not I worship him...I don't know. I have a strange relationship with the word worship for a few different reasons. One is that I'm exploring Luciferian philosophy right now and the practice of straight up worshiping anything is discouraged in the left-hand path.
Also, I grew up Catholic and a lot of Catholics treat Mary and the saints and angels largely the same way polytheists treat deities. They have altars, they pray to these deities, they give offerings, they have feast days, they have religious imagery surrounding them, they honor particular entities more than others, they attribute certain domains to saints the way we do to deities. Yet...Catholics don't call this practice worship or consider themselves polytheist.