Makes sense to me. So was Jesus probably. Hercules and Jesus are the same prophetic story re-told.
Interesting. And it continues…
"And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 13And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven."
Sky event?
It's a mystery I don't understand.
The flesh is a bewitching distraction from the truth of our infinite devine nature, which is not flesh.
And yet we as men are bound in teh flesh and somehow aspire to understand the divine by likening it to the flesh. So the flesh is a metaphor for a more profound love that defies flesh entirely.
Allt he while, as men we can only try to imagine such a love, which probably knows no bonds of gender, or at least loves them both equally somehow, or either.
Like I said, I don't understand.
Q himselfs quotes the bible which warns of Lust. But is lust really just a love of the flesh without the recognition of the spirit? So, love of the flesh alone without spirit? Whoever trapped us here in fleshly form – and Genesis says God himself condemned us for a time to the flesh as punishment – must have known we would struggle to understand love beyond the corporeal, fleshly form. The flesh is too imperfect to really represent divine love though, I'm thinking.
Difficult territory to comprehend.
I do see a face I don't like in that mirror image though. Unless you can tell me I'm seeing things.
I know demons don't like engaging in philosophical conversations, and angels are forbidden from conversing until the time is right, so I'll just talk to myself out loud here. Why not?
From wikipedia, that invaluable resource of info and disinfo:
Celibacy (from Latin, cælibatus") is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons. Mostly used in terms of abstaining from sexual relations.[1][2][3][4] It is often in association with the role of a religious official or devotee.[1] In its narrow sense, the term celibacy is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction.[1][5] In a wider sense, it is commonly understood to only mean abstinence from sexual activity.[1][5]
Celibacy has existed in one form or another throughout history, in virtually all the major religions of the world, and views on it have varied. Judaism strongly opposes celibacy.[6] However, the priests of the Essenes, a Jewish sect during the Second Temple period, practised celibacy. The Romans viewed celibacy as an aberration and legislated fiscal penalties against it, with the sole exception granted to the Vestal Virgins. The Islamic attitudes toward celibacy have been complex as well. Several Hadiths indicate that Prophet Muhammad denounced celibacy, but some Sufi orders embrace it.
Classical Hindu culture encouraged asceticism and celibacy in the later stages of life, after one has met his societal obligations. Jainism, on the other hand, preached complete celibacy even for young monks and considered celibacy to be an essential behavior to attain moksha. Buddhism is similar to Jainism in this respect. There were, however, significant cultural differences in the various areas where Buddhism spread, which affected the local attitudes toward celibacy. It was not well received in China, for example, where other religions movements such as Daoism were opposed to it.[citation needed] A somewhat similar situation existed in Japan, where the Shinto tradition also opposed celibacy. In most native African and American Indian religious traditions, celibacy has been viewed negatively as well, although there were exceptions like periodic celibacy practiced by some Mesoamerican warriors.
Ultimately, that the flesh only serves to confuse but ultimately lead us to the divine truth. That's all I can take from this otherwise totally contradictory, confounding thing.