Thank you for your support. You just added more seasoning to the plate I have served at the table.
easy? sure. but still you are wrong.
When Jesus said, "Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you can have no life in you." he was making a direct reference to kosher law.
The promise for compliance with the instruction given in the law is eternal life.
The flesh of Jesus is a metaphor for the words that form the body of his teaching.
That was a very good point. The Law. (Me doing it "Tool Man" style:
Yeah! the Law! ugh ugh ugh)
Well, wisdom comes from it.
Now, here is "the secret": You can obey the law at its maximum expression and at its minimum detail, and even so, your chances for acquiring wisdom are rare. And forget adding "faith", such won't give you wisdom as well.)
And I am not the appropriate person to tell you the method, at least by now.
the teaching of Christ is that words used in the law are figurative, the subjects hidden.
If you do not fulfill the law in the way that Jesus taught people to understand and do it, you cannot have the life promised for compliance to the law in you.
Hey, that was a good angle of view which goes in agreement with the path built since man was made.
I will add more, because this is good meal. Yes, Jesus was sent to death also by reasons other than saying he is the son of God and because he impressed the multitudes making miracles. Such, in reality, it was not enough to pinch the religious authorities pride.
When Jesus started to teach, and his teachings exposed them as being in error, that was the cause to trigger their anxiety to kill him. Their priesthood was at risk if their teachings were found away from the true doctrine.
You have no idea of how many miracles and events never happened the way your bible says they did occur. Wisdom helps you to understand what the scriptures say in reality.
When Jesus healed the blind man, first he wrote something on the ground, put spit and mud in his eyes, covered his eyes with his hand, and then asked the man what he saw.
First the man 'saw' trees, but when Jesus told the man to take a harder look he saw, without using his eyes, men.
Obviously it was a healing of perception, not sight. Jesus was teaching the man how to understand the figurative language of the bible where trees often represent men.
No idea where your story comes from, but in the passage mentioned by you, the perception of the man who received the sense of sight, in that paragraph one can notice the way we ourselves start to see the world when we just are born.
This was recorded when a man who lost his vision at 4 years old, 30 years later he recovered it thanks to instruments used in an experiment. First thing he saw was illumination and shadows. Second was motion of the shadows. Days later figures, but he wasn't able to distinguish a circle from the square. Later he was capable to see faces but can't recognize one from the other, and so forth.
In your story, it was practically obvious the man will take for trees the images he saw in front of him, and later, he recognized them as men. I don't think this "normal development" of perception thru the eye can be related to your representation of trees as men. I really doubt it.
You said that there was nothing hidden in the Bible. Take a harder look.
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure lying buried in a field. The man who found it, buried it again." Matthew 13:44
Of course, it is hidden for the one who lacks of wisdom. The ones who reach wisdom, for some reason. will keep it for themselves. They can guide you providing the tools for reaching the same, but they won't tell you exactly the method. Jesus did the same, he told them what is the path to take, but he didn't point with his finger the direction of it. If you want to know it, then look for it, you'll find it..
"I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name." Isaiah 45:3
Of course, to the ones who reach wisdom.
But, why is not so "easy" for many to find what God offered like throwing out thousands of dollars thru the wisdom of a skyscraper?
Well, Jesus also compared the Kingdom of heaven as a woman (the church) who mixed the flour (God's doctrine} with leaven (gentile's doctrines) and the whole was "leavened".
In other words, the sane doctrine coming from God has been corrupted by the addition of several doctrines of men. This is the condition of most churches of the world. Even synagogues suffer of the same condition.. This is why they talk about love, others about faith, others about the Law, they talk, and talk, and talk. However, they can't understand the scriptures. The "treasures" are not for the majority of them, but only for a few ones.