Here
Delta4Embassy and
ChrisL
for you to review and comment on freely, whatever thoughts or ideas come to mind:
Poetic short form first:
http www.houstonprogressive.org/genocide.html
http://www.isocracytx.net/copyrited/adam&eve.html
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Long form analysis:
A. interpreting Adam and Eve
as God's authority starting off as an authoritarian relationship of parental over children
and moving toward equal responsibility of people becoming self governing
B. as representing matriarchal vs patriarchal systems
and moving back toward egalitarian between equal partners but playing different roles
C. as representing class differences between men
and management viewed as having greater value and authority
than women and field workers who are valued less and considered subordinate to the other
I have seen variations of these themes, and find whole movements
and people's personal convictions based on them, so I believe in including and addressing them all.
for equal justice to be established, all these issues of what causes inequality and oppression
need to be resolved. The same solution of forgiveness and correction in the
spirit of Restorative Justice applies to all, so that is where I see Christ Jesus represents that stage of fulfillment.
which do you wish to focus on
are all these equally important or which to address first?
then I think that will answer the other questions
you bring up about how to go about implementing justice
and how people can be under different levels or responsibility for self government
I will try to elaborate on A B and C above.
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A. this interpretation focuses on reconciling man's free will
with God's will through Christ Jesus. That instead of rebelling
against God's will, people learn by reason and experience, by free will
that we reap what we sow; where we act out of ill will and retribution,
we get retributive justice in return, and where we forgive wrongs
and seek correction and restitution in Christ Jesus ie Restorative Justice
then we are granted the same opportunity to make right out of wrongs.
B. this interpretation focuses on sins or karma passed down that
condition us in terms of gender bias and imbalance in society.
matriarchal societies used to pass knowledge of the laws from
mother to daughter, where spirituality was focused on women
and fertility as the source of life; but patriarchal laws and cultures
took over and defined property based on passing power from the
fathers to the sons, and marriage laws thus made women and children
part of the estate controlled by men. these cultural conditions are
passed down to future generations until balance is restored.
so the teachings of Christ Jesus as the one law or Lord under which all
humanity becomes the bride or wife, and where husbands and wives submit
one to another, are supposed to govern by consent not coercion.
and there is a marriage or harmony restored, where these are joined in peace.
C. This issue of class inequality is probably the one that concerns you the
most since most of your questions seem to be here. Because secular laws
are not addressed in the Bible but left to the governments, I would use
Constitutional laws to set up means of equal access to education, conflict resolution,
and training to become self-governing and let local peoples construct their own systems
using their cultures or religions to address their own tribes and traditions.
How this was explained to me, where class divisions came from,
the men were valued more as the meat gatherers whose hunts were prayed over
and the meat was more valuable, and thus the means of preserving it gave more
power and profits to the management class with resources to store distribute and sell meat.
While the women and workers in the fields who gathered crops and vegetables and fruits
were valued less as more plentiful. So the argument is social injustice came from this split.
Since we do not have equal education and empowerment of people at all ranks of society
that is why I support using the campus tiered system of organizing people by class,
and giving support and incentive to move up the scale to the highest level people want.
if they don't want to be fully independent, they should still be part of a community
that supports and does not exploit them for their labor or their educational level.
I believe we can see restorative Justice establish such schools by taking restitution
owed for slave trafficking and investing in building campus facilities with services
tied in with educational internships, residencies and job training on site.
so we can convert slave labor factories and sweatshops into
work study jobs on campuses that are managed similar to nonprofit or church schools.
people can choose their affiliations, so there is no forced labor but it is all voluntary
and done either for pay or study credits or restitution for crimes as agreed to.
