Sunday, January 06, 2008

Christ and Anti-Christ


Christ is entering into anomy and creating meaning from paradox.
Anti-Christ is a sacred canopy that protects from anomy.

Meaning is generated when two un-associated ideas are linked together. The literal, and the lexical have ceased to have meaning. Their meaning no longer brings to the mind new connections and the mind can not therefore perceive what it does not know.
If when two un-associated ideas brought into connection create meaning, Christ, sometimes referred to even as the Word, brings a new meaning and light to our perception. He embodies two un-associated, indeed opposing, ideas and brings them together. God was born in a manger.

“existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross”

Christ is entering into death and through that enabling eternal life.
Anti-Christ is denying death and in consequence denying the possibility of life.

From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You.” But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”

Chaos, anomy, is that state where our paradigms breakdown and we are not in control. It is darkness where we can not see. It is never to be embraced or called good. But neither is it to be denied. To do so is to live in an illusion, or what Barger refers to as the sacred canopy of religion.

Christ, held by orthodoxy as the only way to God, is the only way beyond anomy. It is not the annihilation of evil, of chaos, but the transformation of it which is its final destruction. Christ’s ethic is to act in opposition to our nature. Anomy demands a response.

(Some just curl up in bed.)

The Christ response is to enter it. Insanity.

It is safe to say I am now a Christian.

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