"God forgives" ...
Who is “God?” or rather What is “God?”
I
would rather ask the Question of what is “God” instead of who
is “God?” ‘Who’ to me as a Question, is Inquiry about Identity
whereas ‘what’ is about the Functionality/Functionalities of an
Identity.
The
“Holy Bible” introduced “God,” to the whole wide World, but it is a priori
that “God” was not in the Scriptures from where the Contents of the “Holy Bible”
on Parade today were translated. The original Scripture would have been written
in “Ge’ez” before Aramaic. Neither Language has “God” in its Lexicon. In ‘Triangulating
God: the church, tithe and worship’ https://amzn.eu/d/8SxEPU0
(2013), I wrote as follows:
Most have come
to accept that the original language of the scripts from which the Bible emerged
was Aramaic, a language of Ethiopia, and that Hebrew came later, as an extension
of Aramaic. I would argue further that the original language of the Holy
Scripts was Ge’z, another language of Ethiopia, known only to a select few but
because this select few were Priests, Aramaic had to be adopted in order to
spread the word to a much larger audience, the people. Wherever my position on
Ge’z or Aramaic as the initial language of the Holy Texts, the fact remains
that today’s many translations of the Bible do not rely on either Ge’z or
Aramaic in any way that could be said to be noteworthy. Thus, a far more
important question to ask is why is there no extensive reliance on the Aramaic
text as it is universally accepted to have been the original language of the
Holy Scripts?
The
Word “God” is from the Germanic “god,” the Name Pagan Germans called their
Deities. The English Language is a ‘Mongrel of Languages’©, and most probably
the youngest Language in the World, but it is basically ‘German founded’©. So,
from the Pagan “god,” it was distorted to the Judaeo-Christian “God.”
In View of the Revisionism of “god” to “God,” I do not use the
Word to express what I have come to acknowledge as “the Almighty” that I identify
in/with African Words I am familiar with. However, for Reason of this Write-up,
I deploy the Word “God” so that the ‘incognizant Head’© does not get confused.
‘Episodes of invited Intrusion into Private
Lives’©
The
Producers of what I have titled this Section, as ‘Episodes of invited Intrusion into Private Lives’© are
“Nigerians” and do not, themselves, describe their
Productions thus. They call these Productions; “Content,” and themselves “Content
Creators,” whatever either Description intelligently means. My recognizing
these Productions as ‘Episodes of Private Lives’©, ipso facto, confirms
that (1) I have accepted them as real Life, and (2)
I see them as “Human Interest” Stories represented through the Social-Psychologies
of the Nigerian Society. Any Immorality identified or identifiable in these Productions
are not peculiar to the Nigerian Society, but are universal
Human Deficiencies in different Shades.
There
are other Productions, which may lazily be described as ‘Content’.
These ‘Episodes of Private Lives’, ‘Content’, and other Enterprises by the
Nigerian Individual, especially the ‘Nigerian Young’©, made me write in http://ipemndohdaniyan.blogspot.com/2024/12/kemi-badenoch-and-nigerian-indignation.html
that Nigerians are of “incredible Self-Reliance, aka enviable
individual Resourcefulness.” However, the majority of Nigerians,
including University Graduates, do not have proper
Grasp of the English Language notwithstanding some equally ‘English
Language illiterate Westerner(s)’© applauding Nigeria, as “English speaking.” I
dealt with the Nigerian Difficulty with the English Language in https://twitter.com/IP_dan_Iyan/status/1363998941625335808?s=19 (2021).
Both
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5IwNjh2VTtE&si=XkIhgI2UnwnZ8WK_
& https://youtu.be/5IwNjh2VTtE?si=iY_K9sFSMuSDNTl_
are produced by a Nigerian Lady called Zitachy. She says she is on 'Facebook’,
but as y’all know, I am somewhat new to ‘Facebook ‘, and not quite au fait
with how it works, so I am unable to locate her Page (if I want to). These two Episodes
tell part of the Story of this young Man you see in them with the Name of
Adewale who was most horrid to his biological and material
Mother whom he accused of not being his
psychological Mother now demanding “Forgiveness” from the Mother. This young
Man never condemned his absent biological Father that
he never said is deceased. I have been watching the Episodes of
the Story unfold from the beginning of Zitachy uploading them, and have
commented in her Comments’ Section on some Episodes. These two Episodes noted
above prompted me to produce this Write-up.
“God” does not forgive
In
the old Testament, “God” warned that he does not forgive. See
again the ‘Ten Commandments’ (Exodus 20, Leviticus
19, and Deuteronomy 5). He – they say, not I, that “God”
is male – demonstrated that a lot in the Old Testament. If he did not
punish the Sinner directly, he did indirectly, like
punishing the Wives of King David for a particular Sin David committed. However,
“God” did promise to forgive after “a new covenant” (Jeremiah
31:31-34 – KJV). The Jury is still out whether this new Covenant has been
offered. I, personally believe, following the Logic of the “Holy Bible” that it
was offered in Jesus the Christ. Jesus the Christ came, and he supposedly
said that Human Beings should forgive one another “70 times 7
times,” therefore, 490 times (Matthew 18:22) so that “your
heavenly Father will ... forgive you” (Mark 11:25-26), and (Matthew 6:14-15).
“God
forgives” is ‘Judaeo-Christian Belief Contradiction’©; ‘Belief Contradiction’© per
se. If “God” is the ‘Ultimate Authority’©, and “he” forgives,
there is no Need for a Person to seek Forgiveness
from another Person. Beg for it from your “God.”
If you truly believe your “God” in your “Holy Bible” has the Power
to do all Things, and to make the impossible
happen, why would you disobey some of the Ten Commandments in begging
for Forgiveness from Human Beings, “mere Mortals?” As your “God” forgives
you, would “he” not warm towards you the Heart
of the Person you have wronged? So, your Prayer
for Forgiveness should not be to the Person
you wronged but to your “God” you credit with Omnipotence.
You really do disrespect your “God” of your Holy Bible if
you refuse to take up the Issue of
your Forgiveness with “him” in the first and only Instance
instead of harassing for Forgiveness the Person whom your Diabolism
against had backfired on you. A ba?
You seek
Forgiveness, anyway, when (i) the Harm
you intended against your Target had not
worked and had recoiled on you (ii) or had worked
but Nemesis came calling or (iii) it is time
to renew your Juju and you need your Victim’s
Warmth towards you for the ‘Juju Renewal’© to work or (iv) you delude
yourself that if your Victim forgives you, your
“God” of your Holy Bible will also forgive you.
Narratives
in the “Holy Bible” of Persons forgiving one another, in my View, are Fictions
to buttress the Acceptability of Power
Abuse principally against ‘ordinary Multitude(s)’©, and Individuals
by Persons with Advantage. “Advantage” is not restricted to
‘Authority’ or ‘Wealth’. It could also be a Weapon I have determined as the ‘Advantage
of Opportunity’© that could rely on Connections and/or Occultism. As an
Academic Philosopher, I can provide y’all with novel Expressions to Jeremiah
31:31-34 on the “new covenant,” as ‘Promissory of Forgiveness’© from “God,” but
I am not thus inclined in this Write-up.
Your
“God” in the “Holy Bible” has already warned you against fake “Prophets”
(“false prophets”) in Deuteronomy 18:22, and Jeremiah
23:16-40 – KJV, but you all are so eager for your Damnations.
I had been where you are now albeit not totally taken-in
by the Bible, but certainly by “false prophets” in their Shrines they call
Churches. At times, I had been to their Homes, some of which invariably
opened my Eyes, but I insisted on keeping shut those
Eyes rather engaging in “Dissonance Reduction” until Oshomoshi
had enough of my ‘Self-Damnation’©, and wrenched me
out of her ‘eternal Unforgiveness’©. Your “false prophets” cannot
teach you the meanings of Commandments 1, 3, and 5
of the Ten Commandments of your “God” because
“he” is not with them. The Commandments are differently
arranged and ‘variedly instructed’© in Leviticus to Exodus and Deuteronomy. “False
Prophets” are also mentioned in the “New Testament.” I believe Judaeo-Christians
are conversant with that Testament hence I have not referred to the Mentions of
“false prophets” in there.
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18 August
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