Luke 16 accept the mystery of God and conform to PHYSICS

 

Luke 16 accept the mystery of God and conform to PHYSICS

[When reading Bible passages, I develop Genesis-1-RHI perspective. I think Genesis 1:28, in the-metaphysical-Jesus (JESUS) perspective, suggests that, given each mysterious-God offering appreciation and JESUS proposing peace, male unites-to female human-being and their spouse-hood pursues comprehensive-safety& security (SECURITY) to the living species and to the earth. Every person can& may accept personal duty to SECURITY, and some persons resist appreciation& peace.

I call Genesis-1’s message “responsible-human-independence” or RHI. A few human beings throughout history practiced, facilitated, and encouraged RHI. The RHI-individuals from the past are our friends and the others, not so much.

Contemporary human being appreciation in each generation constitutes the-metaphysical-Jesus I advocate. In other words, I attribute to JESUS the insight that human being appreciation applied “before Abraham was born”. Given the question, “Was Jesus a man?”, my response, “I don’t know yet value JESUS”, seems sufficient& complete.   

Rather than continue bemusement, I propose, with appreciation, to accept the mystery of God, in order to pursue conformity to the-laws-of-physics (PHYSICS). It seems PHYSICS constrains the consequences of each person’s choices.]

16 Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man [master, below] whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. ² So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

³ “The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg— ⁴ I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’

⁵ “So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

⁶ “‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied.

“The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’ [Falsifying the ledger to 50%?]

⁷ “Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’

“‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.

“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’ [Falsifying the ledger to 80%?]

⁸ “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. ⁹ I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. [Friendship cannot be bought.]

¹⁰ “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. ¹¹ So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? ¹² And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own? [This makes no sense. People who know you falsified the ledger know you cannot be trusted.]

¹³ “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” [This contradicts a reported Jesus-quote in Matthew 22:21 or Luke 20:25, “[So/Then] give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”]

¹⁴ The Pharisees [proud keepers of Moses’ law], who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. ¹⁵ He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight. [Luke’s story seems un- redeemable. However, the JESUS lesson that squeezes past Luke’s muddy reasoning, may inform the Pharisees that falsifying the ledger seems clever: PHYSICS eventually exposes lies& liars. In other words, cleverness seems gratifying yet is not in a person's self-interest. See a new notion to me, at the end.]

Additional Teachings

¹⁶ “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it. ¹⁷ It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

¹⁸ “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. [New marriage exacerbates divorce by discouraging divorcee and divorce reunion.]

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. ²⁰ At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores ²¹ and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

²² “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. ²⁴ So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

[This is 3,000 years later, and this mysterious coercion has proven ineffectual: no one who could lead humankind to SECURITY cares to do so. In other words, no leader fears Hades. The-civic-people, We the People of the United States, can& may stop supporting the Hades myth, leaving it to its origins.]

²⁵ “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. ²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

²⁷ “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, ²⁸ for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

²⁹ “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

³⁰ “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

³¹ “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

[I know no PHYSICS of soul: my speculation about soul would be folly.

This chapter in Luke suggests that humankind has, in sequence, literature from various civilizations and times:

Sumer, who among polytheisitic and philosophical civilizations took charge of SECURITY yet noursihed individual city gods.

Sumerian city gods aided development of monotheism without humility toward PHYSICS.

The Hebrew monotheism was about earthly kingdom.

The Christian Trinity directly competed. Christian sects compete within Christianity.

Europe made war over Christian branches and America extended it.

The U.S. can restore its 1787 intentions: separate chruch from state, in order to pursue PHYSICS.]