another example
Psalm 110
THE LORD/ADONAI says to my lord/adoni
so Jesus is adoni, not Adonai. clearly this difference is another example where Jesus is esp important, very important, but not to be confused with God.
the NT authors, inc people like Paul and Peter, perfectly understood that Jesus was indeed their 'lord' but they seperated him from God in their introductions.
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was...
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And I greet you now with all the generosity of God our Father and our Master Jesus, the Messiah.
I, Peter, am an apostle on assignment by Jesus, the Messiah, writing to exiles scattered to the four winds. Not one is missing, not one forgotten. God the Father has his eye on each of you, and has determined by the work of the Spirit to keep you obedient through the sacrifice of Jesus. May...
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1-2 I, Peter, am an apostle on assignment by Jesus, the Messiah, writing to exiles scattered to the four winds. Not one is missing, not one forgotten. God the Father has his eye on each of you, and has determined by the work of the Spirit to keep you obedient through the sacrifice of Jesus. May everything good from God be yours!
3-5 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven—and the future starts now! God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all—life healed and whole.
in both examples, it is obv that only The Father, is THE GOD. Jesus is 'lord/master' ie adoni.
so why would i criticise authentic christianity?
btw you know in islam, St George is known as 'juraij' and prophet Mohammad mentioned him as an awliya(friend of Allah), basically a saint.
Similarly, the Quran has a chaper (18) named after the story of the 7 sleepers.
These were 3rd century christians.
any muslim who criticises Paul, i reject them. I genuinely spoke to a sheikh once, a guy who wanted me to follow him.
you know how i judged him? my criteria was that i asked him his view of PAUL. As soon as he gave a negative response, i rejected him to his face.
you can't be accused me of disdain for 'christianity'. to me, xtians are something else completely.
doing sabbath on sunday when Jesus did it in saturday. the pagan easter and christmas festivals. the pagan trinity claiming all 3 are 'fully God and go equals in Godhead' is insane. constantly using the word 'lord' to suggest Jesus is God.
it's pagan.
lastly, new age, i dont side with that. new age movements were luciferian/masonic.
i think your mistake was that you read 'madam guyon' and thought of someone like 'madam blavatsky'. the latter was a hinduism inspired diviner/channeller and devil worshipper.the former was a devout christian who wrote some incredible material you could only benefit from.
you havent understood themes like 'passive active' and how they relate to christianity. as ive explained, it's the left/right brain perspective, the logical and mystical which relate to the Trancendent and Immanent aspects of God. Jesus was about that balance. He knew the jews were excellent in logic based theology but 'corrupt at heart' ie their hearts were lacking the presence of God).
it's important to understand that when Jesus made statements like
"if you have seen me, you have seen God" this was not to be taken literally as in, by a left brain perspective, it was to be understood inwardly as a mystical connection to God through an awareness of God. As Jesus said 'if your eye is single your whole body shall be full of light' ie the eye of the heart, the minds eye. to see Oneness in all things.
these themes are constant in islamic sufism and so i grew up well aware of the differences in perspective from muslims and how they'd debate on what was right or wrong. Eg ibn arabi's 'unity of being' belief in constrast to the wahabi believe in a literal sky God ie the wahabis are more like OT jews and the sufis more like the christians (the good and the bad).