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Wikipedia summarizes Pentecost: “Pentecost is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day after Easter. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles of Jesus, Mary, and other followers of the Christ, while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles.” Google summarizes further: “In the New Testament, specifically in the Book of Acts, Pentecost marks the day when the Holy Spirit descended upon the early followers of Jesus, empowering them to preach the gospel to people from various nations and languages. This event is considered the birth of the Christian Church. … In Acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit is dramatically poured out on the gathered disciples in Jerusalem, marked by the sound of a rushing wind and tongues of fire resting on each of them. The disciples began speaking in other languages, enabling them to communicate the gospel to people from diverse backgrounds. … The Holy Spirit’s arrival equips the disciples for the mission Jesus had given them: to be his witnesses to the ends of the earth.” We learned in an earlier GetWisdom LIVE on the Mysteries of the Crucifixion that perhaps the biggest reason for Christ to provoke and then endure his tribulation was to establish a narrative so compelling that it would go viral and spread rapidly by word of mouth in a time and era where communication was primitive at best. To ensure that it even had a chance, it appears it was deemed necessary to go above and beyond and equip a number of Christ’s followers with the “gift of tongues” in order that listeners could hear their sermons in their native language. Can Creator comment on why this incredible level of divine intervention was actually necessary, given the communication limitations of the time, and how it all fits within the Divine Rules of Engagement?
ClosedNicola asked 2 weeks ago • 
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The widespread narrative is, of course, that the Romans crucified an innocent man. But innocent of what? Because, if anything, Jesus was extraordinarily politically incorrect. Dr. Pagels wrote, “The astonished crowds recognize that Jesus possesses a special authority, direct access to God’s power. … the scribes immediately took offense at what they considered his usurpation of divine authority. By pronouncing forgiveness, Jesus claims the right to speak for God – a claim that, Mark says, angers the scribes: ‘Why does this man speak this way? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone? Instead of fasting, like other devout Jews, Jesus ate and drank freely. And instead of scrupulously observing Sabbath laws, Jesus excused his disciples when they broke them. Claiming divine and royal power while simultaneously violating the purity laws, Jesus, at the beginning of his public activity, outrages virtually every party among his contemporaries, from the disciples of John the Baptist to the scribes and Pharisees.'” We are faced with the conundrum of Jesus “speaking truth to power.” The hazards of which are so visibly and starkly apparent from human history, that his eventual crucifixion was not only NOT a surprise but, in fact, an almost near certainty. Anyone wishing to follow his example and engage in speaking “truth to power,” as he did, is not likely to avoid a similar life-threatening fate. What lessons are we to best derive from this? What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 4 weeks ago • 
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