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PERFECTION, PART TWO

Therefore, what is chaos? If we know for a fact (and we do) that man's definition of perfection is not the real thing, why is "disorder" and "imperfection" so radical? When we understand once and for all what God's definition of perfection is, then perhaps we can ask the questions that someone recently posed to me: What are we fighting for? What are we fighting over?

Most importantly, we need to be very clear just who we are fighting, and why. If we are just reacting to one another's beliefs, not facts, the whole thing is futile. Are we turning fact into belief, thus undoing the whole process of truth, or are we using our facts to create more facts? Facts cannot be disputed, but beliefs can be denied until such time as they can or cannot be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt based on current technology, which is why a friend of mine says that everything boils down to science.

According to the most recent translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, this is what the Essenes' definition of perfection looked like in 100 BCE:

"The Community Rule, Section VIII"

"In the Council of the Community there shall be twelve men and three priests, perfectly versed in all that is revealed of the Law, whose works shall be truth, righteousness, justice, loving-kindness, and humility. They shall preserve the faith in the Land with steadfastness and meekness and shall atone for sin by the practice of justice and by suffering the sorrows of affliction. They shall walk with all men according to the standard of truth and the rule of the time."

Sounds like Jesus in the New Testament, doesn't it? But now, what facts do we know about Jesus? He was the king of his generation, he was married according to the Davidic requirements, he was rewarded for his suffering by being made the Melchizedek, becoming the Priest, or Fisher, King of Arthurian legend (because he was a fisher of men), and Jesus died in India. What myths do we know about Jesus? That he was celibate, childless, and God-incarnate, and utterly resistant to temptation based upon man's definition of sin.

So, if Jesus was "perfect," then those with "the ears to hear and the eyes to see" understood the real meaning of sin. Sex is not a sin; there is no such thing as fornication within marriage. As the Messiah, Jesus was required to be married and to have at least two sons onto which to pass the titles of King and Joseph of Arimathea (the Davidic Priest). His "deception" on the cross was obviously not wrong--in fact, Jesus was given his greatest wish, to become the Melchizedek, after the crucifixion.

Jesus was a Hellenized Jew, which meant that he complied with the last sentence from the Community Scroll as quoted above: "...they shall walk with all men according to the Standard of Truth (the Law) and the rule of time." So allowing one's self to learn, grow, and evolve, is also what it means to be perfect.

Man set unreasonable and unattainable goals of perfection. If Jesus was God incarnate, then everything he was, the truth, not the myth, is what true perfection means. If other people would rather believe a fairytale rather than the truth, that's unfortunate. Their God is not my God, never has been, and never will be.

If Jesus was a man, then he wasn't without flaws. However, based upon what true perfection means, then he was complete in every way that was important.

The Church would like us to believe that Jesus was more God than man, in order to keep control over us, and it just wasn't so. They took the original concept of perfection and twisted it, so that no human being could ever achieve it, in order to keep people in fear so that they could be manipulated. God did not do this--man did. The proof of that is that the Dead Sea Scrolls pre-date the first Council of Nicene by over 500 years. So the chronology is very important. God did not wear the same face in 100 BCE as He did in 425 AD.

The Community Scroll also states:

"When these are in Israel, the Council of the Community shall be established in Truth. It shall be an everlasting plantation, a House of Holiness for Israel, an Assembly of Supreme Holiness for Aaron. They shall be witnesses to the truth at the judgment (the priests in Revelation who sing, "Holy, holy, holy"), and shall be the elect of Goodwill who shall atone for the Land and pay the wicked their reward. It shall be that tried wall, that precious cornerstone, whose foundations shall neither rock nor sway. It shall be a most Holy Dwelling for Aaron with everlasting knowledge of the covenant of justice, and shall offer up sweet fragrance. It shall be a House of Perfection and Truth in Israel so that they may establish a Covenant according to the everlasting precepts. And they shall be an agreeable offering, atoning for the Land and determining the judgment of wickedness, and there shall be no more iniquity. When they have been confirmed for two years in perfection of way in the Foundation of the Community, they shall be set apart as holy within the Council of Men of the Community.

"And when these members of the Community of Israel according to their rules, they shall separate from the habitation of unjust men and shall go into the wilderness to prepare there the way for Him, as it is written, 'Prepare in the wilderness the way of..., make it straight in the desert a path for our God.' And no man among the members of the Covenant of the Community who deliberately, on any point whatever, turns aside from that is commanded, shall touch the pure Meal of the men of holiness or know anything of their counsel until his deeds are purified from all injustice and he walks in perfection of the way."

Perfection, Part Three
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