Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, January 15, 2018
NO BOOHOO
DO NOT BOOHOO MAN, GOD, NOR REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
To say that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was "just a man," is to diminish man, to under-appreciate man, is to be scornful of mankind.
There is nothing that is ordinary nor common about mankind, but much that is extraordinary and much that is uncommon about mankind or us.
The Bible says, "ye are gods, " in Psalms 82:6. Notwithstanding, the scriptures, there are many religious people who struggle to convince anyone who will listen to them that man is 'just' this or that; that man lacks this or that, in some particular respect. Those holy people who boohoo man, also boohoo God who made mankind, male and female, in God's own image and likenesses.
Jesus also said, "Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:48. These same alleged religious folks will attempt to argue you down that man cannot be perfect, ever; when Jesus plainly says that man can be perfect ! Now who's lying? Whom do you believe? Prefer to believe?
Jesus Christ himself typifies that truth whereof he speaks within his own life, death, resurrection works, and continuing power in the lives of men and women who produced us, as fortified by their faith in the laws, life, legacy, redeeming Holy Ghost power of Jesus Christ. He said, as their "Teacher" and "Lord" whose dirty feet he had just washed, "I have come to be an example unto you that you also should do as I have done to you . John 13:15-16. "Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them."