Various understandings
of the holocaust are considered, and there is more on the value of human life.
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How should the holocaust be
remembered?
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THE BATTLE AXE: The Price of
Humanity? (12/13/2012)—The birth, death, resurrection, and eternal continuance
of GOD in a human form through the person of Jesus Christ proclaims that
Almighty GOD places an enormous value upon mankind. Full definition for both
“humanity” and “life” also must describe the impact, presence and operation of
divinity through and upon what mankind has been, now is, and will become. The
quality of human existence emerges through divine abundance, diversity, joy, the
beauty of the natural world, and the range of possibility within Creation.
Before GOD, control, dominance, ownership and power are less relevant to the
beauty of mankind. With this in view, we may say the people of GOD are marked
by self-respect without the exaggerations of pride. Human worth should not be
understood only in the terms of accomplishments, ambition, behavior, desire,
destiny, personal goals, and predetermined fate. Academic history centered upon
conflict and discovery are not enough to display the highest levels whereby
humanity merits esteem. Limits from circumstances and material conditions may
be exceeded and transcended through the divine content that resides within an
individual. We find it is a principle for valuing others within human
relationships that even the errors of a child, as he speaks his first words or
takes his first steps, are precious and further bind them to their parents and
others. Sacred authority, holy person, and sovereign wisdom permit human
excellence among those who praise, serve and worship despite mortality, poverty,
sickness and suffering. Mankind is priceless when functioning as a jewel of
Creation that emits and makes visible the spectrum of divine
grace.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Lest there
should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away
this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the
gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall
and wormwood; And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,
that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in
the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the
curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the
law: So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after
you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see
the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD
hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is
brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor
beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and
Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his
anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of
this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant
of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them
when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: For they went and served
other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he
had not given unto them: (Deuteronomy 29: 18-26, King James
Version)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: The
Content of Prayer (01/29/2012); Dispatch 17: The Ally (In Heaven (08/25/2011);
Dispatch 9: Peace (Peace, Peace) 08/17/2011; Tragedy?
(10/23/2010)
Much confusion now surrounds the holocaust;
and there is no agreement upon its most important benefits and lessons to
humankind. For many of us, the holocaust was merely a geopolitical event having
global consequences, and a peculiar tragedy that is recorded in world history.
The idea that the holocaust was only a cultural experience of a peculiar ethnic
group is broadly held. By contrast, there are many who understand the
Shoah as having been a demonstration of human faith, how suffering is
overcome, the spirit of survival, and the ultimate triumph of righteousness.
Also, many hold that the holocaust must be recognized as a judgment of GOD to
warn mankind against lawlessness, rebellion and sin.
For believers in Jesus Christ as Messiah,
Redeemer, and Savior, the spiritual significance of the holocaust has to be seen
in harmony with sacred history as recorded in the holy writings (e.g., the Old
Testament, the Torah, and the Gospel). The holocaust must be accepted as a
further appearance of continuing covenant and divinity whereby Almighty GOD is
revealed as immutable and unchanging in spite of human process, purpose and
suffering. To view the holocaust apart from the imperatives for life generated
by GOD is to deny that human potential includes a capacity to express the divine
nature. Men become no different than animals and material objects; and a
significant dimension for full being and person will be dismissed, neglected and
undernourished.
There is far more to be said, correctly
applied, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, for those who are in
covenant, a day of active atonement is more appropriate than observing a passive
memorial day or national day of mourning to remember the holocaust. There is no
further need for a holiday of self-indulgence, and the putting away of ones
usual duties. Instead, there ought to be activity, service and submission that
produce change, understanding and unity.) Even so, I trust this fragment will
be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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