KARL JASPERS FORUM

TA63 (Leslie / Rees)

Commentary 29 (to C18, Wood and C23, Roberts)

( JASPERS AND RELIGION )
by Philip Benjamin
12 January 2004, posted 25 January 2004

[Greg Nixon]

Without getting "convoluted", why is it you seem to think evolutionism is as misguided as transcendentalism, or fundamentalism more pure than constructivism.

[Philip Benjamin]

For this Forum, the Fundamentals of the Bible may be phrased as follows:

1. Communication, Information, Consciousness and Personhood are timeless, existing in Elohim (uni-plural) of Moses ( Genesis 1:1) or the triune He- I-You (PERSONS) of Isaiah 48:16: One El, Three Persons or Three Wills in synergy.

2. This System of Personhoods is reflected in Man (Male/Female) as intuition (spirit), intelligence (mind) and sense (body), a replica of the uni-plural Elohim (Gen.1:27). Spirit and Mind are nonluminous, body is luminous, nothing is metaphysical.

Note: Even a pseudo tri-unity of id, ego, superego has systematic explanatory powers.

3. Personhood in its original state had intrinsic (unfettered) free will

4. Creation is SEPARATE (holy) from but synergetic with the Creator, in complete harmony.

Note: So far, only the First Law of Thermodynamics is operative

5. Free exercise of creature’s original will against the Creator’s Will causes dissonance and loss of original synergy and introduces Transcendence between the two or a Fallen State for the creature.

Note: Now, the Second Law of Thermodynamics sets in.

6. The original Free Will of the creature is Lost, the will is now Bound, bound for TOTAL separation from the Creator. The capability of free exercise remains, but it is only the free exercise of a Bound Will. Total Separation means Total Depravity. Degeneration of the luminous Body is only an initial part of that Destruction. The nonluminous intelligence (mind) and intuition (spirit) continue to operate. But, Cessation of the luminous Temporal Life leaves the nonluminous dormant, awaiting Storage or Disposal.

7. The Repair of this System Degeneracy is beyond even Cosmic proportions. The Second Transcendent Person Freely becomes the *express image* of Elohim in the Human Form as described in Moses, Psalms and the Prophets (e.g. Deuteronomy 18, Isaiah 53, psalm 22 etc., etc). He undergoes the same Separation and Destruction man (male/female) goes through temporally. He Recovers and is able to Recover to the First Transcendent Person, WHOSOEVER (no exclusivity) FREELY (no compulsion) accepts His Recovery. The Third Transcendent Person brings to the Degenerate (Fallen) state the Consciousness of being Lost. Final Recovery is Restoration and Safe Storage to the Original State. On the other hand Final Loss is Separation and Timeless Disposal.

This is Part 1, and the most important part, of Biblical Fundamentals.

Now this looks to me as a parody of John Banyan in Post Modern script. I cannot imagine why any one wants to equate this with Pogroms, Inquisition, Witch Burnings, Slave Trades, Crusades, 9/11 and bigotries of all kinds including the postmodern tolerance of everything but such noble Fundamentals.

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Philip Benjamin, Ph.D