Next, look at the flood of information on the internet about the Sophia or ZOE form of replacing the WORD (written and Incarnate) with the Greek LOGOS and symbolism.After all, the Greek LOGOS which informs Dr. Shelly was Hermes or Mercury who was the father of musical worship (I.e. Jubal, Jubilee, etc.), of liars and of thieves. He is also Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon whose Seeker Center at Delphi influenced the women in Corinth.)
"First, United Methodist seminaries are no longer strictly adhering to the basic doctrines of the Christian faith and are tolerating if not promoting some non-Christian theologies. Radical feminist theology is one of the more visible of those.
Nashville Connection: See the connection between radical feminist theology, liberation theology (the Jubilee) and narrative theology which denies that the Bible has survived the "Shelly Sifter." Therefore, we are left with only a "core gospel" of seven facts ABOUT Jesus as the foundation. However, we can "take liberties" and compose our own narrative theology. We can even take the terminal sin of S.U.N. worship in musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and turn it into a "pattern for Christian worship and community."
Baptizing Santa Clause
Shamash The Sun God Making the S.O.N. God IMAGE into the S.U.N. God.
See Rubel Shelly and John York: The Exodus IMAGE For Worship and Community?"The basic tenets of radical feminist theology include rejection of the Bible as an authoritative document because of its "patriarchialism", identification of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as "divine child abuse" that has no relevance for modern women, and promotion of worship of pagan female deities. The report may seem to include a disproportionate number of references to women, but it is because of the pervasive influence that radical feminist theology has had on United Methodism.
"The hold that feminist theology has on UM seminaries cannot be underestimated. For example, one of the foremost proponents of feminist theology, Rosemary Radford Ruether, is a tenured professor at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Aida Isasi-Diaz, another well-known feminist/liberationist theologian, is on the staff at Drew University Seminary.
"The Re-Imagining Conference of 1993 (which was characterized by worship of the goddess Sophia and denial of the person and work of Jesus Christ) was not an isolated event. It has been repeated three more times since then and the keynote speakers are always Protestant and Catholic seminary professors or clergy.
John Mark Hicks identifies the modern inventors of the "trinity of persons" as promoted by Max Lucado and Rubel Shelly. He notes that the "incarnational" views short change the humanity of Christ. This seems to deny that Christ came fully in the flesh. A Second Incarnation seems to prove it.
The Document on Origins details the ancient Babylonian "mother goddeess" RE-IMAGED as Sophia and daughter, Zoe. Sophia is the supreme and Zoe is the second in command over the Greek LOGOS which Rubel Shelly believes that John sifted out of philosophy and "his own personal agenda" to arrive at the Logos of John chapter One. We noted, however, that the Hebrew DABAR is the Hebrew personificaiton of God as WORD in Genesis.
On the Origin of the World, Eve whose mystical name is Zoe, meaning life, is the daughter and messenger of the Divine Sophia, the feminine hypostasis of the supreme Godhead:
Sophia sent Zoe, her daughter, who is called "Eve," as an instructor in order that she might raise up Adam, in whom there is no spiritual soul so that those whom he could beget might also become vessels of light.
The First Incarnation:
Whereas God ordained that elders (aged) men full of the Spirit or Word of God be His teachers on a human level, Lord Jesus Christ was THE teacher only when the elders "taught that which had been taught."
The Second Incarnation:
Now, the feminine which defines all performance preachifying and versifying of the Bible, has assigned the elders out to the pastures to be the shephers OF THE MINISTERS (paid, of course) who has the arrogance to actually claim superiority of knowledge and power.
Sophia is know as "the serpent" or source of all Wisdom and ZOE is know as the "Beast" or the female instructing principle. "She" is the feminine side of Lucifer, the harp-playing prostitute, in the garden of Eden. Sophia and Zoe forced the 'minor jehovahs" to form a MUSICAL WORSHIP TEAM which has ever been the effeminate worship of the feminine.
Much of the Jubilee and Nashville Scene is built upon the ZOE PRINCIPLE.
"Second, from the very highest levels of leadership on down, many UM bishops, clergy and staff, most of whom have graduated from UM seminaries, have exhibited a reluctance to adhere to the basic doctrines of the Christian faith.
The emphasis on a diverse, inclusive social gospel has eclipsed the need to preach "Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
Of course, just preaching the CORE Jesus is really preaching another gospel.
Karen Armstrong notes that it takes a lot of hard, logical, intellectual work to be able to participate in the feminine world of mysticism. That is, it accuses faith-based people of being legalistic but then musical or visionary worship is the world's oldest and most legalistic form.
Ezekiel condemns a form of religious worship in Egypt which used images and visions where the priestesses would achieve visionary orgasm in which great truths were revealed. Live drumming or hand clapping was a primary way to "go outside of self" in madness peddled as a spiritual worship experience.
"Intellectualism has snuffed out a simple faith in the Bible as the primary means through which the Creator has sought to reveal Himself to man. This lack of adherence to the essential doctrines of the Christian faith is evident in many of the incidents included in the report.
Lynn Anderson: Sounds right to me, Mr. Huxley! Something like this can happen to faith as well. The rational, informational, and linear-sequential worlds of productivity tend to dominate in our lives these days.
Consequently, the rest of our worlds suffer neglect, and we are losing touch with much of what it means to believe.
The rest of the story told by Huxley includes just this:
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art (preaching) is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession.
Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. From Source
See Lynn Anderson and the Dancing On the Rim Image. This presents the Judas Image: his bag was for "carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments" and Psalm 41 predicted that he would ultimately fail in his triumph over which means "playing instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord" as the Pagan war chant.
"On November 4-7, 1993, an ecumenical conference called "Re-Imagining A Global Theological Conference by Women" was held in conjunction with the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women. Throughout the conference, Sophia was worshiped as a deity.
Call her ZOE, HALAL, A CAPPELLA or whatever, it is the feminine or effeminate worship of the feminine Goddess. At it's heart, it is the replacement of the S.U.N. god for the S.O.N. God. She is Inanna who got the male "god" drunk (on ignorance in the modern paradigm) and stole the powers including "the eldership, musical performance and kissing the phallus."
She is Ishtar who along with Tammuz was worshiped by the women in the temple at Jerusalem while the males bowed to the S.U.N. in the East. Asherah is RE-IMAGED or RE-VISIONED Here is the ancient and modern phallus symbols which was also feminine just as the flute (meaning to pollute, prostitute) also carried both IMAGES.
To the right is an ancient woodblock of the men bowing to the S.U.N. god in the east.These are Asherah poles which must be "erect" to exude power.
- Since the time of Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christ and his order to "Christianize" the pagan feasts,
Christians have been seeking to turn every symbol (mark IDOL) to the glory of God. Thus a midwinter festival to the s-u-n was converted into a day of rejoicing over the S-o-n of God. If Jesus is described by biblical writers as the "Sun of Righteousness" and God's "true light coming into the world," what could be more natural? From Baptizing Santa
"As the conference began, the attendees sang a chorus to Sophia over and over:"Now Sophia, dream the vision, share the wisdom dwelling deep within." The program book for the event stated: "We invoke Sophia, Divine Wisdom, who chose to play with all the people of the world. Her voice has been silenced too long. Let her speak and bless us throughout these days". There was also a milk and honey service worshiping Sophia instead of the traditional communion service.
Melos
I. a limb, Hom., etc.; within my bodily frame, Aesch.; kata melea limb by limb, like meleïsti, Hdt.
II. a song, strain, Hhymn., etc.:--esp. of lyric poetry, en melei poieein to write in lyric strain, Hdt.; mele, ta, lyric poetry, the choral songs, opp. to the dialogue, Plat.
meloid-ia , singing, chanting, E.Rh.923, etc.
II. chant, choral song, meloidias poietês Pl.Lg.935e , cf. 812d; lullaby, ib.790e: generally, music, Phld.Mus.p.12 K.
Mantikos. on, prophetic, oracular. technê (see Rev 18:22) for the craftsmen. Mantikên Apollôn
Entheos: full of the god, inspired, possessed, of the Bacchantes, Zeus (the young preachers now say Je'-Zeus.) of divine frenzy, inspired by the god, technai, frenzied rites
humnôid-ia , hê, singing of a hymn, hymning
"Singing served as a means of inducing ecstatic prophecy (speaking in tongues).
Thus the essential relationship between music and prophecy can be clearly seen.
This relationship also explains why the expression for "making music" and "prophesying" was often identical in the ancient tongues. origen contra celsum 8.67.
The Hebrew word Naba signifies not only "to prophesy" but also "to make music." (Quasten, Johannes, Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 39)
"A group of UMs, including Bishop Susan Morrison, issued a statement in support of Re-Imagining called "A Time of Hope---A Time of Threat." In late 1994, The Council of Bishops released a statement that basically was a dissertation on "Sophia," the Greek word for wisdom and how it is used in scripture.
