1 Corinthians 15:19-26
Easter - Year C
After you get done scratching your head and diagramming sentences, it may suffice to say, “Grace and I are dancing to a wonderful tune, All-In-All.”
http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2013/03/1-corinthians-159-28.html
This whole business of subjection is open to subjectivity. It is as though, when all things are subjected, we will have a quadrennity rather than a trinity. Where we are headed is more like a square than a triangle. This is not only a resurrection of something Paul might talk about as real life for us, but also for G*O*D.
When all things are subjected then the Son will be subjected. G*O*D becomes all in all with G*O*D's images. Creator, Christ, Spirit, Creation.
As Jung has pointed out the trinity is an unstable figure - waiting to gain that next electron and become stable. I like the energy of the unstable isotope as well as the promised sabbath rest when resolved. [Note to self: you don't know enough physics or chemistry to be thus messing about. It would be better to ask someone who knows more before making such connections.]
The connection from this Pauline stuff back to Luke in Acts might be that all "who believe" receive forgiveness. If we can imagine that is a forgiveness of the whole and not just an incident, this "all" is as sinless as our doctrines claim G*O*D to be and worthy of incorporation as a full "side" of a larger figure.
http://www.kairoscomotion.org/lectionary/2004/april2004.html
Partiality is to be tossed out on its ear. Yet, G*O*D's appearance is not to all but only to a chosen few. Apparently our response is the determining factor in regard to G*O*D's presence in our life.
So, who ate and drank with the revived Jesus - the Emmaus folk (Luke 24), 7 of the 11 remaining disciples (John's later addition in chapter 20), perhaps only the 11 alone who were at table, whether eating or not, (Mark's late addition in chapter 16), or the 11 plus their "companions" (Luke 24). And Matthew has no report of post-resurrectional comestibles.
Are the women, first witnesses, able to eat with the guys as their companions or only service them?
If the risen Christ is the "first fruit" and he feeds only those who belong to him, partiality and division are reintroduced. Have we gotten anywhere through this suffering stuff, other than to retribution upon the unchosen?
What a pity to limit things to eating and drinking in this life. Where is the hope of Easter in the face of partiality, spoken against but still experienced?
http://www.kairoscomotion.org/lectionary/2004/april2004.html
What is it to "believe in him"?
To experience an acceptance behind any and every partiality.
To know a depth of peace, momentarily or extended.
To not only see the doing of good and healing of oppression, but to know it as not only available, but a participatory sport.
To recognize life beyond death in particularities, not just in general theory.
To participate in passing all of this on to others.
It is not to give assent to creedal statements about Jeeeesus, but to the G*D experience of life that keeps breaking through - breaking through partiality, agitation, oppression, death, and a passive voice.
- - -
culturally culled
religiously refined
we lose a cutting edge
to hack through unknowns
beyond limits of idolatrous taboowe have found death and it is us
our own perfected ideal enemy
against which we hack away
each time dulling our awareness
to yearn to live again for a first timedeath as final eschatology
darkens our conditioned dreams
of fated family and faith
hedging us round
squeezing us smallereven suicide is no longer a question
we face our own cosmic pity
and plant death's last fruit
until it is enemy no more
seen through and through
http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html
Paul does his best to find some order in resurrection - If this, then that, then another, then something else, then . . . . In fact, all the ifs are beside the point, death isn't all its cracked up to be.
His circle within a circle can be entered at any point and followed around and around. And his circle can be set aside as beside the point. Death isn't all its cracked up to be.
So if you've been trying to find a formula to have life in this world, forget about it. This world isn't all its cracked up to be.
We have life, simply life, to live and neither the trappings of the principalities and powers in this world or a fear of death will keep us from this impetus. Jesus offered abundant life, and we are invited to jump in. Here is the "holy" week arc: Enter your Jerusalem, face your death, and live.
http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2010/04/1-corinthians-159-26.html