‘’I AM A MAN’’ was a famous slogan raised by civil rights group in America for demanding equal right for Black Africans at par with the Whites. Apparently this was a political slogan raised in an era of apartheid to end the white supremacy over the black, but it has implications much beyond to deal with an issue of every time. At its root is an important theological question of ‘’Godness’’ of God and ‘’ humanness ‘’of Humanity. It is not simply a question of racial discrimination .
I AM A MAN implies that I AM JUST A MAN and not superior than a man. When one race acts as superior and think others as slaves to rule over them , they challenge a fundamental theological demise of creation that God created the Man in His image and all the people on earth are descendants of Adam and Eve. The 1st couples were trapped by Satan to cross the limitations placed on them as humans by enticing them to become like god . The white supremacists believed they could deny human dignity to those they deemed lesser, thereby denying the fundamental Christian theocratic premise of the universal love of god and unity of races in Adam.
When a creation of God believe in infallibility and acts with a right to rule over others without being questioned , that only shows that he is possessed by this demonic spirit which coax humans to transcend the permissible boundaries allowed by the creator to the creation. He is subverting the truth that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights but with different talents to perform varied roles in a community. This tendency of self imposed pride with its brutality of oppression and the rise of white supremacy and leaders like Hitler and other brutal dictators were all captived by this demonic spirit of pride to become ”I AM’’ from ‘’ I am a Man’’. IAM is used in Bible to represent the MOST HOLY, ALL POWER FULL God. In Exodus God says to Moses “ I AM WHAT IAM’’ and about man as Ezekel sasys in 28:2 ‘’ You are but a man , and no god’’
The people in spiritual world sometimes try to wield this supremacy over the followers by invoking a new slogan of divine power which was used by popes in gone era , even today it is used in some theocratic countries with its criminal brutality but not accepted in civilized societies. The actions of current head of Marthoma Church clearly demonstrate that he is transcending the boundaries of a human being by disregarding the wish and will of a an overwhelming majority in abolishing a well established parish in Kuwait. The way he did this and the stubborn and hard headed stand he is still taking on the issue is this tendency to become I AM. He thinks everybody has to just obey whatever he does. Even God, the All Mighty , the All Powerful had the humility to listen to the arguments of His own creations as we see in Bible Abraham, Moses, Gideon etc plead with God in certain occasions. But our church leader believe no need to know what the folk want and no need hear them , review or corrections is something out of question in his kingdom. Even if someone doesn’t believe in Bible or does not follow the teachings of Christ, it will be better to have at least a browse thru history and have an eye to happenings in the contemporary world to know the fate of those leaders who believed in their own infallibility and tried to impose their will on others , all such doctrines crumbled and their proponents went to the dust bin of history or remembered as villains and not heroes. If Kuwait Marthomites refuse to accept the Kalapana , it is because they are not ready to buy the false beliefs of self imposed superior rights of the Methrapolitha to rule over them as slaves with scant regards for their very legitimate wishes.
Some years back, a bishop of a church had drawn a picture, which was visualization of the 2nd coming of Lord Jesus Christ. In the picture all people are gathered around Jesus , some of the people in the front rows were some poor laity , then some Achens , here and there were bishops also, some in between the laity in front or middle rows and some of them standing in far end corners. The picture convey a very important aspect of Christian faith that God does not judge by the face of the people. All the creations , bishops, achens, laity or evangelists , rich and poor , have to stand alike and what matters will be the acts they did while on in this earth, as Apostle Paul puts it in 2chorinthians 5:8 ‘’For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad’’.
The wisdom and ability of a leader is his ability to get along with followers and lead them to achieve overall aspirations of the folk and not to place his own personal pride and will above everything. In Malayalam we use a word “ alppan’’ to refer to those people who, when acquire some wealth or power, think they have reached on the top of the world and try to belittle others.
Taking a decision suicidal to the group and sticking to it thinking it will offend his personal pride to review and correct the blunder is not reflection of strength but weakness and satanic arrogance. Such leaders will not be honored in the eyes of The Al Mighty God, who even sacrificed His honored position in heaven, came down to earth, humbled himself in the appearance of a man and servant and accepted the disgusting death on a cross. In the 2nd coming of our Lord ,we see in Revelation 21:2 ‘’I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, COMING DOWN out of heaven from God,....” Why God has to come down to man , because the feeble creature man who could vanish like a mist and who sinned against the creator and crucified him , has no way to to get back to God , The Holy and All Mighty God has to leave His exalted position and come down to reconcile with men. This is the humility and love of the Most High and Holy.
If this is what Bible teaches us , then why do our Christian leaders think it is below their dignity to correct a very wrong decision, it reflects either they have no insights into the basic teachings of Bible or do not believe in Bible.
Question ;
Is it problem with leaders or Is it stupidity and blindness of the folk ?
Sajan
I AM A MAN implies that I AM JUST A MAN and not superior than a man. When one race acts as superior and think others as slaves to rule over them , they challenge a fundamental theological demise of creation that God created the Man in His image and all the people on earth are descendants of Adam and Eve. The 1st couples were trapped by Satan to cross the limitations placed on them as humans by enticing them to become like god . The white supremacists believed they could deny human dignity to those they deemed lesser, thereby denying the fundamental Christian theocratic premise of the universal love of god and unity of races in Adam.
When a creation of God believe in infallibility and acts with a right to rule over others without being questioned , that only shows that he is possessed by this demonic spirit which coax humans to transcend the permissible boundaries allowed by the creator to the creation. He is subverting the truth that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights but with different talents to perform varied roles in a community. This tendency of self imposed pride with its brutality of oppression and the rise of white supremacy and leaders like Hitler and other brutal dictators were all captived by this demonic spirit of pride to become ”I AM’’ from ‘’ I am a Man’’. IAM is used in Bible to represent the MOST HOLY, ALL POWER FULL God. In Exodus God says to Moses “ I AM WHAT IAM’’ and about man as Ezekel sasys in 28:2 ‘’ You are but a man , and no god’’
The people in spiritual world sometimes try to wield this supremacy over the followers by invoking a new slogan of divine power which was used by popes in gone era , even today it is used in some theocratic countries with its criminal brutality but not accepted in civilized societies. The actions of current head of Marthoma Church clearly demonstrate that he is transcending the boundaries of a human being by disregarding the wish and will of a an overwhelming majority in abolishing a well established parish in Kuwait. The way he did this and the stubborn and hard headed stand he is still taking on the issue is this tendency to become I AM. He thinks everybody has to just obey whatever he does. Even God, the All Mighty , the All Powerful had the humility to listen to the arguments of His own creations as we see in Bible Abraham, Moses, Gideon etc plead with God in certain occasions. But our church leader believe no need to know what the folk want and no need hear them , review or corrections is something out of question in his kingdom. Even if someone doesn’t believe in Bible or does not follow the teachings of Christ, it will be better to have at least a browse thru history and have an eye to happenings in the contemporary world to know the fate of those leaders who believed in their own infallibility and tried to impose their will on others , all such doctrines crumbled and their proponents went to the dust bin of history or remembered as villains and not heroes. If Kuwait Marthomites refuse to accept the Kalapana , it is because they are not ready to buy the false beliefs of self imposed superior rights of the Methrapolitha to rule over them as slaves with scant regards for their very legitimate wishes.
Some years back, a bishop of a church had drawn a picture, which was visualization of the 2nd coming of Lord Jesus Christ. In the picture all people are gathered around Jesus , some of the people in the front rows were some poor laity , then some Achens , here and there were bishops also, some in between the laity in front or middle rows and some of them standing in far end corners. The picture convey a very important aspect of Christian faith that God does not judge by the face of the people. All the creations , bishops, achens, laity or evangelists , rich and poor , have to stand alike and what matters will be the acts they did while on in this earth, as Apostle Paul puts it in 2chorinthians 5:8 ‘’For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad’’.
The wisdom and ability of a leader is his ability to get along with followers and lead them to achieve overall aspirations of the folk and not to place his own personal pride and will above everything. In Malayalam we use a word “ alppan’’ to refer to those people who, when acquire some wealth or power, think they have reached on the top of the world and try to belittle others.
Taking a decision suicidal to the group and sticking to it thinking it will offend his personal pride to review and correct the blunder is not reflection of strength but weakness and satanic arrogance. Such leaders will not be honored in the eyes of The Al Mighty God, who even sacrificed His honored position in heaven, came down to earth, humbled himself in the appearance of a man and servant and accepted the disgusting death on a cross. In the 2nd coming of our Lord ,we see in Revelation 21:2 ‘’I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, COMING DOWN out of heaven from God,....” Why God has to come down to man , because the feeble creature man who could vanish like a mist and who sinned against the creator and crucified him , has no way to to get back to God , The Holy and All Mighty God has to leave His exalted position and come down to reconcile with men. This is the humility and love of the Most High and Holy.
If this is what Bible teaches us , then why do our Christian leaders think it is below their dignity to correct a very wrong decision, it reflects either they have no insights into the basic teachings of Bible or do not believe in Bible.
Question ;
Is it problem with leaders or Is it stupidity and blindness of the folk ?
Sajan