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Article by James M. Gannon (Sept 9, 2024)
Significance of Jesus
Sin: as to “Miss the Mark”.
From The Ascents of James by Stephen Andrew Missick: P31: The veil was a barrier between
the Holy of Holies and the rest of the temple = a barrier between God and mankind, When
Jesus died the Veil was Torn – removing the barrier between God and humans.
According to Florence Scoville Shin Jesus essentially allowed us to be under The Law of Grace,
rather than the Law of Karma. We could improve and seek forgiveness instead of suffering
guaranteed retribution for our errors. We learned Gratitude.
Personally I have always considered that Jesus wanted to make clear for people to follow the
Meaning of the Law and not just zombie like following the Letter of the Law, so we stop missing
the point (aka missing the mark = sinning).
When Jesus tells the story of the “poor man Lazarus and the Rich Man” in Luke 16, 19-31: The
story emphasizes an afterlife different from the presumed afterlife of Sheol (Hades in Greek).
Thus Jesus saves us from the despair of death by giving a picture of the afterlife and showing an
eternal justice as well. That is certainly a psychological saving grace. Also, more subtle, is the
fact that Lazarus “was transferred to Abraham’s bosom” and the Rich Man asked Abraham for
assistance, indicates the afterlife is in fact a life, good or bad depending on behavior in this life
realm, but also that Abraham was alive in Jesus’ example which is yet another reminder that
when God states being “God of the Living” he means it.
In cultures such as India, there was/is belief in reincarnation, but that pathway is like pulling
into a roadway rotary and going around indefinitely, but Jesus offers an exit directly to God and
we do not have to keep going through the pains, pressures and drama of life forever: one time
being the lion, the other the gazelle, one time the spider, another the fly, one time a king and
another a beggar, one time a judge, another the thief: No, Jesus gives us the chance to repent
(radical change of heart, or, if you will, an internal reincarnation of self) directly into a Christlike
state.
During the Transfiguration of Jesus, again having Moses and Elijah appear, indicates they were,
and are, living, thus breaking the conceptual chains of death mankind carried and many of us
still carry. Also, I think that location of the Transfiguration was within the Promised Land,
which means Moses did eventually enter the Promised Land ;)
Jesus’ life & death made us worthy. “Don’t ye know you are Gods”? – John 10:34. In Catholic
service we say, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the
word and my Soul shall be healed.” I think it should say, ‘Lord, I am honored that you enter
under my roof, you have said the word and my Soul is healed’. In fact, I think it insulting to God
to dwell on the “I’m not worthy”, God made us in his image. That’s like denying Gods Gift, “you
shouldn’t have”. Imagine God saying, “What do you think, I sent a part of triune self, my son
Jesus to live among you and show you the way to paradise and sent my Holy Spirit to dwell
within you to inspire, protect and guide you every moment?” – our conditioned reply, “Really
God, you shouldn’t have”. Is that not an insult?
Jesus taught us to approach God as a loving father rather than as a capricious powerful but
angry entity spewing wrath upon humankind. Which world would you rather live in? Some of
these ideas may not mean as much to us in these times because we live in the post Jesus world,
but think if you lived under the old terms, how much a relief Jesus’ message would be.
However, if you are one who has been “educated/indoctrinated” to believe life on earth was a
random chance event of an single cell life merging from nothing, then an amoeba enveloping
but not digesting a paramecium to form a more complex cellular life and then randomly
becoming more organizationally complex and eventually evolving into something with at least
some capacity of logic, reason and planning and that therefore life means nothing, because it is
all an unlikely random occurrence anyhow: you may find some comfort in Jesus’s message in
knowing that your life and what you do means something. By the way, randomness generally
gets more disorganized (law of entropy), not more organized. Thus even in the randomness
model, there had to be some impetus towards a more complex organization- God. Also those
random events are alleged to have occurred over millions of years to perhaps a billion years,
but statistically should have taken trillions of years – a miracle.
So when those smug self-righteous college admissions czars ask their stupid question, “what is
your privilege”, instead of disavowing your family for generations of honest work and success
and denigrating yourself for your academic achievements, you can say, “My greatest privilege
is, I am a child of God.” According to scripture you could answer that your privilege is, “I am
God”, at least a part of God sent to perform my best service in my domain. Jesus reminding the
religious legal scholars of his day, “Don’t you know you are Gods”, is not a call to decadence,
but to benevolence as an awesome wonder, opportunity and responsibility.
May the blessing of God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Ghost be with you always,
James M. Gannon
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This book is great for any of the following:
- Potential medical students
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- Anyone who wants to learn more about our healthcare system
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What is this book about? An inside perspective of the abusive and often corrupt academic, political and legal systems one must navigate to succeed in medicine.
My Background
During my junior college days I worked in HVAC to save money for four year college. Eventually earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Then attended medical school, became a Nuclear Medicine physician. Returned to residency for Radiology training and subsequent Neuroradiology Fellowship.
Here is a breakdown of my educational experience:experience:
Cuyahoga Community College [AKA CCC or Tri-C] (a couple associate degrees while working full-time), Cleveland State University (a couple chemistry courses to complete one of the Tri-C degrees) and Case Western Reserve University (Biomedical Engineering). Medical School; Toledo Ohio (when I went it was called Medical College of Ohio, now called University of Toledo College of Medicine).
Why did I write this book:
To tell the truth about medicine and medical training so people can have an understanding of our healthcare system. For people thinking of going to medical training, they would know what to expect and for others to have an understanding of how and why our healthcare system is messed up: Miscommunications. Health care billing about ten times the actual costs. Game of fee contracts and cost shifting. How the procedures are coded. Medicaid billing contract side effects. Manipulated statistics. Advocacy studies utilizing corrupted data. Too much focus on compliance and billing instead of patient care. Doctors spend most of their time not working
with the patient. CYA emphasis due to “if its not documented it didn’t happen”
philosophy. Paper trail trumps patient care and created a whole layer of middle men. Medical school doesn’t prepare you for the world of billing, inancing, business and, compliance.
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