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Owned by Culture
Friday, January 22, 2021 @ 11:32 AM
“Culture” is one of those words (like love or liberal) that can mean so many different things it is really a challenge to define. Since this blog has a lot to do with culture it is important that you know what I mean when I use the word. When I speak of culture I am referring to “the often unchallenged and universally practiced beliefs, values, and behaviors embraced by a group of people in society” (borrowed from my own doctoral dissertation). Culture produces a way of thinking and therefore living.
The culture of Israel in the first century produced the religious elitism that we see in the Gospels. Men like Caiaphas, Simon the Pharisee, and even Saul of Tarsus (who later converted and became the Apostle Paul). Corporately John the Baptist and even Jesus Christ called all the religious leaders of Israel a “brood of vipers” (Matthew 3:7; 12:34). Those vipers were both creators and products of their culture.
2000 years ago Jesus, the ONLY Savior of mankind, the undisputed most controversial Jewish guy ever (and a son of David, today still God in human flesh), had just left Pontius Pilate’s porch dragging a big rugged cross upon which he was about to be crucified. Because our loving God/Creator did not simply make a ‘Jesus bot’ to come, suffer and die for the sins of the people he loved so much, the Holy Spirit had, thirty-three years earlier, impregnated Mary, a descendant of King David, with our Lord and Savior. And so God’s Son, (a.k.a. “The Word” of the Holy Trinity), who had just been beaten senseless, was about to walk to his death on the hill they called ‘Golgotha’ (meaning: ‘place of the skull’). He would there be tacked to that big (probably sycamore) cross and ‘bleed out’ just like a meat sacrifice that the Temple priests would drain of its blood before it was consumed in flame. The smoke of that burning meat caused that big Temple in Jerusalem to smell l