Greetings in the name of H.I.M Haile I Selassie I JAH RasTafarI!
Continual praises unto the King of Kings! RAS TAFARI!
Ras Power said:
'in no way one who created anything is equal to that he created.'
I and I have to agree. There are two aspects of Jah in I and I sight. One that is revealed through his creation, then the other is the infinite aspect which we simply cannot overstand.
Jah created I and I and I in HIS image, but we are not equal to JAH, the Alpha and the Omega, the infinite and limitless!
We can become ONE with Jah through overcoming the flesh, but we are not equal to HIM, we simply become a part of HIM. Perfect Inity! RasTafarI Selassie I Jah!
I and I sight there is ONE creator of the Iniverse and the Heavens, and that is Jah, who is infinite, who was before and will be after.
The other point I and I would like to raise is one that I see rise quite often. This is the point that There is one God and different names (This I and I argue not with). However when I and I see people write the name Krishna or Buddha, or Vishnu etc. I and I have to take a stand for I and I creator, Jah the God of Israel, whom has established himself in Ithiopia, the Holy Land, Zion! Jah RasTafarI Selassie I!
One has to overstand that Krishna and Vishnu and the other Hindu gods are some of many deities. There is 330,000,000 ideas of God in Hinduism, all of which can become 33, then 1, and then finally 0. The gods can be traced back as being a part of Brahmin, which is what Hindus call the infinite absolute. I and I can see a common ground here, for the other aspect of Jah is infinite, and impersonal, as they say. However the problem comes where they say that Brahmin is not God, but is a state in which one reaches, to escape Samsara (endless cycle of death and rebirth).
So the point I and I am making about Krishna and Vishnu is that they are not names for God, but they are Indian ideas of God, different manifestations of God.
I and I would NOT sight that Krishna, Vishnu or Devi are manifestations of Jah. The pictures of these Deities as they are described in the Veda are not what I and I would call God-like. These pictures look more like Demons to I and I. Krishna, has many arms, weapons in each hand, tongue out with blood dripping out, decapitated heads around her belt and in some of her hands....
Compare this to a picture of H.I.M. A photo of Selassie I puts I and I at peace and I and I feel safe and feel a warmth inside I and I. A picture of Krishna would scare a child..
Now with regards to the Buddha. One must really study Buddhism before making a claim such as saying that Buddha is a God. Buddhists do not believe in God. The Buddha was a man whom achieved enlightenment, and thus they follow his teachings of how he achieved this enlightenment. So one cannot say that Buddha is a name for Jah, the MOST HIGH, the beginning and end.
However names such as Hashem, El Shaddia, Addonai, Allah...etc. I and I can agree that these are names for the One God, As these are names that derive from Monotheistic religions, that teach of the One God, the Alpha and the Omega.
Even the name Jah is derived from the unutterable name, the tetragrammaton. The hebrew letters Yod(Y) and Hei(H) are the only part of the unutterable name in which it is pretty certain of what the vowel in between is, and that is A; forming YAH, which is where JAH spawns from.
Itinual Ises unto Haile I Selassie I Jah RasTafarI!
Itinual flow of pisitive Ibrations into the hearts of thee Itinually!
Ras I-Tom
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