It is also widely said that upon arriving in Jamaica, HIM somewhat shocked and rather vocal about NOT being seen as divine or Divinity.
It is also said that after his return to Ethiopia, he dispatched Archbishop Abouna Yesehaq Mandefro to the Caribbean to help draw Rastas and other West Indians to the Ethiopian Church, and according to some, denied his divinity.
We can sit here and debate, pontificate the divinity of this one and that one until we all are exhausted only to have back at square 1, without a definitive answer that will satisfy us all. This is exactly what has caused so much confusion in Christianity! Those that say "Jesus said this and that", and others who scream "no he didn't, what he was saying was this..." We are doing the same thing within RasTafari Nation.
This is the challenge when we begin to DEIFY man as the ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD, the "Father". When we assign a superhero status to a MAN. The wrong concept of "GOD" desensitizes a people to their own God-potential by fixing their hope on THE COMING OF A MAGIC MAN WHO WILL CREATE A MIRACULOUS EVENT.
The more we look OUTSIDE of ourselves, or seek HIM/HER in a book, a scripture, a quote, or within the confines of a church, temple, mosque, etc...the DIVINE ONE will continue to elude us.
THE KINGDOM OF JAH IS WITHIN.
"Is it not written in your law, I said, YE ARE GODS?"
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