to Fyiah.
I am not surprised of what you said; i was waiting to see it in this discussion. I was waiting someone to came and talk about these usual stories.
Let's face a reality composed of this two main facts:
-Rastafari-->believer in the Divinity of Haile Selassie
-Haile Selassie's Acts and Words unto the Rastafarians--->Godly, to be applied and considered as Supreme Comandaments.
I think the point is clear now: if you are a Rastafarian you have to believe Haile Selassie is God; if you believe in that, you follow Haile Selassie.
What did Haile Selassie to the EOC? Ok, if you don't want to consider His Speeches, that you might think have to be interpreted that way (i want to be short, otherwise I would say a lot lot of things concerning that, so I put here on the tables pure facts), I would remind you the gaining of the Ethiopian autocephaly and His becoming "Head" of EOC. think this:
HIS is the Church; the Church (that now are the Rastafarians, just like the Synagogue became the Christian Church, so this is EVOLUTION) announce HIM.
Rastafarians- He would them to be educated by the Church, the Apostolic Authority, in order to have a theological basis, to know properly what the Kingly Ministry of Christ consisted in.
So He is the Head of the Church, and the Church are the Rastafarians: HE "comes out" of the true Christian Church, and He shows this.
look
He made the EOC indipendent and autocephal(is this casuality?, was He just adressing to a strict people concerned?, and were His restless Efforts just casuality, made because he was there and He decided he wanted to do it, not to filfill the Kingly Ministry?) He offered presents of Bibles to ethiopian students; He translated ge'ez Bibles in Amarich versions;He took Eucharist (maybe was it a mere casuality, because He was in a Church, with Christian people, and had to receive Eucharist as a somehow debt to the people that was with HIM??); He attened and directed the Orthodox Eastern Church Assembly and the World Church Council for the unifications of the Church of Christ ;He confirmed the Elections of the High Clergy; He promoted IN SCHOOLS Christian education; He offered presents ,Ethiopian gift, crafts, to many person, such as Golden Crosses or icons; during the Rastafarian Missions for repatriation, Rastafarians where received by the Abuna, and discussed with him on RastafarI, and the Abuna encouraged them, in theyr beliefs and in theyr being ethiopians. so the Rastafarian delegation was received by the Church, as if HIM in Person ordered it to the Abuna (in fact HIM controlled the whole situation of the mission, being the Head of the State, and He Who allowed the delegation to come to Ethiopia); He sent Abuna Yesheaq to Jamaica, not to convert Rastafarians, but to strenghten their faith, to have a theological basis and chucrchical and traditional knowledge (read the book "EOTC: an integrally african Church" by A.Yesehaq, and you will see that he didn't come to Jamaica to convert , but to teach for the growt of Rastafari).
Surely there are more and more things to add here; i wrote all these to show by facts and not Speeches (which you don't consider valid) His Supreme Communion with and Efforts toward the Church, that He watered with the Orthodox faith.
Done this, how deny that He did it by a Divine Plan?, and not just for a casuality of adressing to some people, today christian, tomorrow maybe muslims, and so on...
Undestood this, how, now, deny the Teaching of the Church of Christ,? that He promoted for our faith; a Teaching that is everything but what many myths and chatters whant make us believe, like their is a somehow higher knowledge, just because it goes beyond a book, and things...just like the ones written in the post I am adressing to: always heared and that always come out as mushrooms.
The Words unto the Rastafarians about centralization and organization prove nothing about Christianity; infact no one is saying here that He told them He was not Divine, nor that they had to change their view, as you said; as i said EOC could just strenghten them, not convert, though now the situation is different, but we have to consider that they do not see HIM on the Throne anymore, while, when they saw HIM they confessed mystically His Divinity, in many ways: think of Peter, that denied Him, but soon confessed again. So it is for EOC, one day.
He also said that Jesus Christ died and rose up. How could you think that He said this just to say something, and not to adfirm a Truth? If He dais so, IT IS SO! If you say KaRast ,Djewuti Heru and things, you contraddict His words, this is. If He says Jesus IS, then He thinks this so of course; it doesn't matter if He was adressing to this or to that: He said it.
If one should think like you said, then he should also thing that Haile Selassie could have said to the u.s.a. children that santaclaus, or babbo natale (like in italy is called) exists, and that they have to be good and trust in santa's coming to receive presents from the chymney? or to the aborigens of australia that theyr gods and goddes will be righteous toward them, and that theyr gods do actually live and reign for ever? I don't think so.
If He said something it was because it was true; much more if He said "Christ ERASED OUR SINS", and not just "Christ is a good exaple for humanity". He adfirm a concrete, and "physiological" truth about the REAL-existence and Mission of the Man Who saved us all.
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