The Bible is to confuse you, but still
it is there to heal you. It is a book
written by men of old to express
their historical understanding of
life. But now you in this time would
have to look into it, and see what is
best suitable for your existence and
what is not. There is no way I'm
going to follow God in the Old
Testament and sacrifice animals
cause I love the scent of it. And if I
do something wrong, I'm going to
go out there and get so much
turtles and so much oxen and burn
them. That is primitive thinking.
But they say is God say it. I know
God nah have nuttin fe do with it. It
is man trump up all these thing. So
the god of Moses is not the god of
Christ, because Christ come and
deny everything weh them say him
say, 'you have heard that it was
said, but I say . . .' So him a show
you a higher thing now. But I live
inna dis time ya so now. Ya haffe
look pon now, wha dem a seh Jesus
say. What Paul say? Paul a try
gather up some numbers from the
Greeks and the Romans fe bring
them over to a Jewish form of
Christianity. Now, I am not a
Roman or a Greek, so a lot of letters
that Paul write to these people, the
Ephesians, the Romans, the
Corinthians. I wouldn't take it upon
myself and say is me, because I a
come from a different experience. I
a come from an African experience.
I come from five-hundred years of
colonialism and slavery. So I would
have to shape God within the
context of my life and how can God
work for me. I nah work for God.
How can God a go work for me?
Because is I going to create all of
this reality. So I create within my
reality a historical figure and a
historical person. That is Haile
Selassie. I can see how Haile
Selassie work for me, because I see
him work for Africa. And I see how
that linkage link the old with the
new and with the now. And I have
something to refer to without
thinking mythologically. Because
when I think pon Jesus, I haffe
think mythologically. When I think
pon Haile Selassie, I don't haffe
think mythologically#Muta again
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