This really is enjoyable. I like Ranveer's interviewing style. He asks these questions that you just know the viewers has to be wondering about, in such a charming manner. And then sometimes these unexpected questions. Also, I feel like you can sense that India is another world in itself in a way. The entire conversation is fascinating.
Speaking of ancient gods and spirits. My experience of the efficacy of the blood of Jesus is that it connects me to the below one. For me that is the special ongoing effect of Jesus and of the gift of the Holy Spirit, knowing God the Father Whether I am knowing a Trinitarian Henotheism or Monotheism I can’t say for sure in this world. From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
“High God, in anthropology and the history of religion, a type of supreme deity found among many nonliterate peoples of North and South America, Africa, northern Asia, and Australia. The adjective high is primarily a locative term: a High God is conceived as being utterly transcendent, removed from the world that he created. A High God is high in the sense that he lives in or is identified with the sky—hence, the alternative name. Among North American Indians and Central and South Africans, thunder is thought to be the voice of the High God. In Siberia the sun and moon are considered the High God’s eyes. He is connected with food and heaven among American Indians.
Though the pattern varies from people to people, the High God usually is conceived as masculine or sexless. He is thought to be the sole creator of heaven and earth. Although he is omnipotent and omniscient, he is thought to have withdrawn from his creation and therefore to be inaccessible to prayer or sacrifice. Generally, no graphic images of him exist, nor does he receive cult worship or appear in the mythology. If he is invoked, it is only in times of extreme distress, but there is no guarantee that he will hear or respond. His name often is revealed only to initiates, and to speak his name aloud is thought to invite disaster or death; his most frequent title is Father. In some traditions he is conceived to be a transcendent principle of divine order; in others he is pictured as senile or impotent and replaced by a set of more active and involved deities; and in still other traditions he has become so remote that he is all but forgotten.
Some scholars consider the conception of the High God to be very old, preceding the creation of particular pantheons; some see the High God as secondary, both in importance and in chronology; and some see him as a very recent development stimulated by Christianity. Christian missionaries, naturally having a monotheistic bias, tended to overemphasize high gods. In recent times the figure of the High God has been revived among some African messianic groups.”
Thank you for this! Deepened and simplified my faith. Christianity is not a mystical contemplative ascent to God, but primal and blood based.. Years ago I read the words of a former Brazilian voodoo priestess, “I once worshipped gods with the blood of goats and chickens, now I worship God with the blood of Jesus.” And “you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ” Ephesians 2:13, a daily offering of blood effected by peaceful daily trust in Jesus as the mediator.
Thanks Rhyd!
Nah, mate. Thank YOU. Deeply inspiring, really.
This really is enjoyable. I like Ranveer's interviewing style. He asks these questions that you just know the viewers has to be wondering about, in such a charming manner. And then sometimes these unexpected questions. Also, I feel like you can sense that India is another world in itself in a way. The entire conversation is fascinating.
Interesting, but the blood of Jesus does the job for me.
Thanks so much for sharing this Rhyd. Powerful stuff. I look forward to seeing more of it.
Speaking of ancient gods and spirits. My experience of the efficacy of the blood of Jesus is that it connects me to the below one. For me that is the special ongoing effect of Jesus and of the gift of the Holy Spirit, knowing God the Father Whether I am knowing a Trinitarian Henotheism or Monotheism I can’t say for sure in this world. From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
“High God, in anthropology and the history of religion, a type of supreme deity found among many nonliterate peoples of North and South America, Africa, northern Asia, and Australia. The adjective high is primarily a locative term: a High God is conceived as being utterly transcendent, removed from the world that he created. A High God is high in the sense that he lives in or is identified with the sky—hence, the alternative name. Among North American Indians and Central and South Africans, thunder is thought to be the voice of the High God. In Siberia the sun and moon are considered the High God’s eyes. He is connected with food and heaven among American Indians.
Though the pattern varies from people to people, the High God usually is conceived as masculine or sexless. He is thought to be the sole creator of heaven and earth. Although he is omnipotent and omniscient, he is thought to have withdrawn from his creation and therefore to be inaccessible to prayer or sacrifice. Generally, no graphic images of him exist, nor does he receive cult worship or appear in the mythology. If he is invoked, it is only in times of extreme distress, but there is no guarantee that he will hear or respond. His name often is revealed only to initiates, and to speak his name aloud is thought to invite disaster or death; his most frequent title is Father. In some traditions he is conceived to be a transcendent principle of divine order; in others he is pictured as senile or impotent and replaced by a set of more active and involved deities; and in still other traditions he has become so remote that he is all but forgotten.
Some scholars consider the conception of the High God to be very old, preceding the creation of particular pantheons; some see the High God as secondary, both in importance and in chronology; and some see him as a very recent development stimulated by Christianity. Christian missionaries, naturally having a monotheistic bias, tended to overemphasize high gods. In recent times the figure of the High God has been revived among some African messianic groups.”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/High-God
Great interview!
Wow, really impressed with Peter. Thank you for introducing him; I’ve followed him.
Thank you for this! Deepened and simplified my faith. Christianity is not a mystical contemplative ascent to God, but primal and blood based.. Years ago I read the words of a former Brazilian voodoo priestess, “I once worshipped gods with the blood of goats and chickens, now I worship God with the blood of Jesus.” And “you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ” Ephesians 2:13, a daily offering of blood effected by peaceful daily trust in Jesus as the mediator.