Brilliant people are as subject to ridicule as much as fools are. Many famous inventors were mocked because or their inventive insight. Brilliant people were often considered fools in times past; people were just too dull in mind to understand the possibilities.
Thomas Edison, one of the most enlightened
people of all time, was considered, “creepy and dangerous,” according to Atlas
Obscura. About Edison’s even more brilliant rival, “In his later years,
Tesla was regarded as an eccentric scientist. Ridiculed by his contemporaries,
his ideas frequently appeared in works of science fiction” (PBS).
Neither Edison nor Tesla were mere inventors but brilliant minds that understood science. As a child, Thomas Edison was thought of as troublesome to say the least, according to the Foundation of Economic Education, some said that Edison was “addled:”
In 1854, Reverend G. B.
Engle belittled one of his students, seven-year-old Thomas Alva Edison, as
“addled.” This outraged the youngster, and he stormed out of the Port Huron,
Michigan school, the first formal school he had ever attended. His mother, Nancy
Edison, brought him back the next day to discuss the situation with Reverend
Engle, but she became angry at his rigid ways. Everything was forced on the
kids. She withdrew her son from the school where he had been for only three
months and resolved to educate him at home. Although he seems to have briefly
attended two more schools, nearly all his childhood learning took place at
home.
For instance, bloodletting had
been used to treat various illnesses since ancient Egyptian times for about
3000 years. All civilizations bled the patient nearly to death for his or her
own good.
Unknown is Edison’s opinion about
bloodletting, but an equally fascinating scientist, Dr. Pierre Louis in France revealed
the truth. Imagine the consternation when that one man sought to end a
tradition that had existed for so long! Bloodletting ended during the lifetime
of both Edison and Tesla who were rival ‘idiots’ in the minds of many.
Why did the nonsensical science
of bloodletting prevail for so long? Because it had always been done, even
without any proof that it helped. “Bloodletting survived for so long is not an
intellectual anomaly—it resulted from the dynamic interaction of social,
economic, and intellectual pressures, a process that continues to determine
medical practice,” according to the British Columbia Medical Journal.
Doctors bled patients because
they were expected to do something.
In this day, many stood in line
to take a faux vaccine that did not prevent contagion merely because science
was expected to do some thing. Gullible people were even expected to
wear masks that did not work because they were expected to do some thing. The concept of “bloodletting” remains to this
day, not using leeches, but requiring people to do stupid things in a “scientific
comedy” that makes them feel better!
On the other hand, Jesus was the real
thing. Jesus, whose DNA was of Yahweh, as “The Son of God” had
supreme knowledge; even at the age of twelve He was considered brilliant by
those who heard Him teach to the most knowledgeable in the Temple.
While in the city, it seems that
His parents forgot about the young boy. As it turns out He was in the Temple teaching
them His “Father’s Business” (Luke 2:49). The chief priest’s vocations were to teach God’s
Business, but here was a young man teaching what they should have taught. Imagine
the envy of the chief priests when they heard that Jesus was teaching the people
things that even they did not know. [1]
Who was likely addled there?
Jesus or the chief priests?
It came to pass, that after three
days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both
hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished
at his understanding and answers. And when they (his parents) saw Him, they
were amazed. (Luke 2:46-48)
The chief priests, as it turned
out, were not amazed! They thought Jesus was a drunk and demon possessed. Whenever
He taught in the synagogues many marveled, but others condemned Him; they
thought that Jesus was confused. Imagine how addled they became when they heard
His admirers call Him not only “The Son of David,” but “The Son of God.”
In the ending, it was the chief
priests that were addled. Jesus implied that they had the greater sin but was
graceful enough that He said about them, “They know not what they do” (Luke
23:34).
Jesus was as much a genius as
Edison and Tesla, even more so, because He had the knowledge of God in His
great mind. He never thought trivial thoughts but was on a mission; He was not out
to improve the world, but to create a perfect world without hatred, violence, sickness,
nor even death. Silly Him, the chief priests might have thought; they
could not even do that!
The people mocked Jesus: some spit
on Him, He was blindfolded and beaten, they dressed Him like a king in jest — a
court jester, and the chief priests themselves mocked Him for His claim to be
God, “"He saved others, but He can’t save himself!” (Mark 15:31). That is
after people called Jesus a ‘drunk’ and even a ‘Devil,’ while failing to
realize that the real ‘Devil’ was in Judas.
The greatest mockery was that
they detested Jesus just because He was Jesus; that He was “Ya(hweh) saves.”
In modern times, people who think
they are God or king are called ‘schizophrenic,’ having delusions of grandeur.
They thought that about Jesus too!
When Jesus returns be not surprised
that the world will call Him, ‘Crazy.’ We should not be looking for a brilliant
scientist to save mankind but One the general public and the media think is beside
Himself.
Jesus having the power to heal
the sick and cast out devils was ridiculed; the multitude were so aside
themselves that they could not even eat bread! “When his friends heard of
it (the healing and such), they went out to lay hold on Him: for they said that
“He is beside himself.” (Mark 3:21).
What they meant was that Jesus
was confused, or ‘addled,’ as some would say. Jesus was out of His mind,
perhaps schizophrenic, they thought. (Tesla was thought of that same way.)
Ironically, Jesus was indeed soon
‘beside Himself’!
“Soon after the Lord had spoken
unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God”
(Mark 16:19). He was God. He sat down on the throne of God as Himself. What
they said in mockery soon became real, and now we know that neither Edison nor
Tesla were addled men but brilliant minds!
This brings me to the subject at
hand. We have been taught since childhood that Jesus was a ‘mere carpenter.’ That
probably was derived from the translation of Mark 6:3. Jesus was not a mere
carpenter but a “tekton’ in the original Greek. He was not to be mocked,
but the word ‘tekton’ could mean many things. Since the English
translations were introduced in the dark ages, Jesus was thought to be a
carpenter for that was a prevalent trade at the time.
However, it was written that
Jesus was a ‘tekton.’ That is
much more than any tradesman; Jesus was an ‘artificer’ — “a skilled or artistic
worker”
What was His Father’s business? “God
created the heaven and the earth:” (Gen 1:1)… “the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters, and God said, ‘Let there be light:’ and there was light, and
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
darkness” (Gen 1:2-4). The Father could
have been a carpenter or a mason to do those things, but God was a ‘Supreme
Scientist” such as the world has never seen since!
Yahweh was the ultimate ‘Tekton,’
standing above everyone in His field. Because of envy, Lucifer was the ‘Edison’
that thought himself better than ‘Tesla’ (Isa 14:13-14).
Jesus had the genetics of His Father;
and only John saw that: describing Jesus, John wrote:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men, and the light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (John 1:1-5)
Gen 1:1-5 was His Father’s
business, and the business of Jesus was the Father’s business as related in John
1:1-5.
What were their businesses? The same
business. Jesus was sharing those things with the doctors at the Temple. Jesus
would have been describing how He made all things. Can you imagine how
much those doctors learned from that youngster?
Some theologians say that Joseph
taught Jesus, not only carpentry while they were exiled in Egypt, but also His
Father’s Business. Not so! His parents were amazed at His teachings (Luke
2:48). Apparently, they listened to what their son was saying and learned
astro-physics from that twelve-year-old prodigy whose intelligence was all the knowledge
of all things. Jesus was not taught; He existed and did it all, and as such,
depend on Jesus to do it again!
Jesus is diminished as even
Christians call Him a “mere carpenter.’ He was a Tekton! A ‘technician’
is anyone that practices technology, but Jesus was not practicing; He
was performing in reality how to make all things good. He is the Universal
Body of Knowledge, and all other things are from that Body.
The root noun for tekton is
tetk, meaning to mold, carve, and other things.
That Jesus was a carpenter surely
was believed because He was thought of as a carver of wooden things that
were common to that era. Of course, He could have been a mason, or even a
molder of iron and bronze, the two ages of the time of Jesus. However, His
Father’s business was all technical things, even creating life! Jesus was not
just a carpenter but the Creator; He was the “Husbandman” that His Father
was because He is the Father made flesh (John 15:1). As the ‘Vine’ in that
passage, Jesus’s business was an offshoot of His Father’s business.
In modern terms, Jesus was much
more than a carpenter, not to diminish their artisanship; He would be called
the ‘Greatest Astro-physicist’ ever; not only knowing the workings of God but
doing them. Jesus is ‘The Science.’ The science is Existence and when Jesus
said, “I AM THAT I AM” (Exod 3:24), that means that only He is “The Science”! Jehovah
or Yahweh is The Science and so is Jesus.
Great care must be taken to
consider the times in which scripture was translated. That Jesus could only
carve wooden images makes Him nothing more than the father of Abraham who made
images of God. Jesus Himself, as the ‘Father,’ made Himself an Image made of
flesh — life — and when it was finished Jesus cut down the Image and the Father
Himself left Him in phantom.
Einstein and Kaku should be
mocked. They understood what God made and even credited it to God, but it is
them that gets the glory. They made a name for themselves, all the while ignoring
the Tekton that did it all — Jesus.
Jesus was the greatest Mind ever.
His Mind was the very Mind of God, yet people think of Jesus as merely a Son of
God. “Son” in that passage means genetics and that Jesus had the very DNA of Yahweh
in His Person; there is no Father and Son, but both in One. The Spirit is
the ‘Tekton’ that has the Power to do all things. The Spirit is the Father’s
‘Business’ and He is still in the Business of regenerating what He had made in
the beginning. Jesus is still beside Himself in Paradise all the while the
Spirit is the Power of the Tekton.
picture credit; "Saved Souls;" good wiki - Fandom
[1]
I am often ridiculed even by some in my church for teaching things that they
had never heard before. They may be
afraid of the truth!
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