The Crucifixion, explained (part 2).

by existential calvinist on 2006年09月09日 03:58 AM

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Explicandum

Apostles’ Creed

[Christ] suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.

Explicans

Genesis 3:5, words of the serpent

…your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods…

Noble Truth number one of four

Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Meta-explicans

The serpent’s words were correct, but the direction of the inference for the second assertion must be reversed from the standard interpretation.

Autobiographical note on the meta-explicans

When I was a child, I not infrequently thought, “If only I had been ‘born’ the soul of God, rather than the soul of myself, how much easier would life be!”

At that time, I had not yet fully come to understand the significance of the crucifixion nor that of Matthew 11:30, “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”