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(person) by tomed (?) (print)   ?   I like it! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:52:01

How God identified himself to Moses when He gave Moses the Law. Christians use this episode to show that Jesus was stating that he was God when He said "I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am!" (Exodus 3:14).

(person) by johnruss (1.2 y) (print)   ?   1 C! I like it! Thu Jul 27 2000 at 6:44:58

I AM

An old nomad responded to a boundless being and a revelation to humans began. The revelation flowed on through a ram for child offering.

A baby saved from death, took life himself when grown and fled to the desert. The man saw a boundless being in an unquenched fire in the desert. The being spoke from the unquenched fire and the man listened. The young man asked the boundless being for a name and was told "I Am". I Am changed this immature young man into an obedient leader of people after this desert encounter.

An emperor through hubris accomplished I Am's will, a people sprung from the nomad led by the man who watched unquenched fire. No force of this world stood in this people's way, I Am led as fire in the night and a thunderhead by day.

Even as the people disobeyed, I Am prepared a way and a time through forty of years of wandering to accomplish his plan and deliver His people to their land.

Through generations after, the boundless being being showed his people what I Am means. I Am still sought individuals who responded to His command- respond they did, judges, prophets, and kings.

From the line of one of these kings I Am laced a thread through time that would reveal Himself to all human beings . It was an event foretold by prophets and longed for by this people who followed unquenched fire. Through long generations His people looked for the promised one.

Alas, I Am's plan proved to be to boundless for many of His people to detect. A child born in a small town became unquenched fire. I Am's people sought a warrior, an avenger . I Am provided what must be- a servant, a healer.

A wild prophet, a baptizer of people, saw I Am in a man. Some fishermen, and a tax collector too saw unquenched fire live and breathe. I Am, the boundless being, allowed Himself to be bound in flesh and blood.

I Am felt sadness, fear, tears and tiredness. I Am allowed His flesh and blood to be sold out, thorns cut His head, His creations struck I Am- ripped the flesh and blood to the bone. I Am was bound to a life-taking device, iron pierced the flesh and blood. I Am was life and death, eternity, pain, judgment, defeat... then darkness the boundless being became finite. Unquenched fire had allowed itself to be quenched. For three days a dark force hoped it had won out over I Am.

A fisherman, stains of bitter tears on his cheeks, looked in vain for quenched fire in a tomb. None who followed I Am as man had yet to comprehend that unquenched fire can never be put out. The thread through time was now at its nadir, the way for all humans, to know I Am lay completed. I Am remained alive as man, even after His death, long enough for a doubter to feel the iron-pierced flesh. Three times He renewed his fisherman friend back to fellowship, then I Am again became unbounded.

I Am was now revealed to all- to any. Unquenched fire not seen by humans from the outside, but felt from within. I Am reached all the back to the old nomad,and even before and all the forward to you and beyond.

The boundless being bounded himself to unbind you. I Am became life from death so that we humans could do the same.

Look for unquenched fire in your being, come to know I Am as man, then I Am will never be gone from you or you from I Am.


(idea) by wish23x (3.2 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Thu Apr 12 2001 at 22:57:18

there's nothing left to say
you bought it, anyway

took all there is to take
it won't keep me awake
cuz i've always been a fake
and i'll always be a fake

there's nothing left to do
you thought i was like you

a different mask for everything
got a halo i suspend above with string
throat is cracked and sore from all the mindless chatter
if you'll swallow all of my lies then nothing else will matter.

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