{"id":2489,"date":"2009-12-06T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2009-12-06T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T18:51:12","slug":"advent-2-from-dualism-to-dual-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"Advent 2  &#8211; From dualism to dual heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Jesus to straddle divinity and humanity he  became  a 1st century \u2018half-caste\u2019. Today the term \u2018half- caste\u2019 ,is not politically correct  and yet in some countries marrying  out  of your caste remains, risky,  unusual and culturally frowned upon.  Yet God impregnates a human and mixes the divine with humanity and Jesus become a third culture child of mixed race and it was a risky and crazy thing to do..  <\/p>\n<p>Today we refer to people from two races\/ cultures  as \u2018Dual heritage. Jesus was born from heaven and from earth and in this birth, the old doctrine of dualism from the old Testament  is replaced by   the duality of the New testament. In this joining up, the mixing up of races, this baby Jesus deletes divisions, creates a new default template of being, and smashes dualism with this act of   mixing divinity and humanity. <\/p>\n<p>This act is done not with words but with his body \u2013 the word becomes flesh and is full of grace and truth. The concept has become embodied. <\/p>\n<p>On this advent let us get into our body and move\u2026<\/p>\n<p>From a God up there to a God down here<br \/>\nFrom a God out there to a God in here<br \/>\nFrom thinking to feeling<br \/>\nFrom dualism to duality<br \/>\nFrom division to mixing<br \/>\nFrom disintegration to integration<br \/>\nFrom separateness to togetherness<br \/>\nFrom disconnectedness to connectedness<br \/>\nBeing neither dependant, nor independent but interdependence<br \/>\nBeing neither your God, nor my God but our God<br \/>\nMixing you, me and we<br \/>\nBeing Alone and together<br \/>\nBeing fully human <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Jesus to straddle divinity and humanity he became a 1st century \u2018half-caste\u2019. Today the term \u2018half- caste\u2019 ,is not politically correct and yet in some countries marrying out of your caste remains, risky, unusual and culturally frowned upon. Yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}