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Faith Experienced

By Thina ‘Baby T’ Machepe

One Love, One Jah , One Mighty flame;
All Love is Jah Love and Jah Love is One Love

I and I should always strive towards placing Jah first in I life. As a Rastafarian this is the most significant part of I faith. The answer is as simple as we tend to complicate it; the answer is LOVE.

This might seem like being a very naive way for me to start out I reasonings, but consider that whatever else one might feel is an more intellectual or important discussion than reasonings about love, will still be exercised way under Jah feet. So this is what I and I put first.

Jah is love so therefor love is Jah. Love is the highest level of consciousness and Jah is the living complete Highest form of Conscious Love.

Jah see all things, and also love has no dark corners, its pure light. Everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.

Fire is the source of light, so love is a fire, and that fire is Jah presence.

As our souls are extensions of Jah, the very essence of our souls is love.

Love is the 1 thing that link all hearts together and the common ground to stand on when all other things shake and fall.

The examples of how love is and can be expressed are many, and love is always looking for new ways to be expressed. Therefore let us be like instruments of Jah love, conscious instruments that filters away all negativity. When we keep cleaning dat filter in order to stay clean we will also become better in figuring out what it is that stuck there (how it feels, sounds, smells, taste and look like)- we will become better and better on resisting those things that are wrong for us.

One Jah, One Blessed Love. What a wonderful way of greeting one another! Rasta know this.

Now I dont know if I can really describe love in terms of how it feels, but it is the only thing that I can really trust. Jah fire warm me and confort me like no other, but it can also burn me like nothing else. Even though, I question every other thing I am given.

Love is so much bigger than I can control with my understanding or anyhow, it always takes me higher and there is that fear of falling present in me most of the time. But true love is worth watever pain and its intension is never to gain, so when I let love take over it conquer fear and all bad feelings, all bad things period.

Yes, love is so much more than just a feeling. The trick is to let love flow naturally, not try to control it – neither let others do, but rather let love itself control I and I. That way there will be only light and no dark corners for I, because I will become more like Jah who see all things.

The love in I heart is a Jah fire blazing within. Looking into the good book about love I find one very great, and well known example, that is also matching my previous reasonings concerning love.

Let us take a look at Song of Solomon 8:6-7 (New International Version):

Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.

Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot wash it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of his house for love,
it would be utterly scorned.

B E A U T I F U L

But look at the part ‘it burns like blazing fire’. In anchient hebrew it is rather written ‘it is Jah blazing fire’. In the original writings they used the shortform Jah. Mentioning our creator containes valid important info on what love is, should be and about the Fire of Jah Imighty. There also shouldnt be a ‘like’ in ‘like a mighty flame’.

Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It is Jah blazing fire;
a mighty flame.

Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot wash it away.
If one were to give
all the wealth of his house for love,
it would be utterly scorned.

B L E S S ED L O V E ... Yes because B E A U T I F U L is not enough to cover it this time. We can surely sense the unmeasurable magnitude of these holy words of TRUTH and WISDOM, because it moves us towards the very light within us.

These words should not be written as similies for the sake of writing love poetry, as in “my love for You is like a rose”. Because here it actually hides the truth from us written in such a form: A very serious accusation. What I say is that poetry cannot cultivate truth, but it is the truth that refine and cultivate poetry, art and music. Just compare the strenght of the New International Version of the Song of songs 8:6-7, or any other version of it, with this more direct translation. Appraise it.

This is important information, but the most important thing is to stay connected within, then to gain this kind of knowledge will only confirm what I an I ones allready know. Jah alone can lead the way. Important is to keep that fire within burning, keep believing in ourselves, stay strong- or anything we are given will misslead.

About the Song of songs in the OT it should also be mentioned that it is much confused in our Bibles how the editors has chopped it up in ‘lover’ ‘beloved’ and ‘friends’ chanting these words. Try not to let that affect how you read the book next time. Let Jah spirit guide the I reading any part of the Bible as well as He should guide in everything else.

People mess with the Bible as much as they do most other things, but we shouldn’t reject the Bible because of this, rather be aware. This has dimensions of living in the world but not of the world. Isolation is not the answer. The Bible is important and we need it as it containes information about God and life. But we must ask ourselves, who’s Bible is this that we read? They have reduced, added and translated there holy words in insensitive ways. I do not trust the agenda behind these changes half of the times. Here I am just pointing out one short example concerning love, in a way that I can prove according to the original writings.

More love

We need to love as we pray on our knees and hands within, when we really do give ourselves over, completly devoted. And we must pray as we love when we truly love unconditionally. This is how we should also strive towards living our very lives second by second. Every moment should count whether we are at home, working, eating, praying or kickin it on the dancefloor!

Now I dont pretend to know exactly the Holy Trinity works, but I an I know how it feels and I intend to act on it!

Jesus Christ is Jah love manifested on earth in its purest form. Love is our Saviour! JC, or Yosua if You will, is also manifested again in Selassie I according to rastafari understanding. I an I praise HIM and JC as one and the same without contradiction.

If no Selassie I maybe I would ave taken the Holy Cross and carried it off the wrong way like so many others did. Not that the Cross would misslead me but because many people tend to missuse it Oh Jah.

I need Selassie I to keep I an I trodding on the right track in life. As Jah promised He came to gather Jah Children to keep I an I trodding on that one road that Jah light up for I an I; light dat is shining through manmade lies and so on.

Now I dont pretend to know exactly the Holy Trinity works, but I an I know how it feels and I intend to act on it!
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I know for the average christian person exploring the rastafarian heart within I these resonings, some questions might have aroused concerning why rasta is paying notice to Haile Selassie I.

Rasta hail the Lion because the Biblical prophesies have now been fulfilled by and in HIM. Haile Selassie is the King of Kings, Lord of lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, root and offspring of David, Prince of Peace, Earth's Rightful Ruler, sitting on the throne of King David.

Jesus, the Christ (the Creating Word that became flesh - John 1), is the Divine. He is the Almighty. With Biblical prophesy stating that Jesus would come again (with a new name) to sit on the throne of David in Ethiopia as the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering of the Tribe of Judah, this is fulfilled and has manifested in HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I.

Haile Selassie I and Christ Jesus, are one and the same - the Almighty One- manifesting Himself in two different times. Therefore, Christ occupies the Most High position. And so, to give a straight pedagogical answer to the common question 'why should we pay any notice to Selassie I now that prophessys allready been fullfilled through Jesus Christ', would be that this time is Ras Tafari time, as the prophesies that Christ Himself and other prophets made are fulfilled by HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I, Ras Tafari. Therefore, paying notice to HIM would mean to be ‘up to date' according to rastafari understanding.

There is one very significant book that should be read concerning this. It explains Selassie I divinity and succession to the throne, and it also explains the moving of the ark of the covenant- which was never destroyed with the temple. The Zion was moved to Ethiopia. These pages was unfortunately exiced by royal decree from the authorized 1611 King James version of the Bible. The book is called the Kebra Negast (the glory of kings) The true ark of the covenant, and can be purchased translated and edited by Miguel F. Brooks.

Nature at unbalance; Womens sufferations

Since we are raised up to alienate ourselves from our true nature, many of us go as far as claiming not to believe in God or even believe in love. Anyhow we take it, this alienation has serious consequenses in all aspects of life and it is what is causing all sufferations in extension. I am not speaking about it in terms of karma though, rather that some few peoples insensitivity and selfishness will cause an incomplete life filled with sufferations for so many others.

The unhealthy expressions due to nature at unbalance are many. One example is the many manifestations of women competing and struggeling for mans desire, and this is ruling many womens life. It is a huge problem since women obviously should be playing a much more significant role in life and society way beyond and away from these destructive and petty things.
As I mentioned erlier they have translated much things wrong in the Bible- this also goes for how it is written about woman being mans servant, desireing and being under man as if Jah demanded it. Because at first, in anchient hebrew, it rather comes as a warning.

Adam get big warning from Jah about eating of the forbidden fruit, before Eve is created. After this Adam and Eve eats of the forbidden fruit together. Adam stands beside and let his Queen try it first, before she pass it over to Adam. After being confronted by Jah Adam blames Eve, and she blames the snake. Now God warn them both about the inbalance that will be the result of this bad action. He also punnishes both. We know what Adam is being told, it is all there. To Eve Jah said You will give birth to babies during labourpain and so on, but then God warn her that if she desire and long for her husband to strongly he might rule over her -meaning in a unhealthy way, depraved, in unbalance, to much. In the first anchient hebrew it comes as a warning to her that ‘if’ he ‘may’.

In Genesis chapter one, Jah maketh humanbeings (in english ‘man’, but in swedish ‘manniska’, here we use a female form to describe human, but both ways is only grammer) The chapter even continues to make it clear that God created Man and Woman to rule together. Now chapter two must be read in the light of the first chapter. It is not two separate stories, how could it be?

In the second chapter we learn more in detail how Adam was first created, then Eve was made out of Adam rib, as a helper or servant (depending on the translation we read). The interesting part is that the original word dat is translated into ‘helper’ or ‘servant’ in our Bibles is ‘Ezer’ in anchient hebrew, wich means somting more like companion. ‘Ezer’ occurs 17 times in the Bible, often refering to Jah as our Helper. Ezer is never used to describe a servant in any other part of the Bible, so why here?

First time we se this helper/servant is when refering to the woman about to be created in genesis 2:18. That we have solved. Now again in genesis 2:20, woman is being described as a Helper or Servant. But, the original anchient hebrew word here is ‘kenegdo’, which is correctly translated ‘the answer to’ or ‘complementary’.

We was created to live together as one flesh, one man and one woman. It was all good, but the inbalance that came from falling in sin caused so many errors within the creation, like hard work little pay, murder, opression, sufferation, polygami etc.. It also explains woman weakness to man. We was created to rule together in harmony, but because of sinfullness women get ruled over and used when she is weak enough to allow it. When she step up and stand strong she get the love and respect she need to be one with man, or she will discover the fakeness of that love. This should however not inspire woman to leave man, but at this point she is obligated to act -speak up to bring forward a change- rather than to adjust to a loveless inviroment. Finding her true self she must also bring these Jah teachings into the world. We owe this to ourselves, to our men and our children, to make a positive change for all, period.

I an I believes is that any righteous Kingman already know he need a Queen by his side ruling with him. It is this Empress that need to understand it is up to her to take her rightful place, know herself and be aware in this world, in this day and age, right now.

We are all victims of the past, man, woman, even all the little the children born this very second. We all need Jah teachings in order to be able to find home.

In this current worldorder which victimize mostpart of the population, women are under men in a bad and opressive way. Let us take a look at just one example, in which way many rape cases are being dealt with in court, still today. The victim’s sexual habits easily becomes at trial instead of her rapist’s crime towards her. This besides the talking about ‘what was You wearing’ ‘did You scream and fight hard enough’ etc.

The basic idea is still that no means no, but why not turn it around and instead of saying ‘if she say no it is rape’ say ‘if she dont say yes it is rape’? When someone get robbed in the street or anywhere noone ask the victim “are You sure You wasnt wearing a bit to big and shiny watch and heavy goldchain” “arent You driving around in a way to expensive car” or “did U fight back hard enough and scream NO”?

How comes we can own our cellphones but not our own bodies?
Having said this about rape is not to make women stand up strong just for her own sake and only fight for her own rights, but we must be aware for all; from what goes on in the privacy of our homes, to genocide to politicians dirty swiss accounts.

Women need to share mens responsibilities, and even if necessary take over if and where men fail to take theirs. It must however, be grounded in our feminin love and caring for our men and children. The most important part is raising the children to be aware, and this cannot be done if we keep on being martyres and victimes in our daily lives with man in this world.

This is not a speach for a feminist revolution, as much as I also do not put any values into what should be considered to be feminin love and caring. Those are distracting opinions, whiles we need to live true, be ourselves, and not caricatures of whatever expectations.

Living true as Jah disciples

The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. John 12:25.

I do not think this is about hating life in itself, rather denying ones own wicked ego and selfishness in life- all these things that leads to more wickedness and that wickedness leading to more selfishness and so spreading- because noone want to be a fool for another.

It is about to sacrifice ones own selfinterest for the sake of serving Jah and in that way serve others, serve others and in that way serve Jah. This is the only true way to be a Jah disciple.

We will feel the pain of not being able to do enough at any time even how hard we work for it; therefor we hate life. This is the difference between the one who ‘love his life’ and the one who hates it.

The one who love it is happy with all this selfish and wicked worldorder; he benefits from it without feeling pain, and even not minding much that others do feel bad and suffer massively.

The one who do suffer from it and hates his life is wondering where is the love, why all this wickedness? Why cant we just live together without using and abusing one another? Without anger and hatred, greed and selfishness.

Jesus let the people kill him without fighting back. Who is willing to reward bad wid good and let people even humiliate and kill him with their wickedness and still remain kind and loving throughout it all? "Forgive them father.."

There is wickedness in this world that is a fact, the trick is to remain in Jah even though, and pray for the world, even the most wicked ones. Pray for leaders and politicians and let them know this.

Truth becomes more sublime for an individual who develops in himself the capacity to give more compassion and love to all creatures. And there is no risks in this, comparing this short lifetime to the eternal life where I an I shall be restored no matter wat I an I endure in this short lifetime in flesh.

To reach within

Fast and pray, in silent meditation, and see great things happen. Blessed herb can be used as a means to reach Jah further within. Jah causeth Herb to grow for the service of man.

Ganja is meant to be used as a sacrament, and to be used respectfully, in order to let Jah speak through the burning trees just like He spoke to Moses through the burning bush. But offcourse there is no force to use trees to reach within, to each is own.

Jah puts the truth within each and every one of us according to where we stand, the way we can understand it. As long as we long for it more and more we will reach it, as long as we want it for righteousness and not just to gain inner peace and harmony, recognition or whatever other self-fulfilling purposes.

No matter how much insight we gain about Jah, there will always be something that lies beyond the horizon of our understanding; somewhere in the space between the flesh of our heads and Jah feet, that is simply the nature of Jah. And there is also limits to our ability to interpret truth in its full sense, and to forward it. We should trust Jah to take over during our reasonings and let go of the control.

Paul of the New Testament is a great example of this dilemma. I will get back to that.

The high five

God created Zion before everything else, to be the habitation of His glory, and the plan of His Covenant was that which He said: "I will put on the flesh of Adam wich is of the dust, and I will appear unto all those whom I have created with My hand and with My voice." The Kebra Negast.

Once I went to stay with I elder rasta woman to be in silent meditation and fasting for three days. My target was to hear Jah voice speak to me very clearly within. The strong feeling to do so was a Jah calling in itself.

I acceived my goal and I heard Jah speaking to me very clearly, making conversation with me. On the way back to my own home, I said to Him:

"Please LORD I am so sorry, but the way I hear You now, the way You are speaking to me, how can I really know that I am not crazy talking to myself. Nobody would believe if I say I can hear You talking like this to me clearly with words like this"

Meaning how can I share this experience with others, or even keep it myself in weak times later on? My faith is strong and I felt ashamed to ask my Creator for proof. But He replied me:

"How many fingers am I holding up?" In the same breath as I said "what" I looked up at the sky and I saw a huge cloud in the exact shape of a open hand, holding up five fingers.

Paul

About Paul’s letters into specific congregations according to whatever was being dealt with concerning the situations within those gatherings, I feel that it do not entirely belong to me, but rather to the men and women in a cultural situation back then.

For Iself in I troddings it must feel true in order to be true, otherwise- big warning. I can be wrong about this one coming though, but I feel Paul is real sharp and connected within sometimes, but harder to understand and agree with at other times.

This might partly be because his words is directed into specific situations that we do not know much or enough about, so his words are taken out of its contexts and into the New Testament through these letters. The books are quite clumsily attached together, or according to an agenda that I cannot entirely be one with, and that do not even concern Paul teachings.

Partly I also feel (without judging) that Paul changed from 'bad' to 'good' on the Damascus Road and was probably still able to get confused as a brother of flesh and blood. He just might accidentaly mess Jah teachings up a bit, mix it up with his own opinions sometimes.

I do not wish to get any deeper into this, since it is a matter of opinion also. I like Paul plenty even though, I must wen I read The Acts.

Faith in Sweden

Arceologists has found christian art in Sweden since the 700 Century. There were no signs of congregations that time, so sientists guess those items are the result of trade.

In the 900 century our King invited french missionarys, but our so called heathens soon chased them away. This was repeated more than once.

In the 1100 Century we got our first "christian" King Olof Skotkonung, and the higher classes turned to Christians first, copycating their french rolemodels. The rest -the big masses- was baptised by brutal force and the peoples own temples was destroyed.

Still today the christian faith has not entirely entered the every day swede. Most swedes are either non
believers, or has their own faith. Maybe because through christianity as we have been experiencing it we never experienced love, but rather the opposit dark forces. We ended up naturally suspecting all religion period.

The result of this ‘name-christening’ has therefor unfotunately lead to my people forgetting their original faith by force, and also naturally not trusting the replacement.

Faith here is a sensitive and private matter, and if You ask the everyday swede she might get suspicious and even defensive about it! The discussion is so closely related to indoctrinating force for her. Christian worship in this world also still do have elements of treats and indoctrinating force, even if in much less physical forms. And sign of this will make the every day swede instinctly shy off.

Most swedes do not read the Bible, because they think its written for that very purpose- to control them. Many do not believe in God but have strong faith in right and wrong based on ethics and moral.

This is how I myself was raised and many with me. Even though I got some extra natural mystic
vibes growing up, from my mother and especially my big sister, both spiritually conscious.

In Sweden women generally tend to be more spiritually aware than men. Maybe it is naturally so, much because we have been able to keep influated by our old traditions more. This since we in tradition has stayed more with children and could practise our beliefs in the privacy of our homes and in that way keep it somewhat alive.

To most men here believes in spirits and healing is primitive things now a days. Most of the knowledge was lost because of fear of the consequences- women, and also some men, was burnt up as witches for practising herbal medicine and healing before, so we lost most of this knowledge many hundred years ago.

Yes, europeans has drifted far away from their true nature long time, and has created their own laws apart from Jah and nature. Even the people who really want to live right has hard time finding back to the true life Jah intended for us.

The way I an I cope in this mess is through keep putting my will in Jah hands, praying He will guide I an I through this life, like He did Moses and the jews through the desert towards their promised land, step by step. This way I see most clearly, because Jah point out where the values of this western world is so confused. Unfortunately this confusion has been forced upon most parts of the rest of the world as well.

It can surely be a pretty lonely place, being a freethinker from the society I am in, since Sweden is a small land formed according to a mentality where the mainstream population pretty much expect everybody to feel the way they do, and they have no much compassion or understanding for other ways of approaching life. This has seriously inhibiting consequenses for I an I, since the mainstream population is the ones represented through all the different authorities, healthcare, kindergarden, school etc. Whoever I deal with and whatever I do in my daily life, it is right there hanging over me.

Still, many waters cannot quench Jah Fire! We should really get back to the respect and dependance on our true nature before we spoil it, here as well as everywhere else.

The Crush

I started to fall in love with rasta faith many years ago. It took me some time to see the divinity of Haile Selassie though, and for me it was the proofs that overwelmed I an I, that I kept being confronted with through Jah calling -how could this fire misslead as I pray honestly and seek the one threeune Jah, and so strongly feel His presence?
I fully trust in this Jah guiding light, just like King David did as He prayed “Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me”. Psalm 23:4 (Amplified Bible). Also Job spoke of how he had experienced Jah guiding light in Job 29:3.. 2 Sam 22:29 speak of Davids reasonings about how Jah is the lamp that lightens up his darkness.

Other important Bible references to strengthen how I can say that Jah could never fail I an I the way I an I seek Him, is psalm 18:29, isaiah 42:16, and I do know about the joy and happiness one feels before Jah face, like the one which is expressed in Job 33:26. If Jah would put me through a similar test with the one He put Job through, I would too feel abandoned and would not be able to feel this fire burning this strongly as I do.

Rasta love, livity and teachings is also the thing that made me feel this is the true christianity in this time, complete discipleship.

The problem is that here in Sweden everybody seem to believe rasta is just a black significant religious-political movement valid on Jamaica and maybe in Africa- Or they think it is something existing only through reggaemusic, like a style and a fashion; even a joke; a rasta is some cool dude with dreadlocks that smoke lots of weed. A drug addict.

Even if someone ‘neutral’ would try to find out and learn more, much of the information about rasta is twisted, limited and very generalizing, and there seem to be no understanding for the heartically rasta.

But there are Rastafarian believers out there. Personally I know just a handfull rastas in all Sweden.

Rasta in theology class

I study christian theology. And what I see generally, about christians here and abroad, is that they have inherited a despise for other possible ways of approaching God, worship, and the scriptures.

I know christians is trying to deal with the dark past that has caused this, and I give them as much credit for this as it brings true joy to my heart. I feel one with this strives, and I have seen true diciples within the christian church for sure. But the looking down upon others is however still very much present in the every day mainstream christian believer.

As a rasta I am keeping myself very short in theology school, because I know and hear what people say, but there are a few spiritually understanding around. Some teachers are especially amazing.

I speak about Selassie I in essays in school from time to time, just small, and I feel the teachers has no clue about it and the same time I am so humble before their wisdom. Anyway, I am not there to make a revolution right there and then, I am there to grow wiser. If I am always put to trial for I own believes, I will not learn what I came there to learn.

Many of the things I have learned, somewhat grasped and came to insight concerning, was planted in me during this time of studies. Actually some of the things I shared so far is the fruit coming from this.

Same time I feel I am not really cut out for this rat race thing, and I do not messure wisdom in degrees and diplomas for sure. When I read some of their christian theology books and I see that what is behind those titles professor this and that is just fake, simple minded non-spiritual people sometime. That is just my observation.

It is sceary sometimes what forces is out there trying to deprave faith and enslave believers minds.

Sometimes studying in a christian school is real tough, same time I feel I learn so much and there is much truth to find spending time among other believers, even if many wrongs as well- As in forceful
indoctrinating christian so-called faith. I still feel one with them as a rasta in so many vital things, but most christians would not think of rastafari as a christian obtion.

Within what I get studying theology I will still try to add and contribute to this world moving it on in the right direction, and same time try to puzzle that with turning mine and my familys life around, trying to do what is Jah will out of my life.

My big dream is to make it to be able to live in Africa one blessed day. That is my only humble wish for myself and my family. There I would continue to contribute with what I have, making a decent living in my dreamland with the people I love. It is still to see if this is Jah will and His calling or just my personal desires, but I actually feel the both as quite syncronized!

Rasta vs Church

I understand and agree much with the frustration expressed within the Rastafari movement towards narrow minded, limited, dense forces within the christianity, steering some of the directions of the christian church. But I cant help seing similar limiting expressions within the rasta movement as well, people who want to bring doctrines and liturgy to replace the faith, or force it upon the faith instead of letting it just be possible means of it- ways of expressing prayer and devotion.

The trick is to stay righteous and not become like them selfrighteous who do this and so behaves as if they are pharisees. Even though, it should be carefully pointed out that Rastas are innocent of this behaviour most of the time, and is rather being exploited and defined through these things by non believers who are ignorant about the complexity of the movement and the free spiritual haven Rastafari truly is. This can be true about many of our Christian brothers and sisters as well.

Rastafari has many humble symbolic expressions rather than liturgy, as simple tools for showing devotion and dedication in faith. We are understanding ourselves and our situation creatively using the Bible, but as soon as we express any of it, non believers will falsly document it as forceful doctrines that make I an I appear like a sect which I cannot recognize I an I oneselves in.

I an I do not have a honest chance to gather up and define ourselves before we get written about and documented by non-rastas. This is simply because Rastafari is a movement from down to up, and is first experienced by the masses from outside through the media and the so-called experts studying rasta.

They tend to document rasta according to their own narrow minded interpretic frameworks. Unfortunately therefore Rastafari is; for most people; experienced through whatever angle the intellegensia and the media choose to deal with Rastafari, with their preferential rights to interpret this ‘phenomenon’ according to their sientific models and with their own worldview as normative.

This can be true about other faiths as well, but I feel the material to work with on Rastafari is much more limited than perhaps any other, and on top of that very mixed up! It is extremly damaging how many people write to manifest their own definitions of what rasta is- which is part of manifesting themselfes- rather than letting Jah manifest Himself through their humble service as simply being instruments of Jah.

I an I strive towards being an instrument of Jah, honestly letting go of the control and of teaching my own opinions when I write, because I am not here to manifest myself.

Rastafarian theology

Christians write christian theology, so why shouldn’t rastas write rastafarian theology, instead of letting others define us in missleading ways?

Even if there are some ‘positive-minded’ things written on rasta faith most seem to start off talking about Garvey prophecy like it is the begining of a new religion, but its so important to point out how Jah has revealed himself since day one throughout history in that way, so even if Garvey prophecy play an significant role for rastas, it is nothing much new under the sun- it is just the continuing of Jah story, pointing us forward. Wasnt Jah making and renewing the covenants with his people since the very first day we started trodding as divine creatures of HIM? Why should he stop this relation, and stop reminding us? Jah loves us too much for that. Rastafari is still connected, I and I see what is going on, and is not just waiting for another revelation.

Wicked one exposed

About people writing for their own sake, and disguising it as ‘education’ is one of satan’s many ugly
faces; narcissism. This is too much everywhere. Not many seems to be spared from it. A narcissist do not really want God because that means he/she is not. They can seek God as a idol for self-fulfilling purposes, but will respectlessly reject Him with anger when He is not living up to it. This is vanity, and this narcissism goes hand in hand with hedonism. What it is all about, is the Devil’s own personal agenda. But people do suffer massively due to the ego and selfish worldorder it brings.