Samson and Jesus

Samson was God’s action figure. God had one of his angels impregnate a woman. The child grew into a man who amused God by his wanton frolic and murderous temperament. Have no doubt God was amused by Samson’s antics.

Philistines were human beings. Samson slept with their women. He slaughtered their men. He mass murdered their men and women. He was always righteous in doing so.

An angel streams the information that is its genes into the reproductive system of an organic life-form, producing a hybrid. God wrote the information. He crafted the organic life-form. Samson and the Philistines were made by God. They were his to do with as he pleased.

God was proud of the hair he made for Samson. It looked good on the action figure. Samson’s indiscretion led to the hair being cut off. He lost his strength accordingly.

God was proud of the eyes he made for Samson. They looked good in the face of the action figure. The Philistines dared gouge out these delights of God. The offenders were delivered into the hands of Samson accordingly, to be destroyed for the offense. The beloved action figure failed its maker but was blessed with the curse of a grim yet glorious end.

God is the Artist. All that he does is artful, whether you approve or not. If he asks you your opinion, it is for his personal amusement, to laugh at your answer. Humans are but lambs gathered for the slaughter. They suffer pain and death. They deserve their suffering. God is righteous to enjoy it.

There is more to the story. Though God loved Samson and relished the murder and mayhem, they are not what he is about. Jesus was the plan that would make all the ideas of God, his Father meaningful… and he came to fruition.

Jesus is the Word of God, not his action figure. Unlike Samson, he was not for his Father’s amusement. He was what his Father took seriously. Samson was a creation interacting with other creations. Jesus was to venture into the strangeness that changed everything. He was to make contact with the indescribable, unimaginable thing that always was as everything unto itself. The strangeness was not one or many. It was not masculine or feminine. It did not think or feel. It did as it did, always, and in all sincerity. Jesus was to make contact with it, with this thing utterly unaware of itself or others. Unlike Samson, Jesus did not fail. Unlike Samson, who did as he did as but another cog in the machine, Jesus had to go where no rules applied. He dared where his Father could not go… and he came back… bringing the strangeness with him… as him. Jesus, as the Word of God, was and is and shall always be God. Filled with the strangeness that his father lovingly called the Holy Ghost, Jesus became the Trinity.