Greetings and much humbleness. I would like to offer to you some Ivine knowledge for I can see you are really struggling with the teachings of religion. Your first mistake is to be putting the bible which is just a book, which you can buy in the shops with money, above intuition, which is the power of the holy trinity, which is Haile I SELLASSIE I, which is the Ivine power, which lives in all living things, which exist in this vast creation. Your second and greatest mistake, is to think that Haile I Sellassie I is far away from you, and is just there in Ethiopia, Haile Sellassie is that internal powers, which exist in all living things, including you selve as well as in Ras Rastafari or the Emperor and Emperors of Ethiopia. Haile Sellassie is in the trees, the mountains, the rivers, the snow, the rain drops the birds, heat air and water, and as I said before all living things all over this universe, so Haile I Sellassei I is everwhere at the same time, like the sunlight and the fresh air is universal and can be seen all over this great universe. It is a very common practice, for people to post on this forum talking about what HIS MAJESTY have said, and from time to time try to use what they say HIS Majesty said, to justify their point of view, when indeed and in fact they have never met HIS Majesty, but are only qouting what various European journalist, reported what they said HIS Majesty have said. Then they are always qouting what they think HIS Majesty said, in order to justify, that we should forget about 500 years of slave trading activities, and allow then to be a part of our repatriation mission, although we are still living in captivity, and the brutal behavior of slave trading activities, are still in practice and not yet corrected. So now you keep on talking about this King James bible, which was written by 54 white scholars, who were selected by King James in the year 1611, now although slavery was not known to be practiced in America until 1619, slaver trading was already being practiced, by Portugal, Spain and others as early os 1441, and England became the greatest slave traders of them all, under King James and others. Now here is a slave trader who did not treat African people right, but you are saying, although they did not treat us right, we must follow their teachings, for they will teach us right. Well, there are many who have been saying that HIS Majesty say that he glory in the bible, yes indeed, for HIS Majesty was able to interpet the bible and found out the truth, about the many many lies, which the white people have placed in the bible, and whatever language that the bible is written in, the white man's lies remain the same. You just have to read with Iverstanding if you need to Iverstand. I also glory in the bible my selve, since I am able to recognise the poetry, spalms and proverbs which were stolen from African people, and be reproduced as the creative writings of white people, which is nothing but a set of lies and plagurism.
More over I am the living bible, there are no words in the bible, there are only printed letters, which are symbols of words, which were printed, on printing machines on pieces of paper, and have become a best eeller for hundreds of years, and have been putting large amount of money inthe white people's pockets. I really do not depend on the bible to wake up in the mornings, or to get energies to walk, I get my energies from the powers of this great universe, you take up the bible when you want to, the bible cannot take you up, look forward to the powers which gives you fresh air for all you energies not the bible. If you forget the bible at home, you cannot call it on the telephone and speak to it and ask it to come along to church, you will either have to do without it are return and get it. That is not to say the bible is not readable, but you must read it with Iverstanding, and you should not worship it for it is only a book.
Now about Zion which you are imagining, that you would like to go, I figure that you have just read about this place in the bible and you would really like to go there, that is really what you believe, but you have never really been there, and you really do not know of any one, who have been there, but there is a lesson to be learned, when you believe in something, it just like an assumption, you are not really sure if it exist, but you assume that it exist because you read about it in this great book the bible, and you also hear a whole lot of people talking about it, but there is still no proof, it is just a belief. Let my tell you once again, from what I have heard about mount Zion, in the early days and from what I have read, it is to be a very holy place, no sin cannot enter there, the Saints will be living there, in perfect love and unity, there will be no more sickness nor pain, no prisons no jails, no contention or wars, no police or soldier or no evil what so ever, will be there in Zion, that is what I know to have been taught in the Rastafari movemant and also among other christian organizations. Now I will leave you with peace and happiness, and hoping that you have learned some thing from the things w3hich I have said .
You are free to keep you beliefs as long as you realize that they are only assumptions.
Again I send many oceans of blessings to all my people.
ONE BLACK LOVE ONE BLACK HEART
Ras Marcus.