Dry Markings
Demystification of Christianity by the Supernature
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Resurrection highlights the distinct difference of perspective between Old and New Testaments of the Bible and subsumes in Christ’s glorified body the seeming radical departure of Christianity from Jewish tradition. But rather it is a fantastic completion uncontainable, inconceivable in any man save one the god-man Christ Jesus.
We have the universal combining of tongues at Pentecost as opposed to the confusing of tongues in the days of the tower. The purging of sins by baptismal waters as opposed to the purging of people by flood waters. The forty-year trial in the desert for the Israelites becomes God’s own trial during Jesus’ forty-day fast as a lesson to us about temptation and the conquest of Satan. From the killing of a good brother out of pure spite to the self-sacrificing for an unworthy brother whenJesus is held and Barabas is released. The fruit of knowledge of the Garden that must not be picked and the fruit of salvation that must hang on the Cross, Jesus Christ. From the inflicting of illness for the purposes of chastisement to the curing of all illness upon submission in faith. Likewise from serpent killings as conviction to the raising of the dead out of faith-inspired love. From starving Jerusalem women eating their own children to our eating the Body and Blood of our Savior. From the penalty of death for violation of commandments to forgiveness upon the act of belief. From the Fall from the Garden to rising to the New Jerusalem. From the reduction of the years of our life span to immortality. From abandonment to our enemies to the returning home, even the casting out of personal demons. From submission to brotherhood. From ritual to relationship. From artifact to faith. From silence to conversation. And, lastly, from ethnic cleansing to ethnic assimilation.
By a sudden divine algorithmic shift from humanity’s supernatural undercurrent we are healed only because we are not alone but loved!
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In author Thurston Quinch’s office there are two blank dry-erase boards. He uses these boards to scribble whatever messages the Supernature (Holy Spirit) sends to him. At first only enigmatic phrasings these messages grow into essays now presented here in Dry Markings, a thematic collection of writings which finds validation in Jesus' promise to tell the world more when it is able to receive it.
After His ascension, Christ left His Spirit to instruct us until His Second Coming. Thurston Quinch, an unsuspecting existential phenomenologist, claims to have been struck by some of this lightening—though he clarifies the Spirit insists to manifest materially to all of us, but in degrees from simple fleshly responses to theatrical experiences up to that elusive intimate internal knowing the saints have written about. Quinton's prophesy, presented chronologically, offers a radical, at times seemingly blasphemous, alternative to the way Christianity is commonly understood.
His premise is that the Spirit—whom he began to call Supernature when he first perceived it as a mere supernatural phenomenon—is calling for a gleaning of the original truth out of the clutter of original rhetoric and mythological distortions. The truth will come out! Quinch unapologetically opposes what he considers pagan corruption by even modern relativism of the one, true faith.
About the Author
Thurston Quinch publishes his religious works under what he calls his punny sixteenth-century pen name. He has written several unpublished manuscripts on the present subject, while simultaneously attending both Protestant and Catholic churches. His work, L’Histoire de St. Jeanne D’Arc: Lessons on Supernature was completed in April, 2000. He currently lives in Southern Illinois.