INDIVIDUAL VALUE - Gift of Y'shua JESUS


by James Fletcher Baxter




The Old World method of measuring human value was, and still is,


by the group. Whether tribe, clan, city-state, color, ethnic, or


gender, the Old World, ancient and modern, measures by the plural


unit. Individuals had and have no value of themselves but only as


they were and are part of a collective.




When Y'shua Jesus died on the cross, the veil of the Temple at the


Holy of Holies parted from the top down. The individual believer


in the congregation had, for the first time, a face-to-face, one-


on-one relation with his Creator. The Creator, Himself, had


validated each individual for the first time. Thus, The Individual


became the cornerstone for later human value measuring systems:


socio-political, philosophical, religious, educational, economic,


etc., henceforth and forever. Western Civilization, America, English


Law, civil Rights, the 'democratic' process, etc., all sprang from


that single event. (Greco-Roman 'democracies' were 95% slave through-


out their entire histories.) Biblical principles are still today the


foundation under Western Civilization and the American way of life.




Many social systems attempt to borrow ideas of "democracy" without


the basic premise in The Individual. Such a system is only superfic-


ially and temporarily 'democratic.' The cornerstone of the democratic


process is The Individual and the cornerstone of the value of The


Individual is Y'shua Jesus! It is not possible to have one without


the other. There is only One Source - there is no other.




( It is additionally interesting to note that all value measuring


systems are based on the single definitive unit of the system. Ex:


Number, Time, Distance, Weight, Heat, Money, Angle, Volume, etc. )




Only humanism makes the abusive error of measuring human value by


the plural unit and attempts to build social structures, relations,


and institutions thereon. Such man-made systems can only be abusive


and oppressive because in reality there are only individual persons.


Groups or collectives are merely convenient verbalizations about


individuals. They are not reality.




I have yet to see a 'group.' All I have ever seen are individuals.


Have you ever seen a group - or is it a verbal convenience? Reality


is only in the individual person. And, such a validation never


derived from a human source without the initiative of the Creator.


(The French Rationalists of the 18th Century favored the fruit -


but rejected the branch, tree, and root!)




Today, wherever Y'shua Jesus is rejected, the group or collective


is still the basic way of measuring human value - or human non-value.




We thank the Lord God for revealing His validation of each individual


person. We thank Him for creating each person uniquely, in His image,


and calling each one to a courageous ascension by Y'shua Jesus, who


said, "I AM the Way..."




Praise the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and His Son of Man,


Y'shua Jesus.




Reference: Exodus 25:30, 40 Hebrews 9 Matthew 27:51 Mark 15:38


Luke 23:45 KJV