10-04-2018, 04:40 PM
Abbreviations: wc= western christianity & WC=Western Civilization. OT=Old Testament & NT= New Testament (in case, someone reading this is new to this forum and Christianity)
I thought I'd experiment a little and give the Reader's Digest version of how I became heart-led, along with a brief jaunt into why everything is screwed up. It is also parabolic in that my writing is indicative not literal, objective, propositional because reality is not built that way and the latter are constructs of a fallen mind. I'm hoping that others will share their stories. The experiment is to find out if there are any commonalities to what is a God tuned just for you.... "Thing".
WC at this juncture has two foundational principles;
Rationalism and Empiricism, the love children of this unholy union is Humanism and Science, the latter being WC's religion. wc is the faith of the OT and NT washed, filtered and freeze dried through WC.
Before you continue, if you are not familiar with Radix Fidem; STOP and go read the posts that define the tenets of RF, because to get the rest, you should familiarize yourself with it. Indulge me for a moment, I am going into "silliness withdrawal". If I stay serious too long, I get the jones........zoiks!!!
Better, that should filter out those who take our temporary condition too seriously.
God created the Heavens and Earth perfectly, it remains so, sinless and unfallen. The original first couple couldn't keep one simple rule and fell, whatever the curse is it altered their genetics and so passed on down to us. We cause creation to groan, cough and sneeze because we are like a virus infecting a healthy body. In a sense, it's one thing environmentalists get right although it comes from a malignant source. "Worshipping the creature rather than Creator" St Paul in Romans 1.
The farther we become removed from the Garden, the more detached we are from our natural state of oneness with Creation and the deeper we fall into the pit of reliance on our on reason and intellectual abilities.
As far as recorded history is concerned; WC is founded on the statement of the ancient Greek Sophist Protagoras "Of all things the measure is Man..." If you wish to go to the Bible, it would be The Tower of Babel and it you're appealing to the convictions of an adherent of wc, it's a good starting point whether it actually happened or is a parable of humans replacing divine revelation with reason, I say "whatever floats your boat".
If not for my love of history and questioning nature I would probably still be what I call a "white knuckle" Christian man grimacing my way to sanctification by sheer force of will. "Nietzsche, you got a lot to answer for, PAL!" That typical approach wore me out. The "better man, husband and father" philosophy of the likes of Promisekeepers, inevitably leads to hypocrisy because it is impossible for wc'n men to maintain such standards within the context of WC. Every man I knew who was involved, no longer are. I'm not sure PK is still around. Eventually, wc & WC became bizarre to me.
One day I picked up my Bible, closed my eyes and flipped back and forth enough times to be truly unsure of where I was. I had stopped in Ecclesiastes and thought "Wisest man who ever lived mmm, good enough" after reading it two or three times it dawned on me "where's the mind?" In twenty-five years of flopping around trying to please God through the mind, following every twist and turn of wc I come to find Solomon the wise, son of the man after God's own "heart"(say whaaat?) writings on Supreme, Holy hard earned Wisdom kept referring to "my heart". I started digging and it was almost like physically being on an archaeological dig. My first assumption, quite natural considering wc, the heart was the OT version of WC mind. That idea got shot full of holes and went down in flames as I dug into the meaning in the original languages.
End of Part One. More to follow whenever.
Same Bat time* Same Bat Channel POW! SZLASPLAT!
* Anytime. Excuse typos andand bad punctuation/grammar.
I thought I'd experiment a little and give the Reader's Digest version of how I became heart-led, along with a brief jaunt into why everything is screwed up. It is also parabolic in that my writing is indicative not literal, objective, propositional because reality is not built that way and the latter are constructs of a fallen mind. I'm hoping that others will share their stories. The experiment is to find out if there are any commonalities to what is a God tuned just for you.... "Thing".
WC at this juncture has two foundational principles;
Rationalism and Empiricism, the love children of this unholy union is Humanism and Science, the latter being WC's religion. wc is the faith of the OT and NT washed, filtered and freeze dried through WC.
Before you continue, if you are not familiar with Radix Fidem; STOP and go read the posts that define the tenets of RF, because to get the rest, you should familiarize yourself with it. Indulge me for a moment, I am going into "silliness withdrawal". If I stay serious too long, I get the jones........zoiks!!!
Better, that should filter out those who take our temporary condition too seriously.
God created the Heavens and Earth perfectly, it remains so, sinless and unfallen. The original first couple couldn't keep one simple rule and fell, whatever the curse is it altered their genetics and so passed on down to us. We cause creation to groan, cough and sneeze because we are like a virus infecting a healthy body. In a sense, it's one thing environmentalists get right although it comes from a malignant source. "Worshipping the creature rather than Creator" St Paul in Romans 1.
The farther we become removed from the Garden, the more detached we are from our natural state of oneness with Creation and the deeper we fall into the pit of reliance on our on reason and intellectual abilities.
As far as recorded history is concerned; WC is founded on the statement of the ancient Greek Sophist Protagoras "Of all things the measure is Man..." If you wish to go to the Bible, it would be The Tower of Babel and it you're appealing to the convictions of an adherent of wc, it's a good starting point whether it actually happened or is a parable of humans replacing divine revelation with reason, I say "whatever floats your boat".
If not for my love of history and questioning nature I would probably still be what I call a "white knuckle" Christian man grimacing my way to sanctification by sheer force of will. "Nietzsche, you got a lot to answer for, PAL!" That typical approach wore me out. The "better man, husband and father" philosophy of the likes of Promisekeepers, inevitably leads to hypocrisy because it is impossible for wc'n men to maintain such standards within the context of WC. Every man I knew who was involved, no longer are. I'm not sure PK is still around. Eventually, wc & WC became bizarre to me.
One day I picked up my Bible, closed my eyes and flipped back and forth enough times to be truly unsure of where I was. I had stopped in Ecclesiastes and thought "Wisest man who ever lived mmm, good enough" after reading it two or three times it dawned on me "where's the mind?" In twenty-five years of flopping around trying to please God through the mind, following every twist and turn of wc I come to find Solomon the wise, son of the man after God's own "heart"(say whaaat?) writings on Supreme, Holy hard earned Wisdom kept referring to "my heart". I started digging and it was almost like physically being on an archaeological dig. My first assumption, quite natural considering wc, the heart was the OT version of WC mind. That idea got shot full of holes and went down in flames as I dug into the meaning in the original languages.
End of Part One. More to follow whenever.
Same Bat time* Same Bat Channel POW! SZLASPLAT!
* Anytime. Excuse typos andand bad punctuation/grammar.