| Tom and Corey. I've been thinking about ANW's "Modes of Thought". Been thinking about "Importance" and "Interest". Seems to me that teleology of any type is impossible without these concepts. Now, this is the thought that occured to me today...
"Conscious recognition of Christ-the-Logos' Spiritual Presence (Love) is of supreme importance and should direct all subsequent interests."
Another way of saying "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength."
Basically, what we do as sinners is ignore God and his Word in our lives...to fulfill our own egoic desires.
Idolatry is simply thinking something other than God is more important than God. Like the eternalization and maximization of our own gratification and pleasure. Yes, the desire for "heaven" can be an idol, my friends. But when God Himself is of supreme importance or "ultimate concern" (Tillich, right?) then everything falls in line.
Jesus was a fully human to whom the Father was of supreme importance. This directs all of Jesus' interests to God and his Will.
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Christianly speaking, a person's self-determined mediation of actuality and possibility should reflect that one's unconditional preoccupation/fixation upon Truth (Christ) such that a person gives Christ's Spiritual Presence their undivided attention...and also composing their "lived world" and sense of selfhood only from the standpoint of that continual preoccupation/fixation.
Basically, we are talking about being in a totally engrossing, all-consuming love relationship with Creator Jesus and His World. (This one.) Just like Jesus was obsessively fixated on the Father by the Spirit, only living in the Father's World, working as he saw his Father working, so are we obsessively fixated on the Son, only living in Christ's World by the Spirit, doing the same things...with the Trinity empowering us from within.
Living anything less than this is "missing the mark", missing the "high calling" for humanity. It is sin.
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"Prayer is essentially standing face to face with God, consciously striving to remain collected and absolutely still and attentive in his presence, which means standing with an undivided mind, an undivided heart and an undivided will in the presence of the Lord; and that is not easy." (OL's Note: Understatement of all time!!!!!!!!!)
--Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
Feedback, siblings? 
"Creation is allowed in intimate love to speak to the Creator as if to a lover. As the Creator loves the creation, so the creation loves the Creator. The whole world has been embraced by this kiss."
Hildegard of Bingen
Know me, Eternal Lover...and help me to know You... Post Edited (One Love) : 8/22/2009 12:18:05 PM (GMT-5) |