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Tom
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| Posted 3/2/2012 5:25 PM (GMT -6) |   | | Somebody GETS IT!
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"The aesthetic value the world has for God is in expressing, not constituting, the aesthetic value God eternally finds within Godself." Greg Boyd | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 3/3/2012 11:46 AM (GMT -6) | | Excellent, Tom! Thanks for that, bro!
Some thoughts...
1) Using Loderian terms, only the "Holy"--the Creative and RE-Creative Divine "Power"--has enough leverage to 1) re-center the self FROM itself to the "Holy" and 2) break the human psyche out of "slavery to the fear of death" or as SK put it "the sickness unto death." More specifically, only the RESURRECTION of the Crucified GOD-MAN Jesus gives us the HISTORICAL VANTAGEPOINT that we need to affirm the "Holy" in this way and break out of the "sickness unto death", without falling into despair in our attempts.
That's why Paul kept saying "If there is no resurrection..." Without the Resurrection of the Crucified God, Paul never would have been able to escape the "slavery of the fear of death" by the resurrection POWER of Christ enough to DO AS MUCH LOVE as he did. Remember, Paul was a previous and proud killer. And HE'S the one who wrote so much about LOVE! The "Holy One" (Christ) broke him out of it.
2) You can easily see WHY the transition from "biological hypostasis" to "ecclesial hypostasis" is needed; grounding one's existence as an "individual" makes one prey to the "slavery of the fear of death"...and forces SUBpersonal behavior.
3) You can see how the senses of "futility", meaninglessness, and anxiety are brought about by the existential threat of non-being...and how we "leap" into sin from those senses. And this existential threat of non-being is simply the reciprocal fact of all immortality and incorruptibility ONLY belonging to the "Holy". This is how the Void is the shadow of the Holy...and the Holy is the transformative power for Void's no-thingness.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. | | Back to Top | | |
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