Tag: reason
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Human Ideations, Human Idolatry Imagine two cliff climbing teams scaling the tallest and most extreme cliff face ever discovered, twenty times bigger than anything else, with its root in a deep cave. One team has each member follow their own logically planned route, though without any safety equipment, focused solely on reaching the summit at…
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God’s Moderation Over Idolatry’s Extremes An unmistakable pattern that emerges over generations is that of the tendency for goals outside God’s realm to veer into extremes. These goals need not be against God per se, but rather untethered from divine wisdom and empowering the self. Imagine planting seeds in your garden. If you water too…
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Gifts From God and Their Outcomes Imagine if every question was answered as immediately as it was asked, and where no one ever doubted anything. Would this not be a meaningless prison of certainty? Then let us here consider the interplay between grace and reason, for theses are not opposites but complementary forces that work…
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How to be Truly Free So let’s discuss freedom more, since it is so fundamentally misunderstood. Truest freedom is in aligning ourselves with the will of God. In terms of pertinent scriptures, freedom cannot be seen as some right to be asserted over others. For Paulus, given his direct line to Jesus, freedom was in…
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Bedrock of Human Purpose: Faith To reiterate the primary point of this series of articles: Paulus’s contemporaries did not question whether God existed. The apostle asked whether we should worship in material submission for material gain, by way of sacrificial rituals materially and asking for our own interests to be fulfilled from a place of…
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Replication and Reinforcement Recognitions in virtues are inherently cyclical and dynamic in nature. There is a continuous process of recognition and response, intertwined with both grace and intentional effort; encompassing the present moment (which reflects the past experience of God’s love) and extending into the future (the love that we actively choose to give to…
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Transformation Begins Within So spiritual transformation is to find focus in spirit, acquire a peaceful spirit internally, and, eventually, attain to spiritual warfare. This is absolute progression that mirrors the structure of creation itself. There is the act of choosing to align oneself with higher truths rather than the distractions of the world. There is…
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Destroy the Corruptive Element with the Corrective What does it mean for discourse to be a weapon against corruption? It is the primary means by which we challenge the powerful, expose their lies, and force accountability. Discourse is the tool that allows us to speak truth to power and punch up rather than down. Where…
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No Secular Atheists in the Bible When Paulus spoke, he did not address those who doubted the possibility of divinity; he addressed those who already believed in various gods, so very few if any doubted higher power but rather the mechanisms which Paulus taught of God’s. They doubted God’s GOODNESS and Greatness without really realising…
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Grace Forces Absolute Scepticism Through the Light of Truth in Life Wonder wide ye who know how dear you are to God, for wonderment is not merely a sentiment; it is the sword that cuts through the thickest of idolatries. To wonder is to stand in awe before the vastness of creation, to recognise that…