a 'work' site; infection with _the_ teaching urge; could be, by graceful texts of P.D. Ouspensky; it happens when people _are_ but also when they are _not_ e.g. bloggers, writers, teachers etc., i.e. & so on down the scale. Symptoms stronger if such had the privilege of enjoying erudition of Gurdjieff, or had their understanding nourished by Nicoll's Commentaries' unmistakable feel. Maybe during childhood. Maybe some are to experience the symptom, _yet_... time is relative.
Monday, July 23, 2007
difficult theme
Why did Jesus Christ have to suffer? Everybody is afraid of suffering. I think he saw that the building of this world was sick. So he set to establish a foundation on which good, sound building can be built. It would had been easy to build upon what others had already done. That would explain suffering.
It is solely upon Him to judge the value of my writing. Is it empty or is something there in it all.
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God created the world and "it was good." It become not-so-good after the Fall.
Regeneration though is not just for fallen human beings but for the natural world as well. The entire natural creation waits for the regeneration of it in the fullness of time. A new heaven and earth.
Jesus' work on the cross does effect this eventually. At the second coming.
Jesus suffered because man suffers in this fallen world in this fallen state. And to be a high priest of men he had to experience what man experiences. But He also suffered because he had to not only fulfill the law but also pay the penalty for man having broken the covenant of works.
Suffering then becomes also the lot of followers of Christ because he is the forerunner and we experience what he experienced. But suffering, real suffering, becomes a 'food', if it is intentional suffering. Conscious labor, intentional suffering.
Gratitude in place of resentment is the large, overarching formula for being in heaven NOW.
One of the great catechisms of the Reformation, the Heidelberg Catechism, is structured on:
Guilt - Grace - Gratitude
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