Sunday, June 12, 2011

Society can live only by standards of right and wrong. But these standards can be lost. In earlier days, peoples knew why anything was right or wrong; they could give reasons to deter members of society from acting in a certain way. But, curiously enough, our age has forgotten the reasons. Right and wrong are largely matters of "feeling" and even when something is said to be "wrong in itself" such as murder, abortion, divorce, few seem to be able to say why it is wrong. Morality is thus reduced to something as personal as taste; the mind becomes like the stomach, preferring right to wrong as it might choose pickles rather than choose cucumbers: "It all depends upon your point of view or how you like it to be".

As of today, the society, as a whole had degenerated: "The meaning of words and actions has no longer the same relation to things but it is possible to changed as they thought proper". The false principles behind this "feelings" theory of right or wrong are very evident: first, it is held that every experience is for its own sake whether that experience be sexual, political, social or economic. The experience cannot be for the sake of anything else, there being nothing else but the self. Second, if we attempt to make any judgement on our experience, it must be done solely on the basis of whether or not the experience is pleasurable to the ego; if it makes me "feel good" it is right. Finally, since pleasurable or thrill is the sole standard of judgement, it follows the more intense the thrill, the more useful anything is to the self, the better it is.

In contrast with this position, compare what might be called the sensitiveness of innocence. The sensitiveness of innocence does not mean ignorance or "not having lived". Rather it is an awareness of what is good and true because one has avoided the false and the evil. The director of any orchestra, despite the number of musicians he and she has before him and her, is able to hear the false note from the smallest and least important of the music instruments, the physician is sensitive to disease and any deviation from the norm of health. So in the moral order, when Divine Innocence sat at the table with a traitor, he said: 'I tell you most solemnly, one of you will betray me'. - John 13:21 - Holiness can quickly detect blots.

The instinctive reaction of good people to evil is not due to their rational immaturity but to their maturity in innocence. Such judgements of innocence and purity are totally different from suspicion. Suspicion can often be a reflection of one's own failings. Often, the sins we most loudly condemn in others are those to which we are most secretly attached. Do not judge and you will not be judged; because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your own? - Matt. 7:1-3 - Purity is never suspicious but looks for some ground for reposing trust. It has a power of apprehension, discovery that comes not to those who have been infected by wrong. At the Last Supper when the Saviour, Jesus said that one was about to betray Him. They were greatly distressed and started asking him in turn, "Not I, Lord, surely? - Matt. 26:22 - No one can be sure of his or her goodness before innocence.

A society that needs healing and regeneration will receive it mostly from the innocent. The pure can look on the impure without contempt. It was Divine Innocence Who asked of a sinful woman: 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?' - John 8:10 - There was no condemnation in Him Who was righteousness itself; so there are sympathy and forgiveness and healing in the wings of the innocent.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -

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