" God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him " - 1 John 4:16 -
These words express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith; the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny. In the same verse, it also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: " We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us."
We have come to believe in God's love; in these words the Christian express the fundamental decision of his and her life. Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. Saint John's Gospel describes that event in these words; " God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should ... have eternal life " - John 3:16 -
In acknowledging the centrality of love, Christian faith has retained the core of Israel's faith, while at the same time giving it new depth and breadth. The pious Jew prayed daily the words of the Book of Deuteronomy which expressed the heart of his existence; " Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your might " - John 6:4-5 -
Jesus Christ united into a single precept this commandment of love for God and the commandment of love for neighbour found in the Book of Leviticus; " You shall love your neighbour as yourself " - 19:18; cf. Mark 12:29-31 - Since God has first loved us - cf. 1 John 4:10 -, love is now no longer a mere "command"; it is the response to the gift of love with which God draws near to us.
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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 -
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
But there remain profound differences between the two men; Jesus Christ; claimed to be the one and only true God who came to suffer, die and rise again, establishing a unique and everlasting covenant with peoples.
Buddha; is believed is the one of many thatagata ( thus-come-one ). The historical Buddha is just one of several thatagata came in various ages to teach that life is an illusion and to remove human desires and attachments.
Jesus Christ; taught that He is " the Way and the Truth and the Life. " The way to what? " No one comes to the Father, " " except through me. " -John 14:6 - Jesus comes to reveal the Father the Creator of all things, so that peoples could have fullness of life.
Buddha; taught how people could escape suffering through loss of desire and personality. He held that every person must find his own path to nirvana, or the extinction of self.
Jesus Christ; preached the reality of sin, the nature of God the Father, and the need for repentance and salvation.
Buddha; preached the untenable nature of existence and the means to escape sufferings. Buddhism denies the ultimate existence of sin and the necessity of grace.
Jesus Christ; taught that God is completely other, but He also taught that God wishes to share his Divine life, given through the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Buddha; taught that individually must perish and everything is one.
Jesus Christ; established a Universal Church, with a structure of authority, based on His Words and example. He said "I am the Good Shepherd," "Follow Me."
Buddha; left a teaching with each person must find his and her own path. He stated, "After my death, the dharma shall be your teacher. Follow the dharma and you will be true to me."
Jesus Christ; rose from the death only once and will return as the Kings of Kings. He revealed his own Divinity, saying, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am" - John 8:58 -
Buddha; is a "model" regardless of whether he was a historical person or not. He suggests that "there is no 'self'." At his death, when he experienced pari-nirvana ( "final extinction" ), he stated that the question of afterlife was "not conducive to edification."
BY PETER KREEFT - Continue in November 2010, 8/11/10.
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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 -
Buddha; is believed is the one of many thatagata ( thus-come-one ). The historical Buddha is just one of several thatagata came in various ages to teach that life is an illusion and to remove human desires and attachments.
Jesus Christ; taught that He is " the Way and the Truth and the Life. " The way to what? " No one comes to the Father, " " except through me. " -John 14:6 - Jesus comes to reveal the Father the Creator of all things, so that peoples could have fullness of life.
Buddha; taught how people could escape suffering through loss of desire and personality. He held that every person must find his own path to nirvana, or the extinction of self.
Jesus Christ; preached the reality of sin, the nature of God the Father, and the need for repentance and salvation.
Buddha; preached the untenable nature of existence and the means to escape sufferings. Buddhism denies the ultimate existence of sin and the necessity of grace.
Jesus Christ; taught that God is completely other, but He also taught that God wishes to share his Divine life, given through the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Buddha; taught that individually must perish and everything is one.
Jesus Christ; established a Universal Church, with a structure of authority, based on His Words and example. He said "I am the Good Shepherd," "Follow Me."
Buddha; left a teaching with each person must find his and her own path. He stated, "After my death, the dharma shall be your teacher. Follow the dharma and you will be true to me."
Jesus Christ; rose from the death only once and will return as the Kings of Kings. He revealed his own Divinity, saying, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am" - John 8:58 -
Buddha; is a "model" regardless of whether he was a historical person or not. He suggests that "there is no 'self'." At his death, when he experienced pari-nirvana ( "final extinction" ), he stated that the question of afterlife was "not conducive to edification."
BY PETER KREEFT - Continue in November 2010, 8/11/10.
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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 -
Sunday, July 19, 2009
In his Fundamentals of the Faith, Peter Kreeft writes that "there have been only two people in history who so astonished people that they asked not ' Who are you?' but ' What are you?' A man or god?'
They were Jesus and Buddha". He then contrasts the striking differences between the two. "Buddha's clear answer to this question was; 'I am a man, not a god', Jesus Christ's answer was; 'I am both Son of Man and Son of God'. Buddha said, 'look not to me, look to my dharma', Jesus Christ's said, 'Come unto me'. Buddha said, 'Be ye lamps unto yourselves', Jesus Christ's said, 'I am the light of the world'.
Yet as we've seen and knowing , it is quite common to find Jesus Christ reduced to the level of "philosopher" or "great teacher" just as Buddha sometimes is elevated to a state of divinity. Certainly, there are some laudable ethical teachings of Buddha; Resist greed and anger, be compassionate, and so forth. But there remain profound differences between the two men; .....Con't in 7/20/09, 8/11/10
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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 -
They were Jesus and Buddha". He then contrasts the striking differences between the two. "Buddha's clear answer to this question was; 'I am a man, not a god', Jesus Christ's answer was; 'I am both Son of Man and Son of God'. Buddha said, 'look not to me, look to my dharma', Jesus Christ's said, 'Come unto me'. Buddha said, 'Be ye lamps unto yourselves', Jesus Christ's said, 'I am the light of the world'.
Yet as we've seen and knowing , it is quite common to find Jesus Christ reduced to the level of "philosopher" or "great teacher" just as Buddha sometimes is elevated to a state of divinity. Certainly, there are some laudable ethical teachings of Buddha; Resist greed and anger, be compassionate, and so forth. But there remain profound differences between the two men; .....Con't in 7/20/09, 8/11/10
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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 -
Saturday, July 18, 2009
While there are many world religions, there are only three that call worship of one God; Christianity, Judaism, Islam. All of the major religions, from Hinduism to Buddhism to Shintoism, etc, don't really deal with the issues of salvation as we understand it, of heaven and hell. For instance, Buddhism is really more of a philosophy than a religion, primarily concerned with reaching "enlightenment".
While Hinduism worships seemingly infinite gods, and looks at life as a kind of wheel, where we return, time and time again to "try and get it right". If we reach the summit of perfection, we become "Brahma bull". Conversely, if a person fails to live as he and she ought, he and she can expect humiliation in the next life. This is a "try and try again" idea of life.
As for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam believe in the same God and the same revelation they do, Christians are all "spiritual Semites" ( spiritual united with the Jews and the faith of Abraham) Basically, Christians are what you could call "Messianic Jews", that is, Christians are "adopted" Jews who believe Christ Jesus was the long awaited Jewish Messiah....the Saviour.
Christians has been grafted into the family tree, of course, the Christians faith has grown considerably from there as well. While Christians has significant theological differences with traditional Judaism ( primarily revolving around the Lord Jesus Christ ), the understanding of morality is of the same basic cloth. In fact, most of the Jews rejected their own Messiah, ( rejecting Christ Jesus ) as prophecy foretold, and while there continue to be Jews who come to accept Jesus the Jewish Messiah throughout history.
Perhaps, we should try to evaluate and analyse what Christians: Faith, Hope, Love, can do for us and help us.
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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 -
While Hinduism worships seemingly infinite gods, and looks at life as a kind of wheel, where we return, time and time again to "try and get it right". If we reach the summit of perfection, we become "Brahma bull". Conversely, if a person fails to live as he and she ought, he and she can expect humiliation in the next life. This is a "try and try again" idea of life.
As for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam believe in the same God and the same revelation they do, Christians are all "spiritual Semites" ( spiritual united with the Jews and the faith of Abraham) Basically, Christians are what you could call "Messianic Jews", that is, Christians are "adopted" Jews who believe Christ Jesus was the long awaited Jewish Messiah....the Saviour.
Christians has been grafted into the family tree, of course, the Christians faith has grown considerably from there as well. While Christians has significant theological differences with traditional Judaism ( primarily revolving around the Lord Jesus Christ ), the understanding of morality is of the same basic cloth. In fact, most of the Jews rejected their own Messiah, ( rejecting Christ Jesus ) as prophecy foretold, and while there continue to be Jews who come to accept Jesus the Jewish Messiah throughout history.
Perhaps, we should try to evaluate and analyse what Christians: Faith, Hope, Love, can do for us and help us.
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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 -
Friday, July 17, 2009
"All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to 'unveil' the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, feng shui, interpretation on omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power overtime, history, and in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect and loving fear that we owe to God alone".
"Under the influence of demons, people form the material of their apostasy. For, having shown them a plan of the position of the stars, known planets and animals were named after gods, like dice players, they introduce Fate, a flagrant injustice. For the judge and judged are made so by Fate, the murderers and the murdered, the wealthy and the needy - ( all are ) the offspring of the same Fate".
"Such are the demons; these are they who laid down the doctrine of Fate. Their fundamental principle was the placing of animals in the heavens ( as constellations )...... these they dignified with celestical honor, in order that they might themselves be thought to remain in heaven and by placing the constellation there, might make to appear rational the irrational course of life on earth.
Thus, the high spirited and he who is crushed with toil, the temperate and the intemperate, the indigent and the wealthy, are what they are simply from the controllers of the nativity. For the delineation of the zodiacal circle is the work of the 'gods'.....But we are superior to Fate, and instead of wandering demons we have learned to know God's " who wanders not ".
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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 -
"Under the influence of demons, people form the material of their apostasy. For, having shown them a plan of the position of the stars, known planets and animals were named after gods, like dice players, they introduce Fate, a flagrant injustice. For the judge and judged are made so by Fate, the murderers and the murdered, the wealthy and the needy - ( all are ) the offspring of the same Fate".
"Such are the demons; these are they who laid down the doctrine of Fate. Their fundamental principle was the placing of animals in the heavens ( as constellations )...... these they dignified with celestical honor, in order that they might themselves be thought to remain in heaven and by placing the constellation there, might make to appear rational the irrational course of life on earth.
Thus, the high spirited and he who is crushed with toil, the temperate and the intemperate, the indigent and the wealthy, are what they are simply from the controllers of the nativity. For the delineation of the zodiacal circle is the work of the 'gods'.....But we are superior to Fate, and instead of wandering demons we have learned to know God's " who wanders not ".
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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 -
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
"We are commanded to live righteously, and the reward is set before us of our meriting to live happily in eternity. But who is able to live righteously and do good works unless he has been justified by faith?".
"God bestowed forgiveness; the crown He will pay out. Of forgiveness He is the donor, of the crown, He is the debtor. Why debtor? Did He receive something?.... The Lord made himself a debtor not by receiving something but by promising something. One does not say to him, 'Pay for what you received,' but 'Pay what you promised.' "
"What merits of his own has the saved to boast of when, if he mere deal with according to his merits by which they were made just". "What merit, then does a man and woman have before grace, by which he might receive grace, when our every good merits, crowns nothing else but His own gift to us? "
God's enabling grace always produce faith and repentance in the sinner, anyone who sincerely teaches that faith, hope, love, and repentance are gifts of God.
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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 -
"God bestowed forgiveness; the crown He will pay out. Of forgiveness He is the donor, of the crown, He is the debtor. Why debtor? Did He receive something?.... The Lord made himself a debtor not by receiving something but by promising something. One does not say to him, 'Pay for what you received,' but 'Pay what you promised.' "
"What merits of his own has the saved to boast of when, if he mere deal with according to his merits by which they were made just". "What merit, then does a man and woman have before grace, by which he might receive grace, when our every good merits, crowns nothing else but His own gift to us? "
God's enabling grace always produce faith and repentance in the sinner, anyone who sincerely teaches that faith, hope, love, and repentance are gifts of God.
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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 -
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Every man and woman has an intellect and a will. The intellect is oriented to knowing the cause of all things which we experiences as effects in this world. By an ascent of truth. It is possible (and some human beings have been able) to ascend to the knowledge that God exists and is one truth, love, Creator and provident. Of course, this can be known through reason. Yet, it is not enough for anyone.
Left to this sort of knowledge of God, we, is like the fox before the grapes. The fox goes away sad because he wants to taste of the delicious grapes, but he cannot. We want to grasp God, but our mind cannot fathom the depth of truth in God. Each thing God has made manifests His truth. But He communicates His nature in a special way to us, who is invited to participate in His nature, for instance, a natural relationships of love like marriage. (man with woman, male and female)
This action of both the intellect and will is called faith. Faith is unlike all other human knowledge. It is unlike human science, opinion and doubt because faith is not knowledge of the mind, convinced by the inner character of the evidence, but the mind convinced by the strength of the will adhering in personal reverence for the one revealing. Faith involves then the simultaneous movement of the intellect and will. Faith is a participation in a divine way of knowing in which we look at the world from God's point of view. It can never suffer a merely human explanation.
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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 -
Left to this sort of knowledge of God, we, is like the fox before the grapes. The fox goes away sad because he wants to taste of the delicious grapes, but he cannot. We want to grasp God, but our mind cannot fathom the depth of truth in God. Each thing God has made manifests His truth. But He communicates His nature in a special way to us, who is invited to participate in His nature, for instance, a natural relationships of love like marriage. (man with woman, male and female)
This action of both the intellect and will is called faith. Faith is unlike all other human knowledge. It is unlike human science, opinion and doubt because faith is not knowledge of the mind, convinced by the inner character of the evidence, but the mind convinced by the strength of the will adhering in personal reverence for the one revealing. Faith involves then the simultaneous movement of the intellect and will. Faith is a participation in a divine way of knowing in which we look at the world from God's point of view. It can never suffer a merely human explanation.
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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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