Date:   2/12/2007 3:47:43 AM ( 18 y ago)
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That's a very good example of the legalistic attitude we've been taught. No matter what our character or the intentions of our heart, we've been taught to separate Godliness into many different aspects and categories according to human ways of knowledge (our ways are not God's ways). What keeps us from understanding the real message of scripture (after claiming Jesus as Savior, the real message is summed up in The Sermon On The Mount,...which the good samaritan exemplifies) is that we insist on analyzing scripture to death academically as though it is a Science or legal document.

As "I am who I am" ("God is one") is integral, so are His words (not just His written one, but the one spoken by His spirit) integral (meaning all parts are the "one"). Each one of us should be integral also, and scripture is also INTEGRAL (it CANNOT be thought to have contradictions unless worldly knowledge is applied to it using ANALYSIS, separating ideas and categories such as "ordinances".

Yes, the samaritans were a little off-base, but just like the person at the well (John 4), their heart was in the right place and they just needed to WANT to actually know who it was that would purify our souls.

Human nature is that, no matter how altruistic (selfless) we intend to be, we have a tendendency to be proud of our humanitarian accomplishments, even our parents tend to get carried away with being proud of what they have accomplished for their FAMILY "world". Parent's sometimes make the mistake of showing more attention to (considering each persona) and giving special treatment to one child over the other and they forget that they should be "no respecter of persons"/personalities. We tend to feel that a personal relationship with The Lord entitles us to preferential treatment from the parent of the human race (philosophical at best), but God's "family world" (right now it is approximately 6.5 billion, but since the beginning, there have been 'alot more') still insists on competing with The Lord for the office of "Humanitarian" (yeah, I could see where that would cause trouble in understanding Him and what He wrote). Worse than the misunderstanding is the fact that we embrace the LABEL, not the OFFICE of "humanitarian" and develop a militant attitude (OUR agenda necessarily excludes altruism and tends to include resentment/hatred/polarization).

We (humanity) are many, He (His body, but also all of humanity) is one ("God is one"). He does try to get us to understand that trying to understand scripture by analyzing it with worldly knowledge, concepts and terminology (such as "ordinances") is 'insufficient' (Romans 6:29, "...in human terms...") and says things like "my ways are not your ways" and "look to the wisdom from above", but rambunctious kids tend not to listen.

In our attempts to understand scripture properly, we usually approach it as though it were journalism and there should be a headline that reads "Jesus has come to earth, read all about it" and we refuse to look deeper. Greek trajedies (ancient Greek plays) let us each choose the moral of the story (the moral of the story is subjective), which is why there are so many subjective interpretations of scripture, but genuine truth can only be OBJECTIVE.

The microcosm must subjectively want to see the macrocosm, but the macrocosm in OBJECTIVE.


In our zeal to understand properly, we do analyze scripture to death.
 

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