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2.5) The Christian Challenge
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Mass-attractivity>conscientious
understanding
of the relevant substantialities: Our
culture has not yet resolved the relationship
individual-collective
in any desirable way. The
mono-political
ideology of putting collective value
on top of people is a failure! According to
John 14:12, we are called to overcome
this thinking-catastrophe through
understanding for what God has created us for,
the guidance of the Holy spirit, and the personal
relevance of the example of Jesus Christ how to fulfill one's life. |
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Bluff>Truth
- Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible first:
Idolatry and
ideologies distort the truth
that leads to life on one's
path. They call a
bluff in view of a hidden agenda
as ultimately does the great
tempter/mammon in order to rule this word.
Any compromise
towards the above misguiding mass-attractivity
corrupts the potential of understanding of the consequences of
lies and thereby provokes "learning the hard way" in
human catastrophes. The result is lack of
timely
exchange of project-oriented competence
which leads to chaos/Babylon. |
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Grace requires a
receiver: The
Reformation has exposed people to go beyond the
rigid frame
of a seemingly almighty catholic church and meet
God's
challenge. However, when the
Anabaptists
took the
Sermon of the Mount (love
your enemy) as a
basis for
their lives, they were persecuted most fiercely by
the fearful reformers for centuries.
Reconciliation with them has meanwhile taken place in
Zürich. However personal understanding
is still cast out of
society as being more
politically incorrect than ever. Call for understanding
and experience the reaction... |
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Life asks for personal fulfillment of
one's innate substantiality:
The conclusion about where
to go from here can meaningfully only be to trust God
and the substantiality he has created for each of us to fulfill
even if the world asks for the total
opposite. This trust leads to life
experience which allows the
sufficient understanding for life's fulfillment.
But then you
are faced with the world running in the other direction,
even at the abyss, in the name of progress, a step further. You
are given a free will for that decision, not to outsmart the
consequences... |
Imagine a
group of reformed Christians who are challenged with the above by say,
me. They would allow it in a tolerant spirit of the time.
However, some would clearly show the
irritation of their comfort zone. Others would treat it like any
odd opinion in a discussion - no hear - no see - no understanding.
Some would get it as a exciting idea, usually without the
courage to follow it up in any way - no time, no obvious applause to be
gained. Few would make a loving gesture. So most would feel
more or less uneasy and thus be willing to change the topic.
Then it takes one smart Alec to use this opportunity to trigger
releasing laughter among the majority with a put down joke to gain mass-attractivity for some simplifying thesis such as
"it's
best for men to respond with "Yes Mum" to any challenge from women -
to follow the path of least resistance and do what one likes
anyway. Thus ridiculing understanding instead is using the fact that drowning an Anabaptist
(the reformer Zwingli considered them enemies of the state and did
just that in Zürich) is the prototype for effective scapegoatting.
Today
one drowns solutions with a flood of rhetorically effective
stereotypes.
This frees the lukewarm of the fear that they could eventually be
scapegoated for their remaining conscience and understanding. In such a
society those who manage to
outsource theirs in the most mass-attractive way, will become the (mis)leaders.
Thus the show of gambling on the response of an only fleetingly
understood societies goes on, business as usual, even in most
churches...
[in German: [Power
games,
historical background]
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