Society has always had its violent behavioral groups.
Society can end violence. It's well known violent behavior is part of the male gene syndrome and the elements have been isolated and identified by many university scientific groups. What my friends are suggesting, if there were a group of male individuals who would be willing to subject themselves to experiment under controlled conditions to ending the violence in the male syndrome, it would be a step forward to a new world. I don't know if there is such a group of males available. All I know is that scientists might welcome their participation and they can have enjoyable sex and produce many children. Listen, if I didn't believe we've got the answer to violence, I'd tell you so!
Monday, May 26, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
(CP-6) Meta-Elements of Religious Knowledge
Unveiling God's Plan for your life
Religious knowledge is practical knowledge, and it is revealed to the individual believer. The guiding truth is God's plan for each of our lives within the cosmic schemata.. It is your intended contribution to the establishment of God's everlasting Kingdom. Even as Jesus endeavored to carry out God's plan for His life, including dying on the cross for the sake of the Kingdom, so we are exhorted to do what God intends each of us to accomplish in our lifetime.
Now the Kingdom is a community of believers. In Matthew Chapter 5, Jesus outlines how we are to relate to one another for the sake of the Kingdom. We should not act out of anger but love. In this chapter, he stresses the attitude we are to maintain in our dealings with one another. Essentially , we are to act as mediators for the sake of harmony and peace in His Kingdom--abandoning the intention to "do the right thing" irrespective of its affects on those around us nor without concern of how others will respond to our acts. Just as Jesus is our Mediator before the Father, so we are mediators to one another in the Kingdom of God.
Failing to show compassion in their actions was the very sin of the Pharisees. For the Christian there is no such thing as "tough love!" .
But how can we know God's plan for each of our lives? St. Paul talks of this in I Corinthians 12. He speaks of one's having spiritual gifts, some delegated to one person and some to others. Our bodies and minds display our inclinations and talents from within, just as Jesus instructed through His parables to make use of God's natural gifts we possess. For we are the temple of God.
And then Jesus adds in Matthew Chapter 5, "You will be blest!"
Applying the religious knowledge we receive
Since religious knowledge is practical and useful for us, when we apply the religious knowledge we receive to our lives, we live by the promise that God shall supply all our needs. We virtually conjoin ourselves through the power of God to the principles of the universe. It is that power Jesus called upon to do His miracles. We attune ourselves through prayer and worship to the cosmos (see the discussion of the Eucharist service). Importantly, we come to know ourselves as Children of God, retaining in ourselves godlike qualities that give us courage to live a beautiful life, despite its vicissitudes; and die with the hope of eternal life. We are never alone.
Religious knowledge is practical knowledge, and it is revealed to the individual believer. The guiding truth is God's plan for each of our lives within the cosmic schemata.. It is your intended contribution to the establishment of God's everlasting Kingdom. Even as Jesus endeavored to carry out God's plan for His life, including dying on the cross for the sake of the Kingdom, so we are exhorted to do what God intends each of us to accomplish in our lifetime.
Now the Kingdom is a community of believers. In Matthew Chapter 5, Jesus outlines how we are to relate to one another for the sake of the Kingdom. We should not act out of anger but love. In this chapter, he stresses the attitude we are to maintain in our dealings with one another. Essentially , we are to act as mediators for the sake of harmony and peace in His Kingdom--abandoning the intention to "do the right thing" irrespective of its affects on those around us nor without concern of how others will respond to our acts. Just as Jesus is our Mediator before the Father, so we are mediators to one another in the Kingdom of God.
Failing to show compassion in their actions was the very sin of the Pharisees. For the Christian there is no such thing as "tough love!" .
But how can we know God's plan for each of our lives? St. Paul talks of this in I Corinthians 12. He speaks of one's having spiritual gifts, some delegated to one person and some to others. Our bodies and minds display our inclinations and talents from within, just as Jesus instructed through His parables to make use of God's natural gifts we possess. For we are the temple of God.
And then Jesus adds in Matthew Chapter 5, "You will be blest!"
Applying the religious knowledge we receive
Since religious knowledge is practical and useful for us, when we apply the religious knowledge we receive to our lives, we live by the promise that God shall supply all our needs. We virtually conjoin ourselves through the power of God to the principles of the universe. It is that power Jesus called upon to do His miracles. We attune ourselves through prayer and worship to the cosmos (see the discussion of the Eucharist service). Importantly, we come to know ourselves as Children of God, retaining in ourselves godlike qualities that give us courage to live a beautiful life, despite its vicissitudes; and die with the hope of eternal life. We are never alone.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
(CP-5) Religious Knowledge: The Format
Religious knowledge is the theological proof of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ. He lives today, enabling us who believe to access the Trinity God. And, what we believers gain is religious knowledge, which is unavailable to the un-believer.
This knowledge is personal--it's for me! It is directed to the believer himself. It is knowledge that the believer should use in his day-to-day activities. It could make him rich--in this the Texan preachers are right about, whenever the believer wants to make riches his goal--it could lengthen his life, and so forth. The believer in God through Jesus Christ as his access--sets the use of the religious knowledge he gains to his own advantage.
Since I live this knowledge daily and for the past upteen years, it is readily something I can discuss. In the Bible, it first appears in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 31 "and behold it was very good!" After God made the heavens and the earth and made man in God's image, He declares, "it is good!"
This is also evaluative knowledge. We work 6 days a week and on the seventh, we rest to look it all over, to see how far we've progressed in just one week! You know, going to church. a truly foreign environment, enables us to get away from the everyday and to evaluate how we're doing. Performing prayers enables us to get to the spiritual realm and away from the routines. In the spiritual, we come as penitents knowing we could have done better and using this moment of reflection to seek God's power to do better henceforth. It's that simple. But if you don't do that evaluation, from the Christian viewpoint, you're depriving yourself of an invaluable tool for personal growth.
You can't always keep going and going. You've got to take stock of how you're doing toward the goals you have set for yourself. Sunday morning, in church, is the time for evaluating your performance, even as God did after crating the world. The environment is set for the evaluation process.
Let me take today as an example from my life. I've got worlds of things I'm involved in and some of them could be important. But I took the day off, though I didn't go to church, and lying in bed reflected on how I'm doing, and I prayed a lot and just got away from everything mundane. I didn't leave the house until after 6 PM, then only to get groceries. Nevertheless, in those hours of complete solitude, I rehearsed what I've been doing recently and took stock of myself. As a Christian, that always implies what St. Paul called "edification--" how am I helping my fellow man to live better by what I am doing. Sure, I saw I could have done better and I've learned to do better!
In New Age Philosophy, it's the third eye, the one that knows what's really going on. But whatever it's called every human being needs to use it as a guide-post. God bless you!!
I've introduced you to religious knowledge; and I know you'll have a lot of questions about it. It's the most vital aspect of our faith. I can only get you started on your religious journey. It's up to you to follow through. Now, I must go on to the meta-elements of religious knowledge.
One more thing in this introduction. The human body is the temple of God. So, I can approach the Lord Jesus Christ today--you won't believe it; but I can't believe it, it's just the religious experience. But the fact is we're just humans; and we're not rational! And I welcome the religious tune-up of today! It got me to know what I must do, so off I go, refreshed!.
This knowledge is personal--it's for me! It is directed to the believer himself. It is knowledge that the believer should use in his day-to-day activities. It could make him rich--in this the Texan preachers are right about, whenever the believer wants to make riches his goal--it could lengthen his life, and so forth. The believer in God through Jesus Christ as his access--sets the use of the religious knowledge he gains to his own advantage.
Since I live this knowledge daily and for the past upteen years, it is readily something I can discuss. In the Bible, it first appears in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 31 "and behold it was very good!" After God made the heavens and the earth and made man in God's image, He declares, "it is good!"
This is also evaluative knowledge. We work 6 days a week and on the seventh, we rest to look it all over, to see how far we've progressed in just one week! You know, going to church. a truly foreign environment, enables us to get away from the everyday and to evaluate how we're doing. Performing prayers enables us to get to the spiritual realm and away from the routines. In the spiritual, we come as penitents knowing we could have done better and using this moment of reflection to seek God's power to do better henceforth. It's that simple. But if you don't do that evaluation, from the Christian viewpoint, you're depriving yourself of an invaluable tool for personal growth.
You can't always keep going and going. You've got to take stock of how you're doing toward the goals you have set for yourself. Sunday morning, in church, is the time for evaluating your performance, even as God did after crating the world. The environment is set for the evaluation process.
Let me take today as an example from my life. I've got worlds of things I'm involved in and some of them could be important. But I took the day off, though I didn't go to church, and lying in bed reflected on how I'm doing, and I prayed a lot and just got away from everything mundane. I didn't leave the house until after 6 PM, then only to get groceries. Nevertheless, in those hours of complete solitude, I rehearsed what I've been doing recently and took stock of myself. As a Christian, that always implies what St. Paul called "edification--" how am I helping my fellow man to live better by what I am doing. Sure, I saw I could have done better and I've learned to do better!
In New Age Philosophy, it's the third eye, the one that knows what's really going on. But whatever it's called every human being needs to use it as a guide-post. God bless you!!
I've introduced you to religious knowledge; and I know you'll have a lot of questions about it. It's the most vital aspect of our faith. I can only get you started on your religious journey. It's up to you to follow through. Now, I must go on to the meta-elements of religious knowledge.
One more thing in this introduction. The human body is the temple of God. So, I can approach the Lord Jesus Christ today--you won't believe it; but I can't believe it, it's just the religious experience. But the fact is we're just humans; and we're not rational! And I welcome the religious tune-up of today! It got me to know what I must do, so off I go, refreshed!.
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