Blazing the Fire
There is an aspect of self which is finely in tune with injustice and which desires justice. This part of us must be leveraged in order to persist through the obstacles of truth seeking. I call this blazing the fire.
We can manipulate this through conscious distortion. For instance, if I imagine everyone around me is straining themselves by pushing a giant boulder up a mountain, then that is going to induce a feeling within me that I should be doing more. That feeling of obligation blazes the fire.
Now, there is another part of self which is averse to distorting reality that needs to be creatively countered in order to guard the fire. This requires that we look deeply at others around us in order to spot extra effort (or something else which is admirable) so we have something to anchor to when our vision of them pushing the boulder is getting undermined.
After you are able to do this with other people around you and sustain it, then you are ready to do it with God, even if you don’t believe. Imagine God constantly laboring up the mountain. See the best in God to preserve the distortion and guard the fire.
Once you develop the self mastery to blaze the fire and guard it in this way, then you are ready to eat from the tree of the knowledge of evil. Until then, you must deny yourself, or you will fail and get stuck like everyone else.
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The Son of Man wins the grand prize in the highest level story because that is who he decided he is and that’s what he does. He accepts utter defeat at the highest level because ultimately he wins in the end. Everyone else exits for a lower level story to avoid being defeated and humiliated.
Yep
I’m constantly deepening my relationship with, and my understanding of, the Son of Man who speaks through me.
As an identified Christian, are you one with Christ?
Does Christ speak through you?
Why do you speak to me like you’re a bewildered secular atheist?
You know, we need those superhero religious people and supernatural gods. Like in the 1st Century, you dig? How are you guys living without superheroes and supernatural beings? Are you sure that's moral?
I’m constantly deepening my relationship with, and my understanding of, the Son of Man who speaks through me.
As an identified Christian, are you one with Christ?
Depends what you mean by "one with Christ." I endeavor to trust my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to guide me and comfort me and to help me to "shine a bright light in dark places."
Does Christ speak through you?
As above, it depends what you mean by that. Christ surely does not speak through me in the sense that He spoke through Paul (2 Corinithians 13:3), in which in that chapter Paul is asserting his authority as an Apostle. I am an ambassador for Christ, but not an Apostle.
Why do you speak to me like you’re a bewildered secular atheist?
I suppose because I find you cryptic and bewildering.
Depends what you mean by "one with Christ." I endeavor to trust my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to guide me and comfort me and to help me to "shine a bright light in dark places."As above, it depends what you mean by that. Christ surely does not speak through me in the sense that He spoke through Paul (2 Corinithians 13:3), in which in that chapter Paul is asserting his autho
Frankly, Christ doesn’t need more “ambassadors”.
It’s time to move the story forward and bring forth the kingdom.
Depends what you mean by "one with Christ." I endeavor to trust my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to guide me and comfort me and to help me to "shine a bright light in dark places."As above, it depends what you mean by that. Christ surely does not speak through me in the sense that He spoke through Paul (2 Corinithians 13:3), in which in that chapter Paul is asserting his autho
He wants to be cryptic and bewildering. It gets him off in his religious persona "messenger of god" identity. There is nothing more clearly obvious, nothing in this forum about which I'm more sure. He might be the number one messenger of the only real and true god of the cosmos, which he evidently thinks he is, but even if he is his game is to be cryptic and bewildering. I'm a language major, and his language is cryptic and bewildering. It strokes his religious ego.
Jesus' language and parables were of an earthy nature, using metaphors of things the common people were familiar with. Imagine all the billions of people who have had very little education, could never follow along with any of the high flying sophistry going on in religions. God would never create such a religion knowing it is beyond the multitudes. Compare that to the one word religion of the Dalai Lama: "kindness." You're going to hell if you believe that one.
The vast majority of humans in history couldn't even read, if at all not beyond a rudimentary level. But the religion of the god who created them supposedly is full of the rarefied doctrine and sophistry you see craig1120 filling these forums with. It has to be bullshyt.
Frankly, Christ doesn’t need more “ambassadors”.
It’s time to move the story forward and bring forth the kingdom.
Frankly, I think more ambassadors are needed.
"The Great Commission" is in many ways becoming "The Great Omission".
In my opinion, too many so-called churches are more entertainment centers than discipling centers.
