Posted by
Republiservative on Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:39:01 PM
In re Christianity one gets through the writings of Paul that one must
work through diverse idioms in order to simply increase salvation of
souls by their conversion to ethical conduct within and between their
idioms; and that to such ends, an apostle must work with whatever
initial systems one meets without officious swagger...thus, even Paul
saw no one religious construction as the master way of doing things,
nor did he really prescribe a complex edifice of his own.
About
the only caveat Paul gives is that one must ensure the converted don't
reject faith due to wondering why an apostle also comports with current
non-believers (i.e., anybody who believes ethics can be wiggled out of
on human or some supernatural subterfuge); Paul also indicates God will
Himself occasionally answer prayer compatible with His will in re
strengthening souls and vanquishing wickedness...Christian disciples to
use mental gifts to lessen need for such intervention in the meantime.
It's
amazing how time ravaged such simple ideas. Today, there are some who
don't look at all the Psalms of the OT as a whole and as to nations
say: "Well, it looks like David had all kinds of non-Jews in his realm,
wanted such 'strangers' protected too, yet foreign leaders and agents
as polemic accused Hebrews falsely". No, some insist the Psalms are
proof David was opining epigenetically to a storm god myth, solely to
maximize Hewbrew offspring.
These often are the same folks who
overlook olden global times where Christian or not women were as
property of men, based on "fight for me" appeals of power to males on
raw pleasure or epigenetic terms...to some, this wasn't a huge idiom
Paul had to work with or toe into, it was his Savior's command to men.
Yet the original Christian object appears to have been to get men to
not view women as mere toys...daunting task where secular power
facilitated to the opposite.
Today there are places on earth
wherein have arisen male regimes quashing most of their fellow males,
then treating females as toys; there are also places where governments
adopt a faith position and epigenetically seek to impose it within
their borders and against the world.
In a culture that seems
almost to both say in every nation religious epigenetic hijinx of the
long ago past must be by sovereignty "table turned" for justice against
innocents now present, and paradoxically concurrently saying such new
epigenetic religious "setting right" in all places out of one's own
nation is a threat to one's homeland but all such epigenetics are prime
protected religious speech "of inherently violent people", I
respectfully note that none of that in history or now applies to the
spiritual Christianity people like me embrace...and thus it's
confounding to see in modern times where any governmental epigenetic
enterprise(s) find simple ethics a gross offense or sign of diminished
mental capacity rather than the object of all Christian sacramentality.