Is struggling against the spirit of struggle a christian struggle?

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It's not simply a joke: Our human ordinary mind the more often pretends that struggling against each others to make one's living is a moral behaviour to adopt. All right, but do you think it is Christ's mind and spirit?
I've learned that the struggle of a Christian is the struggle of mending lawlessness in our own soul, not just for us but for others. That would be a struggle a Christian would have to reform and turn away from in their heart, among many others.
 
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If you walk with the Holy Spirit the struggle becomes less obvious.
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It's not precisely what i asked for: Do wé, christians, have To caution the struggle, or must we endeavour To annihilate it? Is struggling against one's neighbours the way one must behave?Shouldn't à christian try To endeavour instead To struggle To never struggle against his/Her neighbours? Finally, may be are wé addicted To struggles, dont you think?
 
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I've learned that the struggle of a Christian is the struggle of mending lawlessness in our own soul, not just for us but for others. That would be a struggle a Christian would have to reform and turn away from in their heart, among many others.
For you also, i reformulate my questionning, for although It's true one must start with one's own conversion, you nevertheless didn't answer it, for it is related To the worldwide relationship between men, not To the relationship with oneself. So, have you any idea, please?
 
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Christ told the Pharisees: Love your neighbor as yourself. Everyone must love each other with all their heart, regardless of their transgressions or strife, and if that is difficult then we must mend our own hearts first.

Matthew 22:37-40

If we find ourselves struggling against our neighbor, we must be the one to capitulate if they will get hurt, or otherwise find a better solution to the issue.
 
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It's not precisely what i asked for: Do wé, christians, have To caution the struggle, or must we endeavour To annihilate it? Is struggling against one's neighbours the way one must behave?Shouldn't à christian try To endeavour instead To struggle To never struggle against his/Her neighbours? Finally, may be are wé addicted To struggles, dont you think?
Still the same answer.
 
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If we find ourselves struggling against our neighbor, we must be the one to capitulate if they will get hurt, or otherwise find a better solution to the issue.
I believe you speak so, as long as self-centered purposes are involved, which answers skilfully and righteously to my questions. Thank you, i agree. Capitulation might yet be done far away from this balance, which you are looking for..Christ Himself, however winner ended up as a loser in men's eyes. I assume true christians must agree To lose everything of this world, on the materialistic level. As for christian testimony, spiritual one, capitulating should be done cautiously, if possible. Christians have an advantage over Christ: Théy just have To follow his footprints, whereas Hé had To walk, bearing his cross, following none. The way christians finish shouldn't lead anyone astray, outside of his ways. So, if we do have this advantage over Christ, it must be far easier for us To bear our cross, and To display this easiness is may be à duty (at least it is To me)as well. Such is the slight précision i add To the "capitulating".
Yet, however easier it is, and although i should avoid stress in order to lengthen my life, as hé once Said, i must say i find my own thinking difficult To implement in act. Practice and theory...!!
Sorry for this lack of stability. I'd had been in joy To help you find more balance.
 
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,THE MORE YOU WALK IN/TOWARDS THE JESUS.GOD/HOLY SPIRIT WITHOUT A DOUBT THE HARDER AND I MEAN HARDER IT GETS NOT THE EASIER,
i meant you already have faith in one man, that showed you resurrection is a reality, if you're a believer. It is this the advantage. Otherwise, i understand and start believing those things, Always with doubts yet, accustomed as i am to just Believe in my 5 senses.

A french site speaks of those things, but it's written in french, translated by the abbot Collery, in the 19th century. He was Under the influence of saint Augustin, 5th century, and translated in a benedictin monastery in Swiss:

DE LA DIVINATION DES DÉMONS
www.abbaye-saint-benoit.ch/saints/augustin/divination/

 
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