Hi there,
So I had another mini-revelation that was quite amazing: the pinnacle of Evolution (to the faith), is basically just Disciples, without Christ. I mean if you had a bunch of disciples and no Christ, that would basically be the message of Evolution. A "no rules, no point" faith, that substitutes the religiosity of every other attempt to harness the spiritual, for the absence of God, regardless of what any one else might say is true, relevant or consequential.
I don't know what you think about this... In one sense it is bad, an insult, an affront to the attempts of believers to win converts; but in another sense it is good, a distraction, even slightly constructive, for unbelievers that would spend all their time attacking the faith for no reason, if they did not have better work to do, whatever it may mean to them, that it remains God's will; and in another sense, it is exactly what Christ would have wanted, if He was an uncaring and unmotivated gentile, that had no regard for the integrity of the species of the world and only wanted to experiment on Creation to prove He was above something briefly, before we all die anyway - which is completely unlike the Christ we know, but for those with no faith an introduction to Christ that would exist in a world without faith (which is a scary prospect, but for the disciples, who continue to remind people that Christ was Himself - despite all poor imitations - far better than that - which is a joy to know really, and something that people without such faith should not, indeed, be able to enjoy).
The point is, that as distractions go, you could not ask for one more obtuse and unhelpful, than Evolution. I mean it really destroys any notion of momentum for one's life and is so "anything goes" it hardly means anything. If you wanted something to act as filler, while you went about trying to find disciples who wanted words of truth to live by, that would be it - I mean I hardly know why the world complains about the faith now, at all! They can do their experiments all they like, it doesn't amount to more than a kind of mechanically functional humility that could not exist without God anyway - which I suppose is why some believers are enticed to say that it is part of God's will, though perhaps not discerning what it is that God actually likes or dislikes about it, viz., that his disciples take up their cross and follow Christ, regardless of what they think may or may not be evolved enough). But I digress, the point is that it is basically a practical alternative to doing nothing and if there were a simple way to show people that higher is better, that would be the icing on cake.
And I suppose the icing on the cake is that we have the Holy Spirit, in that sense - higher is always better, for Christ (and not for the world)
Thoughts?
So I had another mini-revelation that was quite amazing: the pinnacle of Evolution (to the faith), is basically just Disciples, without Christ. I mean if you had a bunch of disciples and no Christ, that would basically be the message of Evolution. A "no rules, no point" faith, that substitutes the religiosity of every other attempt to harness the spiritual, for the absence of God, regardless of what any one else might say is true, relevant or consequential.
I don't know what you think about this... In one sense it is bad, an insult, an affront to the attempts of believers to win converts; but in another sense it is good, a distraction, even slightly constructive, for unbelievers that would spend all their time attacking the faith for no reason, if they did not have better work to do, whatever it may mean to them, that it remains God's will; and in another sense, it is exactly what Christ would have wanted, if He was an uncaring and unmotivated gentile, that had no regard for the integrity of the species of the world and only wanted to experiment on Creation to prove He was above something briefly, before we all die anyway - which is completely unlike the Christ we know, but for those with no faith an introduction to Christ that would exist in a world without faith (which is a scary prospect, but for the disciples, who continue to remind people that Christ was Himself - despite all poor imitations - far better than that - which is a joy to know really, and something that people without such faith should not, indeed, be able to enjoy).
The point is, that as distractions go, you could not ask for one more obtuse and unhelpful, than Evolution. I mean it really destroys any notion of momentum for one's life and is so "anything goes" it hardly means anything. If you wanted something to act as filler, while you went about trying to find disciples who wanted words of truth to live by, that would be it - I mean I hardly know why the world complains about the faith now, at all! They can do their experiments all they like, it doesn't amount to more than a kind of mechanically functional humility that could not exist without God anyway - which I suppose is why some believers are enticed to say that it is part of God's will, though perhaps not discerning what it is that God actually likes or dislikes about it, viz., that his disciples take up their cross and follow Christ, regardless of what they think may or may not be evolved enough). But I digress, the point is that it is basically a practical alternative to doing nothing and if there were a simple way to show people that higher is better, that would be the icing on cake.
And I suppose the icing on the cake is that we have the Holy Spirit, in that sense - higher is always better, for Christ (and not for the world)
Thoughts?
