Lay theology. wonderful work on concepts. And not the end of the search.
Just an inspiration. Moving towards final inspiration s about God: the ultimate love inspiration.
" Whose is this image and superscription? " — Matt.
22 : 20.
THE Pharisees near the end of Jesus' life
tried to ensnare Him by an awkward
question regarding tribute. The Master
eluded their snare by calling attention to a
legal relation already established between the
Jews and Caesar, which was witnessed by their
use of Roman money. Csesar's right must
therefore be acknowledged, as must every
other of similar nature. '* Render, therefore,
unto Csesar the things that are Caesar's; and
unto God the things that are God's." The
principle here appealed to by Jesus is one of
wide application. Relations establish duties.
The image and superscription are a constant
reminder both of relation and of duty.
Problem of evil, problem in philosophy of religion that arises for any view that affirms the following three propositions: God is almighty, God is perfectly good, and evil exists.
The fourth chapter of Bhagavad Gita entitled "Jnana-Karma-Sannyasa Yoga" is given here. Lord Krishna talks to Arjuna about the antiquity of the philosophy he is expounding. Whenever there is decline in righteousness & increase in unrighteousness, God takes steps to balance the situation.He tells Arjuna that God may be approached by sincere devotion, in whatever form you worship Him. What is action? What is inaction? What is forbidden action? Even wise people are confused about action. He is the wise man who sees action in inaction & vice versa. Whoever does his actions without desire for fruits, he is a wise man & he is not bound by his actions. Then the Lord talks about Yajna or sacrifice & describes various types of Yajna. Sacrifice of knowledge is the most sacred of all Yajnas, because all actions end in knowledge. How to get this knowledge? Approach a proper teacher, pay obeisance to him, serve him & by questioning him, one can attain knowledge through his grace..Once you attain this knowledge, all your doubts vanish & you attain peace absolute. One who does all his work without desire for fruits, and has cleared all his doubts through attaining knowledge, & who has control over his body, mind & intellect, becomes free from all bondage. Finally the Lord asks Arjuna to cut all his doubts arising from ignorance, with the sword of knowledge & be ready to fight the war.
" Whose is this image and superscription? " — Matt.
22 : 20.
THE Pharisees near the end of Jesus' life
tried to ensnare Him by an awkward
question regarding tribute. The Master
eluded their snare by calling attention to a
legal relation already established between the
Jews and Caesar, which was witnessed by their
use of Roman money. Csesar's right must
therefore be acknowledged, as must every
other of similar nature. '* Render, therefore,
unto Csesar the things that are Caesar's; and
unto God the things that are God's." The
principle here appealed to by Jesus is one of
wide application. Relations establish duties.
The image and superscription are a constant
reminder both of relation and of duty.
Problem of evil, problem in philosophy of religion that arises for any view that affirms the following three propositions: God is almighty, God is perfectly good, and evil exists.
The fourth chapter of Bhagavad Gita entitled "Jnana-Karma-Sannyasa Yoga" is given here. Lord Krishna talks to Arjuna about the antiquity of the philosophy he is expounding. Whenever there is decline in righteousness & increase in unrighteousness, God takes steps to balance the situation.He tells Arjuna that God may be approached by sincere devotion, in whatever form you worship Him. What is action? What is inaction? What is forbidden action? Even wise people are confused about action. He is the wise man who sees action in inaction & vice versa. Whoever does his actions without desire for fruits, he is a wise man & he is not bound by his actions. Then the Lord talks about Yajna or sacrifice & describes various types of Yajna. Sacrifice of knowledge is the most sacred of all Yajnas, because all actions end in knowledge. How to get this knowledge? Approach a proper teacher, pay obeisance to him, serve him & by questioning him, one can attain knowledge through his grace..Once you attain this knowledge, all your doubts vanish & you attain peace absolute. One who does all his work without desire for fruits, and has cleared all his doubts through attaining knowledge, & who has control over his body, mind & intellect, becomes free from all bondage. Finally the Lord asks Arjuna to cut all his doubts arising from ignorance, with the sword of knowledge & be ready to fight the war.
Although this is a key topic for AS Level Philosophy, it is also crucial and useful for A2 Philosophy too.
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Karma yoga chapter ii each is great in his own placeRavi Ramakrishnan
Swami #Vivekananda Bengali: , Shāmi Bibekānondo; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born #Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of# Vedanta and #Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising #interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the #Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.
Born into an aristocratic Bengali family of Calcutta, Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality. He was influenced by his Guru, Ramakrishna Deva, from whom he learnt that all living beings were an embodiment of the divine self; therefore, service to God could be rendered by service to mankind. After Ramakrishna's death, Vivekananda toured the Indian subcontinent extensively and acquired first-hand knowledge of the conditions prevailing in British India. He later traveled to the United States, representing India at the 1893 Parliament of the World Religions. Vivekananda conducted hundreds of public and private lectures and classes, disseminating tenets of Hindu philosophy in the United States, England and Europe. In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint and his birthday is celebrated there as National Youth Day.
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This is the second talk on the incarnation in which Tony develops the expansive picture of how the incarnation defines and secures the ultimate destiny of humanity. This expansive vision only makes sense in a big picture of the cosmos so that is where Tony begins. He finishes with a summary of probably the most sophisticated framework of the incarnation that the church has developed - Irenaeus' theory of recapitulation.
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*. Preface
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2. Opposite Poles Attract
3. Love Is A Many-Splendoured Thing
4. Two Shall Become One
5. Finding Your Better Half
6. For Girls Only
7. Countdown To The Wedding
8. The Highway of Happiness
*. A Wedding Hymn
CFC, Christian Fellowship Church, Christian Fellowship Center, Christian Fellowship Centre
Although this is a key topic for AS Level Philosophy, it is also crucial and useful for A2 Philosophy too.
If you found this useful, please make sure you give it a like !
Thank you !!!
Karma yoga chapter ii each is great in his own placeRavi Ramakrishnan
Swami #Vivekananda Bengali: , Shāmi Bibekānondo; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born #Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of# Vedanta and #Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising #interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the #Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.
Born into an aristocratic Bengali family of Calcutta, Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality. He was influenced by his Guru, Ramakrishna Deva, from whom he learnt that all living beings were an embodiment of the divine self; therefore, service to God could be rendered by service to mankind. After Ramakrishna's death, Vivekananda toured the Indian subcontinent extensively and acquired first-hand knowledge of the conditions prevailing in British India. He later traveled to the United States, representing India at the 1893 Parliament of the World Religions. Vivekananda conducted hundreds of public and private lectures and classes, disseminating tenets of Hindu philosophy in the United States, England and Europe. In India, Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint and his birthday is celebrated there as National Youth Day.
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This is the second talk on the incarnation in which Tony develops the expansive picture of how the incarnation defines and secures the ultimate destiny of humanity. This expansive vision only makes sense in a big picture of the cosmos so that is where Tony begins. He finishes with a summary of probably the most sophisticated framework of the incarnation that the church has developed - Irenaeus' theory of recapitulation.
Does God Exist?
Why God Does Not Exist
Does God Exist
Does God Exist? Essay
Does God Exist
Does God Exist Essay
Does God Really Exists? Essay
Does God Exist? Essay
Does God Exist? Essay
Does God Exist?
Does God Exist? Essay
The Christian approach to these subjects
-Zac Poonen
INDEX
*. Preface
1. Dynamite - Handle With Care!
2. Opposite Poles Attract
3. Love Is A Many-Splendoured Thing
4. Two Shall Become One
5. Finding Your Better Half
6. For Girls Only
7. Countdown To The Wedding
8. The Highway of Happiness
*. A Wedding Hymn
CFC, Christian Fellowship Church, Christian Fellowship Center, Christian Fellowship Centre
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
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For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
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The State of God -lay theology
1. The State of God
Religious, Scientific, Philosophic, Historic, Politic, Cultural, Psychologic
2. First essential truth I present to you
“God is not a person”
If I say: “God is not a person.”
What is then?
A State
3. A State can be defined in two
different ways: One of the principal conditions in which matter exists. (thus considered as
State of the matter). And more generally from where the state of the
matter is subtracted: A condition or mode of being, as with regard
to circumstances (i.o.w = situation)
State of God
“ ”
4. a sovereign political power or community.
the body politic of a particular sovereign power,
“the same there”
5. Reached this point, the truth I present is:
- God is not a person, but a State. Exactly as define over above. A State of things
and a State of living.
In a brush, I brushed off, the concept of personalization of God, or whatsoever. Defining and stating clearly that
God is a State, right now, as has ever been, and will ever be.
What are the implications of this affirmation?
6. A. Effectively there is a land or place where someone is “godly”.
So same to say. In the State of God, any himself or herself is godly.
B. There´s a polity that conform the Godness. Therefore the polity configure,
ensure and determine the reality of God. Making the reality of God, and God into
reality, its State.
7. Given there is no God, but the
State of God. What ought we to
attain or to search for either to
look forward to?
The Citizenship in the State of God, and
the State of God for ourselves
8. The State of God is eternal, whereas our state of men is not.
It makes it desirable and fitting to human goals if only, taken into account, this single characteristic existed
Are there any predecessors in Earth speaking about the State of God, the belonging to its citizenship,
the existence of this goal…?
Yes, there are: Let us take, the example, ‘par excellence’
Jesus. I Would say his coming was for the calling to its citizenship to
all mankind.
Only if you wish accepting
this fantasy
9. More examples:
Defenders of the virtue until death.
Defenders of truth until death.
Though having nothing more than their human experiences to prove it, that something was
Proving something worth beyond the temporal state of men
10. The list is not short, but continues still nowadays. I would also recognize I don´t know all who
Represent best the citizenship for the State of God, because surely in the smallness and anonymity,
abound more the evidence than the accounts of well known people. But to that matter, the State of
God knows better than I. And I only present culturally, known people, so as to present stories that moved
towards the State of God.
Now,
What, characteristics or attributions and contributions, ought men have, to enter the State of God?
11. According to my own criteria, and not of the State of God
1st_ Recognize the existence of such a State, and its value. Who wouldn´t want to leave the state of men?, and thrive to
A State of God?, if in first hand he/she didn‘t recognized it existed, and allowed him/herself the privilege of being invited.
What would be only left? its limited ‘eternity’ to the matters of solely the state of men.
2nd _ Recognizing the existence of the State, must accompany the recognizing of its Valors. It, as a composite
State, Valors are expressed in favour of their fundaments: The people, the territory, the sovereignity and the
government
Valor toward the people: care, love, support, appreciation
Valor toward the territory: admiration, dedication, respect, binding
Valor toward the sovereignty: acceptation, learning, trust, understanding
Valor toward government: justice, fairness, equality, fundamental valors
3rd_ The State is also one own’s State. Therefore, in the new State, the attention would shift to love, unity, peace,
life, citizens and State.
12.
13. I would say, that the title ‘Christ’ means, in my interpretation: ‘Sent’.
As it tells, the culture and an open story, people had ‚envoyees‘ expected since
early. After receiving a law that would approach them more to the
State of God. They were, with accordance, to big groups , the ultimate
‘Envoyees‘, or sent, to confirm the lasting bound between men and the State of God.
In the observation of this evidence. I would consider them a bridge. That according to their own word, it’s maintained up
to date. Their mission: to expand the knowledge of men about the State of God. To invoke men
to It. And to keep an eternal bond beetwen men and the State of God.
Being so simple the explanation. I might induce some data from this.
That State of God knew the state of men, before men knowing the State of God.
That they organized the plan, before our knowing.
And that it is being undertaken willingly by the State of God, and its members.
Since then is why they keep bringing prophets, Christ, nirvana experiencers, reformators, civil rights...
Christ is a masterpiece in the plan of God´s State. At least, because he talked very clear and open about the State.
But all would proof cornerstones welcoming mankind to the same State.
14. Fight between credes?
How can creed fight , when State of God is one?
I believe they are symbology. And to be an advantage for a culture over the other.
But the State of God has only one Culture. Take this symbol as an example
Father meant to me someone taking care Let it alone be, the State of God.
Son: one being taken care of. In the case the whole humanity.
And the Spirit?: The Plan of the State of God.
Nowadays, symbology is not that needed any much, when one can work the comprehension of their meaning,
15. What does one consider to be godly?
The characteristic is being in the State of God. One God, then godly.
To our state it is not fully unveiled, though I gather some characteristics that are in accordance with:
Eternity: to have been, to be and to forever be.
Love: to feel unsurpassable love and joy of existence, from every ‘thing’ that is.
Unity: boundless unity.
Peace: indestructibility, untouched by anything, because there exists nothing alien to God´s State.
Life: consideration of living without an end, within an endless State, to all possibilities of logic.
Citizens: living in an eternal State with dues to do, and loves to fulfill. Eternity before and after.
Caring for the State. Caring for the eternity, love, unity, peace, life, citizenship of oneself.
with the matter, State of God, there aren't half terms. Once you´re it, you´re the State of God.
And that is: boundless gift. So boundless, that it is hard to explain.
One will know more, and learn more about the matter, by oneself’s experience.
16. On first hand,
to portray to some degree how came men to be. Therefore, when did men came to exist,
where from and how?
For that end, I would enter the bounds of the ‘thesis’ fields. That means, I would express myself on ‘thesis’ of supposition
Rather than on the basis of evidence, data, or proven facts. The situation of things standing so remote, and complex to my
Knowing, that I will only do my best. For the presupposition to make some logic, as to myself.
If it pleases, like the whole presentation, depends on oneself to judge upon it.
17. The State of God is a walled and
defended State as any of the world.
How so? And why, if it‘s the State of
God, where every ‚thing‘ exists?
Suppose, the State had an enemy.
Who didn‘t want to follow its
rules or tend to them
Therefore a protection would protect it
And leave out such decision of creating alternative States
Because it is the State of all good, what would create this ‚functioning‘ barrier?
18. The State of God would create Fear.
As to what Fear is, is only the sensation or feeling of not belonging to the State of God. Being It the best of all possible
existences. The Fear would only apply to those who wanted to
reject it.
For those who rejected the State of God.
they wouldn‘t matter overseeing Fear, and loosing the State of God.
Finally living in loneliness. And creating their own states,
in the nothingness, where nothing good rules.
Fear being a protection, a barrier. And not a condemnation.
And there were, suppose it to be, enemies to the State of god. Which existed out of the barrier. Not being able for
them to enter the state of god. As the fear of reckoning their deeds, in the state of god would be too much for them
to carry. So as to say, incapable of dealing with Fear, the barrier.
19. Hence, citizens of the state of god were visited by those who
Had jumped the fence.
And proposed them into living abroad, the barrer of freedom.
Some, many, citizens, wiser. Opposed it, but others, less wise
And understanding, and younger decided to try.
Within them, men.
As men got ou of the State if God, made its own state.
20. Now, because those who
overcame Fear didn‘t create any
better State
With time came Frustration into
men. And then, men realized,
he/she had deceived
him/herself and he/she had
been deceived by the outer
inhabitants of the State of God.
21. Feeling this Frustration. The State of God send a
beacon and bridge of rescue and help. Totally
granted by the State of God alone.
This was an invisible bridge.
Called Love. So that, the frustrated
men, could, overcome Fear.
Because Fear overcome men.
Love overcome Fear.
22. Fear had shoven away the opposite states to the State of God.
And also was the state of men.
But Love had welcomes men to the State of God. It is wished to
move away from the state of men, because it is moved away by
Fear.
Actually Love confronts Fear. There‘s no more moving away
from Fear. Love confronts Fear for all mankind.
Another is, Love makes it from a men‘s standpoint . Not from
an ideal world, like could be the State of God, but exactly from
men‘s reality. However trapped in Fear it is. However overcome
by Fear a men it is. Love goes all the way through Fear, to
rescue men from ist standpoint. So Love knows, in reality, all
the Fear/s of men.
Men wisehd they acknowledged their Fear/s because Love
does in the first hand. Proactive. And before being asked to do
it. I think Love rescues men from ist Frustration.
Actually is the State of God connecting within us
State of
men
23. That means:
Overcome the matter state of men
Overcome the living state of men
Overcome Fear
Overcome physicallity- be spirit (unrecognizable)
Overcome community – the desire of submitting it to your wishes, or
being submitted to its wishes – be you (unknown) and all (Citizen)
Because fear is not physical, wish es to overcome through unphysical. Pain is an
effect of fear and physical. Wish to remedy pain.
And wish to overcome the unphysical with believe, mind, will, actions,
experience, confidence, courage, inspiration and Wish, to wish Love (all good)
24. You might be the state of men
Or you might be something else, somehow else
somewhere else
25. And when the State of God finally cut the cord
with the state of men
You got your go! with the state of men. Now is
time to see, if there‘s more than the state of men.
Everyone will be shown, what‘s more than the
state of men. And the State of God won‘t hide
Itself
Entering the State of God. Everyone can tell you but no one can express it with words
*take example from NDE
Its Success, beyond the word and the meaning Success
„What was lost, is found. What was dead, is alive again “