The problem is the misrepresentation of the “good news of Jesus” as the news that a universal sentence to pay for sin has been carried out. The “justice” model of religious faith. Rather, the good news is the message of Jesus, that God is Love. If you abide in Love, God is alive in you.
The Hebrew (Aramaic?) word for sin is best translated as “missing the mark (target)”. Examination of conscience is asking “how did I miss the chance to love.?
Before concluding on meaning in the Sermon on the Mount, it would be valuable to have access to translation from the language Jesus spoke, I.e., Aramaic.
Consciousness of our human self derives from the experience of divine attention to that self. Humans and all creatures complete their creation by returning attention to divinity.
“Exfoliation” brilliant. This is prayer of a special community. Thank you.
The problem is the misrepresentation of the “good news of Jesus” as the news that a universal sentence to pay for sin has been carried out. The “justice” model of religious faith. Rather, the good news is the message of Jesus, that God is Love. If you abide in Love, God is alive in you.
Thank you both.
An angry atheist is one who fears belief in a god who should be feared, a god experience deprived of grace.
The Hebrew (Aramaic?) word for sin is best translated as “missing the mark (target)”. Examination of conscience is asking “how did I miss the chance to love.?
The “religious impetus” is a function of the heart, not the mind. Nevertheless religious conversation can provoke consciousness bypassing the mind.
Not until I recognized that I was a narcissist all the way down did I finally experience freedom. It took decades.
Mutual embarrassment strengths community.
Conversation like this perhaps merits a separate substack…
Instead of “giving back” how about “giving out”?
Do we know anyone who takes pleasure in the suffering of others.
Before concluding on meaning in the Sermon on the Mount, it would be valuable to have access to translation from the language Jesus spoke, I.e., Aramaic.
The realization of values of the vow of poverty has outlasted by 40+ years my departure from religious life. The experience can still be shared.
Can a functioning LLM experience individuation if it can run on any capable hardware?
Consciousness of our human self derives from the experience of divine attention to that self. Humans and all creatures complete their creation by returning attention to divinity.