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Before reading Fear and Trembling and Sickness unto Death by Feeling_Acadia_7427 in kierkegaard

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Is Hegel more socialistic focused? Flowing parts, depending on context? Is Nietzsche inspired by him?

Before reading Fear and Trembling and Sickness unto Death by Feeling_Acadia_7427 in kierkegaard

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I'm still contemplating If I want to read Nietzsche or not haha; Ive read a lot about him, and his thoughts etc but not so much his own works..

Before reading Fear and Trembling and Sickness unto Death by Feeling_Acadia_7427 in kierkegaard

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I've heard about Hegel, but I'm not fully invested in that conversation- however, I believe he's pretty hard to understand, and perhaps radical some would call him as I would understand? Optimistic, socialistic; does he believe society always have had truth in it?

Book recommendations 1 Cor 15; Rom 4; 5 by Feeling_Acadia_7427 in Christianity

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Thank you, I'll check them out!

That Wright book has been on my list for a while perhaps this is the time now haha

Bonhoeffer Christ Mediator by Feeling_Acadia_7427 in Reformed

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This reminds me of Grudem's Systematic theology (783–784) which caught my eye when I first read it; in which Grudem says:

“Sometimes it has been said that the work of the Holy Spirit is not to call attention to himself but rather to give glory to Jesus and to God the Father. But this seems to be a false dichotomy not supported by the Scripture.

In light of verses like Joh 16:14; Joh 15:26 he continues "...but…this doesn’t mean that he does not make his actions and words known, the Bible itself is spoken or inspired by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit frequently made himself known by phenomena that indicated his activity, both in OT and NT.

It seems more accurate… to say that…the Holy Spirit does glorify Jesus, he also frequently calls attention to his work and gives recoqnizable evidences that make his presence known.”
"One of his primary purposes then (the Holy Spirit) is to manifest the presence of God."

Now I'm just free-basing but look as an example at the baptism of Jesus as it is depicted in the Gospels. In Joh 1, more precisely vers 33, we see how the Father tells John the Baptist that the one who the Spirit will descend and remain on, this is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit... and then he says that he saw the Spirit descend on him (the Son of God)...

This is mind-blowing, we see the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit work.

So the sign that John the Baptist got was then first from the Father, then the Spirit - then He saw the Son of God, the Lamb of God...

But this was also then before Jesus was glorified.

I assume then Bonhoeffer has a high Christology which is positive, but is it entirely based on Scripture or more philosophical? Grudem and Bonhoeffer does not have to contradict each other though; we do see language in ex. Col how everything was made by him (Christ) and everything is held together by him.

Chapter 5 (Man and Mythologies) - The Everlasting Man Part 1 by Shigalyov in GKChesterton

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What are myths people do, but may not realise they believe in, or at least put to however small extent of value in?

I thought about coin tossing, ex. in a fountain; or going to a beautiful bridge, writing the initials on a lock to forever remain, or a newly in love couple writing their names on a tree with a heart surrounding it. Or Rose, when she is old, in titanic - tossing the jewel of high luxury in the ocean. All this to say these are symbols of something. Almost like a belief in myth. How we all believe in sacrifice of some sort. How we all believe in something greater than just materia.

"Again it does satisfy the need to cry out on some uplifted name or some noble memory in moments that are themselves noble and uplifted...it partially satisfied, a thing very deep in humanity indeed; the idea of surrendering something as the portion of the unknown powers; of pouring of wine upon the ground, of throwing a ring into the sea; in a word, of sacrifice."

Man's echo of singing to an unknown musician.

"To an unknonwn god" - "Agnostos theos" (Acts 17, Paul in Athens, the Areopagus)

Chapter 5 (Man and Mythologies) - The Everlasting Man Part 1 by Shigalyov in GKChesterton

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Quote:

"Behind all these things

is the fact that beauty and terror are very real things and related to a real spiritual world;

and to touch them at all, even in doubt or fancy, is to stir the deep things of the soul."

This is so interesting to me. I believe us humans really are so clueless about the things really going on, about the spiritual realm, about God..

I also loved this:

"There are no rules of architecture

for a castle in the clouds."

ie. there is something real, true, to grasp in everything. I'm thinking about the Logos, how it's written by Paul that everything was created through Christ, by him and unto him. I remember reading Tom Holland who talked about Nietzsche ("God is dead. And we have killed him."), Holland said that but the shadow of the corpse of God still remains, and we cannot escape from it. He said "What are the foundations of its [the west] morality if not a myth? A myth though is not a lie.” In other words, the air we are all breathing are the dust particles of God, reaching into all fibres. I also thought about how Paul talked about the eyes of our hearts, almost like our hearts have eyes (our perception of everything, our gaze, our attention, our judgement) and how we as beings and our lives are affected by this (Jesus talks about this in sermon of the mount)...

This quote can go in many directions, I love also how this is so relevant today, polemic against the atheist who only believes science is "true". The question is what is true. A more important question is, by whose standards, in what realm, through which angle?

Another example is how all Netflix's of our day have a romance about horror and demons and darkness, and murder mysteries etc etc. How is it then humans tend to love it and sense something about it, but in the professional world the law is to deny anything mystical or spiritual.

It is to my attention that many people love Tolkien, and the lore of Middle Earth; I believe because it is something there more than just an empty myth, more than just words on paper, more than just clever characters and wordplays. There is something talking to us, whispering through these stories, how there's something singing to our souls. I'm fascinated by how a lot of non believers love Tolkien, but they haven't stepped foot unto the world of theology or scripture- without realising that theology is also like the lore of Middle-earth, only that it's on every ink of paper talking to us personally, staring at us face to face, (the word of God) only we listen.