C. S. Lewis and Evolution

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“C.S. Lewis and Evolution” is the second of three short documentaries inspired by the book The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society. It examines the evolution of Lewis’s views on orthodox Darwinian theory from his time as a college undergraduate to his death in 1963.

Lewis’s first exception to human evolution was his insistence on an actual Fall of Man from an original state of innocence. The creation story (or cosmogonical myths) is similar in ancient cultures. In these, it is suggested that there was a finished creation from which we were fallen into sin, and therefore, we needed a divine presence to restore us to what God had originally created us to be. Lewis emphasized that man prior to the Fall had unimpeded fellowship with God. 

At his time, archaeological discoveries could not tell us whether prehistoric peoples were kind, or courageous, or noble, or just. Nor do they tell us about their capacity for poetry or song. We know today that there was a great deal of evidence of advances that are impossible to explain if evolution of mankind were to have originated from lower animals. I may delve more into the ancient evidence; probably not though since it is a huge mystery.

Lewis foresaw that science could be twisted by greed and self-aggrandizement in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. The description of Transhumanism (the human enhancement movement) is written in Lewis’s predictions in The Abolition of Man and is seemingly frighteningly accurate as today, technology advances rapidly while moral knowledge declines.

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C.S. Lewis and Evolution examines Lewis’s growing doubts about parts of Darwinian evolution, beginning with his views while still an atheist. NOTE: Lewis believed in the common descent of all human beings from one non-human ancestor, although he was skeptical of unguided natural selection.

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More than a half century ago, famed writer C.S. Lewis warned about how science (a good thing) could be twisted in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. Throughout his life, C.S. Lewis struggled with what he called the “argument from undesign,” the reality that nature exhibits cruelty and imperfection as well as purpose and beauty. In this documentary “The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism,” leading scholars explore Lewis’s prophetic warnings about the abuse of science and how Lewis’s concerns are increasingly relevant for us today.

The Discovery Institute released the book The Magician’s Twin, edited by John G. West in 2012. West was a senior Fellow of the Institute and one of the editors of the highly C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia. The Magician’s Twin is actually a collection of essays written by contemporary writers about Lewis’s warnings of how dehumanizing scientism would take us in ethics, politics, education, faith, reason, and even in science itself.

The book explores Lewis’s views on bioethics, eugenics, evolution, intelligent design, and what he called “scientocracy.” The book is divided into four sections: Science and Scientism, Origins, Reason, and Society. I previously posted about the first section here.

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C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design explores Lewis’s personal struggle to find evidence of intelligent design in a world filled with cruelty, imperfection, and injustice.

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In That Hideous Strength, Lewis observes, “The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already… begun to be warped, had been subtly maneuvered in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the result… The very experiences of the dissecting room and the pathological laboratory were breeding a conviction that the stifling of all deep-set repugnances was the first essential for progress.”

 

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For more information visit http://www.cslewisweb.com. 
There is a main page for “The Magician’s Twin” video series.

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I hope you’ll come back often — there is more to be discovered.

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Need help or want to collaborate with me?
Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric

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poetry – Aligning Dove Divines

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Aligning Dove Divines

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Observed perceptions refine;
receive aligning pliancies,
Holy Spirit doth divine,
etiolates errant audacities.

Truth doth Holiness ignite
communion knowing love;
fruits of spirit recite,
His ascendance above.

Expansive flows His reign;
consuming compassion;
elucidating hearts sane
His mercy seat fashion.

Hath thine heart love
of His Holy Grace forms;
Spirit, soars His Dove
dost illumine beasts lorn.  

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I wanted to capture in my poem tenacity for seeking holy wisdom and also how I view the Spirit fading from our hearts all negativity to align finally our accepting of divinity in loving luminosity of His light. For some, especially non-religious, the coming of God’s grace may seem harsh. This is not at all how His coming seems to me. However, my poem reflects the very human healing of this with the struggle intact until that final moment.

The image came from a google search gallery. I hope that my poem is a fitting entry for my acceptance of the Liebster 2014 Blogger Award that I received from Barbara. 

Thankfully, I display these awards.
It is my great pleasure to share them.
I am working on a nomination for the
2014 Liebster Blogger Award of April 14.
My awards page is here.

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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Actualizing Spiritual Potentials

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This is an interesting view that Walter has on spiritual potential. When I was a boy, the teacher always was reporting that I wasn’t performing any where near my potential… LOL … they all agreed; grade to next grade, year after year. I guess they were right. I just wanted to be playing… anyway have a look at the article:

She’s back: Kim Walker (Smith) has 10,000 Reasons

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Stay with me here…
I’ve got a point today along with the inspiring Sunday music.

I read (March 29 actually):

“Researchers used brain scans to analyze the thought process of people with ‘high justice sensitivity’. By using a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) brain scanning device, they studied the brain activity as the subjects watched videos showing behavior that was morally good or bad like seeing a person put money in the beggar’s cup or kick the beggar’s cup away. They were asked how much they would blame or praise the person in the video and to complete  questionnaires that assessed cognitive and emotional empathy and their justice sensitivity.

Those who scored high on the justice sensitivity assigned significantly more blame when asked to evaluate scenes of harm and also praised more the act of an helping person. But it was the brain scans that surprised the scientists.

During the behavior-evaluation exercise, people with high justice sensitivity showed more activity in the parts of brain associated with higher order cognition as compared to an average subject whereas the areas of brain concerned with emotional processing were not affected at all. Thus proving that individuals sensitive to justice are cognitively driven, not emotionally as everyone thinks.

So the search of justice does not primarily come from the sentimental motivations like portrayed rather it comes from reason and mental sophisticated analysis.

When evaluating good actions, a high  activity in the regions of brain involved on decision making, motivation and reward was shown, answering why some people react more strongly to justice related situations and why they value justice more than others. The findings also suggest that individuals make judgement about behavior based on how they process the reward value of good actions as compared to bad actions.”

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How do you suppose people are coming to higher-consciousness about social justice?

If you have been following my blog, you may guess that I believe it isn’t by accident — I’m pretty darn sure its because this is what we are doing while we are getting more spiritually fit and mindfully attuned and prayerfully loving. We are changing our brains and our genetics. We are evolving. We are learning and teaching that it is good to love being loving and compassionate. We are learning that we may even have compassion for people that are awful (and of course still have legal justice)… its work; yes it is… its God’s work.

My mission is to promote loving; not religion. You may also though enjoy the remainder of my post today. I hope so.

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Wikipedia short biography

Kim Walker-Smith is an American singer, songwriter, worship leader, and recording artist. She produced her first solo album, titled ‘Here Is My Song‘, which was released in February 2008 through the Jesus Culture record label.

 

Kim Walker-Smith
Sermon: Impatience and fear 

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Program Description
Women’s Conference – Session 2 – August 18, 2011 – Under the theme “What If…”

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 “My hunger for God
far outweighs the hunger
to understand or to have all the answers.”

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Bless Your Holy Name; Jesus!

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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As I face myself in the mirror…
I’m looking for holiness within my human face… 
that will come along.

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Only one Word was on my mind

My soul longs for You

2 Timothy

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flow – let reality be reality

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I love to contemplate. I was looking at some TAO teachings and I began recalling about the baptism of Jesus. The baptism event was a profound day. The Heavens spoke that day to the many witnesses there at the riverside. I thought about this in reflection upon the following quotation.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

– Lao Tzu

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I must continue to get out of God’s way and
allow myself to go with the flow of His will.

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The Baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3:13-17) NIV

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”

15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.

16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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C. S. Lewis: The Magician’s Twin

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recall: I love science!
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The Magician’s Twin:
C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society

The Discovery Institute released the book The Magician’s Twin, edited by John G. West in 2012. West was a senior Fellow of the Institute and one of the editors of the highly C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia. The Magician’s Twin is actually a collection of essays written by contemporary writers about Lewis’s warnings of how dehumanizing scientism would take us in ethics, politics, education, faith, reason, and even in science itself.

The book explores Lewis’s views on bioethics, eugenics, evolution, intelligent design, and what he called “scientocracy.” The book is divided into four sections: Science & Scientism, Origins, Reason, and Society.

The Magician’s Twin addresses and challenges the claim that the works of C. S. Lewis are a friend to Darwinian evolution. The book does not address the question of the age of the earth. It’s chapters profess dangerous implications of the Darwinian theories of evolution. Three chapters by John West address how ‘neo-Darwinism’ and ‘scientific materialism’ shape American public policy and culture since the nineteenth century to the present. Writes West, Lewis was “appalled by the growing dogmatism and intolerance he saw among evolutionists.”

C.S. Lewis foresaw that science could be twisted by greed and self-aggrandizement in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. The description of Transhumanism (the human enhancement movement) is written in Lewis’s predictions in “The Abolition of Man” and is seemingly frighteningly accurate as today, technology advances rapidly while moral knowledge declines.

In the video documentary “The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism,” leading scholars explore Lewis’s prophetic warnings about the abuse of science and how Lewis’s concerns are increasingly relevant for us today.

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.NOTE: Lewis believed in the common descent of all human beings from one non-human ancestor, although he was skeptical of unguided natural selection.

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Click the Universe Expansion Cosmic Distance Ladder to explore black holes at the Hubblesite Special Feature pages.

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I love the show and C. S. Lewis. I don’t care about evolution. Some of it occurs — so what. I have a simple approach:

• The complexity of our universe is a created universe sustained by a protection of energy that supports and sustains life.
• Every cell of our bodies is new in a year and each new cell is a product of thoughts that we think.
• The universe came about from cause. It plays like a fine instrument. The universe operates by perfect uniform laws of nature.
• God constantly reveals more simply the complexities of His universe.
• DNA assures that we will act just as God’s plan calls for from each of us at just the right moments doing in those moments just the exact thing that we as unique aspects of an entire community of humanity must do at an exact time so that we will keep our subconscious agreements with each other. Those moments are unavoidable. Our circumstances will compel us to be exactly in the right place at the right time and we will do and or say exactly the right thing then; no matter what we may mess up most of the rest of our days. We are usually unconscious about it or chalk it off to coincidence. There are no coincidences.
• Most of us are unconscious about our individual purpose until the time is exactly right and even then it rarely dawns upon most any of us that we have a purpose.
• We are eternal spiritual beings. Most of us are fearful much of the time and thus we are separated from knowing fully God’s loving presence. Some of us are even oblivious about God.
• We all need to be aware that our upsets belong to we as individuals and take responsibility for these without finding fault with anyone else.
• We must be loving and compassionate, empathetic and we must find our self-actualized purpose before looking to outside for satisfying relationships.
• The Holy Spirit is the protecting and sustaining energy of this universe. We ought look inward and be still to allow the Spirit to fill our bodies and fully enliven our hearts and then the Spirit will direct us as we’d never known possible.

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More C. S. Lewis

• C. S. Lewis – why he still matters so much today
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Youtube read aloud by Jeffrey Howard)
• Mere Christianity (MP3 read aloud by Jeffrey Howard)
• Mere Christianity Text and PDF (online – download)

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I hope you’ll come back often — there is more to be discovered.

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Need help or want to collaborate with me?
Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric

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See also:

• Sacred Technology?
• Scientist debunks Hawking’s ‘no God needed’ theory
  How the Universe Works (in 25 minutes)
  Hawking: ‘Heaven is a place for people afraid to die’
• Is the brain spirituality wired?

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C. S. Lewis – why he still matters so much today

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apologist, C. S. Lewis, Christian, Christian apologetics, Christianity, Clive Staples Lewis, CS Lewis, Eric Metaxas, G. K. Chesterton, God, Holy Spirit, immortal, James Como, Lewis, Mere Christianity, Theism to Christianity

1898 – 1963

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I am posting this today because I believe that God made us to be immortal. Further, I believe that anyone that decides to seek God is blessed in such a manner as that they will know this. I am Christian, however, I personally believe that God’s Holy Spirit embraces every soul, plant, animal and even inorganic matter. Science can “see” this as quantum energy. Science cannot explain this. It requires faith to understand the mysteries of God’s Divine Love.

Aside from a handful of apostles and saints that I cannot locate on YouTube, there is in my experience, no greater explainer for Christianity that was C. S. Lewis.

Our hearts must be on fire for the things of God; and so must our reason.

 ~ C. S. Lewis

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Lewis was not always devoutly Christian. In fact, as a young man, Lewis was deeply bothered by evil and suffering in the world that didn’t fit with whom he imagined God to be. In his early adult years he was actually an outspoken atheist.

In his words: “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. Just how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? … Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless—I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality—namely my idea of justice—was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple.  If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.”
(Mere Christianity, 45-46)

Being disciplined and diligent about the truth of his beliefs, Lewis came in some time to dramatically reverse his decision.

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A former atheist he once exclaimed “Had God designed the world, it would not be A world so frail and faulty as we see.”

There is an old saying, “When the pupil is ready, the master will appear.”

C. S. Lewis has been a teacher and a mentor whose books and writings appeared at just the right time in countless lives.

The documentary seeks to answer the question of why C. S. Lewis — an Oxford scholar who specialized in Renaissance literature — still matters today. Lewis’s importance is heard through a renowned group of Christian pastors, artists, producers, writers and scholars.

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Who was this man, C. S. Lewis?

Clive Staples Lewis, commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as “Jack”, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist.

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C. S. Lewis from Theism to Christianity:

C. S. Lewis 1:25: [Reading from G. K. Chesterton]
“A great man knows he is not God and the greater he is, the better he knows it. The gospels declare that this mysterious maker of the world has visited his world in person. The most that any religious prophet has said was that he was the true servant of such a being. But if the creator was present in the daily life of the Roman empire, that is something unlike anything else in nature. It is the one great startling statement that man has made since he spoke his first articulate word. It makes dust and nonsense of comparative religion.”

James Como 6:16:
I think it would be a mistake to think that argument converted C.S. Lewis. Because he thinks that we have to be oblique. We can’t look at things directly. They escape us. This is what his attempt at introspection taught him. When you’re thinking and now you start to think about your thinking — you’re not thinking about the original object anymore, you know. I’m thinking about baseball, now I’m thinking about how I’m thinking about baseball, so now I’m not thinking about baseball, you see. Very elusive. So Lewis understood that we had to have an oblique approach, as he put it, you have to sneak past the watchful dragons of self-consciousness.

C. S. Lewis 6:52:
I know very well when but hardly how the final step was taken. I went with my brother to have a picnic at Whipsnade Zoo. We started in fog, but by the end of our journey the sun was shining. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and when we reached the zoo I did. I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, becomes aware that he is now awake.

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More C. S. Lewis

• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Youtube read aloud by Jeffrey Howard)
• Mere Christianity (MP3 read aloud by Jeffrey Howard)
• Text and PDF (online – download)
• C. S. Lewis: The Magician’s Twin

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I hope you’ll come back often — there is more to be discovered.

Need help or want to collaborate with me? Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com

Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric

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Related articles (hunt4truth.wordpress.com)

• Scientist debunks Hawking’s ‘no God needed’ theory
  Hawking: ‘Heaven is a place for people afraid to die’
  How the Universe Works (in 25 minutes)
• Looking at yourself honestly – Respect
  Looking at yourself honestly – Gratitude
• mindfulness and prayerful healing
• is the brain spirituality wired?
  change from within
• stillness – your essential nature
  Rippling
• Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
  Only one Word was on my mind

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May Our Lord Bless You and Keep You

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God, happiness, Health, Holy Spirit, meditation, Religion and Spirituality

BYE 2013 – Happy New Year To Us All

One of the best prayers is for God’s blessings and peace to be upon those whom we love and care for. I think it wise even to pray for enemies. God’s blessings come upon us in one way or another. For me, I just think it best to pray for His will and get out of the way if necessary.

Taking action to be a blessing for others in need is a loving act.

How can your talents and gifts bless others?

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I worked during December 2013 to post content for self-improvement. In January 2014, I’ll be posting topics related to how we can improve the world. I hope you’ll come back often — there is more to be discovered.

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What is your heartfelt belief?

Thanks for learning with me.

 Eric

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Related articles (hunt4truth.wordpress.com)

• stillness – your essential nature
• How should I live?
• experiment in Empathy
• ripple – ing
• listen with compassion
• Spiritual Laws of Success
• Looking at yourself honestly – Respect
• Looking at yourself honestly – Gratitude
• morning Meditation
• meditation changes brains
• mindfulness and prayerful healing
• strength through peace — or else
• heart coherence?
• your eMotion matters
• what is quantum touch?
• change from within
• is the brain spirituality wired?
• awake my soul
• Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
• Only one Word was on my mind
• I am the tree… today
• I just looked around

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A Gentle Reminder: the Low Points are Teachers, too

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Christianity, God, Holy Spirit, Religion and Spirituality, Spiritualism, Yoga

“Feel Better in Yourself” is good thinking. If we are to be directed by Spirit, we must learn to do what will quiet the ego. Its necessary to be free of the day to be with Spirit. This is time spent wisely. ~ Eric

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commandments

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God, Gospel of Matthew, Great Commandment, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Prophets, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality

I started the day thinking about:

Matthew 22
The Greatest Commandment

³⁴ Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. ³⁵ One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

The first speaks for itself… the greatest and most important thing we can do is love God — love GOD — with all your soul and with all your mind. Of the second, there is much in daily living that tends to steer us of course. However, reviewing of some additional verses is usually helpful.

Jesus is quoted also in John 13:34-35 saying “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

In Matthew 5:14-16, we are told (by Jesus): “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Careful reading of Chapter 5 of Matthew brings clearly an awareness that how I live among my neighbors is something that is of great importance.

Other verse give specific reference to this way of life that Jesus commanded.

Romans 13:8–10
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Clearly we are to move away from our selfishness and worldliness. This loving a neighbor as we love ourselves is not something I can do entirely on my own. I find that I need a spirit of peace and serenity and that this awakening requires daily renewal. I must do a bit of reading and reflecting — I am to keep my person in order for doing what is good. I am to love others impartially.

Holy Spirit
I look to Jesus — my strength is nothing without God’s Will and Holy Spirit.

I find that I am best able to act by love and impartiality as I am directed by the Holy Spirit.

I pray you to enjoy Sunday!

Thanks for visiting,

 Eric

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• In Everything… with prayer (poetrybydeborahann.wordpress.com)
• Impartiality (philosophical) (plato.stanford.edu)
• Liebniz’s Ethics (virtuous) (plato.stanford.edu)
• Divine Freedom (plato.stanford.edu)

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Only one Word was on my mind

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Almighty, Christian, Christianity, God, Holy, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus Culture, Kim Walker, Kim Walker-Smith, praise, Religion and Spirituality, song, worship

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As I face myself in the mirror…
I’m looking for holiness within my human face… 
that will come along…

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I was looking deeper than at my face. I was facing myself just as I’d been doing many dozens of times before, but this is what I need to share  — it was different this time. I was looking through myself and beyond the past of myself, even faster than the speed of light it was. I was really this time in acceptance that I’ve been doing the best that I can do. I know darn well that nothing that I can or did do or even will do makes me worthy of God’s Grace; no matter if I even by some chance may do one thing even perfectly. In fact, I wouldn’t have to work at it to tear up my mental image of myself doing the best that I can — recalling times that I was mean or worse even.

I’ve been so wondering and cherishing and thinking about positive qualities and training myself in the moment to hold His Love in my heart.

Tearing myself up didn’t work. I’ve done that. These recent years, I’m praying and cherishing God’s Holy Love.

Seeing past my shortcomings — its time to give this a try  — focus on His Love and happiness and that living in the now awareness that compels strong connection to Holy Jesus — is what is best for me and anyone.

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I want to see only His Love in my face.

God is maker of all of heaven and earth;
Of ALL that is, seen and unseen,
And if we are without Him,
We do not exist.

Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

About Jesus Culture

[ sing along – I do! ]

HOLY

Just one look on your face.
Just one glance of your eyes.
My whole world has changed.
My whole world has changed.
Oh I see – only to see your face.
I don’t want to go anywhere without you God
… without your Presence.
Oh let me see your face.
The beauty of your holiness God.
Take me into the Holy Place.
And only one word comes to mind.
There’s only one word to describe.
Only one word comes to mind.
There’s only one word to describe.
Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty.

God’s Love travels faster than the speed of light.

In a moment all is one and one is all.

In a moment the universe is, I Am That, I Am.

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• morning Meditation
• Looking at yourself honestly – Respect
• Stillness – your essential nature
• mindfulness and prayerful healing
• our Father
• 1 John (NIV)
• MercyMe, I can only imagine

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