RE: Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought
July 29, 2018 at 10:10 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2018 at 10:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
So much for the dignity, decency, and value of man, lol. As a semi aside...I've always wondered about the specifics of how so many moderns interpret the transactionary value of obediance in christian theology as being, in some way, a comment on the inherent value or rights of man (as it's so often claimed that both of these things derive from the other)? A disobediant man has no such value, and where..after the transaction is made, does the value reside? In the one case we have a man lacking that value, in the other it appears as a token to be paid before you get on the merry-go-round.
Whatever value is placed in or upon us by this ideology...it isn;t essential to us, a characteristic attribute, or permanent. The christian thesis on the value and nature of man is that were are fallen, in a word. There is no such thing. Lowly degenerates..all of us. Deserving of nothing but death, not party to any rights whatsoever. We exist at and for the pleasure of the king. The token he desires has all the value that matters....not us.
Whatever value is placed in or upon us by this ideology...it isn;t essential to us, a characteristic attribute, or permanent. The christian thesis on the value and nature of man is that were are fallen, in a word. There is no such thing. Lowly degenerates..all of us. Deserving of nothing but death, not party to any rights whatsoever. We exist at and for the pleasure of the king. The token he desires has all the value that matters....not us.
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