(July 13, 2013 at 2:43 am)genkaus Wrote:(July 13, 2013 at 2:32 am)Dionysius Wrote: Yes. You wrote,
And I addressed.
And I fail to see the relevance.
It addressed the Christian exegetical concept, God is Love, which you said was an irrational attribute. The Love of God is a psychological disposition which is experienced by the believer when they are freed (free themselves) from the structural (socio/environmental) limitations of conditioned thinking. The idea is encapsulated in the statement "Perfect love casts out fear." That is to say when a person is freed from the illusory constraints attendent to personality (values; social etiquettes) which are maintained by fear of one sort or another then the resulting consciousness is similar to that described by Buddhism as Samādhi. A compassionate, yet detached feeling of bliss or serenity.
I suggested that a great deal of confusion arises from extracting this meaning in the text because a mystical or suprarational dimension is not figured into contemporary Christian or secular exegesis. Rabbinical Judaism, however, acknowledges this latent potential in Pardes
"This time the bullet cold rocked ya a yellow ribbon instead of a swastika?" -RATM
