Primitive Christianity Revived, Again
At the time of the early debates regarding the Eucharist, the all-too-commercial desire for a win-win arrangement was harnessed by having/controlling the Real Presence of Christ. The Catholic Church claimed an ordained mandate to "Transubstantiation". In particular, a "win" for priests having the ability to change bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, as well as a "win" for communicants receiving/possessing Christ - by hand rather than by heart.
Wrongly interpreting Luke…
ContinueAdded by Clem Gerdelmann on 8th mo. 25, 2014 at 7:00am — 14 Comments
Con: "With" the Court of Quaker Opinion, we hold to the innate capacity for human perfection.
In: You mean the human complexity for God-given perfection.
Con: Not if you have a Testimony of Simplicity.
In: You mean Plain-ness, which reflects the Original Poverty, as need rather than capacity, of humanity.
Con: It is Simplicity when you have moved from poverty.
In: You mean a move next to or across from it - like the flight to the ever-expanding…
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Hearth and home have been replaced by microwave and house; "help me, please" and "that hurts" replaced by drama and endurance training.
Result: Heads in the sand, hearts on the sleeve, hands on the wheel AND phone, and health on drugs.
The very first volume of American poetry(published in England), like the youth programs sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, hit upon the formula for complementarity: Four Elements, Seasons, Ages of Man and Freedoms(illustrated by Norman…
ContinueAdded by Clem Gerdelmann on 8th mo. 11, 2014 at 6:30am — 1 Comment
O.R.: Not to subject the Court of Quaker Opinion to a long song and dance, we strive for rhythm and rhyme in the individual experience of the sacred.
O.B.: Deaf, however, to the eruption and thunderclap of the sacred - that you are too busy justifying your experience of.
O.R.: God is heard in the soft breeze and in the silence.
O.B.: Yet, God is reverenced, OR not, in the cross-purposes of the individual life.
O.R.: Obviously, we are not playing with the same…
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