sign recently seen: "if you don't sin, Jesus died for nothing"
________________________________ From: Share Long <sharelon...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Theology of Breaking Bad emptybill, some view Jesus and Christianity as a step in the evolution of religion. And a Pisces step at that. Agape. Unconditional love. Can seem sappy when compared to more robust expressions of love. OTOH, with regards to Adam and Eve there is a similar concept of "oh happy fall." Meaning that if they had not fallen, Christ would not have incarnated. Still not as robust as Satan's willingness to be, out of his unconquerable love for God, separate from God FOR ALL ETERNITY. Surely he must know that God's embrace encompasses even that! ________________________________ From: "emptyb...@yahoo.com" <emptyb...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:14 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Theology of Breaking Bad C.S. Lewis' quote - blah, blah, I'm so bad ...This is just an iteration of the old protestant/roman catholictheology of sin, guilt, redemption ... "o god, o god, I know I done wrong but (gulf, gulp, sweat, sweat) now I wanna change."Such b.s. This distorted view of human nature/god's nature goes back to the sniveling confessions of Augustine of Hippo.However the "pride of the evil one" was much more colorfully described by Milton in "Paradise Lost". However, "Paradise Lost" is just another iteration of the old theology.More interesting is the Sufi revelation ... that Lucifer fell from his exalted angelic station because he so ecstatically loved God that he refused God's command to bow down to God's own vicar ... the earthy Adam. The reason? He could worship no one other than his chosen deity, his Ishta Devatah ... yhvh. The consequence? Out of unconquerable love, he subsistsupon the last command of this true love .... "be gone!"The Sufi's insist this is a much closer to the truth of gnosis than the pathetic ... "Won't you come to the weeping Jesusin your wickedly defiled heart? ... You stinking pile of filth!" --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: "In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis calls pride “The Great Sin” for it “has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began… it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice.” We see in Walter’s case that it is his pride—an unwillingness to accept normal treatment, a refusal to be a charity case even when faced with his own impending death—that starts him on the path toward manufacturing meth. Pride is the catalyst that leads to all of Walter’s other sins." Read more: 'The Theology of Breaking Bad' http://www.fare-forward.com/the-theology-of-breaking-bad/
