Of course men can benefit from assertion training too, particularly in
relation to other men and to their jobs.
There is much that is of permanent validity, not only in the words of Jesus but in the rest of the New Testament, as to how a Christian should act in
relation to other men.
However, the philosophy of dialogue limits their competence to judge the essence of man as a whole in
relation to other men.
Not exact matches
The
other need for further development concerns the
relation of second - person praise spoken
to God and third - person philosophical reflection about God and
man.
The wisdom the
man needs now involves his
relation to this powerful
other.
For some it may mean that «there is an orphaned state required for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, in which a
man who like all
others is the child of his parents must symbolize with his being and action the present but hidden creation which is not a mere prolongation of the old, but the new creation in
relation to which the old has already passed away...» This is, therefore, the first word that must be spoken: of discontinuity between the kingdom of God and any earthly order, even one as significant as the family.
In
other words, the only adequate basis for right
relations of
men with God is an inward and personal understanding of His demands, an inward and personal response
to them.
They have simply lost interest in metaphysical claims about Jesus, viewing him as a «
man for
others» or a «free
man» in
relation to whom we can become free.
Another attempts
to assimilate the Christian with the revolutionary vocabulary: «Revolution restores the
relation of
man to man; it is a transformation of life, a renewal, a regeneration, a new life» — in
other words, the equivalent of conversion.
Nor need we dismiss as empty illusion the hopes of
men of
other religions who have trusted in God, or the gods,
to renew, after death, a
relation of grace and communion with their servants.
The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown
to twice its size if
other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked
to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the
relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book,
Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented
to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.
The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper
relations between
man and God, such as saying prayers, fasting, and
other religious duties; they guide
man in his
relations with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead
man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research into the nature of
man and animals and guiding
man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.
The classic anthropological picture, largely drawn from the study of primitive societies, of tightly - woven patterns of culture, each element of which has
to be understood in
relation to all the
other interconnected elements, is decreasingly relevant
to the understanding of
man - in -
relation.
Be that about
men - women
relations,
relations to other religions and those who are religion - free or any number of
other subjects.
But violence always breaks and corrupts the
relation of
men to each
other.
Man is not
to be «seen through» but «
to be perceived ever more completely in his openness and his hiddenness and in the
relation of the two
to each
other.»
These last two terms mean basically the same thing: that
to marry creates a real legal relationship, with specific rights and obligations between a woman and a
man: in
relation to each
other,
to society, and
to God.
Too often those most interested in the nature of the Christian faith have been those least interested in its
relation to men [sic] of
other faiths.»
This upheaval can at first find no
other expression than the religious, for before
man creates new life forms, he creates a new
relation to life itself, a new meaning of life.
To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.&raqu
To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between
man and
man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them
to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.&raqu
to feel for each
other except as they have
relation to Him.&raqu
to Him.»
It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued
to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of
man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry
to another tribe or nation as every
man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one
man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula
to work the human genome had
to stay the same no
other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior
to the flood and after the flood tried
to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual
relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able
to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted
to destroy them as they had the potential
to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?
; and (4) pastoral nurture of
men and women
to fulfill their God - given vocations in
relation to each
other.
The assumption that women are not really related
to other women, the absence of understanding
men in relationship
to women, the refusal
to acknowledge the homo - relational basis of heteroreality, the ignorance of connectedness with nature all attest
to the relational naivete of hetero - reality in comparison with a worldview based upon internal
relations.
Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the
relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in
other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is
to say, a
man charged with the responsibility and given the authority
to hold in balance,
to invigorate and
to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.
In
other words, the existentialist interpretation of myth provides the clue
to only one aspect of the
relation and the gulf between God and
man, but it can not do justice
to the wonder of its full range and depth.
The dynamic glory of the being of
man is first bodily present in the
relation between two
men each of whom in meaning the
other also means the highest
to which this person is called and serves the fulfillment of this created destiny without wishing
to impose anything of his own realization on the
other.
Modern
man is sick in his very soul, and this sickness springs, in its turn, from his sickness in his
relations to others.
This distance given,
man is able
to enter into
relation with
other beings or, as we have seen, he is able
to enlarge, develop, accentuate, and shape the distance itself.
For the subject - object
relation is an assertion of ego, one's ordering the world about his subjective, personal consciousness, and as such it offers a handhold
to all of the invidious evaluations that separate
men from things, from each
other, and from their own deepest life itself.
«For the inmost growth of the self is not accomplished, as people like
to suppose today, in
man's
relation to himself, but... in the making present of another self and in the knowledge that one is made present in his own self by the
other.»
He relates
to men not as independently
other beings but as
to things, things moreover with which he will never enter into
relation and which he is eager
to rob of their distance.
But as long as the basic self - centeredness of feeling was taken for granted,
man's primary attention could be directed away from himself toward
others and toward his
relations to them.
And yet, as
others were quick
to point out, no one doubts the love of
men for
men, or women for women, just as no one doubts that there may be abiding
relations of love between brothers and sisters, or grandparents and grandchildren.
That is, we can see that the ground of his strange behavior and stories was his conviction that God's Kingdom was breaking in, that the decision each
man made in
relation to that Kingdom set aside all
other considerations.
Because this happening discloses what is most essential for our understanding of reality, it enjoys an importance in human thought and behavior that sets it apart from all
other happenings, for it is precisely in
relation to the real that
man finds fulfilment in his own being.
If in the Old Testament, in Judaism, and in the New Testament, the unworldly takes the form of a future hope, of eschata — «last things» in the traditional sense — that is only one among
other possible conceptions of
man's
relation to the unworldly, though no doubt it enshrines a genuine insight into human existence, namely that from a human perspective the eschaton can only be future.
His duty is
to so direct his own affairs and so
to have regard for all
other creatures as
to develop a future in which there is peace not only between
man and
man but between
man and animal and between
man and the whole delicate system of
relations that makes the earth a cradle of life.
If we substitute «Jesus Christ» for «neighbor» Christians in general will accept that statement; but there is danger in that substitution as well as the possibility of enlightenment, since the
relation of Jesus Christ
to our
other neighbors is often obscured in theology; his revelation of what it means
to be a
man is often forgotten in favor of exclusive attention
to his disclosure of what it means that God is, and is Good.
It appears also as a nationalism in which
man is taught
to live and die for his own race or country as the ultimate worthful reality, and which requires the promotion of national power and glory at the expense of
other nations as well as of the individuals with their own direct
relation to the eternal.
To understand man means to know his various abilities (Kräfte), their modifications, their relation to each other and to external circumstance
To understand
man means
to know his various abilities (Kräfte), their modifications, their relation to each other and to external circumstance
to know his various abilities (Kräfte), their modifications, their
relation to each other and to external circumstance
to each
other and
to external circumstance
to external circumstances.
Christians hold that the original state of
man and woman vis - a-vis each
other was one of joyous harmony: particularly in
relation to their reciprocal sexuality with its potential for mutual appreciation and enrichment, and for unitive and fruitful love.
Thus, although
man — like all the
other mammals — experiences lust without realizing its connection
to generation of offspring, the character of his lusting would certainly be conditioned by its
relation to that outcome or goal.
We would preach by our example the respect of superiors and equals, the respect of all
men; affectionate simplicity in our
relations with inferiors and insignificant persons; indulgence where our own claims only are concerned, but firmness in our demands where they relate
to duties towards
others or towards the public.
In the
relations of a
man and woman who love each
other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value,
to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune
to any human being» (p. 74).
That one
man was reasonable and the
other stupid is a difference between these two
men; it is a difference, however, which has no significance in
relation to the fact that both, whatever their individual differences, are going in the wrong direction!
- The American Indians are descended from Jews who sailed
to America in 600BC - God is a flesh and blood
man and had physical
relations with Mary
to create Jesus - Jesus and Satan are brothers - Mormon
men can become gods and live on their own planet - Joseph Smith met God and Jesus in person, and God told him all
other Christian faiths were an «abomination» - Joseph Smith used magic glasses and his magic treasure seeking hat
to create the Book of Mormon
20 But if you have gone astray while married
to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having se.xual
relations with a
man other than your husband» — 21 here the priest is
to put the woman under this curse — «may the Lord cause you
to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
As Copernicus had initiated a fundamental change in the view of the place of the earth in the solar system so these
men, and
others, were helping
to bring about a change in
man's views of himself, his origin and ancestry, and his
relations to his fellow
men.
The sermon could have done the same thing if it had taken the live issues of this
man's life or some
other man's life, and used them dialogically in
relation to the passage from Corinthians.
«During all this time I was never joined in profession of religion with any, but gave up myself
to the Lord, having forsaken all evil company, taking leave of father and mother, and all
other relations, and traveled up and down as a stranger on the earth, which way the Lord inclined my heart; taking a chamber
to myself in the town where I came, and tarrying sometimes more, sometimes less in a place: for I durst not stay long in a place, being afraid both of professor and profane, lest, being a tender young
man, I should be hurt by conversing much with either.