Go Paul Go-
Paul in his Journal, not the Apostle Paul, Paul Clouse, close enough though right? He was talking about identity. Reading it I think almost any human around our age could relate in some way shape or form. We all have thought about ourselves, in fact, I daresay that many of us do most all things for ourselves. The ascension of self is truly an amazing feat in our faith.
My point in bringing this up though in my Xanga was this question "How do we maintain self and yet serve God as we are called to beyond self?"
I believe that answer is simple and yet, not simple. If our faith is indeed the center of our lives, then our actions will be led hence by that faith. If our actions are led by that faith then we have truly, just as the analogy spoke of become "clay" and he is the potter. You can maintain individual personality and still be molded. Clay does not lose its consistancy when it is molded, it merely changes shape. You are still the same thing, you're still clay and if that is red clay well, you are still red clay. Your individuality is not lost, but your shape and composure are...
That is a little deeper than first thoughts might react to reading that, but it is a logical conclusion assuming that you are not being molded with multiple clays. The analogy when first presented was in a singular context, not plural, therefore it noted an individualistic principle yet not so as to infringe upon our identities as individuals of free will.
Language?
Have you ever given much thought to language and what it was to begin with? In order to articulate a thought you need words, otherwise you articulate nothingness, mere sensations without labels or names to refer to them. You would be without guidance.
If such is true, what then does this say for our train of thought? Could then we be thinking entirely different than Christ did, and perhaps by means of language per say have brought forth even greater temptations upon ourselves?
Had we in times beginning learned a language of the most purest ways and without taint never known sin? If you could not think sin and could not imagine sin, would you not then be ever tempted with sin if there was no sin to be articulated?
I would have to say yes, language has affected that...yet this also supports something in which humans refer to as the "Holy Spirit" and "evil". There are times when we feel something that is beyond words, such as love (though love is how we understand it) that does not need words to be explained nor can it, but it is felt mutually.
In this logic I find that Adam and Eve, before the fall of man, may have been in such great understanding that they spoke some form of telepathy. They understood one another and God so well, they were so one together, that there were no use for words...it was a perfect unison in which no such exchanges need be made.
Though I have heard the opinion that it were body languages, I believe this again refers back to some form of complete unity, as such as telepathy would provide. An interesting concept.
So then, how different is English from Greek? What was it like to think Greek? Hebrew? Japanese?
Do we even have similiar beliefs if our thoughts and very way of acting/living is different? If indeed language is the basis for all such thoughts and articulation, where then can we find direction?
The tower of babel...the Indo-European theory...what IS the truth exactly?
In conclusion, I believe that all of this again supports all the more the reason we are called to have faith. I believe that God was competant enough in his plan for human salvation to deliver forth a Gospel in which his truths would prevail to us in a form which would be adequate for our needs, as he promised us he would not place before us anything which we could not handle.
And that, has been my Halloween moment of thought...
Btw, we watched "Ernest Scared Stupid" and I am doing this post to compensate for the loss of IQ and social skills.
Happy All Hallow's Eve ^.^
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