This is a topic I have longed to hear explained from the pulpit. I don't think pastors know either. They seem to have bought into the pacifist vision of Christ - lay down and die until your oppressors feel so guilty, they stop.
Yes the reworking of Christian grammar into modern terms is a universal problem. You can go through whole seminaries and never hear the ancient definition of terms - terms our forefathers knew well. It also reinterprets old teachings into something unrecognizable.
this got me thinking about what it means when we say “Rest in Peace” to our loved ones when they pass away. we’re not saying “rest in the absence of conflict” or “rest underground where the only ones around to bother you are the worms.” to say “Rest in Peace” is to recognize the hope we have through Jesus that after death we will be welcomed into true Peace: full reunion and alignment with the source of all goodness and beauty, the God that died for us that we may know Him. THAT is true peace.
Genuine peace is an internal fortification rather than a passive byproduct of external quietude. By cultivating a disposition of Antifragility, one ensures that the inevitable volatility of existence becomes a source of refinement rather than a catalyst for ruin.
The mere absence of friction is an unreliable metric of stability; the only durable security is found in the virtue that thrives amidst the storm.
This is a topic I have longed to hear explained from the pulpit. I don't think pastors know either. They seem to have bought into the pacifist vision of Christ - lay down and die until your oppressors feel so guilty, they stop.
Yes the reworking of Christian grammar into modern terms is a universal problem. You can go through whole seminaries and never hear the ancient definition of terms - terms our forefathers knew well. It also reinterprets old teachings into something unrecognizable.
that could be an interesting series, writing about other words whose deeper meanings have been lost to accommodate secularism and modern sensibilities
this got me thinking about what it means when we say “Rest in Peace” to our loved ones when they pass away. we’re not saying “rest in the absence of conflict” or “rest underground where the only ones around to bother you are the worms.” to say “Rest in Peace” is to recognize the hope we have through Jesus that after death we will be welcomed into true Peace: full reunion and alignment with the source of all goodness and beauty, the God that died for us that we may know Him. THAT is true peace.
Genuine peace is an internal fortification rather than a passive byproduct of external quietude. By cultivating a disposition of Antifragility, one ensures that the inevitable volatility of existence becomes a source of refinement rather than a catalyst for ruin.
The mere absence of friction is an unreliable metric of stability; the only durable security is found in the virtue that thrives amidst the storm.