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The Christian religion offers us various ways and models to conceive of human innocence and human frailty.
The Christian Bible catalogs the ways of thinking that have constructed the potent empires and civilizations of human history, including Egypt and Rome. In the messages regarding the experience of man after the resurrection of Jesus, we're only provided with great intimations of the ethics impact of post-Rome empires and kingdoms at the time of and the times leading up to the End of Days but after the fall of Rome (i.e., Babylon, Gog and Magog).
Of course this is expected since the Bible writings end with the lives of the Apostles who have no way of intimating the rise of future empires/civilizations such as Great Britain, America, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union! However, the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible offers us rather lucid and graphic images and conceptualizations of why end-times empires/kingdoms such as 'Babylon' and 'Gog and Magog' might be well-fitted into the post-Rome ambitious/flowery/vain states such as the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany!
In using the Christian Bible therefore to understand/appreciate man's evaluation of the 'weight' of innocence and the 'consequence' of the fall from innocence (with references here to Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden characterized in the Book of Genesis in the Christian Bible!), we can create models of ethics and even anticipation arguably!
For example, could we construe that modern America's wrestling with Wall Street 'capitalism-thrones' and anti-capitalism terrorism (e.g., 9/11) can be fitted into the Christian Bible's duscussion of the 'morally vain' tower of the ambitious 'dominion-kingdom' of Babylon with allusions to the frailty of social customs themselves in times of great sociocultural mobilization (e.g., Planet Hollywood, Al Jazeera, LA Race Riots)?
To address our grip on the frailty of human innocence, and why, for example, we might treat today's liberal use of pornography and graphic media as a 'loose justification' apologetics approach to free-speech defense in America, we might have to think of ethics and temperance in this modern (post-Rome!) time of rampant consumerism consciousness (e.g., MTV, Facebook, Wall Street, OPEC) in terms of 'compromised' privacy!
Is there any clearer way to conceive of overly-liberal conceptualizations of socialized lifestyle excesses? What do you think?
Have we become a 'Burger King' congregation?
I've retired from blogging, but I felt a need to talk about this serious 'modernism issue' on USMB and gain some perspective on new age reductionism!
The Christian Bible catalogs the ways of thinking that have constructed the potent empires and civilizations of human history, including Egypt and Rome. In the messages regarding the experience of man after the resurrection of Jesus, we're only provided with great intimations of the ethics impact of post-Rome empires and kingdoms at the time of and the times leading up to the End of Days but after the fall of Rome (i.e., Babylon, Gog and Magog).
Of course this is expected since the Bible writings end with the lives of the Apostles who have no way of intimating the rise of future empires/civilizations such as Great Britain, America, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union! However, the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible offers us rather lucid and graphic images and conceptualizations of why end-times empires/kingdoms such as 'Babylon' and 'Gog and Magog' might be well-fitted into the post-Rome ambitious/flowery/vain states such as the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany!
In using the Christian Bible therefore to understand/appreciate man's evaluation of the 'weight' of innocence and the 'consequence' of the fall from innocence (with references here to Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden characterized in the Book of Genesis in the Christian Bible!), we can create models of ethics and even anticipation arguably!
For example, could we construe that modern America's wrestling with Wall Street 'capitalism-thrones' and anti-capitalism terrorism (e.g., 9/11) can be fitted into the Christian Bible's duscussion of the 'morally vain' tower of the ambitious 'dominion-kingdom' of Babylon with allusions to the frailty of social customs themselves in times of great sociocultural mobilization (e.g., Planet Hollywood, Al Jazeera, LA Race Riots)?
To address our grip on the frailty of human innocence, and why, for example, we might treat today's liberal use of pornography and graphic media as a 'loose justification' apologetics approach to free-speech defense in America, we might have to think of ethics and temperance in this modern (post-Rome!) time of rampant consumerism consciousness (e.g., MTV, Facebook, Wall Street, OPEC) in terms of 'compromised' privacy!
Is there any clearer way to conceive of overly-liberal conceptualizations of socialized lifestyle excesses? What do you think?
Have we become a 'Burger King' congregation?
I've retired from blogging, but I felt a need to talk about this serious 'modernism issue' on USMB and gain some perspective on new age reductionism!
