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Hej Jan og Hanskrist
Jan:
men kan ikke være med til, at Gud kom som et menneske, og blev hængt op på et kors. Hvor har du det fra? Har du ikke større tanker om Gud...
Ikke større tanker?!
Det er ved dette offer, at mennesker har fået et helt nyt værdisæt. At ydmyghed er en værdi. At det er ædlere at lide end at påføre lidelse. At det er skønnere at tjene end at herske.
Ikke større tanker?!
Mine tanker er, at Gud er så stor, at han vil fylde selv det aller mindste. At ikke en spurv falder til jorden, uden at Gud er med den. At Gud kan manifestere sig som et lille menneskebarn, født i en stald af fattige forældre, i ydmyg samtale med denne verdens mennesker, forhånet og plaget ... og korsfæstet.
Denne slave, henrettet på den mest ydmygende måde, vandt alles hjerter, inklusive sine bødlers, Romerriget måtte til sidst give efter og omfavne kristendommen.
Ikke større tanker?!
Kærlighed er sandelig en stor ting. Den største af alt. Drevet til det yderste, uselvisk og selvopofrende.
Hvad skulle være større end at give sig selv og transformere hjerterne hos denne verdens børn?!
“The new world we see being brought into being in the Gospels is one in which the whole grand cosmic architecture of prerogative, power, and eminence has been shaken and even superseded by a new, positively “anarchic” order: an order, that is, in which we see the glory of God revealed in a crucified slave, and in which (consequently) we are enjoined to see the forsaken of the earth as the very children of heaven. In this shockingly, ludicrously disordered order (so to speak), even the mockery visited on Christ—the burlesque crown and robe—acquires a kind of ironic opulence: in the light cast backward upon the scene by the empty tomb, it becomes all at once clear that it is not Christ’s “ambitions” that are laughable, but those emblems of earthly authority whose travesties have been draped over his shoulders and pressed into his scalp. We can now see with perfect poignancy the vanity of empires and kingdoms, and the absurdity of men who wrap themselves in rags and adorn themselves with glittering gauds and promote themselves with preposterous titles and thereby claim license to rule over others. And yet the figure of Christ seems only to grow in dignity. It is tempting to describe this vision of reality as—for want of a better alternative—a total humanism: a vision, that is, of humanity in its widest and deepest scope, one that finds the full nobility and mystery and beauty of the human countenance—the human person—in each unique instance of the common nature. Seen thus, Christ’s supposed descent from the “form of God” into the “form of a slave” is not so much a paradox as a perfect confirmation of the indwelling of the divine image in each soul. And, once the world has been seen in this way, it can never again be what it formerly was.”
― David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
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Hanskrist, jeg glæder mig til at lære mere om dine perspektiver på kristendommen. Det er meget nyt for mig, din psykologiske tilgang, din kulturelle-neurologiske tilgang. Det er spændende!
Kh Thomas
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