'Jesus did not commit Himself unto them for He knew what was in man.'
John 2:24-25
Disillusionment means that there are no more false judgments in life. To be undeceived by disillusionment may leave us cynical and unkindly severe in our judgment of others, but the disillusionment which comes from God brings us to the place where we see men and women as they really are, and yet there is no cynicism, we have no stinging, bitter things to say. Many of the cruel things in life spring from the fact that we suffer from illusions. We are not true to one another as facts; we are true only to our ideas of one another. Everything is either delightful and fine, or mean and dastardly, according to our idea.
The refusal to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering in human life. It works in this way - if we love a human being and do not love God, we demand of him every perfection and every rectitude, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are demanding of a human being that which he or she cannot give. There is only one Being Who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Why Our Lord is apparently so severe regarding every human relationship is because He knows that every relationship not based on loyalty to Himself will end in disaster. Our Lord trusted no man, yet He was never suspicious, never bitter. Our Lord's confidence in God and in what His grace could do for any man, was so perfect that He despaired of no one. If our trust is placed in human beings, we shall end in despairing of everyone.
I dont know man, a lot of believers have some radical things to say about non-believers, and other believers of different gods.
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ReplyDeleteWhen you say we are not true to one another as facts and only our ideas, does this include that Jesus' existence is fact and not idea?
If so, then I suppose that would be correct especially as a claim of faith opposed to what another man believes. When you're a Christian, and when it comes down to it, it is "accepting the facts," that is, Jesus/God are real. But, in reality, that is not enough for some people (bewshit).
I disagree with the statement you make about 'demanding of men their perfection and rectitude...'. Are you making man inherently evil or relatively evil (according to divine moral principle)?
As a ex/non/regressive-believer[lol], there is something curious of the delusion that an invisible divine being lies somewhere beyond the horizon, where trust and faith are all that matters if I want to have an after life. I think instead of demanding perfection and rectitude on man, we should place faith on man and his progression of the basic characteristic of creativity to better mankind as a whole. Then again, there will always be those with altruistic motives and those with collective motives. I digress.
In the end, you are not very careful. The Lord trusted a lot of people in the Bible as far as I know. Did he not trust Noah? Moses? John? Plus, he was plenty suspicious and bitter: just look at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd commandments.