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9d13">As the thing in itself cannot be known, we are left with patterns of rationality as the only relevant reality (idealism). These patterns of intelligibility structure reality, and like living things they can develop towards more rational states. The name for this kind of extended mind in German is Geist, meaning a combination of mind and spirit.The development of Geist is driven by two processes: differentiation / articulation, and integration. Together, they comprise the systematization of the world itself. This autonomous system gradually evolves as it synthesizes opposing ideas through the dialectical process. In this way, rationality (and thereby reality) realizes itself, ultimately becoming self-aware in the form of the World Spirit (or God).One of the consequences is that God, as the self-organizing principle of reality, is again seen as rational, and we can again access the divine through rational reflection. Hegel is effectively translating religion into philosophy.While popular in his time, Hegel’s ideas faced critiques on numerous front

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s:<ul><li>Schopenhauer (and later Nietzsche) considered the intelligibility patterns to be driven by will (Will to Live, Will to Power), making them fundamentally irrational and arbitrary.</li><li>Kierkegaard criticized Hegel’s philosophy for being a purely intellectual system lacking in the participatory knowledge needed to cultivate wisdom. From the Kierkegaardian perspective, our attempts to realize the divine have been severed from personal transformation (they do not compel us to take the “leap of faith”).</li><li>Marx saw religion as an opium distracting us from the reality of how socioeconomic forces shape history through conflict. The participation that Hegel inherently lacked, Marx provided through a call to political and economic revolution.</li></ul><a href="https://readmedium.com/summary-of-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-chapter-23-romanticism-0ded8b29cb29">Previous chapter: Romanticism</a><a href="https://readmedium.com/summary-of-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-chapter-25-the-clash-a8ea65710b2d">Next chapter: The Clash</a></article></body>

The Gospel on Death and Dying (2)

Death is absolute! How we approach it should be absolute too!

Do You Live in Rules or Relationship with God? When It Comes to Dying and Death, this is a Real Big Issue

Psychology teaches us we can’t consistently live on the outside of us, different from how we think and believe on the inside. It adds that we can fool most people part of the time, so the key word here is ‘consistently.’

How much do you live by rules? Today will be a little ‘test.’

It will help you determine how much ‘RULES’ influence your daily life, and it will also lead you into living more in RELATIONSHIP with God. When it comes to dying and death, this is a vital issue!

Living in relationship with God

Living in relationship with God can make life a heaven on earth. Living by rules can make life a hell on earth, especially when it comes to the issue of death.

The GOSPEL transforms us into a loving relationship with God! In the gospel, you fall in love with God more than you ever thought, dreamed or imagined possible. This is because the gospel is all focused on God: (1) what God has done, (2) what he is doing in us now, and (3) what he is planning in the future eternally. This is the focus of ‘Fathers of the Gospel.’

You cannot die in a way inconsistent with the way you live! You cannot live life in rules and expect to die in relationship with God. You cannot live in religion and expect to die in the peace of the gospel. You die the way you have lived!

Now let’s really see the difference between relationship and rules. See the difference between what rules produce our life, and what relationship with Jesus produces. The difference is dynamic — and even more than this it is profound.

The Difference Between Rules and Relationship

We’ll look at three comparisons today, and others the next time or two.

RULES

In listening to a person who lives in rules talk, you soon learn Christianity is all about them. It’s all about their faith, their ministry, their doubts, their giving, their church attendance, and their Bible reading. If they are a pastor, it’s all about how many people they have in their church. Everything is about THEM.

RELATIONSHIP

In listening to a person talk who lives in relationship with Father, life is all about God, and the finished work of Christ. It is all about what God has done, what he is doing in them: ‘Completing the good work he has begun in them.’ It’s all about who they are because of Jesus. It’s about their identity: who God has made them to be because of the finished work of the cross of Jesus.

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RULES

A person living in rules will say something like, “Oh yes, I’m born again. I’m saved. I learned the four spiritual laws, and said the sinner’s prayer at the altar at my church.” Their focus is usually on some past event, and not on some present reality or relationship with Jesus. They live in the past, not the present. The present can even be confusing to them.

RELATIONSHIP

Someone who lives in relationship with God will say, “Yes I’m born again. I love Jesus more and more with each day.” If you try to nail them down to a specific conversion date, they may say, “Well sure, I asked Jesus into my heart years ago, but since then he’s written a whole new book in me: all things are new each day because of God’s love in me.” Their focus is on their life in God now, not on some past event.

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RULES

If you ask someone who lives by rules about their theology, it usually hasn’t changed in decades (if they are that old). What they believe now, is what they believed 25 years ago. They will say something like believing and trusting in what ‘my pastor says.’ There isn’t much said about the living and active word of God, or what is going on in them now. They say nothing about them mining God’s word for new truths. Proverbs says: “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of Kings is to search out a matter.” The gospel calls us all ‘priests and kings.’

RELATIONSHIP

If someone lives in a vine and branch type of relationship with Jesus, they talk in terms of their theology changing, as Father gets bigger, and more important to them, and as he continually reveals more of his truths to them. Things can’t stay the same because they are forever “Coming into a knowledge of the truth,” as Paul says. He also says, they are NOT those “Who are ever learning, but never able to come into the knowledge of the truth.” Thus they are constantly growing in faith and trust. They are not stagnant in some belief system.

Which of these segments on rules v relationship best describes you?

Episode 1 on this topic is at: https://readmedium.com/we-are-appointed-once-to-die-hebrews-9-27-9033ad0b952e