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ideal life?

If you had to describe your ideal life, what would it look like?

… with a picture

experience and encounter

In experience, we engaging the world as an objective observer rather than as a participant, and we gather data through the senses and organize that data in such a way that it can be utilized by reason. … In encounter (the mode of I–You), we participate in a relationship with the object encountered. encountered. Both the encountering I and the encountered You are transformed by the relation between them.
SparkNotes. I and Thou

I was told, by a professional theologian, that I was a Jesus-only Christian. The person went on to say that we (meaning the church in general) have gone “beyond Jesus” and are now Trinitarian Christians.

I was thinking about going “beyond Jesus”. Is there a “going beyond”?

theological question

So I have noticed that there are two ways that people refer to God’s name ….

In the name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God.

Are these the same? I feel order matters and they are not. But would be very interested in more intellectual views!

tbh

What is the best concert you have been to?

To be honest, I cannot recall. I am not big on gathering with other people for anything. So …

coffee

Which is the best thing to do in your city?

The real question is what do I like to do in my city?

Drink coffee, listen to music, and read a book. I like the cafe experience. And this city has lots of places to drink coffee.

Jesus and the church

8:2 Wherever the bishop appear, there let the multitude be; even as wherever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful either to baptize, or to hold a love-feast without the consent of the bishop; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that also is well pleasing unto God, to the end that whatever is done may be safe and sure.
The Epistle of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans

I was thinking about the above quote, especially the presence of Jesus and the Church – I am assuming that “Catholic” means universal and not the institution.

Can the statement be turned: Where the church (self-described) is, there is Jesus? Or, where people gather to do something religious, there is Jesus?

The institution is not Christ because the presence of Jesus is the establishing fact. The parish register is not the Book of Life.

to be forgotten

What super power do you wish you had and why?

To be honest, I would like to be forgotten. Is that a super power?

Why? Not sure.

at home in the world

Skepticism arises from our desire to know without the self being transformed. … Ironically skepticism is but the result of our anxious desire to secure certainty by being “at home in the world.”
Harvey, Michael G.. Skepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Informed by Wittgenstein’s Philosophy.

nobody goes further

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even come to it, but nobody goes further.
Evans, C. Stephen; Walsh, Sylvia. Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), 108.

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