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11-13-2009, 02:17 AM
By a buddy of mine:
There has been collective spiritual growth through the centuries; yet most refuse to learn from the history of slobbering babies who could not get along with God or each other. Today the institutional church baths in ego when they demonize other spiritual belief systems and choose to give precedence to political & military powers over love. The old testament is an accurate history book about God's bride Israel getting it wrong over and over again. Those who refuse to question Israels actions risk repeating the same mistakes. If genocide is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If slavery is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If sexism is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If racism is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If we fail to learn from history we will be doomed to repeat it both collectively and individually. The opposite of love is fear and ego is a form of fear. God is love, satan is ego.
Let me demonstrate the characteristic of ego as the Bible in 1st Cor 13 demonstrates the characteristics of love. Ego takes a believer and reduces him to a judge sitting high and mighty with the idea that he can fix the world around him. Ego breeds a hero complex instead of love. Ego causes division amongst people as they try to fix each other instead of love each other. Ego causes believers to fail at providing others room to grow. Ego wants to brand movements of God under a particular denomination. Ego is what causes institutional churches to focus on growth at any cost as they consume money meant for the poor to build bigger buildings. Ego sends believers out to find their lives / purpose and causes them to self destruct in the process. Ego is what makes true spiritual community impossible because it creates the masks we wear when we are afraid to let people see our messy lives. Ego paints the illusion that some are better then others so that all of us aim to become something instead of just living / loving in the moment. Ego is usually behind unforgiveness and thirst for vengeance. Ego collectively causes wars amongst nations who think it is their job to fix each other. Ego leads ultimately to death as it breads hatred which is murder. Ego is a heavy burden to bare and it crushes people slowly suffocating them under it's weight. Ego breeds idolatry causing people to reverence men more then they reverence God. Ego is shallow and superficial; it destroys families driving men and women to mid-life crisis in search of a new partner to satisfy their egos hunger. Ego is satan.
There has been collective spiritual growth through the centuries; yet most refuse to learn from the history of slobbering babies who could not get along with God or each other. Today the institutional church baths in ego when they demonize other spiritual belief systems and choose to give precedence to political & military powers over love. The old testament is an accurate history book about God's bride Israel getting it wrong over and over again. Those who refuse to question Israels actions risk repeating the same mistakes. If genocide is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If slavery is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If sexism is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If racism is wrong today it was wrong yesterday too. If we fail to learn from history we will be doomed to repeat it both collectively and individually. The opposite of love is fear and ego is a form of fear. God is love, satan is ego.
Let me demonstrate the characteristic of ego as the Bible in 1st Cor 13 demonstrates the characteristics of love. Ego takes a believer and reduces him to a judge sitting high and mighty with the idea that he can fix the world around him. Ego breeds a hero complex instead of love. Ego causes division amongst people as they try to fix each other instead of love each other. Ego causes believers to fail at providing others room to grow. Ego wants to brand movements of God under a particular denomination. Ego is what causes institutional churches to focus on growth at any cost as they consume money meant for the poor to build bigger buildings. Ego sends believers out to find their lives / purpose and causes them to self destruct in the process. Ego is what makes true spiritual community impossible because it creates the masks we wear when we are afraid to let people see our messy lives. Ego paints the illusion that some are better then others so that all of us aim to become something instead of just living / loving in the moment. Ego is usually behind unforgiveness and thirst for vengeance. Ego collectively causes wars amongst nations who think it is their job to fix each other. Ego leads ultimately to death as it breads hatred which is murder. Ego is a heavy burden to bare and it crushes people slowly suffocating them under it's weight. Ego breeds idolatry causing people to reverence men more then they reverence God. Ego is shallow and superficial; it destroys families driving men and women to mid-life crisis in search of a new partner to satisfy their egos hunger. Ego is satan.