"A Frenchman of rank was condemned to death for a crime, and his friends, willing to avoid the scandal of public execution, allowed him to be made the subject of an experiment. He was told that he must be bled to death. His eyes were bandaged, and his arm having been lightly pricked a stream of warm water was made to trickle down it and fall into a basin. While the assistants kept up a running commentary upon his supposed condition. 'He is getting faint, the heart's action is becoming feebler; his pulse is almost gone,' and other remarks of the sort. In a short time the miserable man died with the actual symptoms of cardiac syncope from hemorrage, without having lost a drop of blood."
(Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion or
Psycho-Therapeutics, 5th ed., p. 30)
(American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 21,
No. 1, Jul., 1915
The Evolution of Religion
Edward C. Hayes :61)
I had wondered at paramedics sometimes. They always come up and say, "It's going to be okay." Well, if your arm was just chopped off it is not going to be okay. But they say it anyway. They say it, even when they know it is not true "literally."
If they were being objective they would say, "Your arm just got chopped off. Just look at it, the brute fact of it. Wow, I've seen a lot but this one is a dooozy!"
Of course they do not because there is truth in being subjective, concerned with the subject and not just the object.
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I think that is our relation to the Maker now. It is a universal sense that right and wrong exist. So all know that something is wrong.
Something is wrong and you either trust or you do not. If you do not, then you are being like the Frenchman and this subjective truth is added to the objective truth that something is wrong.
So with a lack of trust in someone saying "You'll have to trust me." you have the very worst of all worlds. Thus, the high amount of health problems of atheists and the like...
"It is a universal sense that right and wrong exist."
I like trailing this sentence along sometimes. It's like this bait.
Then, inevitably...it triggers the button in the Leftist mind against transcendent truth claims and they have to say, "Well, I do not agree!"
And they've just said that I am wrong about something as if there is a sense of right and wrong. Oopsy...
It seems that there are a lot of buttons in their minds. It is like typing on a keyboard. You type and you plan what writing will come out, through them too. So just type on the buttons in the conditioned Leftist mind too because they'll help you get the job done quicker.
The Maker lets Evil exist, yes, well...it can be convenient. And a story of redemption is better than one of a boring "perfection." It is the redemption that makes true perfection.
People seem to feel that they want perfection, without redemption.
"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all godlessness and wickedness of men who supress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts darkened, Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles." Romans 1: 18-23
I think this applies! Also, if interested read the whole book of Romans.
~M
We have natural revelation
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