Pacifism - Assumptions

Pacifism always assumes the existence
  Of a moral core within the perpetrator
When in fact none may exist.

The Inner Walk

Those not comfortable
  With being lost in thought,
Are usually too comfortable
  With being lost in the world.

There is a particular kind of clarity
  That often comes from deep reflection-
Restoring and clarifying life-giving direction

False Security and "The Will to Power"

With an eye on the future...

When it comes to the exercise of "the will to power,"*** it would be prudent to remember that hungry carnivores are always the most motivated and resourceful of hunters - especially when their prey have been lulled into a false sense of security and contentment associated with large numbers and full stomachs. 

Remarkably, there are certain kinds of carnivores for whom hunger is just an excuse, because their impetus is really about the intoxicated feeling that comes with the uninhibited use of power. 

*** Friedrich Nietzsche believed the basic drive in humankind was "the will to power."

Goodness and Evil, God's Love and Grace

In the same manner that fallen humanity cannot look upon the face of God because of His holiness, so too God's love for humanity prevents them from looking fully into the essence of evil because of His "common grace." 

The best of human goodness in this life is still odd and strange to heaven, and alarmingly the worst of human evil is a poor expression of what true evil would have us become. 

[6-7 God spoke to Cain: “Why this tantrum? Why the sulking?] 

If you do well, won’t you be accepted? And if you don’t do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it’s out to get you, you’ve got to master it.”

Genesis 4:7 (The Message translation)

Grace is not Tolerance

Many Christians have either replaced or use synonymously the word GRACE for TOLERANCE; of which the eventual ramifications for the believing community will be disastrous, and the unbeliever inherently misleading and destructive. 


     Tolerance               Grace

Non-Judgmental      Because of Judgment

I'm Okay and          There Is  No One 
You're Okay            Who Is Okay

Entitlement             Payment of Penalty

Minimizes Need       Maximizes Need
For Christ               For Christ


We desperately need a course correction in our theological semantics and praxis. 

Convenience and Truth

Culturally, perhaps the most unifying principle exercised, 
in the adoption of "truth," 
is predicated on one's own sense of personal convenience.

Conforming To Truth vs. Conforming Truth

It is the hard function of Truth
To bend our Fallen image in accordance to it,
Rather than our futilely attempting to bend Truth 
In accordance to our Fallen nature. 

No one really breaks the law, 
They can only break themselves against it.

Balanced Living In The Attributes of God

When life is seen only through the bifocal lens of Truth and Justice, then we perceive our neighbor's behavior as always being wrong. We judge, condemn and have no hope. 

When life is seen only through the bifocal lens of Grace and Love, then we excuse our neighbors behavior is always being right. We rationalize, placate and live in denial. 

When life is seen simultaneously through each bifocal lens of Truth and Justice, as well as Grace and Love, then we see more like God. 

The truly hard and disciplined exercise of faith is living God's attributes in a balanced and mutually complimentary fashion