I've been thinking a lot about Owen Barfield's "Saving the Appearances," in which he considers how to replace man into a creative stance toward the world. Your article added the dimension of the alternative: man's creative interaction with reality brought into inversion and destruction of the world. So much to think about here....
Hi Charlotte. thanks for the comment. I wasn't aware of Barfield's piece, but I'll have to look it up. As I read history, there seems to be a tug of war between man's creative and destructive interaction with the world. I'm not sure which is winning! But you and I choose the creative., and that adds weight to the better side of the balance for sure. Peace! PD
1And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory. 2And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: 3Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; and the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.
1I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.
I've been thinking a lot about Owen Barfield's "Saving the Appearances," in which he considers how to replace man into a creative stance toward the world. Your article added the dimension of the alternative: man's creative interaction with reality brought into inversion and destruction of the world. So much to think about here....
Hi Charlotte. thanks for the comment. I wasn't aware of Barfield's piece, but I'll have to look it up. As I read history, there seems to be a tug of war between man's creative and destructive interaction with the world. I'm not sure which is winning! But you and I choose the creative., and that adds weight to the better side of the balance for sure. Peace! PD
Apocalypse 18 ►
Douay-Rheims Bible
Babylon is Fallen
1And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory. 2And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: 3Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; and the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.
https://biblehub.com/drb/revelation/18.htm
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Romans 12 ►
Douay-Rheims Bible
Living Sacrifices
(1 Corinthians 3:16-18; 1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
1I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.
https://biblehub.com/drb/romans/12.htm
Great inspiration from the Word of God,! Thanks Dachsie. Peace, PD