Dr. Charlton recently wrote an incisive piece about the harm and danger inherent in all systems, which acutely reminded me of my own aversion to systems from a spiritual perspective.
The dilemma of most systems is that they are innately necessary to our survival in this world. Yet this necessity also ensures that they are essentially enslaving forces.
Like or not, we are all inevitably slaves to systems in this world; however, this realization should inspire us to pursue and establish a spiritual bulwark of freedom and creativity all the same because such bulwarks offer the only way we can sincerely and realistically maintain an other-worldly, anti-system view while nonetheless remaining physically ensnared in a this-worldly, pro-system situation.
I do not believe that the comfort and guidance Christ offers his followers through the Holy Spirit is reliant upon any system.
How could it be?
We are all locked into the System and its sub-systems to varying degrees. In this sense, none of us is truly free -- at least not in a worldly sense -- but this does not render the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit inaccessible.
Although we are locked into the System, we can still be spiritually free, mainly through repentance and thinking outside the System.
When we repent our sins and learn to think beyond the System, we create the conditions needed to experience the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The dilemma of most systems is that they are innately necessary to our survival in this world. Yet this necessity also ensures that they are essentially enslaving forces.
Like or not, we are all inevitably slaves to systems in this world; however, this realization should inspire us to pursue and establish a spiritual bulwark of freedom and creativity all the same because such bulwarks offer the only way we can sincerely and realistically maintain an other-worldly, anti-system view while nonetheless remaining physically ensnared in a this-worldly, pro-system situation.
I do not believe that the comfort and guidance Christ offers his followers through the Holy Spirit is reliant upon any system.
How could it be?
We are all locked into the System and its sub-systems to varying degrees. In this sense, none of us is truly free -- at least not in a worldly sense -- but this does not render the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit inaccessible.
Although we are locked into the System, we can still be spiritually free, mainly through repentance and thinking outside the System.
When we repent our sins and learn to think beyond the System, we create the conditions needed to experience the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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