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Incarnation

The Stranger We Never Meet

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900

That my life has no aim is evident from the accidental nature of its origin. That I can posit an aim for myself is another matter.

Sigmund Freud 1856-1939

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Edward Blake

"Once you learn what a joke everything is, being a comedian is the only thing that makes sense."

Overcoming Estrangement

Upper World

The eternal, the infinite, the spiritual, the divine

Lower World

the temporal, the finite, the material, the creaturely

Everything is divine

divinity is trapped within matter

The Soul's ascent

From the lower world of material and finiteness

To the upper world of spirituality and divinity

Divine again

Rene Descartes 1596-1650

"I will consider myself as having no hands, no eyes, no flesh, no blood, nor any senses, yet falsely believing that I have all these things."

Immanuel Kant 1724-1804

The final purpose of human beings "is the value that he alone can give to himself, and which consists in what he does...in the freedom of his faculty of desire; i.e., a good will is that alone by means of which his existence can have an absolute value and in relation to which the existence of the world can have a final end."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770-1831

"His Jesus never even suggests that men and women believe in him, for he has come to invite them to believe in themselves. They are called to hearken to 'the holy law of their reason, to pay attention to the inner judge of their hearts, to conscience, a measure that is also the measure of divinity.'"

David Walsh on Hegel's interpretation of Christianity.

"I'm spiritual, but I'm not religious"

Meeting a Stranger

"In the beginning was the Word,

And the Word was with God,

And the Word was God.

All things were made through him,

and without him was not anything made that was made."

John 1:1-3

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,

And we have seen his glory,

glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of Grace and Truth.

John 1:14

"No one has ever seen God;

the only God, who is at the Father's side,

he has made him known."

John 1:18

"Anyone who does not love does not know God,

because God is love.

In this the love of God was revealed among us:

that God sent his only Son into the world,

so that we might live through him.

In this is love:

not that we have loved God

but that he loved us

and sent his Son to be the satisfaction for our sins."

1 John 4:8-10

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