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Huston Smith, Soul of Christianity
DIR By: forbitals
Date: March 27, 2019, 6:20 pm
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So trying to finish up with Huston Smith's "Soul of
Christianity"
Smith quotes from a Pius IX document, saying that being part of
the "church visible" is not a necessary condition for salvation.
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Smith, page 88
Pius IX
"the natural law, the commands of which are written by God in
every human heart, and being ready to obey him, live honorably
and uprightly, can, with the power of Divine light and grace
helping them, attain eternal life. For God, who clearly sees,
searches out, and knows the minds, hearts, thoughts, and
dispositions of all, in his great goodness and mercy does not by
any means suffer a man to be punished with eternal torments, who
is not guilty of voluntary faults."
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Re: Huston Smith, Soul of Christianity
DIR By: forbitals
Date: March 27, 2019, 6:42 pm
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page 56, Smith quotes the Beatitudes, and then says,
"We learn from these sayings that blessedness -- beatitude -- is
not unalloyed happiness. It is paradoxical happiness, wherein
the sorrow is not eliminated but is enfolded and transmuted by
God's all-permeating love. In blessedness the spear of
suffering is enveloped in a shaft of light. The light shines in
darkness, which does not consume it."
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Re: Huston Smith, Soul of Christianity
DIR By: forbitals
Date: March 27, 2019, 6:48 pm
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page 60
"I have come to set a man against his father and a daughter
against her mother-in-law, and one's foes will be members of his
own household."
"Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife
and children, brothers and sisters cannot be my disciple."
"Let the dead bury the dead."
( there are other statements comparable to these too. )
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Re: Huston Smith, Soul of Christianity
DIR By: forbitals
Date: March 27, 2019, 7:04 pm
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page 90, Speaking of Saul's conversion, speaks of Saul as heir
to "throne mysticism". He will later say this about
Revelations. But for now he lists Enoch, Ezekiel, and Isaiah.
Explains that Paul effected the 4 Gospels and most everything
else in the NT.
Don't know that Smith really refuted Borg, but Smith's is a much
better book, much broader vision. Borg's by contrast is more
like a marketing plan for some denominational Protestant
churches need to re-invent themselves if they expect to be able
to keep the lights on.
Smith is very interesting, but it is still not the anti-born
again, anti-I AM A CHRISTIAN, message I was looking for.
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