9/ Yet incarnation also exposes its counterfeits. It is always double-edged: healer and judge, mercy and verdict. The anti-Christ is not mythology but the System itself—a total machine of illusion, sacrifice and ruin, enthroned as progress, crowning itself destiny.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Alfred Loisy Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1948909873275752937 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RxOnlyFL @cognazor 'He is Risen’? So what, if our everyday allegiance forsakes the costly obedience of messianic identity for the very powers and principalities Jesus came to exorcise. Loisy saw the counterfeit: “Jesus announced the Kingdom, but it was the Church that arrived.” Come out of her. t.co/x6KVR4bfqb
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Walter Wink; Nick on Ivan Illich Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Illich reliable, here. With the Constantinian concession, we could be authentically 'born again' _and_ be possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end - the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by the vast array of institutions and epistemologies they epistemically secure. There is a joke in which Satan is talking with one of his fallen angels while looking at the foibles of humans on the earth. “What should we do?” implores the helper. “See there, a human has gotten hold of a piece of truth!” Unperturbed, the Prince of Darkness replies, “Don’t worry, these humans will try to institutionalize it, and then it will belong to us again.” Echoes likewise in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT's principles as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Robert A. Johnson, Living Your Unlived Life Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. There is a joke in which Satan is talking with one of his fallen angels while looking at the foibles of humans on the earth. “What should we do?” implores the helper. “See there, a human has gotten hold of a piece of truth!” Unperturbed, the Prince of Darkness replies, “Don’t worry, these humans will try to institutionalize it, and then it will belong to us again.” Living Your Unlived Life Robert A. JohnsonThere is a joke in which Satan is talking with one of his fallen angels while looking at the foibles of humans on the earth. “What should we do?” implores the helper. “See there, a human has gotten hold of a piece of truth!” Unperturbed, the Prince of Darkness replies, “Don’t worry, these humans will try to institutionalize it, and then it will belong to us again.” Living Your Unlived Life Robert A. Johnson
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1948823441051635866 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @kuchiroma1979 @Plough @IsaacNelsonX17 John 10:10 states it. Embody the Way and we become more fully tethered to the immanent historical dynamism of a theo-drama transforming all of created reality, and to a harvest of meaning surpassing the experiential poverty that fails to explain the very engagement it longs for. t.co/TKkGD16eNY
Open original document14/ The Event is eschatological not because it destroys the world but because it removes the veil that let powers misrepresent themselves, and transforms into something else entirely—the fire of the-age-to-come breaking into ordinary time. Not history's end but it's deepening.
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Copy of thread here: Here’s William James: “...there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness...” “...No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question...At any rate, they forbid our premature closing of accounts with reality." Our prophets, of course, universally anticipate just such a bifurcation point at the planetary level - noospheric consciousness coalescing in a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. Ultimately, Abraham Joshua Heschel notes, “Mystery is surpassed by meaning.” It is... it is eschatology that puts an end to history. It is the transcendent breaking-in of eternity that plunges all human history into its final crisis.