@Zheschool This is where WWJD ceases to be pious slogan and becomes structural. 1 John 3:8 offers no calculus by which the works of the evil spirit may be regulated, rationed or spent for some greater good. The Messiah, in whom reality arrives in its fullness, comes to destroy them.
![end\ The gospel is not only concerned with the soul's interior state but with powers shaping perception itself. Those who cannot see how a total complex deforms their encounter with scripture read beautifully, obey sincerely, and yet remain, in the deepest sense, captured.
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I have never heard 1 John 3:8 invoked, a relative silence revealing religious occlusion and secular foreclosure of evil’s supernatural causality and phenomenological reality, and our place in it; in effect evading the recognition and concrete response the messianic event demands.
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For this purpose
the Son of Man
was revealed: to
destroy the works
of the evil spirit.
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end\ The gospel is not only concerned with the soul's interior state but with powers shaping perception itself. Those who cannot see how a total complex deforms their encounter with scripture read beautifully, obey sincerely, and yet remain, in the deepest sense, captured. [Image] I have never heard 1 John 3:8 invoked, a relative silence revealing religious occlusion and secular foreclosure of evil’s supernatural causality and phenomenological reality, and our place in it; in effect evading the recognition and concrete response the messianic event demands. Image of cross and calligraphy: For this purpose the Son of Man was revealed: to destroy the works of the evil spirit. - 1 John 3:8
@tenshi_anna @saturnine_grace Thank you for that, Anna.
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Copy of tweet: @nick_routledge Certain it is that the empirical everydayness of late-stage Spectacle is an enchantment. W. Wink: "The passion that drove the early Christians was fired above all by relief at being liberated from the delusions being spun over them by the Powers. Being thus freed..." 1 Cor. 15:24 Once the Powers and Church moved _in_, we became Kingdom-blind. We could have an unquestionably authentic religious experience of rebirth yet remain possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by "the demonic complex"