tHEY HATE cHRISTIANITY WHICH OFFERS THEM ETRNAL LIFE BUT LOVE iSLAM WHICH WANTS TO KILL THEM ALL.

cIBTENOKATUVE PURSUIT HITS BRICK WALL FOR ME

 bEEN POKING AROUND TRYING TO GET A CLEARER SENSE OF THE WHOLE FRAME OF REFERENCE OF rICHARD rOHR BUT i'M GOING TO GIVE UP FOR NOW.  mAYBE i JUST DON'T HAVE THE PATIENCE TO TRY TO GRASP WHAT HE MEANS BY DUALISM OR THE uNIVERSAL cHRIST AND i DON'T WANT TO MISCHARACTERIZE HIS POINT OF VIEW, BUT GOOD GRIEF cHRISTIAINITY IS DUALISTIC, reality IS DUALISTIC i DON'T GET THESE EFFORTS TO TRY TO EMBRACE BOTH AS IF IT COULD BE DONE.  aND OF COURSE i REJECT THIS IDEA THAT cHRIST IS ANYTHING OTHER THAN jESUS, the mESSIAH PROPHESIDED FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO COME AS sAVIOR FOR MANKIND, A SINGLE HUMAN BEING ANOINTED BY gOD FOR THIS PURPOSE, gOD AND mAN IN ONE PERSON.  tHERE IS NO chRIST BEYOND THIS PERSONAL cHRIST.    i GUESS PEOPLE LIKE THE IDEA, FOR SOME REASON THEY DON'T LIKE THE TRUE cHRIST, THE TRUE DUALISTIC NATURE OF REALITY AND SO ON SO THEY DO AWAY WITH IT IN THESE OTHER CONCEPTS THAT TAKE THE TERMINOLOGY AND BLAST ITS JORMAL MEANINGS.

THAT'S WHERE i AM RIGHT NOW.  iT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE THE ENERGY AND THE MOTIVATION TO DO A THOROUGH JOB ON ANY SUCH CONCEPT OR PERSONALITY LIKE RORH BUT i HAVE TO REMIND MYSELF THAT i'VE NEVER ASSUMED THAT ROLE HERE.  iT'S NOT MY ROLE, i DON'T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A SCHOLAR THAT \\\\\ WHO RADS EVERYTHING AND CAN PUT A DOZEN MOVING PARTS TOGETHER INTO A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF SOMETHING.  i WANT TO TRY TO GET THE ESSENCE OF SOMETHING AND HOPE TO MOTIVATE OTHERS TO PURSUE IT.  

gOOD IS GOOD AND BAD IS BAD AND i JUST CAN'T MAKE SENSE OUT OF ANY ATTTEMPT TO ....  i DON'T EVEN KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE TRING TO DO WITH THEM EXCEPT NOT ALLOW THEM TO BE CLEARLY DIFFERENTIATED.    i'M so RELIEVED TO LIVE IN A UNIVERSE WHERE gOOD IS GOOD AND BAD IS BAD AND TO KNOW THAT GOOD WILL WIN IN THE END.  nOTHING COULD MAKE ME HAPPIER.  aND cHRIST IS MY sAVIOR.  wE MADE NO MISTAKES ABOUT THAT.  rOHR HAS US MAKING A MILLION MISTAKES ABOUT ALL OUR ORTHODOX BELIEVES.  oH WELL, DISMANTILING REALITY AND TRUTH SEEMS TO BE THE PROJECT OF THE FORCES OF EVIL TODAY AND IF THEY CAN SEE IT AS SOPHSTICATED THEY'LL O FOR IT.  iN THE PROCESS OF COURESE THEYU MAKE A PATHETIC STRAW MAN OUT OF THEIR OPPOSITION.  tHEY WAY THEY CHARACTERIZE ORTHODOZXY, THE BELIEFSZ OF THE TRUE cHURCH, IS MOST DEPRESSING.  oLD WHITE BEAREDED MAN ON A THRONE IS SUPPOSEDLY OUR IDE A OF gOD?  gOOD GRIEF.  i GUESS HE PICKS OUT A SMALL SEGMENT OF THE cHURCH AND MAKES IT STAND FOR THE WHOLE SO HE CAN DISMANTLE IT AND LAUGH AT IT AND PRETEND IT'S WHAT WE ALL THINGK. 

hE ASO LAUGHS AT THE IDEA THAT EATING AN APPLE IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED, MAKING THAT RENDING OF THE UNIVERSE IN ONE ACT OF DISOBEDIENCED INTO A TRIVIAL SILLINESS.  hE EVEN CALLES IT SILLY.   nO IDEA OF FALLENNESS WHATEVER.  tHAT WE ARE BORN FALLEN, BORN IN ORIGINAL SIN, WHICH MEANS BORN WITH THE SIN NATURE THAT ACT OF ISOBEDIENCE BROUGHT ON US.  wE NEED REDEREDEMPTION FROM THIS, THAT'S WHAT SALVATION IS ALL ABOUT.  THIS SWORLD IS NOT NORMAL.  hE SEEMS NOT TO GRAPS THIS SIMPLE BIBLICAL FACT.  tHIS WORLD IS FALLEN.  oH HE KNOWS IT'S BROKEN AS HE PUTS IT, BUT HE DOENS'[T SEEM TO KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO BE SAVED FROM.  i'M SURE i'M MANGLING WHAT HE WOULD SAY TO SOME EXTENT SO i SHOULDN'T GO ON WITH IT.  sO i'LL JUST HAVE TO LET HIM GO ON DISMANTLING REALITY FOR NOW.  

oH YES.  fORGOT.  hE THINKS IT'S TERRIBLE THAT lUTHER CHARACTERIZED US AS A PILE OF MANURE OR SOME SUCH.  i'M NOT AWARE OF THAT QUOTE BUT IT DOES SOUND LIKE lUTHER'S STYLE.  oF COURSE HE'S TALKING ABOUT OUR FALLEN NATURE.  nOT THE IMAGE OF gOD IN US BUT OUR FALLEN NATURE.  wHICH cALVIN CALLS TOTAL DEPRAVITY, ANOTHER CONCEPT rOHR RIDICLES.  iT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF DESCRIBING HOW WE LOST OUR ORIGINAL PERFECTION WHEN aDAM AND eVE  DISOBUYED gOD.    wE LOST OUR CONNECTION WITH gOD, LOST THE ACTUAL SPIRITUAL FACULTY WHICH CONNECTS US WITH GOD, ALL INHERIT A FLESHLY BODY WITHOUT THAT SPIRITUAL CAPACITY, THAT'S WHAT TOTAL DEPRAVITY IS.  nOT THAT WE AREN'T MORALLYH GOOD IN SOME CONTEDXTS BUT THAT WE AREN'T CAPABLE OF THE GOOD WE HAD AT THE cREATION, THAT WAS FULL OF NTHE HATURE OF gOD.

  AND HE DENIGRATES jESUS, "lITTLE HUMBLE" jESUS HE SAYS, AND THINKS IT CRAY THAT IN SOME ART HE IS ELEVATED TO THE ROLE OF A KINGLY gOD.  bUT HE SEEMS TO HAVE READ THE BIBLE, HOW DID HE MISS THAT jESUS WAS ALWAYS BEING CALLED THE ONE WHO SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY, UNLIKE THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, AND IS PRESENTED IN THE bOOK OF rEVELATION AS kING OF kINGS AND lORD OF lORDS, AND WAS ALMOST KILLED A NUMBER OF TIMES FOR CLAIMING TO BE GOD.  sCRIPTURE TELLS US THAT THE FALLEN NATURE H

tHIS WORLD IS A BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.  i SUPPOSE THAT SOUNDS FAIRYTALEIST TO SOME MINDS.  aND EVEN MORE FAIRYTALEISH THAT WE ARE SENT A HERO TO SAVE US FROM THE EVIL, the cHRIST OR aNOINTED oNE, PROMISED FROM ALL THE WAY BACK IN eEEN TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS.  wHAT ON EARTH WOULD A uNIVERSAL cHRIST DO ANYWAY?  the cHRIST DIES FOR hIS FOLLOWERS SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GO TO hELL FOR OUR SINS.  wE THEN RECEIVE hIS NATURE INTO US, gOD IN US THE HOPE OF GLORY, AND WILL SPEND ETERNITY WITH hIM IN A NEW WORLD FREE OF SIN AND EVIL.  yEAH PRETTY FAIRYTALEISH.  bUTG WONDERFULLY TRUEtOO BAD rOHR AND HIS FOLLOWERS WILL MISS OUT ON THAT.