Isaiah 1:18 and Scarring
Here's the latest conundrum. I was reading Christianity Today's article 3 Fibs and a Truth About Sex today, and I came across Isaiah 1:18 quoted: "though our sins are scarlet, they can be made white as snow."
The context here is in disproving that "premarital sex leaves permanent scars." The article seems to be saying that these scars don't necessarily appear. Is it our sins that are sanctified, or are we sanctified as people and as children of God?
Anyway, I'm a big fan of scars...I've got lots of physical ones as well as more than enough emotional and spiritual scars. I just wish people got over this aversion to scars thing. Jesus had scars...they were what proved it was really Him to Thomas.
The context here is in disproving that "premarital sex leaves permanent scars." The article seems to be saying that these scars don't necessarily appear. Is it our sins that are sanctified, or are we sanctified as people and as children of God?
Anyway, I'm a big fan of scars...I've got lots of physical ones as well as more than enough emotional and spiritual scars. I just wish people got over this aversion to scars thing. Jesus had scars...they were what proved it was really Him to Thomas.
posted by Jed at 1:37 PM
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I've been thinking a lot about this subject lately. The context that you're talking about is what is making movements like Scientology so stinking alluring. Check this out:
"The thesis of Dianetics is that all of man's problems, or aberrations, stem from traumatic engrams. Engrams get recorded in the subconscious "reactive mind" at times when the victim is unconscious and subjected to pain. Later, when part of the engram is cued by a similar experience, the victim, or preclear, re-enacts other parts of the engram as mental or physical conditions such as kleptomania or asthma.
The cure for engrams is a therapy called auditing. In auditing, the preclear assumes a state of relaxation Hubbard called reverie. The auditor then asks the preclear questions that are supposed to help the preclear recall engrams, hidden away in the reactive mind, and transfer them into the conscious memory bank of the analytical mind, that part of the brain that does all the thinking and computing. Once an engram is stored in the analytical mind, it becomes a normal memory and poses no further threat to the preclear. Later, Hubbard replaced the Dianetic reverie with an electronic device called an e-meter, a sort of crude lie detector.
The ultimate goal of Dianetics auditing is to produce a Clear, who has rid his reactive mind of all engrams and is no longer affected by them. Supposedly, Clears are free of mental and physical abberrations and exhibit superior abilities such as 20/20 vision, perfect memory, increased intelligence, and freedom from physical ailments."
So Basically, you forget what has caused you pain in the past. L. Ron must have never heard the old saying, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Who would we be if we didn't remember our painful past? What kind of view of Christ would we have if we cleared our mind of all of our wrongdoings, sin, and pain?
It's sad to see a Christian magazine (wittingly or otherwise)taking on the philosophy of such a non-Gospel focused institution.
Congrats on Cali.
Seth Flick
Christ in the City
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