I’m not trying to be authoritative or assuming any authority myself. At the root of my argument here is the stated fact that God is not just the root of authority in Christian theology, but He is in fact the source of all authority throughout reality.
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You cannot separate the method from the philosophy. And if this self exists eternally, then the question becomes important, what will you give in exchange for your soul? All You me-firsters.
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Just like our material world of physics and chemistry has forces like gravity we can describe consistently and reliably, so does general spirituality or Christianity. Faithing is one of those forces. As a human being you faith all the time, just like you engage with gravity all the time. The only choice you have is the object of your faithing. Authority is another of these forces.
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This one concept is so important and so confused in our lives, it is the root of spiritual warfare. It bothers me when people try to address spiritual warfare with this armor of God thing in Ephesians 6, and then proceed to just repeat the same begging of the question that tells us nothing. This one concept of Authority is the root of so many lies that I sometimes think it is the central, foundational, most critical component of all the spiritual warfare focused on the moralists among us. Those people who have more faith in their works following the law and the blessings they receive than they do in God. What is this concept of authority all about?
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