We cannot escape out humanity and attempts to do so, as the twentieth century and fascism, communism, and Nazism have shown, are disastrous ... for humanity.
Posted on 05/28/2021 8:22:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Last time, I noted that Erich Fromm's "antidote" to movements like Wokism (as well as Nietzche's earlier concept of the Übermensch) depended on the assumption—or at least hope—that man could transcend his own humanity.
This feels like a critical error—possibly a foundational one. Maybe it's an important part of how we got into this mess. Where does the belief we can transcend our own humanity come from?
Well, let's start here: I don't think it comes from Judaism or Christianity.
Among other things, the Hebrew Bible is a stark catalogue of human fallibility. Adam and Eve disobey God, lie to him, and get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Their son Cain kills his own brother. A few centuries later, God grows so disgusted with the population of the earth, he drowns everyone except Noah and his family and starts over.
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We cannot escape out humanity and attempts to do so, as the twentieth century and fascism, communism, and Nazism have shown, are disastrous ... for humanity.
Everything in the New Testament, as in the Old, indicates an insuperable human fallibility. Indeed, that otherwise insuperable infallibility is why Christians believe Christ had to come to earth: only through his atoning sacrifice and resurrection may men one day—after death—be reconciled to the God who created them.
This person does not understand Christianity and the Bible.
They should stick to discussing what they know.
The singer who sang She’s So High?
I don't know. But ... Tal Bachman is the son of Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive and the Guess Who.
Then it must be the same person. He had a hit in 1999.
Yep! Brilliant guy!
He and his father have a show on the XM Beatles channel. Randy can still wail on the axe.
He is talking about the fallenness of man. The bible is quite explicit on that matter. Where is he wrong?
The fallenness of man is not insuperable.
“But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’”
Yes, the Bible says that man is fallen but God does not enable us to transcend this only after we die as Bachman claims. When we are saved our reconciliation with God begins right away and through the power and by the guidance of the Holy Spirit we are able to do Godly things on the earth in this life. For example Peter, Paul, and others founded the church. Martin Luther sparked the reformation. Other Godly men founded the U.S.A.
Enduring Godly works are possible by those who believe and are acting through the Spirit.
There’s much other misapprehension in what Bachman said but that’s the big, overarching thing.
Bachman says, ‘Where does the belief we can transcend our own humanity come from?...I don’t think it comes from...Christianity.’
I think the promise of the Gospel is explicitly that we may be born again and thereby the old, fallen self dies and a new, ever more perfected self arises in its place.
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