luni, 23 aprilie 2012

Pacatul prostiei - Nicolae Steinhardt

Mii de draci ma furnica văzând cum este confundat creștinismul cu prostia, cu un fel de cucernicie tampa si lasa, o bigoterie, ca si cum menirea crestinismului n-ar fi decat sa lase lumea batjocorita de fortele raului, iar el sa inlesneasca faradelegile dat fiind ca e prin definitie osandit la cecitate si paraplegie.
Denis de Rougemont: "Sa nu judecam pe altii, dar cand arde casa vecinului nu stau sa ma rog si sa ma imbunatatesc; chem pompierii, alerg la cismea. De nu, se numeste ca sunt fudul si ca nu-mi iubesc aproapele." Macaulay: "Este drept ca nu avem voie sa ne rasculam impotriva lui Nero caci orice putere de Sus este, dar nici nu trebuie sa-i sarim in ajutor daca se intampla sa fie atacat."
Una e sa te rascoli, alta e sa aprobi.
Crestinismul neajutorat si neputincios este o conceptie eretica doarece nesocoteste indemului Domnului (Matei 10:16 "fiti dar intelepti ca serpii si nevinovati ca porumbeii") si trece peste textele Sfantului Pavel (Efeseni 5:17 "Drept aceea, nu fiti fara minte", 2 Tim 4:5 "tu fi treaz in toate", Tit 1:8 "sa fie... treaz la mine" si mai indeosebi 1 Cor. 14:20 "Fratilor nu fiti copii la minte; ci la rautate fiti copii, iar la minte fiti oameni mari." )
Nicaieri si niciodata nu ne-a cerut Cristos sa fim prosti. Ne cheama sa fim buni, blanzi, cinstiti, smeriti cu inima, dar nu tampiti. Cum de-ar fi putut proslavi prostia Cel care ne da sfatul de-a fi mereu treji ca sa nu ne lasam surprinsi de Satana? Si-apoi, tot la 1 Cor. 14:33 sta scris ca "Dumnezeu nu este un Dumnezeu al neoranduielii". Iar randuiala se opune mai presus de orice neindemanarii zapacite, slabiciunii nehotarate, neintelegerii obtuze. Domnul iubeste nevinovatia, nu imbecilitatea. Iubesc naivitatea, zice si Leon Daudet, dar nu la barbosi. Barbosii se cad sa fie intelepti. Sa stim, si ei, si noi, ca mai mult rau iese adeseori de pe urma prostiei decat a rautatii. Nu, slujitorilor diavolului, adica smecherilor, prea le-ar veni la indemana sa fim prosti. Dumnezeu, printre altele, ne porunceste sa fim inteligenti. Pentru cine este inzestrat cu darul intelegerii, prostia - macar de la un anume punct incolo - e pacat: pacat de slabiciune si de lene, de nefolosire a talentului.

sâmbătă, 17 martie 2012

Cea mai buna intrebare

Spune o legenda ca Epimenide cretanul (un filosof si poet aflat pe una din listele celor 7 intelepti din Grecia) a calatorit in India si l-a intrebat pe Buddha:
- Ai putea sa-mi spui care este cea mai buna intrebare care se poate pune si care este cel mai bun raspuns care se poate da?
Buddha i-a raspuns:
- Cea mai buna intrebare care se poate pune este cea pe care tu mi-ai pus-o mai inainte iar cel mai bun raspuns care se poate da este cel pe care ti-l dau eu acum.

joi, 1 martie 2012

Living less loved

Most of our lives are spent living less loved.
When we worry that God will ask us for some horrible sacrifice, we live less loved.
When we indulge ourselves in sin, we live less loved.
When we give into anxiety in the crush of our circumstances, we live less loved.
When we try to earn God`s favor by our own efforts, we live less loved.
Even when we get caught up in religious obligations to make ourselves acceptable to him, we live less loved.
In the long run it doesn't matter whether rebellion or religion keeps you from a vibrant relationship with the Father; the result is still the same. He is cheated out of the relationship he wants with you, and you never come  to know how he feels about you.
Everything about you life hinges on the answer to one simple question: Do you know how loved you really are?
Isn't it about time you found out? (Wayne Jacobsen - He loves me!)

"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,  and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. " (Ephesians 3:17-19)

sâmbătă, 25 februarie 2012

Will you?

John Piper: "The purpose of God in creating the universe is to display the greatness glory of his grace supremely in the suffering of his Son. That`s yesterday. Today he summons, will you join his Son in displaying the supreme satisfaction of the glory of grace in joining him on the Calvary road of suffering because today there is no either way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ except if we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyle of missionary sacrifice that look to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth. This is the only way!"

luni, 20 februarie 2012

If you can`t hate, you can`t love!


John Piper: Genuine love must hate in order to be love. If there were a universe in which there was no evil, hurting people and dishonoring God, that statement would be false, in fact would be no such thing like hate in such universe, it would not exist, would be nothing to hate. We do not live in that universe. In this world, fallen world, where is evil hurting people and dishonoring God, you got to hate that or you can`t love people. You can not be a non-hating anything person and be a loving person. A lot of people have this notion that love is always smooth, love is always easy, love is always gentle, love doesn’t speak in negative, love is always soft… NO way, NOT in this world. If you don`t hate anything in this world you can not possible love because things are killing people, things are destroying people, this are dishonoring God. If you can`t hate, you can`t love. Love has hate in it. If love is doing of good for people, love is the hating of what destroys people.