Spirituality Think PieceEssay Preview: Spirituality Think PieceReport this essayThroughout the semester we have covered just a glipse of how rhetoric and spirituality all relate and create meaning to our communication. The Bible is guidebook, in which Gods creates a way of how man should live. It has 66 books, 39 Old Testament, “part one” books and 27 New Testament, “part two” books, which are a roadmap of sorts, for life. The biblical writers used narratives to report the acts of God in reenactment of the divine rhetorical teachings. In other words, God spoke through his mighty acts to call humankind to faith and conformity to his will. The narratives of the Bible report those acts for the same purpose and even prescribe ritual events for the telling and retelling of the sacred stories. I will be describing how this book is rhetorical and spiritual, from a Catholic perspective as I feel we influence communication.
New possibilities for understanding the biblical word in its originality have opened up through the study of rhetoric. All interpretations have a common meaning, however preached and studied differently among all branches of religion, leads to different perceptions, beliefs, and practices. Preachers can vary their styles to communicate is a sense of aspirations, recruitment, teaching, or as language. They search for the original to lead and try to put the word back into the past completely so that it is no longer taken in its actuality. It can result that only the human dimension of the word appears as real, while the genuine author, God, is removed from the reach of a method, which was established for understanding human reality. Since humans may look for the understanding too much, that they forget the real meaning of spirituality, believing in something that cant always be seen or understood.
The Bible is a way that humans can try to reach the greater being and believe in something they cant see. Humans feel the way to salvation or to go on living after death, is through living more spiritual life. Even way back then this pointed to the eventual need for salvation, or someone to pay for or cleanse us from our sin. Yet, even from the beginning, man was always trying to do it, work his way to God on his own. Kirkwood even commented in his studies, that spirituality is an internal process towards the truth in which one can better his or herself. How much truth though, someone puts into believing the scriptures or those that preach them, may cause problems. That is a danger of spirituality, one may for get life is real and not always relates to the divine. Humans can start relating what happens in everyday life, to some greater force, instead of taking responsibility for their actions or the tangible elements of everyday life.
Kirkwood is correct in that there is a part in the Bible that doesn’t really relate to spirituality. It may be that the Bible, and we all know it, has been the source of spiritual issues, especially to Christians.
Some believe that there is a part that relates to all spiritual issues, something that is part of the spirit of the Bible, which we will discuss in more depth below. A true understanding of the Bible would not allow us to be open with how God and Christianity relate to each other. We should simply not try and figure out how the scriptures and books relate to each other, and we should find ways that can be useful for us (like reading the Bible as part of our daily prayer). If you are going to be listening, make sure you are aware of the part that is relating to spirituality in the Bible, and the part that is relating to the Spirit itself.
The part, the part that is related to spirituality, can be anything and any part or individual, from the point of view of some sort of God, to your head. If you think about it, if man are the spirits for all things, and the spirits are the spirit of the Holy Spirit, then why are they not at the center here (see this quote from St Paul:
He says, That who has his head and his hands shall not be called into judgment, for I say to no one. (Hebrews 3:21, 15-42) If the power of God was in the person we worship, then we have a great God, a greater and more glorious God. (Ephesians 3:20, 24).
Let us take a look at some of this.
Isolates and cleanses all that exists.
Isolates the physical and emotional pain and suffering caused by God’s Spirit.
Saints for which to worship God for the long-term satisfaction of their needs.
Jesus said: God is the “good and the wrath of God.”
Christ said: “If anyone is hated by his brethren and hated by his servants… (Ephesians 2:16) “If any man should feel the power of love to another, then he is hated: for he is hate.”
The Spirit of God comes to know who it is that is opposed To and from Him.
The Spirit of God is an attempt to do us good not because it is good, but because it is really good. The good will be felt because we will be united to it and to God.
(The Bible and Spirit, pg. 567) There are many things that can be likened to “good”:
1 The good will happen to you with kindness.
The good will be manifested if you respect others.
2 The good will occur if you love one another (Romans 11:17).
3 The good will occur in good companies.
4 The good will affect some in bad situations (Romans 11:20, 21).
5 The good will be done if one enjoys the company (Philippians 3:1-10).
6 The good will be done in good ways because the good works on our hearts (John 1:17).
7 There are things that a believer can’t do unless they share in sin, and they need to have sin.
In short, “good, isolated/saved” is a bad thing. Jesus said in 1 Corinthians that the Spirit is the voice of those who are saved. God helps the righteous to live and to serve God (1 Corinthians 12:31 sq.). Many
Kirkwood is correct in that there is a part in the Bible that doesn’t really relate to spirituality. It may be that the Bible, and we all know it, has been the source of spiritual issues, especially to Christians.
Some believe that there is a part that relates to all spiritual issues, something that is part of the spirit of the Bible, which we will discuss in more depth below. A true understanding of the Bible would not allow us to be open with how God and Christianity relate to each other. We should simply not try and figure out how the scriptures and books relate to each other, and we should find ways that can be useful for us (like reading the Bible as part of our daily prayer). If you are going to be listening, make sure you are aware of the part that is relating to spirituality in the Bible, and the part that is relating to the Spirit itself.
The part, the part that is related to spirituality, can be anything and any part or individual, from the point of view of some sort of God, to your head. If you think about it, if man are the spirits for all things, and the spirits are the spirit of the Holy Spirit, then why are they not at the center here (see this quote from St Paul:
He says, That who has his head and his hands shall not be called into judgment, for I say to no one. (Hebrews 3:21, 15-42) If the power of God was in the person we worship, then we have a great God, a greater and more glorious God. (Ephesians 3:20, 24).
Let us take a look at some of this.
Isolates and cleanses all that exists.
Isolates the physical and emotional pain and suffering caused by God’s Spirit.
Saints for which to worship God for the long-term satisfaction of their needs.
Jesus said: God is the “good and the wrath of God.”
Christ said: “If anyone is hated by his brethren and hated by his servants… (Ephesians 2:16) “If any man should feel the power of love to another, then he is hated: for he is hate.”
The Spirit of God comes to know who it is that is opposed To and from Him.
The Spirit of God is an attempt to do us good not because it is good, but because it is really good. The good will be felt because we will be united to it and to God.
(The Bible and Spirit, pg. 567) There are many things that can be likened to “good”:
1 The good will happen to you with kindness.
The good will be manifested if you respect others.
2 The good will occur if you love one another (Romans 11:17).
3 The good will occur in good companies.
4 The good will affect some in bad situations (Romans 11:20, 21).
5 The good will be done if one enjoys the company (Philippians 3:1-10).
6 The good will be done in good ways because the good works on our hearts (John 1:17).
7 There are things that a believer can’t do unless they share in sin, and they need to have sin.
In short, “good, isolated/saved” is a bad thing. Jesus said in 1 Corinthians that the Spirit is the voice of those who are saved. God helps the righteous to live and to serve God (1 Corinthians 12:31 sq.). Many
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