enlightenment
Three Medicines
15/July/2009 06:45 Filed in: Weekly
Column
Somewhat building on last week’s model of
hummingbirds as a natural model for humans in this
new century, this week we will attempt to break
down that model into three specific paradigms.
Paradigm is a pretty generic concept that today we
would probably call worldviews. In the past and
spun through western culture they would probably
call them three religions. Broadening the concept
and making it, what we the enlightened would call
primitive or not evolved, those indigenous peoples
would probably call them three medicines.
This concept came to mind as I was reading a book on the Protestant Reformation. In that book Person A says to Person B, “You know there are two religions present in this world. One religion is true Christianity, which rests entirely upon the unmerited grace of the Savior, Jesus Christ and life, death, and resurrection to provide justification for a person’s righteousness before God.
“The second religion, and much more popular, is one in which people perform all sorts of works by which they think they can merit God’s generosity to save them from eternal damnation.
At the conclusion of that statement Person B agrees with Person A. In this particular example the first example referred to those who were part of the reformation medicine, while the second religion referred to the papists, which we would call Roman Catholics.
What the context of this conversation shows is the subtitle ascendancy through time of another worldview, religion, or medicine for it is as old as human life itself. The Bible speaks to it in the Book of Genesis as the “Fall of Man.” That story is told begins in Chapter 3 and is the underlying theme throughout the rest of the whole Bible. That medicine, promoted by the serpent, is the human desire not so much to be religious, but to be the author of religion, to become God personified.
Therefore in the flow of time and the development of human culture, we see in the light of human evolution the upward progress of humanity developing from three medicines at the beginning, to two medicines during the Reformation, until today the model to be emulated, as the highest and best representation of humanity, is our unique personal godliness. We have no need for a savior, for we will save ourselves, both individually and collectively.
So why do we need to discuss three medicines rather than just a discussion of worldviews, or religions? Read More...
This concept came to mind as I was reading a book on the Protestant Reformation. In that book Person A says to Person B, “You know there are two religions present in this world. One religion is true Christianity, which rests entirely upon the unmerited grace of the Savior, Jesus Christ and life, death, and resurrection to provide justification for a person’s righteousness before God.
“The second religion, and much more popular, is one in which people perform all sorts of works by which they think they can merit God’s generosity to save them from eternal damnation.
At the conclusion of that statement Person B agrees with Person A. In this particular example the first example referred to those who were part of the reformation medicine, while the second religion referred to the papists, which we would call Roman Catholics.
What the context of this conversation shows is the subtitle ascendancy through time of another worldview, religion, or medicine for it is as old as human life itself. The Bible speaks to it in the Book of Genesis as the “Fall of Man.” That story is told begins in Chapter 3 and is the underlying theme throughout the rest of the whole Bible. That medicine, promoted by the serpent, is the human desire not so much to be religious, but to be the author of religion, to become God personified.
Therefore in the flow of time and the development of human culture, we see in the light of human evolution the upward progress of humanity developing from three medicines at the beginning, to two medicines during the Reformation, until today the model to be emulated, as the highest and best representation of humanity, is our unique personal godliness. We have no need for a savior, for we will save ourselves, both individually and collectively.
So why do we need to discuss three medicines rather than just a discussion of worldviews, or religions? Read More...