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Christ Focused on Environmental Influences Christ wrote the moral philosophy for the bottom of society, and Paul wrote the moral philosophy for the top of society. One of Christ's central concerns, which tends to be unnoticed, is that environments determine the moral results. At the top of society is power which reinforces corruption; and at the bottom of society are problems which need to be solved. Solving problems is the routine which develops moral standards, as well as improving living conditions. The power of concern is that which all corrupters seek and which corrupts them. It is subjective power, which means the ability to subjectively influence. Power could be defined to include objective influences, but that's never what the concern is, and that type of power is diabolically opposed to subjective power. Comparison and contrast will be used to describe these points further. The first problem with power is that it is similar to a drug. It does two things to corrupt. It diminishes more important concerns, and it is a positive reinforcement for the corruptions which enhance power. Power is enhanced by corruption. The basic reason is because there is generally and technically nothing constructive that can be done with power. Power is the ability to use force to override realities, while realities create and define life. Of course there is the appearance that power is, at least sometimes, good and necessary for solving problems or preventing evil. This impression is somewhat of an illusion stemming from the need to use "the lesser of evils" as a stop-gap method of preventing some overwhelming injustice. Eventually, the evils are supposed to be eliminated in a more justifiable way. And most significantly, almost never is power used in a necessary manner but as the source of corruption. God cannot be ignored, of course, in the discussion of power. Protestants added at the end of the Lords Prayer, "For thyn is the power and glory and (something or the other)." That hype just demonstrates the corruption in their own heads; it says nothing about God. Christ said nothing about God's power, because it becomes irrelevant in the context of morality. He did say the Father is greater than all; but great has more to do with morality and truth than power. After the sin is overcome, I can't imagine what God would do with power. Acquiring and using power are corruptions, because the results are harmful for everyone. People cannot solve their problems and live while someone is forcing something onto them. By contrast, powerless persons have to exist in a medium of realities which define life and constructivity. They have to use the reality medium to solve problems. Solving problems taxes all elements of constructivity developing them as standards, habits and concerns. These principles of morality are often invisible due to many opposite effects. The opposite effects stem from varied backgrounds that people have. The worst of evil persons who work for satan can exist at nearly any level of society; and so can moral persons who have billions of years of previous history which shapes their characteristics. So environments do not say what a person's moral standards are. Instead, environments say two other things. One, they say what sort of forces exist in society; and two, they say that results are shaped by the environmental influences. Therefore, Christ focused on environments as the method of overcoming sin. And he operated in an impoverished environment which gave proper meaning and expression for his moral truth. |