This is http://www.essayz.com/a9502021.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %MEANS PERSONAL SALVATION KEY HEAVEN HELL DEVIL SIN+950202 %TECHNOCRATIC EXCOMMUNICATION CONDEMNATION PROBLEMS 950202 If we think that: 1. We control the means to personal salvation. 2. Can/should control the means to personal salvation. 3. Have created the means to personal salvation. 4. Can/should create the means to personal salvation. 5. Have/should found the means to personal salvation. 6. Can/should find the means to personal salvation. 7. Have identified who has achieved personal salvation. 8. Can/should identify who has personal salvation. 9. Personal salvation is/can be a helpful focus. Then we have been mislead. Personal salvation cannot be real apart from communal salvation. Any focus upon personal salvation apart from communal salvation is misleading; for such a focus leads us to: 1. Ask misleading questions. 2. Make misleading assumptions. 3. Nurse misleading attitudes and convictions. 4. Think in misleading ways with misleading logic. 5. Behave in misleading ways which are dishonest. 6. Draw misleading conclusions about our relationships. 7. Make misleading judgments. 8. Be mislead away from inclusivity towards exclusivity. 9. Be mislead into alienative/disintegrative ways. 10. Be unable to see, hear, feel or tell the truth. Personal salvation and integrity cannot be achieved or enjoyed at the expense of communal salvation or integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================