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%PERFECT PATTERNS FAVORITE WAYS BEING SINFUL EVIL+970626
%CONFESSION POINT IMPERFECT ALIEN PRETEND FAIL+970626
%ARROGANT LIMIT COERCE VIOLENT HARM DISCOURAGE 970626
To confess that we are all sinful is to point to the
facts that much that we do is in some sense, and to
somebody:
1. Imperfect.
2. Alienative
3. Pretentious
4. Arrogant
5. Provincial
6. Limiting
7. Coercive
8. Violent
9. Harmful
10. Discouraging
All of us are not sinful in the same ways.
We choose our own favorite ways of being sinful.
We praise our own favorite sinful ways.
We criticize each other's favorite sinful ways.
We alienate ourselves from each other.
SOMETIMES, our sinful ways can be helpfully seen as
contrasting in ways hinted at by the following columns of
words; HOWEVER, it is not ALWAYS helpful to see our
sinful ways as contrasting in the ways hinted at by the
following columns of contrasting words.
SOMETIMES, it is helpful to see the words on the left
(below) as inter-related in ways which contrast with how
words on the right (below) are inter-related; HOWEVER, it
is NOT ALWAYS helpful to see words on the left as inter-
related in ways which contrast with how words on the right
are inter-related. The pattern of correlations is NOT
ALWAYS clear. God's patterns are NOT ALWAYS entirely
regular.
Consider the following words as pointers to various
favorite ways of being sinful. We often regard our own
favorite way of being sinful as the key to righteousness.
ARROGANCE INDECISION
PRETENTIOUSNESS TIMIDITY
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS SHAME-FULLNESS
PERFECTIONISM INDIFFERENCE
WORKAHOLISM INDOLENCE
DOMINANCE SUBMISSIVENESS
HARSHNESS WEAKNESS
OVERBEARING LAZY
DEMANDING SPINELESS
PATERNALISTIC UNDISCIPLINED
INTRUSIVE UNRESPONSIVE
FORMAL SPONTANEOUS
CONFORMAL CREATIVE
CONTENTIOUS LAX
OBJECTIVE INTIMATE
MANAGERIAL PERSONAL
CONTROL TOLERANCE
While some of us are often proud of choosing to
be sinful in ways which are pointed to by words on the
left --- others of us are more often proud of choosing to
be sinful in ways which are pointed to by words on the
right ---- and do not regard our own ways as being sinful.
Yet others of us are inconsistent and are about as
often proud of choosing to be sinful in ways which are
pointed to by words on the left as on the right --- and
are proud of our flexibility and lack of sin.
People who follow each of the above three kinds of
patterns often find it difficult to understand, respect
and cooperate with people who follow a pattern other than
their own pattern --- and often are proud of their chosen
beliefs, convictions and principles which lead them into
patterns of exclusivity and alienation.
People who follow one discernible pattern often
regard themselves as righteous and free of sin; and
consistently regard people who follow another pattern as
sinful, evil and unworthy of being accepted into patterns
of open/honest dialogue within intimate relationships.
Various patterns of disrespect for each others'
patterns of choice of favorite ways of being sinful ---
lead to tragic patterns of alienation and so to the
disintegration of personal and communal integrity.
No one pattern of choice of favorite ways of being
sinful is perfect or best in any ultimate way which leads
to the enjoyment of the kingdom of heaven. Intolerance is
not the key to the kingdom of heaven.
Our choices of favorite ways of being sinful tend to
correlate with our choices of favorite preoccupations such
as those pointed to by words in the following two lists:
PRESCRIPTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
PROSCRIPTIONS STORY-TELLING
LAWS/RULES LOVE/FRIENDSHIP
JUDGEMENTS FORGIVENESS
CONDEMNATIONS RECONCILIATIONS
PROPRIETY AUTHENTICITY
COERCION LIBERATION
DIAGNOSIS HEALING
OBEDIENCE ENCOURAGEMENT
DEFENSE HONESTY
APPEARANCES OPENNESS
We tend to be proud of our own choices of
preoccupation and to feel righteous in our choices.
We tend to be critical of other people's contrasting
choices of preoccupation, and to feel that they are "less"
than we are because of their improper choices.
We tend not to be able to trust, understand, respect
and work-with people who make choices of preoccupations
which are complementary to our own choices of
preoccupations.
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