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Aug 20, 2013 · Every day is a new day to pick up God’s word and read. Every day we can pray for the Spirit to enlighten our minds to understand God’s truth. Or every day we can choose ignorance. We can choose to miss out on the lessons we can learn from those who have gone before us. We can choose to turn our backs on what God says about himself in the Bible.
Oct 2, 2008 · By Rev Charles Seet. Preached at / Published Life BPC, 10:45 am service, 2008-10-02. Text: John 7:25-36. The title of our message is derived from the common saying, 'Ignorance is bliss.'. This saying is based on the idea that what you don't know cannot hurt you. It may be true in some situations.
Ignorance is not a quality of God, and it is no part of man, for all that man is emanates directly from God. If something does not come from God, then it can't be really good, or even true, so it can't possibly occasion any bliss. The only blissful condition it might engender would be precarious indeed, liable to be swept away at any minute because based on the premise that what we ...
Jan 1, 2016 · Download full-text PDF Read full-text. Download full-text PDF. ... If the spiritual essence of God is bliss, as many religions teach, and everything else is ... then, as ignorant dread. Anxiety is ...
- Richard Oxenberg
Indeed, as modes of bliss, all the spiritual modes are related to one another: Mendacity is denied despair, despair is congealed anxiety, anxiety is ignorant dread, dread is inadequate reverence, reverence is the threshold of awe, awe is the beginning of joy, and joy is bliss in dynamic actualization.
- Richard Oxenberg
Jun 14, 2009 · The saying goes that ignorance is bliss. That suggests that we are happier if we do not know the problems out there, lest we be overwhelmed with trying to solve them. So spare us “too much information.”. Wasn’t it Sting who sang, “Too much information running through my brain, Too much information driving me insane.
This fis the one God in whom we live and move and have our being, to use the language of Paul in the book of Acts. Hart contends that modern religious fundamentalists and atheists, alike, are working with a concept of “God” that is more akin to what ancient peoples, even the ancient Hebrews, referred to as the “gods.”.
