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Word Gems
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"Jesus died for our sins"
The Essential Problem
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In my view, as I consider the work of Dr. Weatherhead, the essential problem revolves about psychologist William James's observation regarding our actions having been duly recorded and registered in our brain cells:
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The habit tracks of my mind, even the molecules of my brain, are affected. 'I won't count it this time,' says the sinner after each new fall. Says William James ... 'He may not count it, and a kind heaven may not count it, but it is being counted, just the same. Down among his nerve cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering, storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.' How can a death so long ago do anything about that?
My sins have become myself!
How does a person dying on a cross 2000 years ago heal us on this deep level of personhood? How does a magic hand-sign, or magic words, or someone's prayer, or dunking in water, or any action, help us with this existential problem?
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