Distance Learning #2

Megan
Christians in the World-6
November 4, 2012

Introduction:
The entire article is about how humanity has lost its divine sense of humor, and how those who can see it are able to see through. The only thing the Lord took seriously was the soul. Man without a soul is a thing. He also revealed that the universe was sacramental. The author goes on to say that sacraments combine a visible and invisible element. because we are human, we see the invisible side, or the meaning behind the sacrament, not just the sound, or material. Finally there are 2 errors that blind out understanding of the natural world; to cut off entirely from Almighty God; the second is to confound it substantially with him. The first error is like saying the clock without the maker. This means Atheism cuts off creation from its creator.

The Bible is a Sacrament
The author describes the Bible kind of like a movie, and God is the Chief actor. He says that God used material things, like a golden serpent as a symbol for love and trust and other things. in Greek, Sacrament means mystery. Within in God is everything basically. The humanity of Christ is what made man holy. The sacraments were a means of symbols for man as well. Man needs to see physical material things. We as humans hold onto what that material symbolizes

What Sacraments bring to man
Sacraments bring a divine life or grace. The higher life is grace, a free gift from God. Men tend to live in three levels, The sensate, those who deny any other reality, like the tadpoles in the story, the Intellectual, meaning like the scientists and historians, who are comfortable with existence, who rest their ideas of reality from facts and evidence and reason, and the divine, or where the human heart is brightened by the truth, which reason can not know.When God made us, he put part of himself in us in creation. (Kind of like Voldemort and Harry Potter.) The proof of Christ saving power is through the sacraments, communicated through the church.

Seven Conditions of Life
There are seven conditions in the physical and natural world. (five within the person, 2 not)
1) the person has to be born in order to live;
2) a person must eat in order to live
3) A person must throw away their childish acts and become an adult
4) wounds must be bound and healed, which i think means sins
5)All diseases must be drawn out
1) One must love under the governement
2)called to "proprogate" the human species.
In order to lead a Christ-like life, there are seven conditions (sacraments): Baptism, Reconciliation, Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony and Anointing of the Sick. A sacrament (as I learned it in 7th grade) is an outward sing of an inward grace instituted by Christ that encounter us during key points in our journey in life and give us grace. A sacrament has an outward sign; something visible like In confirmation, its the crism. However, a Sacrament must have three things: Instituted by Christ, Outward sign, Grace.

Power and Efficiency of the Sacraments:
Sacraments get their power from the Suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. Life is in blood and blood is in sin. Blood is the best sign of Sacrifice. The blood of Christ has infinite value because of his divinity.

The application of the Sacraments:
The sacraments are all different in how they are applied to people. Christ effects us in different ways from the time we are born and Baptized then when we are adults in Matrimony. We enter this realm of responsibility when we get married. like we aren't just responsible for ourselves anymore. The blood of Christ is powerful, like during eucharist, it is presented through the wine. Basically, the blood of Christ effects people in different ways at different times.

What is the Divine sense of Humor?
Humor is the ability to see though things. Something physical and something spiritual, a handshake lacks a spiritual aspect. Its given the adjective divine; (okay, this guy is actually kind of funny; the Jonas joke was really funny). The word temple was interesting; destroy the holy of holy; because I am the holy of holy. God saved his smile for heaven;