“the boundaries of my church”

Stanislaw Barszczak—I think – I do not either—
I know that I know nothing. Sixteen years ago still I wanted to write a book Fri “The ignorance”. It is a pity that this intention very quickly I resigned. Recently I read a comment by Andrzej Wajda for his film Fri “Katyn”. “To me cinema is like a fairy tale, a dream, and I always hope that my next film will be better than the previous one,” says Poland’s internationally famous film and theater director. An Order of Friendship from President Dmitry Medvedev which he admits is one of his most prized possessions. I believe that Katyn is essentially about a family forever divided, about dashed hopes and the hard truth about the Katyn tragedy, Andrzej Wajda says. It is about the suffering of an individual human being caused by emotional agony, even more profound than the particular tragedy itself. That’s why my focus there is more on the women who spend long years waiting for their husbands, than the Polish officers who were executed there. A provoker and philosopher, deep inside Andrzej Waida, just like any other big talent, critical of the high and mighty, is a romantic idealist always up in arms against any system than suppresses the individual. People like him often die but never give up what they believe in. What is it that keeps them going? In a sense, Andrzej Wajda is a “diamond man” who spends all his life looking for the answer to human being. Poland as a country, which Wajda says has a “very special national self-consciousness. I wish that this something else to write. We must agree life. “There are a certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life, when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical yoke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects, that the yoke is at nobody’s expense but his own” (see: Herman Melville, Moby Dick). Professors of conemporary teach clearly: I want to explore the pluralistic hypothesis that the great world faiths embody different perceptions and conceptions of, and correspondingly different responses to, the Real from within the major variant ways of being human; and that within each of them the transformation of human existence from self-centredness to Reality-centredness is taking place…I suggest that these different conceptions of salvation are specifications of what, in a generic formula, is the transformation of human existence from self-centredness to a new orientation centred in the divine reality…Our next question is this: do we regard the Christian way as the only way, so that salvation is not to be found outside it; or do we regard the other great religions of mankind as other ways of life and salvation? Can we then accept the conclusion that the God of love who seeks to save all mankind has nevertheless ordained that men must be saved in such a way that only a small minority can in fact receive this salvation?…Can a world in which sadistic cruelty often has its way, in which selfish lovelessness is so rife, in which there are debilitating diseases, crippling accidents, bodily and metal decay, insanity, and all manner of natural disasters be regarded as the expression of infinite creative goodness? Certainly all this could never by itself lead anyone to believe in the existence of a limitlessly powerful God. And yet even in a world which contains these things innumerable men and women have believed and do believe in the reality of an infinite creative goodness, which they call God…These observable facts suggest that mystics within the different traditions do not float free from their cultural conditioning. They are still embodied minds, rooted in their time and place. They bring their Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim or Sikh sets of ideas and expectations with them on the mystical path and are guided by them towards the kind of experience that their tradition recognizes and leads them to expect…We have no good reason to believe that any one of the great religious traditions has shown itself to be more productive of love/compassion than another, John Hick said. “If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O’Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God,”Hans Kung said. (see: Newsweek interview, July 8, 1991) “Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.” (ibid.) “There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.” – Küng speaking on global ethics.In view of the boundaries of knowledge, democracy, rule of law, I could write something else, such as a book-interview. On one side: nihilist writer, editor experimental impertinent criticism, agitator hedonistic nightlife disbeliever. The other: Monsignor, Archbishop of Czestochowa, a man of God and field. They have known for twenty seven years. One does not believe in God, let alone himself. The other would convince him that he goes astray and it can save him. Interview touched the issues such as God, religion, faith, the sacraments … There is nothing that can stop you from becoming who you are in Christ. for it is in you to become that one. Your talent is Gods gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Someone said, that the Christian Life was about relationships, not performance. The kingdom of Heaven is within…Religion in mans answer to draw close to God; A relationship through Jesus the Christ is Gods answer to draw close to man; Which one will you choose? Scientists say here: Our Cycle and the Next. For real theology is Altruism, and we cannot but repeat that?! He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again. ( St. John of the Cross) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose. People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.(close to Blessed Mother Therese of Calcutta). Preach the Gospel, if necessary, use words. So my question is if I agree with all these ideas from these other religons am I still a Christian? Or am I something else? I just don’t believe in Allah or Other one. When I Say “I Am A Christian”… It is still a non-dogmatic way of being Christian. In short, I am (still) a Christian because I (still) believe that Jesus is Lord, God, and sole Savior, and that the Bible is the Word of God. And what about God’s powerlessness, (see: Holocaust), we believe in a crucified God? As a Christian, I firmly believe not so much in social man, is but characterized by faithfulness to Christ as my teacher, who knows everything. Pastors never separate themselves from the word of God. If we depart from the word of God we are godless.

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