Sometimes, I really think we speak past each other. I never said anything like what you suggest I think. To the contrary, we will not be burdened with our 'self', and therefore much more able to give than to take.
BTW, some would wager that "personality" is a fiercely provocative thing to you . . . virtually a brittle, sensitive thing to you. If that's so and I'm missing something, I'm happy to be enlightened. Not trying to step on sore toes
LOL!!! You better stick with theology; psychoanalysis may not be your talent. It has nothing to do with me, personally. Dying unto onself is the backbone of Christianity, the one gathered in the Church that is.
The Gospels send a clear message: "he who therefore will humble himself as this little child, he is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." [St. Mat 18:4] and "whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." [23:12]
That THERE I can agree with! That's why I wanted to back off. This conversation needs a reboot. Too much litter in RAM.
Yeah dying to self, taking up cross daily,. Yeah a kind of Pauline mysticism in which, through Baptism (understood as an act of God, not a bizarre ritual lustration) in which our fallen tendency to death is consummated and our life is hid with Christ and we are revivified with the gift of the Spirit of Christ, so that "now I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me" (and so the whole goal of Christian askesis could be understood as cultivating the consciousness of the truth about the death of the self in Christ. ALL that gets a big affirmative Yassuh with sprinkles AND marshmallow topping!
So one way to phrase the question I have is, so how come The body is resurrected if they ain't no self after all that. What I need a body for If I have died to self.
Or, just so you guys KNOW I spent some time with the Zennies, If -> I <- died to self, then who is writing this nonsense?