Posted on 09/23/2015 8:51:00 AM PDT by rpage3
“ ‘The wise and dread spirit, the spirit of self-destruction and non-existence,’ the old man goes on, ‘the great spirit talked with Thee in the wilderness, and we are told in the books that he “tempted” Thee. Is that so? And could anything truer be said than what he revealed to Thee in three questions and what Thou didst reject, and what in the books is called “the temptation”? And yet if there has ever been on earth a real stupendous miracle, it took place on that day, on the day of the three temptations. The statement of those three questions was itself the miracle. If it were possible to imagine simply for the sake of argument that those three questions of the dread spirit had perished utterly from the books, and that we [pg 277] had to restore them and to invent them anew, and to do so had gathered together all the wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would not only fit the occasion, but express in three words, three human phrases, the whole future history of the world and of humanity—dost Thou believe that all the wisdom of the earth united could have invented anything in depth and force equal to the three questions which were actually put to Thee then by the wise and mighty spirit in the wilderness? From those questions alone, from the miracle of their statement, we can see that we have here to do not with the fleeting human intelligence, but with the absolute and eternal. For in those three questions the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical
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Mat 4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Mat 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Ever read Erich Heller’s book, The Disinherited Mind?
Heller was one of my professors, way way back,and I still have that book. Heller—from what I’ve read—remained an atheist until the day he died.
However, his writings about what he terms “the Creed of Ontological Invalidty” provide an excellent insight into how that “Creed” has led to an “increasing depreciation” of the value of human life.
In The Disinherited Mind, Heller provides this statement:
“To be nothing and yet everything—this seeming paradox is the pride and the humility of a creature before a God of infinite power and infinite love; but it is the spiritual death suffered by man in the incessant struggle between arrogance [devil-inspired pride] and humiliation [devil-inspired despair], in his exposure to the mighty lovelessness of a chance constellation of energy. It is this gloomy story that is told by modern literature, from Nietzsce to Kafka, from Proust to Sartre, from Yeats to T. S. Eliot, from Dostoevsky—to his being banned by a government which has decreed that the ontological mystery [namely the reality of the existence of God]is to be abolished.”
In my humble opinion, the Demoncrat party is for the most part the prime mover behind the promulgation of the “Creed of Ontological Invalidity”—and behind them is the “Father of lies”!!!
P.S.
One of the books Professor Heller assigned for his class was,
The Brothers Karamazov.
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