God and only god will always be the missing piece in my belief system. - Marco
Kierkegaard - poses life struggles, paradoxes, dilemmas - and asks the reader to decide for themselves.
With Kierkegaard there is no external enemy - there is only the conflict within self. Any external enemy is a distraction from the enemy within.
His concern - Have they been confronted with a God who demands that they look into their own hearts and not just analyze the pathologies in themselves (Psychotherapy ‘shadow self’ Jung)
Before God - one kneels and prays. The forgiveness it seeks is divine. The blindness it is not a psychological mechanism to be integrated, but a spiritual condition to be healed by grace.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9). This is pathology, but it is pathology with a specific etiology: (cause) separation from God. The sickness is not in the psyche; it is in the soul's relationship to its Creator.
The most subtle deception is this: psychological frameworks can make the self the center of its own salvation. Even when God is mentioned, even when Christ is invoked, the operative framework remains one of self-actualization, self-integration, self-healing, spiritual discipline.
Kierkegaard saw this clearly. He spent his entire authorship attacking the idea that Christianity could be made reasonable, palatable, psychologically satisfying. Christianity is offense, he insisted. It is the Absolute Paradox. It demands the crucifixion of human understanding. It requires a leap of faith into the unknown.
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