I’m just going to start this post and hopefully the thread will stay on topic.
I myself (as I suppose I must designate myself as “something” (other than simply human, which to my mind would suffice)),
am what could be called a Humanistic Psycho-physical Individualist, which means I comprehend all the claims of philosophy and religion as both directly and indirectly referring to Human Psychophysical Self-conscious Evolution.
Having said that, I will thus pre-pose what I have come to comprehend, through a lifetime of study, to be the meaning of “the Son of God”.
And then we let the debate (the 'Physisis vs. anti-physical' debate) proceed from there.
Therefore:
What appalls me, at least concerning the majority of people I've run up against, is that they do not even comprehend, let alone apprehend, what the Christian Religion--
(by which I mean its infrastructure, being: the Virgin Contemplation (or Birth) of God; the ego-Death involved in the New Testament’s evolved Humanistic Individualism, by which one sees that one CAN be more than one is, but only if one 'dies' to one's smaller self; and the Resurrection of the Mind and Body as One)--
is that It, The underlying Christian Message, is a Humanism; and that the progression of “the gospel,” as told,, if read philosophically (as, I believe, it was intentionally written to be so read),, is the "Enlightenment" most persons would call Spirituality.
Which 'Spirituality' is not different than what "The Incarnation" definitively signifies: namely, that "the Mind and the Body are One."
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