A provocative reflection on Joseph’s refusal in Genesis 39.
What if our moral decisions are not always divine obedience, but personal preference cloaked in God’s name? This essay challenges the subtle habit of invoking God to justify our desires — and calls for a more honest faith that confronts, rather than conceals, the self.
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History may not be the product of memory, but of interpretation.
Experience leaves memories. Interpretation leaves structures.
In the end, what remains is the interpretation of those who have learned.
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The self does not die.
It only weakens.
Even in the act of abandoning the self and receiving Christ,
the “I” remains alive as the subject who abandons and receives.
Religious language that claims the death of the self often collapses
under its own philosophical contradiction.
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Contempt cannot be directed toward nothingness.
To despise is already to assume existence.
In this sense, contempt is not the absence of faith,
but a different way of facing the same object.
Even denial, when charged with contempt,
quietly testifies to conviction.
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If someone were to ask me, “What is the essence of love?” I would answer: It is the will. Whether directed toward the Divine or toward a human, love is the unwavering will to be present with the beloved. There will be bright days, but it is the will to willingly embrace the trials that […]
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