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To: mark silvers who wrote (20523)	9/2/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

"Isnt the goal of any parent, guardian, superior being, to see that its child or ward be able to become fully functioning,independent, happy, and mentally healthy?" It is the goal of American mythology to produce complete independence, but not the goal of Christianity. Capitalism, like Marxism, is based on economic determinism. The false and unrealistic goals of economic determism is to produce an economic unit that is completely independent from all cultural, social, and ethnic ties. Theoretically, this independence should enable the economic unit to function at maximum capacity. Christianity has a totally different value system and vision. In the Christian scheme, the fundamental spiritual, emotional and psychological needs of the individual are perpetually dependent upon the the spiritual family. The ideal condition connects the spiritual family with the natural familey when all are saved. Since physical well-being is intimately connected to both spiritual and emotional well-being, it also is interdependent. A Christian cannot realistically meet his true needs without depending on these social and spiritual interacting forces. The goal of the true Christian is to produce a child that will group up interdependent upon the religious and cultural teachings that have shaped his social, spiritual and intellectual being. The realities and fundamental truths connected with the Church, Christian family and extended spiritual family become more meaningful and produce more interdendency as the individual get older. The spiritual reality of Church and spiritual family becomes the very essence of his being. The full reality of the individual's dependency on the absolute truths in the Christian faith and the true Christian culture becomes more and more real as each individual appropriates it for himself. Finally, the individual realizes that the Church of Jesus Christ is a living organism and is imbued with the Holy Spirit. It would be the height of irrationality and untruth for the individual to the corporate reality of the Church. A Christian cannot exist without the corporate Body of Christ just as Christ cannot exist without Father and Holy Spirit. Although each individual must independently arrive at the conviction of the Christian faith, the Body of Christ is a corporate and interdependent organism. The individual never looses his identity within this corporate structure. This interdependency contained in the Christian life reflects the life of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the Trinity. The more the Christian becomes aware of these realities the more easily he appropriates the fullness of the life of the corporate Body of Christ. The individual never looses his identity but finds it in a deeper corporate body. We are all in Christ and Christ is in God. Everyone becoming more and more independently dependent. We crucified our persoanl lives voluntarily as we learn that by dying to self allows us to be resurrected into the fullness of Christ---or the Body of Christ. Each then begins to consider the other greater than himself. God has given us an independent free will to voluntarily join ourself to the corporate Body of Christ. The ultimate life of a Christian is to independently choose a life that is totally and loving dependent upon God and other Christian. This state reflects reality. The state of total independence from God and other men is total unreality. We may pretend to be independent but we remain dependent even in our rebellion.