Our Olympian personality is wholly self-centered. It
responds solely to promises and threats. It does what is right, but only if it
is rewarded for doing so and punished—surely and quickly—for failing to do so.
Our Christian personality is wholly Christ-centered. It
does what is right gratuitously, as an expression of gratitude to God who makes
it possible, without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
We humans have not always had two personalities. We have
not always been both wholly Christian and wholly Olympian, wholly righteous and
wholly sinful, wholly good and wholly evil. Nor will we always be.
When God created Adam and Eve, he created them with only wholly
Christian personalities.
When they ruptured their relationship with God, their
personalities became wholly Olympian. All human beings after them likewise had
only wholly Olympian personalities.
With the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, our wholly Olympian
personality was doomed to destruction. With the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
we each received a wholly Christian personality with only the brightest future of eternal life.
Each day, our wholly Olympian and wholly Christian
personalities battle one another for supremacy. At each moment, our tongue and
body are expressing either the one or the other. At each moment, we are either
witnessing to the Olympian gods or to Jesus Christ.
Right now, all societies, cultures, and persons in the
world are dominated by the Global Technological System (GTS). This GTS is
wholly Olympian. Because its media of communication are universal, constant, instantaneous, and
intense, the GTS increasing strengthens our Olympian personalities and weakens
our Christian ones.
For our Christian personalities to be nurtured and
protected, we need an alternative society and culture, ones not dominated by
the GTS, in which to live. That’s what churches are supposed to be: the one
meaningfully different society and culture on Earth promoting the freedom of
Jesus Christ in which subjects of the Kingdom of Heaven share Christ’s truth,
love, and vitality with one another and invite those outside to join them
inside. In this way churches strengthen our Christian personality and weaken
our Olympian one.
Sadly, because of the oblivious support of even
Christians and churches for the painfully Olympian GTS, global societies and
cultures—even churches—grow increasingly dark, cold, and despairing and
everyone’s Christian personality weakens.
On Judgment Day, all will pass through the judgment of
God’s fiery love. That which witnessed to the freedom, truth, love, and
vitality of Jesus Christ will enter the New Age. That which didn’t, won’t. The
GTS will most certainly disappear. So too will our Olympian personalities.
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by Steven Farsaci. All rights reserved.