03/7/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JU

[Each member of the tribe of Israel, is expected to choose2b YHWH, thus revealing “her” values1b.

But the challenge does not stop there.

Every child of Abraham, upon hearing the stories in Genesis, is called to ‘something2a’ that reveals “her” desires.

If this ‘something2a’ is anything other than YHWH, then all hell will break loose.

The vessel of “her” values1b will fill with delusions appearing in the Zeitgeist3a.

The vessel1b formed when choosing YHWH will burst, in thought3b(2b and deed2b(1b)), leaving the wayward child of God trapped in the words3a(2a that “she” takes to be real2a and in bondage2a(1a)) to the desires1a that they call forth in “her”.]

03/6/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JT

[Each member of the tribe of Israel, is expected to choose2b YHWH, thus revealing “his” values1b.

But the challenge does not stop there.

Every child of Abraham, upon hearing the stories in Genesis, is called to ‘something2a’ that reveals “his” desires1a.

Without this ‘something2a’, the vessel of “his” values2b stands empty.]

03/5/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JS

[Perhaps, the stories of Abraham were woven into a coherent narrative by the bards of Israel. They entered into the thought experiment for the tribes of Israel.

The thought experiment asks whether the children of Abraham not only value1b (thereby choose) God, but desire1a God as well.

YHWH is located as the something2a that reveals the desire1a of the tribes of Israel.]

03/2/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JR

Summary of text [comment] page 83

[How is this seen in Scripture?

In the Old Testament, God chooses2b Abraham, revealing God’s desire1a and value1b.

Abraham, in response, chooses2b God, revealing his values1b.

Abraham desires1a God.

All the strange tests that Abraham faces (including circumcision and almost sacrificing his son) reveals and tests Abraham’s desire1a.]

03/1/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JQ

[The exercise of the heart2a(1a)) is the general term for freedom2a(1a)) or bondage2a(1a)).

“Service” seems to go with my choice2b.

‘Either God or Satan’ associates with ‘the thought experiment3a’ as well as ‘the potential within each person to establish a set of different habits in response to the experiment3a’.

These different habits are like ‘the person talking back to the experiment2a’, where ‘the utterances of the whole person2a’ image or point to ‘something2a that the person desires’.

The thought experiment3a interpellates desire1a.]

02/23/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JM

[The mirror of the world3a reflects a symbolic order3a.

Responsibilities and words express the character of ‘a system of…3a’.

Correspondingly, the potentials within me1a are already refined, cut into interpellations, finite in number, because they well up in response to the normal context configured as ‘a system of…3a’.

Freedom and bondage express the character of ‘… differences1a’.

Both obligations and exercises of the heart share an actuality2a that corresponds to an utterance, emerging from and situating the potentials inherent in me.]

02/22/18

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 JL

[What is to be found in the thought experiment3a?

The thought experiment3a is the content-level normal context.

Like the system…3a in parole, the thought experiment3a seems to be referential.

We project referentiality into the thought experiment.

But, it also exists as a symbolic order.

The system…3a sets the normal context for the potentiation of …differences1a.

Parole2a exists as a system of differences3a-1a.]