Subject: RE: Bermuda Triangle for TAN...mr2tony - 2008-05-29 3:59 PM LowcountryTRI - 2008-05-29 2:57 PM mr2tony - 2008-05-29 3:55 PM How come when YOU embrace your bad self it's OK but when I embrace my bad self it's called `creepy' or `self fulfillment'??? You just hate the Half-Asian-But-Only-From-The-Waist-Up man. I believe you embracing yourself for self fulfillment is considered a sin.  Preacherman, can we get a ruling on this? First rule of being a theologian is to never answer an yes/no question. depends on what you mean by self, fulfillment and of course, sin. short answer: if one seeks to serve one's own interest, particularly at the expense of others, it is most likely to result in broken relationships, the definition of sin. If one goes against the self's inclinations, and seeks to serve the other, then that is seeking the building up of relationships, hence working against sin. It could be more theological, but I think it is the most general analysis since it is mainly an argument from natural law, not specific to a particularly Christian outlook... although it does carry some assumptions with it in regard to the self/world being in a state of disrepair/brokenness that are inherent to a Christian outlook. And of course I would argue that it is completely possible having been formed in the proper school of virtue to learn to seek the other's good, rather than one's own so that one could speak of an old self and a new self... how's that? Oh my... whether it's math or theology... I AM a nerrrrrrrd. -B |