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authority of the church
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...come and honor this contract otherwise you're you're avoiding the authority of the church of the church on earth okay does that make sense..."
Key Notes
diagnosis
Paul's definition of love is interpreted as a rhetorical conversion of affection into endurance, submission, and obedience.
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Jiang says original sin makes people slaves of the devil, while Jesus' loving mastery makes them slaves to Jesus.
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diagnosis
The church then forbids questioning authority by naming disobedience evil.
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"Irritable and resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoice in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,..."
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"...obey him completely. And that means never ever question the authority of the church. Never ever do that because that's evil."
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"my beloved, be steadfast and movable, always excelling in the works of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is..."
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"...come and honor this contract otherwise you're you're avoiding the authority of the church of the church on earth okay does that make sense..."
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"...Counter -Reformation. So the Protestants have come. They're challenging the authority of the church, and the church responds by what's often called the Counter..."
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"...are above the Church, if you refuse to accept the authority of the Church, if you believe that I interpret the Bible better than..."
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"...out his case against indulgences, and as such, against the authority of the Church and the Pope."
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"...his idea of double predestination, he's trying to deny the authority of the Church, okay? He's telling people that, because God has already decided,..."
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"...was absolute. And heretics were those who denied the absolute authority of the church, okay? So this is important because some people think that..."
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"...church educates you, and you still refuse to admit the authority of the church, then you become a heretic, which means you will become..."
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"Their problem is, first of all, they defy the authority of the church, okay? So they feel informed. They live in their own communities...."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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