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The passage and Jiang's gloss reduce redemption to two possibilities: God pardons through mercy alone, or humanity somehow makes payment for its own folly.
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Folly
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...man, or of himself, man had to proffer payment for his folly."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...man, or of himself, man had to proffer payment for his folly."
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"...man, or of himself, man had to proffer payment for his folly."
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"Okay, all right. So, okay, what you're saying here is, okay, we screwed up, and this is the worst thing that we could have..."
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"...humbled. But once Israel is humbled, everyone in Israel recognize the folly of his or her arrogance, hubris, and then will beg God for..."
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"...man had yet to see his final evening. But, through his folly little time was left before he did, he was so close to..."
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"...man, or of himself, man has to prefer payment for his folly."
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"...distribute until the wise have once more become joyous in the folly, and the poor happy in their riches. Therefore must I descend into..."
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"...to see his final evening he's not dead but for his folly little time was left before he did he was so close to..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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