2 Corinthians 13:8 … The impervious Truth (01/26/17)
“For we cannot do anything against the Truth”
~ Paul (2 Corinthians 13:8)
It is indeed true that we cannot do anything effective against the Truth – for “the Truth” is the over-arching Harmony that both founds & infuses the entirety of the Cosmos, and the flow of this Love’s Oneness is simply too strong; inevitably washing away &/or ironing out all relationships that are oppressive, all beings who have chosen to be cruel, & all situations that reveal themselves to be unjust.
We humans do not have a large enough perspective to objectively witness this Truth, of course, and yet a Truth it remains nonetheless … And yet even though we cannot perceive this “cosmic dynamic”, this does not at all mitigate our privilege (note – not our duty or obligation) of assisting in this cleansing process; of helping the Earth rid herself of sleeping humans by waking them up, of assisting humanity in ridding itself of conflict by protesting war’s wickedness, of conspiring with our communities to rid them of inequality (by giving to those who have less and extending Kindness to the downtrodden), of teaming up with Nature by taking up our swords of Truth against the insidious destruction wrought by the industrial madness that is animal agriculture and the slow suicide that is the harvest & consumption of fossil fuels.
In closing, I readily admit that this is a Jesusian context for this particular verse – a chosen interpretation that harmonizes with the life & teachings of Jesus Christ, not the life or the teachings of Paul* … May we all have the humility to See the latter, and the courage to embody it thereafter.
Amen … Let it be so.
(*Paul is in all likelihood not speaking in this verse of the magnanimous Truths inadvertently mentioned herein, but is rather harping on his wafer-thin theological delusions of the innate sinfulness of humankind and the absolute divinity of Jesus, both of which Jesus himself denounced (see John 10:34 & John 14:12 for the former, and Mark 10:18, John 5:41, John 7:16, John 8:50-54 & John 12:44 for the latter).
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