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Christ, civilization, culture, Gospel, natural, Normal, reign of God
An accompanying question would be “what is normal?” I’m thinking specifically of American culture right now. Is what we are experiencing normal? Is it natural? Are we on a trajectory on the cycle of civilization? Can it be stopped or changed? Should it?
I don’t have the answers. But then again, I don’t think the answers matter that much. It’s the questions that matter. The questions are what open us up to possibilities.
These questions have been a constant through theological history too. It’s a question of predestination – or is everything all set and there can be no variation? Another variation of this expresses a different view – the end result is set, but the way we get there is open. This opens up possibilities whereas the first view leaves us hopeless, mere puppets in a play. I wonder how there can be love when there is no openness to possibilities of how things progress.
What is natural in our world? Sin, death, anger, violence, power, control. There have been more positive things too, but when we measure and mark history, it is often based on events like war, devastation, and rulers.
The Gospel and the reign of God are the things that are unnatural in this world. That’s because the world is broken by sin. The world’s norm is that might makes right. Yet Christ declares that the meek and poor in Spirit are blessed. The world celebrates the division and war, yet Christ declares that those who are doers of peace are the blessed ones.
What is natural? What is normal? Is it what the vast majority of human history has been made up of? Or maybe this history is not normal at all. Maybe it’s out of whack. Maybe Christ has what normal is, but we’ve been looking at the world upside down. Maybe he’s turning the world right side up again – making all things right – bringing the world back to normal.
Laced up Lutheran 
I think that everything begins or is remote at the time that the man wanted to civilize, that is to say, to impose unnatural rules, for example in the sexual field is still a topic that is seen as taboo, in my case with my little daughter of 9 years, I have Asked questions about the sexual issue, I answered him according to his understanding, I can not disguise myself or suppress myself in the explanation, to miminizar the risk of confusing it and confusions happen great misfortunes. From all of this came confusion and confusion leads to the game of the telephone maladroado, and that game of the phone malogrado creates desainformacion, and the desainformacion leads to fear, and fear leads to make big mistakes. In short, you have to follow our innuendoes without deceiving and being intruders of other spaces of people, animals, always respect the space of others not to be invasive with the spaces of others, before asking or expressing sometimes the ideas and their own, I think it’s a way of asking for permission or that the other party involved has agreement.
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