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Allow me to side-track a little bit for a second. My specific profession isn't really the centerpoint. But I think that the fact that I had a profession, and for a significant part, used that as an indexing point to define my worth is. I understood my worth to my family in dollars per hour. The more I was worth at work, the more I was worth at home. I'm not holding that up as a virtue, or even as healthy. I'm saying that it is the almost inescapable economic model of "this-for-that" which is used in our world.
Hence my question: How is the "this" in Jesus answered? My suggestion was that we are taught that our entrance into heaven is how we understand "this" in Jesus, and the "for-that" is understood as our "good behavior" and righteous acts.
But I can't live like that...I just can't. And it's not for a lack of trying, either.
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