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== Rejection of tradition ==
== Rejection of tradition ==
Destruction is part of nature according to the German philosopher [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]. Nietzsche claims that entities that reinterpret the world again and again are strong. That way sorrow and loss which is linked to trying to keep tradition can be avoided. Nietzsche wants his readers to open up and accept nature as it is in all its manyfold appearances. In order to be able to interpret [[nature]] it is mandatory to [[imagination|imagine]]. It is weak to claim that your imagination is the only [[truth]]. A strong person is someone who is ready to change in order to avoid self-destruction.
Destruction is part of nature according to the German philosopher [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]. Nietzsche claims that entities that reinterpret the world again and again are strong. That way sorrow and loss which is linked to trying to keep tradition can be avoided. Nietzsche wants his readers to open up and accept nature as it is in all its manyfold appearances. In order to be able to interpret [[nature]] it is mandatory to [[imagination|imagine]]. It is weak to claim that your imagination is the only [[truth]]. A strong person is someone who is ready to change in order to avoid self-destruction.
==Quote==
In the Master's life on [[Urantia]], this and all other worlds of the [[Local Universe|local creation]] discover a new and higher type of religion, religion based on [[personal]] spiritual relations with the [[Universal Father]] and wholly validated by the supreme [[authority]] of genuine personal [[experience]]. This living [[faith]] of Jesus was more than an intellectual [[reflection]], and it was not a [[mystic]] meditation.
[[Theology]] may fix, formulate, define, and dogmatize faith, but in the human life of Jesus' faith was personal, living, original, spontaneous, and purely spiritual. This faith was not reverence for '''tradition''' nor a mere intellectual belief which he held as a sacred creed, but rather a sublime experience and a profound conviction which securely held him. His faith was so real and all-encompassing that it absolutely swept away any spiritual doubts and effectively destroyed every conflicting desire.[http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper196.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper196.html&line=31#mfs]
==Citations and notes==
==Citations and notes==
