Boundaries that Need to Come Down

Does the teacher need approval from the student?

Not about what is taught, but there is something more important. Unconditional love, agapé, makes the lesser more important. So if the teacher loves the student and has made the student more important, the teacher’s love for the student needs the approval of the student’s love for the teacher.

Christ died for the church, symbolically his wife, because he made her more important. His love for her needed the approval of her love for him.

Whether we believe in Christ or not, this teaches us the truth about Life. Life’s love for us needs the approval of our love for Life.

Name is Not Agapé Without Us

Name is agapé. And agapé consists of lover and loved both ways. So Name is both lover and loved — Name is lover and we are the loved, and we are lover and Name is the loved.

Name cannot be agapé without us. So Name made Word more important and thus, in Word, Name made us more important — in order to be agapé.

So yes, the teacher needs the approval of the student if they are agapé.

And since the student in turn makes the teacher more important, being made the greater by the teacher (remember, in agapé, the greater makes the lesser more important), the student needs the approval of the teacher. But you already knew that, Agapé. If we are talking about teaching the knowledge of agapé, to be the teacher means that one serves the conscience of the student since the student has less knowledge about agapé and thus a weaker conscience.

Teaching a Lesser Conscience

The teacher does not tell the young student that Name seeks Trump and Biden’s approval, since without the knowledge to understand what that means, the student’s weak conscience would be offended. Serving the student’s conscience, the teacher would say,

“What keeps an offensive person from ever seeking forgiveness from those they offend is that they keep their agapé confined. They see those outside as being incapable of being offended like those they love.

“We stop judging them for what they cannot see by no longer confining our own agapé, which made us see them as outside also. Outside is mostly determined by the boundaries of different moral/ethical standards. Each group sees the others as violators of what they consider the one and only valid moral standard, their own.

“Nations that govern by a single religious moral standard have some success when, due to the makeup of the people, everyone born there is expected to follow their religion without choice.

“Christ’s teaching, on the other hand, is for each person to accept or reject and cannot be forced upon anyone. For it is not a moral code but a method for loving others unconditionally, using a moral standard to guide not to judge others for what they cannot see. It prospers in democracies since everyone there has choice, allowing for different moral standards to establish non-offensive boundaries within common law.

“So when followers of different moral standards judge each other, without understanding that they are judging each other for what they cannot see, it is because they have not learned how to love unconditionally. They do not understand that Name is not agapé without us and how the greater serves the lesser’s conscience.

“Without agapé, democracies always run the risk of failing, even those extremely tolerant of different moral standards. For without it, they are unable to fully unite against the single moral standard of a group that usually believes it is following Christ’s teaching but has rejected it unknowingly. But do not judge them for what they cannot see. Search out your heart and choose unconditional love so that you do not have to see them as outside as they see you. See them in The Spiritual Story of Democracy.”

Name seeks Trump and Biden’s approval because Name serves their weaker consciences, to help them see that their agapé has boundaries that need to come down.

What Knowledge Are We Missing?

We are partaking of the wrong divine nature. Name has two. One is seen in and through the bodies of the universe, called theiotés.¹ The other is the divine nature of agapé, called theios.² Theiotés has superficial eyes that see only surfaces. Theios has the eyes of agapé light that permeate all surfaces. The mind of our heart has such eyes, envisioning with them to see and create greater depths of agapé light. The surface eyes of theiotés do not create vision, making it impossible to love unconditionally. The permeational eyes of theios see and create more of what is seen, making it impossible to stop loving unconditionally, Agapé.

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The Eyes of Democracy (Introduction and List of Articles)

1. Theiotés is used only once in the knowledge of Word.

“Since the creation of the world [respecting the scientific view also], His [Name’s] invisible qualities, both His eternal power and divine nature (theiotés) [for atheists, divine refers to the nature of Life as source, beyond us], are clearly perceived, being understood through the things made.” (Romans 1:20)

2. Theiotés comes from theios, which is used three times in the knowledge of Word.

“We ought not to consider the divine nature (theios) [of Name] to be like…the craft (techné, root of technology) and thought of humankind.” (Acts 17:29)

“His divine (theios) power has granted to us everything…so that you might become partakers of the divine (theios) nature.” (2 Peter 1:3, 4)

Since theiotés comes from theios, the divine nature of theios is the greater divine nature, the one we are called on to partake of. They both come from theos, translated ‘God’, which is why they are both translated ‘divine’. See Agapé is Too Complex for Science.