6295	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: Romans and the Flesh Monster.	on: June 06, 2008, 06:37:36 PM
Given the above paradigm of how we view ourselves as the truth is presented to us, and our understanding of the nature of the truth, we therefore entertain romantic notions of the truth of who we are when we entertain a philosophical view of ourselves that inverts the secondary truths to the necessary truths.  This inversion is our delving into the imagination of the truth about ourselves. When we turn over the origins of our self image to an image other than how we are defined by the eternal truths we entertain images of ourselves that are lesser than the understanding of ourselves with true liberty.  The soul is like an internal living reception of the outward calls in its reception through the understanding of what comes in through our 5 senses. The level of the condition of the soul is always determine by a level of spiritual understanding and not the circumstances that enter from the 5 senses. Our internalizing of an unrealistic view of ourselves is the condition of receiving into our souls an image. The depth of our sense of the negative image is determined by the spiritual condition of our understanding and not the circumstances whether morally good or totally corrupted. That bruising of the soul as to the depth of the pain from the outward circumstance is only as deep as to what we entertain in the false image. We are aware of who we are when we are aware of who He is.