We all love story!

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We all love story!
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A good story challenges us to a new vision of
life.Change also Religion?
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No definition of Religions can be agreed. But
all discover something original.
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Religions have two hands.One is Faith in
something absolute. Another is a Way of living.
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Five QuestionsJesus Story?Elephant Story?Why
me?What about others?How is Jesus related to
other religions?
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The Story of Jesus is owned by God Today it
continues to inspire the World.
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From the Beginning, where is no time but The
Divine Love overflowing from the Triune God!
Creation becomes an on going entrance into the
world which finds it climax in the incarnation of
the Word.
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The Story has not ended yet. It becomes a
life-giving memory with which the Holy Spirit
keeps renewing humanity.
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It is the Story that touches the stories of all
human individuals!He is the way, the truth and
the life.
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Why does the elephant-story weaken the Jesus
Story?
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A King summoned some blind and asked them to
touch an elephant for the best description of it
Some touched the head, some its ear, others the
tail They began to quarrel to the extent of
striking one another which delighted the king.
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Let us try to stretch our imagination
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The elephant-story and Relativism
Human inability to claim the fullness of truth
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If Catholics claim that Jesus is the Only Savior,
they are intolerant for other religions. If
they deny it, they would overturn the permanence
of Catholic faith.
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The teaching of the Church in Redemptoris Missio
(1990), Fides et Ratio (1998), Ecclesia in
Asia (1999), Dominus Iesus (2000) provide the
ground for rebutting the horns of this dilemma.
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How does the Jesus Story touch me and you?
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It all starts with our hearts to which God speaks
out of love. The Church bear witness to it.
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What God speaks of is the Story of Jesus, because
In Jesus God wants us to be free and loved

• He who defines his conduct by a set of rules
  determined by religion
• imprisons his songbird in a cage

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The best song comes not through bars and wires
but from the utmost freedom and love.
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The Jesus-Story reveals the power between the
darkness of the cross and the light of the
Resurrection. Thence one finds not a mere
solution to the riddles of life but the God-given
wisdom and strength to embrace them
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The Way God chooses to approach us is not
unrelated to our human nature and destiny

• Human nature is so formed that God has placed in
  the human heart a desire to know the truth - God.
  
• Human destiny is to share Gods life Christ has
  gained for us.

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JP II has two concerns in FR. Right Reason is
waning. Relativism is growing.

• The Conscience is the most secret core and
  sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God,
  whose voice echoes in his depths.

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In fidelity to conscience, Christians are joined
with the rest of humankind in the search for
truth, and for the genuine solutions to the
numerous problems.
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Three levels of truth Natural Sciences,
Philosophy and Jesus received by Faith.
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Two orders of knowledge Reason and Faith.
Indissoluble and Profound unity between the them
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Faith and Reason are like to wings on which the
human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.
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The truth received in Faith is not opposed to the
truths which science and Philosophy perceive.
The unity of truth is a fundamental premise of
human reason.
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The Way God chooses to tell the Story of Jesus is
intrinsically related to human nature as such.
This guarantees the objectivity.

• The Mystery, like the elephant, is still huge and
  big. The blind cannot sense the Whole.
• The Incarnate Word is likened to eye-opener
  all-important for anyone in search of God.

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Can there be Ways of Salvation by-passing the
Story of Jesus?
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None other than Christ is the answer.When it
applies to the non-hearers the Jesus Story, the
statement needs to be nuanced. Their salvation
is related in a mysteriously way to Christ and
the Church.
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For such people Salvation in Christ is accessible
by virtue of grace.

• This grace comes from Christ His Sacrifice -
  and is communicated by the Holy Spirit.
• This grace enables them to have a mysterious
  relationship to the Church, does not make them
  formally part of the Church.

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• The Church as sacramental sign is to make visible
  the Mystery, including that mysterious
  relationship, by inviting people to join the
  Church.
• Human promotion and explicit proclamation are not
  to be separated.

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How the Should the Story of Jesus be related to
other religions?
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The Story of Jesus is related to other religions
because of the fundamental solidarity and
universal unity between the Incarnate Word and
every human being.
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The Church is invited to discover and respect the
seeds of the Word present in other religions

• Those who do not know Christ may be in a state of
  darkness and spiritual hunger. The Church should
  help them.
• The Church should remain opened to the new and
  surprising ways in which the face of Jesus might
  be presented in Asia appealing to the Asian
  sensibilities.

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As the Story told in the fourth Gospel presents
Him as the logos with a certain Hellenistic
flavor, so the same story can be re-told to
present Jesus, for example, as a Holy Sage with a
certain Confucian sensibility.
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In re-telling the Story, one should insist upon
the openness of cultures to the universality of
the truth the Story bears and let the same Story
break through all the cultural barriers which
seek to contain it.
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The Story of Jesus has its originality and power
and is of crucial importance for the proclaiming
Church.
Relativism tends to weaken its force. The Church
defends the right reason so as to preserve the
strength of the hearers.
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The Mysterious relationship between Christ-Church
and every human individual needs to be
safeguarded.
For us to keep the Story of Jesus alive among so
many religions is to strive for the unity of
Faith and Life without losing sight of cultural
sensibilities.
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When Faith and life are joined together, there
comes to the worship in Spirit and in Truth. In
worship one cannot but fly higher and higher.
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Perhaps the Confucian moral path may help us to
be more perceptive to the mysterious
transcendence coming from above and manifesting
itself from within.
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I do not complain against Heaven. I do not blame
men. I study things on the lower level, but my
understanding penetrates the higher. It is Heaven
that knows me said Confucius.
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