Resumo de On Christianity

On Christianity

Life loves itself in
an infinite love and never stops to generate itself, it never stops to generate
each one of us as its beloved son or daughter in the eternal present of the
life. The Life is nothing but this absolute of love that the religion calls God. That?s why the Life
is sacred and this is for this reason that nobody has the right to attack it or
to hurt it. The problem of the evil is that of death, that?s to say of the degeneration from
this original condition of Son of God, when the life turns against itself in
the hate and the resentment. Because as says John in his first epistle, anyone
who does not love remains in death, whereas everyone who loves has been born of
God. The commandment of love is not an ethical law, but the Life itself. Those
themes are developed in his book I Am the Truth. Toward a Philosophy of
Christianity.He shows that this Christian conception of Truth opposes to
what men usually consider as the truth, which comes from the Greek thought and
which he calls the truth of the world. But what is truth ? Truth is what
shows itself and proves in this way its reality by its effective manifestation
in us or in the world. The truth of the world refers to an external and
objective truth,
a truth in which everything appears as an object visible in front of our sight
and at distance of us, that?s to say in a representation form which is distinct
from what it shows : when we?re looking at an apple, that?s not the apple
in itself that we see but a simple image of the apple which appears is our
sensibility and which changes according to the light and our view angle.
Similarly, when we?re looking at the face of a person, that?s not this person
in itself that we perceive, but a simple image of its face, its visible
appearance in the world. According to this conception of truth, life is only an
ensemble of objective properties, characterized for example by the need of
eating or by the aptitude to reproduce itself. In Christianity, Life is brought back to its inner reality
which is absolutely subjective and radically immanent. Life considered in its
phenomenological reality, that?s simply the faculty and the subjective power to
feel sensations, small pleasures and big sorrows, to feel desires or feelings,
to move our body from the inside exerting a subjective effort, or even to
think. All those faculties possess the fundamental characteristic of appearing
and of showing themselves in themselves, without gap nor distance, we never
perceive them in the outside of our being or in front of our sight, but only in
us : we coincide with every one of these powers. Life is in itself a power
of manifestation and of revelation, and what it manifests that?s itself, in its
pathetic self-revelation. A revelation power which is at work in us permanently
and which we always forget.The Truth of Life is absolutely subjective,
that?s to say that it is independent from our subjective beliefs and
tastes : the perception of a colored sensation or of a pain for example is
not a matter of personal preference, that?s a fact and an incontestable inner
experience which is the concern of the absolute subjectivity of Life.
The Truth of Life doesn?t differ from what it makes true, it is not distinct
from what manifests in it. This Truth is the manifestation itself in its pure
inner revelation : that?s this Life that Christianity calls God. The Truth of Life is
not a relative truth variable from one individual to an other, but the absolute
Truth which founds from the inside every one of our faculties and every one of
our powers, and which enlightens the lesser of our impressions. This Truth of
Life is not an abstract and indifferent truth, it is on the opposite for man
what is the most essential, because it alone can lead him to salvation by
identifying inwardly with it

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