Peace and Love
2006-11-17 01:05:27 · 13 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No but it is a constant battle to stay above the chaos and keep your perspective.
Love and blessings Don
2006-11-17 01:12:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everybody's feet touches the same earth. Kings, slaves, prophets, messengers, sages, the poor, the rich, peasants, nobles, muslims, christians, jews, pagans, buddhists, sihks, atheists, agnostics, spiritualists, satanists, wiccans, etc all walked this same planet in some point and time. To your view on life, you have to come up with your own answers. That is a grace of GOD. Thought. GOD bless on your path.
If you exist, you are mandated to have already been "of" and "in" the world. Now it all has to do with what you believe in.
If you ever pass by a cemetary, take a good thought. Each man is laying in the same earth. But each of them were different.
PEACE!
2006-11-17 01:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mitchell B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! "Of the world" seems to be accepting and conducting oneself according to the way the world operates...money, success, etc...worldy things, that are temporary. Those things, in some cases, may become their gods.
"In the world" is, not necesarily subscribing to the same set of worldly morals...perhaps we are seperate, because we have different values. Those not "of the world" chose to believe in something more Spiritual. Their higher power is the One True God, and obedience to God.
2006-11-17 01:17:41 · answer #3 · answered by JoJoCieCie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in it be not of it. I'm not worthy to be. I love for no reason therefore I am in a world of make believe, hurt, sadness and oh so desperate. I go on by trying to maintain what is right even though I no longer care what is or isn't right concerning this matter any longer.........We've suffered enough.......
2006-11-17 06:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by silhouette 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meaning of the world in the New Testament: kosmos, aion
The world is the cosmos that God has created, and it is good. And God loves it.
The world also means human society. And God loves it. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son." Jn 3.16
But human society does not necessarily love God: "He was in the world...yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him." (Jn 1.10-11)
It is this sense of world--as corrupt, blind, flawed human society--that the apostles teach us to beware of. (1)
For centuries scholars have debated a false question: is Christianity world-accepting or world-denying? It ACCEPTS the world, AND HUMANITY, because God loves them. And the Great Commandment to US is:---
"God did not send the Son into the world to CONDEMN the world, but in order that the world might be saved." Jn 3.17
What Christianity REJECTS the FALSENESS and LIES of human society. The sin of the world that tempts us all and draws us down, away from God. It is in this sense of the world that Satan is called lord of this world. (Jn 12.31)
We all are "anxious about the affairs of the world" (I Cor 7.33-34). And we are entitled to pray for our daily bread. But legitimate concern can pass into excessive concern. Need becomes greed. Jude 19 speaks of "these worldly people." Worldliness, excessive concern, opens us to the temptations of pride, power, sex, prestige, possessions. Christ's mercy can break us of these temptations--if we let it. What does Christ ask of us. He asks us not to be worldly, not to immerse ourselves in limited values; he wants us NOT to be OF this world. In fact he demands it of us. Not being worldly is hard, but it is simple. All it involves is recognizing that WE are not the center of the universe, of the campus, even of ourselves. Simple--but hard. Once we do that, we open up and out, to love and joy and beauty and happiness, not down and in, to selfishness and misery
2006-11-17 01:23:01 · answer #5 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you don't have to be of this world to be in this world. It does take strength in which God gives us to not accept the worldly traits that society as a generalization sees as acceptance.
2006-11-17 01:50:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus condemned the spirit of this world and overcame it on the cross, the spirit of this world is satan and his system of greed, hate and violence,corruption and all that is contrary to the spirit of God.
we have to live in the world as it is our lot to do but we must live by the spirit of God and not the spirit of the evil one.
2006-11-17 01:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of us are in the world. Regardless of our stance with God. Being of the world means being lost, trusting in the things that are not consistant.
2006-11-17 01:12:04 · answer #8 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No...you don't have to be worldly or of this world to live in it. We each make our own decisions as to what's important to us in life. I prefer to be of God not of this world.
2006-11-17 01:18:00 · answer #9 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no you dont. You do not have to follow what the world is doing, Be ye seperate saith the Lord.
2006-11-17 01:12:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋