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GraceHead vs. LawHead 4 (fatalism)

LawHead teaching ultimately sends you in a downward spiral, because you have demand with no dynamic supply, and impossible burden with no rest. The only thing can the keep you going under that kind of teaching is the fear of losing/disqualification, but secretly you just want to end it all. Suicidal rapturist have booked their teaching assignments to tickle the ears of the LawHeads with the wishful expectation of a premature rescue from their tribulation.

Fatalism is the warmest glow that someone can experience when they just want to die. You aren't loading a revolver yet, but you are emphasizing the return of Jesus, the going through misery now so that you can get snow cones in the sky in the sweet by-n-by. You might even wish you "haven't even been born" under LawHead emphasis.

Buddhists have the stupa, which is a giant and beautifully built dome. The stupa is not maintained, so that it will decay. They teach that existence is pain, and like the dome suffers pain and ruin through whatever comes against it. Ultimately, the goal is to become nothing, which is nirvana. Fatalism is just the Christian equivalent of the stupa-understanding, of misery concluding in the rescue of death.

GraceHead teaching never leads you to Christian fatalism. There is no empty dome of existence; rather we spiritually see existence like an egg. Whatever trouble comes against us, can break us and spill forth life from within.

In me is an overcoming life that conquers anything that comes against it. It is like a diamond that is hidden in a cake. A knife will quickly cut through the cake, but if it ever makes contact with the gem then the knife will not cut the diamond, but rather be destroyed by the greater substance. Everything gives way to the Eternal Life that is in us.
So, if I have a problem outside of me, and a Solution that is inside of me ... WHAT IS IN THE WAY?
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We have problems/tribulation in GraceHead teaching, but we don't let them point us towards Buddhist-ish fatalism. If it feels like your mate is tearing chunks of flesh off of you, that is exactly what is happening, and the sooner that you are out of the way, the sooner that you will have victory. We emphasize that inside every Christian is the Way, and the Way holds the entire answers for real (un-imagined) calamity. The ripe Christian yields to pressure instead of resisting it or pushing back, because the ripe Christian knows that they have a life in them that can easily handle everything.

You don't have to be a "tough-cookie," (hard on the outside) and try to hold it together while praying for a quick end to the misery. Let the pressure push you to find the sufficiency of the Way.

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