Understanding the Shadow Self in Religion and Life through Jesus' Teachings

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Explore the concept of the shadow self in religion and life, as discussed through the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Reflect on the hypocrisy within religious practices and the importance of self-awareness in spiritual growth.

  • Jesus
  • Shadow Self
  • Religion
  • Hypocrisy
  • Spirituality

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  1. Sin and Shadow 1st Half and 2nd Half (of Life and of Religion) Jesus the Messiah and the Apostle Paul

  2. So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good. Then did something good become for me the source of death? Heaven forbid! Rather, it was sin working death in me through something good, so that sin might be clearly exposed as sin, so that sin through the commandment might come to be experienced as sinful beyond measure.

  3. For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave. I don t understand my own behavior I don t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate! Romans 7:12-15 (Complete Jewish Bible)

  4. The shadow self is not of itself evil; it just allows us to do evil without recognizing it as evil! In fact, we often believe that we re doing something good. That s the power of the shadow! That is why Jesus criticizes hypocrisy more than anything else. Jesus is never upset with sinners, but only with people who pretend they are not sinners.

  5. .religion often cant see its own shadow and projects it elsewhere. Thus, the high degree of morally judgmental people among most religious groups, which allows them to remain untouched in their self-sufficiency, racism, militarism, and materialism. - Richard Rohr

  6. How terrible it will be for you Torah- teachers and church leaders! Hypocrites! You give to God a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, but you forget about the more important matters of the Law: justice, peace, and faith. You ought to give a tenth but without forgetting about those more important matters. You blind guides! You filter out an ant but swallow a camel.

  7. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. Matthew 23:23-25 (combined translations)

  8. When Jesus does oppose human sinfulness, it is the sins of malice with which he has no patience; the sins of weakness are always patiently healed . Jesus and the prophets deal with the root cause, which is always our radical egocentricity. Our problem is not usually our shadow self nearly as much as our over-defended ego, which always sees, hates, and attacks its own faults in other people, and thus avoids its own conversion. - Richard Rohr

  9. On a cultural level, shadow means what our group, our tribe, our religion, our political party deems negative, out of bounds, to be shunned, to be improved, or to be punished. Behind every social oppression lurks a piece of group shadow whose members are exporting it onto others who are not of their tribe. When the shadow part is not faced, it goes unconscious and lives there. -Ann Belford Ulanov

  10. We cannot really get rid of the shadow; we can only expose its game which is, in great part, to get rid of its effects. Or as it states in Ephesians, Anything exposed to the light turns into light itself (5:14). The cause of our unrecognized and fully operative evil is our egocentricity, not our weaknesses. Only those who are converted can say like Paul, When I am weak, I am strong (2 Corinthians 12:10).

  11. Sin and Shadow 1st Half and 2nd Half (of Life and of Religion) Jesus the Messiah and the Apostle Paul

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