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Originally Posted by OBW
It does matter.
But my idealized self does not look like what I see that scripture as commanding. Otherwise I would more naturally think that way even if I have trouble carrying it out. But I need something outside me to remind me that mine is not the way.
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If it matters, I don't know what to do about it. I don't see how you can differentiate your view of Jesus from your idealized self. This ideal if not a consciously accessible objective Jesus. That Jesus will always be a "more or less" of our thought and imagination. Our idealized self is the not fully conscious self that is the source of our conscience and ideals. It is the Christ within us that Paul talks about in Galatians 2:20. The way we interpret the Jesus of scripture is in response to the inner Christ which is our idealized self.