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Monday Morning Grind: Guilt and Guano
||October 29, 2007|892 reads
 

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Shandon Guthrie
October 29, 2007

A late secular professor of philosophy at Cambridge University, Bernard Williams, once wrote a book entitled Shame and Necessity.  What was interesting was his thoughtful conclusion that things like guilt and shame only make sense in the presence of a person.  So, why do we experience these things when nobody is around?  Or perhaps we sin apart from anybody knowing about it . . . yet we still feel the shame.  Williams' solution was to posit some vacuous "internalized other" - a mere personality projection (that we imagine someone inside but apart from ourselves).  However, this seems to me to constitute grounds for the reality of God's presence, not a schizophrenic "internalized other."  As Romans 2:15 reminds us,

"[The Gentiles] show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their  consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them."

As Bette Midler's famous song From a Distance reminds us, "God is watching us!"

Greg DeWitt
October 30, 2007
That was very insightful, Jessca.
J Doss
October 30, 2007

Thanks for not using my name in regards to the bird poop incident.....DOH

Great post Greg.  S L Guthrie.  I always enjoy you insight 

Lee Maxwell
October 30, 2007
HAHAHAHAHAHA.... POOP!!! Oh man... I'll probably get pooped on next week just for laughing!
roselin
October 30, 2007

Guilt can be corrupted.
It can be extremely deadly,one needs to follow up or do the needful otherwise can be drawn towards sin.We have to pull ourself from the pit of guilt and start walking with the Lord.No matter how drenched we are He has the power to deliver us and place us at the best .

 

Greg DeWitt
October 30, 2007
You're right, and wallowing in guilt keeps us from the Lord. Wouldn't that be selfish of a person to stay in a state of feeling guilty? How can we be useful like this?