Saul's Passion
This passage depicts Saul as a very selfish tyrant, yet everyone has this potential within themselves. This passage really brought to life for me the desire to have moral passion. Moral passion is something that many have tried to create. Because of the way God wired us we understand that many things are wrong or right. Although we know these things in our root nature, we tend to be irrational and sin anyway. The heart of this as seen in our culture has resulted largely from Machiavelli and Nietzsche. Machiavelli decided that since the spirit, or the moral part of us that is there to control our passion, can fall into hypocrisy and is not likely to ever be perfected in this life that people should seek success in this life. In other words realism began forming and the soul that God placed within man lost it's voice. Nietzsche took this further and eventually to solve the problem within man between the conflict of passion and morality, relativism sought to say that passion was moral because all morality is relative. This passage shows the need within all of mankind for our passions to be unified with God's will, otherwise we will end up outside of God's will.
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