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McatholicN
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What exactly is it meant that we should be against the world? I mean, I spend a lot of time on and enjoy my hobbies and interests, but does following Christ mean giving up all these things and all pleasures?
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Credo_in_Deum
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Christianity is not against hobbies or pleasure but rather the improper use of them. The world’s maxims want you to view material things and pleasurable things as an end in themselves while Christianity wants you to view these things as a means to our final end. With that said we are called to view them and value them in their true light. These things can never be loved above God and all things must be done to give glory to God.
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Bookcat
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no.What exactly is it meant that we should be against the world? I mean, I spend a lot of time on and enjoy my hobbies and interests, but does following Christ mean giving up all these things and all pleasures?
The phrase “the world” is used in different senses in Scripture (and spiritual writers etc). The sense you are referring to does not mean the created world or the world in any good sense…or good hobbies etc.
The “world” in the pejortative sense is referring to “the world of sin”…that which is contrary to God.
Another sense (not the pejorative sense) is “God so loved the world…”
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thistle
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NO!!What exactly is it meant that we should be against the world? I mean, I spend a lot of time on and enjoy my hobbies and interests, but does following Christ mean giving up all these things and all pleasures?
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puzzleannie
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it means prefering and catering to secular values of the world rather than to God’s will. A politician choosing expediency and getting elected by voting for gay marriage, abortion or other immoral laws is an example. he has chosen the world and rejected God.What exactly is it meant that we should be against the world? I mean, I spend a lot of time on and enjoy my hobbies and interests, but does following Christ mean giving up all these things and all pleasures?
It does not mean the world itself is evil, that is a heresy. The world and all in it are good, created good and their good comes from the Creator. When these things are used to do evil or bring about evil that is also preferring the world to the Creator. When the creation and created things are worshipped as gods in themselves, that is also a perversion.
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