Text: Liu Shupeng | Edit: FISHER
After two or three days of rain, it finally stopped. Open the window early in the morning and see the early summer sun see through the clouds, and the air is cool and fresh.
It was a good rain for the wheat that had just been spat out, and farmers affectionately called it "grouting rain." Because of this rain, the wheat grain will be fuller.
I took a few tomatoes and rinsed them under the tap. Clear water flows through round, bright persimmons, stirring up bright splashes.
I often wash tomatoes, but today's scene seems to be seen for the first time. All I've seen in the past is washing away goods Bought in the market with tap water. What we see today is the fruit of the kissing of the land by the spring water drawn from the depths of the earth.
The scene in front of me made me feel like I was under God's care and enjoying His generous gifts. My heart is filled with peace and joy.
However, many times people do not feel this. People's brains are filled with commodity consciousness, measuring everything that is alive in exchange for equal value.
Long before World War II, the philosopher Heidegger noticed that with the rise of modern technology, with the advancement of factory automation, environmental development, and modern management methods, human beings are increasingly unscrupulously challenging the earth to obediently hand over what they want from it.
Man oppresses all things, forces the earth to hand over coal and oil, and extracts grain to the maximum extent possible through technologies such as fertilizers and pesticides. This challenge and destruction of the earth will eventually bring disasters to humanity itself. In particular, the covid-19 pandemic, which has spread around the world, has once again sounded the alarm bell to proud human beings.
Compared with these external disasters, people's hearts are becoming more and more desertified, and they are more and more lost in utilitarianism and calculation.
Heidegger pondered and finally had to find a glimmer of hope in art. He believed that art could focus on things in a non-mediocre way. Everything is lost in pragmatism, but in art it finds a way to manifest itself and preserve itself.
Heidegger's prescription for mankind has no real effect. It is true that art can bring some comfort to the human heart, but it is really difficult to let art save the human heart and even the lost world.
Heidegger was born into a Catholic family, the son of a church bell ringer. The sound of church bells left a deep impression on his memory. However, this eternal bell did not recall the prodigal son who had left home. This man who betrayed theology, with his strong brain, went further and further down the path of personal contemplation. Heidegger, though charming, did not take the path of truth.
In the face of theology, philosophy can only be regarded as a blind man touching an elephant. Philosophy may contribute to thinking about a certain aspect, but how can one find truth by abandoning the revelation from eternity and relying solely on one's own wisdom?
Many philosophers, however, have easily abandoned the ancient wisdom of the Bible and flaunted their speculations and imaginations. These so-called thinkers lead the blind like blind men, leading people into the pit again and again.
Yesterday, a little sister left me a message saying that my mother often reminded her, "Our ideas cannot exceed the gospel." How well this is said, it is precisely because people think more than the gospel that they cause all kinds of social problems.
The Russian writer Solzhenitsyn said in a speech that when old people talk about the disasters that Russia suffered in the twentieth century, they will wisely say that forgetting God will do this. In the same way, Heidegger's concern about the problems of the whole world is caused by the forgetting of God.
When Heidegger understood this, he would not go to Hölderlin or the poetry of Traker to find a way out, but would return and find the source of the problem in the ancient Scriptures, and he would also find the way out.
Anton. Mow Holland Farming
From the Old Testament to the New Testament, mercy and care are an extremely important theme. The prophet of Israel, Micah, said, "O world, the Lord has shown you what is good, and what does He ask you for?" As long as you walk righteously, mercifully, and humbly, walk with your God. (Micah 6:8)
There are many laws of mercy and care in the Old Testament. God requires that when people harvest, they must not cut off the corners of the fields, nor pick up the ears that have fallen on the ground, but leave them to the poor and the hermits; just as the fruit of the vineyards and olive groves should not be harvested, they should be left to the poor.
The mercy and care that the Bible speaks of is not only in people, but also in animals and the land. The law requires that when a cow kicks a grain in the field, it must not hold its mouth so that it can eat while it is working. If you encounter a bird's nest on the road, you should not take it with the mother and the chick. One can take away the chicks, but leave the mother bird so that it can continue to incubate the eggs and brood.
According to the law, not only were to rest on the Sabbath, but also the livestock were to rest on this day. Even the farmland needs to rest, and after six years of cultivation, the land must be let rest in peace in the seventh year. It is not possible to cultivate the land and repair the vineyards during the year. Crops that have been left behind cannot be harvested, and vines that are not repaired cannot be picked.
In order to avoid excessive use of the land, the law also stipulates that when planting vineyards, no other crops can be planted between the rows.
The theologian Fuster said, "The point of this lesson is that we should have benevolent jurisdiction over the land and the small animals that live on it." We must not treat the land with force, but with gentleness, kindness and cordiality. ”
Technology and commodities are the products of social development and have nothing to do with themselves. The problem is that humanity has repeatedly forgotten God and forgotten the Bible's teachings on mercy and care.
No matter how technology and the economy develop, humanity should not forget compassion and care. Treat others not only with compassion and care, but also with compassion and care for all things in nature. For It is god who treats us with mercy and care.