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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8907181.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ACHIEVE SALVATION CONFORM SELF OTHER CONTROL 890718 If salvation is achieved through some kind of conformity to some standards of conventional behavior, it follows that control of self and other must play a central role in the community of the people saved. If being authentically one's own self with integrity is not the way of salvation, then there must be some exercise of external control to achieve salvation for self and/or for others. Such control must entail some form of coercion to get self and/or others to behave in conformal ways. Such coercion must violate natural tendencies to be one's own self with integrity; for being authentic with integrity is by hypothesis not the way of salvation. Thus by hypothesis the way to salvation entails a conflict between being one's self authentically with integrity; and being in conformity to some conventional way of behaving. Thus the means to salvation entails conflict between one's deepest nature and the way of salvation. Is it reasonable to believe that a supreme power of love would create us so that we would have to achieve our salvation through doing violence to our deepest nature? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================