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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9309122.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.} ========================================================== %UNIQUE DIFFERENT PERSON GOD GIVEN GIFTS CONFORM 930912 If God has created us as unique and different creatures, how then are we to conform to his will without doing violence to the unique characters and differences in ourselves and in each other person? How can we best be true to ourselves and to each other? Shall we try to make our eyes, hair color, skin color, weight and height conform to some "normal" standard. What human differences should we tolerate and what differences shall we refuse to respect? How shall we decide which to tolerate and which to respect? How can we creatively deal with this dilemma and at the same time conform to God's will as each of us in our creatively different ways understand what God's will for us and each other is? If we try to conform each other to our own various conceptions of what God's will is for each other, we are bound to generate conflicts which will be to us ultimate conflicts between our different conceptions of what God's will is for each other! This kind of conflict is not likely to lead us into personal and communal integrity. Invoking the Bible as the ultimate authority in resolving such conflicts does not resolve the dilemma, for history shows that many different kinds of people have sincerely used and abused the Bible in support of their many different conceptions of just what God's will is for each other. Used in such ways the Bible is not a means to personal and communal integrity. We cannot enjoy personal integrity if we are not true to ourselves and to each other; true to our differences. Conformity which does violence to our differences is not integrative conformity. When efforts to promote conformity undermine the possibility of us being true to ourselves and to each other they are disintegrative, and so are not worthy of respect and support. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================