Fr. Mark Link, SJ’s, The Spiritual Exercise, is a short article that compares the differences between the two strategies of how Satan and Jesus affect people in our world today. The two strategies go in great depth and explicitly explain how each strategy brings people closer (or farther) to the Kingdom of God. In The Spiritual Exercise, these strategies are identified as the “path of light” and the “path of darkness.” The “path of light” is the way of life in which a person adheres to Jesus’s strategy of goodwill and is not attached to “worldly possessions, pleasures, and honors.” By following the “path of light,” the follower would be willing to accept poverty over wealth, suffering, and humiliation over comfort and honor. As said in The
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Going down the “path of darkness” leads to a life of worldly recognition and the thought of one having superiority over another. According to C.S. Lewis’s, Mere Christianity, arrogance and an abundance of pride leads “…to every other vice. A person with such a pride cannot know God.” Likewise, Charles Colson, one of President Nixon’s aides, described the “path of darkness” (pride, arrogance, and superiority) as “a spiritual cancer that eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” Therefore, following the “path of darkness” will lead to an everlasting life of dependence on power, wealth, and many other factors that work hand-in-hand with the topic of pride and …show more content…
Examples of this can be found in the movie Jesus of Nazareth. At 1:46:52, characters of Jesus of Nazareth are shown going against Jesus when he said that the Kingdom of God was upon them. When they heard this, they reacted to Jesus’s claims as if it was blasphemy and they begin to not believe him. They then proceed to tell him he cannot touch the scroll because of his “dirty hands.” This can be concluded as an example of people following the “path of darkness” being that they are going against everything Jesus had to say. However, at 6:04:04, people are seen following the “path of light.” Here, Peter and a few others listen to Virgin Mary when she claimed that Jesus came back to life (or was resurrected). They proceed to the tomb where Jesus was buried and see for their own eyes that Jesus was back to life. This can be concluded as an example of people following the “path of light” because it shows people actively taking Jesus’s words for who he actually
Going down the “path of darkness” leads to a life of worldly recognition and the thought of one having superiority over another. According to C.S. Lewis’s, Mere Christianity, arrogance and an abundance of pride leads “…to every other vice. A person with such a pride cannot know God.” Likewise, Charles Colson, one of President Nixon’s aides, described the “path of darkness” (pride, arrogance, and superiority) as “a spiritual cancer that eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” Therefore, following the “path of darkness” will lead to an everlasting life of dependence on power, wealth, and many other factors that work hand-in-hand with the topic of pride and …show more content…
Examples of this can be found in the movie Jesus of Nazareth. At 1:46:52, characters of Jesus of Nazareth are shown going against Jesus when he said that the Kingdom of God was upon them. When they heard this, they reacted to Jesus’s claims as if it was blasphemy and they begin to not believe him. They then proceed to tell him he cannot touch the scroll because of his “dirty hands.” This can be concluded as an example of people following the “path of darkness” being that they are going against everything Jesus had to say. However, at 6:04:04, people are seen following the “path of light.” Here, Peter and a few others listen to Virgin Mary when she claimed that Jesus came back to life (or was resurrected). They proceed to the tomb where Jesus was buried and see for their own eyes that Jesus was back to life. This can be concluded as an example of people following the “path of light” because it shows people actively taking Jesus’s words for who he actually