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There is no indication that God explained to Joseph what He was doing through those many years of heartache or how the pieces would eventually fit together. He had no ways of knowing that he would eventually enjoy a triumphal reunion with his family. He was expected, as you and I are, to live out his life one day at a time in something less than complete understanding. What pleased God was Joseph__ faithfulness when nothing made sense.

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James C. Dobson

Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.

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James C. Dobson

Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*, authentic *Being*-one__-Self is just the sort of thing that does not keep on saying ___; but in its reticence it _*is*_ that thrown entity as which it can authentically be. The Self which the reticence of resolute existence unveils is the primordial phenomenal basis for the question as to the Being of the ___. Only if we are oriented phenomenally by the meaning of the Being of the authentic potentiality-for-Being-one__-Self are we put in a position to discuss what ontological justification there is for treating substantiality, simplicity, and personality as characteristics of Selfhood. In the prevalent way of saying __,_ it is constantly suggested that what we have in advance is a Self-Thing, persistently present-at-hand; the ontological question of the Being of the Self must turn away from any such suggestion.*Care does not need to be founded in a Self. But existentiality, as constitutive for care, provides the ontological constitution of Dasein__ Self-constancy, to which there belongs, in accordance with the full structural content of care, its Being-fallen factically into non-Self-constancy*. When fully conceived, the care-structure includes the phenomenon of Selfhood. This phenomenon is clarified by Interpreting the meaning of care; and it is as care that Dasein__ totality of Being has been defined.___rom_Being and Time_. Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, pp. 369-370

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What is the motive for this __ugitive_ way of saying ___? It is motivated by Dasein__ falling; for as falling, it *flees* in the face of itself into the __hey._ When the ___ talks in the __atural_ manner, this is performed by the they-self. What expresses itself in the ___ is that Self which, proximally and for the most part, I am *not* authentically. When one is absorbed in the everyday multiplicity and the rapid succession [*Sich-jagen] of that with which one is concerned, the Self of the self-forgetful __ am concerned_ shows itself as something simple which is constantly selfsame but indefinite and empty. Yet one *is* that with which one concerns oneself. In the __atural_ ontical way in which the ___ talks, the phenomenal content of the Dasein which one has in view in the "I" gets overlooked; but this gives *no justification for our joining in this overlooking of it*, or for forcing upon the problematic of the Self an inappropriate __ategorial_ horizon when we Interpret the ___ ontologically.Of course by thus refusing to follow the everyday way in which the ___ talks, our ontological Interpretation of the ___ has by no means *solved* the problem; but it has indeed *prescribed the direction* for any further inquiries. In the __,_ we have in view that entity which one is in __eing-in-the-world_.Being-already-in-a-world, however, as Being-alongside-the-ready-to-hand-within-the-world, means equiprimordially that one is ahead of oneself. With the ___, what we have in view is that entity for which the *issue* is the Being of the entity that it is. With the ___, care expresses itself, though proximally and for the most part in the __ugitive_ way in which the ___ talks when it concerns itself with something. The they-self keeps on saying ___ most loudly and most frequently because at bottom it *is not authentically* itself, and evades its authentic potentiality-for-Being. If the ontological constitution of the Self is not to be traced back either to an ___-substance or to a __ubject_, but if, on the contrary, the everyday fugitive way in which we keep on saying ___ must be understood in terms of our *authentic* potentiality-for-Being, then the proposition that the Self is the basis of care and constantly present-at-hand, is one that still does not follow. Selfhood is to be discerned existentially only in one__ authentic potentiality-for-Being-one__-Self__hat is to say, in the authenticity of Dasein__ Being *as care*. In terms of care the *constancy of the Self*, as the supposed persistence of the *subjectum*, gets clarified. But the phenomenon of this authentic potentiality-for-Being also opens our eyes for the *constancy of the Self*, in the double sense of steadiness and steadfastness, is the *authentic* counter-possibility to the non-Self-constancy which is characteristic of irresolute falling. Existentially, _*Self-constancy*_ signifies nothing other than anticipatory resoluteness. The ontological structure of such resoluteness reveals the existentiality of the Self__ Selfhood."__rom_Being and Time_. Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, pp. 368-369

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As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.

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James C. Dobson

Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future