{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 273/1919-01-19/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But these two basic feelings of which I have just spoken as arising from the two boundaries of self-knowledge and self-comprehension, these two feelings must find a crossing-point from a passive to an active Christianity. Just think how, for many people in the past, Christ has been nothing more than a helper in straits where a man is unable to help himself. Think of the strange way in which the Roman Catholic Church took on, at a certain time, the forgiveness of sins; anyone might sin as much as he liked, provided he repented and did due penance afterwards, he was forgiven. In short, Christ was there to help in time of need, to make good what men as a whole had no intention themselves of making good. And then look at the other, more Protestant error, where a man remains passive too, arranging his worldly life, his worldly activities, to suit himself, and then perhaps expecting that merely by belief in Christ, by a passive feeling of being united with Christ, he will be saved. This twofold passive relation to Christ belongs, and must belong, to the past. And what is to take its place must be a relation to Christ that is an active force, a going to meet Him, so that Christ does not do for a man what the man does not want to do, but gives him power through His being to do it himself. An active Christianity—or rather a Christianity that comes to activity—is what must take the place of passive Christianity in which actually (forgive the trivial mode of expression) a man does what he pleases on the physical plane, making God into a kindly friend who pardons everything if only man turns to Him at the right moment.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-01-19","location":null,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p010","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams","identified_edition":"UNK1930","book_title":"The Problem of Faust","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA273/English/UNK1930/19190119p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/273/1919-01-19/p010"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/273/1919-01-19/p010","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Schließlich, der Christus war da zum Helfen in der Not, zum Gutmachen desjenigen, was man selber gar nicht beabsichtigte in erheblichem Maße gutzumachen, von dieser Abirrung, wo man eigentlich auch passiv bleibt, das weltliche Leben, das weltliche Treiben für sich einrichtet, und dann womöglich nur dadurch, daß man an den Christus glaubt, daß man sich ganz in Passivität mit dem Christus verbunden fühlt, von dem Christus sich erlösen läßt — dieses zwiefache passive Verhalten zu dem Christus gehört und muß angehören der Vergangenheit. Und dasjenige, was an die Stelle treten muß, das muß sein ein Verhältnis zu dem Christus als zu einer aktiven Macht, ein Entgegengehen dem Christus so, daß er nicht für sich das tut, was man selber nicht gerne:tut, sondern so, daß er einem durch sein Dasein die Kraft gibt, selber etwas zu tun. 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