{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-14/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we go far back in time, we come to times when blood ties played an increasingly important role. They were the basis of what we call love. Love existed only between those in whose veins related blood flowed. In those days, close marriage prevailed. Later, distant marriage replaced close marriage. At that time, only shared blood brought about love. As humanity developed through later eras, the peoples became more and more mixed. The Jewish people felt even more the togetherness of the common blood. But in those days, when Christianity arose, the time began when the peoples were mixed up. That was also the beginning of the time of a new love that is not based on blood. Christ Jesus said: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.” (Matthew 10:37). “If anyone comes to me and does not hate (leave) his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, he cannot be my disciple.” This saying must be interpreted in such a way that at the beginning of the development of the earth, those who were related loved each other; but at the end of the development of the earth, people will love and recognize each other in soul love. That brotherly love that goes from soul to soul, that comes from the spirit, that is the love that takes its starting point from the power of Christ Jesus, which will gain more and more ground in humanity. Where the same blood flowed, there one felt as a member of a group ego. At the end of human development, one will feel as a member of the whole of humanity. One will then seek the “I am” not in the blood of the tribe or people, but in the spirit and in the truth. The Old Testament worships the God in the foundations of nature; in the New Covenant, God will be worshipped in that which is prior to nature, in the spirit and in truth. Even for those who were intimately connected with the Lord, it was not readily understandable how that other love should take the place of the love of blood. Only the Lord's favorite disciple understood this. The other evangelists still tell the whole line of descent to the father Abraham. But the one who came into the world as the being that was embodied in Christ Jesus, he could say: “Before Abraham was, the I AM was.” (John 8:58) That the favorite disciple had understood. He goes up to the extra-temporal in his presentation. There is no external contradiction between the Gospel of John and the other Gospels. It is only the difference between a subordinate and a higher point of view. We are dealing here with different perspectives. If we know this, then we also understand the old Bible interpreters. They knew that one can describe the truth from different points of view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"35. The Gospel of John and the Future of Christianity","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-14","location":null,"word_count":484,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-12-14/p037","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19071214p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-14/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"Wenn wir weit zurückgehen in der Zeiten Wende, dann kommen wir in Zeiten, in denen die Blutsgemeinschaft eine immer größere Rolle spielt. Sie war damals die Grundlage dessen, was wir Liebe nennen. Die Liebe bestand nur bei denen, in deren Adern gemeinschaftliches, verwandtes Blut floss. Damals herrschte die Nah-Ehe. Später trat die Fern-Ehe anstelle der Nah-Ehe. Damals bewirkte nur das gemeinsame Blut die Liebe. Indem sich die Menschheit durch spätere Zeitläufe hindurch entwickelte, wurden die Völker immer mehr untereinandergemischt. Das jüdische Volk empfand noch mehr die Zusammengehörigkeit des gemeinsamen Blutes. Aber damals, als das Christentum entstand, da begann die Zeit, wo die Völker durcheinandergemischt wurden. Da begann auch die Zeit einer neuen Liebe, die nicht auf das Blut gebaut ist. Der Christus Jesus sprach: «Wer Vater oder Mutter mehr liebt denn mich, der ist mein nicht wert.» (Mt 10,37). «So jemand zu mir kommt und hasst nicht (verlässt nicht) seinen Vater, Mutter, Weib, Kinder, Brüder, Schwestern — der kann nicht mein Jünger sein.» (Lk 14,26). Dieser Spruch muss so gedeutet werden, dass am Anfang der Erdenentwicklung die sich liebten, die verwandt waren; aber am Ende der Erdentwicklung werden die Menschen sich lieben und erkennen in seelischer Liebe. Jene Bruderliebe, die von Seele zu Seele geht, die aus dem Geiste stammt, das ist die Liebe, die ihren Ausgangspunkt nimmt von der Kraft des Christus Jesus, die immer mehr Boden in der Menschheit gewinnen wird. Wo gleiches Blut floss, da fühlte man sich als ein Glied von einem Gruppen-Ich. Am Ende der Menschheitsentwicklung wird man sich fühlen als Angehöriger der ganzen Menschheit. Das «Ich bin» wird man dann nicht im Blute des Stammes oder Volkes, sondern im Geiste und in der Wahrheit suchen. Das Alte Testament betet den Gott in der Naturgrundlage an, in dem Neuen Bunde wird der Gott angebetet werden in dem, was vor der Natur veranlagt ist, im Geiste und in der Wahrheit. Auch für die, die intim mit dem Herrn verbunden waren, war es nicht ohne Weiteres verständlich, wie an jene Stelle der Blutsliebe jene andere Liebe treten sollte. Der Lieblingsjünger des Herrn, der verstand das allein. Die andern Evangelisten erzählen noch die ganze Stammeslinie bis zum Vater Abraham. Aber der, der als die Wesenheit in die Welt kam, die in dem Christus Jesus verkörpert war, der konnte sagen: «Bevor Abraham war, war das »». (Joh 8,58) Das hatte der Lieblingsjünger verstanden. Er geht bei seiner Darstellung bis zu dem Außerzeitlichen hinauf. Nicht ein äußerer Widerspruch liegt zwischen dem Johannesevangelium und den anderen Evangelien. Es ist nur der Unterschied zwischen einem untergeordneten und einem höheren Standpunkt. Mit verschiedenen Perspektiven haben wir es hier zu tun. Wenn wir dies wissen, dann verstehen wir auch die alten Bibelausleger. Sie wussten, dass man das Wahre schildern kann von verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten aus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":460,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-12-14/p037"}],"english":["GA 68a/1907-12-14/p037"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":460,"en_words":484,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5065,"original_word_count":4785,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19071214p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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