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==Historic Language Prominence==
==Historic Language Prominence==
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! scope="col" style="width: 33%" | Orthodoxy
! scope="col" style="width: 50%" | Orthodoxy
! scope="col" style="width: 33%" | Modernity
! scope="col" style="width: 50%" | Modernity
! scope="col" style="width: 33%" | Modernity
! scope="col" style="width: 50%" | Modernity
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|  style="width: 33%"| Koine Greek ||  style="width: 33%"| Hellenistic Period<br />Byzantine Empire || style="width: 33%"| 323 BC - 33 BC<br />286 AD - 1453 AD
|  style="width: 33%"| God-centered ||  style="width: 33%"| Man-centered || style="width: 33%"| Man-centered
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| Latin || Roman Empire<br />Roman Catholicism || 27 BC - 476 AD into 1700s
| Spiritual-Material — Theanthropos (God-man comm-union) || Materialistic — Capitalist and Communist
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| Italian || Western Europe - Renaissance || 1300 - 1700 AD
| Dispassionate (apatheia) for union with God || Sensual (passionate) for pleasure in material abundance, wealth, power
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| Spanish || Spanish Empire || 1500 AD - 1800 AD
| Humble — repententance, confession || Proud — self-esteem, self-justification
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| French || French Empire || 1600 AD - 1800 AD
| Unmercenary — serves neighbor (others) || Mercenary — self-serving
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| English || British Empire<br />American Western Globalism || 1800 AD - 1945 AD<br />1945 AD - present
| Corporeal — Humanity as Body of Christ, Church as Family of Man || Individualistic — provide Corporatism a mobile labor force, increase Consumerism
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| Theosis — comm-union with God, relation of Humanity (and all Creation through Humanity) to God || Sin — separation from God, proliferation of fallen lack of comm-union with Divinity
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| God is source of everything || Self-centered; selfish exploitation of Creation for self-fulfillment
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| Reliance on infallible Divinity || Reliance on fallible human science and technology
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| '''''Divine attributes''''':<br />1) Omnibenevolent (all good)<br />2) Omnipotent (all powerful)<br />3) Omnipresent (all present)<br />4) Omniscient (all knowing)<br />5) Oneness, interconnectivity of everything with God || '''''Human technological characteristics''''':<br />1) Proliferation of 'goods' for convenience and luxury<br />2) Advanced weaponry, atomic bomb<br />3) High speed transportation and communication<br />4) High speed internet (proliferation of 'information')<br />5) Internet of Things
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| Divinization by God || Self-seeking to be god without God; usurpation of the Divine by man
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| Temple for worship of God || Tower of Babel (industrial urbanization) striving to reach heaven (achieve Divinity) by self alone
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| Worship of the One, True, Living God || Idolization of fallen, selfish humanity
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| Loves and serves God who is spirit and truth || Loves and serves materialistic Mammon (lie of the Father of Lies)
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| Remembrance of God, Remembrance of Death || God denying, Death defying
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| Resurrection || Anti-aging, Transhumanism
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| Truth about God, Man and the World || Living the Lie, Illusion-Delusion
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| Illumination, Vision of God who is Light, Life and Love || Rationalistic Enlightment, spiritual blindness, temporal life of darkness
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