Concluding Statements on Glory

What is the purpose of glory?

Readership: All
Theme: Glory
Length: 700 words
Reading Time: 3.5 minutes

Overview of This Month’s Theme

Originally, I had planned 3 posts on glory to sort out some issues of confusion on this topic.  In response, a couple readers sent in submissions and I had some more ideas too.  Then, commenter Excelsis suggested that this month’s theme should be about Glory.  I thought this was a fantastic suggestion so I ran with it!

I also invited a number of co-bloggers and those who have contributed writings to the Christian Manosphere and/or Σ Frame in the past to write a short post on the topic of glory.

Here is a list of all the posts that appeared this month.  Names of contributing authors are given in parentheses.

1. Σ Frame (Jack): Glory (2023/3/1)
2. Σ Frame (Anonymous contributor, Jack): Disrespecting the Lord (2023/3/3)
3. Σ Frame (WhiteGuy1): Glorifying God in the Flesh (2023/3/6)
4. Σ Frame (Red Pill Apostle): Glorifying God through Obedience (2023/3/8)
5. Σ Frame (Jack): The TLDR on Suffering (2023/3/10)
6. Σ Frame (Elspeth): The Glory of the Glory (2023/3/13)
7. Σ Frame (Rowena): God’s Glory is Obstructed by Pride (2023/3/15)
8. Σ Frame (Rock Kitaro): Glorifying God Through the Courage of Upholding His Moral Laws (2023/3/17)
9. Σ Frame (Catacomb Resident): The Glorious Warlord (2023/3/20)
10. Σ Frame (Oscar): Order Out of Chaos (2023/3/22)
11. Σ Frame (Jack): God is Not Gentle (2023/3/24)
12. Σ Frame (Readers’ commentaries, Jack): Drama and Glory (2023/3/25)
13. Σ Frame (WhiteGuy1): Glorifying God through Spiritual Gifts (2023/3/27)
14. Σ Frame (Jack): Glorifying God by Being Yourself (2023/3/29)
15. Σ Frame (Jack): Concluding Statements on Glory (2023/3/31)

Pros

Throughout this month’s writings, we’ve identified many elements of that which glorifies God.

1. A culture that is ordered in justice and the fear of God
2. Being one’s self (in Christ), e.g. charisma, confidence, etc.
3. Battle, Competition, Conflict, Opposition, etc., specifically overcoming these.
4. Drama
5. Drawing the Line on the Unacceptable
6. Enjoyment; Joy
7. Ethnic identification and affiliation (e.g. belonging, group loyalty, humility)
8. Faithfulness
9. Fearlessness; Overcoming Fear and Shame
10. Fulfilling Purpose; Working heartily;
11. Grace
12. Honor, praise, or admiration.
13. Justice
14. Mercy
15. Nations turning from Chaos → Tyranny → Faith
16. Obedience to authority
17. Playing a Role (c.f. an appeal to Mythos)
18. Power; Military might; Martial prowess
19. Raising the Bar on Commitment
20. Righteousness
21. Self-sacrifice
22. Sexual Dimorphism (Masculinity vs. Femininity)
23. Submission to Authority (e.g. Subutu, Wives*)
24. Suffering
25. Taking a stand
26. Thankfulness; Having a grateful attitude;
27. The insignificant, small, and sometimes shameful things of this world
28. Creation; The wild and untamed natural world
29. Using Earthly / Fleshly / Physical Gifts
30. Using Spiritual Gifts to minister to others needs.

We glorify God when many of these elements are manifested in our own lives.  Many stories of martyrs and saints have similar elements, and this is how they glorified God.  We also glorify God whenever we share or hear these stories recounted.

Cons

We’ve also identified a few things which detract from the glory of God.

1. Anger
2. Bitterness; Joylessness
3. Boasting
4. Cowardice
5. Denying the power of God, or attributing it to Satan.
6. Dishonor; Shame
7. Disrespect
8. Faithlessness; Unbelief
9. False Humility
10. Fear
11. Identity Politics
12. Legalism; The “leaven of the Pharisees”
13. Compromising for the sake of peace; Convergence; Ressentimenalism. The “leaven of Herod”  
14. Over-the-top or self-centered Drama
15. Pride; Claiming self-sufficiency; Denying God’s providence.
16. Rebellion
17. Self-Pity
18. Sin; Guilt; Unrighteousness
19. Status Signaling
20. Virtue Signaling
21. Vain works of the flesh

Observations

This month, a number of topics came up as related to Glory, some of which I didn’t expect. 

• The place of Humility.
• The purpose and role of Suffering.
• The Warlord archetype.
• “To whom much is given, much will be required.”

Overall, this series addressed some questions that may have been confusing or not well understood.

1. Why dominant masculinity is glorifying.
2. Why submissive femininity is glorifying.*
3. Developing one’s natural abilities / gifts is one way a man can discover and establish a domain of authority and a sphere of influence.
4. Man is the glory of God.  The woman is the glory of the man.*
5. The purpose of tyranny is to restore order after a time of chaos.
6. We cannot know ourselves well unless we keep “looking in the mirror” (using the Biblical analogy), which means that we must continually be engaged in ministry.

In summary, I learned many things from this excursion and I found some of the implications to be rather intriguing.  It is my hope that this month’s series has helped readers understand what it means to glorify God, such that they may identify the many ways they can do so in their daily lives, and have more confidence in doing so.

Related

* In Affirmative Action for Baby Makers (2020/12/14), Sharkly has outlined the basic set of traits that have gone missing from Femininity over the last several decades. Basically, Sharkly’s message is that a woman’s overriding purpose in life is to glorify her husband, which is an archetype of how Christians glorify God.  This is a Truth that has been thoroughly denigrated and buried under all the lies of Feminism.

• Σ Frame: What is glorification? (2019/3/23)