I like dictionary.com, but by this definition, artifact doesn't apply to any human being. Artefacts are created by human beings and can reflect a particular period of history.
On that basis I assume you meant it metaphorically, but I'm not clear on how you apply it to a human being and I'm not willing to guess.
Having been made sons of the Father, achieving artefact status is not something any of us should be very satisfied with during death bed reflections, I would have thought.
Again, I'm not sure what 'artefact status' means.
To define our own reality by reference to our 'life experience' ...
Whao! I didn't say our 'life experiences' define our reality. It represented a particular criticism of David Schindler in this context.
And rigid, prideful, contingent self-assertion is never going to end well, certainly not according to our potential, having been made as we are in the image and likeness of God.
'Rigid, prideful, contingent self-assertion'?
What about broad, sweeping, unjustified, condemnations? How are they going to 'end'?
Augustine's cor inquitem ...
John of the Cross ...
It's not at all clear how you recruit these insights into this conversation because I didn't like David Schindler.
Taking you on face value ('... it was actually a concerned question ...') I asked what you meant by 'contingent, historical artefact'. In reply, you supply a dictionary definition of artefact, which seems to have no relevance, and then go on to make statements which you virtually pull out of the air.
My first instinct was that it was a loaded question and not a 'concerned' question. Your response makes me think that instinct was correct.
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