There are plenty of us that have brushed up against Christianity and have been left with an uncomfortable feeling. We have tried it and it left us feeling stale and lame and some of us decided to stay away based on those feelings. We refer to it as “searching” or “seeking” or “on a journey”, but what ever it is,it is totally normal to the human experience.
This experience is true for so many people. And because it is, then where has the church failed? Where did we blow it? When did we start mindless ideas that left people empty, angry, and ultimately separated from God? How has the church failed in our modern culture?
No one the bible is committing to the argument that God exists. The assumption is that He does. No one has to prove if reality exists, because it does. So then we don’t have to argue that God exists because He is the ultimate reality. So the writers of the bible were people making observations about what was already reality. Statements about God are assumptions about ultimate reality.
Jesus exposes us to the deepest levels of our existence. We have to remember that the religious right of his time was not Christianity, it was Judaism. Everything that he then taught was revolutionary to that contemporary religious order. So Jesus was not coming to just start a religious order that he thought was better. No. He came to expose things as they really are. Not through the eyes of religion, but through the eyes reality. Jesus is not calling us to a religious structure, he is calling us to how things are.
So as a “Christian”, we then should be people that are in tune or in harmony with how reality is at it’s deepest level. He didn’t come to create a new thing and then sit separated, he came to show us how it really is. We don’t have to defend reality.
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