Am I a Christian?
[...] The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
— Acts 11:26
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
— John 13:35
[...] The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
— Acts 11:26
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
— John 13:35
I'm still somewhat young and still have a lot to learn and a lot to live, but after many years of reading, studying, talking with people about faith, deconstruction, and reconstruction, I find myself very near the understanding of faith that I had as a kid.
Because ultimately it is very simple: Give everything you have, do, and are, to the weak and unworthy, by love.
So simple, so humanely impossible.
The reasons, and consequences, and our own human nature are what makes it complicated, and creates so much conflict about the meaning of it.
How to love someone to death?
How to love someone to death that doesn't deserve it?
How to love someone to death that may hate you?
“Behold, I make all things new” – Rev 21:5
We affirm that God, with His infinite creativity, made all the infinite variety of creation, but paradoxically we expect Him to repeat his stories in the same way He did in the past.