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wild (but not uncultivated) musings of a Canadian unschool momHome | Archives | contact High Stakes or Low?2:05 PM - Jan. 31, 2007 - Add to the Wildness
If post-modern neo-mysticism is the correct paradigm, I have nothing to lose. That's right - because, as one Wiccan friend put it to me, "I consider that those who have no god at all are at the opposite end of the spiritual spectrum from you and me." The fact that I seek god is good enough. How I do it is all subjective opinion. On that basis, there's no argument against my version of spirituality, even against my notions of absolutism, because those are just my opinions, and the dissent of others is just their opinion. So, they can feel safe in knowing they're not going to have to endure any kind of hell in the afterlife - and so can I. On the other hand: If the Bible defines the correct paradigm, those who disregard it have everything to lose. *If* the Bible is correct, then there is a heaven and a hell, and there is only one way to deal with their existence - the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ. As I continue my discussion with my new acquaintance over at Homestead, I realize that I have nothing to lose. He has everything to lose. If he's right about the subjectivity of life, it's no skin off my back. I don't even have to change my beliefs, because they're my opinions. If I'm right, though... then what? The stakes in disproving the Bible are massively high. I would not hold this worldview if there were any possible way to avoid it. It isn't a comfortable, happy view of the world. There are no rose-coloured glasses. There is only life and death. Eternal life, eternal death. I don't hold to it because I got scared of hell or desired heaven. I don't hold to it because it makes me feel better about my life. I hold to it because there is no other logical choice. And a million times over in the last eleven years, I would have discarded it if I could have reasoned my way out of it. It can't be done. It is the most falsifiable (ostensibly disprovable) system of spirituality out there - the most outrageous absolute claims in existence. Yet, here it stands. 2 Cor. 5:13 (NASB) For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
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