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wild (but not uncultivated) musings of a Canadian unschool momHome | Archives | contact I'm a FedHead (Part 1)10:37 PM - Feb. 9, 2007 - Add to the Wildness
The whole very long story is, I came away from the funeral with my faith strengthened. The reason was because I know what it is like to live with a spiritual awareness that includes no personal knowledge of and relationship to the person of God. Does that make sense, or is it church jargon? Let me break it down. I used to live with a strong spiritual awareness. I had many spiritual experiences, some of them unexplainable in materialistic terms. But I never thought of God as person the way you are a person and I am. I never thought of God as having thoughts in the same way as I do. I never thought of God as expressing Himself in a gender-based term. I never thought of God as having a personality, perhaps just a presence. And I certainly never thought of God as someone who could be known the way you get to know people. The end result was a bloody trail of personal disaster. “And there you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.” – Deut. 4:28-29 Why seek a God who lets a man like Victor die? Worse, why seek a God who lets people die without knowing Him at all, if the Bible is accurate about hell? Good questions. This is going to take about four posts. Try not to fall asleep. Again, it comes back to the difference between the non-Christian world view and the Christian one – the presuppositions one starts from. I’m not going to do a huge hash-over of the Biblical perspective on the existence of death and suffering – you can find it by clicking here. You’ll want to do that first, or the rest of what I say may not make too much sense. The non-Christian needs to understand that the biblical hell is not one where Satan rules, like some Far Side cartoon, but one where the devil is punished for his rebellion against God. “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.’” - Matthew 25:41 Again, we go back to Genesis. So we have a perfect man and woman, created without sin, never to die, who have just messed it all up. They are now separated from God, and slowly dying, they will end in death. Why do Christians think that means all people go to hell without Christ? Well, primarily because of verses like the Matthew ref above, where Jesus says so. But non-Christians don’t abide by “Jesus said so,” and that’s fine. They have no basis to do so. The point is to understand what’s behind some of the things Christians say, not necessarily to agree with them. The reasoning behind this goes to a teaching you don’t hear much about anymore. In fact, a lot of Christians would deny it even exists, because they've compromised the biblical basis for it. However, if you really want to understand how anyone can think Adam’s moment of foolhardy rebellion somehow ends up being your fault, you have to know about something old-time theologians call federal headship. This is an extremely logically ornate teaching, and ours is a culture of stupidity by design, so maybe that explains why so few people can iterate federal headship anymore. Christians, this is why it's bad to follow the culture's lead. Tsk, tsk. Next time: A math-ish approach to ye olde doctrine.
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