I have sort of stepped back for a while now in blogging about theological veracity for a couple of reasons. Foremost I was reading and what I have been reading was difficult for me to process and put into words. The book I was, and am, reading develops a number of amazing and difficult lines of thought, but just as it looks like the author is going to pull the final curtain back and pull it all together he begins a new chapter on an entirely different thought. I keep saying, "Wait, we didn't finish with the last one!"
So I may have to take it apart and see if I can digest it not as a book but as a collection. Work has gotten more demanding and I am also in the planning stages of a kitchen redo.
A thought that has been running through my mind for a while, sort of coming and going, pretty much took up residence today in two parts. On one hand I am seeing what I believe is an opening within bodies of believers to new ideas and translations of scared scripture. On the same thought but the flip side I am finding more scientist coming out in support of divine guidance in the development of life. I can't say that I know why either is happening, but it seems like churches and fellowships are finally beginning to face the possibility that they do not have all of the answers, and science as well is beginning to face the possibility that their theories may not hold up to serious scrutiny.
At the same time I am seeing these two trends I see others who are becoming more hardened to any chance of their doctrine not being perfect. And that is to me the scary one.
I won't mention names of individuals or groups but I encountered a while ago an individual who wanted to know why I wasn't open to attending church with them. I replied it was because the church they attended took a hard line on a doctrine I didn't understand and further held in question. In question to the point that I think I can prove it is not biblical. This individual was so surprised they had nothing more to say. Almost couldn't speak they found my answer to be so out of range.
It seems to me that some Christians, (and yes this blog is about Christianity, I really know so little about other religions I can't address them. But beyond that I don't believe other religions offers salvation or an eternal reward) have assumed the stance that once they get salvation they are infallible and what THEY believe scriptures say is what it is.
I have family and friends in a number of different "faiths" and among them they believe in all kinds of beginning scenarios and end of time scenarios (eschatology for the theologists). Not all of them can be right, or "true." We got here, that much is obvious, so we had a beginning. But we only had one beginning. There is only one story of beginning. And we are leaving, as a species, as life, and it is going to happen one way. So some of us has to be misguided. But rather than admit we all may have flies in our ointment we seem to take hard stands and ostracize others.
I say all that because I am going to soon be presenting some ideas and process from this book "GOD According to God."
Stay tuned.
