MORE THAN ONE WORLD 7-5-17
Conservative Christians,
who abhor the thought of “one world” politically, buy into the “one world”
scientifically without thought. It is a huge, anti-biblical mistake.
There is but one world,
they agree, the physical, so that means the Bible has to be a book of science,
with a cosmology that is different from that of the physicists and astronomers.
Because of that grievous and tragic misunderstanding of the Bible and of
religious faith, Christians are universally ridiculed and real faith is not
even considered. [No, heaven and hell are not separate worlds for
conservatives. They are simply extensions of this one physical world.]
The Bible is not a book of
science, it is a book of faith, which means it is a book of story and spirit.
The Bible does not buy
into the simplistic one physical world of the secular scientists, nor the
simplistic one physical world of the conservative Christians. It tells the
story of another world, a spirit world.
Make no mistake, Christianity
is physical, incarnational, God in Christ in the flesh. Everything about us in
this world is physical, including the place in the brain where our religious
sentiments are housed. But that place in the brain, those physical atoms, is
there to allow us to see beyond the one physical world into the spiritual
world.
As a book of spirit, not
science, the Bible is our resource.
As CS Lewis reminds us:
“You are not a body that has a soul. You are a soul that has a body.”
JRMcF
Yes, I know. I said I would
not think or write theologically for a whole year to see if I can be a “real”
Christian instead of just a professional Christian. Some days it just doesn’t
go very well.
You are right! Bible is not a scientific or literary book. on the contrary it is a transcript of faith that provides spiritual guidance to all its followers.
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