As I stated in my earlier post, I started reading Jay Bakker's book, Faith and Doubt recently.
It is a great read so far and very challenging to my comfort zone, which I love. (I know something is wrong with me).
As the late Jamie Buckingham said, " the truth shall set you free but first it will make you miserable. "
Jay speaks to many of the doubts I have had and I believe most Christians If they were honest about it.
I will go into more about the book when I have finished it.
There is today a distrust or lack of interest in what many call religion.
On one the side of the coin you have a blind but ignorant holding to old ideals that seem to fly in the face of fact or reason. These ideals are simply held to because they are sacred teachings that have been handed down and must not ever be questioned or we might have to admit we got some things wrong. Which is a problem because we were told God gave us these teachings. When in fact we looked at scripture through our own prejudice and inferences. Ok, let go of the pride or in today's vernacular, Get over yourself!
On the other side of the coin are those who in light of the latter's extremism would rather throw out the baby with the bath water and believe nothing. This would make everything much easier and if I am honest the thought has occurred to me as well, but this denies the spiritual nature of human beings which brings it's own bankruptcy and consequences to living a fulfilled life.
There is a better way without giving into either extreme.
I believe if the Christian faith is going to have any relevance in society today, it will need to get serious with the discrepancies and disconnect it has with most people today or it will go the way of every other outdated obsolete idealogy. Don't get me wrong, I believe the message of Christ, the Gospel (Good News) is very relevant. It's the mockery and institution that religion has built in its place that needs to be dealt with.
This will be some of the discussion I will be having on this blog.
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