Friday, March 31, 2006

Things I agree with Christianity about:

*Disclaimer* ‘Agree’ doesn’t mean that the following are views I necessarily share. It just means I like them and find them beautiful.

1. Love

There are so many beautiful passages in the Bible about love, like these

“Greater love hath no man that this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life”

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul and with all thy might. This is the first and great commandment – the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”

And pretty much all of 1Cor13, especially:
“And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three. But the greatest of these is love”

If all Christians everywhere would focus on the Love part of their religion, it would be universally considered a beautiful faith.

2. Universal reconciliation

This is the third salvation view I mentioned in the Disagree post. This view says that whether or not we accept Jesus in this life, whether or not we’re good or bad in this life, no matter what we do, we will all eventually be saved. This to me really sits well with the loving God concept. This is an image of a Father (still using Christian patriarchal symbology ;o)) who will not permit any of his children to be lost, no matter how long it takes for them to be found. This is a beautiful belief.


Wow, I thought there would be more Agrees. Maybe there are – if so, I’ll post a part deux on this too.

1 Comments:

At 1:13 am, Blogger nelle said...

OK, you put some work into these two postings...

and you have touched on so much. So I am going to do this a little differently, given a need for space.

 

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