Christianity is not a one size fits all religion
I was thinking today, going through those little moments of doubt that we all have because we’re human (either that or I’m trying to justify my own deficiencies), and the question that occupied my mind this particular day was this:
If the Bible is the way to go, why is it only firm on a few points? Why doesn’t it cover many moral or ethical dilemmas?
For example, marriage and remarriage? Contraception?
Mulling it over, I came up with this answer:
Christianity is not a one size fits all religion. It’s to apply to everybody, and we’re all different. Some of us have certain scruples that others don’t share. In the end, there are few things we absolutely should or shouldn’t do, and a bunch of things that vary from person to person, situation to situation. So the basic, most important bits are in the Bible, but as for the rest of it, you have to seek God’s will.
Then I went and Googled this idea to see if I wasn’t just going off on a random, unsupported tangent, and lo and behold, I found Romans 14-15:7.
I guess maybe part of the reason we don’t have a bunch of clauses and articles in the Bible is so that we can grow in our relationship with God, get better at discerning when it’s Him, and even learn a little more about ourselves. Most importantly, so that we don’t get bogged down in the little stuff when it’s the big stuff that counts.
So that’s what I learned today.
You Know What I Want?
You know what I want?
I want to know how come we can read novels featuring an atheist protagonist in the general fiction section of a bookshop but a novel with a Christian protagonist gets shelved away under ‘Christian inspirational’ and goes off to a Christian book shop unless it’s PREACHER.
I want to know how come if Christianity is meant to be the way, why have we sequestered all its resources in Christian book shops, where nobody but Christians come.
I want to know how come all Christian ‘inspirational’ is termed bad writing, and even more, why it deserves that label, and why I can only think of about three Christian authors who write without a Deus ex Machina.
I want to know why you always read about the hypocritical Christians in novels, but you never read about the other 95%, the ones who really are on fire for God and just want to help people.
I wanna know why you never see books where the totally-godly Christian fouls up utterly and goes and has an affair or kills somebody or something and has to deal with it.
I wanna know if we’re too holy-holy to get close to, so much so that nobody knows what to do with us.
I wanna know what Jesus would do about this.
I want to know what we’re going to do about this.
Most of all, I want to make a difference.
