Christianity for the Next 1000 Years
In the beginning, God created skies and earth.
We know today that the cosmos is far more vast and complicated than any the ancients could imagine. How are we going to envision God in our cosmos? What stories and poems will we tell to celebrate God?
Are we going to saddle God with the view of the first ten millennia of unscientific humanity and spend the next ten millennia denying scientific discoveries altogether or ignoring them through a twisted process of cognitive dissonance?
Do we not also possess the liberty and the imperative from God to envision God as true in a cosmos that is being manifested scientifically?
That is the task of theology. I believe people of faith cannot leave theology to preachers anymore. We must all become theologians as we learn about the world.
Even if we share a plethora of different doctrines, we must hold these in our hearts, but they do not define us as Christians. It is our love for one another, especially as Christians, that show the world the nature of God.
We must live a faith that proclaims love or our faith will perish.
Blessings…
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