A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome back.  

It's almost Christmas time.  I hope everyone is as excited as I am about it.  I love the lights, the songs, and the stories even more.

Christmas is a nice metaphor about reality and God.  In reality, Christmas is just another day in the calendar.  

In fact, December 25 is just another turn of our world as it orbits the sun.  

In fact, a day is a name we give to a turn of the world as it orbits the sun.

All that would pass unnoticed if human minds had not given names to these events.

You see, I think the nature of reality explains itself.  Anything that happens has a natural cause.  If we do not discover the cause, we will if we keep looking.  We do not need any supernatural agents to explain anything.

That way of thinking is called monism.

Now, monism is about oneness, but it is complicated.  To account for the plurality in the nature of reality (the phrase nature of reality implies duality, doesn't it?) philosophers have conceived of different monisms.  

Imagine that.  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which can be accessed online for free, explains different monisms.

Yes, December 25th is a day, but when we think of it, imagine it, experience it... that day...for centuries even before the Christ...that day with all of its oneness as a day is transcended by so much more.  We add the magic to that day.

Our faith imbues the reality with magic.  That is why Christianity can assimilate any philosophy because it is more about love than reason.  

Faith and reason are in a dynamic relationship with one another.  

We take a leap of faith where reason cannot move us.  We leap back to reason when faith tumbles down cliffs that fall into superstition and silliness.

But love transcends faith and reason.  We who are Christians experience the mystery of life as love’s conundrum.

Someone has said that when we stare into the abyss, we see it staring back…or maybe we see a reflection.  Some just see the abyss. 

We who love our God of love see all that and more, even a shadow of Being-itself within which we live, breathe, and have our being.

I look forward with glad expectation to that mere day to which our world turns and beyond.

Blessings…