A Variety of Randomousity
I have missed the first aniversary of my blog. On Sunday it turned 1 year old, oh I am so excited.
In other news as is the case with bible college the whole loss of faith is becoming a reality in my life. Now before any of you Christians start gushing over me and trying to console me I am actually beginning to view this as a blessing. Some times you just have to burn down the church to build a cathedral in its place (I was going to say community hall but...). Before I go any further let me just assure you I still believe in God and that no matter how hard I twist, God's existence is an immutable fact. I have faith in God and I have faith in the bible, I just don't have faith in Christianity. I think for the most part the religiousity of Christianity has got it wrong, has lost the plot and we have found ourselves in the same place as the Pharisees. I see WWJD as the epitomy of all that is wrong with Christianity, cheap and kitsch. We create a sub-culture beneath the world that mimics it exactly. We over spiritualise everything when being human means so much more than our spiritual selves. We preach at people but do not seek to change their situation. We become peacekeepers not peacemakers.
As it stands my current theological thoughts revolve around the fact that I am beginning to think that God wants us to be partners with him in salvation. That he has given us capabilities and talents and rather than God being this magicians hat that we pull the answer to our problems out of we actually have the skills within ourselves to be the answer. I think God prefers to see us actually moving than just seeing us as spectators to his movements. Further to this I think that Christianity has got it wrong in so much that I think God wants from us action not religion. We stand on our soap boxes with our cutesy black books and expect people to convert to this religion of meaninglessness; Christianity was not just meant to be about the here-after but the here-and-now as well. Rather we Christians should be getting out there and living what Jesus taught. In fact I think true Christianity is living as true human beings that in fact what God wants from us is to live as he intended us to live prior to the fall. And of course this involves being forgiven of our sins but it also means so much more. I am beginning to think that there are in fact non-Christians out there who are more after God's own heart than many Christians.
In other news, friends are cool even when they are excessively prying into matters that would not normally be spoken aloud. I likes them alls even if I don't vocalise it.
Work sucks. I hate with a loathing too deep for words. I am glad bridal college has started up again so that I can sleep in and don't have to work as much. I am looking forward to quitting at the end of the year and actually finding a proper job. (Hopefully it will be a job that will extend myself so that these wack ideas in my head can come to fruition.) At November this year I will have worked at the pool for 4 years. I will have worked there longer than any other current lifeguard with only one other equalling it.
Anyway J-Rod needs nap naps. So God bless y'all.
In other news as is the case with bible college the whole loss of faith is becoming a reality in my life. Now before any of you Christians start gushing over me and trying to console me I am actually beginning to view this as a blessing. Some times you just have to burn down the church to build a cathedral in its place (I was going to say community hall but...). Before I go any further let me just assure you I still believe in God and that no matter how hard I twist, God's existence is an immutable fact. I have faith in God and I have faith in the bible, I just don't have faith in Christianity. I think for the most part the religiousity of Christianity has got it wrong, has lost the plot and we have found ourselves in the same place as the Pharisees. I see WWJD as the epitomy of all that is wrong with Christianity, cheap and kitsch. We create a sub-culture beneath the world that mimics it exactly. We over spiritualise everything when being human means so much more than our spiritual selves. We preach at people but do not seek to change their situation. We become peacekeepers not peacemakers.
As it stands my current theological thoughts revolve around the fact that I am beginning to think that God wants us to be partners with him in salvation. That he has given us capabilities and talents and rather than God being this magicians hat that we pull the answer to our problems out of we actually have the skills within ourselves to be the answer. I think God prefers to see us actually moving than just seeing us as spectators to his movements. Further to this I think that Christianity has got it wrong in so much that I think God wants from us action not religion. We stand on our soap boxes with our cutesy black books and expect people to convert to this religion of meaninglessness; Christianity was not just meant to be about the here-after but the here-and-now as well. Rather we Christians should be getting out there and living what Jesus taught. In fact I think true Christianity is living as true human beings that in fact what God wants from us is to live as he intended us to live prior to the fall. And of course this involves being forgiven of our sins but it also means so much more. I am beginning to think that there are in fact non-Christians out there who are more after God's own heart than many Christians.
In other news, friends are cool even when they are excessively prying into matters that would not normally be spoken aloud. I likes them alls even if I don't vocalise it.
Work sucks. I hate with a loathing too deep for words. I am glad bridal college has started up again so that I can sleep in and don't have to work as much. I am looking forward to quitting at the end of the year and actually finding a proper job. (Hopefully it will be a job that will extend myself so that these wack ideas in my head can come to fruition.) At November this year I will have worked at the pool for 4 years. I will have worked there longer than any other current lifeguard with only one other equalling it.
Anyway J-Rod needs nap naps. So God bless y'all.
