The other day I was at a certain university where we watched a movie called "Purple State of Mind."
It was this atheist guy and a Christian guy talking about life, God, and you know...stuff.
And I realized something. Poorly formed Christian thought can be more dangerous to Christianity than well formed atheistic thought.
Why do I say this? Because Christianity will never fall to oppression, opposition, or persecution. Christianity has been opposed since day one. It's nothing new and it's nothing particularly threatening.
Apathy is threatening. I saw on video a man who was unwilling to stand up for anything. He said that Jesus was the Christ, but beyond that he was unwilling to claim anything as truth. Apparently not only is Christ a mystery, everything about God and His Word is a mystery.
Honestly? Why read it? And the scariest thing was that none of the students seemed to care. Now I know I'm over-reacting here but the impression that I got was that no one was searching for answers because they didn't think that answers were knowable. This is true to an extent, but there ARE some truths in this world. Sin is sin and you are allowed to say so. God did reveal some truth to us, and you are allowed to say so.
It's very unpopular to think you are right. Everyone accepts everyone elses opinions as long as they don't claim to be "right." As long as it's "good for you" there's no problem. Guess what, Christians don't get everything right, but we are right about somethings, and if you disagree, you're wrong.
2 comments:
This intrigues me greatly. It sounds kind of like Agnostic Theism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_theism).
It also occurs to me that there has to be a fine line of balance somewhere between "blessed assurance" and "fear & trembling." On the one hand, we risk pride; on the other, complacency or even agnosticism (heresy?).
What are your thoughts on achieving that balance?
Why haven't we talked more about this yet?
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