Believe

I’ve been thinking, there are two types of belief. There’s probably more. 

There is the kind of belief where you believe that some exists. I believe that Gordon Brown exists. 

There is a kind of belief where you believe in something. I believe in the power of the voodoo doll. 

Do you see the difference? 

Christians too often talk about believing in Jesus, or God. Believe he exists and acknowledge him and that’s all you need to do. I’ve always understood this as believe that Jesus exists, that God is real, but I don’t any more. Instead I believe in the way of Jesus.  

Ok, so part of that is realising that Jesus was real and all, but the difference is if you believe in something it drives you and prompts you. It’s not a fact or an object that is now present to you but it is something deeper than that, a philosophy, power, and influence. 

If you believe Jesus exists or existed then so what, so do many historians, and Satanists. 

If you believe in Jesus’ message, then you’ll be driven to act out that message. Do the things Jesus did. Seek the things Jesus sought…thats the plan anyway…

Is Yellow square or triangle?

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or triangle? Probably half the questions we ask – half our great theological and metaphysical problems – are like that” C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed  

            I read this today, and it made me think. Think about how stupid we must seem to God sometimes. How little, and funny, and naïve, and childish, and slow and brainless we must seem compared to how big and significant God is.

             If you’ve ever seem the film Dogma you’ll of come across the idea that just to hear the voice of God could make your head explode. Something to powerful to almost witness. Something so bright it almost burns.             

            Some scientist’s say that the more you try to imagine the universe, the further you get from what it really is. The more you try to explain it, the smaller you’re understanding of it.

           The universe. No boundary or edge. Unimaginable. Un-containable. Awesome.              

           Perhaps theologians should adopt a similar principle. We can’t put God in boxes. Pigeon hole Gods principles. Reduce God to words. Formula. Pattern.  

          God. No boundary or edge. Unimaginable. Un-containable. Awesome.             

          When we realise that God is bigger than the universe (that’s pretty big) and let that blow our minds away, then we realise that we are merely toddlers asking nonsense questions thinking we have degrees in quantum physics.