Pragmatics and Christianity

It has been said that the biggest problem with Christianity is Christians. I agree. Not all Christians, but enough, have reduced faith to the pursuit of Heaven. Or, more accurately, evasion of Hell. Unfortunately, in my opinion, this mentality has stolen the joy of faith and is killing Christianity all over the world. The modern worldview told us that the quickest way from point A to point B is a straight line, and that the fastest way is the best way. The problem here is that you miss all of the stuff between point A and point B. This stuff that we miss is the point, not Heaven or Hell. When we say that heaven is the point, we have made Christianity a selfish pursuit and tell everyone else quite literally that they can go to Hell.

I’d like to suggest that making God’s world a better place by loving everything in it, is the point.

We live in the stuff between point A and point B. Lets act like it.

Energy and Spirit

I’m not sure if I have publicized yet my feelings about the nature of spirit. I realized in my post concerning reality that I left a bomb in explained. I made the claim that energy is spirit. I stand by that claim. Here is how I explain it.

I believe that we are all eternal, spiritual creatures; that we are confined to our physical existence for a time and that we will return after our time here to our purely spiritual existence. I make this claim based on my understanding of the divine personality we call God through his avatar Jesus and what is recorded about his live. For convenience sake we will refer to the divine as masculine. Now, my understanding of God is that he is the sculptor of all physical things. If this is true then all of our reality belongs to him. I also believe that God, like other artists, expresses himself in his creation and spiritually permeates are reality. If he spiritually permeates all things, then God is quite literally in everything. Since I believe that God is greater than the sum of his creation I will refer to the part that permeates us as spirit.

Now if spirit permutes all matter then what is spirit? What is the basic building block of everything in our existence? Energy. Energy is both a wave and a particle, unique in that quality, and yet it is found at the base of everything you can and can not imagine. What holds molecules together? Energy. What is the power by which things operate? Energy. What can not be destroyed? Energy.  I am energy, you are energy, it is energy that lights the LEDs on your screen and it is energy that delivers the light to your eyes. It is energy that your brain uses to interpret these words and it is energy that controls your mood concerning what you are reading.

If energy is the basic unit of physical existence then it is, at the very least, extremely closely related to spirit.