from my friend and fellow blogger, Ted Gossard:___
Myths come from the stories we tell. The myth may be true or not. We live by them; they can give impetus as well as structure to our lives. And whether or not its basis is sound, it becomes true to us. So that we end up making judgments on a "truth" we take for granted, which may be based on a faulty premise of belief.
Those who so confidently assert a side of history with equal confidence that they are on the right side of it are every bit as religious in their belief as the people of religion or faith they may be (and often are) ridiculing. For example the naturalists who claim that faith can’t be taken seriously as a truth claim are themselves making a statement of faith when they say that. People need to humbly step back and examine what they are saying. If they are going to be humble and therefore truthful.
We who hold to the faith that is in Jesus do believe there is rhyme and reason that is discovered solely in Jesus and God's revelation in him. A revelation which ends up being nothing less than good news, which is what gospel means. And we bank our lives on that, indeed life itself, which includes the world. But we do so knowing that there’s so much we don’t know, that we really don't understand well or get at all. As Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 13 (NRSV), "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known."
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Ted's entire post can be read here.
1 comment:
I was JUST thinking of this very thing! I was pondering how to say something about how I hate the phrase "the wrong side of history" and here your post pops up in my feed! Thanks for sharing it.
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