My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. What does that mean? What it means for me: a study of the life of Christ. Love here describes itself as a child born in straw poverty, the most vulnerable situation of all, without honor. I don't let my religious world get too complicated. I just kind of go: Well, I think I know what God is. God is love, and as much as I respond [sighs] in allowing myself to be transformed by that love and acting in that love, that's my religion.
...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor
2.24.2011
"That's my religion."
Thanks to Mike for linking to this interview with Bono. I was grabbed by his comments right at the first:
Not that I entirely disagree with Bono's conclusion, but his methodology is pretty flawed. At least in the 4 canonical gospels, Jesus does not teach "G-d is love" rather the book of 1 John does. Just throwing that out there.
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