Quote 1 - “As a Christian, I believe God is powerful too. But if you don’t experience full and complete healing, or if you lay hands on the sick and they don’t recover, you haven’t failed.”
Quote 2 – “But then again I’m a geek who loves getting into the nitty gritty of theology and ethics, even long after I left Christianity.”
I loved reading this article – nodding my head a lot while reading and feeling “heard” by you - even though I have not spoken to you!! I guess I must be projecting onto you some internal need to feel heard! Probably not unusual, eh? I think it is part of the human condition which applies to all human beings including those who think we are just the most highly evolved version of “slime” in the universe, as well as those who (like me) think we are ALL somehow “made in the image of God”, or to go to the next level are also “created/intended to do good works in Christ Jesus”.
So I am assuming you have somehow left “Christianity” in the sense of personal participation in “organised religion” but not saying “I am now an atheist!”
Anyway, I loved reading your article here on a topic I wanted to read about (your comments were both illuminating and gentle – but nwvertheless right at the end I was left with cognitive dissonance!
No worries, I will read some more of your stuff! I only just discovered your substack.
Ahhh yes. That about sums me up! Still idealistic as heck when it comes to the teachings of Jesus but just not seeing that in church. But probably listed by most as a heretic or a Jezebel. The cognitive dissonance thing though - so real. Thanks for saying hi
Quote 1 - “As a Christian, I believe God is powerful too. But if you don’t experience full and complete healing, or if you lay hands on the sick and they don’t recover, you haven’t failed.”
Quote 2 – “But then again I’m a geek who loves getting into the nitty gritty of theology and ethics, even long after I left Christianity.”
I loved reading this article – nodding my head a lot while reading and feeling “heard” by you - even though I have not spoken to you!! I guess I must be projecting onto you some internal need to feel heard! Probably not unusual, eh? I think it is part of the human condition which applies to all human beings including those who think we are just the most highly evolved version of “slime” in the universe, as well as those who (like me) think we are ALL somehow “made in the image of God”, or to go to the next level are also “created/intended to do good works in Christ Jesus”.
So I am assuming you have somehow left “Christianity” in the sense of personal participation in “organised religion” but not saying “I am now an atheist!”
Anyway, I loved reading your article here on a topic I wanted to read about (your comments were both illuminating and gentle – but nwvertheless right at the end I was left with cognitive dissonance!
No worries, I will read some more of your stuff! I only just discovered your substack.
Ahhh yes. That about sums me up! Still idealistic as heck when it comes to the teachings of Jesus but just not seeing that in church. But probably listed by most as a heretic or a Jezebel. The cognitive dissonance thing though - so real. Thanks for saying hi