My Dear Christian Folk: The Christian Faith in all of its many thousands of interpretations is perhaps the only one of the major religions in the world that boasts the widest margin between what is practiced and what is preached.
All religions have a certain element of this and it is expected given the high calling that most religions exhort their followers to reach.
While there may be a wide diversity in the major faiths of the world, there are many within each faith organization that simply refuse to comport themselves according to the teachings found in each one.
Christianity happens to be unique in that the high calling it claims for itself sets it apart from all others.
Only we as followers of Jesus Christ can claim salvation and an eternity of bliss as our wholly owned monopoly ,leaving all others to die in their sins and roast thereafter for all eternity in the Blessed Fires of an unquenchable Hell.
But who is there that can truly know the mind of God.?
What may seem to be something absurd in our limited understanding of reality may in fact exist in some dimension hitherto unknown to the mind of man.
Not that long ago it was common to believe that the Earth was the center of the universe, that the Earth was flat ,or a disc as described in Scripture,that the Sun stood still etc.
Modern scientific discovery has taught us something quite different.
Even today it is common to speak of the sun rising and setting,so ingrained is the apparent visual experience.
What is common place today would have been thought of as supernatural or demonic at the very least a mere hundred years ago.
Think of nuclear power, space exploration, the Hubble telescope ,the moon landings,telecommunication,are some few of what certainly would have been regarded as demon inspired enterprises ;
and think of the numbers of intelligent folks that would have been relegated to the flames by our thoughtful and Bible-centered Puritan
Forebears!
During times such as this it is good to have a sense of humor.
Sadly for Christians humor comes at the expense of compassion wrapped in irony.
Recently a caller who telephoned the daily over the air swindle called CROSSTALK produced by the VCY AMERICA CHRISTIAN BROADCAST NETWORK
told of a truly tragic episode he experienced when his wife miscarried their deeply loved and longed for set of unborn twins.
He told of how he and his wife held the two unborn children in their arms and overcome with grief could only think how damnable it is for any woman to have an abortion.
The thought of deliberately aborting human life was so despicable in view of their own personal tragedy.
In view of the pure helplessness and innocence and miniature humanity so evident ,how could anyone consider an abortion for any reason whatsover.
The irony of the situation failed to make a dent in the mind of this poor Christian father that while he was casting judgement on others it never dawned on him that God the creator of life had just finished aborting his set of unborn twins.
Is God an abortionist ?
Why did He therefore choose to abort this father’s set of twins?
Did it ever occur to ask the question?
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