The Jesus story, sounds like a blasphemous way to begin a blog. What Jesus means to many is more than a story and for most more than life itself. Let me back up a bit and start with a definition. It has been a long time since I have blogged, and since Google+ is no longer around I don’t have any of my examples to follow, I will try and shake the dust off and give one a go.
Redemption (noun)
- the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil.
- the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt.
The story of Christ is about redemption, you can see that the first definition is exactly that. Who is Jesus, what does the story of Jesus have to do with you? Well simply put I suppose that depends on how much value you put in your faith. The short of the matter is this, the first covenant with Moses was the law. The God of Moses saved his enslaved people and led them into the promised land. The law was not enough, with the introduction of the law well led the inability to follow it. Being an upstanding God fearing law-abider is hard, we try but we fail. When you consider Jesus’s sermon on the mount, that hatred in your heart is the same as killing a man we really have the bar set high. Until Jesus.
The Jesus story is simple, you are saved through faith and grace. Faith in Jesus and grace from the holy spirit. The latter leading you to Christ.
However there is about 400 hundred years of history that has led us to a new understanding of Jesus. Despite all the technological advances, industrial revolution, and enlightenment, the Jesus story still remains, its about redemption.
No matter how you spin the philosophy surrounding existence you are left with the truth of the matter that you are part of the universe and call it what you want are left with piecing your story with a more grander story. The rest is left to you, now that you have knowledge laid forth by thinkers before you what do you do?
Well simply put you live in the time in which you live and strive to do what needs to be done as a rational thinker gifted the wonders of what the world has unveiled to you. BUT where is your redemption? Do you put your redemption in the fact that you understand the world better and can make an enlightened decision with what others have presented you with new thought?
I have personally seen the dichotomy of trying to separate religion and philosophy and prove which is better. Truth of the matter is you really can’t, and the argument of attacking the organized religion with what has happened in the name of religion leads to the same fallout of divorcing one from religion, the fact remains we really do not have the ability to understand the universe entirely and perhaps never will, and those who rebuke the Jesus story are left with figuring out their own redemption.
Author: admin
Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.