Saturday, November 12, 2016

Left, Right, Center

The problem Christianity faces today is ignorance. Secularists frown at the perceived ridiculousness of religious tradition and seek to remove its influence from public discourse. Religious adherents fear the loss of their tradition’s voice in society. Neither party understands the other, nor does either party really understand themselves. 

As a child handed an orange New Testament by an evangelist on my walk home from school, I lacked the background required to understand it. The sad truth is that most people lack that background, even in their adult lives. There is so much misinformation spouted from within religious bodies that most people who call themselves Christian have very little idea the contexts within which their scripture was written. As one of my professors would so often spout, “A text without a context is a pretext.”

A Christianity that can give the Bible its context would lead to a more educated Christendom, a more compassionate Christianity, and a generation of Christians who know and love Christ more intimately than ever.

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