what if…

Hear me out!! What if all the reforming movements (within Christianity around the world) have themselves fallen into the worst heresy of all? Christendom needs reforming. But Christendom is not Christ.

Not faith, not works, not right doctrine “save”. Only Jesus!!!! And Jesus is not an idea, not a book, nor a doctrine. Jesus is a person. A person who seeks an encounter with me, not an experience. No institution can give me that encounter since it is fundamental personal and individual. Jesus calls me. Jesus calls you. It is Jesus and the individual! Anything outside of that is heresy. Anything apart from the person of Jesus is not relevant.

So let me ask a question (for a friend): can a heretic be saved? Or, using Kierkegaard’s questions, what is better: a heretic with passion or christendom without passion?

another quote

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

THE SAME OBJECT SHOULD PRODUCE IN SEVERAL MEN’S MINDS DIFFERENT IDEAS at the same time;

Locke, John. John Locke: Complete Essay on Human Understanding, 161

[The capitals are in the original – not yelling! Also the gender specific language.]

How do I know that your experience of reality is the same as my experience of the same “object”?

experience necessity

According to Hume, Descartes’s cosmological proof of the existence of God relied on a conceptual foundation that he had left unquestioned, the conceptual foundation of causality. Hume argues that if you really tried to build knowledge back up from the most basic elements of human nature (e.g., perception), then you could not claim that causality is something we can know to be true rather than something we can only believe to be true. Though we may see one event follow another, and see this sequence of events happen over and over again, it is impossible to see that this sequence of events must happen. In other words, we cannot experience necessity.

Gertz, Nolen. Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), 19.

In the end, we are always free to act.